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    Alaska moves another step closer to August marijuana-legalization vote

    Just to prove my own point ;) - the opinion Americans have about legalization is definitely changing: • Americans on the legalization of marijuana | Survey 2013 , so let's hope change of legislation, not only in Alaska, is imminent!
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    Alaska moves another step closer to August marijuana-legalization vote

    the only comparison or precedent one could mention is 1920s prohibition. Remember how well that worked? Boardwalk Empire anyone? People who want to smoke will do it either way, legal or not. And it's not really that hard to get by. What legalization would do is to allow anyone busy prosecuting...
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    Alaska moves another step closer to August marijuana-legalization vote

    sure there's no historic precedence, The Netherlands are hardly comparable to the US, if only in terms of size. But people's opinions about legalization have definitely been changing and I agree with danarhea that eventually a tipping point will be reached when government just will not be able...
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    Germans abandon hope of US 'no-spy' treaty

    You'd have to take into account Germany's recent history: in the former GDR there was a massive apparatus, the 'Stasi', spying both on citizens in their own state, as well as on politicians and any person 'of interest' in West-Germany. So, it is understandable, that Germans are particularly...
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