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By TIM MORAN
BEE STAFF WRITER

Last Updated: May 3, 2006, 09:36:24 AM PDT

Stanislaus County residents will be able to get county-issued medical marijuana identification cards in the future.

But they won't be able to buy the drug legally here, if county Board of Supervisors Chairman Ray Simon has anything to do with it.

Deputy County Counsel Dean Wright told the board Tuesday that state law mandates medical marijuana cards be issued by the county public health department.

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