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...even with the ex-Governor on board, the state is scarcely closer to cultivating the plant. It did enact a law last year requiring the state agriculture department to grow and study hemp, but DEA regulations treating hemp as marijuana make such work expensive--high security is required around research plots--and Kentucky's plan isn't funded. "I wouldn't expect us to grow any hemp this year or even next," sighs majority whip Joe Barrows, a Democrat in the Kentucky house who sponsored the bill. Hawaii has a small plot where hemp cultivation is allowed, but research...
...says students are generally cooperative when asked to enact changes to improve their organizations...
...aided the accounting industry's efforts to avoid new auditing rules. Torricelli is one of many lawmakers (including Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman) who have pressured the SEC several times over the past decade to back off on tougher regulations for auditors. Clinton-appointed SEC chairman Arthur Levitt tried to enact rules that would have kept firms from auditing and consulting for the same clients and forced companies to publicly disclose more liabilities, such as executive stock options. Each time Congress quashed Levitt's efforts. But that opposition was gone at last week's hearing. "Perhaps the era of self-regulation...
...immediate goal is to make his radical reform program an issue of wider public debate, but he acknowledges initial success with that would oblige him to run for the presidency. "Only a President elected on a platform of fundamental reform would have the determination and legitimacy with voters to enact such changes," he says, puffing on his trademark cigar. "If I were to run, it wouldn't be to seek power. Just to hold power...
...don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gays. The military carries out the instructions of its civilian and elected commanders, and follows the laws created by political leaders. To blame those in uniform for the policies that they are obliged to enact is hypocritical, and is only a weak excuse to pick a scapegoat instead of lobbying those responsible for the situation...