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Capital City Care, one of DC's new medical marijuana dispensaries, made its first sale this week.
Capital City Care, one of DC's new medical marijuana dispensaries, made its first sale this week.

DC Finally Selling Medical Marijuana

[image:1 align:right caption:true]DC has seen its first legal marijuana sale under the city's medical marijuana law, enacted in 1998 by voters but blocked by Congress for most of that time.

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Medical Marijuana Update

New Hampshire becomes the 19th medical marijuana state, some folks in Kentucky would like it to become one, too; and the local tussling continues in California. And in late news, the DEA strikes in Washington State.
Sen. Perry Clark(senatorperryclark.com)
Sen. Perry Clark(senatorperryclark.com)

Medical Marijuana Push Gears Up in Kentucky

Kentucky state Sen. Perry Clark will introduce his medical marijuana bill for the third time in January, but there is a hearing in August, and Clark and supporters are bringing the noise.
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Chronicle Book Review: Too High to Fail

From the big picture of the origins and state of marijuana prohibition in America to the close-up portrait of one of the country's most pot-friendly and -dependent local economies, Doug Fine delivers with "Too Big to Fail."
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Medical Marijuana Update

A dispensary opens in Arizona as more get shut down in California and more California communities move to shut them down or keep them out. There's more news, too.
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Advocates Seek Supreme Court Review of Marijuana Scheduling

The third petition to reschedule marijuana is not dead yet. Although a federal appeals court upheld the DEA rejection of it, the petitioners are now asking the US Supreme Court to review that decision.
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MMJ leaf and stethoscope KY ODCP_89.jpg

Medical Marijuana Update

A federal medical marijuana banking bill was introduced, an Oregon bill that would allow and regulate dispensaries heads to the governor's desk, Berkeley and Oakland fight the feds.
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Obama's Drug Czar Blames YOU for Increased Teen Marijuana Use

[inline:marijuanamakesyougay-cropped.jpg align=right]Just when you thought the medical marijuana debate couldn’t get any uglier, the Drug Czar shows up at your doorstep demanding to know why you want to drug the children.

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