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The Jewish perspective on pot "is ambivalent, and observant Jews could plausibly take either side of Proposition 19," a rabbi says in the Jewish Journal cover story for election week. Now with video. Also, the JJ visits with pot lawyer Allison Margolin, who's enjoying a reprise of her media boomlet of a few years ago thanks to the Prop. 19 debate.
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