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[starlion]

Argentina's Supreme Court today decriminalized personal use of small amounts of marijuana, saying, "The state cannot establish morality.. Each adult is free to make lifestyle decisions without the intervention of the state," the court ruled, throwing out jail terms for eight people convicted of having marijuana cigarettes.

Argentina.  We get a

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[missdawn]

(i think that might have been venezuela with the heating-oil thing.)

in my email box today from mpp.org

[missdawn]

"We're in a new era.

In March, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the federal government will defer to state governments on medical marijuana - a 180-degree reversal of the previous administration's anti-democratic policies.

And the question of taxing and regulating marijuana like alcohol has appeared as the number one question for the president on his official government Web sites, change.gov and whitehouse.gov - forcing Pres. Obama to deal with the issue twice.

The indications we're receiving from the White House constitute the most positive marijuana-related developments on the federal level since 1978, when the Carter administration created the Compassionate Investigational New Drug program - a little-known federal government program that supplies medical marijuana to a handful of patients."

hopefully we're getting there.