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Day: August 9, 2021

MEXICO: WILL CANNABIS DECRIM DE-ESCALATE DRUG WAR?

by Bill Weinberg, Project CBD Two years and counting after Mexico’s Supreme Court ordered the country’s Congress to legalize cannabis, the high court justices ran out of patience with the legislative paralysis and issued a new ruling — this one… Read moreMEXICO: WILL CANNABIS DECRIM DE-ESCALATE DRUG WAR?

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Pre-emptive repression in South Sudan

Two prominent activists in South Sudan—Augustino Ting Mayai of the local Sudd Institute and Kuel Aguer Kuel, former governor of Northern Bahr el-Ghazal State—were arrested Aug. 2 for calling for a peaceful uprising to end the country’s state of “political bankruptcy.” They were… Read morePre-emptive repression in South Sudan

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