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	<title>Beyond The Broken Spectrum &#187; Drug Related</title>
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		<title>43% Say Marijuana Should Be Legalized, 42% Disagree</title>
		<link>http://brokenspectrum.com/2010/07/27/43-say-marijuana-should-be-legalized-42-disagree/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Americans are evenly divided over whether marijuana should be legalized in the United States, but most expect it to happen within the next decade.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Adults nationally shows 43% believe marijuana should be legalized. But 42% think it should remain an illegal drug. Another 15% are not sure.
These results [...]


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		<title>Texas Oppresses the Sick and Weak</title>
		<link>http://brokenspectrum.com/2010/07/13/texas-oppresses-the-sick-and-weak/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:54:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Texas, the state I call home and many regularly call the land of the truly free where government tends to stay out of your business, why must you continue to oppress the sick and the weak?
Texas has been known to, for the most part, leave the regulation of private matters to the individual, rightly where [...]


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		<title>Repeal the Drinking Age</title>
		<link>http://brokenspectrum.com/2010/07/09/repeal-the-drinking-age/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 20:24:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Somehow, and no one seems to even imagine how, this country managed to survive and thrive before 1984 without a national minimum drinking age. Before that, the drinking question was left to the states.
In the 19th century, and looking back even before — prepare yourself to imagine horrific anarchistic nightmares — there were no drinking [...]


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		<title>A Drug That Could Give You Perfect Visual Memory</title>
		<link>http://brokenspectrum.com/2010/07/02/a-drug-that-could-give-you-perfect-visual-memory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 21:04:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine if you could look at something once and remember it forever. You would never have to ask for directions again. Now a group of scientists has isolated a protein that mega-boosts your ability to remember what you see.
A group of Spanish researchers reported today in Science that they may have stumbled upon a substance [...]


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		<title>Banks Financing Mexico Gangs Admitted in Wells Fargo Deal</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just before sunset on April 10, 2006, a DC-9 jet landed at the international airport in the port city of Ciudad del Carmen, 500 miles east of Mexico City. As soldiers on the ground approached the plane, the crew tried to shoo them away, saying there was a dangerous oil leak. So the troops grew [...]


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		<title>Portugal legalizes drugs, crime/usage falls</title>
		<link>http://brokenspectrum.com/2010/06/30/portugal-legalizes-drugs-crimeusage-falls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 04:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<title>DEA Official Announces Successful Drug Bust On Son&#8217;s Room</title>
		<link>http://brokenspectrum.com/2010/06/17/dea-official-announces-successful-drug-bust-on-sons-room/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Washington State Favors Marijuana Legalization 52% to 35%</title>
		<link>http://brokenspectrum.com/2010/06/08/washington-state-favors-marijuana-legalization-52-to-35/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 21:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A poll released last week by The Washington Poll, a quarterly, nonpartisan effort by the University of Washington, shows that Washington State residents support an initiative that would legalize the possession and use of marijuana.
According to the poll of 1,252 registered voters conducted last month, 52% in Washington State support “removing state civil and criminal [...]


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		<title>Hemp For Victory</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 21:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past week, hemp advocates and aficionados nationwide engaged in educational and awareness building exercises during their annual &#8220;Hemp History Week&#8221;. The aim was to enlighten the public&#8217;s perception of hemp by demonstrating its versatility in several facets of everyday life and drawing attention to its pivotal role in American agriculture up until the mid-20th [...]


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		<title>Not Just A High</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 17:18:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In science’s struggle to keep up with life on the streets, smoking cannabis for medical purposes stands as Exhibit A.
Medical use of cannabis has taken on momentum of its own, surging ahead of scientists’ ability to measure the drug’s benefits. The pace has been a little too quick for some, who see medicinal joints as [...]


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		<title>Washington Drug Agents Seize Pot Legalization Petitions</title>
		<link>http://brokenspectrum.com/2010/05/27/washington-drug-agents-seize-pot-legalization-petitions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 17:19:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington drug agents have illegally seized signed petitions for marijuana legalization, according to organizers of ballot initiative I-1068.
Marijuana advocacy group Sensible Washington says it has learned that a dozen signed copies of  the marijuana legalization initiative for Washington State of which it is the sponsor, were seized last week by the federally-funded WestNET drug [...]


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		<title>VA Docs Prohibited From Recommending Medical Marijuana to Returning Vets</title>
		<link>http://brokenspectrum.com/2010/05/27/va-docs-prohibited-from-recommending-medical-marijuana-to-returning-vets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 17:18:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Veterans Administration (VA) recently adopted a policy prohibiting VA physicians from recommending medical marijuana to their patients, even if marijuana is the safest and most effective medicine to treat Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and other service-related conditions.
No doubt the policy stems, in part, from the VA&#8217;s efforts to address the serious problem of [...]


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		<title>Huge, Legal Cannabis Farm Study Surprises Industry, Officials</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 16:39:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The groundbreaking study showing how the City of Oakland could make $2 million per year licensing a medical cannabis growing warehouse caught many locals by surprise this week. Even though city officials and the cannabis industry are looking toward licensing large-scale grows allowed under state law SB 420, the hard numbers appear to be the [...]


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		<title>President Obama&#8217;s war on his own &#8216;youthful irresponsibility&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 19:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his high school yearbook photo, President Barack Obama sports a white leisure suit and a Travolta-esque collar whose wingspan could put a bystander’s eye out. Hey, it was 1979.
Maybe that explains the rest of young Barry&#8217;s yearbook page, with its &#8220;still life&#8221; featuring a pack of rolling papers and a shout-out to the &#8220;Choom [...]


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		<title>49% in Colorado Favor Legalizing and Taxing Marijuana</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 18:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the same week that Colorado lawmakers approved a bill increasing regulations on medical marijuana dispensaries, 49% of the state’s voters say the drug should be legalized and taxed.
The latest Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of Likely Voters shows that 39% do not think marijuana should be taxed and legalized in Colorado. Another 13% are [...]


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