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Man of the match went to Dan Marsay. |
Whitby Harlequins suffered a heavy 52-12 loss against Wensleydale at home in a slightly disappointing match for the club’s second-string outfit. |
Will California legalise cannabis and where in the States is marijuana legal? |
THE world's 'sixth largest economy' will decide next month whether to legalise marijuana. |
California is among five US states voting on expanding legal access to cannabis on November 8 president election day. |
With a $2.46 trillion output in 2015, California is technically ranked only behind the UK, Germany, Japan, China and the USA as a whole. |
Which states are voting on legalising cannabis and what will be the outcome? |
California, Arizona, Maine, Nevada and Massachusetts are voting, reports the Associated Press. |
Three others - Florida, Arkansas and North Dakota - will decide whether to permit marijuana for medical purposes. |
The ballot measure is known as Proposition 64, which legalises the use of pot under state law for adults aged 21 or older. |
That means indoors or outdoors, as long as it’s not visible to the public. |
“You cannot use marijuana, ingest marijuana in any way, in public." |
There would be a state excise tax on cultivation of $9.25 per ounce of marijuana flowers and $2.75 per ounce of marijuana leaves; and a state excise tax on sales: 15 percent of the retail price. |
Hasn't cannabis already been legalised in the States? |
Yes. Alaska, Arizona, Oregon and Washington have already passed laws allowing recreational marijuana use. |
Half of the 50 US states allow medical-related use of cannabis including California. |
The massive costs of jails and keeping prisoners has led many states to decriminalise weed. |
President Barack Obama told Vice News: "They see the money and how costly it is to incarcerate. |
"At a certain point, if enough states end up decriminalising, Congress may then reschedule marijuana." |
It is estimated the US marijuana retail market could generate billions in revenue every year. |
Is cannabis likely to be legalised by the US states? |
Yes, based on public opinion polls. More than 60% of people in California supported Proposition 64, a Ballotpedia Poll found. |
In October last year Gallup reported 58% of Americans favoured legalising marijuana. Another poll conducted by the Associated Press and NORC Center for Public Affairs Research in March found that 61% of Americans backed legalisation. |
The LA Times is backing Proposition 64: "Voters will have to ask themselves whether the time has come to treat marijuana less like heroin and more like alcohol — as a regulated but acceptable product for adult use. |
"Do the risks of legalisation outweigh the costs of prohibition? Does Proposition 64 strike the right balance between allowing adult Californians to make their own recreational choices and protecting their health and safety? |
"Does the measure put cannabis-industry profits ahead of public health? |
"What does it mean that marijuana will be legal under California law but still illegal under federal law? |
"On balance, the proposition deserves a “yes” vote. It is ultimately better for public health, for law and order and for society if marijuana is a legal, regulated and controlled product for adults." |
Mums seen in the video below host ‘Come Dine with Cannabis’ parties and believe marijuana use has made them better parents. |
The Beverley Hills mums claim that taking pot helps to relieve medical problems and creates a relaxed environment in their houses. |
The bull market is at a make-or-break moment, one technical analyst says. |
Stocks on Tuesday posted the longest daily winning streak since November. |
"The S&P is in a very pretty, beautiful, rhythmical, symmetrical uptrend that we've just broken through," TradingAnalysis.com founder Todd Gordon said Tuesday on CNBC's "Trading Nation." |
After examining the S&P 500 chart, Gordon believes the index is set to climb even higher — provided it can bounce above its current range. |
"This level right here, at about 2,580 - 2,600 is going to be that break-even point. If we hold this, we could go back and retest lower lows. But if we do pop through here, I think all is clear heading into earnings season," he said. |
Stocks finished higher on Tuesday after reports that trade tensions with China are easing. After a volatile end to 2018 where market whipsaws became the norm, 2019 has seen less choppy trade thus far. The S&P is on a three-day winning streak and has posted gains in five of the last six trading sessions. |
If the S&P can't hold above the 2,580 - 2,600 level, however, Gordon believes it could be a dire warning for what's ahead. |
"If we do fall away from this level I think the last chance is 2,300. If the S&P doesn't hold that level then I think we're in big trouble for 2019," he warned. |
