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RUSSIAN ELECTION: Voting began Sunday in a presidential election that will produce a successor to Vladimir Putin. There is no significant opposition to Dmitry Medvedev, Putin’s endorsed choice to take over the presidency, and Medvedev says that if he wins he will ask Putin to become prime minister.
LEGAL MARIJUANA? Jamaica is considering the legalization of marijuana, a drug revered by members of the island’s large Rastafarian population who say smoking it is part of their religion. A seven-member government commission has been researching possible changes to the Caribbean nation’s anti-drug laws, which some police complain are clogging courts and jails with marijuana-related cases.
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