Medical

There's a growing trend in Kennewick crime: home invasion robberies of medical marijuana patients. There are an estimated 100,000 medical marijuana patients in Washington and many of them grow their medicine themselves. Because of that, they're often targeted by thieves.

A bill that would decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana by adults and depenalize the possession of up to a half pound of pot narrowly passed the New Mexico House Tuesday. The measure was approved on a vote of 37-33.

Compulsory "treatment" for drug addiction in some parts of the world is "tantamount to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment," according to report last month from the UN's special rapporteur on torture and other degrading treatments and punishments.
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