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Marijuana Debate Heating Up!
Posted by FoM on March 17, 1999 at 08:16:01 PT

ST. PAUL, State Public Safety Commissioner Charlie Weaver supports the idea of letting some people smoke marijuana for medical problems. 
So does Gov. Jesse Ventura. But they don't want it to be a free-for-all. Weaver says the state would need to get a federal waiver and then run a pilot program through the University of Minnesota and overseen by the State Board of Pharmacy. A bill sponsored by Senator Pat Piper would give qualified patients legal protection if they use marijuana and their doctors legal protection if they recommend it. The glitch is that patients still would have to buy the drug from an illegal source. Piper's bill was discussed today in the Senate Health and Family Security Committee, but continued until tomorrow to give Weaver and Piper time to work out differences. http://www.wcco.com/news/stories/news-990316-194206.html
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