From a valuation standpoint, S&P Global Portfolio Manager Erin Gibbs believes the S&P can rally 10 percent before the end of the year. |
"The market hit 14X forward earnings, and that's where it found its low, and that was a big level of support from 2010 until about 2013. And since then, we've bounced back up into the mid-teens, which is where we were for most of the trading for the past five years, with the exception of last year. So right now, it loo... |
The S&P currently trades at 15 times forward estimates, according to Gibbs. By comparison, the index was trading at 17.37X when the S&P hit an all-time intraday high on Sept. 21. |
Gibbs believes earnings growth will drive the next leg higher for stocks. Since she foresees price and earnings estimates rising in tandem, she thinks the index will remain at a "very reasonable valuation" within an overall "healthy market." |
The S&P closed at 2,574 on Tuesday, so a 10 percent gain by the end of the year would bring the index to roughly 2,831, which is below the all-time intraday high level of 2,940.41. |
So while Gibbs is bullish, she's not expecting outsized returns for the year, noting that "there are a couple of hurdles" that she's not necessarily expecting stocks to surpass since we are in a "lower growth environment." |
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) have unveiled their Green New Deal resolution — a call to arms on climate and jobs that's long on ambition, but lacking in details and a political path to becoming policy. |
Why it matters: It opens the next phase for a movement that has risen quickly to play an outsized role in the climate policy conversation and influence the Democratic 2020 White House contest. |
The big picture: The non-binding resolution envisions a massively expanded federal role in emissions-cutting and economic intervention that takes its cues from World War II and New Deal-era programs. |
NPR posted a copy online here. |
Achieving net-zero U.S. greenhouse gas emissions through a "fair and just transition for all communities and workers" while creating millions of jobs. |
Decarbonizing all the major segments of the economy — power, manufacturing, buildings, transportation and more. |
Huge investments in climate-friendly infrastructure. |
Protections for indigenous people, communities of color, the poor and others under the heading of "frontline and vulnerable communities." |
A goal of universal health care and jobs guarantees. |
What to watch: Ocasio-Cortez and Markey are holding a press conference on Thursday and will unveil the list of resolution's backers, so it'll be interesting to see how many of the 2020 Democratic hopefuls currently in Congress choose to sign on. |
Axios has already learned that co-sponsors will include Sens. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), who are both in the race. The Washington Post now reports that Sens. Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren are also co-sponsors. |
Several other candidates have broadly endorsed the concept of the Green New Deal. |
As the Washington Post's Jeff Stein points out, the resolution's arrival means that White House hopefuls will now be asked about something more concrete. |
How it works: The many broad concepts in the resolution include "meeting 100 percent of the power demand in the United States through clean, renewable, and zero-emission energy sources." |
It calls for energy efficiency in "all existing buildings" and new buildings, too, as well as cutting emissions from transportation as much as technologically possible. |
The intrigue: That phrasing seems to leave the door open to technologies that some activists oppose (such as fossil fuels with carbon capture and nuclear energy), but doesn't name-check any of them, though Ocasio-Cortez's chief of staff has broadly said that the goal is a transition from fossil fuels. |
The big question: There's no specific projected cost for what would be massive federal investments under the resolution. |
The plan broadly calls for grants, public banks and other public financing. It also highlights federal investments in "new clean and renewable energy technologies and industries." |
What they're not saying: The plan is silent on whether it would impose a carbon tax. Some Green New Deal advocates have said a tax could be part of the policy — but don't see it as a central pillar. |
What's next: The resolution is basically a political messaging document, so look for Green New Deal advocates to put more meat on its bones with legislation and papers in the coming months. |
A bill based on the resolution would have zero chance of becoming law now — and a steep uphill climb in the foreseeable future, even if Democrats gain more power in Washington. |
But it lays down a marker that could push Democrats toward embracing aggressive climate policies to promote through 2020 and beyond. |
