The newest survey measuring attitudes about the legalization of marijuana use in California was conducted during the week of May 9, which featured Governor Schwarzenegger's promise of a budget massacre because of a rapidly climbing deficit.

The poll by the Public Policy Institute of California shows a dead heat, with 49-percent of likely voters in favor of the legalization issue which will appear on the November ballot and 48-percent opposed.

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Hooray! The War on Drugs is over! It must be true; it’s in the Irish Examiner!

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More than 1,600 pounds of marijuana with an estimated value exceeding $1.3 million has been seized by U.S. Border Patrol agents over the weekend.

On Sunday, agents from the Ajo Station, working with officers from the National Park Service (NPS), found tire tracks heading west on a dirt road away from State Route 85. Border Patrol agents and NPS officers followed the tracks to a parked vehicle. Inside the vehicle, agents discovered 64 bundles of marijuana weighing more than 950 pounds. The marijuana was taken to the Ajo Station for processing.

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President Obama’s Drug Czar Gil Kerlikowske and President Reagan’s Drug Czar Bill Bennett appeared on the May 20, 2010 edition of The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer. So an anti-legalizer and an anti-legalizer are here to tell you why legalization of marijuana is a bad idea.

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Bayern ist für gewöhnlich bekannt für seine schönen Landschaften und gutem Bier. Leider gibt es in dieser Gegend auch eine sehr hohe Repression – und dadurch viel mehr Personen, die ein Problem mit ihrem Drogenkonsum bekommen als zum Beispiel in Tschechien. Dies belegen leicht nachvollziehbare Statistiken und genau das hat Martin Steldinger die Drogenbeauftragte Mechthild Dyckmans, Mitglied der christlichen Fraktion in der FDP, auf Abgeordnetenwatch gefragt.

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Canada's so-called Prince of Pot has pleaded guilty to a drug charge in exchange for a five-year prison term.

Marc Emery appeared in U.S. District Court in Seattle on Monday after being extradited last week from Vancouver, British Columbia. He sold millions of marijuana seeds to U.S. customers before his arrest in 2005.

He pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to manufacture marijuana in exchange for an agreed sentence of five years in prison. He is to be sentenced in August, and prosecutors or Emeray may withdraw from the plea deal if the judge issues a different sentence.

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Nearly a dozen states and several cities are banning or debating bans on K2 — a packet of herbs coated with a synthetic chemical that mimics a marijuana high when it's smoked — amid fears that its use is spreading among young people.

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What was thought to be a pot farm in a city park turned out to be just horse mint!

And police must have assumed the same thing because they spent an hour pulling up about 400 plants and filling several garbage bags with the weeds.

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