Monique Rydberg packages medical marijuana at The Joint, a medical marijuana cooperative in Seattle. Since Washington’s voters approved the medical use of marijuana 15 years ago, it’s been a wide open system, with no registration requirements for patients or oversight of the pot gardens that serve them. That’s about to change. The legalization of recreational marijuana has provided an impetus to crack down on medical pot and drive people into the market for taxed, regulated marijuana. – USA Today
