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The sponsor of an Illinois medical marijuana bill said it is “one or two” votes short of passage in the state House, according to a report by the Pekin Times.

 

State Representative Lou Lang, a Democrat from Skokie, has proposed a four-year pilot program with limits on how much marijuana a patient could purchase every two weeks, and which specifies just a few conditions eligible for such treatment, the Times said. Opponents told the Times they still have strong concerns about the bill, particularly that the upper limit on marijuana might be too high, and that law enforcement does not have adequate means of assessing whether a driver with a medical marijuana prescription is too impaired to drive.

 

The Huffington Post reported that the legislation would allow for 66 licensed dispensaries in the state, and noted that the state Senate has approved similar bills in the past.

 

Source: http://www.bizjournals.com

SEATTLE, WA – When it comes to dogs everything’s black and white. So when it comes to a drug-sniffing dog it’s either drugs or it isn’t.

 

But thanks to the new laws that have legalized marijuana in Washington state police are trying to teach some old dogs a new trick.

 

Because the dogs are trained to alert police to the presence of what is now a legal substance; cops could get in trouble for conducting illegal searches when the pooches detect something.

 

So they’re trying to desensitize the dogs to pot, while not even training the new K9′s to detect the sticky icky.

 

Talk about a ruff job.

 

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