It’s hard to imagine how much worse the Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health could have possibly screwed up bringing legal marijuana sales to Nevada despite the stated objective of the Legislature to create the national “gold standard” for regulatory approval and oversight.
OK, so I was in the shower singing “Candle in the Wind,” Elton John’s award-winning tribute to Marilyn Monroe. And although I personally enjoyed the performance, I’m fairly certain — based on the consensus reviews of my family — that not a soul on this planet would ever have even the slightest interest in listening to my rendition on the radio.
Ah, how fleeting glory. Seems like only six short years ago that liberals were doing the Snoopy dance and declaring conservatism dead, dead, dead!
Whether it was the process established by the Legislature or the implementation established by the Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health, the ratings of applications for some 500-plus medical marijuana establishment licenses that were just released are about as fouled up as anything we’ve seen recently from the state government.
Under cross-examination in an opening scene of the movie classic “True Grit,” John Wayne’s character, U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn, was being grilled over a confrontation with some suspected outlaws he was trying to arrest who ended up dead.
In an editorial voicing support for Question 2, the Las Vegas Review-Journal began: “If voters approve Question 2 on this fall’s ballot, they will not increase taxes on Nevada’s mining industry.”
It was 10 years ago that I testified, for my first and only time, before a government legislative body, the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution. It was surreal.
From the department of stupid is as stupid does comes the latest from Nevada’s neighbor to the west. The California Legislature has passed, and Gov. Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown has signed, the nation’s first statewide ban on … plastic bags (SB 270).
I don’t envy the folks over at the Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health who are charged with implementing Nevada’s new licensing process for medical marijuana establishments and are presently evaluating over 500 applications.
I have to admit, I don’t know what happened in Ferguson, Mo., between Michael Brown and police officer Darren Wilson. Then again, neither did any of the columnists who helped fan the flames of racial tensions immediately after Brown’s death.
Although Google’s official birthday has moved around a bit over the years, it is generally accepted that the universe will celebrate the search engine’s 16th birthday Sept. 27. And I know the perfect gift.
“In a piece of campaign literature,” writes (Las Vegas Review-Journal) columnist Steve Sebelius, “state Senate District 9 candidate Becky Harris declares she’s ‘not your typical Republican.’ In fact, her stances on education funding, certain taxes, and other issues sound downright Democratic.”
The media consensus is that the tea party lost big this GOP primary election cycle.
A group of U.S. senators recently announced — with much fanfare, pomp and circumstance — the Campus Safety and Accountability Act for the expressed purpose of fighting “sexual assaults on college and university campuses by protecting and empowering students, and strengthening accountability and transparency for institutions.”
