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Ohio officials admit the pot is too big, given that the number of Ohioans living in poverty rose 17% from 2000 to 2004 and some 83,000 families are on welfare. They blame the gap on accounting errors and on counties that they say failed to put TANF-eligible programs into place. "We are making aggressive efforts to get more money into the hands of the working poor," says Barbara Riley, director of Ohio's Department of Job and Family Services. The state will use $75 million to help heat the homes of low-income Ohioans. And poor households just...
...pot-selling mom proved TV?s least desperate. Weeds? Mary-Louise Parker beat all four Desperate Housewives she was up against for Best Actress in a TV Musical or Comedy. Which means, of course, the diva crown on ABC?s primetime soap opera will have to be decided...
...started using alcohol and pot in college," she says. "Then I turned to sniffing cocaine and freebasing. By the time I began teaching, I was spending big-time money. My body knew that I got out of school at 3:30 every day, and then I'd have to go out and get my drugs...
MARIJUANA The so-called demon weed turned out to be a lot less devilish than advertised. The popular image of the goofy, smoky slacker notwithstanding, a 2003 study in the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society found that even among regular users, there is no proof that pot causes irreversible cognitive damage. Memory does get cloudy, and learning new information does get harder, but those effects fade if the user does kick the habit. The drug may also diminish libido and fertility. (So much for its promised free-love properties.) And as with any intoxicating chemical, pot use can become...
...case, the exact dollar amounts for each city will not be announced until May at the earliest-later than in past years. That means cities will not know how much they are getting until the year is almost halfway over. And regardless, the total pot is $120 million less than...