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Montevideo (AFP) - Tabare Vazquez was sworn in as president of Uruguay Sunday, returning to office a decade after first leading the left to power and drawing a curtain on folksy farmer Jose Mujica's colorful rule. View the full article
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VANCOUVER - The free-for-all era of Canada's commercial medical marijuana industry is over as a new crop of growers try to woo scarce investment dollars in an increasingly competitive business, observers ... View the full article
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NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) — A Caribbean trade bloc says it will form a commission to analyze the social, economic, health and legal impact of decriminalizing marijuana use. View the full article
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — Federal authorities have seized more than 15 tons of marijuana in a near-record bust at a border crossing in Southern California. View the full article
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TULALIP, Wash. (AP) — The Justice Department's announcement in December that it would allow the nation's Indian tribes to legalize and regulate marijuana on their reservations brought notes of caution — if not silence or opposition — from many tribes. View the full article
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By Daniel Wallis DENVER (Reuters) - Consumers in Colorado bought more than 17 tons of recreational marijuana buds during the first year of the state's new retail market, but sales of medicinal pot still outstripped that at almost 50 tons, officials said on Friday. In a national first, voters in Colorado and Washington state opted to legalize recreational marijuana use by adults in landmark twin ... View the full article
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There are at least 10 drugs that are more deadly than marijuana, including some that are legal, such as alcohol and nicotine, a new study by researchers in Germany and Canada finds. In fact, drinking alcohol — the deadliest drug on the list — is about 100 times more dangerous than using marijuana, the scientists concluded in the study, which was based on data from animal studies and published ... View the full article
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At the Options Medical Center in Boulder, a top local seller of recreational marijuana, a steady stream of customers ranging from men in their 20s to middle-aged professional women goes through the door to buy pot. Just over a year after the first recreational pot shops opened in Colorado, “the sky is not falling,” says Options owner Greg Goldston, echoing a popular sentiment among legalization ... View the full article
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PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — A small, Alabama-based Indian tribe that wants to expand its gambling operations into the Florida Panhandle is suggesting it might adopt a hardball negotiating stance with state leaders: Let us proceed, or we could consider growing and selling marijuana on our property. View the full article
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Police have seized more than 1.5kg of cannabis from a car at Woolgoogla. They stopped the Holden Commodore on Solitary Islands Way yesterday. View the full article
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Colorado already is being sued by two neighboring states for legalizing marijuana. Now, the state faces an additional federal lawsuit from its own citizens. Plaintiffs who oppose legal pot are appealing ... View the full article
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Weldon Angelos was just 24 years old when he was sentenced to 55 years in federal prison for three marijuana sales. View the full article
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A 20-month-old child suffered an overdose linked to marijuana-laced cookies, RCMP in Swift Current, Sask. say. According to RCMP, toxicology tests revealed a high level of marijuana in the boy’s blood. With further investigation, they learned the child's father had made a batch of cookies with marijuana in them. In a statement about the case, RCMP said the child was "given access to the cookies ... View the full article
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Marijuana should be decriminalized in New Jersey because existing laws waste police resources, unfairly target minorities and leave millions of dollars in potential tax revenue unrealized by relegating ... View the full article
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By Sharon Begley NEW YORK (Reuters) - If recent laws legalizing marijuana in more U.S. states also boost sales of potato chips and brownies, scientists will know why: A study in mice published on Wednesday found, unexpectedly, that the active ingredients in pot essentially make appetite-curbing regions of the brain reverse functions. When that happens, neurons that ordinarily transmit a signal ... View the full article
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