Law & Politics

City Attorney Puts an End to Californian Nestdrop Cannabis App, Source: http://theleafonline.com/c/business/2014/12/end-nestdrop/Nestdrop, a California based app/business that delivers medical cannabis from clinics to patients, has quickly been thwarted just as it was starting up. Nestdrop began this year as a delivery service for alcohol, and later moved on to delivering verified medical patients with cannabis, making it easy for patients who live with chronic pain to have their medication delivered to the comfort of their home.

This service is nothing but a blessing to medical patients who have trouble with mobility, or just for weedists who want a more convenient way to have their weed delivered to them. However, L.A. City Attorney Mike Feuer doesn’t see Nestdrop that way. He seems to think that a business that delivers a plant that is still technically illegal violates some kind of federal laws or something. Thanks to Feuer, Nestdrop will no longer be allowed to deliver cannabis to card holding patients.

On December 2 City Attorney Feuer filed a complaint, suing to block Nestdrop from operating in his city, labeling them as a “de facto delivery service.” Feurer says that Nestdrop’s service violates voter enacted Proposition D, a measure that regulates dispensaries and indicates that they may not deliver cannabis to customers.

“As soon as we heard about their plans to deliver marijuana, we began preparing this complaint to block them,” Feuer said. Addressing Feuer’s complaint, Judge Robert O’Brien ordered a preliminary injunction, effectively ending Nestdrops cannabis deliveries, however they are still legally able to deliver the much more dangerous drug, alcohol, to customers.

Michael Pycher, co-founder of Nestdrop, contested Feuer’s claim, saying that his company does not fall under the authority of proposition D because his company has nothing to do with the handling or distribution of cannabis. “As we’ve said from the beginning, Nestdrop is not a dispensary, collective, grower or even a delivery service,” Pycher said in a statement. “Nestdrop is the technology platform that connects law-abiding medical marijuana patients with local dispensaries to receive the medication that they need in a safe and secure manner. Our goal is to make access to this legal medicine convenient for patients who truly need it — especially as many of these suffering patients may have limited mobility and may be unable to visit a dispensary unassisted.”

Despite Pychers protests, his business will no longer be able to supply cannabis to patients and Feuer remains stagnant in his determination to prohibit similar businesses from starting up. “If a new business opens, we target them with the appropriate action” he said.