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Judge Strikes Down Lawsuit Against D.C. Blunt Wrap Ban
A judge has ruled against a tobacco company that sued challenging a District of Columbia law which made it a lot tougher to buy cigar-style blunt wraps commonly used to smoke marijuana.
Self-serving, politically ambitious lawmakers, always quick to hide behind “the kids” to justify their latest attack of overprotective nanny-state foolishness (although the Associated Press won’t be telling you that, anytime soon), claimed that they passed the law because they were “concerned” that “teens” might use the cigar wrappers to smoke blunts — large, tobacco-wrapped joints.
Washington, D.C., however, still has never enforced the ban. Could that change now that they have the teeth of a court decision backing ‘em up? Guess we’ll find out soon.
A lawyer for D.C. had argued in court that National Tobacco could not sue, because it is a supplier, not a seller. Only sellers would face potential fines under the law.
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“It’s a Wrap”
It’s been a busy week for our medical marijuana team. Our 2-week dispensary application period ended a couple of hours ago… as did the hearing regarding adding new debilitating medical conditions.
We received 484 dispensary applications over the last 2 weeks. As you know, we have 126 Community Health Analysis Areas (CHAAs) and a maximum of 126 possible dispensaries (one per CHAA). Some of our CHAA’s received multiple applications- for example, the Estrella CHAA had 16 applicants and the Flagstaff E CHAA 13 had applicants. Many other CHAAs had only 1 applicant. 27 areas didn’t receive any applications. You can see the number of applications by CHAA on our website.
Our team just finished logging all of the applications that we received and has already started reviewing some of the applications for “Administrative Completeness”. Any applications that are “Administratively Incomplete” (in other words, if they’re missing something) will be returned to the applicants so they can correct whatever is wrong. In June, we’ll be checking for “Substantive Completeness” (which is a more thorough, quality review), and the applicants will have another chance to make corrections. We expect to award all of the Registration Certificates on August 7.
Registration Certificates will be awarded to applicants in CHAAs with only 1 applicant on August 7 as long as their application is Administratively and Substantively complete. We’ll be holding a random drawing on August 7 to award Certificates in the CHAAs with more than 1 qualified applicant. Of course, some CHAAs will not have a dispensary this year because we didn’t have an applicant.
We also had our hearing regarding adding debilitating medical conditions this afternoon at our Laboratory. We heard from dozens of folks – some urged us to add the conditions and some that urged us not to. We have also received hundreds of comments on-line. We have several more weeks before we need to make a decision. If you’d like to view the public comment session, we have a link on our website.
AZ Dept. of Health Services Director’s Blog » medical marijuana
Watch Us Wrap Up A Link to the Past on the Retronauts Lunch Break Finale
Retronauts Lunch Break: an ambitious project, but sadly, not popular enough to continue in its current state. Over the past six weeks you’ve laughed, learned, lived, and loved with our humble little livestream, so there’s no way we could snuff out this video series without any fanfare. To thank all of you devoted viewers who’ve been watching since the early days of January, we’re going to take on the rest of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past in one go. How long will we stream our efforts? AS LONG AS IT TAKES.
Join us this Wednesday, February 22 at 10:00am PST at The Retronauts Lunch Break page for our final stab at A Link to the Past. We’ll be cycling through editors from both 1UP and IGN in our final efforts to storm the dark world’s dungeons and restore peace to Hyrule. And if you need to catch up with our backlog of Zelda videos, steer yourself to this page and scroll down to the archives. Patience will be tested, skills will be displayed, and you will be entertained. See you then!