Alexi McCammond contributed to this reporting. |
Editor's note: This post is being updated as new information comes in. |
The Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan defence teams formally appealed the verdict in the recently wrapped Case 002/01 at the Khmer Rouge tribunal yesterday, with each laying out myriad grievances with the lengthy trial that saw the two defendants handed life sentences in August. |
Though lengthier documents are to follow, the Nuon Chea team nonetheless listed 223 alleged errors in the court’s conduct of the case and in its judgement against its client, including nearly 20 errors "concerning the legitimacy and fairness of the proceedings”. |
The document goes on to assert that the court’s national judges had been unduly influenced by their own experiences under the regime, that errors in the use of evidence “pervade the Judgement”, and that the court had “flagrantly” violated its own rules by cherry-picking supposedly inadmissible evidence from outside the... |
In its own 30-page riposte to the trial chamber’s ruling, the Samphan defence said their client’s right to a fair trial had been “violated” by the court’s “numerous errors”. |
According to the defence, the prosecution incorrectly presumed Samphan’s personal responsibility and detailed knowledge of events like the evacuation of Phnom Penh and the executions at Tuol Po Chrey given that the Khmer Rouge regime’s secretive “Party Centre” was a blurry and ever-shifting group of people. |
“The Chamber committed a factual error by stating that the evacuation of Phnom Penh was done by homogenous armed forces [operating] in a unified chain of command under the control of the ‘Party Centre”, the filing reads. |
The defence also accused the prosecution of not taking into account the context of the time, such as the US bombing of Cambodia, Vietnamese and Chinese power games and Samphan’s desire to “reform from the top in a gentle [manner]” prior to 1970. |
The prosecution also filed a notice of appeal yesterday, but rather than taking issue with the factual findings of the verdict, they argued that the court should permit the use of a broader form of joint criminal enterprise liability, the mode of responsibility under which the defendants were found guilty. |
With the broader form, the court would be able to hold the defendants responsible not only for crimes they and their peers explicitly planned to commit, but also all reasonably foreseeable crimes that happened as a result of that plan. |
Mad Max: Fury Road didn't top the weekend box office in its debut frame, but it's still a winner. The $150 million sci-fi action spectacular earned a superb $45.45 million over its Fri-Sun bow. It's one of those odd situations where a film debuts right in line with realistic expectations and/or tracking guestimates, an... |
As I'm assuming you know, Village Roadshow and Rat Pac Entertainment's 's Mad Max: Fury Road is the fourth film in George Miller's post-apocalyptic desert action series, with Tom Hardy taking over for Mel Gibson thirty years after the last installment. The big surprises are A) how terrific the movie turned out to be an... |
Hindsight and all, but there is going to be a surprising amount of female-centric fare this summer, with Tomorrowland dropping next weekend and (the somewhat fantastic) Spy dropping on June 5th, which means a push towards females after opening weekend may be a challenge. Of course, having a summer season filled with hi... |
I'm certainly not rooting for it to fail because I like when good movies do well at the box office. But it's not like its theoretical underperformance down the line will have any bad lessons since it's such a unique cocktail of elements unlikely to be replicated in the future. And even if Hollywood doesn't necessarily ... |
Commercial farming involves many risks - production risks and market risks - all of which put the operation itself at risk. There have been many episodes of farm failures in U.S. history, the greatest of which, the Great Depression, incited massive government intervention to prop up prices and incomes, to extend credit... |
The rate of attrition has rung alarm bells and in response, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman has appointed a National Commission on Small Farms to conduct hearings across the U.S. Commission members will identify problematic areas and make recommendations regarding the kinds of policies and programs that can ... |
One of the key problem areas for farmers is finance. Access to finance and the terms and conditions on which finance is obtained can enhance or doom the performance of small, commercial farms. In this issue, articles and items on farm finance by Steve Blank, Extension economist, and Center staff highlight the role and ... |
