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Maryland’s roll-out of its medical cannabis programme has been called “one of the slowest” of the 28 states that allow it. Approved about three years ago, the programme is still months away from being operational — and that may be optimistic.
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DATE: Mar 06, 2017
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The nature of Donald Trump’s relationship with Russia is the most obscure and disturbing aspect of his coming presidency. Trump’s unwavering defence of Vladimir Putin’s regime against all criticism, and his breezy dismissals of a CIA finding that Mos...
DATE: Dec 14, 2016
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More than six years after a brigade of United Nations peacekeepers from Nepal introduced cholera in Haiti, triggering an epidemic that has killed at least 10,000 and sickened many more, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon has finally uttered the word “s...
DATE: Dec 14, 2016
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The self-defeating passivity of President Barack Obama’s policies in the Middle East may have reached its apotheosis this month at a National Security Council meeting that he chaired.
On the table were options for responding to the bloody and crimina...
DATE: Oct 31, 2016
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Jérémie. Les Cayes. Port-Salut. These Haitian towns, blasted and shattered by Hurricane Matthew, are unfamiliar to most Americans. Yet now that the storm has left them desperate for relief, it is to Americans they are turning for the most basic forms...
DATE: Oct 18, 2016
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The Drug Enforcement Administration made headlines last week for sticking to the status quo: the agency declined to change cannabis’ classification under the Controlled Substances Act to a lower, less strictly regulated schedule.
Cannabis sits alongs...
DATE: Aug 17, 2016
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Heaven help a woman in Baltimore who reports rape or sexual assault to the city’s police. Odds are her complaint will be all but ignored and minimally investigated. Or it could be worse: for many who turn to the authorities, the tables are quickly tu...
DATE: Aug 15, 2016
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Each summer in the District, everyone in government seems to go on vacation — everyone, that is, except the interns. They come from colleges and cities across the country to work at think tanks, congressional offices and even the White House. They an...
DATE: Jul 16, 2016
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