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Locals seek to control pot dispensaries

Greeley : CO : USA | about 1 month ago  
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  • A man holds a sign advertising medical marijuana evaluation outside aclinic in Los Angeles on October 9, 2009
    A man holds a sign advertising medical marijuana evaluation outside ...
    Source: AFP
  • File photo of medical marijuana being displayed in Los Angeles
    File photo of medical marijuana being displayed in Los Angeles
    Source: Reuters
A man holds a sign advertising medical marijuana evaluation outside ...
Local officials in U.S. states where medical marijuana is legal say they are scrambling to determine to how to regulate their pot purveyors...Justice Department that federal prosecutors would no longer go after people who use marijuana for medical purposes in states where it is legal, local government...
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    In a sharp policy shift, the Obama administration told federal attorneys not to prosecute patients who use marijuana for medical reasons or dispensaries in states where it has been legalized. ... Frank likens pot's illegality to the slowly building
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    Cancer patients should soon feel freer to toke up to ease their pain. The Justice Department is about to issue a new policy on medical marijuana emphasizin. ... Just as the local police don't need to call a federal agency for other crimes that happen
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