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Obama Releases 2012 National Drug Control Strategy

The new national drug strategy is out and it looks very much like the old national drug strategy, retaining the seemingly eternal 60:40 split between law enforcement and interdiction on one hand and treatment and prevention on the other.
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Washington State Supreme Court Limits Vehicle Searches

Police in Washington state must first obtain a search warrant to search a vehicle for evidence of the crime for which they have already arrested the driver, the state Supreme Court ruled last week.
Reduces nausea, spasms -- and traffic accidents? (image courtesy Laurie Avocado via wikimedia.org)
Reduces nausea, spasms -- and traffic accidents? (image courtesy Laurie Avocado via wikimedia.org)

New Study Finds Traffic Fatalities Decline with Medical Marijuana Laws [FEATURE]

In what could be an important intervention in the debates over medical marijuana and pot legalization, the first study to examine the relationship between medical marijuana and traffic deaths found they declined in medical marijuana states.
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Seattle skyline

Washington Marijuana Initiative Gains Support

An initiative to tax and regulate marijuana in Washington state is pulling in some big names and big bucks, but it hasn't completely unified the state's marijuana community behind it. That may not matter.
Beal leading Global Marijuana March in NYC, 1994 (wikimedia.org)
Beal leading Global Marijuana March in NYC, 1994 (wikimedia.org)

Activist Dana Beal Sentenced, Suffers Heart Attack

As he waited in a Wisconsin holding cell to be transferred to state prison to serve a marijuana trafficking sentence, iconic activist Dana Beal was stricken with a heart attack. He is currently in intensive care under sedation.
The first steps have been taken toward letting any Colorado adult grow six of these legally. (Image courtesy the author)
The first steps have been taken toward letting any Colorado adult grow six of these legally. (Image courtesy the author)

Marijuana Legalization Initiatives Filed in Colorado [FEATURE]

Will Colorado legalize weed in 2012? A broad array of state and national reform groups have just filed initiatives that would do precisely that.
They will still have to prove the high driver is actually impaired in Colorado. (Image via Wikimedia.org)
They will still have to prove the high driver is actually impaired in Colorado. (Image via Wikimedia.org)

Colorado Marijuana and Driving Bill Fails

Language that would have created a per se drugged driving law in Colorado was briefly reinserted in a bill Friday, but then the bill was killed Monday.