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• SEATTLE (AP) -- No one is suggesting checkpoints or fences to keep Washington state's legal pot within its borders.
• But Gov. Jay Inslee insists there are ways to prevent the bulk diversion of marijuana to the black market, including digitally tracking weed to ensure it goes from where it's grown to where it's sold.
• It's not just about being a good neighbor. Inslee is trying to persuade the Justice Department not to sue to block Washington state from licensing pot growers, processors and sellers.
• How well such schemes can keep pot from being diverted isn't clear.
• Colorado has rules aimed at keeping its medical marijuana market in line, but police say it nevertheless reaches the black market.
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• GARY, Ind. (AP) -- When medical students have finished their study and practice on cadavers, they often hold a respectful memorial service to honor these bodies donated to science.
• But the ceremonies at one medical school have a surreal twist: Relatives gather around the cold steel tables where their loved ones were dissected and which now hold their remains beneath metal covers. The tables are topped with white or burgundy-colored shrouds, flags for military veterans, flowers and candles.
• The mixture of grace and goth at the Indiana University School of Medicine-Northwest campus might sound like a scene straight out filmmaker Tim Burton's quirky imagination. Yet, despite the surrounding shelves of medical specimens and cabinets of human bones, these dissection lab memorials are more moving than macabre.
• The medical students join the families in the lab and read letters of appreciation about the donors, a clergy member offers prayers, and tears are shed.
• Family members are often squeamish about entering that room. This year's ceremony was last Friday, and relatives of one of the six adult donors being honored chose not to participate. And some who did attend had mixed feelings.
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