News & Commentary
Aug 10, 2013
Supporters of medical marijuana continue to fight
August 10, 2013. Charleston, SC. News 2. By Cuthbert Langley. CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent has switched his opinion on medical marijuana.
Aug 01, 2013
Protect the right to vote
August 1, 2013. Charleston, SC. Post & Courier. By Joanne Day and Victoria Middleton. We write to correct inaccuracies in the July 26 story “States voting rights challenged.”
Jul 18, 2013
With cameras watching, your car isn’t your castle
WASHINGTON AP — You can drive, but you can’t hide.
Jun 28, 2013
Only constitutional amendment could change S.C. marriage law, senator says
June 28, 2013. Greenville News. Don't look for changes any time soon in South Carolina's marriage law, even with a Supreme Court decision that struck down a similar federal law, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee says.
Jun 21, 2013
Richland County RC helicopter rankles civil libertarians
Columbia. WISTV. By Jack Kuenzie. It was a bank robbery straight out of the movies. Four masked, heavily armed men opening fire inside and outside a Wells Fargo branch on Two Notch Road last November.
Jun 17, 2013
NAACP calls study of racially lopsided marijuana arrests 'disturbing'
by Mark Davenport
Jun 12, 2013
War on Marijuana’ takes inordinate toll on African-Americans
June 12, 2013. Victoria Middleton. Post and Courier. Charleston. In comments reported in The Post and Courier on June 6, Sheriff Al Cannon ignores the ACLU’s findings of racial disparity in arrests in Charleston County (where blacks are 3.2 times more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession than whites) and claims the report is based on “biased research.”
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