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The subscription service is currently unavailable. Please try again later.SAN FRANCISCO — The likelihood that California voters will be asked to legalize recreational marijuana next year is prompting lawmakers to make a serious run at reining in the state's vast medical marijuana industry — a job they have deferred for nearly two decades.
A pair of bills pending in the California Legislature would create the first statewide regulations for medical marijuana growers, manufacturers of pot-infused products, and distributors such as storefront dispensaries and delivery services.
California authorized marijuana use for health purposes with a 1996 ballot measure that allows doctors to recommend the drug for any ailment, deliberately leaving the specifics for how it should be produced and sold for another day.
With advocates now working to qualify recreational use initiatives for the November 2016 ballot, that day finally may have arrived.
The state Assembly last month approved a comprehensive licensing and oversight scheme on a bipartisan 62-8 vote....
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