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Grapevine: Brown University to cover gender reassignments

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And now some fresh pickings from the political grapevine.

The White House drug czar is criticizing how his boss the president.

Is fighting the war on one particular drug.

Marijuana.

Gil -- accounts he tells Canada's Maclean magazine quote the administration has not done a particularly good job of one.

Talking about marijuana as a public health issue and number two talking about what can be done and where we should be headed on our drug policy.

Last November Colorado and Washington State passed laws legalizing recreational marijuana use.

-- accounts he says a patchwork of policies.

Is not the best approach.

And Brown University will become the latest college to expand its student health insurance plan.

To include sex change operations.

Beginning in August students will be covered for any of more than a dozen gender reassignment surgeries.

The school official tells the campus newspaper is part of an effort to support all students at the university.

The New York Times reports that nationwide 36 schools including Cornell Stanford and Harvard.

Include sex change surgeries in student health plans.