While the majority of the District’s likely medical marijuana cultivation centers are clustered in Ward 5, the 17 applicants for licenses to run the five dispensaries that will provide marijuana to qualifying patients are spread all over town — so much so that only Ward 7 missed out on a location.

Today, the D.C. Department of Health announced that it was opening a month-long application process for the 10 cultivation centers that will be part of the city’s slowly evolving medical marijuana program.

Friends: did you realize that our children are being cruelly deceived by smartphone applications? In a preview of a segment that I’m sure we’ll be seeing on some late network newscast in the near future, the Post reports on an eight-year-old Rockville girl who racked up $1,400 in charges by purchasing add-ons inside an iPhone game.