Word: profiteer
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...dispensaries stay in business by selling marijuana, a status that city attorney Carmen Trutanich and Los Angeles County district attorney Steve Cooley believe already violates the nonprofit requirement. According to their interpretation, recent court decisions have shown that marijuana collectives cannot sell the drug over the counter for a profit, although members can be reimbursed for the cost of growing it. "Whatever [the city council does] come up with, we will study very carefully, and if they're proposing anything that is inconsistent with California state law, we will ignore their act and enforce the law as we're sworn...
...says. “I have my day mapped out for every half hour.” He schedules lunch dates in the dining hall, and when he will go out with friends. The system allows him the flexibility to dedicate time to his non-profit work and other extracurricular commitments...
Allston Brighton Arts Bridge, a new non-profit organization founded by four recent graduates of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is giving local youth a chance to take command behind the camera...
Allston Brighton Arts Bridge was originally conceived as a part of a class at HGSE. The founders were able to transform their fantasy assignment into a functioning non-profit due to a grant from the Harvard Allston Partnership Fund. “I think a big thing for the four of us is that we are fundamentally doers, not just talkers,” said Kimberly L. Dawson, one of the four Allston Brighton Arts Bridge founders...
There's something especially loathsome about torturing helpless creatures for fun and profit. And evidence of torture is what investigators found on July 8, when federal and local authorities working in teams across eight states staged the largest raid in history against the underground dogfighting racket. Twenty-six people were arrested (five of whom are scheduled to be sentenced to as much as five years in prison on Dec. 8 in St. Louis, Mo.), and more than 500 dogs were rescued, most of them pit bull terriers...