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Obama endorses move to keep age restrictions on morning after pill

By doris | Published: December 9, 2011

Full Story at whitehouse.blogs.CNN.com The White House (CNN) –President Obama endorsed his administration’s decision to keep in place age restrictions on the purchase of Plan B, the so-called “morning after pill”, without a prescription. “I did not get involved in the process,” Obama said when asked if he personally intervened in the matter. “This was [...]

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Obama orders FDA to help ease drug shortages

By doris | Published: October 31, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is directing the Food and Drug Administration to take steps to reduce drug shortages, action he says will help stop a “slow-rolling problem” that puts patients at risk and raises the potential for price gouging. Obama signed an executive order in the Oval Office on Monday [...]

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Montel Williams pushes medical marijuana bill

By doris | Published: January 26, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Former talk show host Montel Williams has urged state lawmakers to legalize medical marijuana in Maryland, saying it has a role helping those with painful ailments such as his own. The Baltimore native spoke Monday at a news conference with Maryland lawmakers who support legalized medical marijuana. Williams, [...]

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Ariz. voters approve medical marijuana measure

By doris | Published: November 15, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com PHOENIX — Arizona voters have approved a measure that will legalize medical marijuana in the state. Proposition 203 won by a tiny margin of just 4,431 votes out of more than 1.67 million votes counted. The measure started out losing by about 7,200 votes on Nov. 2 and the gap gradually [...]

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Feds oppose Calif. Prop 19 to legalize marijuana

By doris | Published: October 16, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.msn.com SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. government will “vigorously enforce” federal laws against marijuana even if voters next month make California the first state to legalize pot, Attorney General Eric Holder says. Holder’s warning, contained in a letter to ex-federal drug enforcement chiefs, was his most direct statement yet against Proposition 19, [...]

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Obama signs bill reducing cocaine sentencing gap

By doris | Published: August 8, 2010

Full Story at  CNN.com Washington (CNN) — President Obama signed a bill Tuesday reducing the disparity in penalties for the use of crack and powder cocaine, according to the White House. The enactment of the law seals a hard-fought victory for civil rights activists who have argued for years that the differing punishments unfairly target [...]

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Legalizing marijuana is civil rights issue, California NAACP says

By doris | Published: July 12, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Legalizing marijuana is a civil rights issue, according to one of California’s most prominent African-American advocacy groups. The California State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, led by President Alice Huffman, recently announced its “unconditional endorsement” for Proposition 19, a legislative initiative on the [...]

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Calderon blasts Arizona immigration law, seeks assault weapons ban

By doris | Published: May 21, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — Mexican President Felipe Calderon addressed two of America’s most contentious political issues during a speech to the U.S. Congress Thursday, asking for a return of the assault weapons ban and blasting Arizona’s controversial new immigration law as a “terrible” endorsement of racial profiling.

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High expectations? States eye marijuana reform

By doris | Published: December 28, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com OLYMPIA, Washington – Washington is one of four states where measures to legalize and regulate marijuana have been introduced, and about two dozen other states are considering bills ranging from medical marijuana to decriminalizing possession of small amounts of the herb. “In terms of state legislatures, this is far and away [...]

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False ‘death panel’ rumor has familiar roots

By doris | Published: August 14, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON – The stubborn yet false rumor that President Obama’s health care proposals would create government-sponsored “death panels” to decide which patients were worthy of living seemed to arise from nowhere in recent weeks. Advanced even this week by Republican stalwarts including the party’s last vice-presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, and Charles [...]

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Doctor-patient talk could cut costs, ethicists say

By doris | Published: July 24, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com “Both of them could have ended up dying in a hospital having run up bills of tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars,” said Kellerman, chairman of the department of emergency medicine at Emory University. “Neither of them wanted that, and I fought like hell to keep that from happening.” [...]

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White House open to new tax on health benefits

By doris | Published: June 29, 2009

Full Story At News.Yahoo.com WASHINGTON – The Obama White House left open the possibility Sunday that the president would break a campaign promise and raise taxes on people earning less than $250,000 to support his health care overhaul agenda. White House adviser David Axelrod said the administration wouldn’t rule out taxing some employees’ benefits to [...]

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