The Libertarian Party's N.A. Poe Was Keeping a Sense of Humor Amid Challenges From Both Major Parties. The State Requires the Attorney General to Hold a License to Practice Law. Poe Doesn't. For N.A. Poe, a marijuana-legalization activist from Philadelphia, running for state attorney general was a lark to draw attention to the issue. The state Republican and Democratic Parties didn't find it funny. Both parties filed legal challenges Monday seeking to remove Poe - a stage name for the activism work and comedian act of Richard Tamaccio - - from the Nov. 8 general election ballot as the Libertarian Party candidate. [continues 367 words]
The U.S. Olympic Committee found itself Wednesday morning at the center of the new national conversation created by the statewide votes in Colorado and Washington to legalize the use of marijuana. The USOC is headquartered in Colorado Springs. It oversees the playing of dozens of sports by hundreds of far-flung young athletes, all of whom have the added responsibility of representing not only themselves but their nation. The organization also is in the business of making sure they compete fairly and cleanly, which is why all kinds of illegal drugs, performance-enhancing and otherwise, are banned. [continues 611 words]
THE LONG, CLEAR tube stretches from the oxygen tank in the kitchen into the tidy living room and coils by the sofa, a tether that both gives and restricts life. Without the air from the tube flowing through her nose 24 hours a day, Barbara Oates would pass out and then die. So you can see why breathing, something most of us do without much thought, is always on her mind. And you can probably understand why any threat to her air would outrage Oates. [continues 576 words]
