Word: permitting
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...States that have already banned leghold traps and hounding have successfully and humanely controlled animal overpopulation. In addition, Question One allows the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, scientists and people who have "reasonably" but unsuccessfully tried to control an animal problem on their property to apply for a limited permit to use the banned methods. Thus Question One would reserve the cruelest methods as last resorts and prevent their use as sport without allowing animal overpopulation to go unchecked...
Enter on big, rough wheels the state of California, which helped pioneer the tricky practice of democracy through referendum. This year's most controversial example is Proposition 215. It would permit patients with cancer, aids, glaucoma, arthritis and other serious illnesses to grow, possess and use marijuana. It would also allow doctors to "prescribe" pot without fear of prosecution--or merely to recommend it, without committing themselves to a note pad. Though the change would not overrule federal or state laws that criminalize the recreational use of marijuana, Prop 215 would provide voter-approved legal backing for patients or doctors...
They complain that the referendum as written would permit almost anyone to buy marijuana. For one thing it would apply to patients suffering from "any" ailment for which marijuana provides relief, without specifying which complaints that would cover. As a picture of things to come, the opponents point to the Cannabis Buyers' Club in San Francisco, founded in 1991, which at one time claimed 12,000 members. Until Aug. 4, when state narcotics agents raided and closed down the club, it sold pot to anyone who was desperately ill. And maybe to other people. Police say that during...
Despite protests, developer Steven A. Cohen has been granted a building permit by the Cambridge City Council and is proceeding with plans to build a four-story complex at 33 Linnaean...
...National Restaurant Association and a coalition of corporations led by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The anti-Longley information was supplied by the AFL-CIO and, to a lesser extent, the American Association of Retired Persons. By taking advantage of a legal loophole in campaign-finance laws that permit so-called independent expenditures, special-interest groups are hogging the airwaves, phone lines and printshops in dozens of the most hotly contested congressional races around the country. In districts held by G.O.P. freshmen like Longley, outsider advocacy groups on both sides are routinely spending $500,000 to $1 million a race...