<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/55a64232-0804-4d76-8135-e74f0220d1c7/4D633227-FB26-46D7-9F00-E2C080ACDEA6/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nhpr.org/wordofmouth" href="http://www.nhpr.org/wordofmouth" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nhpr.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nhpr.org/wordofmouth"><DIV class="linkswrapper"><DIV class="first comment_add"><SPAN class="comment_add"><A title="Share your thoughts and opinions related to this posting." href="http://www.nhpr.org/comment/reply/25846#comment-form">Add new comment</A></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class="print_html"><A rel="nofollow" class="print-page print_html" title="Display a printer-friendly version of this page." href="http://www.nhpr.org/print/25846">Print</A></DIV> <DIV class="last send"><A class="send-link send-send send" href="http://www.nhpr.org/send/send/25846">Send to Friend</A></DIV> </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nhpr.org/wordofmouth"><H1 class="title"><A href="http://www.nhpr.org/node/25844">Plants, Not Pills In Oakland</A></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nhpr.org/wordofmouth"><DIV class="content"><P><IMG class="floatright" src="http://www.nhpr.org/sites/nhpr.org/files/images/medicinalmarijuana.jpg" /></p> <P>In New Hampshire, Gov. John Lynch is weighing the pros and cons of a medical marijuana bill that the legislature approved in June. </p> <P>Medicinal marijuana has been legal in California since 1996. The dispensaries in the city of Oakland bring $20 million in sales each year. Now the Bay Area city is considering taxing that revenue. </p> <P>The BBC’s Tania Ketenjian took us inside an Oakland dispensary to find out why people with health problems are turning to a plant instead of a pill. </p> <P><A target="_blank" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p003jc34">Listen to Tania Ketenjian's Health Check report at the BBC</A></p> <P>(Photo by <A target="_blank" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lochnessjess/2013516946/">lochnessjess</A> via Flickr/Creative Commons)</p> </DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4D633227-FB26-46D7-9F00-E2C080ACDEA6/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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