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URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v09/n1140/a07.html
Newshawk: Jay Bergstrom
Webpage: http://www.modbee.com/editorials/story/982212.html
Pubdate: Tue, 22 Dec 2009
Source: Modesto Bee, The (CA)
Copyright: 2009 The Modesto Bee
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Website: http://www.modbee.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/271

POT LAW CREATING A CONFUSING CLOUD

In 1996, when voters approved Proposition 215, the medical marijuana initiative, most Californians did not envision what's playing out in Arcata.

As reported in a Sacramento Bee story that appeared on our front page Monday, this Humboldt County town has become the legal pot capital of the country.

Hundreds of medical marijuana growers supply dozens of cooperatives that dispense the drug.  It has become the financial mainstay of a community where logging and fishing once dominated.

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