Breaking the Addiction to Incarceration: Weekly Highlights

Published October 6, 2013

Breaking the Addiction to Incarceration: Weekly Highlights

Filed under: Drug Addiction Colorado

Attorney General Holder announced that the Department of Justice (DOJ) does not intend, at present, to challenge the legalization of marijuana for recreational use by adults in Washington and Colorado. Read the ACLU's statement and the DOJ memo …
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EDITORIAL: Supervisor is right in arguing federal grant money should be used …

Filed under: Drug Addiction Colorado

Like Haff, we have a hard time understanding the purpose of spending public money on a losing effort to restrict the use of perhaps the most benign recreational drug in the country. Washington and Colorado have legalized marijuana. Other states, like …
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Guatemala president to UN: Reform global drug policy

Filed under: Drug Addiction Colorado

Perez Molina also lauded citizens in the states of Colorado and Washington for their “visionary decision” to approve measures last November legalizing the recreational use of marijuana. “I think he correctly sees himself playing an historic role in the …
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