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"Unfortunately, no. Or fortunately, no, depending on your perspective," said Ryan Vandrey, an associate professor at Johns Hopkins University's Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, in an interview with LiveScience, adding that it's highly unlikely that someone within range of the fire could become intoxiated by breathing in its smoke.
The question is more than simply academic, as a number of medical marijuana dispensaries in the San Francisco Bay Area have complained in news reports that the wildfires are harming their industry, by burning up the cannabis plants nearby.
While the fires likely won't cause any supply issues -- medical marijuana has been legal in California since 1996, so...
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