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23 hours ago ago from Cannabis News - Medical Marijuana, Marijuana News, Hemp, Cannabis

SIDNEY David Overholt has great hopes for the marijuana he is growing in the basement of his Montcalm County farmhouse. As a founder of the Mid Michigan Compassion Club, Overholt says the medical marijuana law approved statewide last year has created business opportunities for people who see marijuana as an alternative to traditional pills and painkillers. We're bringing structure and order to an industry that has none, said ...

The Enforceability of Forum Selection Clauses: Federal or State Law?

4 hours ago ago from Conflict of Laws .net

The Supreme Court has long-extolled a federal policy favoring liberal enforcement of forum selection clauses and has held that such clauses “should control absent a strong showing that [they] should be set aside.” Carnival Cruise Lines, Inc. v. Shute , 499 U.S. 585, 587, 591 (1991); M/S Bremen v. Zapata Off-Shore Co ., 407 U.S. 1, 10, 15 (1972). Despite this federal policy, however, when federal courts derive their jurisdiction from ...

State policy an obstacle to charter school serving English learners

22 hours ago ago from GothamSchools » Newsroom

A charter school that hoped to focus on students who don't speak English is changing tactics after being told by the state that it cannot give admissions preference to the students it wants to attract. Though New York City's charter schools admit relatively few English Language Learners in comparison to district schools, Inwood Academy for Leadership intended to be the exception. When Principal Christina Hykes applied for a charter, she ...

America’s ‘Preposterous War On Pot’ Continues

21 hours ago ago from Smkrider's When Government Fails Us!

By Sherwood Ross The Public Record Nov 12th, 2009 Seven million Americans have been arrested since 1995 on marijuana charges and 41,000 of them are rotting in federal and state prisons. Thousands of other pot users and sellers are confined in local jails. But the public is starting to rebel against “the preposterous war on pot,” two political scientists say. People convicted of possessing even one ounce of marijuana can face a ...

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