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1 US IN: Prosecutors Push To Restore Tougher Drug SentencesMon, 09 Nov 2015
Source:News and Tribune (IN) Author:Hayden, Maureen Area:Indiana Lines:118 Added:11/10/2015

INDIANAPOLIS - As heroin use surges, local prosecutors are pressing to restore tough penalties for drug dealers and users, less than two years after sentencing laws were relaxed to clear prisons of drug offenders.

Dustin Houchin, prosecuting attorney in Washington County, cited cases across the state where some people charged with dealing heroin now face just a year in prison - not enough, he said, to set them straight.

"That just strikes me as fundamentally too low for someone selling poison to people in my community," said Houchin. His rural county, like other areas, has seen a surge in heroin overdoses in the past two years.

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2 US IN: Health Department Looks To Fight IV Drug AbuseTue, 21 Jul 2015
Source:News-Sentinel, The (Fort Wayne, IN) Author:Bogue, Ellie Area:Indiana Lines:76 Added:07/22/2015

The Fort Wayne Allen County Board of Health took a closer look on Monday at national and local trends in the illegal use of opiates.

Capt. Kevin Hunter of the Fort Wayne Police Department gave an overview of what is going on nationally and in the city. Since 2013, many prescription opiate abusers have turned to heroin as a cheaper, more readily available source to feed their addictions.

According to Hunter, today's heroin, which comes from Mexico, is much stronger and more addictive than the drug of the 1960s and 1970s. Most users are injecting the drug, which is a public-health concern. Recently police have seen an uptick in the number of people using fentanyl, an extremely potent synthetic opioid used as a pain reliever and anesthetic. It is a schedule II substance under the Controlled Substances Act. Recently three people died from overdoses of the drug, which was sold to them as heroin.

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3 US IN: A Church Of Cannabis Tests Limits Of New LawThu, 02 Jul 2015
Source:New York Times (NY) Author:Davey, Monica Area:Indiana Lines:107 Added:07/03/2015

INDIANAPOLIS - On the altar, behind a row of flickering candles, the silhouette outline of a marijuana leaf shined in lights. Colored balloons occasionally bounced through the air as the minister of music led a band in a pew-shaking rendition of "Mary Jane," the funk tribute to the drug. And Bill Levin, who was introduced as "the Grand Poobah" of this new church, finished the gathering with a simple message: "Light up, folks!"

As legislation that proponents call a religious freedom law took effect in Indiana on Wednesday, Mr. Levin's First Church of Cannabis held its first service in a quiet neighborhood on this city's Eastside. Mr. Levin, who is 59 and known around here for his wild puff of white hair, dreamed up the church as a way to test the state's new, much-debated law: If the law protects religious practices, he figured, how could it not also permit marijuana use - which remains illegal here - as part of a broader spiritual philosophy?

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4US IN: First Church Of Cannabis Wins IRS Nonprofit StatusWed, 03 Jun 2015
Source:Indianapolis Star (IN) Author:Tuohy, John Area:Indiana Lines:Excerpt Added:06/04/2015

Tax Designation As Charitable Organization Allows Contributors to Deduct Donations.

Emotions appeared sky high at the newly formed First Church of Cannabis, after the Internal Revenue Service granted it nonprofit status.

"What a GLORIOUS DAY it is folks," the church's founder Bill Levin wrote in a post on Facebook announcing that the IRS had approved making the church a 501 (c) (3) charitable organization. "WE ARE 100 % a LEGAL CHURCH... All say HALLELUJAH and SMILE REAL BIG!... We are OFFICIAL!"

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5 US IN: PUB LTE: Marijuana Isn't Killing Our Kids, Heroin IsFri, 29 May 2015
Source:Journal and Courier (IN) Author:Asbury, Deb Area:Indiana Lines:19 Added:06/01/2015

I would rather see cannabis made legal than all the problems with heroin. Wake up, people. Marijuana is not killing our kids. Heroin is.

Deb Asbury

Lafayette

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6 US IN: HIV Outbreak Spurs Indiana To Ok Needle ExchangeFri, 22 May 2015
Source:Seattle Times (WA) Author:Callahan, Rick Area:Indiana Lines:38 Added:05/24/2015

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Indiana approved a yearlong needleexchange program Thursday for a county at the center of an HIV outbreak that prompted a new state law allowing such programs.

State health Commissioner Dr. Jerome Adams' approval for Scott County includes a public-health emergency declaration that will allow it to operate a needle exchange through May 24, 2016. The southeastern Indiana county has operated a temporary needle-exchange since early April under executive orders Gov. Mike Pence signed in response to the largest HIV outbreak in state history.

