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NORML.ORG US: OPED: Why I Would Vote No On Pot
Why do I care? As Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, puts it, “Numerous deleterious health consequences are associated with [marijuana's] short- and long-term use, including the possibility of becoming addicted.”
What are other health consequences? Frequent marijuana use can seriously [...]

Independent Online Edition - India abolishes husbands’ ‘right’ to rape wife

For the first time, women in India have legal protection against abuse in their own homes under a law which came into force yesterday. It is the first time Indian law has recognised marital rape, sexual, emotional or verbal abuse of a woman by [...]

How the Bush Family Makes a Killing from George’s Presidency :: HEATHER WOKUSCH ::
Very good indeed. An estimated 655,000 dead Iraqis, over 3,000 dead coalition troops, billions stolen from Iraq’s coffers, a country battered by civil war - but Halliburton turned a profit, so the results are very good.

Very good certainly for Vice President Dick [...]

Rush Limbaugh fakes stupidity. - By Timothy Noah - Slate Magazine
“Ever since the resignation of Richard Nixon, a very smart man who got caught abusing his executive power, the GOP has deliberately avoided nominating conspicuously intelligent people for president. Gerald Ford was smarter than he looked, but he was unable to dispel his buffoonish image. [...]

NPR : The Dog Who Loved to Suck on Toads

“‘We noticed Lady spending an awful lot of time down by the pond in our backyard,’ Laura Mirsch recalls.
Lady would wander the area, disoriented and withdrawn, soporific and glassy-eyed.”

How great is this? I’ve seen loads of stoned dogs in my life, but never any that were [...]

Prof asks university to take high road on prescription pot
York University professor Brian MacLean says he has clearance from Health Canada for medical marijuana use for an undisclosed illness, but there is no place at work where he can smoke it.
‘I have to medicate a lot,’ he says. ‘There’s no issue here, well, can I [...]

NORML.ORG US CA: Medicinal Marijuana Advocate Dies

“Mr. Mower, a diabetic since he was 9, was brought to trial for illegal marijuana possession in 1998, after Tuolumne County narcotics agents searched his Twain Harte-area home and found 31 marijuana plants growing in his basement and among the vegetables in his backyard garden.”
Fortunately the first obituary [...]

Newsvine - Bush Seeks to Block Enemies From Space
“Freedom of action in space is as important to the United States as air power and sea power,” the policy says. “In order to increase knowledge, discovery, economic prosperity, and to enhance the national security, the United States must have robust, effective, and efficient space capabilities.”
Not only [...]

Reuters/Second Life - US Congress launches probe into virtual economies
“You could argue that to a certain degree the law has fallen (behind) because you can have a virtual asset and virtual capital gains, but there’s no mechanism by which you’re taxed on this stuff”

It seems that the US Government now wants to tax goods and [...]