Article: Obeying pot bill ID cards for medical users will be issued

JOSHUA TREE One hundred dollars, a chronic medical condition and a note from a doctor can get you free reign to possess and use marijuana.

Just don't get too happy federal law trumps California's.

That's the lesson people learned in Joshua Tree on Thursday as public health officials announced future compliance under state Senate Bill 420 and the issuance of a possible 7,000 Medical Marijuana ID cards.

Passed in 2003, the law imposed statewide guidelines outlining how much medical marijuana could be grown and possessed.

It also required the state Department of Health Services to establish a voluntary medicinal marijuana patient registry and issue identification cards to qualified patients.

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