Roger Roffman

University of Washington

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Professor Emeritus of Social Work at the University of Washington author of Marijuana Nation: One Man's Chronicle of America Getting High, from Vietnam to Legalization; co-sponsor of Washington State's marijuana legalization bill

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While the whole country is watching Washington State and Colorado to see how their  laws legalizing marijuana  work out, the federal government still considers pot to be an illegal…

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