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Nothing comic about it Take a fresh look at the ongoing legal tangles involving SLO County medical marijuana collectives [16] BY MATT FOUNTAIN • ART BY JEFF CHANG
FILM The gods are crazy [34]
Locals take sides in the well-funded bag wars [9] The local Narcotics Task Force loses funding [10] A Shakespeare show wows our tough critic [24]