Shawn Coleman talks about cannabis reform in Colorado and beyond

Shawn Coleman, President of 36 Solutions, and a lobbyist for cannabis dispensaries transitioning to recreational sales, talks about the taxation of cannabis in Colorado, the superiority of Colorado as a cannabis tourism destination over Washington State, federal attitudes toward cannabis legalization, and the future of cannabis reform nationwide, recorded from Boulder, Colorado, on July 26, 2013.

 

Eric Glatt talks about unpaid internships and his efforts to eliminate them

Eric Glatt, a plaintiff in a case against Fox Searchlight Pictures Inc. for wages he didn’t earn as an intern on the film “Black Swan,” talks about his case and the movement to reform the existing system of unpaid internships in business, government, and the non-profit sector, recorded on July 17, 2013.

 

Talking Divestment Blues: UC Berkeley, Princeton, Brown, Harvard

Chloe Maxmin (Harvard), Daniel Sherrell (Brown), Isaac Lederman (Princeton), and Ophir Bruck (UC Berkeley) talk about the movement for the divestment by universities and others of their fossil fuel holdings.  Recorded from multiple sites on June 24, 2013.

 

California and Oregon vie to provide statewide cannabis regulations

Bills are pending in both Oregon and California that would try to bring some coherence to chaotic intra-state treatment of medical cannabis.

In California, Assemblymember Tom Ammiano is sponsoring AB 473, which would regulate the provision of medical cannabis within the state. Read more at:  (http://www.etopianews.blogspot.com/2013/05/tom-ammiano-continues-fighting-for.html)   

In Oregon, HB 3460 would establish a registry of medical cannabis providers.

The Oregon bill was just endorsed by the state’s (first female) attorney general, Ellen Rosenblum, at:  http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/06/oregon_attorney_general_ellen.html.

There seems to be an emerging supposition that states with well-regulated legal medical and recreational cannabis markets are less likely to suffer federal depredations.

State legislators in these neighboring Pacific Coast states and their respective governors will decide on how or whether to regulate medical cannabis and then only time will tell if that assumption is correct.