http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2012/11/11/conway-values-and-marijuana Comments On: Conway values and marijuana by Max Brantley en-us Copyright 2013 Arkansas Times. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Arkansas Times readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Arkansas Times. robert@arktimes.com (Arkansas Times Webmaster) Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Tue, 21 May 2013 19:15:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by MysteryShopper]]> Sun, 11 Nov 2012 18:10:39 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Farkleberry]]> Sun, 11 Nov 2012 17:16:21 -0600 Arkansas Times
I'm sure we'll see medical marijuana legalized across all 50 states in the next 4 years. Total legalization of marijuana will follow soon after that. Our prisons are way too full of people busted for pot possession. Many lives continue to be ruined over a pleasurable substance that is far more healthy than alcohol. No one got all potted up and then beat their wife....no one.

Mr. Rapert and his ilk have 2 years to come into the 21st century or he'll be done and out there begging for a cushy job at UCA. America changed last Tuesday and those changes will rock our world over the next 4 years....even stretching all the way to Conway.

We're going to stuff religion back into churches where it belongs. We'll not be voting for narrow minded bashers or those strictly serving the 1%. Yes, change will take a little longer to come to Arkansas, but it will someday and we'll never go back to the 1950s and we'll never again support those who enjoy the suffering of "others"..... which will doom those with (r) behind their names.

It's time we quit giving a select few politicians many terms of working for the 1% while feathering their nests to the tune of multi-million dollar mansions in Florida or Virginia. Our lives have become too hard thanks to their inattention to continue voting against our best interests just because we're welded to one political party or the other.

Party affiliation might have been important back when men on horseback took days to deliver a letter across several states, but we have instant communication these days which should be used to monitor those we elect to public office, those who choose to make chumps of us all the minute they take office.

It will be a slow and bumpy ride but the 21st century arrived last Tuesday and those politicians who choose to remain in the past will find themselves sitting at home wondering what the hell happened to them.
Posted by DeathbyInches]]> Sun, 11 Nov 2012 15:36:18 -0600 Arkansas Times
Just for the record, the Schedule 2 listing of cocaine makes it less dangerous? I know it would destroy the Republican private prison business and keep the local police departments from confiscating cars and boats and guns as well as cash without any judicial review, even before the individual has a court case.

But it time to use real data (I know fundamentalists don't like facts but that is what smart people use in decision making) and figure out whether this entire War on Drugs is just supporting a Repuiblican business enterprise. Frankly, I think a RICO case could be made on the way the whole thing has been handled, all the way back to Nixon (let's dig him up and try him!)!
Posted by couldn't be better]]> Sun, 11 Nov 2012 15:16:40 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by mrprincipal07]]> Sun, 11 Nov 2012 14:28:17 -0600 Arkansas Times
That, on top of the questionable constitutionality of the Federal Government declaring drugs prohibited without a Constitutional Amendment. The Prohibitionists in the early 20th Century understood that prohibiting alcohol required amending the Constitution.

I just wish that these Small Government, 10th amendment Republicans would be consistent.
Posted by Rutrow]]> Sun, 11 Nov 2012 14:15:19 -0600 Arkansas Times
Soonergrunt, Iraqi war veteran, liberal Democrat, and a front-pager at BJ remembers:

"As most of you know, today is Veterans Day in the USA, and Remembrance Day in countries of the British Commonwealth, and many European countries as well. In most of the rest of the world, the red poppy is the symbol used to commemorate the day, with a moment of silence at 11:00 AM local time, symbolic of the WWI Armistice starting at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.

"At varying locations around the US, there will be ceremonies of varying nature. If I go to one, which is unlikely, I prefer the quiet ones. I will spend today quietly with my wife and children because they gave up so much over the years, and while I try to show them daily how much I appreciate them and love them, this day is (for me, anyway) a special day to recognize their sacrifices.

"I do not and never have believed that one had to serve in the military to be of service to one’s country or one’s fellow man. I know plenty of teachers who work for decades for shitty pay and public mistreatment in a job that is probably far more critical to our national security than anything I ever did with a rifle. And while I agree that military spending (it hasn’t been Defense spending since the collapse of the Soviet Union) must be cut, and can probably be cut a lot deeper than most people think, I want to take a moment to remind you all that the costs for Veterans’ benefits, military retirement, Veterans’ healthcare and all of the after-affects of war are only going up for the next few years. Taking proper care of the men and women who’ve served is a national moral imperative. For no other reason than because we as a society promised everybody who ever raised their right hand that we would do that very thing.

"Thank you to my brothers and sisters who have served, and special thanks to the families who carried on in their absence and waited for them, sometimes in vain. Thank you to the rest of you for everything you do everyday to make the US a country and a people worth serving and fighting for."

http://www1.va.gov/opa/vetsday/vetdayhisto…
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/1…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15710473
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/11/11…
Posted by the outlier]]> Sun, 11 Nov 2012 12:22:11 -0600 Arkansas Times Schools go begging, while prisons proliferate in Arkansas. Go figure.
Posted by Verla Sweere]]> Sun, 11 Nov 2012 12:14:36 -0600 Arkansas Times
How many ways doth thou despise him, let me count them.
Posted by eLwood]]> Sun, 11 Nov 2012 11:19:05 -0600 Arkansas Times