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A instancias del diputado Maurice Hinchey (D-NY), el Comité de Presupuestos de la Cámara de Diputados de EE. UU. ha agregado un texto al proyecto de la ley de presupuestos del Ministerio de Justicia de EE. UU. que pide al gobierno Obama que clarifique su postura respecto a las redadas de la DEA contra proveedores de marihuana medicinal en los estados en que ella es legal.

No termina nunca. Otra semana de guardias de cárcel codiciosos y policías rateros. Los asaltos contra narcotraficantes cometidos por policías también ya cansan.

El gobierno Obama se valió de una rueda de prensa en Alburquerque para revelar y alardear sus últimas propuestas para tratar de los carteles mexicanos y la violencia relacionada con la prohibición al su rededor, ¿pero será que es más de lo mismo?

El lunes la Cámara de los Comunes canadiense votó por adoptar sentencias mínimas obligatorias a la estadounidense para delitos de drogas, incluso para cultivos de pequeñas cantidades de marihuana. La única oportunidad de derrotar la medida radica ahora en el Senado canadiense, un organismo no elegido que por lo general no cuestiona a la Cámara.

The marijuana movement has a ways to go in Chile, according to a new poll. Only about 20% support legalization, and it's about the same for medical marijuana.

It's summer in Afghanistan, and that means more fighting, more casualties, and this year, more drug war. Western militaries are now aiming directly at drug trafficking networks that fund the Taliban, and the Taliban isn't taking it lying down.

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The killing of Tarika Wilson, an unarmed mother holding her child, and the maiming of that child, is an inevitable consequences of the overuse of SWAT teams and the growing paramilitarization of the drug war.

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