Word: marijuana
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...what he called "ideological distortion," and Clinton for seeming to back away from the fight. It's hard to see how he thinks he is going to win this one. While Helms says his opposition to the posting turns on Weld's past support for the medicinal use of marijuana, and has suggested that Weld might be perfect for a place like, say, New Delhi, it is Weld's liberal social views that have made him anathema to the most conservative leaders of his party. For Clinton, the real value of the appointment was getting Weld out of the Massachusetts...
...nine o'clock on a gamy summer night, and Bill Stewart is on curfew patrol. The probation officer bounds up the stairs of a Dorchester triple-decker apartment building to check on a boy who was once caught with marijuana. The boy must be home between the hours of 7 p.m. and 7 a.m., seven days a week, under a system of court-ordered curfews for young offenders, each curfew set individually by a judge. There had been worrisome signs of gang involvement in this case. A week ago, someone fired a shotgun blast into the second-floor porch...
...just turned 17, is home. So are his older brother, two of his friends--and a bag of marijuana. "Three strikes and you're in," says Stewart. Jail, that is. Two plainclothes policemen who accompany Stewart confiscate the bag and run background checks on the boy's friends. When Stewart visits the apartment the next night to make sure the kid is still honoring the curfew and to search the place, he finds on the wall of a closet the roster of the Argyle Street Ballers, a small gang that sells drugs. "Now we know the players," he explains...
...conservative chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, raised concerns that Weld has been too soft on drugs as governor, U.S. attorney in Massachusetts and as the former No. 3 official in the U.S. Justice Department. Specifically, Helms has objected to Weld's support for the medical use of marijuana...
...have to be a Floridian to find instructive contrasts to the proposed tobacco settlement. In Oklahoma earlier this year, a 38-year-old father of three was sentenced to 93 years for growing marijuana in his basement. (That's 70 years for possession alone.) Which suggests that the best strategy for legalizing marijuana might be to criminalize tobacco--and then just wait for the sentences for possession of smokable substances to drop, say, from 93 years in prison to 10 minutes of community service...