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Smoking gun: Bell a callous enforcer, say pot reformers

Delegate Rob Bell, right, votes against marijuana reform bills in committee and becomes the subject of a YouTube video. PHOTO FROM YOUTUBE Supporters of two bills on marijuana

Could Jim Webb be on to something?

Virginia Senator Jim Webb announced last month that legalizing drugs should be "on the table." Now, a new report in Time, based on a Cato Institute study, finds that Portugal, the European nation that decriminalized personal drug use in
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