California Moves to Regulate Medical Marijuana Industry

California's billion-dollar medical marijuana industry is about to come in from the cold. (Photo: Medical Marijuana via Shutterstock)

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After nearly 20 years of wrangling over what is and is not legal under California's 1996 Proposition 215 medical marijuana law, the state legislature has passed a set of bills designed to bring order to the chaos.

Fresh from working with the office of Gov. Jerry Brown (D) on acceptable language, the Assembly and the Senate Friday passed Assembly Bill 243, Assembly Bill 266, and Senate Bill 643 just hours before the session ended.  

If, as expected, Gov. Brown signs...

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