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URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07/n1018/a09.html
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Pubdate: Sat, 01 Sep 2007
Source: San Mateo County Times, The (CA)
Copyright: 2007 ANG Newspapers
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Website: http://www.sanmateocountytimes.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/392
Author: Michael Manekin, Staff Writer
Cited: San Mateo City Council http://www.cityofsanmateo.org/government/council.html
Cited: San Mateo Police Department http://www.cityofsanmateo.org/dept/police/index.html
Cited: San Mateo County District Attorney http://www.co.sanmateo.ca.us/smc/department/da/home/0,,14094689_14099400,00.html
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/topics/San+Mateo
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/topics/Proposition+215
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mmj.htm (Marijuana - Medicinal)

CITY CALLS FOR POT SHOP REGULATION

Dispensaries Need Consistent Oversight, Local Officials Say

SAN MATEO -- The many battles raging in California over medical marijuana are fueled by a basic disagreement between federal law, which prohibits the possession of cannabis altogether, and state law, which has allowed the selective use of medical marijuana for more than a decade. 

But the divide between the two positions -- an ideological chasm which has resulted in the raids of dozens of medical marijuana dispensaries across the state -- has no bearing on the recent raids of three dispensaries in the city of San Mateo, local officials and law enforcement say. 

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MAP posted-by: Richard Lake

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