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Congressional Cannabis Caucus founder Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR)

What a difference a midterm election can make.

South Dakota women's prison in Pierre (KELO-TV screen grab)

In South Dakota, testing positive for drugs is a felony.

hustling in the Tenderloin (SFPD surveillance video screen grab)

The city by the bay has been a hotbed of illegal race-based policing. This is just the latest example.

The president goes to the UN to try to push global drug policy backward. (Creative Commons/Gage Skidmore)

Heâs at the UN to call for a more regressive global drug policy.

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The former heads of state behind the Global Commission on Drugs, that's who.

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The state criminal justice and Republican political establishment is opposed. Imagine that.

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Two will vote on marijuana legalization, two on medical marijuana.

Drug-induced homicide charges are a regression to the lock 'em up policies of last century's drug war. (ussc.gov)

The practice is "bad law and bad criminal justice policy," the author concludes.

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It isn't the Wild West anymore.

Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota (GoodFreePhotos.com)

Hint: It's located between Canada and South Dakota.