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Don't Cross the Streams!

| Miguel Fagundes

Why? Egon: "It would be bad." And though we shouldn't expect "total protonic reversal," we must provide patients and consumers a clearer distinction between medicinal, medical, and pharmaceutical cannabis products.

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