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BATTLE BREWING OVER STATE POT LAW

MEDICAL MARIJUANA Richardson takes aim at federal government, says issue is a matter of state sovereignty Battle: Governor says state law tightly drafted to prevent abuse Gov. Bill Richardson lashed out at the Bush administration on Thursday over this week's arrest of a wheelchair-bound Eddy County man who was certified by the state Health Department to possess and smoke marijuana for medical reasons. The Pecos Valley Drug Task Force, a multiagency law enforcement group in Southern New Mexico, raided the Malaga, N.M., home of Leonard French, who is one of 38 patients approved to participate in the state medical-marijuana program. The program started in July after a new state law went into effect. Officers seized several marijuana plants.

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