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On Friday, the US House of Representatives passed a bill to end the federal prohibition on cannabis. CNN reports the historic vote on the landmark legislation is largely symbolic. If put into law it would be a major step for the multibillion-dollar cannabis industry and broader social justice movements The bill would effectively legalize cannabis by removing marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act. It would creating a shared federal-state control of cannabis programs, but it does not force states to legalize.
CNN projects that voters in New Jersey and South Dakota have voted to legalize recreational marijuana. Poll results have not yet been determined in Arizona, Montana, and Mississippi for their legalization efforts. Pre-election polling showed that the measure had support in Arizona, Montana, and New Jersey. 33 states and Washington DC have already fully legalized medical marijuana. 11 states and Washington DC have also legalized recreational marijuana usage.
It's still unknown whether President Donald Trump or former Vice President Joe Biden will win the 2020 race for the US presidency. But according to Gizmodo, one clear winner has emerged in another fight: the drug legalization movement. In both red and blue cities and states, people voted to legalize or decriminalize cannabis, psilocybin mushrooms, and, in Oregon, all illicit drugs entirely. New Jersey, Arizona, South Dakota, and Montana all passed ballot measures to legalize cannabis for recreational use. Voting to legalize cannabis and other drugs appeared to have nothing to do with whether a state voted for Trump or Biden--or its governor's party. and GOP governors of Arizona and South Dakota discouraged residents from voting to legalize cannabis. It didn't work.
Images published by Argentina's police force show family members of the Ecuadorian drug lord Adolfo Macias, also known as "Fito," who recently escaped from a prison in Guayaquil, being arrested in Argentina and deported. IMAGES
Dozens of military and police inspect vehicles on an avenue leading to the center of Ecuador's port city of Guayaquil, after the government and drug mafias declared war on each other. The small South American country has been plunged into crisis after years of growing control by transnational cartels who use its ports to ship cocaine to the United States and Europe. IMAGES
The trial of a vast international cocaine and cannabis trafficking operation, for which more than 100 people have been summoned to appear before the Brussels court, was adjourned and the opening of the proceedings is now set for 18 December, the court has announced. IMAGES
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