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Hemp Legalization Is Wreaking Havoc with Marijuana Prosecutions in Prohibition States
by psmith DRUG WAR CHRONICLES: After passage of the 2018 federal farm bill legalized hemp production, states scrambled to pass their own laws legalizing hemp and CBD. But in doing so, they may have inadvertently signed a death warrant for the enforcement of marijuana prohibition. hemp field at sunrise (votehemp.org) Forty-seven states have now […]
It took PennDOT to do something right for the city and region
The LNP article “PennDOT buys land to add Lancaster Amtrak parking, but timetable undetermined” is indeed very good news because the painful shortage of parking at the Amtrak station has discouraged use of train service and thus thwarted downtown and regional development It would have been even worse had not a decade ago, upon seeing the original plan to upgrade the station, […]
From the 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution
Section 4—Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge […]
Who ‘the hell’ is Robert Field to criticize LNP, the current Steinman Family and Dale High?
Robert E. Field was born in 1937, raised in the Philadelphia area, and relocated with his family to Lancaster in 1967. He graduated from the University of California – Berkeley,’59, with a major in economics. (Offered a two year graduate fellowship to Cambridge University, he declined it to enter the business world.) At 28, […]
The Next Five States That Could Legalize Marijuana
by Phil Smith ( smith ) This article as produced in collaboration with AlterNet and first appeared here. DRUG WAR CHRONICLE: Four states, including California, the nation’s most populous, voted to legalize marijuana on November 8. That doubles the number of legal states to eight (plus the District of Columbia), and more than quadruples the number of […]
Republicans in Congress ended the decades-long funding ban on needle exchange programs
VOX: In December, Congress quietly made a huge change to help combat HIV: It effectively lifted the federal funding ban on needle exchange programs, which provide clean needles — meaning syringes that aren’t infected with HIV — to drug users. The change, reported by John Stanton at BuzzFeed on Tuesday, keeps the federal funding ban on syringes […]
Capitolwire: Senate sends Wolf a budget before Christmas, but will it be a present he wants?
By Chris Comisac Bureau Chief Capitolwire HARRISBURG (Dec. 23) – Senate Republicans shrugged off the blame directed at them by the House Wednesday and still gave House Republicans an early Christmas gift, sending to Gov. Tom Wolf the $30.3 billion spending plan the House sent to the Senate on Dec. 8. “This is the only […]
NewsLanc looks back at a decade of service
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