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You still have time! Until July 22, you can submit your comments – pro or con – to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) concerning the rescheduling of marijuana, moving it from the most restrictive Schedule I to the lesser controlled Schedule III. The background concerning this move by the U.S. Justice Department can be found in the last Mary Jane’s Guide.
Any decision in the Ohio History Connection’s (OHC) eminent domain lawsuit to fully reclaim The Octagon from the Moundbuilders County Club has been delayed yet again.
The trial, after many previous delays, had been rescheduled for July 15. Late last Friday, the 12th, OHC and Moundbuilders had a telephone conference with Judge Branstool asking for the trial to be delayed. This usually means the parties are close to a settlement, which would be more good news for The Octagon – sacred Native American ground, arguably a temple to the moon, which was designated Ohio’s first United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage site in 2023.
Thursday, July 18, 2pm, Franklin County Government Center 373 S. High St., first floor, auditorium
Let’s show County Treasurer Brooks Sullivan that we won’t let our tax dollars fund genocide!
Franklin County Treasurer Cheryl Brooks Sullivan
• Invested over $11 million of county tax dollars in Israel Bonds since October 7.
• Attended a virtual event featuring Netanyahu.
• Said in an email that she stands in “solidarity” with Israel after escalated bombing of Gaza.
• Is good friends with Israel Bonds lobbyist, Kathe Turial.
• Said “as long as I am legally allowed to invest in it . . . I continue to invest in [Israel Bonds].”
Hosted by Jewish Voice for Peace Central Ohio.
We are being told to "tone down" the rhetoric in politics by the press, and by politicians, mainly Democrats.
There is a purpose in this, and that is to "equate" the rhetoric as being the same on both sides. That is clearly not the case.
There is plenty of evidence that Trump is spreading hateful rhetoric and is suggesting violence to achieve his goal of power. In e-mails to supporters, Trump used language like he needed to be elected or there would be "total annihilation" of the country.
Another e-mail talked of "striking fear" into the hearts of our "deep state enemies." Now, I also think the intelligence services have too much power, but Trump labels anyone who disagrees with him as being "deep state."
The man Trump put in charge of the State Department in his administration, Pompeo, was a former CIA director. Trump does not seem to mind the "deep state" when they agree with him. Even more dangerous.
In another writing, Trump said "The Final Battle" begins in seven days. After I except the presidential nomination next week, the liberation of America truly begins."
The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution allows slavery if it's punishment for a crime. In Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, and Texas, state governments force prisoners to work without pay. In many other states, prisoners are forced to work for virtually no pay.
At the state level, many states allow slavery, most of them in their Constitutions with language very similar to that of the 13th Amendment. In 2018, Colorado changed its Constitution to fully outlaw slavery. Since RootsAction began advocating on this issue, Nebraska and Utah have done the same in 2020, as have Oregon, Alabama, Tennessee, and Vermont in 2022.
Tuesday, July 16, 2024 | noon–1:15 p.m. EDT | Zoom
After months of rulemaking, following the template Ohio voters put into law through passage of Issue 2, the Ohio Department of Commerce has established a licensing process for the state’s first adult-use cannabis operators. Ohio medical marijuana operators have a priority in obtaining adult-use licenses, and Ohio could have adult-use stores operating around the state as soon as this summer. Yet many questions about industry regulations and operations remain unanswered, including what legal changes might move forward in the Ohio General Assembly, when and how Issue 2’s social equity provisions will be implemented, and the impacts of an adult-use market on the state’s medical marijuana program.
Please join the Drug Enforcement and Policy Center and our panel of experts as we discuss these topics and more.
Panelists:
Once again, Ohio is trying to pawn off one of its worst politicians on the country. It’s long been a strategy of the Buckeye State to get rid of our crumb-bums by getting them elected to national office. Consider William Henry Harrison, who did the country a favor by catching pneumonia on his way to inauguration; James A. Garfield, whose assassin was smart enough to shoot at point-blank range; William Howard Taft, who aided the nation’s poets by rhyming with graft; and Warren G. Harding, whose cronies from his Ohio hometown were so corrupt that they sold off the country’s first petroleum reserve privately for kickbacks.
Let’s face it: Donald Trump is in a stronger position than ever to win a second term in November, with his active supporters even more motivated in the wake of the shooting Saturday. Preventing a Trump victory is now unlikely. But we must try.
Top Trump strategists are very eager for their candidate to run against Joe Biden. They’re now worried that the Democratic Party might end up with a different standard bearer.
Monday, July 15, 5pm
Ohio Statehouse. Broad & High Streets
Over 360 martyrs and wounded in Al-Mawasi massacre, shortly after, dozens killed in Gaza City!
No more!
At the beginning of Conversion, a man tells the story of his first love—and first loss.
At 15, he had a boyfriend whose parents had put him through a doctor’s treatment program in an attempt to convert him to heterosexuality. After classmates discovered the two youths holding hands behind the school, the boyfriend said he was terrified that he’d be sent back into the program.
Later that night, he took his own life.
“Our love killed him,” the man remembers thinking at the time. But, of course, what really killed the boy was society’s problem with homosexuality, as well as the doctor’s attempt to “cure” him through what’s often called “conversion therapy.”
Though this practice is now widely condemned and even illegal in nearly half of U.S. states, thousands of LGBTQ people have been subjected to it down through the years. Three of them tell their stories in Zach Meiners’s new documentary.