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No Marijuana Legalization for Hawaii This Year
A bill that would have legalized marijuana in the Aloha State died in a state Senate committee Thursday, but a decriminalization bill still lives.
News Brief
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Medical Marijuana Update
Lots of action at the state house on medical marijuana this week, plus Arizona eases up on the rules and the Michigan Supreme Court hands down a bellwether decision in favor of patients.
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Chronicle AM -- February 12, 2014
Overdose prevention is big news today as the drug czar chimes in in favor, more than a dozen congressmen call on Obama to re- or de-schedule marijuana, the Italian Supreme Court undoes a bad drug law, and more.
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This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
A felonious foursome of public servants made the hall of shame this week.
Coca plants. The FARC has plans for them. (unodc.org)
Chronicle AM -- February 11, 2014
California's narcs are whining about Obama's marijuana remarks, Coloradans seem happy with legalization, a Good Samaritan overdose bill is filed in Maryland, an Israeli newspaper talks pot policy, and a Colombian FARC representative lays out the guerrilla's drug proposals, and more.
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Chronicle AM -- February 10, 2014
State legislatures are busy with drug policy issues, particularly marijuana and medical marijuana, a Texas grand jury refuses to indict a man who killed a cop in a no-knock drug raid, Mexican vigilantes are duking it out with the Knights Templar in Michoacan, and more.
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Texas Man Not Indicted For Killing Cop in No-Knock Drug Raid
In a highly unusual move, and one that should be a heads-up call for aggressive law enforcement, a Texas grand jury has declined to indict a man for murder who killed a sheriff's deputy during a pre-dawn, no-knock drug raid.
Uruguayan President Jose Mujica has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize (gob.uy)
Chronicle AM -- February 6, 2014
A slight majority in Rhode Island say legalize it, CBD medical marijuana bills are popping up in several states, Uruguay's marijuana-legalizing president gets a Nobel Peace Prize nomination, and more.
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Smart Needle Exchange Reform Bill Moving in Maryland
The Maryland Senate today moved to undo a restriction in existing state law that prevents injection drug users from picking up more clean needles at the
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Medical Marijuana Update
Project CBD takes on the skeptics on cannabidiol, medical marijuana bills move in Guam, but not in Michigan, and California counties continue to slug it out over dispensaries and grows.