$138,000 worth of marijuana was seized by the Fluvanna County Sherriff on Wednesday from seven locations around the county. Most of it was growing in the woods, and it will be unlikely that it will be determined who is responsible for it. However, two arrests may be made. The story is in today’s Progress.
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Police announced this afternoon that their investigation into what was initially believed to be a fatal fire on Rugby Avenue is now a homicide investigation. #
The Virginia Supreme Court has denied George Huguely’s appeal. His second-degree murder conviction will stand, WRIC reports. #
In a carefully worded story, and not citing specific sources, WTVR reports that forensic evidence belonging to Jesse Matthew Jr., the main suspect in the disappearance of Hannah Graham, matches forensic evidence collected during the investigation of Morgan Harrington’s 2009 murder. #
In the wake of Hannah Graham’s disappearance, and the evidence that came from private security footage, city officials are revisiting the question of installing security cameras on the downtown mall. #
Both Charlottesville Registrar Sheri Iachetta and former Electoral Board member Stephanie Commander have turned themselves in to the police on
foursix and four felony counts of embezzlement, respectively. #Ten years ago, the National Institutes of Health budget doubled and schools like the University of Virginia built massive new research facilities. A decade later, those buildings remain largely underutilized. NPR visits UVA in this story on the effect of federal binge and spurge spending in the sciences. #
In 2012, Council approved a new student housing complex on West Main—now some council members are questioning whether what they were shown matches what was built. #
The Architectural Review Board has approved a bike-themed mural on West Market, below the McGuffey Art Center, although at least one member expressed concerns that it might look like the bicyclists were riding away from Charlottesville’s downtown. #
City Police Chief Tim Longo is meeting with city leaders to work on protocols regarding the use of military surplus police weapons in Charlottesville. #
A 100-year-old Colonnades resident received military honors for her service in the WWII Women’s Army Corps #
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All I can say is I hope there were no cancer patients or PWAs relying on that crop.
http://www.cannabisnews.com
Don’t worry, I’m sure it’s more likely to end up disappointing our UVA and high school students.
Boy, if you go by what you read online, you’d think 95% of marijuana users were using it for medical reasons.
Welcome to the wonderful world of 21st century realpolitik. Since our public discourse has become so dominated by name calling and appeals to emotion, mere reason doesn’t have much of a chance. In the case of marijuana there’s a pretty good argument that outlawing it has done much harm and little good, as well as an argument that for government to “protect” free citizens from their own folly runs counter to the principles this country was founded on. But you can’t say that in public because, well, “Drugs are baaad, mmm-kay.”
So, like every other political cause, the marijuana legalization movement dissembles. They pick out a fairly sympathetic group of people and show how marijuana relieves their pain. You don’t want to be responsbile for causing these people pain, do you? Only a true monster would want that. It’s a pretty transparent bit of name calling, just like 99% of the rest of political debate. Truthfully, it galls me, but at the same time I can’t really fault the marijuana advocates because it’s patently, painfully obvious that no other argument, no matter how well thought out, is likely to have the slightest effect.
I tell you, some days it’s enough to make a fellow lose his faith in humanity.
Anyhow, there’s a thoughtful article by Andrew Sullivan about the case for marijuana. It focuses mainly on medical marijuana, although many of the arguments could be applied to marijuana in general.
-rpl