Der amerikanische Geschäftsmann George Soros hat die Kampagne zur Legalisierung von Marihuana in Kalifornien mit einer Spende von einer Million Dollar (718.804 Euro) unterstützt, wie die Zeitung "The Sacramento Bee" am Dienstag berichtete.

derstandard.at

Wo Irrationales als sinnvoll und Ineffektives als vernünftig angesehen wird, können Fragen allein von der Verstandesebene her nicht beantwortet werden. Eine Klärung muss in tieferen Schichten gesucht werden, in den Bereichen des Unbewussten und der Ängste, und den archaischen Formen mit ihnen umzugehen, dem Ritual. Mit Ritualen, zeremoniellen Handlungen, versuchten die Priester-Ärzte der Frühzeit, die Unversehrtheit die Gemeinschaft und einzelner Individuen zu gewährleisten und Schaden von ihnen abzuwenden.

taz.de

Mexican President Felipe Calderon has said he will continue his war on the country's drug cartels until the country is safe, despite the tens of thousands of deaths it has already cost.

Mexicans are about to mark the Day of the Dead. Skulls and skeletons adorn storefronts, hotel lobbies, even a corner of the grand hall in the Los Pinos presidential mansion in Mexico City.

Traditionally the Dia de los Muertos is a time to remember deceased family and friends. It is a day of prayers and parties - Mexicans know how to laugh, even in the face of death.

bbc.co.uk

Sounds like former Mexican President Vicente Fox wishes he could vote in California.

Twice on Wednesday, Fox took to the airwaves to encourage Californians to vote Nov. 2 for Proposition 19, the ballot initiative to legalize the commercial cultivation and sale of marijuana.

miamiherald.com

On Sunday, masked gunmen executed 13 people in a drug rehabilitation center in Tijuana, Mexico, just across the border from San Diego.

Authorities now think these grisly murders may have been in retaliation for the massive marijuana bust that occurred there last week.

opposingviews.com

It's a miracle—Poland has banned designer drugs! This really is very clever, since no other country in the world has managed to pass a logically impossible law. If I was a very cynical person, I might suggest this was all meaningless political hand waving designed to make it look like the government is doing something usefully while the country's real problems remain untouched. Next week I expect to hear that miserable weather in November has also been banned by a vote of 456 to 1 and three abstentions.

wiadomosci.wp.pl

U.S. agents at the border patrol station in Curlew, Wash. seized 310-pounds of the designer drug on a trail near the border after receiving a tip from a citizen.

The street value of the ecstasy was estimated at $9.4 million.

The pills were in backpacks and bags concealed in brush along a trail near the border and James Frackelton, acting public information officer for the U.S. Border Patrol, estimates that there were about 468,000 pills.

bclocalnews.com

A southwestern Pennsylvania man called 911 to complain about some terrible marijuana he had just purchased, which turned out to be something other than pot.

Police say the man told officers he bought the substance earlier that day and that “it was nasty” when he smoked it.

policelink.monster.com