Let's Bail Out the Pot Dealers!

California's medical dispensaries are so well run that dime baggers don't stand a chance

Illustration by John Ueland for TIME

Some dude outside my supermarket just asked me to sign a petition to legalize marijuana . Apparently he was so high that he forgot he's in California, where pot is already more legal than budget-balancing. Last year I was granted a medical-marijuana license, even though I'm healthy and I don't smoke weed. I went to a doctor's office that consisted of a desk, a TV, two cans of air freshener and a man wearing a Hawaiian T-shirt. I told Dr. Magnum P.I. about my constant anxiety, insomnia and headaches — two more conditions than any previous patient had...

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