Posted on 12 January 2010. Tags: alcohol, Bay Area, California, Colorado, Compton, criminal justice system, George F. Will, Georgia, Golden State, headaches, Indiana, Inglewood, insomnia, Lake Merritt, Los Angeles, lver City, Marijuana, medical dispensaries, menstrual cramps, New York Times, oakland, Oaksterdam, opium, San Francisco, Santa Monica, Silver Lake, Sonoma, tobacco, Washington Post, West Hollywood
About 80 percent of Americans approve of medical marijuana laws, but some conservatives are incensed that state legislatures keep passing them. In a recent column, George F. Will, the Washington Post’s bow-tied curmudgeon, decried the reefer madness he sees taking over California, sweeping across Colorado and perhaps even coming to a normal state near you. Read the full story
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For all the pain caused by the Great Recession, the job market still was not in as bad shape as it had been during the depths of the early 1980s recession — until now. Read the full story
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