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Those Rocky Mountains are getting higher. Two municipalities - Denver, Colorado, and the small town of Hailey, Idaho - passed pro-marijuana measures on election day this week, joining a growing number of liberal localities that are reducing or removing penalties on using pot. It's part of a slowly evolving populist rehabilitation of the drug. San Francisco, Oakland and Santa Monica in California, along with Missoula, Montana, and Seattle, Washington, have previously passed laws that give the lowest priority to enforcing existing marijuana laws...
...every attempt at liberalizing the laws has been successful. Last year, the pro-marijuana lobby tried to pass legalization laws in Nevada and Colorado; both failed. But this week's results in Denver heartened pro-pot activists: 57% of voters in the city approved "lowest law enforcement priority." Coming after a 2005 vote removing all penalties for possessing small amounts, Denver joins Alaska to become only the second place in the U.S. offering a free ride to users caught with less than an ounce. Denver's local and political culture has been amenable to such legal reorientations. Last summer, Denver...
...presidential race. Still, there's no harm in guessing - or in taking a look at what the American public really wants to know. In a previous article, I revealed the most popular searched-on issues in relation to each of the presidential hopefuls. Now, somewhere over Colorado, I'm sifting through thousands of these one-off searches, hoping to draw a connection, like a word-association game, between what gets searched online and what goes through a voter's mind once the curtain on the voting booth has been closed...
...feed? Similarly, green groups would shift funding from subsidies for the grain-industrial complex to conservation payments for eco-sensitive farmers of any size. The results would be less erosion; more restoration of grasslands and wetlands; and less degradation of water bodies like the Chesapeake Bay, the Everglades, the Colorado River and the Gulf of Mexico, where farm nutrients have created a 5,000-sq.-mi. (13,000 sq km) dead zone...
...damn Yankees usually do. These players, however, did produce in the post-season: Drew's grand slam against the Cleveland Indians in Game 6 of the American League Championship Series helped propel the Sox past the Tribe; Matsuzaka's clutch pitching, and hitting, in Game 3 against the Colorado Rockies helped Boston complete the sweep...