We should know by Friday afternoon whether the campaign to legalize marijuana in Washington has a good chance of making it to the November ballot.

What time Friday? 4:20 p.m., of course.

The secretary of state's office says that's when supporters of Initiative 1068 plan to turn in petition signatures, 40 minutes before the deadline.

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Military checkpoints line the long and winding road from the airport in Cali, Colombia, to the coastal city of Buenaventura.

These are expected sights in the long-running conflict we know as the "war on drugs."

Plan Colombia, legislation passed during the Clinton administration, provided billions in military aid to Colombia to help halt the cultivation and transport of cocaine. It has had only mixed success.

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Russia should criminalize drug use, confiscate land used for the cultivation of cannabis and close the Central Asian border in order to combat drug trafficking, the head of the Federal Drug Control Service, Viktor Ivanov, said Wednesday.

Ivanov, speaking in the State Duma, also welcomed deputies to a cautionary exhibit of wax figures of prominent drug users like grunge musician Kurt Cobain and John Lennon's killer, Mark David Chapman.

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Der ukrainische Präsident Viktor Janukowitsch hat am Donnerstag in einer Beratung zu Problemen der Drogensucht Kokain und Marihuana vorgeführt, die auf seine Anordnung hin im Internet gekauft wurden.

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Die Gemeinsame Allgemeine Verfügung zur Umsetzung des § 31a BtMG vom 20. Mai 2010, veröffentlicht im Amtsblatt für Berlin Nr. 23 vom 11.06.2010, lässt Kiffer tiefer durchatmen.

Der Besitz bis zu zehn Gramm Cannabis zum gelegentlichen Eigenverbrauch ist zukünftig straffrei. Durch die Polizei eingeleitete Ermittlungsverfahren sollen von der Staatsanwaltschaft grundsätzlich eingestellt werden. Der Besitz bis zu 15 Gramm kann eingestellt werden.

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Proposition 19 on the California ballot will not be the first time California voters had an opportunity to legalize marijuana and the previous effort carried the same proposition number. Proposition 19 in 1972 qualified for the ballot by volunteers attempted to legalize the drug but fell at the polls winning only 33% of the vote.

The 1972 measure would have allowed personal pot growing and use but forbade selling the weed. Today's Proposition 19 would allow legal, recreational use.

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"The combination of personnel, technology and infrastructure along with traditional tracking and hard work contribute to successful seizures such as this," Patrol Agent in Charge of the Casa Grande Station Chris Clem said. "We are working hard to keep dangerous drugs and smugglers out of our communities to make our border region safe."

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During the investigation, FBI agents posed as drug traffickers and paid each guard about $5,000 to carry several kilos of cocaine from Miami to West Palm Beach. The defendants didn't know the cocaine was fake, federal authorities said.

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