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What's In The News At The Lindesmith Center
Posted by FoM on September 21, 1999 at 14:45:09 PT
By Ethan A. Nadelmann
Source: The Lindesmith Center
Almost a year after the balloting, voters in the nation's capital learned on September 20, 1999 that nearly 70 percent of them favored medical use of marijuana. The votes were finally counted after a judge overruled a congressional ban.
The referendum would change D.C. drug laws to permit the possession, use, cultivation and distribution of marijuana if recommended by a physician for serious illness. According to the Associated Press, after the proposal is submitted on Capitol Hill, Congress would have 30 legislative days to pass a resolution of disapproval. If it didn't, the measure would become law.Click the link to read what's in the news at the Lindesmith Center:http://www.lindesmith.org/news/news2.html#voteDon't Get Carried Away - By Ethan A. Nadelmann - 9/19/99http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread2969.shtml
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