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March 6, 2013
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Ex-DEA heads, UN panel urge US to nullify pot laws

CHICAGO (AP) — Eight former U.S. drug chiefs warned the federal government Tuesday that time is running out to nullify Colorado and Washington’s new laws legalizing recreational marijuana use, and a United Nations agency also urged challenges to the measures it says violate international treaties. The former Drug Enforcement Administration chiefs criticized Barack Obama’s administration for moving too slowly to file a lawsuit that would force the states to rescind the legislation. Marijuana is illegal under federal law. “My fear is that the Justice Department will do what they are doing now: do nothing and say nothing,” former DEA administrator …

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