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Rival Marijuana Measures Thrown into the Electoral Pot

April 23 2013
Written by Kate Linthicum.
Dozens of medical marijuana activists rallied outside Los Angeles City Hall last week, declaring war on an enemy.

Their target was not the federal government, whose agents raided several local dispensaries in recent days, or neighborhood groups trying to shut down the city's estimated 700 pot shops.

The enemy was fellow medical marijuana advocates.(Read more here.) 

 

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