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From Stop the Drug War

The Australian Green Party has taken another step back from positions adopted earlier this decade calling for the regulated distribution of marijuana and other “social drugs,” such as ecstasy. For the first time, the party has made its opposition to drug legalization part of its drug policy platform.

Just to make the party’s retreat crystal clear, the opposition to legalization is the first item in the Green drug policy platform: “The Australian Greens do not support the legalization of currently illegal drugs,” the plank bluntly states.

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From CBC.ca

A Toyota plug-in hybrid car design will begin testing on public roads in Japan, the company said Wednesday.

Toyota said its Plug-in HV, like previous Toyota hybrid cars, uses a gas-powered internal combustion engine and an electric motor. But it can operate longer in electric mode on short trips because of increased battery capacity, the company said, with a cruising range on the electric motor alone of about 13 kilometres, about four times as far as the Prius.

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