<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><h1 style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: block; font-weight: bold; font-size: 24pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-weight: normal; ">F<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/feb/13/feds-marijuana-policy-confusion-exacerbating-calif/"
style="text-decoration: underline; color: blue; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; ">eds’ marijuana policy confusion exacerbating Calif. water crisis</a></span></h1><div class="yiv5068517846left" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: block; line-height: normal; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="yiv5068517846fn"><b><span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; ">Douglas Ernst, Washington Times</span></b></span><b><span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; "></span></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;
margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: block; line-height: normal; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; ">The federal government’s schizophrenic approach to enforcement of marijuana laws is destroying California’s water supply. The state’s “Emerald Triangle” of Humboldt, Mendocino and Trinity counties, for example, is having its water supply drained by illegal pot growers because the federal government won’t allow local officials to craft public policy addressing the
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