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Jim Eckstrom jeckstrom@oleantimesherald.com

May 15, 2018

Eckstrom: Is taxing weed really the answer?

Those reader polls the Times Herald posts on its website are not scientific by any means, but when more than 80 percent of about 850 respondents answer a certain way,

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