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HISTORIC HOUSE VOTE APPROVES BROAD MARIJUANA FEDERALISM

HE HOUSE OF Representatives in June resoundingly approved a spending rider that would bar the Justice Department from interfering with the implementation of state laws that allow the production, distribution, and consumption of marijuana for medical or recreational use. The amendment,

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