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CALPIRG released a new analysis today examining drug companies’ self-imposed limits on their marketing to doctors – efforts that include lavish wining-and-dining and thousands of dollars worth of gifts. The report, Playing By Their Own Rules: An Analysis of Drug Company Gifts to Doctors, finds that these limits are riddled with exceptions, and that some companies have evaded even the least restrictive limits on their marketing.   
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U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey is asking Congress to reverse a decision by the U.S. Sentencing Commission to apply reduced sentences for crack-cocaine offenses retroactively, Reuters reported Feb. 6.

The commission recently voted unanimously to reduce the crack penalties to bring them more into line with those for powdered-cocaine offenses and to apply the reduced penalties to individuals already in prison. The policy takes effect next month.

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Salvia divinorum, a powerful hallucinogenic plant related to the common sage, is being used by some teens in the United States and the United Kingdom, who videotape their experiences and post them on YouTube, BBC News Magazine reported on Nov. 1.

The plant is legal, but some say it’s a potentially dangerous substance that must be regulated. The plant has been used by Mexican shamans for thousands of years, but now is being sold in both the U.S. and Europe, legally.? 

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