Next August, low-income Berkeley, California residents will be able to receive free, high quality medical marijuana from dispensaries to help with the laundry list of ailments for which California allows pot to be prescribed. And while prohibitionists and non-hippies alike have argued it’s a bad idea, it’s actually an expansion of a system already in place to provide medical marijuana for people who can’t afford it.

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