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Nick Gass ~ Politico ~   Former President Bill Clinton made a marijuana-related joke during a Clinton Global Initiative event on Wednesday with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.

Debra Borchardt ~ Forbes ~   Parents of severely autistic children are turning to medical marijuana for relief.

Douglas Hanks ~ Miami Herald ~   A proposal that would create a $100 fine for marijuana possession in Miami-Dade gets its first hearing before county commissioners Wednesday, a key test for a law designed to keep minor pot offenses out of the criminal system.

Joseph Spector ~ Press Connects ~   ALBANY – Patients and state lawmakers on Tuesday made a final push for New York to pass a bill that would provide emergency access to medical marijuana for ill patients.

BBC newsbeat ~   The First Church of Cannabis has been recognised as a church and charitable organisation in Indiana, despite the drug still being illegal in the state.

Ricardo Baca ~ The Cannabist ~   The newly launched National Cannabis Bar Association will officially launch with an NCIA event in Denver on June 30

Brigid Schulte ~ The Washington Post ~   With a wave of legalization measures in recent years, marijuana in some form is now legal in 38 states. But in the 12 where it is not — a swath of the west and Midwest, including Kansas, Nebraska and the Dakotas, and in the rust belt states of Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania — parents whose use of the drug would be legal elsewhere are losing their children and often seen as irresponsible parenting pariahs.

Kristen Gwynne ~ Rolling Stone ~   States across the country are struggling to translate their medical marijuana laws into functional programs

Daniel Vasquez ~ Sun Sentinel ~   When pot is this good, people don't give up. And Florida is not giving up on medical-grade marijuana anytime soon.

Jack Suntrup ~ St. Louis Post-Dispatch ~   A circuit judge has ruled that Missouri's so-called "Right to Farm" amendment doesn't allow farming pot.

Lori Denman-Underhill ~ LA Weekly ~   “You've got to hold it in your lungs longer, George.” A lot of people remember the famous comment by actor Peter Fonda in Easy Rider.

Megan Schrader  ~ The Gazette ~   In the final days of the 2015 legislative session, Gov. John Hickenlooper's office asked for a $300,000 earmark to fund a crackdown on toxic pesticides being used in legal marijuana grows in Colorado.

CBS This Morning ~    The number of companies looking to cash in on marijuana is growing, including some with celebrity backers, like Melissa Etheridge, reports CBS News correspondent Gigi Stone Woods.

Becky Schlikerman ~ Chicago Sun Times ~    It’s an industry, they say, that’s too new to have a glass ceiling. And for many women, that’s a good reason to get into the booming legal marijuana business.

Douglas A. McIntyre ~ 247 Wall Street ~   Colorado’s effort to tax marijuana as a means to help the state budget never materialized, at least financially, slowing expansion of industries supported by the drug. As attempts to approve marijuana’s use in other states and cities falters, these industries face unexpected road blocks.

Mario J Garcia ~ NBC News ~   Three mothers and their sick kids share how medical marijuana has helped