Los Angeles needs a new medical marijuana policy
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The City Council should not let marijuana businesses set city policy.
In other words, it is possible that there's even more chaos ahead for this city's already-unacceptably-chaotic medical marijuana regime. It took nearly 20 years after Californians passed the Compassionate Use Act for the state to adopt a comprehensive system to regulate the cultivation,...
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