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Phillip Smith ~ Alternet ~   The Senate Appropriations Committee voted to rein in the DEA.

Aaron C. Davis ~ The Washington Post ~   House Republicans advanced a budget plan Thursday that would prevent legal sales of marijuana in the District until at least 2017.

Ian Mulgrew ~ The Vancouver Sun ~   Canadian medical marijuana patients have a right to tasty pot cookies and other cannabis products, the Supreme Court of Canada said Thursday.

Paul Egan ~ Detroit Free Press ~   LANSING – Two measures to legalize marijuana could appear on the November 2016 state ballot after the Board of State Canvassers approved petition wording Thursday.

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.