Drug Czar: No State Can Nullify Federal Marijuana Ban

Drug czar: No state can nullify federal marijuana ban

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New York's Governor Andrew Cuomo is meanwhile pressing his state's legislature to decriminalize the possession in public view of less than 15 grams of marijuana. But to the dismay of pot campaigners, many of whom voted to … “Neither of these extreme …
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Hospital program improves antibiotic prescribing

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Before this change, the default antibiotic that doctors would see pop up in the chart was a broad spectrum drug. Ambroggio's team tracked patients' treatment starting six months prior to introducing the prescribing program and for nine months after. A …
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US Engaged in Torture After 9/11, Review Concludes

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WASHINGTON — A nonpartisan, independent review of interrogation and detention programs in the years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks concludes that “it is indisputable that the United States engaged in the practice of torture” and that the …
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