[img_assist|nid=28065|title=|desc="In this July 15, 2011 photo, Michael Jones, the business development manager at Brownsville South Padre Island International Airport in in Brownsville, Texas, lays out a series of model Aeromexico planes to be given to dignitaries upon the arrival of Aeromexico's first direct flight to the airport from Monterrey, Mexico.
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It's become pretty clear that the president is going to be asked about marijuana legalization absolutely any time he takes questions from the public, so it kind of amazes me that he is actually getting worse at talking about it.

Lawyers and judges on the front lines of the criminal justice system pleaded with the federal justice minister Monday to tone down some of his upcoming anti-crime measures, saying they will only clog the courts and prisons with the mentally ill and other vulnerable people.

There's a lot of science on the books on the question of marijuana's addictive properties, but is the issue too politicized to get any clear answers?
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The UN released a drug report in 2007 stating a startling fact; 16.8 per cent of Canadians aged 15 to 64 smoked marijuana or used another cannabis product in 2006. Canada ranks fifth in the world behind Ghana, Zambia, Papua New Guinea and Micronesia.