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The US Supreme Court Tuesday upheld the use of police dog's sniff of a truck, arguing that training and testing records indicated the dog's reliability and gave police probable cause for the search. The high court in 2005 upheld the legality of highway drug dog searches; in this case, the court focused on the reliability of drug dog searches.

A Republican-backed bill that would subject welfare recipients to drug testing has passed a second committee vote and now heads for the Senate floor. The bill was approved in the Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee earlier this month and passed out of the Senate Finance Committee Tuesday on a 10-5 vote.
Activism

It’s been tried before in Florida and failed. But this week, an advocacy group is working on a new way to make medical marijuana legal in the state. The group wants to get the drug reclassified as a less dangerous substance, a path they’re hoping will lead to doctors being able to prescribe it in Florida.

Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin (R) Wednesday signed into law a bill, House Bill 2388, that requires welfare applicants to be screened for possible drug use and drug tested upon suspicion they are using. They would be denied benefits if they test positive. The screening requirement is designed to surmount constitutional objections to mandatory, suspicionless drug testing of public benefits applicants and recipients.

A Jacksonville, Florida, police officer shot and killed an unarmed drug suspect during a traffic stop early Wednesday morning when the man reached down inside his car.
Medical

Currently, there are still a bunch of people who think that other people shouldn't be allowed to interact with a certain plant that grows on our planet. They don't even think that sick people who could benefit from using the plant as medicine should be allowed to do so. This would be okay, because everyone is entitled to their opinion, if it weren't for some kooky rules that make it so that if someone is caught growing, consuming, or even holding some clippings from the plant, they will be punished.
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