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struggle4progress

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Thu Dec 6, 2012, 08:29 PM Dec 2012

Pot smokers enter legal limbo in Washington, Colorado [View all]

By Alan Duke, CNN
updated 12:31 PM EST, Thu December 6, 2012

... But a legal haze still engulfed pot smokers Thursday, when possession of up to an ounce of marijuana by adults become legal, though growing and selling it remains a crime ...

"It begs the question, if they can't buy it through a medical marijuana shop, which only people with a prescription and medical marijuana license can, how do they get it?" Washington State Liquor Control Board spokesman Brian Smith said Wednesday.

Growing and selling marijuana will still be prosecuted as a felony, King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg told CNN.

"So I'm not sure where you're suppose to get it," Satterberg said. "If you stumble across some on the street or it falls from the sky, then you can have it. Otherwise, you are part of a criminal chain of distribution" ...

http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/05/us/washington-marijuana-legalization/?hpt=us_t2

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