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North Carolina Partial Needle Decriminalization Bill Passes

A bill that would allow people carrying syringes to avoid arrest if they tell police they are carrying before a search has passed the legislature in North Carolina.

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Dale Schafer and Mollie Fry (canorml.org)

Angry Afternoon (The Human and Fiscal Cost of the Medical Marijuana Wars)

Two reports came out today about the federal government's attacks on medical marijuana providers.

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Nevada Governor Signs Medical Marijuana Dispensary, Needle Bills

Nevada took steps on two drug refom fronts Wednesday, as Gov. Sandoval signed bills creating a medical marijuana dispensary system and decriminalizing syringe possession.

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Ruth Dreifuss, former president of Switzerland

Harm Reduction 2013

Our friends at the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union attended the international harm reduction conference in Vilnius, Lithuania, this week

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This is how your Washington state marijuana will be labelled, according to the Liquor Control Board.

Moving Toward Legal Marijuana Commerce in Washington State [FEATURE]

Washington state's move toward legal, regulated marijuana commerce is well underway. Initial draft rules have been circulated and commented on, and here's where things stand now. But retail outlets are still months away.

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Medical Marijuana Update

California dispensaries continue their vanishing act, thanks to feds and local officials, but Arizona fends off a challenge, Oregon adds PTSD to its list of approved conditions, and frustrated New Jersey patients rally.

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This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories

A pill-popping Florida cop goes to jail, a coke-slinging New York TSA agent gets busted, and a North Carolina narc gets fired.

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Prof. David Nutt (gov.uk)

Drug Prohibitions Hurt Science, Researchers Charge

A trio of leading scientists, including British Professor David Nutt, have lambasted the prohibitions on psychoactive substances as amounting to censorship of science in a paper published Wednesday.

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New Jerseyans Ready to Decriminalize Marijuana, Poll Finds

In New Jersey, the Senate Judiciary Committee is where marijuana decriminalization bills get stalled. A new poll may help prod legislators to move on them.

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Maine Legislature Won't Put Marijuana Referendum on Ballot

A Maine marijuana legalization bill morphed into a bill to allow a popular vote on legalization, but even that couldn't pass the House. If solons don't act, activists are looking at a citizen initiative in 2016.

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Marijuana-Based Medicines Okayed in France

France has taken a major step toward okaying marijuana-based medicines.

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Angela Garmley (courtesy attorney McCracken Poston)

Sex, Lies, and a Georgia Drug Frame-up [FEATURE]

Clarence Walker presents a Southern gothic tale of lust, judicial privilege, retaliation, planted drugs, and crooked cops.

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What will legal marijuana look like in Washington?

Here are the Initial Draft Rules promulgated by the state Liquor Control Board.

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Rockin' the joint at Yazoo City FCI. That's Emery on bass on the left. (cannabisculture.com)

Marc Emery in Solitary Confinement in US Prison

Canadian "Prince of Pot" Marc Emery has been sent to solitary in a US federal prison over what looks like a bogus "investigation" into who (or what) took photos of he and prison bandmates practicing.

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US District Court Judge Mark Bennett, Northern District of Iowa (iand.uscourts.gov)

Iowa Federal Judge Criticizes Harsh Methamphetamine Sentences

A US district court judge has lambasted federal meth sentencing guidelines as harsh, unfair, based on politics instead of science, and "fundamentally flawed." He's not the only one.

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Vermont Decriminalizes Marijuana Possession

Vermont becomes the latest state to decriminalize marijuana possession as Gov. Peter Shumlin (D) signed a decrim bill into law Thursday.

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Vermont Governor Signs Overdose Prevention Bills

Good Samaritan and Naloxone bills were signed into law in Vermont Wednesday.