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Former Mexican president Vicente Fox was in Atlanta to serve as Emory University’s commencement speaker Monday. Fox talked about how Atlanta has become a drug hub for Mexican drug cartels. The former president made a stunning statement fabout how the U.S. can stop the flow of drugs into the country.

The Perrysburg, Ohio school district is considering random drug screenings for students in its High Schools – with extra attention being placed on its young athletes.

Have you ever shoplifted? Even as a teenager, but over 18? Have you ever vandalized someone’s property in anger, maybe, even as a teenager, but over 18?

Have you ever experimented with drugs as a teenager, but over 18? If you said “no” to those questions and can look back upon your youth and feel excellent about the things you did back then, well, we should give you a gold star! No sarcasm intended, you did things right and society can feel safe and contented.

Many people, however, have a little ghost in their closet from the days of “becoming a man” or just trying to be an adult. We are human and humans are prone to making mistakes. How long should a youthful indiscretion follow a mature adult around? How many years of post event regret should hamper an individual. Should he be accountable for life?

Would a reasonable person feel that a person who committed a non-violent crime once while still a teenager and served their sentence for it (community service – let’s say and let’s say it was 15 years ago) still have to report it in writing so that someone can judge their worthiness as a person?

California Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco) told a press conference in his home town on February 23, 2009 that he had introduced a bill that would create a system of taxed and regulated legal marijuana sales and production. If the bill were to pass, California would become the first state in the nation to break so decisively with decades of pot prohibition.

Under the bill, AB 390, the state would license producers and distributors, who would pay an excise tax of $50 per ounce, or about $1 per joint. Anyone 21 or over could then purchase marijuana from a licensed distributor.

The New Jersey Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act (S119) passed the state Senate February 23, 2009 on a 22-16 vote. Gov. Jon Corzine (D) said Wednesday he would “absolutely” sign the bill, but it must first get through the Assembly, where it faces votes in the health committee and by the Assembly as a whole.

The tense relations between the Bush administration and Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez grew even more strained this week as Washington and Caracas traded charges and counter-charges over Venezuela’s fight against cocaine trafficking. While it seems indisputable that cocaine trafficking through Venezuela has increased in recent years, the two governments are trading barbs over the extent [...]

According to Polish Radio, a campaign to loosen the marijuana laws is underway in Poland. A petition to the Ministry of Justice requesting the legalization of marijuana for personal use has already been signed by hundreds of people, including drug rehab specialists and members of Monar, a nonprofit group that works with addicts, the HIV/AIDS [...]