The Office of the National Drug Control Policy budget bill is up for a vote. It includes provisions and money for the development of aerial sprays of herbicides to kill poppies, coca, cannabis.
Stephane Dion, an urbane francophone from Montreal, was chosen leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, the main opposition party to the governing Conservative Party of Stephen Harper.
More Mexican people have died from the violence beget by drug prohibition than US soldiers killed in the war in Iraq. Incoming Mexican President Calderon promises more of the same prohibition poison.