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The Feds should be seeking to get rid of medical marijuana shops, under existing drug laws. Instead, they're targeting ones they deem to be too close to schools.Which sounds like a zoning issue -- and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":27546,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/24\/who-wants-to-stop-pot-follow-the-money.html","url_meta":{"origin":32427,"position":1},"title":"Who wants to stop pot? Follow the money","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 24-Apr-12 9:05pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It's not the righteous and the teetotalers and the Women's Temperance Union spending big lobbying dollars to keep pot illegal. 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