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AP

Cars fitted with the detection system will not start if sweat sensors in the driving wheel detect high levels of alcohol in the driver's bloodstream. Also kick in if the sensors detect abnormal steering, or if a special camera shows the driver

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LA Times

Until federal drug agents arrested him last month, Shon Squier was one of Hayward's most successful and generous young businessmen. But Squier's success as a dynamic medical marijuana entrepreneur was also his downfall. Federal drug agents ra

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Washington Times

Soldiers trying to seize control of one Mexico's top drug-producing regions say they found the countryside teeming with a new hybrid marijuana plant that can be cultivated all year and cannot be killed with herbicides.

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peacearchnews.com

MADD came under fire last week, after a Toronto newspaper reported only 19 cents of every dollar raised goes to victim services and the fight against drunk driving.

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www.stuff.co.nz

WASHINGTON: US growers produce nearly $US35 billion worth of marijuana annually, making the illegal drug the country's largest cash crop, bigger than corn and wheat combined, an advocate of medical marijuana use said in a study released today.

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LA Times

For years, activists in the marijuana legalization movement have claimed that cannabis is America's biggest cash crop. Now they're citing government statistics to prove it. The market value of pot produced in the US exceeds $35 billion -- far

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Agitator

This picture of a cop escorting a little boy to the bathroom was taken in Durham, North Carolina. The policeman was there as part of a task force looking for drugs. When is this stupid war going to end. No word if any drugs were found.

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theagitator.com

The narcotics officers then hid behind the anonymity courts afford to informants, and fabricated the stuff about the buy. They took a shortcut. When the raid went bad, they chased down an informant they'd used in the past and asked him to lie to

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LA Times

The sports anti-doping program, created to fight performance enhancing drug use in athletics, imposes severe punishments for accidental or technical infractions, relies at times on disputed scientific evidence and resists outside scrutiny,

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Washington Post

But the worst in his bulky archive of drug-war gore rolled off the presses the day after someone found pieces of what used to be Sauzo's 24-year-old namesake. A hit man had decapitated Sauzo's son, then chopped off his arms and legs.

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theagitator.com

There's already a problem with judges signing off on warrants without much scrutiny. If warrant approval has been reduced to nothing more than a daily task of logging on, browsing affidavits, and clicking a "signature" box, you can see

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Free Liberal(Fred Foldvary)

Drug warriors scored a virtual victory after the 2006 US elections when they hurriedly extended the War on Drugs to a psychoactive substance previously exempt: nepetalactone, the main psychoactive ingredient in catnip.

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Financial Times

Afghanistan’s war on drugs has been marred by corruption that has strengthened the grip of an increasingly powerful mafia on the country’s narcotics trade, a report by the World Bank and United Nations said.

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Kevin Zeese

Remembering Milton Friedman's views on the war on drugs. He was an outspoken opponent of prohibition and spoke truth to power about this challenging issue.

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AP

Dr. Mollie Fry never thought telling her patients where to get the medicine she recommended for pain, depression and nausea would be a problem. Federal drug agents who raided her home and office thought otherwise, and she was indicted last year on

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