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US CO: Youth Factor Heats Up Medical Marijuana Debate
8 March 2010, 3:00 am

Denver Post, 08 Mar 2010 - The divisions between the pro- and anti-marijuana crowds at the state House Judiciary Committee meeting were already clear last week when the young man who described himself as a recovering heroin addict approached the microphone. As the man spoke about marijuana use leading kids to harder drugs and fears that medical marijuana from dispensaries would make it into teenage hands, the lines became even clearer.

Source: MAP - Drugnews - Colorado

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US CO: Editorial: Dispense With The Nonsense On Medical Pot
8 March 2010, 3:00 am

The Daily Sentinel, 08 Mar 2010 - Some people in Colorado, including Colorado Attorney General John Suthers, want the state Legislature to stuff the medical marijuana genie back in the hookah. Yes, Colorado voters approved Amendment 20 a decade ago to legalize medical marijuana, they say. But voters never envisioned the system that has sprung up, with medical marijuana dispensaries on seemingly every corner in many municipalities.

Source: MAP - Drugnews - Colorado

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US CO: Editorial: America Needs An Honest Response To Drug
7 March 2010, 3:00 am

Aurora Sentinel, 07 Mar 2010 - As staggering as the numbers are in the so-called war on drugs, they pale in comparison to the human costs to sate America's greedy appetite for illicit drugs. Yet after decades of pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into the biggest boondoggle the American government has ever undertaken, as a country, we live in denial that we can't even lay victory to a single battle, and that there is no hope, ever, of winning such a war.

Source: MAP - Drugnews - Colorado