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          Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Google Plus Share via Email More Options                     Share on Google Plus Share on LinkedIn Share on Tumblr Resize Text Print Article File photo of marijuana plants on display for sale at the medical marijuana farmers market at the California Heritage Market in Los Angeles, California, on July 11, 2014. (David McNew/Reuters) UPDATE, 7:30 p.m.: This post was updated to provide more details on the provisions in the bill. In what advocates describe as an historic first, a trio of senators plan to unveil a federal medical marijuana bill Tuesday. The bill, to be introduced by Senators Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), would end the federal ban on medical marijuana and implement a series of reforms long sought by advocates. They include downgrading its status with the Drug E

U.S. retail workers are No. 1...in employee theft by  Anne Fisher @anbfisher January 26, 2015, 1:50 PM EST Photograph by Chris Fertnig—Getty Images Light-fingered employees cost American stores (and consumers) more than shoplifters do. It’s almost Groundhog Day, but for retailers, the holiday season is finally winding down. “The four months from October through January are when stores see not just their biggest sales volume of the year, but also the most returns and exchanges,” says Ernie Deyle, a 30-year veteran of the retail loss-prevention wars who leads the business consulting practice at London-based data analytics firm Sysrepublic. “Unfortunately, the same four months account for about half of all annual shrinkage.” That shrinkage, made up of missing goods from shoplifting and other causes, costs U.S. retailers about $42 billion a year, according to the latest Global Retail Theft Barometer ,