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Subject: Online Seminar- My text for analysis

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Date Posted: 07:07:17 09/30/09 Wed

California mulls legalising marijuana
Emilio San Pedro
BBC News
In 1996, voters in California approved a referendum that made it legal for the first time in decades in the US for people to consume cannabis for medicinal purposes.
More than a dozen states have followed suit since and several others - the most recent of which is Massachusetts - have approved laws decriminalising the possession of small amounts of the drug.
Now, there are moves afoot in California to go further to fully legalise marijuana.
Evidence of the impact that the approval of medicinal marijuana has had on some areas of California is clear in Oakland.
Across the bay from San Francisco, it has come to be known as Oaksterdam, in a nod to the symbolic global capital of marijuana deregulation, Amsterdam.
The relaxed approach to marijuana use in this part of Oakland has led to the opening of several marijuana dispensaries.
They are establishments in this once deprived area of town which sell a broad array of cannabis related products, from food products such as brownies and cereal bars laced with cannabis to traditional marijuana for smoking.
Oaksterdam University
"This is where it all started," says Richard Lee, a leading advocate of the legalisation of cannabis, pointing to a building where the first ever dispensary was opened in 1996.
His sense of excitement is palpable as he shows me around Oaksterdam, which is also home to a facility where state residents can get the ID needed to establish their right to use cannabis for medical purposes.

The area is also home to the Oaksterdam University, which Mr Lee runs.
He shows me around the student union of the university, which he describes as a trade school for all of those interested in finding a place in the thriving cannabis trade that medicinal marijuana has spawned.
Mr Lee tells me that making cannabis use legal would make economic sense but would also help in the fight against the Mexican drugs cartels.
"According to some estimates, the Mexican cartels get 60-70% of their money - their profit - from cannabis," he tells me.
"So if we cut that out of the equation then theoretically 60-70% of the violence they perpetrate would be cut out, because they'd have less money for the guns and weapons and ammunition to kill people and to spend on bribing officials and all the rest," Mr Lee says.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8275794.stm

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Re: Online Seminar- My text for analysis	Priscilla Rabelo	12:43:55 09/30/09 Wed