Medical Marijuana: Increased Applicants In Colorado Lead Law Enforcement To Questions Pot Sources

Medical Marijuana: Increased Applicants In Colorado Lead Law Enforcement To Questions Pot Sources

Demand for medical marijuana in Colorado has grown so fast in the past few months that it has outstripped the production of legal "grow" operations and is now probably being supplied by international drug cartels, say some local sheriffs and agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.

And as dispensaries proliferate throughout the state, police and lawyers say they are worried about the peripheral crime rising around the shops intended to function as pharmacies, selling medical marijuana prescribed to people who suffer one of eight conditions, ranging from chronic pain to glaucoma.

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