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La labor para legalizar la marihuana medicinal en Minnesota vuelve a empezar de donde paró el año pasado. Ahora un proyecto de ley ha sido aprobado por dos comités del Senado y se esperan providencias en la Cámara dentro de poco. Pero el gobernador republicano todavía amenaza vetarlo.

Cuando investigaba a un traficante de cocaína de la región de DC, la policía instaló un aparato de rastreo por GPS en su vehículo sin tomarse la molestia de obtener una orden de registro. Ahora dos destacados grupos de las libertades civiles le instan a un tribunal de apelaciones de DC a que decida que dichas acciones son una violación de las protecciones de la Cuarta Enmienda a la Constitución de EE.UU. contra registros e incautaciones irrazonables.

Dakota del Sur se ha convertido en el 14º estado a prohibir la <em>Salvia divinorum</em> con base en nada más que vídeos en YouTube y el miedo de que alguien pueda estar colocándose en alguna parte durante algunos minutos.

The Obama administration has named Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske as the new drug czar... or is it Joe Biden?

Ibogaine received concerted attention for its addiction treatment and other properties at a recent conference in Boston. Here's a report.

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The UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) met in Vienna this week to draft a political declaration and plan of action to guide international drug policy for the next decade. While the prohibitionists prevailed in the end, the voices of dissent are growing ever louder and more powerful.

A US congresswoman from California suggested Thursday that it could be time for a marijuana legalization pilot program. Her home state would be an apt place to try it, she said.