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A recent poll found that a whopping 81% of Pennsylvanians support making marijuana legal. The state would become the 15th state to legalize medical marijuana if lawmakers manage to pass the bill this legislative session.

Despite having one of the most draconian drug policies in the world and embarking on its so-called "Five Fences" counter-narcotics campaign, Thailand is losing its latest war on drugs as methamphetamine, heroin, opium, ketamine, cocaine and ecstasy continue to flood across its porous borders.

Maine's Department of Health and Human Services has selected three licensees to operate Maine's first six medical marijuana dispensaries.

Time has proven that drug prohibition has the very dangerous power to corrupt institutions of all kinds at virtual every level. A top drug gang enforcer says he ordered the killing of a U.S. consulate worker because she helped provide visas to a rival gang in the border city of Ciudad Juarez. U.S. officials probed into the possibility of corruption involving the consulate worker shortly after her killing and found no evidence that she was involved in illegal activity. That doesn't appear to be the case.

Drug prohibition is well-known to corrupt police officers -- at times even the majority of squads or departments -- on a number of levels. Luckily, in this case, a man who had heroin planted on him by New South Wales police in order to fabricate a drug charge was vindicated.