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February 3, 2011 5:02 pm | Updated: 10:11 pm, Tue Jun 7, 2011.
The East Valley could become home to about 14 medical marijuana
dispensaries by late summer under rules proposed by state
regulators.  Those dispensaries would be allocated by city - and
in some cases by districts within the communities - to avoid
clustering that's occurred in other states.  The rules likely
will spare areas around Arizona State University and other
colleges from being swamped with the dispensaries, said Will
Humble, director of the Arizona Department of Health Services.
"Had we not carved this up, I think we would have gotten many,
many applications from university areas, and we still probably
will get lots of applications for north Tempe," Humble said.
"It's just that there will onl