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Feds issue new medical marijuana policy

Published: October 19, 2009 6:03 PM
By The Associated Press

A box is filled with marijuana plants at

Photo credit: AP | A box is filled with marijuana plants at the San Francisco Medical Cannabis Clinic in San Francisco on Monday. (Oct. 19, 2009)

Pot-smoking patients or their sanctioned suppliers should not be targeted for federal prosecution in states that allow medical marijuana, prosecutors were told Monday in a new policy memo issued by the Justice Department.

Under the policy spelled out in a three-page legal memo, federal prosecutors are being told it is not a good use of their time to arrest people who use or provide medical...

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