51.   RETRANSMITTING Jamaica considers legalizing marijuana for private use despite U.S.

52.   Straw said the Labor Party government has no plans to legalize marijuana.

53.   State lawmakers voted Monday to legalize marijuana for medical purposes and relax penalties for possession of the drug.

54.   The capital region on Wednesday became the first area of Australia to legalize marijuana for medical purposes, such as relieving glaucoma and nausea from chemotherapy.

55.   The governing Labor Party treads gingerly around the issue and has avoided a debate on legalizing marijuana.

56.   The Office of National Drug Control Policy has long opposed medical marijuana initiatives, considering them backdoor routes to legalizing marijuana.

57.   Twenty-eight percent said they strongly or somewhat favor legalizing marijuana.

58.   Governors of Mexican states bordering the United States are studying the possibility of legalizing marijuana, the governor of Chihuahua state said Wednesday.

59.   One was named the Green Panthers, which the report said was a group of Atlanta area activists working to legalize marijuana.