HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC – A government appointed task force is recommending the decriminalization of marijuana in this overseas British territory and that the government should take “immediate action to enable access to medical cannabis with a prescription”.
“Nyak” is what GBeck called Norman Girvan, and I followed suit in all the years that I enjoyed his friendship and shared the many projects on which we collaborated.
An exterior view of The Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women, in Wetumpka, Ala., Feb. 6, 2014. Corrections officers have raped, beaten and harrassed women inside the prison for at least 18 years…
For decades, cannabis opponents controlled the messaging around the popular plant and cultivated any number of lies about its effects.
In November 2012, voters in Colorado and Washington state made historic decisions to legalize marijuana for recreational sale and use, flying in the face of anti-pot moralists, drug warriors, and a century’s worth of prohibitionist policy. At the start of this year, these policies began to take effect, with pot shops opening for business for the first time on this side of the Atlantic.
Pope Francis called Friday for governments to redistribute wealth to the poor in a new spirit of generosity to help curb the “economy of exclusion” that is taking hold today.
I begin this tribute to Norman Girvan, a friend and a comrade, with the words of a great Jamaican literary figure, Dennis Scott. It’s his poem “Hatch: Or, The Revolution Viewed as an Exploding Library”
Too many laws in the U.S defy basic human rights principles of justice by resorting to overly punitive sentences for nonviolent and low-level crimes, according to a report published Tuesday by Human Rights Watch.
By Colin Campbell, The Baltimore Sun
A red-faced state trooper hardly acknowledged Harry Belafonte before a 1967 performance at theUniversity of Baltimore during heat of the civil rights movement.
More than any other group, black job applicants are being turned away by U.S. companies under the implicit assumption that they are using illegal drugs, according to a new study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).
In March, we learned that under the new NYPD police commissioner, Bill Bratton, the number of stop-and-frisks police were making dramatically decreased.
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