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Vice President Joe Biden heads to Latin America Sunday amid unprecedented pressure from political and business leaders to talk about something U.S. officials have no interest in debating: decriminalizing drugs.

An 18-year-old teenager, Ramarley Graham, was killed in his home in the Bronx last week by plainclothes cops. A member of the narcotics unit shot the unarmed teenager in his bathroom.

In a case that has implications for Colorado and other medical marijuana states, Montana state Rep. Diane Sands, D-Missoula, has come under investigation by the federal Drug Enforcement Administration. Sands said she doesn’t know why she’s being investigated, but she suspects the investigation is related to her advocacy of liberalized marijuana laws.
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