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ExÃ¡menes toxicolÃ³gicos: ExÃ¡menes toxicolÃ³gicos aleatorios e infundados sufren doble revÃ©s en Luisiana

Los partidarios de los exÃ¡menes toxicolÃ³gicos aleatorios e infundados en Luisiana se escuecen tras sufrir un par de derrotas en los Ãºltimos 10 dÃas.

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Marihuana medicinal: ExploraciÃ³n toxicolÃ³gica positiva no anularÃ¡ contratos de terapia del dolor para ex combatientes con recomendaciones de mÃ©dicos, dice VA de EE. UU.

Â¿SerÃ¡ que la AdministraciÃ³n de Temas Relacionados con Veteranos (VA, por sus siglas en inglÃ©s) de EE. UU. estÃ¡ cambiando de opiniÃ³n respecto a la marihuana medicinal? Bueno, no exactamente, pero parece que por lo menos ahora no echarÃ¡ a las personas de sus programas de terapia del dolor si son usuarias registradas en un estado en que ella sea legal.

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Marihuana medicinal: CÃ¡mara aprueba proyecto de Rhode Island sobre dispensarios y Ã©ste procede a aprobaciÃ³n final del Senado

La Asamblea Legislativa de Rhode Island estÃ¡ a punto de aprobar el proyecto de ley sobre los dispensarios de marihuana medicinal con mÃ¡rgenes abrumadoras a prueba de veto. Â¡ChÃºpese Ã©sa, gobernador Carcieri!

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Marihuana medicinal: Proyectos de ley en Delaware y Nueva YÃ©rsey salen victoriosos de votaciones en comitÃ©s en movimiento del AtlÃ¡ntico Central

Esta semana leyes sobre la marihuana medicinal han progresado en dos estados mÃ¡s con proyectos de ley que avanzaron en Nueva YÃ©rsey y Delaware. Pero el proyecto de Nueva YÃ©rsey tambiÃ©n se ha puesto mÃ¡s restrictivo.

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Policial: Las historias de policÃas corruptos de esta semana

PolicÃas se embolsan dinero oriundo de la droga, policÃas roban a narcotraficantes, policÃas protegen a narcotraficantes, policÃas roban drogas y, por supuesto, otro guardia de cÃ¡rcel contrabandea drogas.

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DC Residents: Before Your Summer Starts

You Can Make a Difference

Dear DC Friends,

Urge the City Council to pass a resolution now to assert our rights to make our own laws without congressional interference -- including protecting medical marijuana!

Email the Council.

Should the federal government have the right to say what laws we can pass here in DC?

You and I have been working together to help our city gain control over its own drug policy, and we're making progress!

Still, the District of Columbia can't fully make its own rules when it comes to things like medical marijuana or khat, a plant used as a mild stimulant, similar to coffee, among some of our African communities here.

This doesn't seem like democracy to me. But you can fight for DC sovereignty by urging theÂ City Council to pass a new resolution asserting the Districtâs right to make its own laws without congressional interference.

If the council passes the resolution now, we can have a stronger impact on the part of the federal budget that concerns our city and our rights, and the budget will be finalized soon.

You can join me in working with partners like the Marijuana Policy Project. Take action today and urge your Council to pass this resolution before the summer recess. You deserve a free and just city, and together, we can build it!

Thanks for all you do.

