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No Tokes Over The Line, Sweet Jesus

ORG XMIT: MTMG101  Jason Christ smokes a bowl of marijuana in front of the civic center, around the corner from the police station, in downtown Great Falls, Mont., Friday Oct. 23, 2009. Christ holds clinics to help people get their state-issued medical marijuana cards in Montana. More than 250 registered for the Great Falls class, which features a doctor on site able to certify the applicant's medical condition. (AP Photo/Matt Gouras) (Matt Gouras / The Spokesman-Review)
ORG XMIT: MTMG101 Jason Christ smokes a bowl of marijuana in front of the civic center, around the corner from the police station, in downtown Great Falls, Mont., Friday Oct. 23, 2009. Christ holds clinics to help people get their state-issued medical marijuana cards in Montana. More than 250 registered for the Great Falls class, which features a doctor on site able to certify the applicant's medical condition. (AP Photo/Matt Gouras) (Matt Gouras / The Spokesman-Review)

Jason Christ smokes a bowl of marijuana in front of the civic center, around the corner from the police station, in downtown Great Falls, Mont., Friday. Christ holds clinics to help people get their state-issued medical marijuana cards in Montana. More than 250 registered for the Great Falls class, which features a doctor on site able to certify the applicant's medical condition. (AP Photo/Matt Gouras)

Question: Should medical marijuana be legal -- and medical marijuana clinics free from intense federal scrutiny?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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