San Francisco Supe Proposes Government Ganja Shop

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San Francisco Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi wants the city to get into the drug dealing business by opening up a city-run medical marijuana dispensary. Though the law’s as likely to pass as Cheech Marin is to sponsor a major public art exhibition–or something like that–it has at least been good for a chuckle: “The mayor will have to hash this out with public health officials,” a spokesman for Mayor Gavin Newsom told the SF Chronicle. “It’s the mayor’s job to weed out bad legislation, and to be blunt, that sounds pretty bad.”

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