Vote Establishes Task Force To Study Issue

Calaveras County may be joining a handful of others in California protecting medical marijuana patients from a jarring jaunt to the jug.

In a charged vote that split the Board of Supervisors 3-2, officials directed the county's Director of Health Services to propose a task force that could draw up guidelines under Proposition 215.

California voters approved that law in 1996, which allows people suffering from cancer, AIDS, glaucoma, and other illnesses to use the federally forbidden drug without fear or arrest and prosecution.

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