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			<title>Los Angeles Medical Marijuana shop owners appeal to City Council for help </title>
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			<description>Incensed by the city's determination that just a quarter of the registered Los Angeles medical marijuana dispensaries are qualified to remain open, about 80 operators and advocates held a subdued rall...</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:59:30 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Colorado Medical Marijuana patient tracking?</title>
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			<description>Medical marijuana advocates are concerned that proposed new regulations for the industry will result in patient tracking, scaring patients away from wanting to be a part of the system. The Cannabis Th...</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:54:50 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Grassroots lobbyists garner support for legalizing medical marijuana in Texas</title>
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			<description>Support is building, for a push to legalize medical marijuana during this year's legislative session.Grassroots lobbyists include those who are terminally ill as well as veteran police officers from a...</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:02:52 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Maine OKs Down East marijuana dispensary</title>
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			<description>AUGUSTA, Maine — State health officials on Tuesday selected a Portland-based nonprofit to open a medical marijuana dispensary in the small Washington County town of Whitneyville. Primary Organic The...</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:47:31 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>New Mexico proposes changes to medical cannabis</title>
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			<description>New Mexico is proposing an increase in fees on medical marijuana producers to help fund administration of the state's program. The New Mexico Department of Health, which operates the program, wants to...</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:45:43 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Los Angeles needs a clear policy for the marijuana growing industry</title>
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			<description>IF there was ever an industry that cried out for more regulation, more oversight, more legitimacy, it's California's medical marijuana industry.Yes, we're calling it an industry. While those who proff...</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:35:11 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Colorado Springs City council won't put dispensary ban to November vote</title>
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			<description>Colorado Springs voters will not get a chance to decide the fate of the 176 medical marijuana dispensaries and grow operations in the city this November, but they may still have a shot in April. Recen...</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:40:17 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Helena Montana Committee expected to approve medical marijuana overhaul</title>
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			<description>HELENA, Mont. - A legislative committee on Monday finalized details of a planned overhaul of the state's medical marijuana law, setting up a final vote to send the proposals to the 2011 Legislature. T...</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:38:45 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>New Jersey Medical-marijuana backers seek workable regulations</title>
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			<description>TRENTON - New Jersey legalized medical marijuana eight months ago, but its advocates are finding that a law alone does not get the drug to patients. About 70 activists - including potential patients, ...</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:16:53 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Oregon Panel backs dispensaries for medical marijuana</title>
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			<description>Members of a citizen review panel meeting all week in Salem narrowly favored a ballot measure Friday that would allow dispensaries for medical marijuana. The vote by citizens chosen at random and bala...</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:57:36 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Medical marijuana use in Pennsylvania wins lots of support</title>
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			<description>Health and law enforcement experts yesterday argued for the legalization of marijuana for medical use in Pennsylvania during a public hearing in Oakland. More than 70 people attended the hearing at th...</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:52:07 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Glenn Colorado pushing for dispensary ban on November ballot</title>
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			<description>A proposed ban on medical marijuana dispensaries and grow operations in Colorado Springs may end up on the November ballot after all. City Councilman Darryl Glenn said Thursday he’s going to ask his...</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:22:22 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Michigan city studies location of potential medicinal marijuana distributor</title>
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			<description>TRENTON — Guidelines for the growth and use of medicinal marijuana in the city are being considered by officials. It’s not a question of whether the city will allow it — it’s a question of whe...</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:18:29 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>The need for medical marijuana is real and immediate</title>
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			<description>The results are in! The Oregon newspaper ranking of conditions qualifying for an Oregon Medical Marijuana Program card clearly puts glaucoma ahead of severe pain as an honorable disease to have. After...</description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 13:56:40 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Pennsylvania: Public hearing scheduled for medical marijuana bill HB 1393</title>
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			<description>The Pennsylvania House Health and Human Services Committee will hold a satellite hearing on medical marijuana in Pittsburgh, PA on August 19, 2010. HHS Committee Chair Representative Frank Oliver issu...</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:26:11 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Washington D.C. Liquor Board to Oversee Medical Cannabis</title>
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			<description>When the District's medical marijuana regulations go into effect next year, legislators from states mulling similar bills around the nation will be looking to D.C. as an example. Will they find a solu...</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:00:33 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Windsor Colorado to put medical marijuana question on November ballot</title>
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			<description>Windsor residents will decide in November whether to ban all commercial medical marijuana facilities in the town limits. The Windsor Town Board decided Monday to send the question to the ballot after ...</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:44:58 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Let's clear up the very flawed Montana Medical Marijuana Act</title>
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			<description>The Medical Marijuana Act is found in title 50, chapter 46 of the Montana Code. I would encourage all citizens to read this poorly written law. It legalizes, for virtually any medical reason, the use ...</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:26:08 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Texas Medical Marijuana Advocates Try Again With Limited Bill</title>
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			<description>Stephen Betzen’s life changed the morning he found a gift from a stranger on the steps of his house. At the time, his wife, Rachel was reeling from a combination of Lyme disease and injuries from a ...</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:24:26 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Lake Tahoe: Medical marijuana is what the people voted for</title>
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			<description>Everyone is entitled to their own opinion about medical marijuana. However, they are not entitled to their own facts. As someone who played a key role in the Proposition 215 campaign, I must correct s...</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 10:26:15 +0100</pubDate>
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