Booming medical pot sales concern officials


	Booming medical pot sales concern officials
sincitykitty
10-5-2009 2:57 PM
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Thirteen states have laws that legalize medical marijuana:
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<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/8cfbe415-c925-4640-8c13-4fd55cf0a80d/FECD8266-0C2B-4847-B3A9-2DEDBE371623/" 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.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-09-29-medical-marijuana_N.htm" href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-09-29-medical-marijuana_N.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.usatoday.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-09-29-medical-marijuana_N.htm"><SPAN class="inside-head">Booming medical pot sales concern officials</SPAN></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.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-09-29-medical-marijuana_N.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.usatoday.com/img/DD026FD0-0A9B-4D1A-A898-F8CFCECE3897" alt="Jon Sarro, left, shows a customer different strains of medical marijuana at Coffeeshop Blue Sky in Oakland." /></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.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-09-29-medical-marijuana_N.htm"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD valign="top" colspan="2"><SPAN class="va_main_header"><IMG width="10" height="10" class="sectionBullet" src="http://images.usatoday.com/_common/_images/clear.gif" /> 13 STATES IN 13 YEARS</SPAN></TD></tr></table></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.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-09-29-medical-marijuana_N.htm"><P>Thirteen states have laws that legalize medical marijuana:</P></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.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-09-29-medical-marijuana_N.htm"><TABLE width="245" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="2" border="0"><TBODY><TR><TD class="vaTextBold">State </TD><TD class="vaTextBold">Year passed </TD><TD class="vaTextBold">How passed</TD></TR><TR><TD colspan="3"><IMG width="100%" height="1" src="http://images.usatoday.com/_common/_images/ipr/grey.gif" /> </TD></TR><TR><TD class="vaText">California </TD><TD class="vaText"><B>1996</B></TD><TD class="vaText">Ballot measure</TD></TR><TR><TD colspan="3"><IMG width="100%" height="1" src="http://images.usatoday.com/_common/_images/ipr/grey.gif" /> </TD></TR><TR><TD class="vaText">Alaska</TD><TD class="vaText"><B>1998 </B></TD><TD class="vaText">Ballot measure</TD></TR><TR><TD colspan="3"><IMG width="100%" height="1" src="http://images.usatoday.com/_common/_images/ipr/grey.gif" /> </TD></TR><TR><TD class="vaText">Oregon </TD><TD class="vaText"><B>1998</B></TD><TD class="vaText">Ballot measure</TD></TR><TR><TD colspan="3"><IMG width="100%" height="1" src="http://images.usatoday.com/_common/_images/ipr/grey.gif" /> </TD></TR><TR><TD class="vaText">Washington </TD><TD class="vaText"><B>1998</B></TD><TD class="vaText">Ballot measure</TD></TR><TR><TD colspan="3"><IMG width="100%" height="1" src="http://images.usatoday.com/_common/_images/ipr/grey.gif" /> </TD></TR><TR><TD class="vaText">Maine </TD><TD class="vaText"><B>1999 </B></TD><TD class="vaText">Ballot measure</TD></TR><TR><TD colspan="3"><IMG width="100%" height="1" src="http://images.usatoday.com/_common/_images/ipr/grey.gif" /> </TD></TR><TR><TD class="vaText">Colorado </TD><TD class="vaText"><B>2000 </B></TD><TD class="vaText">Ballot measure</TD></TR><TR><TD colspan="3"><IMG width="100%" height="1" src="http://images.usatoday.com/_common/_images/ipr/grey.gif" /> </TD></TR><TR><TD class="vaText">Hawaii </TD><TD class="vaText"><B>2000</B></TD><TD class="vaText">Legislature</TD></TR><TR><TD colspan="3"><IMG width="100%" height="1" src="http://images.usatoday.com/_common/_images/ipr/grey.gif" /> </TD></TR><TR><TD class="vaText">Nevada </TD><TD class="vaText"><B>2000</B></TD><TD class="vaText">Ballot measure</TD></TR><TR><TD colspan="3"><IMG width="100%" height="1" src="http://images.usatoday.com/_common/_images/ipr/grey.gif" /> </TD></TR><TR><TD class="vaText">Montana </TD><TD class="vaText"><B>2004 </B></TD><TD class="vaText">Ballot measure</TD></TR><TR><TD colspan="3"><IMG width="100%" height="1" src="http://images.usatoday.com/_common/_images/ipr/grey.gif" /> </TD></TR><TR><TD class="vaText">Vermont </TD><TD class="vaText"><B>2004 </B></TD><TD class="vaText">Legislature</TD></TR><TR><TD colspan="3"><IMG width="100%" height="1" src="http://images.usatoday.com/_common/_images/ipr/grey.gif" /> </TD></TR><TR><TD class="vaText">Rhode Island </TD><TD class="vaText"><B>2006</B></TD><TD class="vaText">Legislature</TD></TR><TR><TD colspan="3"><IMG width="100%" height="1" src="http://images.usatoday.com/_common/_images/ipr/grey.gif" /> </TD></TR><TR><TD class="vaText">New Mexico </TD><TD class="vaText"><B>2007</B></TD><TD class="vaText">Legislature</TD></TR><TR><TD colspan="3"><IMG width="100%" height="1" src="http://images.usatoday.com/_common/_images/ipr/grey.gif" /> </TD></TR><TR><TD class="vaText">Michigan </TD><TD class="vaText"><B>2008 </B></TD><TD class="vaText">Ballot measure</TD></TR><TR><TD colspan="3"><IMG width="100%" height="1" src="http://images.usatoday.com/_common/_images/ipr/grey.gif" /> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></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.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-09-29-medical-marijuana_N.htm"><DIV class="inside-copy">LOS ANGELES — Almost 13 years after <A title="More news, photos about California" href="http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/Places,+Geography/States,+Territories,+Provinces,+Islands/U.S.+States/California">California</A> became the first state to allow the sale of marijuana for some medical conditions storefront purveyors of the drug are nearly as easy to find as a taco stand.</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.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-09-29-medical-marijuana_N.htm"><P class="inside-copy">Yet police and prosecutors say the law is vague on who can sell pot and in what circumstances. They worry that the state unwittingly created safe havens for drug pushers who are doping the population with immunity.</P></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/FECD8266-0C2B-4847-B3A9-2DEDBE371623/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.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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