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TheAssociatedPress MIDDLETON Medicalmar- ijuana dispensaries in Northern California are of- fering up to $200 in free cannabis per patient af- fected by a hugely destruc- tive wildfire. The Los Angeles Times reported that the two com- panies are offering free products at five dispen- saries in San Francisco, Santa Rosa, Sebastopol and Lake County through Oct. 7. Patients eligible for the products must have a med- ical marijuana prescrip- tion and home addresses in Cobb, Kelseyville, Mid- dletown or Hidden Valley Lake. Those communities were hit the hardest by the fire that ripped through 118 square miles, destroyed more than 1,950 homes and killed four people. The two companies do- nated $20,000 worth of marijuana-related items in all. The offer began last Thursday. The wildfire was one of the worst in state history. It is nearly fully contained. Information from: Los Angeles Times, http:// www.latimes.com/ UP TO $200 Dispensariesoffer free marijuana to fire victims By Marilynn Marchione The Associated Press A new study might help the push for regulations to limit nicotine in cigarettes. Smokers who switched to special low-nicotine ones wound up smoking less and were more likely to try to quit, researchers found. The study only lasted six weeks, and researchers call the evidence preliminary. But they say it's the first large study to show that slashing nicotine, perhaps below an addiction thresh- old, is safe and leads to less smoking. The Food and Drug Ad- ministration was given the power in 2009 to mandate lower nicotine levels if it would help public health, but has not yet done so. "This, I think, provides support" for lowering nico- tine, said one study leader, Dr. Neal Benowitz of the University of California, San Francisco. "What our study shows is that it's feasible," and that people won't smoke more regular cigarettes to compensate, he said. Results are in the New England Journal of Medi- cine. The FDA and the Na- tional Institute on Drug Abuse paid for the study. Two study leaders have advised companies that make smoking cessation aids, and two testified in tobacco lawsuits. Some earlier work sug- gests they might not be if nicotine was limited to roughly 0.7 milligrams per gram of tobacco. Most cig- arettes contain around 15.8 milligrams per gram of to- bacco. There are no low- nicotine cigarettes on the market; the government made special ones with several lower nicotine lev- els to test. "We wanted to see how much lower it would need to be to see that effect," where dependence did not happen or was diminished, said another study leader, Dr. Eric Donny, a Univer- sity of Pittsburgh psychol- ogist. The FDA declined to comment on the study, but the director of its Cen- ter for Tobacco Products, Mitch Zeller, said in a statement that "though all tobacco products are po- tentially harmful and po- tentially addictive, differ- ent categories of tobacco products may have the po- tential for varying effects on public health." HEALTH Study finds low nicotine cigarettes cut use, dependence By Andrew Taylor The Associated Press WASHINGTON Just hours before a midnight dead- line, a bitterly divided Con- gress approved a stopgap spending bill Wednesday to keepthefederalgovernment open — but with no assur- ance there won't be yet an- other shutdown showdown in December. Democrats helped belea- guered House Republican leaders pass the measure by 277-151 — a lopsided vote shrouding deep disagree- ments within the GOP — after the Senate approved it by a 78-20 tally earlier in the day. The votes sent the bill to President Barack Obama for his signature, but not without White House carp- ing. "The American people deserve far better than last- minute, short-term legislat- ing," said spokesman Josh Earnest in pressing for a broader, longer-lasting bud- get deal. Approval of such stopgap measures used to be rou- tine, but debate this year exposed acrimonious divi- sions between pragmatic Republicans such as House Speaker John Boehner and more junior lawmakers in the party's tea party wing who are less inclined to compromise. The tea party- ers had demanded that the must-pass measure be used to punish Planned Parent- hood, stripping it of federal money because of its prac- ticeof supplying tissue from abortedfetusesforscientific research. House Republicans op- posed the measure by a clear margin, but Demo- cratic support was unani- mous. The legislation finances the government through Dec. 11, providing 10 weeks to negotiate a more wide- ranging budget deal that would carry past the 2016 presidential election. But the talks promise to be dif- ficult, and success is not as- sured. Boehner is resigning from Congress at the end of October, a decision he announced last week after informing Republicans he wouldnotriskagovernment shutdownoverPlannedPar- enthood. A similar fight over im- plementing Obama's health care law sparked a 16-day shutdown two years ago that Boehner, Senate Ma- jority Leader Mitch McCo- nnell of Kentucky and other top Republicans did not want to repeat in election season. McConnell is seek- ing to protect embattled in- cumbents in Democratic- leaning states such as Wis- consin and Pennsylvania, while some GOP conserva- tives are more apt to use the battle to appeal to the par- ty's core voters on the right. "Today was a win for the Washington cartel, and an- other setback for the Amer- ican people," said Rep. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who is using combat with Washington GOP leaders to help define his presidential campaign. "Republican leadership chose to abandon its consti- tutional power of the purse and to fund 100 percent of President Obama's failed agenda." Support from Democrats also helped power the mea- sure through the Senate, all of the opposition coming from conservative Republi- cans. Longtime lawmakers be- moaned the chronic dys- function on Capitol Hill and the collapse of the an- nual appropriations pro- cess that is supposed to be wrapped up by now. Demo- cratsdemandinganewbud- get deal have blocked work in the Senate, while a fight over the Confederate flag halted work in the House with only six of the 12 an- nual spending bills having passed. "It is to my great dismay that we are at this point again, requiring a tempo- rary Band-Aid to buy us time to do our duty," said Rep. Hal Rogers, R-Ky., chairman of the Appropri- ations Committee, during House debate. Tea party anger di- rected at Boehner over the Planned Parenthood issue helped prod the Ohio Re- publican'sannouncementto step down. His decision — and other House leadership races — have highlighted divisions between more pragmatic Republicans and hardline conservative wing that is increasingly promi- nent in Congress, especially in the rough-and-tumble House. STOPGAP SPENDING BILL No shutdown: Congress approves bill to keep government open JACQUELYNMARTIN—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. points while talking with visitors on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. By Claire Galofaro The Associated Press LOUISVILLE, KY. Defiant Kentucky clerk Kim Da- vis met briefly with Pope Francis during his his- toric U.S. visit, an encoun- ter she said validates her crusade against gay mar- riage. "He held out his hand to her and she grasped his hand," her attorney, Mat Staver, told The As- sociated Press. "He asked her to pray for him and she said she would; she asked the pope to pray for her, and he said he would." The Vatican essentially confirmed it: The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Fed- erico Lombardi, declined an opportunity to deny the encounter and said he would have no comment. The Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, said the meeting was pri- vate and that no photos would be released. Davis, an Apostolic Christian, became a pro- tagonist in America's divi- sive culture wars when she defied the federal courts by refusing to license same- sex marriages after the Su- preme Court effectively le- galized them nationwide. She spent five days in jail, until her deputies agreed to issue licenses without her approval. Davis and her husband met with Francis alone for less than 15 minutes Thursday at the Vati- can Embassy in Wash- ington, D.C., Staver said. He wouldn't say how the meeting was arranged, cit- ing a desire to be "deferen- tial to the Vatican." They chose to keep it se- cret until the pope left the U.S., to avoid overshadow- ing his visit, Staver said. Archbishop Joseph E. 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