11.   Most Western states have passed medical marijuana laws.

12.   Opponents say it does nothing that legal drugs cannot do and its use as medicine could lead toward more liberal marijuana laws.

13.   The current national focus on marijuana laws is driving home the issue for boomers.

14.   The initiative would encourage the city not to enforce marijuana laws on people who are using marijuana for medical reasons.

15.   They order police to assign their lowest priority to enforcing the marijuana laws when the violators are seeking relief from pain and illness.

16.   Those trying to combat the marijuana law likely would rely on their contacts with Napolitano for access to Clinton.

17.   Typically, when students and residents gather in the center of town and protest marijuana laws by lighting up, several are arrested.

18.   What makes the issue more complicated is that New York already has a medical marijuana law in the books.

19.   Although the effectiveness the experiment has yet to be determined, Home Secretary David Blunkett announced this week that he wants to relax marijuana laws across Britain.

20.   Burstein said there had been a groundswell of support across Canada for a loosening of marijuana laws.