For whichever the anniversary, the book's underlying theme seems even more evident today: That, particularly where race is concerned, the melting pot metaphor didn't hold water.
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black about revisionist history concerning the Japanese American internment.
And as far as the pot-bellied seahorse is concerned, the bigger the female is, the better, researchers in Switzerland have discovered.
He's concerned the state will try to tax medical pot just as it plans to do with recreational pot.
Experts within the recreational pot community, however, are concerned the legal action could have a serious impact on the nascent industry, even if it's defeated.
It states only that banks working with businesses that don't violate one of DOJ's eight areas of concern related to the pot trade, like distribution of marijuana to minors, violence and the use of firearms, are less likely to be targeted by federal prosecutors.
McConnell was said to be willing to sweeten the pot for Republicans concerned about slashing Medicaid by adding back some two hundred billion dollars of spending for the federal program.
Among the pot farmers' concerns were being forced out of business by mega-grow operations (Oakland had already licensed four and Berkeley voters approved six more on Election Day) and the declining wholesale price of marijuana, which has dropped from $4,000 per pound to $1,500 over the last decade.
And they also serve as a forum for political gestures to be made for fingers to be stuck in the air for non-meteorological reasons.Normally, such gestures are the purview of international AIDS activists those for whom drug companies are always wicked, politicians never sufficiently concerned, and no pot of money ever big enough.
Don't be concerned if the roast has to be wedged in the pot; it will shrink considerably during cooking.
