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Creating Pathways: How Art-Secured Lending Provides Liquidity to the Art Market
The fine art market is not only a space for collectors but also an evolving financial landscape where passion intersects with sophisticated investment strategies. J.P. Morgan Private Bank notes an increasing interest in unlocking liquidity from art collections through art-secured lending. This enables art collectors to pursue new investment opportunities, acquire new art, or invest in other assets, all without parting with their treasured artwork.
Marijuana legalization is our chance at real police reform
OPINION: Legalizing marijuana will put an end to one of the most pernicious justifications for the continued harassment, arrest, incarceration and death of POC in police custody (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File) On March 14, 2021, Marvin Scott III was arrested at a Texas mall for possessing less than two ounces of marijuana and taken into custody. Just a few hours later, Marvin was dead, leaving his family and community reeling.
Amazon's Big Cannabis Move: Why Company Drug-Test Policies Matter More Than Ever
By Steven Hawkins, CEO of the United States Cannabis Council When a drug-testing policy that affects over a million Americans gets changed, it’s a signal. In early June, Amazon announced it would no longer screen its employees for cannabis consumption in most situations. Times are changing, they said. The move by one of America’s largest employers is a meaningful one.
Biden needs to help end federal cannabis prohibition
The Biden administration waited only a few hours after Wednesday’s historic introduction of the Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act before pulling the rug out from underneath Sens.
Raising The Ethical Bar: Ethical Audits and Positive Culture Transformation
By Simon Dolan, Steven Hawkins, Chad Albrecht and Bonnie Richley While most organizations have a code of conduct (or a code of ethics), many employees don’t care about, nor even recognize, their own company’s code of ethics.As pointed out by Liran and Dolan (2016)1, “There is a growing discrepancy between the values stated on the wall and values in action.” In the “Report to the Nations: 2020 Global Study on Occupational Fraud and Abuse”, the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners estimates...
Raising The Ethical Bar: Ethical Audits and Positive Culture Transformation
By Simon Dolan, Steven Hawkins, Chad Albrecht and Bonnie Richley While most organizations have a code of conduct (or a code of ethics), many employees don’t care about, nor even recognize, their own company’s code of ethics.As pointed out by Liran and Dolan (2016)1, “There is a growing discrepancy between the values stated on the wall and values in action.” In the “Report to the Nations: 2020 Global Study on Occupational Fraud and Abuse”, the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners estimates...
The War on Drugs Is a War on Black and Brown Lives
The War on Drugs Is a War on Black and Brown Lives Mouthwash Jul 17, 2020 4 min read The executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project on how cannabis criminalization is used to justify the terrorization of people of color I recently spent several nights immersed in work that is sadly too familiar. I found myself once again providing assistance to lawyers representing an African American family who had lost a loved one at the hands of the police.
U.S. marijuana policy project appraises Canadian marijuana legalization
Marijuana sales officially began nationwide in Canada last week, making it the second country in the world — following Uruguay — with a federally legal adult-use marijuana industry. Each Canadian province has developed its own system for how marijuana will be sold to adults, which will include government stores, private retailers, online government sales with delivery, or a mix of all of these approaches.
Our Neighbor to The North
On Wednesday, marijuana sales will begin nationwide in Canada, making it the second country in the world — following Uruguay — with a federally legal adult-use marijuana industry. Each Canadian province has developed its own system for how marijuana will be sold to adults. This will include government stores, private retailers, online government sales with delivery, or a mix of those approaches.
It takes two: how effective partnerships can change the face of America's justice system
Sometimes, it takes an outside perspective to see the full potential in a situation. When married business partners Beverly Parenti and Chris Redlitz researched America's criminal justice system, they were appalled by the statistics they discovered: An overall $48 billion budget for state and federal prisons, a recidivism rate of more than 60 percent, and a 700 percent increase in prison population over the last four decades.
Staley another chance vs VanDerveer in women's Final Four
DALLAS — Dawn Staley's first Final Four experience came as a player, and what happened in those three trips with Virginia in the early 1990s still motivate her as South Carolina's coach."The emotions, as I reflect on participating in the Final Fours, not being able to win a national championship, is the thing that fuels me as a coach, you know, to check that box off," Staley said Thursday.
Civil Asset Forfeiture Is the Opposite of Innocent Until Proven Guilty
Just ask Mark Brewer, a disabled Air Force veteran who was pulled over in Nebraska in November 2011 after changing lanes without signaling on Interstate 80 – a traffic infraction that cost him more than $63,500. The deputy sheriff who pulled him over claimed he smelled marijuana and searched Brewer's car. He found no drugs, but did find two backpacks containing $63,530 in cash, which Brewer said he was taking to California with the intent of using it as a down payment on a home.
A death knell for the death penalty?
In the two weeks since President Obama stood before the United Nations and declared that the United States will stand up for human rights, three people have been sent to the death chamber, making a mockery of his claims. One of those people did not even commit the murder she was sentenced to die for. Another showed strong signs of intellectual disability. This ghastly juxtaposition speaks to the need to end this cruel, inhuman punishment once and for all.
U.S., Brazilian police too quick on the draw
Here in the United States, we know the names. Michael Brown. Eric Garner. Tamir Rice. Walter Scott. Freddie Gray. Rekia Boyd. All African Americans killed by police.But we don’t know the names of Eduardo de Jesus Ferreira — 10 years old and shot by police who mistook a phone for a gun. Or Alan de Souza Lima — who at 15 was filming his friends laughing and joking and unwittingly captured his own death seconds later in a hail of bullets.
Hawkins: Reparations for victims of police torture in Chicago a long time coming - Richmond.com: Commentary
While the nation watches as the city of Baltimore awaits justice from the investigation of the role of Baltimore police in the death of Freddie Gray, Chicago has just made history in holding police accountable for abuse. From 1972 to 1991, more than 100 people, nearly all African-American men, were subjected to unspeakable torture at the hands of the Chicago police operating under the direction of Commander Jon Burge. Men were tied to chairs and given electric shocks.
Haiti: Rising from the rubble stronger
Five years ago, the world watched in horror as a magnitude-7.0 earthquake rattled Haiti to its core. In a country where so many were already struggling under the weight of extreme poverty, the disaster flattened thousands upon thousands of homes, sending the country and its people into despair. The conscience of the world was stoked to raise billions of dollars in aid to assist the 2 million survivors suddenly left homeless.
Ferguson: Today marks a pivotal moment for US human rights
Today, we learned that a grand jury in Ferguson decided not to indict Police Officer Darren Wilson for the shooting death of Michael Brown — an unarmed 18-year-old — in August. The community response to Mike Brown’s death, and the response that is likely still to come, mark a pivotal moment in the human rights movement and in U.S. history. It’s a moment of passion, of frustration, and of activism.
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