Suddenly, What Ails Them Is What Medical Marijuana Is Good For

DENVER — Like other states, Colorado is trying to figure out how to deal with the United States Department of Justice’s announcement last week that users and providers of medical marijuana will not be prosecuted when they are in compliance with state law. Here in Colorado, local officials say that a big concern is a surge in new users of the drug, which Colorado’s top health official, James B. Martin, called “an abuse of the system.”

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