June 17, 2008

Arlen Would Take A Medical Toke

Dan Gross writes on Arlen Specter and medical marijuana, learning that if the drug were legal in Pennsylvania and his doctor recommended it, he'd have a puff.

Gross reports in an ever-so-detailed fashion that when he asked if he would puff even if it were illegal, Specter smiled and said he was "certainly not about to say I would violate the law." But he'd be okay with breaking federal medical marijuana law if it were legal in Pennsylvania? That's our Arlen!

Specter would puff if medical marijuana were legal in Pennsylvania [Phillygossip]

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June 09, 2006

Leftovers: 14-To-21 Year Olds, Dude

• Daily News senior writer Sandra Shea -- who "makes sense of the big issues facing the city - and its taxpayers," according to her tagline -- says that not enough area companies have signed up with a program she wrote about that gives internships for 14-to-21 year old kids. Sound like a good program, but here's the caveats. First, that's a very odd age group for an internship program. 21-year-olds are ready to enter the workplace (or already in it) and 14-year-olds are still in high school. Second, how many has the Daily News hired? She doesn't say, and -- whoop whoop whoop, actual reporting alert -- DN editor Michael Days couldn't be reached at press time. [DN]

• Daily News again: The paper did a poll of boxing experts and asked them for their top 10 Middleweight fighters ever. Bernard Hopkins, who's fighting his last fight today, made only a few lists, and the #1 ranked boxer on 4 out of 6 lists was Harry Greb. Helpfully, the paper provides a good guide to Harry Greb, saying the fighter had a record of 260-120-19. Well, that's not a very good record. [Daily News]

• Legal MJ! Well, kinda. New Jersey is debating a law to legalize medicinal marijuana. Montel Williams is even for it. Gov. Corzine is for it. Hopefully, it'll pass and some people with cancer/MS/etc. will be able to feel a little better. [Inquirer]

• Rick Santorum is changing around the words in the audio version of his book. Ha. [Attytood]

• An analyst has declared a "somber" season in the second half of this year, chiefly due to the company that owns Macy's. Yes. [Reuters/Yahoo!]

• And, finally: Puppy! Aww, yay and whatnot. (It's a Cavalier King Charles spaniel.) [Flickr]

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