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'(It's) the way to go': Brian Mulroney explains his about-face on cannabis

CBC 

Former prime minister Brian Mulroney — whose government once introduced legislation continuing to classify marijuana in the same category as heroin — has not only become a born-again weed evangelical, but now says Canada is poised to influence the rest of the world to join the cannabis bandwagon.



Officer sues online market where gun used on him was sold

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

BOSTON (AP) — A Boston police officer on Thursday sued the online marketplace where the gun used to shoot him was sold, alleging it lacks necessary safeguards to prevent weapons from getting into the wrong hands. The lawsuit filed by the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence on behalf of 39-year-old Kurt Stokinger accuses Armslist.com of enabling illegal gun trafficking by allowing users to buy and sell guns with "essentially no rules." Authorities say Stokinger, a nine-year member of the police department... Читать дальше...

Kelly, Bolton reportedly get into White House screaming match

New York Post 

White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and national security adviser John Bolton got into a profanity-laced argument outside the Oval Office on Thursday – a shouting match that startled West Wing staff, according to a report. The two Cabinet members got into it over the surge in border crossings and the procession of thousands...

PressTV-Turkey urged to call for UN probe into Khashoggi case

RINF 

Four leading human rights and press freedom groups have urged Turkey to call for a UN probe into the possible murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in order to prevent a cover-up of the alleged crime. Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the Committee to Protect Journalists, and Reporters Without Borders said on Thursday that a […]

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Coercive Plea Bargaining

Cato Institute 

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has observed that “criminal justice today is for the most part a system of pleas, not a system of trials.” Although nowhere mentioned in the text of the Constitution, plea bargaining has become the default mechanism for resolving criminal charges in the United States. Indeed, some 95 percent of criminal convictions today are obtained through plea bargains, which raises a number of serious concerns, including why so few people choose to exercise their hallowed and hard-won right to a jury trial. Читать дальше...

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