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Ex-Mexico president praises Wash. pot businessmen

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 31st

By GENE JOHNSONAssociated Press SEATTLE (AP) - Washington state businessmen who say they're trying to create the first national brand of marijuana received some heartfelt support Thursday from the former president of Mexico, Vicente Fox. Fox appeared at a news conference in Seattle, where he

Budget cuts border security, immigrant detention

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on March 28th

By CRISTINA SILVA and CHRISTOPHER SHERMANAssociated Press PHOENIX (AP) - Marco Antonio Durazo had been awaiting deportation from an Arizona detention center for six months when an officer came to get him from his cell. "Obama doesn't have any money," the officer said. "We found it very funny,"

Breaking Bad brings tourists, money to Albuquerque

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on March 15th

By RUSSELL CONTRERASAssociated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - A fast-food burrito chain in Albuquerque has become an international tourist attraction as people come from all over the world to see the spot where a fictional drug trafficker runs his organization. A pastry shop sells doughnuts topped

Underworld saint becoming more popular in US

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on March 4th

By RUSSELL CONTRERASAssociated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - A follower in New Orleans built a public shrine in her honor. An actor in Albuquerque credits her with helping him land a role on the TV show "Breaking Bad." She turns up routinely along the U.S.-Mexico border at safe houses, and is

US commandos boost numbers to train Mexican forces

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on January 17th

By KIMBERLY DOZIERAP Intelligence Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The Pentagon is stepping up aid for Mexico's bloody drug war with a new U.S.-based special operations headquarters to teach Mexican security forces how to hunt drug cartels the same way special operations teams hunt al-Qaida, according

US commandos boost numbers to train Mexican forces

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on January 17th

Strategy, timing key to states' pot legalization

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 2nd

By By GENE JOHNSONAssociated Press SEATTLE (AP) - In the late-1980s heyday of the anti-drug "Just Say No" campaign, a man calling himself "Jerry" appeared on a Seattle talk radio show to criticize U.S. marijuana laws. An esteemed businessman, he hid his identity because he didn't want to

Mexico President: US Lacks Moral Authority For Drug War

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 14th

MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexican President Felipe Calderon says the legalization of marijuana for recreational use in two U.S. states limits that country's "moral authority" to ask other nations to combat or restrict illegal drug trafficking. Calderon says the legalization of marijuana in

Pot votes in 2 states challenge US drug war

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 7th

By KRISTEN WYATTAssociated Press DENVER (AP) - First came marijuana as medicine. Now comes legal pot for the people. Those who have argued for decades that legalizing and taxing weed would be better than a costly, failed U.S. drug war have their chance to prove it, as Colorado and Washington

Marijuana backers courting conservatives

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on October 16th

By KRISTEN WYATTAssociated Press DENVER (AP) - It's not all hippies backing November's marijuana legalization votes in Colorado, Oregon and Washington. Appealing to Western individualism and a mistrust of federal government, activists have lined up some prominent conservatives, from one