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Californians set to vote on legalising personal cannabis

Possession of up to an ounce of the drug could be decriminalised next week, writes Lara Marlowe in Los Angeles

Bill Clinton said he smoked but didn't inhale. In his autobiography, Dreams from my Father , President Barack Obama recounted smoking marijuana during a restless period of his youth at Occidental College in southern California. In a poll last month, 47 per cent of Californian respondents said they tried it at least once.

Police Chief Kim Raney from Covina, California, never touched it. "It was a felony when I was growing up. And I already had the ambition to become a police officer," he says.

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Source: The Irish Times, 27/10/2010

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