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Last week, we reported on armed resistance against Lebanese government marijuana plant eradication teams in the Bekaa Valley, one of the world's leading hashish-producing regions. The country's Internal Security Forces (ISF) aren't having much easier going this week, though at least no one is shooting at them.
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Although Owen Smith has won a constitutional challenge against Health Canada's medical marijuana laws, he'll be back in court April 25 to set a date for his trial by judge and jury.

People living in the United States are used to politics and ideology trumping fact and science. As someone who shuttled between the US and the Netherlands for several decades, I always marveled at the difference in the way the two countries treated social issues. Dutch policies towards drugs, sex and sex education, support of the arts, and pulling people into the middle class were models for progressives throughout Europe and North America.

Possession of hashish is legal for state’s medical-marijuana patients, not that law enforcement seems to know.

So it seems that it might be hard to train up the Afghan Army to maintain "order" in Afghanistan after the US leaves in 18 months. Or it might be hard for the US to leave.
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