D.C. To Announce Marijuana Center Locations Friday

WASHINGTON - The five locations where D.C. residents can obtain medical marijuana will be announced Friday.

D.C. joins 16 other states in the country that have made it legal to use marijuana for medical reasons.

Under the law, approved by Congress in 2010, doctors can write a recommendation for the use of marijuana by those who have HIV/AIDS, cancer, multiple sclerosis, glaucoma and other serious conditions.

But D.C. native Steve DeAngelo, executive director of Harbor Side Health center in Oakland, Calif., the largest medical marijuana dispensary on the nation, says the District's bill has some serious flaws.

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