“This is not a sentence I feel particularly good about,” Judge Douglas Harpool said. Authorities twice went onto White’s property before obtaining a search warrant, court records show. Original Article (USA Today):77-year-old [in United States] sentenced to 10 years for growing marijuanaArtwork Fair Use: Public Domain
In the Philippines, tens of thousands of protesters rallied in cities across the country Thursday [September 21, 2017), warning that President Rodrigo Duterte was on the brink of imposing a dictatorship. “This is the biggest rally so far of the youth and people, and the rallies are bound to get bigger. And the Duterte…
On a 7-2 vote, a citizen advisory committee on Monday (October 9th, 2017) endorsed changing the formal name of downtown Eugene’s Broadway Plaza to Kesey Square. Councilor Mike Clark and John Iglesias, chief executive of Eugene-based Northwest Community Credit Union, voted against the recommendation. The vote came near the end of a 90-minute meeting, the…
Saying it “feels like a question I had to ask”, the Duke acknowledged the “growing pressure” to change the regulation of drugs use in the UK. As he left, the Duke said: “You guys have seen it and it’s affected your lives in ways I can only imagine, so it’s very interesting to hear that…
Important to the case is whether the partiers knew or should have known they were trespassing on the property, a brick duplex in what attorneys said was a low-income neighborhood in northeast Washington. The partiers contend they thought they were [the host’s] guests. Justice Elena Kagan tapped her own experience in assessing the situation. “There…
[In] July [of 2017, President Trump of the United States] told law enforcement officers “please don’t be too nice” when handling crime suspects. Mr. Rosenberg forcefully rejected [those] comments, sending an email to all D.E.A. employees at the time to tell them that they should not mistreat suspects. “We must earn and keep the public…
“Being at the forefront of something like this,” she says, “as a woman, is unbelievable.” As a product, cannabis “crosses genders, ethnicities, economic backgrounds and political views,” says Sally Nichols, a leading pot investor. Original Article (Rolling Stone):Weed Warriors: Meet Six Women Shaping the Cannabis IndustryArtwork Fair Use: Pierre-Yves Beaudouin
Smith’s wallet was found on the Spokane Indian Reservation on Monday, and his vehicle was discovered the next day. The Spokane County Sheriff’s Office search and rescue team finally discovered Smith’s body concealed near a state road. Original Article (Merry Jane):Kidnapped Washington Cannabis Store Employee Found DeadArtwork Fair Use: Tapas Biswas
“It was super violating—I couldn’t believe they went into my sent emails folder and found something from a year ago that was addressed to my doctor,” Chelsea said. “They’ll go into the back and kind of go on a fishing expedition for a number of hours [on a smartphone] to see if there’s any…
“I wrote a whole book called Bad Mother [which was published in May 2009]. If I had been micro-dosing back then, I probably would have written Remarkably Calm, Compassionate Mother.” – Ayelet Waldman (author of A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life published in…
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