But the need to balance state and federal interests makes for awkward politics for some governors.
The state's Constitution bans the use of the pension fund to balance state and local budgets.
Doctors in states with medical marijuana laws have long tried to balance state and federal laws that conflict.
The company says the herb pearls are designed to "cleanse the womb and return it to a balance state" by flushing out "toxins".
Many Democrats and labor leaders said the law was an effort to balance state and local budgets on the backs of Ohio's 360,000 public employees.
Tobacco has always helped balance state budgets, with cigarette taxes accounting for $8.6 billion, or 1.5percentt, of total state revenue in fiscal 2002.
The violence should serve as a warning to officials across the country not to try to balance state budgets by holding inmates in inhumane conditions.
At least three financially troubled states have discovered in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a cap-and-trade system, a convenient pool of money that can be drawn on to help balance state budgets.
Mr. Curry repeatedly criticized Mr. Rowland for flouting a state law that in the event of a budget shortfall requires him to offer state legislators a plan to balance state spending and revenue for the coming year.
The governments of Britain, France and Germany are haggling over "the best way to balance state interests in the merged company, either through direct ownership of shares or through the granting of special voting rights to the governments, said the people close to the negotiations," The New York Times reports.
