Superior Court Judge Ronald Prager granted a request by San Diego City Atty. Jan Goldsmith to order the closures. Injunction requests against four other dispensaries were delayed until next week so hearings can be scheduled.
"We have shut down about 40 illegal marijuana dispensaries in the past 12 months," Goldsmith said. "But we have a lot more work to do."
Even after the nine dispensaries close, the city has more than 150 marijuana dispensaries.
What the city does not have is an ordinance regulating where marijuana dispensaries can open.
The City Council rescinded its ordinance rather than permit an initiative supported by marijuana activists from reaching the ballot.
The activists said the city's ordinance was too restrictive and had led a signature-gathering campaign to qualify a repeal for the ballot.
Goldsmith's stand against medical marijuana dispensaries has been backed by U.S. Atty. Laura Duffy.
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