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Perhaps counterintuitively, only those possessed of a great love of home will be motivated to go out in the world to keep their home safe from external threats. The place and people a hero leaves is one of peace and comfort, and the perceived threat must be grave enough that they could imagine a different reality where that security is threatened. It takes a lot to draw humans out of comfort, objects at rest tend to stay at rest.
Some states already have embraced the move toward public-health-focused alternatives instead of criminalizing drug use. Washington should join them and start a serious discussion of trying new approaches. ON Nov. 8, something rather extraordinary happened in America’s heartland. Oklahoma voters, 65 percent of whom supported the Trump-Pence ticket, also passed a pair of criminal-justice-reform ballot initiatives by 14- and 12-point margins.
While millions of Americans sat in their homes listening to the president address the nation on Tuesday night, more than 2.4 million Americans sat behind bars. Across a vast network of jails and prisons, millions of Americans cope with the consequences of past mistakes, many of them serving unnecessarily long sentences, and many of them wrestling with untreated mental health conditions and drug addiction – all reminders of just how broken our justice system is.
Reforming the state’s medical-marijuana law means all adults would have the same option to grow their own marijuana or purchase it from a store, and they won’t need a medical authorization for either, writes guest columnist Alison Holcomb. AS medical marijuana heads back to Olympia, legislators are bracing for a rerun of last session’s drama of makeshift dispensary operators and self-appointed patient advocates decrying any effort to rein in abuses of the law.
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