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Oregon Marijuana Initiative Hands in Final Signatures

Oregon's OCTA marijuana legalization initiative has handed in a final 57,000 signatures. It needs 32,000 of them to be valid to make the November ballot. But election officials invalidated almost half of earlier signatures, so it's still nail-biting time for proponents.
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Georgia Governor Puts Welfare Drug Testing on Hold

Georgia's governor was quick to sign a welfare drug testing bill into law, but now he wants to wait for a legal challenge to a similar law in Florida before implementing that law that was supposed to go into effect July 1.
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Did You Know? Federal Expenditures on the Drug War, from DrugWarFacts.org

DrugWarFacts.org, a publication of Common Sense for Drug Policy, is an in-depth compilation of key facts, stats and quotes on the full range of drug policy issues, excerpted from expert publications on the subjects. The Chronicle is running a series of info items from DrugWarFacts.org -- check them out!
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Medical Marijuana Update

California continues to have conniptions over medical marijuana, a scientific review finds marijuana's Schedule I status "untenable," and much, much more.
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This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories

A crooked narc scandal in Florida just keeps on giving, a sticky-fingered Kansas City cop goes to jail, a former Arizona cop is in trouble for stealing pain pills, and an Arizona ICE agent cops to providing info to the cartels.
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Mexican president-elect Enrique Peña Nieto (cddiputados.gob.mx)
Mexican president-elect Enrique Peña Nieto (cddiputados.gob.mx)

Mexico President-Elect Wants Drug Legalization Talks

Mexico's next president has joined the ever growing chorus of Latin American leaders calling for a serious discussion of drug legalization, even as he announced he would continue to fight the drug war in Mexico.
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Mexico's likely next president, Enrique Peña Nieto (wikimedia.org)

Mexico's Drug War Version 2.0 [FEATURE]

Mexico's president-elect is going to rejigger the way the country prosecutes its war on the drug cartels, but no radical changes are apparent.
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Five More US Drug War Deaths

Here are five more people who died in recent weeks in law enforcement operations related to drug law enforcement.
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Drug sniffing dogs can be trained to alert on cue. (US Navy)

Nevada Drug Dog Troopers Allege Official Misconduct

There's a whole lot of nastiness going on inside the Nevada Highway Patrol's drug dog program, and now a lawsuit by disgruntled troopers is revealing some highly questionable policing.
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Did You Know? Portugal's Decriminalization Record, on DrugWarFacts.org

DrugWarFacts.org, a publication of Common Sense for Drug Policy, is an in-depth compilation of key facts, stats and quotes on the full range of drug policy issues, excerpted from expert publications on the subjects. The Chronicle is running a series of info items from DrugWarFacts.org, and we encourage you to check it out.
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Medical Marijuana Update

The feds continue to play hardball in California and local elected officials across the state are grappling with the issues.