Steve DeAngelo, executive director of Oakland's Harborside Medical Center, featured in today's Sacramento Bee, is traveling east this weekend to introduce a new medicinal pot strain he says is unlikely to get anyone stoned.

DeAngelo is to introduce a "non-psychoactive" cannabis developed by Harborside's patient-cultivators.

He will appear at the "Cannabis - the Medicine Plant Forum" at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Warwick, RI to discuss a specially-developed "True Blueberry" and "OG Kush" pot hybrid.

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Continuing with our coverage of election party manifesto commitments on drug policy, today the new Conservative 2010 manifesto is published, titled 'Invitation to Join the Government of Britain'.

The first mention of drug policy actually comes in the first chapter titled 'change the economy' in a subsection called 'ensure the whole country shares in rising prosperity' under the subheading 'create a modern transport network':

"We will stop central government funding for new fixed speed cameras, and switch to more effective ways to make our roads safer, including authorising ‘drugalyser’ technology for use in testing for drug-driving. "

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KMUD is a small Humboldt County radio station that offers the usual lineup of music, news and traffic reports. It also gives listeners in California's infamous pot-growing region something else: real-time broadcasts of marijuana busts in Humboldt and Mendocino counties.

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Civil Liberties Monitoring Project folks talk with Tom Allman, Mendocino County Sheriff and he answers questions about the amount of medical marijuana one can grow; what about those zip ties you can buy from the sheriff's department, is that protection money? Is it bad for KMUD to announce where law enforcement convoys have been spotted? Tom Allman's website: mendocinosheriff.com

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More than 22,700 people have been killed in Mexico's drug war since a U.S.-backed military crackdown on cartels began more than three years ago, according to a government report.

The report said 2009 was the deadliest year in the drug war, with 9,635 people killed in violence tied to organized crime. That compares to 2,837 in 2007, the first year of President Felipe Calderon's military-led offensive.

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