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News: Med pot impacts area schools

Towns and communities throughout the state are struggling with how best to regulate medical marijuana. Last year the state legislature passed laws aimed at further defining rules for the industry. But the state is allowing communities to write their own rules on certain aspects. And as KDNK's Conrad Wilson reports, one of those is the distance dispensaries can be from schools.

Map #1: Areas in blue show where dispensaries would be prohibited if a 1000 foot ban between dispensaries and schools was implemented in Carbondale.

Map #2: In this map, the areas in blue show where dispensaries would be prohibited if a 500 foot ban between dispensaries and schools was implemented in Carbondale.