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		<title>Montana Governor Vetoes Medical Marijuana Repeal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Medical marijuana is still legal in Montana. Governor Brian Schweitzer has vetoed a Republican bill that would have repealed the state&#8217;s medical marijuana law, approved by an overwhelming 62 percent of state voters in 2004.
Schweitzer vetoed the bill on Wednesday, along with several others he called &#8220;frivolous, unconstitutional or in direct contradiction to the expressed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jamaica Taking Another Look At Marijuana Decriminalization</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160;Top government officials in Jamaica have said they will review recommendations to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana for personal and religious use in the Caribbean island nation. Six Cabinet ministers in Prime Minister Bruce Golding&#8217;s administration will evaluate a 2001 report by the National Commission for Ganja, reports David McFadden of Bloomberg Businessweek.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arizona Gets 110 Medical Marijuana Applications On First Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Arizona Department of Health received 110 electronic applications &#8212; almost 60 percent of them for chronic pain &#8212; and authorized at least 44 people to use medical marijuana on Wednesday, the first day the program was active. 
Their cards were mailed on Thursday, reports Mary K. Reinhart at AZCentral, allowing them to buy and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THC Driving Limits Could Jail Innocent People For Months</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160;The Colorado Senate is set to take up HB 1261, a bill that would set THC driving limits at five nanograms per milliliter of blood &#8212; a level that&#8217;s too low, according to many critics of the bill. Medical marijuana patients, especially, who are accustomed to the presence of cannabis in their systems, could be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Portugal’s Drug Policy Pays Off – US Eyes Lessons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These days, Casal Ventoso is an ordinary blue-collar community – mothers push baby strollers, men smoke outside cafes, buses chug up and down the cobbled main street.
Ten years ago, the Lisbon neighborhood was a hellhole, a “drug supermarket” where some 5,000 users lined up every day to buy heroin and sneaked into a hillside honeycomb [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cops Quiet On Details Of Medicinal Pot Bust</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Nanaimo RCMP are still not releasing details on their raid last Friday of a medicinal marijuana operation in Cedar that had an expired licence from Health Canada.But Const. Gary O’Brien said the RCMP were justified in carrying out the raid on the pot operation at David Hodgkinson’s residence, and will release more details at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cables Portray Expanded Reach of Drug Agency</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The Drug Enforcement Administration has been transformed into a global intelligence organization with a reach that extends far beyond narcotics, and an eavesdropping operation so expansive it has to fend off foreign politicians who want to use it against their political enemies, according to secret diplomatic cables. In far greater detail than previously seen, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do The Research Before Tweaking Marijuana Law</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ While it remains clear problems exist with the application of Montana’s medical cannabis law, these issues do not indicate our model of compassionate access is itself a failure.The use of cannabis, be it for recreational or medicinal reasons, has been relocated to the back alleys and shadows of our society for more than 80 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medical Marijuana Collective Opens Federal Way Branch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Owner Welcomes State TaxationGreen Piece Alternative Medicine and Education ( GAME ) Collective may be Federal Way’s first storefront medical marijuana dispensary.In a strip mall off South 333rd Street and Pacific Highway South, most storefronts bear Korean names except for one newbie.  A sign on the plain glass door gives a phone number, hours [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Juries are Giving Pot Defendants a Pass</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ It seemed a straightforward case: A man with a string of convictions and a reputation as a drug dealer was going on trial in Montana for distributing a small amount of marijuana found in his home — if only the court could find jurors willing to send someone to jail for selling a few [...]]]></description>
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