The Rev. Canon Carol L. Wade, former canon precentor at the National Cathedral in Washington, will be the new dean and rector at Lexington's historic Christ Church Episcopal Cathedral. She is the first woman to hold either position at the downtown church.Wade will assume her new duties in September...
The Fayette County School Board has named Daviess County Superintendent Tom Shelton as superintendent to replace out-going superintendent Stu Silberman.
About $41,000 in funding for the Valley View Ferry was restored Thursday by a Lexington council budget committee.Mayor Jim Gray initially proposed cutting money for the ferry to help reduce a multimillion-dollar city deficit for the fiscal year that begins July 1. But the administration reversed ...
FRANKFORT — State lawmakers Thursday questioned whether the state has the resources and expertise to oversee moving the $6 billion Medicaid program to private, for-profit managed care companies. Sen. Jimmy Higdon, the chairman of the Interim Committee on Program Review and Investigations, told...
For the first time, a Lexington teen who shot and killed his best friend publicly apologized to the victim's family.Jamar Mays, 18, told Ali Shalash's family — his mother, Gwendolyn Perkins, in particular — he was sorry during a sentencing hearing Thursday."I want to apologize to Miss...
Building strong communitywide support is key to closing achievement gaps and moving Lexington schools forward, Clark County superintendent Elaine Farris said Thursday as she sought Fayette County's top education job."It's very important that we understand that the excellence we want cannot be achieved...
FRANKFORT — A judge has ordered that a receiver take over a troubled personal care home in Letcher County that has been the subject of numerous state citations and federal and state criminal charges. Letcher Circuit Court Judge Samuel Wright granted a temporary restraining order Thursday and...
Above are Kentucky Senate President David Williams and Speaker of the House Greg Stumbo, together these guys have spent $9.1 million tax payer dollars so far this year.
According to the Legislative Research Commission the 2011 Fiscal Year General Assembly Regular Session has cost $9,100,559.38.
Urge the Kentucky Department of Agriculture to maintain lines of communication and cooperation with the United States Department of Agriculture in monitoring the livestock industry in the state
HB 122 AN ACT relating to membership of the Kentucky Commission on Military Affairs. Amend KRS 154.12-203 to include the Chief Justice in membership of the Kentucky Commission on Military Affairs.
HB 173 AN ACT relating to hunting and fishing licenses. Amend KRS 150.170 to exempt members of any branch of the United States Armed Forces based in Kentucky from having to obtain a license to engage in sport hunting or fishing on any military property belonging to the Commonwealth.
HB 200 AN ACT relating to the commemoration of Kentucky Medal of Honor recipients. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 42 to require the creation of a plaque to honor Kentucky Congressional Medal of Honor recipients; require the Department for Facilities and Support Services to design, install, and provide routine maintenance of the plaque.
HCR 36 Provide that when the House of Representatives and the Senate adjourn on January 7, 2011, they adjourn until February 1, 2011, when the second part of the 2011 Regular Session shall convene.
“The hardest thing for me is he was slumped against the wall with five bullets in him and he had the presence of mind to say ‘Daddy, I love you’,“ says the victim’s father Thomas Denkler Sr.
**Of note, this man was originally from Louisville, Kentucky...
When Californians enter booths this November, many will vote to legalize small amounts of marijuana, both hippies and the fiscally conscious alike. If Prop 19 passes, allowing personal marijuana (up to one ounce) to be cultivated and used by those over 21, then a slew of questions will arise, most notably if the federal government will do much about it.
There's another question flying under the radar: when to vote on legalizing hemp? In effect, Prop 19 would legalize hemp in amounts up to an ounce. The problem is that you can't do much with an ounce of hemp. Maybe make a pair of earrings or some lip balm.
Hemp is a cousin of marijuana; both are strains of the plant, Cannabis Sativa L. Like Shepherds and Chihuahuas, they're individual breeds selectively cultivated for different needs. Marijuana comes from the flowering tops of strains potent in THC while hemp, or industrial hemp, is grown for its seeds, oil, food and fiber. It's not for getting high but hemp has thousands of uses.
Many argue that hemp is the real reason marijuana was made illegal following the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937. Hemp was heavily grown in backyards, a cash crop that was difficult to tax by the government. "Yellow journalist," William Hearst, a newspaper mogul owning timber fields and paper mills, teamed up to campaign against the plant species with Andrew Mellon, the wealthiest American and investor in DuPont Chemicals. Each stood to lose millions at the prospect of hemp producing paper, nylon and medicines.
Some interesting facts on hemp:
It's been grown by humans for over 10,000 years, the oldest known crop for textiles. Anything made from cotton, timber, petroleum and plastics can be made by hemp. (In most cases hemp can make them better.)
That all men are created equal and are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights and among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Currently in America approximately twenty two million people use marijuana regularly in their pursuit of happiness. Some use it for medical reasons to cope with illness or disability and some use it recreationally in the same way people use alcohol to relax in the evening. Although unlike alcohol, marijuana use does not result in violence, addiction or traffic accidents.
Since the thirties the Federal Government has maintained that marijuana is so dangerous that it is not allowed to be used by the citizenry for recreational or medical or for any other use at any time or any place. The Government mantra originally was that marijuana use would turn you into a homicidal maniac. Now after 70 years of prohibition and the reform movement pushing back the government is reduced to generalizations without fact saying that marijuana is bad. Government won’t make revenue from marijuana if it’s legal because people will grow their own. Teenagers will get it and oh, by the way, there will be increased traffic accidents. ( Even with millions of people using marijuana, there are so few marijuana related traffic accidents that there is not a category for them in government statistics )
This then is the Federal Government’s rationale for arresting more than 850,000 citizens for marijuana offenses every year. These citizens are not being arrested because they are a danger to others. The Federal Government, for rather frivolous and unjustifiable reasons, will not allow the citizens to use marijuana in the pursuit of happiness. The disconnect in the minds of our legislators on this subject is astounding. Both Democrats and Republicans are, in the current campaign, talking incessantly about the deficit and cutting wasteful spending by cutting programs that don’t work. Hell, the Republicans would like to cut the ones that work! Anyway, here we have a billion dollar program, the War on Drugs, the 900lb gorilla in the room, that is in every sense of the word a complete failure. Yet we hear not one peep from either side about ending or at least reforming the policy. Marijuana law reform can create a multi-billion dollar industry whose economic impact would employ tens of thousands of our citizens. The economic wave created would be approaching trillions of dollars. Why are our leaders so gutless when it comes to this program? What are they afraid of?
The question is not whether the Federal Government has the authority to continue prohibition, but whether the Government is justified in continuing with the draconian measures it uses to enforce prohibition in light of what we now know to be factual about marijuana and what is merely Government propaganda?
Maybe it’s time for the citizens to take the Government to court for say, unjustified restriction of the pursuit of happiness. I’d love to hear the Government defend it’s policy in the light of truth and fact in a court of law.
Exploring how the expansion, not restriction, of personal freedom makes America safer and more secur Oct 12 2010 20:23:58
Master Sargent Thomas Vance writes an Opinion column on Cincinnati.Com and was the inspiration behind the start of the petition to congress for a medical marijuana bill in Kentucky.
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