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Cuando Nuevo México aprobó una ley sobre la marihuana medicinal en 2007, ella tenía previsto que las entidades sin ánimo de lucro proporcionaran marihuana medicinal a pacientes aptos. Ahora, casi un año y medio después, la Secretaría de Salud estatal ha establecido reglas para tales organizaciones. Es progreso, pero no lo suficiente para algunos.

De vez en cuando un luchador antidroga se pasa de honesto. Eso le pasó esta semana al jefe antidroga de la ONU, quien afirma que el narcotráfico ilegal sostuvo el sistema financiero mundial en el 2008. Si tiene razón, ¿no querrá eso decir que deberíamos parar de perseguir a usuarios de drogas o aun la mayoría de los vendedores – ya que, por lo visto, necesitamos su ayuda para ir tirando?

Al paso que gobernadores y legisladores ponderan presupuestos depreciados en las Asambleas por todo EE.UU., surgen las oportunidades de progresar en las cuestiones hace mucho paralizadas de las prisiones, la condenación y la reforma en las políticas de drogas.

La Corte Suprema de EE.UU. ha debilitado la Cuarta Enmienda de nuevo, de esta vez en un caso que involucra el cacheo de pasajeros en vehículos detenidos por infracciones de tránsito.

The Rhode Island Patient Advocacy Coalition (RIPAC), a grassroots medical marijuana community of patients, caregivers, and advocates, is seeking an executive director to head its office in Providence.

With a budget crisis and a change in New York leadership, a politically perfect storm for reform of the state's draconian drug laws seems to be brewing. With the Rockefeller drug laws finally be repealed, after 35 years?

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Bush administration holdovers are ordering raids on state-authorized medical marijuana clinics, despite President Obama's pledge to stop them. Please ask the new president and attorney general to take corrective actions sooner rather than later.