Cindy Cleghorn has run a print shop in the foothill community of Tujunga for 27 years. And she’s always gotten along well with her business neighbors until now.

Last fall, marijuana dispensary SCI Caregivers opened in a nondescript building directly across the street from Cleghorn’s C & M; Print Shop.

Now, dispensary customers pull up in front of the driveway to her print shop and park there, blocking access. Some leave the engines running; others loiter in front of her shop or on the street late into the evening.

“The dispensary customers are rude and the problem is growing worse,” Cleghorn said.

All over Los Angeles, business neighbors of dispensaries are reporting problems; they see pot shop customers reselling pot in plain view and fear their own stores will be caught up in robberies or other crimes targeting the dispensaries.

Many dispensaries are on good terms with their business neighbors, but problems between dispensary owners and nearby businesses are becoming more frequent.

Some business owners contacted by the Business Journal declined to be identified for fear of retribution. One insurance agency owner in the San Fernando Valley said a pungent marijuana smell from the adjoining dispensary permeated her office for days at a time, disturbing both her customers and employees.

Others fear that dispensaries hurt the image of their neighborhoods. Maurice Manley, manager of Nextcuts Beauty and Barber Shop near the Pico Collective dispensary south of the Miracle Mile district, believes the presence of the new dispensary will cause depreciation.

“I wish they’d relocate,” he said.

Cleghorn said two weeks ago she asked three dispensary customers to move their cars so one of her customers could pull into her driveway.

“They cursed and threw their trash at me,” she said.

Cleghorn said she has approached the dispensary owners several times and asked them to tell their customers to be more respectful.

“When they first opened, they promised to put a sign up encouraging their customers to be more accommodating to the community, but that didn’t happen,” Cleghorn said. “Since then, it’s just been useless talking to them. They just don’t care.”

SCI Caregivers is on the list of 779 dispensaries in Los Angeles that opened after filling out a simple form that sought an exemption to a two-year-old moratorium. The outcome of SCI’s exemption application will be decided if the City Council adopts a zoning ordinance regulating dispensaries. Several calls to the facility were not returned.

Cleghorn doesn’t expect the situation to improve until the dispensary is shut down.

“There are going to be more confrontations,” she said. “I just know it.”