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Senate bill would effectively end the federal war on medical marijuana
A sweeping Senate bill introduced Tuesday seeks to significantly roll back the federal government's war on medical marijuana.
The Compassionate Access, Research Expansion and Respect States (CARERS) Act, introduced by Sens. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), seeks to drastically reduce the federal government's ability to crack down on state-legal medical marijuana programs and encourage more research into the plant through several major changes in federal law.
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