Sincerely,

Naomi Long
Director, DC Metro Project
Drug Policy Alliance Network

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Cultural Baggage 06/11/09

The Unvarnished Truth From the Drug Truth Network Cultural Baggage for 06/10/09, 29:00 Claudia Rubin w/ RELEASE in the UK, regarding their campaign: "Nice People Take Drugs" + Dr. Joel Hochman's warning to parents & Julie Roberts of Drug Policy Alliance on forthcoming cannabis distribution in New Mexico LINK: http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/?q=node/2453 Transcript: http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/?q=node/2453#comments Programs produced at Pacifica Radio Station KPFT in Houston, 90.1 FM. You can Listen Live Online at www.kpft.org - Century of Lies, SUN, 8 PM ET, 7 PM CT, 6 PM MT & 5 PM PT: NEXT: Dr. Joel Hochman, Director of the National Foundation for the Treatment of Pain - Cultural Baggage WED, 12:30 PM ET, 11:30 CT, 10:30 MT & 9:30 AM PT: NEXT: Caspar Leitch, time4hemp.com Hundreds of our programs are available online at www.drugtruth.net, www.audioport.org We have potcasts, transcripts, searchability, CMS, XML, sorts by guest name and by organization. We provide the "unvarnished truth about the drug war" to scores of broadcast affiliates in the US, Canada and Australia! We now feature TRANSCRIPTS of most of our programs again! Check out our latest videos via www.youtube.com/fdbecker Please become part of the solution, visit our website: www.endprohibition.org for links to the best of reform. "Prohibition is evil." - Reverend Dean Becker, DTN Producer, 713-849-6869, www.drugtruth.net

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Medical Marijuana: UCSF School of Medicine's Continuing Medical Education

Patients Out of Time's 2008 conference is now on the UCSF School of Medicine's Continuing Medical Education for physicians and other health care professionals to view and earn their continuing education units. Link: http://www.medicalcannabis.com/OnlineEducation/ PDF: http://medicalcannabis.com/Online%20Education%20UCSF%20PRINT.pdf Image: http://medicalcannabis.com/medical-education.html Direct Link: http://www.cecity.com/ce-bin/owa/bel?cc=CECA&aid=14422

Ottawa embarking on its own war on drugs

Prison Term for a Seller of Medical Marijuana

Hey Progressives: Why Don't you Care About the "Drug War" Like You Care About Other Issues?

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Weekly: This Week in History

Events and quotes of note from this week's drug policy events of years past.

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Tough Times: California Protests Over HIV/AIDS Budget Cuts -- Needle Exchange Funding at Risk, Prop. 36 Funding to Vanish

In a bid to deal with the state's gargantuan budget deficit, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to cut funding for HIV/AIDS programs and Proposition 36 treatment programs. Protests over the former broke out this past week in cities across the state.

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Sentencing: Poll Finds Public Open to Probation, Diversion Instead of Hard Time for Drug Possession, Other Nonviolent Offenses

More than a quarter of American adults polled in a recent survey don't think simple drug possessors need to go to jail. That's a start.

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Prohibition: Republican Senator Calls for Outlawing Tobacco

As the Senate debated the FDA tobacco regulation bill it approved yesterday, one Republican senator called his colleagues hypocrites and urged them to support an outright ban. Was it just posturing?

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Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories

It never ends. Another week of greedy jail guards and thieving policemen. This whole cops robbing drug dealers thing is getting kind of old, too.

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Drug War Chronicle Book Review: "God's Middle Finger: Into the Lawless Heart of the Sierra Madre," by Richard Grant (2008, Free Press, 288 pp., $15.00 PB)

These days, the treasure of the Sierra Madre isn't gold, but pot and opium. And nobody down there seems to feel like they need any stinking badges, not even the cops. In "God's Middle Finger," journalist Richard Grant takes a wild trip through the cordillera. Tired of dry old books about drug policy? Try this one for a change of pace.

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Feature: The Southwest Border Counternarcotics Strategy -- More, Better Drug War?

The Obama administration used an Albuquerque press conference to unveil and tout its latest proposals for dealing with Mexico's drug trafficking organizations and the prohibition-related violence around them, but is it anything other than more of the same old same old?

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Feature: In Bold Step Backward, Canadian House of Commons Passes Mandatory Minimum Drug Sentencing Bill

The Canadian House of Commons voted Monday to adopt US-style mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses, including small-time marijuana grows. The only chance to defeat the measure now lies with the Canadian Senate, an unelected body not generally known for second-guessing the House.

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Medical Marijuana: California Dispensary Operator Charles Lynch Sentenced to a Year and a Day, Remains Free Pending Appeal

In a hangover from the Clinton and Bush administrations' war against medical marijuana, California dispensary operator Charles Lynch was sentenced to a year and a day in prison Thursday. That was well below the mandatory minimum five-year sentence required by federal law, and Lynch remains free on appeal, but advocates say he should not have been punished at all.