An industry-backed marketing campaign to legalize leisure marijuana in Maryland launched Thursday, urging voters to select “sure on 4,” the November poll query about legalizing pot possession for adults 21 and over.
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‘Yes on 4’ ballot campaign launches push to legalize marijuana in Md.
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The marketing campaign, which started with an internet site and video urging voters to help legalization, depends on funding from Trulieve, in accordance with election finance filings dated Aug. 30. The corporate — an {industry} large with dispensaries in eight states, together with three medical areas in Maryland — is listed as giving $50,000 to the trigger. The one different donor, Blended Public Affairs, gave $100.
If voters help the measure, Maryland will grow to be the twentieth state to legalize grownup use of the substance. Within the area, D.C. legalized use in 2014 and Virginia did so in 2021.
“Legalizing hashish would stimulate Maryland’s economic system and create tens of 1000’s of good-paying jobs, whereas permitting Maryland residents to learn from very important investments in schooling, public well being, and public security funded by hashish taxes,” the initiative’s chairman, hashish advocate and former Ravens participant Eugene Monroe, stated in an announcement.
Maryland joins a rising variety of states which have dedicated to make use of any legalization push to handle the disparate results of the conflict on medicine. Though White and Black individuals use marijuana at related charges, Black individuals have been arrested at 3.64 instances the speed of White individuals nationally for having marijuana, in accordance with an American Civil Liberties Union evaluate of costs between 2010 and 2018.
In accordance with the ACLU research, Maryland was residence to a few of the highest 10 counties with the very best charges of marijuana possession arrests within the nation. The “Sure on 4” marketing campaign argues that hashish convictions have lasting results that may make it tougher to seek out employment, schooling and housing.
“Passing Query 4 will put an finish to the failed criminalization of hashish, create a well-regulated authorized marijuana market centered round fairness, and open up new doorways for native entrepreneurs and small enterprise house owners,” Monroe stated within the assertion.
Throughout the 2022 state legislative session, Republicans stated Democrats have been utilizing the poll measure as a political maneuver to attract voters to the polls in November as they attempt to reclaim the governor’s mansion for the primary time in eight years.
The state in 2017 launched its medical marijuana program, which has generated greater than $348 million in retail gross sales to date in 2022. However Maryland legislators additionally obtained criticism for the rollout of this system, which initially awarded no licenses to Black enterprise house owners.
Shortcomings within the medical program’s fairness sparked debate throughout this yr’s legislative session, with some lawmakers and activists arguing that the framework wouldn’t be sufficient to handle the long-standing disparities of marijuana regulation enforcement.
Beneath the invoice handed by the Common Meeting, if the referendum passes the state will conduct a research of the influence of marijuana on public well being and a disparities research trying on the enterprise market and what is likely to be wanted to assist women- and minority-owned companies enter the {industry}.
It’s going to additionally permit individuals who have been arrested for marijuana possession to have their information expunged, and others serving time for easy possession may get their sentences reconsidered.
The regulation would additionally create a hashish enterprise help fund; a hashish public well being fund to review, amongst different issues, mitigating youth use and to pay for public well being campaigns; and a neighborhood reinvestment and restore fund, requiring not less than 30 p.c of the income from adult-use hashish to go to these communities.
Election Day is Nov. 8 and polls open for early voting Oct. 27. Along with the legalization query, voters will reply 4 different constitutional modification questions. Marylanders can even choose the following governor and vote on a number of different congressional, state and native places of work.
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Maryland Native Wins $85,000 on ‘Name That Tune’ – The MoCo Show
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Proud Montgomery County, MD resident Gavriella Kaufmann (Potomac) won her episode of FOX’s game show “Name that Tune”, which aired last week.
Kaufmann, who was born and raised in Potomac and graduated from Churchill High School in 2015, stated in an interview with FOX 5, that she has always been into music and referred to herself as a music and game show savant. When she saw an ad on LinkedIn about being on season 4 of the game show, she immediately knew she had to do it.
“I’ve loved game shows for as long as I can remember, and music has always been a huge part of my life. Being on Name That Tune was the perfect combination of both passions—it was like a dream come true.” Kaufmann told us.
The episode had a happy ending, with Kaufmann winning a whopping $85,000! She added, “When I was on Name That Tune, I was so focused on doing my best and naming as many songs as possible that I completely lost track of the score. It wasn’t until Jane, the host, told me my total. I was in complete shock, but it was such an incredible moment!”
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Michigan State football opens as sizable underdog vs Maryland
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Who’s ready for Big Ten play to begin? In all honesty, I am not. I really wish Michigan State football had more tune-up games after seeing them struggle against Florida Atlantic and only win 16-10. But unfortunately, that is not how the schedule unfolds for Michigan State this season.
The Spartans will hit the road for an early Big Ten game as they face Maryland on Saturday at 3:30 pm. Going into the season I thought Michigan State and the Terps were on a pretty level playing field, but after seeing both teams play week one that doesn’t appear to be the case.
