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Two medical topics today: A Southern doctor writes about the need to get behind a federal law that will reduce penalties for marijuana. The decriminalization of medical cannabis is welcome news for Georgia’s afflicted and their families, but the transport of the oil remains a crime. The proposed law should ease the way. With nearly half of U.S. states allowing medical cannabis, the time has come for such consideration. In our second column, executives of local charities weigh in on behalf of residents who fall through the cracks of Georgia’s health care coverage gap.

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