Hemp's champions see it as a source of agricultural jobs, an alternative for struggling tobacco farmers and a wonder plant with uses from bluejeans to building materials.
Ms. Clarke is hopeful, though, that more frequent, shorter breaks are better than the alternative: struggling to find any time off at all.
The morality of individual rights substituted for the soiled political dreams of revolutionary communism and nationalism as international law became an alternative to popular struggle and bloody violence.
The Irish Republican Army said in a brief statement that it would give "due consideration" to an appeal by Gerry Adams, the leader of its Sinn Fein political wing, to embrace nonviolent politics as an alternative to armed struggle.
The four-member commission offered faint praise to Gerry Adams, the president of Sinn Fein, the I.R.A.'s political wing, for publicly urging the I.R.A. to seek an alternative to armed struggle.
"It was important in showing that you could build an alternative… an alternative to armed struggle.
The charter school was opened in 2001 as an alternative pathway for struggling high school students to receive their diplomas.
Officials have been promoting mainland China as an alternative to Hong Kongers struggling with sky-high housing and living costs in the city.
She and her staff opened Waterside's doors as an alternative to the struggling local middle school, PS 225 Seaside, which is phasing out its operations.
Trump is a well-known and polarizing enough figure that those inclined to support him largely did so right away, while those hoping for an alternative may have struggled to pick from the remaining contenders.
"People felt there was an alternative to the armed struggle," says Ekaterina Sokirianskaia, who covers the north Caucasus at the International Crisis Group.
