President Obama Announces Federal Brain Project, Florida Medical Marijuana Bill Going Nowhere Despite Popular Support, Dutch Regret Joining Euro: P.M. Links

• The Pentagon
  says budget cuts will see it spending less on its drones, and
  only $1.03 billion on research and development when they requested
  nearly $2 billion.


• President Obama
  announced the BRAIN project, a fedeally-funded effort to map
  the human brain that will start with a $100 million
  “investment.”


• Seven out of ten Floridians support medical marijuana, but a
  bill legalizing it can’t even get a
  hearing in the legislature.


• Two men in Texas are
  suing their local sheriff department for allegedly detaining
  them for 39 days and seizing $14,000 they say they saved up for a
  new car.


• Senators John McCain and Sheldon Whitehouse are
  visiting Mali to check out the French-led intervention.


• Tens of thousands of people
  die in the winter in the United Kingdom, in part because of
  fuel taxes.


• A poll in the Netherlands shows 55 percent
  regretting the country joining the euro. Eurozone unemployment,
  
  meanwhile, hit a record 12 percent high.


• Samoa Air may start to charge passengers by
  weight.

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