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16 hours ago ago from Hit & Run

On Wednesday the notorious Mexican drug trafficker Arturo Beltrán Leyva was killed during a shootout with troops in Cuernavaca. "Although President Felipe Calderón on Thursday called the operation 'a convincing blow' against the drug cartels," The New York Times reports , "his government also warned that drug-related violence might not abate and could even get worse." Take a few moments to digest that. The Mexican government is waging a ...

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Congress Gets Its Act Together

16 hours ago ago from Cannabis News - Medical Marijuana, Marijuana News, Hemp, Cannabis

Washington, D.C. finally seems to be getting the message that the war on drugs has failed. Following years of resistance if not outright hostility to reforming our nation's drug laws, Congress has passed two major changes to U.S.drug policy as part of an end-of-year omnibus spending package that President Obama signed into law yesterday. First, the legislation repeals a decades-old policy that prohibited cities and states from using ...

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15 hours ago ago from The New York Times

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