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1 day ago ago from Smkrider's When Government Fails Us!

By Sherwood Ross The Public Record Nov 12th, 2009 Seven million Americans have been arrested since 1995 on marijuana charges and 41,000 of them are rotting in federal and state prisons. Thousands of other pot users and sellers are confined in local jails. But the public is starting to rebel against “the preposterous war on pot,” two political scientists say. People convicted of possessing even one ounce of marijuana can face a ...

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Pot shops could ease California's fiscal jam

1 day ago ago from Cannabis News - Medical Marijuana, Marijuana News, Hemp, Cannabis

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) With California teetering perpetually on the edge of financial ruin, marijuana activists have seized the moment, claiming that legalizing and taxing pot could help bail out the cash-strapped Golden State. But critics are slamming the proposal, saying the social costs of a free-smoking state far outweigh the money it would bring in, and that a promised windfall from taxing marijuana sales couldn't possibly plug ...

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Common Genetic Factors Contribute To Alcohol And Marijuana Use And Dependence

21 hours ago ago from Life Sciences Blog

Story Summary: She and her colleagues studied more than 6,200 Australian twins between the ages of 24 and 36. Identical twins share 100 percent of their genetic material, and fraternal twins share about half of their segregating genes. So when identical twin pairs are found to be more similar in a given behavior than fraternal twin pairs, its likely genes are playing a significant role. The researchers used the twin model to estimate the ...

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Medical Marijuana: Maryland

9 hours ago ago from Medical Marijuana Blog

Cannabis for medical use was approved in Maryland May 22. 2003 and became effective on October 1, 2003 via Senate Bill 502/House Bill 702 . This law requires the court to consider a defendant's use of medical marijuana to be a mitigating factor in marijuana-related state prosecution. If the patient, post-arrest, successfully makes the case at trial that his or her use of marijuana is one of medical necessity, then the maximum penalty allowed ...

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BY JEANNE WHALEN U.S. government fines have made big drug makers "more sensitive than we've ever been" about preventing illegal promotion of their drugs, the chief executive of AstraZeneca PLC said in an interview. AstraZeneca in September reached a preliminary agreement to pay $520 million to settle a U.S. investigation into its marketing of the schizophrenia drug Seroquel, including allegations that the company promoted the drug for ...

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U.S. Offers An Official Apology to Native Americans - Washington Wire - WSJ

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By John D. McKinnon Buried in the billions of dollars of spending on new weapons and other items in the 2010 defense appropriations bill is a little-noticed expression of regret over how the U.S. had in the past used its power. The bill contains an apology to Native Peoples of the United States. The multi-year effort to pass the language was bipartisan: Sens. Sam Brownback (R., Kan.) and Byron Dorgan (D., N.D.) led the campaign, which ...

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