Archive for month: July, 2016

A rich, liberal arts education

Among conservatives, academia has a reputation as a bastion of the left. But it’s not just faculty that indoctrinate students; students indoctrinate one another. Political scientists at Princeton University analyzed survey data from the 1990s of thousands of college students across the country in both their freshman and senior years. Compared to affluent students at colleges where most students were not from affluent families, affluent students at colleges where most students were…

A growing number of Southern California law enforcement organizations and leaders are voicing objections to a state ballot measure that would legalize recreational marijuana, saying it would make the state less safe.

“I’m vehemently opposed to it,” Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens said. “I think that it would be a terrible move for California to make.”

San Bernardino County District Attorney Mike t said the initiative to legalize marijuana “will do nothing to…

A Minnesota judge overseeing Prince’s estate has ordered genetic testing for a handful of people claiming to be heirs and tossed out claims from almost 30 others.

Who’s in? Prince’s siblings and half-siblings John Nelson, Norrine Nelson, Sharon Nelson, Alfred Jackson, Omarr Baker and Tyka Nelson. Ken Abdo, the attorney for the three half siblings declined to comment. The pair claimed Brianna Nelson’s father was Prince’s half-brother.

Eighteen claimants were ruled out as Prince’s children.

A source spoke with the publication recently, and…

By Jim T. Ryan
Staff Writer

Two municipalities in Perry County are reviewing model ordinances to address businesses spawned by the state’s new medical marijuana law, but their lawyers are advising to hold off on zoning changes.

Tri-County Regional Planning Commission in Harrisburg developed the model ordinance to address zoning issues with medical marijuana grow operations, manufacturing facilities and dispensaries that could crop up in the future.

“This is just intended to help municipalities think about some of the issues they…

Medical Cannabis Property Developer Initiates Private Placement for Massachusetts Development

DENVER, CO / ACCESSWIRE / July 29, 2016 / AmeriCann, Inc. (OTCQX: ACAN), a company that designs and plans to develop and lease sustainable, state-of-the-art medical cannabis cultivation properties, has engaged a Colorado-based investment banking firm to commence a $5 million secured convertible note offering.

The company plans to use the proceeds from the offering to purchase land and to prepare for construction of its…

It’s been some years since Islanders have seen a black helicopter crisscrossing the Island, its crew scanning Martha’s Vineyard woodlands and backyards for homegrown cannabis. Last Tuesday and Wednesday the black bird was back.

Although details of the operation were difficult to piece together, it appears that Massachusetts Air National Guard personnel, operating under a grant from the DEA, and in conjunction with mainland State…

THE CHIEFTAIN’S four-day series, from Sunday through Wednesday, explored the impacts, both pro and con, of the legalization of marijuana on Pueblo.

The impetus for the series was Pueblo’s early emergence as a focus of Colorado’s legalization of recreational marijuana that has drawn attention to our city and county far and wide since Amendment 64 passed statewide in 2012.

Reporters Peter Roper, Anthony A. Mestas, Jon Pompia, Ryan Severance and Sarah Grasmick, under the direction of City Editor Tom Purfield,…

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Dahlia Barnhart, 5, takes a nap on a couch next to Angelene, 10, in Trulieve’s medical marijuana dispensary, the first to open in the state of Florida. Dahlia was diagnosed with brain cancer at age 2 which prompted her mom, Moriah Barnhart, to become a proponent of medical marijuana in the state of Florida, founding the group CannaMoms.

Joe Rondone/Democrat
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