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In this Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014 photo,Meg Sanders poses at her grow house in Denver. The agriculture tax questions facing the marijuana industry are the latest wrinkle for the states flouting federal drug law and trying to establish commercial recreational pot industries. The states have settled how to tax marijuana once it's dried and ready to smoke. But they're still debating how to tax it while it's growing. “We’re too early in the process to make a determination how to do this right,” said Meg Sanders, owner of Gaia Plant-Based Medicine in Denver.(AP Photo /Ed Andrieski)
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In this Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014 photo, Meg Sanders inspects drying marijuana at her grow house in Denver. The agriculture tax questions facing the marijuana industry are the latest wrinkle for the states flouting federal drug law and trying to establish commercial recreational pot industries. The states have settled how to tax marijuana once it's dried and ready to smoke. But they're still debating how to tax it while it's growing. (AP Photo /Ed Andrieski)
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In this February 2012 photo provided by the Stahl family, Mary Ann Stahl-Goldberg, left, poses with her son Timothy Stahl, in Smithtown, N.Y. Goldberg is unhappy with an investigation that found nobody personally accountable for her developmentally disabled son’s serious injuries last year at a Long Island group home. Timothy Stahl, 35, went to the hospital 15 times, nine with new injuries or infections, she said. Justice Center for the Protection of People with Special Needs, the New York state agency established last year to protect the disabled in state-funded institutions has received nearly 25,000 reports of significant incidents, abuse, neglect and death in its first six months, though the public knows nearly nothing about how many of those reports led to prosecutions, arrests and firings. (AP Photo/Stahl family)
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FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 19, 2013 file photo, former United Methodist pastor Frank Schaefer speaks with reporters after a news conference at First United Methodist Church of Germantown in Philadelphia. United Methodist church officials have defrocked Schaefer, who officiated his son's gay wedding in Massachusetts. The dispute among United Methodists over recognition of same-sex couples has lapsed into a doctrinal donnybrook, pitting clergy who are presiding at gay weddings in defiance of church law against proponents of traditional marriage who are trying to stop them. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
