Join Together News Roundup for May 24, 2010

Higher prices and restrictions on advertising will help prevent excessive drinking, World Health Organization says in new policy resolution (too bad it’s non-binding) ? How do you reconcile ’drug-free schools’ with medical-marijuana laws? That’s what school districts in Colorado are trying to figure out ? The good news for tribes in New York: the state Supreme Court says they can still sell untaxed cigarettes. But it’s still illegal to ship cigarettes by mail under a new federal law, and that’s where most of the money was? Quitting smoking may not guarantee that you don’t get sick. But a new study says that a drug already approved by FDA to treat other diseases also may protect former smokers from getting cancer.