Colo. medical pot suppliers will have to pay taxes < ');" class="arial11blue1"> RateColorado is gearing up to officially tax and regulate medical marijuana dispensaries, a move lawmakers say amounts to legal recognition of a growing industry.The state Attorney General John Suthers concluded in an opinion issued Monday that medical marijuana is considered personal property that can be taxed and shouldn't...
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Gov. Ed Rendell is optimistic the General Assembly will finally send him a bill legalizing table games at casinos by the first week of December.Disputes have centered over what tax rate should be charged on a casino's net revenue from table games; whether a casino's host county and/or municipality should get a small additional share of tax; and whether the state's two small resort-hotel casinos should...
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court: Married gay couples entitled to benefits < ');" class="size11 blue"> RateNew York's top court ruled Thursday that gay couples legally married elsewhere are entitled to some government benefits, boosting stalled legislative efforts to legalize same-sex marriage.The Court of Appeals rejected a Christian legal group's argument that same-sex marriage was akin to incest and polygamy, although the...
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina | Valuing truth over the right to privacy, Argentina's Congress has authorized the forced extraction of DNA from people who may have been born to political prisoners slain a quarter-century ago - even when they don't want to know their birth parents.Human rights activists hope the new law will help find about 400 people stolen as babies, many from women who were kidnapped and...
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Roman Catholic bishops of the UK have come down strongly on a move to legalize assisted suicide in certain cases.Relatives who assist suicide can escape prosecution under certain conditions, the UK government has can escape prosecution, UK government has ruled.Those who do not maliciously encourage others to die but assist only a ''clear settled and informed wish'' to commit suicide, will be spared,...
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Argentina forces dirty war orphans to provide DNA < ');" class="size11 blue"> RateValuing truth over the right to privacy, Argentina's Congress has authorized the forced extraction of DNA from people who may have been born to political prisoners slain a quarter-century ago — even when they don't want to know their birth parents.Human rights activists hope the new law will help find about 400 people...
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unlikely folk hero has emerged from the debate over same-sex marriage in Maine. On Tuesday, voters will decide whether to go along with the Legislature's legalization of same-sex marriage in the state or whether to kill it via a "people's veto."-- meaning if they affirm the right of gay and lesbian couples to marry -- Maine will become the first state to support same-sex marriage at the ballot box....
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Supporters of the Protect Maine Equality campaign hold signs prior to a debate on referendum Question 1, the proposal to rescind the Legislature's approval of same-sex marriage, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009, at the University of Southern Maine in Portland, Maine.Supporters of the Protect Maine Equality campaign hold signs prior to a debate on referendum Question 1, the proposal to rescind the Legislature's...
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People are very curious about the results of “referendum” on gay-marriage in Maine. Even the people who are strong advocates of human rights areviewing the gay legislation with abhorring eyes. Although United States of America is considered as the most developed nation of the world yet only very few states have legalized the gay marriage through legislation. The gay marriage legislation was made in...
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Progress is occurring, but Tuesday's rejection of a same-sex marriage law in Maine shows there's still a lot of work to be done.If not in Maine, then where? Until the polls closed Tuesday evening, supporters of same-sex marriage appeared to be within grasp of their first voter victory in the nation. New England has been at the forefront of legalizing marriage for gay and lesbian couples. The campaign...
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