West Hollywood’s Business License Commission on Tuesday night will take up again a proposal to revoke the license of Zen Healing Collective, a marijuana dispensary whose owner pleaded guilty in March to several dozen criminal charges including conspiring to rob his former landlord’s home, attempting to burn that home and hiring others to attack the landlord.
The dispensary, at 8464 Santa Monica Blvd. near North Alfred, was owned by Andrew Harrison Kramer, who now is in prison. A report prepared for the Business License Commission by city staffers said that while Kramer “was purporting to operate a marijuana dispensary as permitted under state and local law, he was in fact a conspirator in a sophisticated criminal enterprise involved in the operation of multiple retail marijuana dispensaries, which engaged in violence and intimidation to expand its operations and dissuade competition.”
The Business License Commission first considered revoking the license at a hearing in July. However it postponed a decision until it could obtain more information about the business, including whether or not Kramer and his family are still involved in it.
The hearing will be held at 7 p.m. at West Hollywood City Hall, 8300 Santa Monica Blvd. at Sweetzer.
