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Maher: Guns Are a Vice ‘Like Drugs or Alcohol’

HBO’s “Real Time” host Bill Maher argued that guns are a vice “like drugs or alcohol” on Friday. Maher stated that there are other weapons besides an AR-15 that can be used to commit mass shootings, and that the police

Bill Maher on 6/17/16 "Real Time"

Dutch Police Target Drug Gangs In Massive Operation

(AFP) – Hundreds of police raided about 100 premises Monday in a swoop on drug gangs in the southern Netherlands, prosecutors said. Fifty-five suspects were detained in “Operatie Trefpunt” (Operation Meeting Point), the prosecution service said in a statement, adding

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Canada Will Not Appeal Ruling Allowing Patients To Grow Own Pot

VANCOUVER (Reuters) – Medical marijuana patients in Canada will regain the right to grow their own cannabis after the government said on Thursday it would comply with a federal court decision against a ban introduced by the previous Conservative government.

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France And Canada Have The Most Teenage Weed Smokers

(AFP) – France and Canada have the highest percentage of 15-year-old pot smokers among 42 well-off nations surveyed by the World Health Organization, the UN agency said in a report Tuesday. When it comes to policing marijuana, France is far

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One Third Of Prisoners In Germany Are ‘Foreign’ Citizens

More than 30 per cent of prisoners in Germany are “foreign”, a much higher proportion than other European countries, the Council of Europe has found. In one state, foreigners made up an astonishing 96 per cent of incarcerated peoples. Of the 65,710 prisoners

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Highest Arrest Rate in California? ‘Hippie’ Humboldt County

The county with the highest arrest rate in California is not Los Angeles, San Diego or the Bay Area counties, where Black Lives Matter protests have shut down cities. Rather, it is “hippie” Humboldt County, which had the highest arrest rates for felonies, misdemeanors, and status offenses for the 58 counties in California from 2005 through 2014.

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North Carolina Drug Testing Welfare Applicants

Starting late last year, North Carolina began issuing drug tests to new applicants for certain state welfare benefits. Now the state is reporting that 24 percent of the first batch of applicants tested came up positive for illegal drugs.

In this July 16, 2012, photo, Laura Fritz, 27, left, with her daughter Adalade Goudeseune