Latest In Pot Debate: Cities Can Ban Businesses

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Another group of pot activists — longtime users with medical permission to use the drug — are also unhappy. A patient-advocacy group has written to lawmakers requesting the creation of a “Cannabis Patient Fund” to provide subsidies for some 120,000 …
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Centrist's Journal: Only in America: Obama, Alice and Mary Jane

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As President Obama also pointed out, the “war on drugs” has put more poor, black and Hispanic people in jail for marijuana use or possession than white and middle-class users. This is wrong, and a good argument for at least decriminalization. Nor …
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Unclear future for executions after Ohio's longest

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Ohio's prison system is reviewing the execution and declined to comment on the amount of time it took McGuire to die from the two-drug combination, which had never been used before in a U.S. execution. McGuire, 53, was given both a sedative and a …
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