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10.022014February 10, 2014

Texan potheads unite and leave for Potorado

By WFADIn Torgny Peterson

Texans, who’ve long come to Colorado for winter sports, now have another reason to visit: recreational marijuana. Colorado’s booming new...

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07.022014February 7, 2014

Good news from New Mexico

By WFADIn Torgny Peterson

A proposal to allow New Mexico voters to decide whether to legalize recreational marijuana stalled Friday. As the legislative session...

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07.022014February 7, 2014

Russell Brand in the Guardian got it all wrong

By WFADIn Torgny Peterson

In an article in the Guardian, Philip Seymour Hoffman is another victim of extremely stupid drug laws, Russell Brand got...

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01.022014February 1, 2014

Commissioner Roger Goodell wants to keep marijuana on banned substance list

By WFADIn Torgny Peterson

Despite the legalization of marijuana in the two states represented by teams in the Super Bowl, pot will remain on...

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31.012014January 31, 2014

Netherlands: NO to official experiments with legal production of marijuana

By WFADIn Torgny Peterson

35 Dutch mayors call on the government to sanction official experiments with legal marijuana. However, the Minister in charge, Ivo...

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27.012014July 4, 2020

DEA Administrator Michele M. Leonhart extremely fit for her current position

By WFADIn Torgny Peterson

Finally we get to hear from a top official, DEA Administrator Michele M. Leonhart, that there are reasons to be...

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24.012014January 24, 2014

World leaders – for whom?

By WFADIn Torgny Peterson

According to CNBC Kofia Annan says, “Drug use is not down. It’s time for a different approach. Drugs have destroyed...

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23.012014January 23, 2014

Drugs at the World Economic Forum in Davos

By WFADIn Torgny Peterson

Soros Ltd & Friends have managed to bring drugs to the World Economic Forum, i.e. a discussion on drugs. These...

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22.012014January 22, 2014

Bla, bla, bla from the White House

By WFADIn Torgny Peterson

The White House obviously has difficulties to get the act together on marijuana. The latest bla, bla, bla was presented...

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20.012014January 20, 2014

Barack Obama´s epitaph – He opened the marijuana floodgates

By WFADIn Torgny Peterson

In an unprecedented statement to the New Yorker Barack Obama says that he doesn´t think that marijuana “is more dangerous...

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