Andre J. Jackson/ Detroit Free Press About 50 high school students at Frederick Douglass Academy in Detroit were suspended today after walking out of classes to protest a lack of consistent teachers, the removal of the principal and a host of other administrative problems at the all... Read more...
Phony marijuana targeted by recent state legislation sounds worse than the real thing, if you believe Georgia’s governor. Chase’s Law strengthens a ban on "synthetic marijuana," ground-up plant material laced with chemicals that mimic marijuana. Chase Burnett, the bill’s namesake, was f... Read more...
During at least one 420 celebration in Alaska on Friday, you’ll be invited to pour yourself a drink instead of lighting up. In the counterculture world, "420” is the code for cannabis consumption, and April 20 — or 4/20 — is the holy day. But instead of passing around a joint, wh... Read more...
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20/04/2012,
by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in A Truth Moment,
Edu-tainment,
Politics As Usual
Look at the list of Schedule 1 drugs... How does Marijuana fit into this list?? The drugs and other substances that are considered controlled substances under the CSA are divided into five schedules. A listing of the substances and their schedules is found in the DEA regulations, 21 C.F.R. Sectio... Read more...
For the third year running, an all-male charter school with students from Chicago’s roughest neighborhoods is sending its entire senior class to college. Urban Prep Academy reports that all 85 seniors graduating from the all-male preparatory school have been accepted to four-year colleges or ... Read more...
This is a format exploding in front of our very eyes. It's bigger than Pandora, and in fact, it's the reason why Pandora has so many jabbing competitors! According to just-released survey data from Edison Research and Arbitron, 103 million Americans are now accessing online radio in some form, in ... Read more...
Dear Trayvon, I have been captivated by your story ever since I first caught wind of it in February. Like your parents, and countless other Americans, I want justice for you and the life that you will never get to live. I am saddened by the recent attacks on your character from various anonymou... Read more...
And boy, did he say a lot. Mayor Nutter gave a speech entitled Cities United: A Conversation about Deaths of African-American Males, in Tallahassee, FL. With the speech being in Floriday, of course Trayvon Martin was brought up (with Nutter calling his death an “assassination”), along with p... Read more...
Eyka Stephens, a trainer in a program for teachers, dancing with a student, Roquan Greene, at Brick Avon Academy in Newark. (Photo by Richard Perry/The New York Times) Syidah O'Bryant scribbled notes in a composition book, trying to keep up with a lesson about why teenagers are so sleepy in the mor... Read more...