Mini Sampler Platter

I'm glad to see that companies like Wal Mart, Safeway, et al (4.00 / 2)

are donating food to feeding programs and to see that this is publicized. Stores in my area have been donating to the food banks for years. But with regard to the employee of Ralph's statements about the out of date foods like lettuce, if it's past it's sell by date, donated and then someone gets sick, who gets sued?. The company that packaged it or the company that donated it? Also, for fresh produce, especially things like lettuce, that stuff goes bad pretty fast after it hits the sell by date, maybe as fast as a day or two - been there seen that.

Not to rain on anyone's parade, but isn't the sell by date there for a reason?

I wonder if this move by the retailers might not be, to a greater of lesser degree, a strategy to shift disposal of old produce/products onto the food banks?

Normal people scare me.... But not as much as I scare them.

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by: JoanneRigutto @ Tue Apr 06, 2010 at 00:03:53 AM UTC

Philadelphia takes baby step... (4.00 / 2)

Philadelphia to ease marijuana penalty

The city's new district attorney and the state Supreme Court are moving to all but decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana for personal use in an effort to unclog Philadelphia's crowded court dockets.

Under a policy to take effect later this month, prosecutors will charge such cases as summary offenses rather than as misdemeanors. People arrested with up to 30 grams of the drug - slightly more than an ounce - may have to pay a fine but face no risk of a criminal record.

Unfortunately, the very next paragraph goes on to quote the new District Attorney babbling on about the same, tired old "War on Drugs" bullshit, so this is obviously the furthest things will get in Philadelphia at this time.  And it was really mainly just a move to unclog their court system.  Still, better than nothing.  And good to see them publicly admit that the 19 year old who has like an eighth on him is not Al Capone or Bumpy Johnson...

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by: JayinPhiladelphia @ Tue Apr 06, 2010 at 00:17:00 AM UTC

Baltimore practice (4.00 / 1)

I don't know if this is formal policy, but most Baltimore cops responding to a domestic violence call, for example, pay no attention to marijuana in the house. I don't know what they do about marijuana encountered during traffic stops, but I'd guess they probably ignore that also.

I don't know anything about formal policies in Baltimore or in Maryland. Practice could vary widely among jurisdictions.

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by: count @ Tue Apr 06, 2010 at 00:56:06 AM UTC

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have a cousin "caught" (4.00 / 2)

with pot. And not only is it clogging courts here in PA, he probably going to lose his license.

Here in the burbs,I asked a friend who buys weed where he gets it. He told me he can't tell, because this person sells to the local police.  

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by: LeeN @ Wed Apr 07, 2010 at 15:49:29 PM UTC

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Sigh... (4.00 / 2)

The measure, like the medical marijuana initiative, could put California on a collision course with the federal government. The possession and sale of marijuana remain a federal crime.

This month, President Obama's drug czar, R. Gil Kerlikowske, decried legalization in a speech to police chiefs in San Jose.

Why am I not surprised?  Yeah, yeah, we know... hide the kids!  Women cry for it, men die for it!  Drug crazed abandon!

I feel safe in declaring R. Gil Kerlikowske a clueless jackass.

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by: JayinPhiladelphia @ Tue Apr 06, 2010 at 00:25:48 AM UTC

Confirmation... (4.00 / 2)

The old line about how it's better for people to think you're stupid, rather than to open your mouth and actually prove it?  Yeah, nobody told Gil I guess -

In a May 22, 2009 interview on KUOW radio, he said any drug 'legalization' would be "waving the white flag" and that "legalization is off the the charts when it comes to discussion, from my viewpoint" and that "legalization vocabulary doesn't exist for me and it was made clear that it doesn't exist in President Obama's vocabulary." Specifically about marijuana, he said, "It's a dangerous drug"

Lol.

He came on board ONDCP after an, ummmm, 'interesting' stint as Chief of the Seattle Police Department...

Wow, this was another absolutely disgusting appointment that slipped under my radar, at least.

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by: JayinPhiladelphia @ Tue Apr 06, 2010 at 00:50:28 AM UTC

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