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1US NY: Student's Suspension ShortenedThu, 13 Mar 2008
Source:Journal News, The (NY) Author:Ganga, Elizabeth Area:New York Lines:Excerpt Added:03/14/2008

NORTH SALEM - A 16-year-old North Salem High School student will head back to class today after district administrators were persuaded to shorten his nine-week suspension for buying marijuana on campus.

Pablo Rodriguez's friends and family had started a campaign to persuade the school board that nine weeks was too drastic a suspension, particularly because Rodriguez's mother had found the small amount of drugs at home and his father had informed the school and asked for help.

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2 US WI: PUB LTE: Open Your Mind To Medicinal Marijuana UseThu, 13 Mar 2008
Source:Capital Times, The (WI) Author:Zellmer, Tyler Area:Wisconsin Lines:45 Added:03/14/2008

Dear Editor: I am writing today regarding having an open mind, compassion and embracing change. Former Rep. Gregg Underheim of Oshkosh proposed legislation that would have legalized marijuana for medicinal purposes in Wisconsin in 2005. It did not pass.

Underheim himself, while fighting prostate cancer, met other patients who had benefited greatly from its effects, especially those dealing with chemotherapy.

A common argument against marijuana is that smoking is bad, and it is. The truth is that marijuana is fat-soluble and can be consumed in less harmful ways, such as eating it.

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3 US VT: Editorial: Greater FairnessThu, 13 Mar 2008
Source:Rutland Herald (VT)          Area:Vermont Lines:74 Added:03/14/2008

New sentencing guidelines mean that a handful of convicted drug dealers may spend less time in prison than their earlier sentences might have indicated. Some of these inmates had done business in the Rutland region, and their potential release may be raising alarms.

But the new guidelines do not represent a sudden surrender on drugs. Rather, they mean that our drug laws are not as warped as they were by inequities caused by racism. Convicted drug dealers do time in prison, and then they are released. The new guidelines bring greater fairness to the duration of the inmates' imprisonment.

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4 Canada: Need For Safer Streets Knows No BoundariesThu, 13 Mar 2008
Source:Ottawa Sun (CN ON) Author:Spencer, Christina Area:Canada Lines:59 Added:03/14/2008

Although they feel safer here than in their countries of origin, recent immigrants fear crime in Canada is increasing, and they're particularly alarmed about youth violence, guns and drugs.

They also believe sentencing is too lenient, according to focus group surveys done for the federal Justice Department.

The focus sessions showed that among recently arrived ethnic populations, "all feel that the nature of crime is shifting to more gun and violent crime, committed by younger people," concluded the Antima Research Group, which conducted six meetings with groups in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver in 2007.

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5US CA: Longtime Narcotics Agent Feels Sting Of ReprimandThu, 13 Mar 2008
Source:Sacramento Bee (CA) Author:Jewett, Christina Area:California Lines:Excerpt Added:03/14/2008

As an undercover hit man, Detective Scott Kolb has negotiated the terms of two murders.

His long hair and tattoos allowed him to infiltrate the haunts of midlevel drug czars. He learned the intricacies of surveillance. He put in 18-hour days and six-day weeks to bring down an outlaw biker gang.

Kolb, 46, was an asset to the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department for 26 years, his performance reviews show. But officials began to treat him like a liability after he spoke up on behalf of a member of the Hell's Angels.

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6US MI: Column: Marijuana For Pain? It Should Be An OptionThu, 13 Mar 2008
Source:Kalamazoo Gazette (MI) Author:Barr, Jeff Area:Michigan Lines:Excerpt Added:03/14/2008

You may have seen them in front of stores or walking door to door collecting signatures. Perhaps you dismissed them as dope heads, or maybe hippies left over from the '60s looking for a nostalgic taste of the days of free just-about-everything.

But members of the Michigan Coalition for Compassionate Care have done what they set out to do. They have collected enough signatures to put a proposal before the state Legislature that would legalize the use of marijuana in Michigan for medical purposes.

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7 US NE: Police Make Salvia Bust Despite Lack Of Proposed LawMon, 10 Mar 2008
Source:Lincoln Journal Star (NE) Author:Matteson, Cory        Lines:70 Added:03/14/2008

A legislative bill that would make Salvia divinorum an illegal drug in Nebraska has little chance of passage during the last six weeks of the legislative session.

Lincoln Police on Monday made a Salvia bust anyway.

Citing a state statute that prohibits Nebraskans from selling certain compounds that will induce an intoxicated or otherwise mind-altering state, officers executed a search warrant on Exotica, 2441 N. 48th St. The Lincoln store sells the herb, a cousin of sage, generally smoked to create a short-term hallucinogenic experience.

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8 Ghana: Drug Control Efforts Should Focus More On Health Than CrimeFri, 14 Mar 2008
Source:Accra Daily Mail, The (Ghana)          Area:Ghana Lines:61 Added:03/14/2008

The head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has urged measures to address the "image problem" of global drug control efforts, which he says tend to focus more on the criminality of the problem and not enough on health-related issues.

UNODC Executive Director Antonio Maria Costa told the 51st session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs - the central policy-making body within the UN system dealing with illicit drugs and the governing body for UNODC's drugs-related work - that it is time to move beyond just containing the problem and move forward in the fight against drug abuse.

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9 US NC: Crack-Cocaine Offenders Seek Shorter Sentences Under LawThu, 13 Mar 2008
Source:Star-News (NC) Author:Gonzalez, Veronica Area:North Carolina Lines:81 Added:03/14/2008

People convicted of crack-cocaine offenses in eastern North Carolina already have started inquiring about their sentences to see if they are eligible for shorter terms, according to a spokeswoman for federal prosecutors.

Almost 500 offenders in 44 counties in the eastern part of the state are potentially eligible for shorter sentences because of new retroactive federal sentencing guidelines that took effect last week.

Beginning March 3, those convicted of crack-cocaine charges could start petitioning federal judges for shorter prison terms. Across the country, about 20,000 offenders became eligible for shorter prison terms that day, according to a news release from the U.S. Department of Justice.

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10 US CA: Edu: School Administrator To Leave PositionThu, 13 Mar 2008
Source:Daily Californian, The (UC Berkeley, CA Edu) Author:Johnston, Jacqueline Area:California Lines:70 Added:03/14/2008

Middle School Vice Principal Decides to Resign Despite Being Cleared of Charges

Despite an investigation clearing charges that a Willard Middle School vice principal misused authority, the vice principal has decided to leave her position at the end of the year.

Margaret Lowry resigned last week after being investigated for misconduct. The school board accepted her resignation at its meeting last night.

Although district officials would not comment on the details of the investigation because it involves personnel issues that are confidential, School Board President John Selawsky said last week the allegations are the same as those appearing in a Feb. 19 article for the Berkeley Daily Planet.

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11 CN BC: UCFV Professor Heads To Grow-Op 'Think-Tank' In UKTue, 11 Mar 2008
Source:Chilliwack Progress (CN BC) Author:Freeman, Robert Area:British Columbia Lines:60 Added:03/14/2008

Long seen as the home of indoor marijuana grow operations, B.C. may now be turning that dubious distinction around to become a leader in shutting down illegal grow-ops.

And Dr. Darryl Plecas at UCFV's School of Criminology and Criminal Justice is leading the charge.

He'll be presenting new research this week on how B.C. is successfully dealing with grow-ops at the prestigious Oxford Round Table held at England's Oxford University.

"There are some indications we are starting to have a decrease in the number of grow-ops in B.C., and that's quite unlike the rest of the world," Plecas told The Progress Friday.

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