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In the never-ending battle over medical marijuana, the latest flashpoints include a myth-busting study, a popular singer and legal twists in several states. On the academic front, economists from the University of Colorado at Denver, the University of Oregon and Montana State University issued a report saying medical marijuana dispensaries don’t boost teen pot use. After analyzing data from 1993 to 2009, a time frame in which 13 states decriminalized medicinal weed, the researchers concluded that “legalization of medical marijuana …

Last week, federal agents raided Oaksterdam University in Oakland, a school for growing and selling marijuana that prepares students to enter the lucrative California medical pot trade. Part of a larger crackdown on large-scale drug facilities, the raid illustrates the tensions that exist between states pushing legalization of pot for medical uses and beyond while the federal government clings to a prohibition model. Federal law supercedes state law, when the feds choose to enforce it Pot arrests clog criminal justice …