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Over Memorial Day weekend, I grieved for my fellow brothers and sisters killed in Vietnam and cried over the pain surviving vets still endure – something I observed firsthand working for nine years at Vet Centers, a part of the Veterans...
Notes of a (Minneapolis) native son.
While the details still need to be ironed out, the writing is on the wall that New York will soon join the other fifteen States who have legalized cannabis for adult use. It appears that Governor Cuomo is leaning towards adopting his own bill, the Cannabis Regulation and Taxation Act “CRTA”, instead of the Marihuana Regulation and Taxation Act or “MRTA” a bill proposed by Senators Peoples-Stokes and Krueger. The CRTA will permit delivery services, however, growing cannabis at home will not be permitted (a colleague pointed out how we are back to 1942 and the Wickard v. Filburn ca...
Monthly CT VIEWPOINTS -- opinions from around Connecticut On pot issue, lawmakers and their constituents are not served by the same old scare tactics. Lawmakers and their constituents are not served by the same old scare tactics. Brendan Ruberry Contrary to the organization’s name, (“Smart Approaches to Marijuana”) what it advocates is not a smarter approach at all: it’s a paranoid, puritanical one — couched in clever but unsound reasoning — that is not far from old-school prohibition. Will Jones writes that “Heavy users of today’s 9...
" The Arkansas Times has successfully challenged a law that prohibits the state from doing business with companies that boycott Israel," Mondoweissreports. "The Little Rock-based weekly filed the lawsuit in 2018 and was represented by the ACLU. The paper takes no official position on BDS, but it launched the legal challenge after the University of Arkansas Pulaski Technical College refused to sign an advertising contract with The Arkansas Times, unless it signed the pledge. A U.S. district court judge dismissed the case in 2019, but last week the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals found the la...