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US WA: Washington's Pot-Legalization Battle Creates Odd Bedfellows

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URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v12/n485/a08.html
Newshawk: Herb
Pubdate: Sat, 29 Sep 2012
Source: Olympian, The (WA)
Copyright: 2012 The Olympian
Contact: http://drugsense.org/url/51PidAHv
Website: http://www.theolympian.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/319
Author: Rob Carson

WASHINGTON'S POT-LEGALIZATION BATTLE CREATES ODD BEDFELLOWS

It's not surprising that Jim Johnston is passionate about this year's campaign for Initiative 502, the proposal to legalize marijuana.

Johnston has used and appreciated marijuana since he was a teenager back in the 1960s, and for the past several years he's been smoking it daily to control pain from head injuries.

He's long believed that criminalizing cannabis is misguided and counterproductive social policy.

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