While D.C. officials wait for six firms to grow medical marijuana in warehouses less than five miles from the White House, the role of cannabis in American life is taking center stage in political and legal bouts across the country.
The
city government is treading warily in its implementation of the
program, which voters approved in a 1998 referendum before congressional
interference and painstaking rule-making delayed it for more than a
decade. But the long-awaited debut of cultivation centers and
dispensaries in the District
