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  • Santos and Petro at press conference announcing the initiative (screen shot from Caracol TV)
    Santos and Petro at press conference announcing the initiative (screen shot from Caracol TV)

    Colombia Okays Prescriptions for Addicts in Bogota

    Colombia's capital may be about to open drug consumption rooms for addicts, who will get their drugs by prescription. Colombian President Santos gave the go-ahead to Bogota Mayor Gustavo Petro Friday.
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    Initiative Watch

    Three marijuana legalization initiatives, two medical marijuana initiatives, and one sentencing reform initiative are on state ballots this year. We'll be running a feature story on one of them each week between now and election day, but we've created this short-term feature to keep up with all of them.
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    MMJ leaf and stethoscope KY ODCP_49.jpg

    Medical Marijuana Update

    Last issue, we reported that the DEA had taken the week off. Well, they're back, and so is the push-back.
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    Chronicle Film Review: Lynching Charlie Lynch

    Award-winning film maker Rick Ray turns his camera and his sharp eye on the ongoing medical marijuana wars with his 2012 documentary Lynching Charlie Lynch. It's quite good.
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    This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories

    A Virginia prison guard smuggles heroin, a Pennsylvania cop steals and uses it, and a New Jersey cop pays off a prostitute with it, and that's just some of the crooked cop action this week.
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    fatal drug overdose (wikimedia.org)

    California Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Bill Signed Into Law

    California will become the 10th state to enact a Good Samaritan law designed to reduce fatal drug overdoses by providing some protections from criminal prosecution for people seeking emergency help for overdose victims.