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  • Gabe, an Arkansas HIV patient who benefits from medical marijuana and would like his medicine to be legal (arcompassion.org)
    Gabe, an Arkansas HIV patient who benefits from medical marijuana and would like his medicine to be legal (arcompassion.org)

    Arkansas Medical Marijuana Signatures Handed In

    Arkansas proponents for a medical marijuana initiative met a critical deadline last week, but still have thousands of signatures to gather if they're going to make the November ballot.
  • Singapore (wikimedia.org)
    Singapore (wikimedia.org)

    Singapore to Relax Death Penalty for Some Drug Traffickers

    Hard-line Singapore has announced it is modifying its mandatory death sentence for drug traffickers. It's just a small change, but it may save a few lives, and serve as a signal for other drug death penalty states.
  • Ocean City boardwalk (wikimedia.org)
    Ocean City boardwalk (wikimedia.org)

    Drug War Snapshot: Ocean City, Maryland

    The police in Ocean City, Maryland, are on a mission to maximize marijuana arrests, and they're doing quite well at it. Factor that in to your vacation plans.
  • Volusia County Courthouse (volusia.org)
    Volusia County Courthouse (volusia.org)

    Drug War Snapshot: Volusia County, Florida

    The criminal justice system in Volusia County, Florida, is running largely on the drug war if last Friday's jail bookings are any indication.
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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!