For thousands of years, humans secured their sustenance through foraging and hunting. But foraging and hunting tend to be rather labor intensive, somewhat inefficient food production systems. Eventually, humans learned to domesticate wild species and to systematically cultivate them. The Egyptians, in particular, were ... |
Agriculture has involved the technical aspects of growing, harvesting and postharvest activities. But, as importantly, it has involved the institutional and cultural aspects of how the system is organized - how people relate to the land, and to each other. Along a continuum, we could array systems such as subsistence f... |
Plantation agriculture and tenancy - sharecropping and cash-based, were prevalent in much of the world up to a few hundred years ago. But, in agrarian societies, land is the base of political and economic power, so as social consciousness evolved and with it a drive for freedom and individual empowerment, land reform p... |
The United States has experienced two contesting models of agricultural organization - the feudal plantation model imported from Western Europe and Spain, and the independent family farm model articulated by Jefferson and by the Homestead Act of 1862. Jefferson believed that democracy could be rooted in a nation of yeo... |
The southern plantations transformed themselves into sharecropping kingdoms, which did not resolve the contradictions and the abrogation of democratic and human rights inherent in their operation. But in the rest of the U.S., fami ily farming took greater hold. The National Commission will contribute to maintaining thi... |
How I Parent explores the ins and outs of modern day parenting with moms and dads from all over the country, who are raising their own unique families and sharing their best advice and most heartfelt lessons with PEOPLE. Want to be a part of it? Email what makes your family so special to howiparent@peoplemag.com. |
Family situation: Married with three daughters [editors’ note: She uses pseudonyms Big Sister, Lamp and Baby Zuzu when writing about the girls on her blog]. I’m a stay-at-home mom. My oldest two are now in school, while my youngest is in preschool three days a week. We don’t live near family and have always had to hire... |
What was your journey to having the family life you have today? |
My husband and I come from a similar faith background. We belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, otherwise known as the Mormon church. From our first date to marriage, it took eight months. There wasn’t a huge conversation about having kids. We both knew we wanted them and coming from a similar back... |
I was 30 years old when we started trying. I knew I wanted to start sooner than later because we knew a lot of people who were having fertility issues. We eventually had three daughters in three different states. I really loved that — we joke about how they’re our favorite travel souvenirs — but I dealt with a lot of p... |
Early on during my second pregnancy, I started bleeding and hemorrhaging. I said, “Oh no, here I go again,” because I had just had a miscarriage and it felt similar to that experience. We rushed over to the doctor and we prepared ourselves for the worst. But instead, the doctor was like, “There’s the heartbeat, your ba... |
My second miscarriage happened a lot quicker and a lot earlier and wasn’t nearly as difficult for me. It was still hard but each time is very different. I’ve learned that not every miscarriage is a huge tragedy; some are more difficult than others. I eventually had my third and final daughter and I am very happy with m... |
Throughout this whole process, I was writing for my blog, which my husband and I started back in 2005; since we had moved away from our families, it was a way for them to see what we were up to. I’ve since found that it is the perfect way to talk about what we were going through as parents. |
When I was pregnant with my second daughter and we found out she was going to have these limb differences, I started writing more for cathartic reasons. It helped me process what was going on but it was also a way to get information out to friends and family on a larger scale. At the time, I didn’t want to share everyt... |
I wrote so much about my thoughts before my second daughter was born and what we were experiencing after she was born. We didn’t know anyone else going through a situation similar to ours. We had so many doctor’s appointments and we were figuring out what it meant to have a two month old who had to go to physical thera... |
I told my husband that I wanted to spotlight another family every Friday on the blog who were becoming special needs parents like ourselves. At first, he was like, “Every Friday? That’s a lot,” but that was seven years ago and I’m still doing them. I’ve done over 225 interviews for my Special Needs Spotlight section an... |
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