Published: May 7, 2011
"Marijuana remains illegal under federal law, but that has not stopped a fuzzy industry of marijuana farms and dispensaries from rising to serve the 15 states that allow the drug to be used for medical purposes. Under President Obama, the federal government had seemed to make a point of paying little attention — until now."
The Washington State Department of Health’s Web site says that dispensaries are illegal, as well as buying and selling marijuana. It says, however, that people who qualify for medical marijuana are allowed to grow their own. I think if marijuana is legal in one way or another, everybody else is obviously going to take advantage of the situation and find ways around the law. I think it's hard to put laws and regulations on "sort of" legalizing something that had always previously been completely illegal and so "hush-hush."
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/08/us/08marijuana.html?ref=health
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