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7 US IN: Ind. Governor Ok's Needle ExchangeFri, 27 Mar 2015
Source:Boston Globe (MA)          Area:Indiana Lines:35 Added:03/28/2015

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Governor Mike Pence overrode Indiana law and his own antidrug policies Thursday to authorize a short-term needle-exchange program designed to help contain HIV infections in a rural county where 79 cases have been reported, all of them tied to intravenous drug use.

Pence issued an executive order declaring a public health emergency in Scott County, an economically depressed area about 30 miles north of Louisville, Ky., that has seen dozens of new infections since December. The county typically sees only about five HIV cases each year, health officials said.

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8 US IN: Alexander Addresses Negative Impact Of Drug LawsSun, 08 Feb 2015
Source:South Bend Tribune (IN) Author:Dukes, Howard Area:Indiana Lines:95 Added:02/11/2015

It would seem that the decision to invite Michelle Alexander, author of the book "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness," to speak Monday at Saint Mary's College was inspired by stories ripped from recent headlines.

Instead, Mana Derakhshani, a French professor and associate director of the Center for Women's Intercultural Leadership at Saint Mary's, says part of her interest in the book stemmed from her desire to find good material for a faculty reading group.

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9 US IN: LTE: Don't Fall For Marijuana LegalizationSun, 25 Jan 2015
Source:Indianapolis Star (IN) Author:Huber, Dick Area:Indiana Lines:71 Added:01/27/2015

Some legislators and citizens are ready to legalize marijuana. Then Indiana would gain needed revenue dollars, people with certain medical conditions might benefit and everyone would live high and happy thereafter. End of story? Not.

Look at the total picture.

When discussing drugs, always keep in mind that the human brain is still developing until about the age of 25. Drugs that might not affect an older person's brain could cause drastic and permanent damage to a young person's developing brain. Long-term marijuana users who started using when young were later found to have a drop in their IQ.

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10 US IN: Parent Program On Drugs And Children Set Jan. 28 At GHSThu, 22 Jan 2015
Source:Banner Graphic (IN)          Area:Indiana Lines:76 Added:01/23/2015

The Greencastle Community School Corporation will present the program "What Parents Should Know: Drugs and Their Children" on Wednesday, Jan. 28 at Greencastle High School's Parker Auditorium.

Any parent who has a child from fourth grade up is invited to attend.

The free 6:30 p.m. program is for parents only. No students or other children will be allowed to attend.

Purpose of the session is to help parents know and look for the possibility of drug use in their children. Schools have been seeing a lot more drug use and discipline problems because of poor decisions and peer pressure.

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11US IN: Medical Marijuana Bill Assigned To GraveyardMon, 19 Jan 2015
Source:Star Press, The (Muncie, IN) Author:Slabaugh, Seth Area:Indiana Lines:Excerpt Added:01/21/2015

MUNCIE - One of the backers of a medical marijuana bill introduced by Sen. Sue Errington, D-Muncie, is the father of a Muncie woman who died in her 30s of a terminal illness.

"Her dad told me her best days were when she could get high-grade marijuana," Errington says.

The fifth annual "Hoosier Survey," conducted in 2012 by Ball State University, found that 53 percent of Hoosiers supported decriminalizing marijuana by making it legal to possess small quantities.

The 2013 "Hoosier Survey" found that 52 percent of Hoosiers supported making marijuana a regulated substance much like alcohol and tobacco, and that 78 percent of Hoosiers believed that marijuana should be taxed like cigarettes.

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12US IN: Bills Would Legalize Medical MarijuanaMon, 19 Jan 2015
Source:Indianapolis Star (IN) Author:Guerra, Kristine Area:Indiana Lines:Excerpt Added:01/21/2015

Two Democrats - one in the Senate and one in the House - have introduced bills that would allow the use of medical marijuana in Indiana.

Senate Bill 284, by Sen. Karen Tallian, and House Bill 1487, by Rep. Sue Errington, would allow people with a doctor's recommendation to use marijuana for medical purposes.

Tallian's bill would create the Department of Marijuana Enforcement, or DOME, which would oversee a program for those who use marijuana for treatment. The Democrat from Portage has long fought for legalization of marijuana in Indiana, but her efforts have failed. She has introduced bills that would have decriminalized possession of small amounts of marijuana. Two bills Tallian wrote the past two years died without a hearing.

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