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Drug War Chronicle #607 - November 6, 2009

Phillip S. Smith, Editor - David Borden, Executive Director

Feature: Maine Voters Approve Medical Marijuana Dispensaries

Maine has become the latest state to approve state-licensed medical marijuana dispensaries. It joins New Mexico and Rhode Island. But locally-allowed (or not) dispensaries are the rule in California, Colorado, and Washington. Both paths have their pluses and minuses.

Latin America: Mexico Drug War Update

No break in Mexico's prohibition-related violence as the death toll since December 2006, when President Calderon called in the army, has now topped 15,000. The latest victims include a US soldier gunned down in a Ciudad Juárez strip club with five other people.

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