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Welcome to this week’s edition of the NORML legislative roundup! Republican Gov. Phil Scott rejected legislation earlier this week, Senate Bill 22, which sought to eliminate criminal and civil penalties for the adult use and possession of marijuana. The Governor said that he did not support the legislation as written, but remains open to working with lawmakers over the summer on ways to amend the state’s cannabis policies. In Maryland, Governor Larry Hogan has apparently chos

PUBLISHED: MAY 23, 2017, 12:10 PM • UPDATED: 4 DAYS AGOCOMMENTS (10) By , The Cannabist Staff A week ago, Washington Governor Jay Inslee signed an omnibus marijuana bill, containing many changes to the regulations put in place in 2013, after Washington voters legalized recreational marijuana sales in 2012. Senate Bill 5131 passed the Senate on April 20 with a vote of 44-5, and the House that same day, 63-33. What developments does this marijuana mega-bill contain? Here’s our

Today President Donald J. Trump sent Congress a proposed budget request of $639.1 billion, $574.5 billion in the base budget and $64.6 billion in the Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) budget. This budget request is $52 billion above the defense budget cap in the Budget and Control Act (BCA) of 2011. This funding is required to continue to rebuild warfighting readiness and will restore program balance by fixing the holes created by previous budget cuts. Since enactment o

A shattered statue Once stood on the floor An Adonis Madonna Named after a whore. Well, still she spoke Good English Her breath had the scent of night And poems she loved to say Oh my God I see delight Along with many new ways To remember my minds phantom Of her laid out on the floor Teaching me language In a primitive wet style Flash…the scenes of sex That causes me to smile Into a blissful state For reasons, I’ll be coming late And the noise will reek my ears Into believing

Feed the hungry, heal the sick—and free the weed. There’s a Bible verse for every situation and a teaching of Jesus interpreted to justify just about anything, however tortured. But as Buzzfeed recently reported, more and more conservative Christians in the Deep South—exactly the kind of people in exactly the kind of place where lawmakers and law-enforcement types have relied on popular support for the “morals” of the drug war—are discovering that church and legalization can

By GlobalSecurity -Presidential Election - 23 April / 07 May 2017 Independent centrist Emmanuel Macron became France’s youngest ever president after earning a decisive win the country’s run-off vote on Sunday 07 May 2017. The win marks a climax for Macron’s meteoric rise from relative obscurity, but the tough task of building a governing majority for his newcomer En Marche! movement was yet to come. The 39-year-old political neophyte, who had never been elected to any office

By GlobalSecurity - Division The Army consists of four corps and 18 divisions. In the active Army, there are ten divisions: two forward deployed in Europe, one in Korea, one in Hawaii, and six in the continental United States. The remaining eight are Army National Guard Divisions. The U.S. Army had 28 Divisions - 18 active and 10 National Guard – in 1991. Eight Army divisions were deployed to the Persian Gulf, just as eight Army divisions had been deployed to Korea four decad

Roaches are like spots moving … .. . .. . … .. . . … . As a point, I see them out of place. I focus in on reason and ponder then their fate. I am God in this domain! All hear me- “ I wish they’d go away.” Send them downstairs maybe Or is that from where they came? Stand Back! Stand clear, fore there I see one Crawling in through space And one standing boldly In my cabinet, on a plate. Where did I put the Raid? Now spray, spray, stream. Spray the shit on hard and

If this little nation goes down the drain ask yourself What’s gonna happen to all the other little nations? I saw you splatter one right in the back with a missile Now we can build a great society --it’ll last three months But you have our complete support. There is no question what so ever We are here to stay! Foreign Invaders Responding to chaos with new resolve Going south to the countryside to draw the line Hold the line. The final domino is the Presidency. Bring the reso

PUBLISHED: JAN 16, 2017, 8:01 AM • UPDATED: 4 MONTHS ago By Melissa Reinert, The Kentucky Enquirer WILLIAMSTOWN, Ky. — Tiffany Wigginton Carnal is in the fight of her life to save her daughter. Lyndi Carnal, 17, has Crohn’s Disease, an inflammatory bowel disease that causes inflammation of the lining of the digestive tract, which can lead to abdominal pain, severe diarrhea, fatigue, weight loss and malnutrition. Lyndi was diagnosed when she was 14. Since that time, she and he

PUBLISHED: JAN 6, 2017, 2:04 PM • UPDATED: 4 MONTHS AGO By The Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. — Kentucky farmers plan to produce nearly three times more hemp than a year ago as testing on its potential as a cash crop accelerates. The state Department of Agriculture said Thursday it approved 209 applications from growers, allowing them to produce up to 12,800 acres of hemp for research purposes this year. In 2016, 137 growers were approved to plant up to 4,500 acres. Kentucky

APRIL 30, 2017 2017 KENTUCKY MARIJUANA LEGALIZATION VOTE: KEY DATES TO WATCH Have you been trying to follow Kentucky marijuana legalization news online and find you cannot figure out if it is legalized or if the bill died in the Kentucky State Senate? Current Kentucky medical marijuana laws were introduced in late 2016 by Kentucky state senator, Perry Clark. This particular senator has introduced similar laws in the past, but the one that was due to be voted on in 2017 by Ken

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To Peacefully Co-Exist Respect Unpredictable Behavior. Getting ready for an appearance with a toothache and insecurity calls. Uncomfortable! Take me home - I don’t like this situation. A Daytime Nightmare had about an hour riding bikes, Lagging behind way too fast two big eyes scream out of the water. In my mind it couldn’t happen just like that. It’s just like a Vice. Bone in the mouth of a dog. A moment of eternity… a mother’s hand Slaps bad, bad, Bad! It’s almost prehistor