Politics

Legal pot? Doesn’t matter, colleges say

Members of the student government at Maryland passed a resolution calling for the university to end random drug testing, housing termination, suspension and expulsion as potential consequences for students over 21 found with weed or drug paraphernalia. At the University of Maryland, College Park, students have lobbied for reduced punishments for possessing marijuana, which they…

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Biography/Memoir

Random drug testing now in play for University of Oregon student-athletes

andom drug testing is now in play for University of Oregon student-athletes.​ (*note : article published in 2012, current policy can be found here) In the past, UO only tested student-athletes when there was “reasonable suspicion.”  Now, all student-athletes are subject to “unannounced random drug testing throughout the entire year, including summer sessions,” according to the proposed…

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Politics

[Oregon] cosponsors bill to legalize marijuana across U.S.

The bill also would penalize states that haven’t legalized marijuana and have “disproportionate” rates of arrest and incarceration for marijuana-related offences by cutting federal funding in those states for new jails, prisons and staffing. U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, is cosponsoring a bill to decriminalize marijuana across the nation and penalize states with high arrest…

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Jeff Sessions … [and] medical marijuana

Suffice to say this is an issue that unites most on the left and right, as well as those who advocate for combat veterans and individuals who use marijuana for medical needs … Now it is up to Congress in the year-end spending bill whether the will of [then] candidate Trump and an overwhelming majority…

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