Dispensaries lose bid to stay open while their cases are heard

An estimated 450 medical marijuana shops will have to close before L.A.'s ordinance takes effect June 7. Some had asked the court for a reprieve until their injunction requests are decided.

Four dispensaries failed Wednesday to win a court order to stop Los Angeles from shutting them down when the city's medical marijuana ordinance takes effect June 7, a decision that suggests officials may not be impeded in their plans to start enforcing the long-awaited law.