And Vegas agrees.
Michigan State opens as a 7.5-point underdog next week at Maryland. My guess is that grows to 8, 8.5.
— Graham Couch (@Graham_Couch) September 1, 2024
As you all know, Michigan State only beat Florida Atlantic by six and did not look very impressive, especially on the offensive side of the ball. So it’s no surprise that MSU will be the underdog next week. But 7.5 points feels like a lot, and according to the Lansing State Journal’s Graham Couch, it likely will only go up from there.
So does Vegas have it right or are they underrating Michigan State?
Looking at Maryland’s week one game against UConn it appears Vegas has this line right. The Terps were up 23-0 at halftime and never looked back and went on to win in dominant fashion 50-7. UConn and FAU are very similar in terms of what level they’re at in college football, so that drastic of a difference in the final score is very scary.
So Vegas probably could’ve gotten away with Maryland being even bigger favorites in this one.
But maybe Vegas saw what I did and thinks a lot of Michigan State’s mistakes on Friday are easy to fix. Maybe they think Aidan Chiles will be much better next week. The Spartan’s defense was also fairly dominant so there isn’t much of a chance Maryland scores 50 points next week either.
I tend to not bet on Michigan State games, but even if I did this would be a line that I would avoid because who knows how much Jonathan Smith’s squad will improve by next week, and who knows how much Maryland might struggle against a Power Four opponent.
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University of Maryland reverses decision to allow anti-Israel protest on October 7
The University of Maryland on Sunday reversed its decision to allow an anti-Israel protest on the first anniversary of the October 7 Massacre, following backlash from local Jewish groups.
UMD Students for Justice in Palestine and UMD Jewish Voice for Peace had been set to hold their October 7 vigil for Gazans killed in the Israel-Hamas War at the campus’s Mckeldin Mall, but the University System of Maryland (USM) said in a statement that on the day of the Hamas-led pogrom it would limit campus events requiring permits or approval to those supporting “a university-sponsored Day of Dialogue.”
“From the beginning of the war, we have come together as a University System to urge that we use this moment to encourage conversation, compassion, and civility; to engage with one another across our differences and draw on our shared humanity and our shared values to bridge what divides us,” said USM. “These dialogues aren’t new. Many of our universities have been hosting this kind of programming for several months. Reserving Oct. 7 gives us a chance to continue these urgent conversations and to mark this solemn anniversary in a way that gives students—all students—the time and space to share and to be heard.”
USM said that its intent was not to infringe of the free expression and speech of students, but to be sensitive to the needs of students as October 7 was a “day of enormous suffering and grief for many in our campus communities.”
UMD Jewish Student Union, Maryland Hillel, Terps for Israel, and Israeli American Council Mishelanu at Maryland welcomed the USM decision and thanked UMD leadership in a joint social media statement on Sunday.
“October 7, the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, is a day of mourning for the Jewish and Israeli community,” said the UMD JSU. “We are relieved that SJP will no longer to be able to appropriate the suffering of our family and friends to fit their false and dangerous narrative.”
The Jewish groups said that it was distraught that the decision to only hold university-sponsored event had to be made at all, and wished to used the campus space to “grieve together as a community” to promote unity at the university. The unideal situation was necessary, according to the Jewish groups, to ensure the physical and psychological safety of students on the day of mourning.
UMD JVP and SJP attacked the decision to cancel the event, claiming that the vigil for Palestinians killed since the October 7 Massacre was attacked without familiarity of the content. The anti-Israel groups said that the discourse was “the continuation inherently racist, Islamophobic, and dehumanizing rhetoric surrounding Palestinians.” JVP and SJP said that the actions against their event were an attempt to paint “Muslim, Arab, and anti-Zionist Jewish students as barbaric.”
The anti-Israel groups asserted that their vigil for Palestinians who died in the war was no threat to the campus’s Jewish community, but conflation of Zionism and Judaism did threaten UMD and the Jewish community.
“To claim that Palestinians cannot hold a day of remembrance in mourning one year of genocide, or lay claim to that date is an insult to every life lost in the Zionist entity’s genocidal campaign,” UMD SJP and JVP said on Instagram on Sunday. “The disproportionate scale of suffering experienced by the Palestinians over the past year necessitates their remembrance and our solidarity on this day. The suffering of all innocents killed must not be monopolized and necessitates a fair and just representation.”
SJP and JVP demanded the right to organize and exercise their right to free speech, accusing Zionists of attempting to stifle Palestinian voices.
The organizations indicated on their Sunday Instagram post that they still planned to hold their all-day event at Mckeldin Mall, and on Monday a link to register still active and listing the campus building as the rally location.
UMD Jewish groups said that they would be holding their own event to memorialize the victims of the October 7 pogrom at the Maryland Hillel.
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