talkleft.com - 6/25/2009
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Via Huffington Post, the U.N. today released its 2009 World Drug Report report and reversed course. The report endorses drug decriminalization. U.S. Drug Czar Gil Kerlikowske (Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy) released this statement (pdf) in response. As NORML notes ...
huffingtonpost.com - 6/25/2009
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In an about face, the United Nations on
Wednesday lavishly praised drug decriminalization in its annual report...
on the state of global drug policy. In previous years, the UN drug czar had expressed skepticism about Portugal's decriminalization, which ...
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UN Backs Drug Decriminalization In World Drug Report
huffingtonpost.com - 6/21/2009
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Drug manufacturers have agreed to offer up to
$80 billion in prescription drug discounts to government programs...
like Medicare, the Washington Post reported on Saturday, citing an unidentified source close to the talks.
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Deal Reached On Cutting Prescription Drug Costs: Report
michellemalkin.com - 6/23/2009
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... the issue, proclaiming "The End of the War on Drugs." The Nation has a feature (quoting yours truly and other drug policy reformers, including my Law Enforcement Against Prohibition colleagues) confirming that the topic has finally ripened to maturity, its earnest discourse inescapable.
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