How easy was it for a news reporter to get a medical marijuana card?

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My husband and I didn’t know quite what to expect as a petite woman in neon green scrubs escorted us to a small tent.

Waiting at a folding table was a gray-haired plastic surgeon from Los Angeles in a white lab coat. Large headphones covered his ears, and he was snacking on nuts.

“What is your condition?” he asked without making eye contact. His pen was poised above a medical marijuana referral form.

I was about to experience firsthand a process the state is working to reform: how Californians get medical marijuana cards.

I didn’t intend to test the system, which has remained largely unregulated in the 20 years since voters approved medical marijuana. But it was my first week on the job as the Register’s first “pot reporter,” and I was intent on covering High Times magazine’s Cannabis Cup.

I knew going into the San Bernardino festival that a...

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