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What's the weather, Jay?
Forecaster: wunderground.com
Mostly cloudy. Fog early. Winds from the East at 5 to 10 mph.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2013
HI: 48
LO: 36
Wednesday
HI: 61
L0: 36
Partly cloudy. Breezy. Winds from the SSE at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 20%.
OK, weather, you're a tease.
Friday
Thursday
HI: 54
L0: 27
Overcast with a chance of rain. Fog early. Winds from the North at 10 to 15 mph.
Watch out for the fog!
Aaaaaand back to the cold.
Tuesday, Feb. 5
WHAT: Casbah Video Gamer Night
WHERE: Burger Stand at the Casbah
WHEN: 8 p.m.
ABOUT: If you're feeling nostalgic for your old school gamer days, come play classic video games on Nintendo 64,
Super NES and Sega Genesis.
Wednesday, Feb. 6
**WHAT:** Inspiring MLK: The Mentorship of Benjamin Elijah Mays
**WHERE:** Dole Institute of Politics
**WHEN:** 7:30 to 9 p.m.
**ABOUT:** In honor of Black History Month, Prof. Randal Maurice Jelks will discuss the importance of Benjamin Elijah Mays in the civil rights movement.
WHAT: Spring Study Abroad Fair
WHERE: Kansas Union
WHEN: 10:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
ABOUT: Explore your study abroad options and meet with program coordinators and past participants.
**WHAT:** Faith Forum: Rooted in Faith,
Working for the Earth
**WHERE:** Ecumenical Campus
Ministries
WHEN: 6:30 to 8 p.m.
ABOUT: Rachel Myslivy, program director of the Climate and Energy Project, discusses how faith and being good to the Earth intertwine. People of all faiths welcome.
Thursday, Feb. 7
**WHAT:** Free HIV Testing
**WHERE:** Kansas Union
**WHEN:** 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
**ABOUT:** The Douglas County AIDS Project will host free HIV testing in honor of National Black HIV Awareness Day. All community members are encouraged to attend.
WHAT. Tea at Three
WHERE. Kansas Union
WHEN. 3 to 4 p.m.
ABOUT. Enjoy some free tea and cookies. Extra points if you can speak with a British accent.
Friday, Feb. 8
**WHAT:** Frank Deford honored with William Allen White Award
**WHERE:** Stauffer-Flint Hall
**WHEN:** 10:30 a.m.
**ABOUT:** The famed Sports Illustrated writer will receive the 2013 William Allen White Foundation National Citation.
PHILANTHROPY
WHAT: Campus Movie Series: "Argo"
WHERE: Kansas Union, Woodruff
Auditorium
WHEN: 8 to 10 p.m.
ABOUT: See the seven-time Academy Award nominee at the Union before you watch the Oscars later this month. Tickets are two $2 with KU ID.
Sigma Pi hosts charity event
Donating to charity inspires the philanthropist in all of us. Whether it's giving the spare change in the couch cushions or attending a charity dinner for an organization, there are many ways to help out in a community.
NATIONAL
Andrew Martin, Sigma Pi's committee head of philanthropy, expects a
Tonight, tipping your waiter is all you have to do to benefit a good cause. Members of the Sigma Pi fraternity are hosting an benefit for StopGap, Inc. at 23rd Street Brewery from 5 to 10 p.m.
large student turnout for the event.
"I love this event for college students," Martin said. "All they have to do is come out, eat food and drink beer for charity."
Members of Sigma Pi will be servers for the evening. All tips benefit StopGap, Inc., a local organization that provides programs for youth in
Douglas County who have become too old for foster care.
Founded in 2008 by company CEO Justine Burton, StopGap is looking to build a more concrete base in Lawrence and Douglas County and expand its range of programs for local youth.
"The fundraiser will help with continued awareness of our organization, getting more community participation and involvement and more donations that will help us move toward making the transitional living program a reality." Burton said.
— Hannah Pierangelo
A person holds a freshly rolled marijuana joint just after midnight at the Space Needle in Seattle. A political generation ago, the West signaled the nation's rightward swing -- from the emergence of Ronald Reagan to the success of tax limitation ballot measures in California and Colorado. But now the fabled expanse of jagged peaks, arid deserts and emerald coastlines is trending in a different direction.
New laws work toward marijuana legalization
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SEATTLE — An effort is building in Congress to change U.S. marijuanua laws, including moves to legalize the industrial production of hemp and establish a federal pot tax.
While passage this year could be a longshot, lawmakers from both parties have been quietly working on several bills, the first of which Democratic Reps Earl Blumenauer of Oregon and Jared Polis of Colorado plan to introduce Tuesday, Blumenauer told The Associated Press.
Polis' measure would regulate marijuana the way the federal government handles alcohol. In states that legalize pot, growers would have to obtain a federal permit. Oversight of marijuana would be removed from the Drug Enforcement Administration and given to the newly renamed Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Marijuana and Firearms, and it would remain illegal to bring marijuana from a state
where it's legal to one where it isn't.
Last fall's votes in Colorado and Washington state to legalize recreational marijuana should push Congress to end the 75-year federal pot prohibition, Blumenauer said.
The bill is based on a legalization measure previously pushed by former Reps. Barney Frank of Massachusetts and Ron Paul of Texas.
"You folks in Washington and my friends in Colorado really upset the apple cart," Blumenauer said. "We're still arresting two-thirds of a million people for use of a substance that a majority feel should be legal. ... It's past time for us to step in and try to sort this stuff out."
Blumenauer's bill would create a federal marijuana excise tax.
Advocates who are working with the lawmakers acknowledge it could take years for any changes to get through Congress, but they're encouraged
by recent developments. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell last week came out in support of efforts to legalize hemp in his home state of Kentucky, and U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., is expected to introduce legislation allowing states to set their own policy on marijuana.
Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-VT., has indicated he plans to hold a hearing on the conflict between state and federal marijuana laws and has urged an end to federal "mandatory minimum" sentences that lead to long prison stints for drug crimes.
"We're seeing enormous political momentum to undo the drug war failings of the past 40 years", said Bill Piper, director of national affairs for the Drug Policy Alliance, who has been working with lawmakers on marijuana-related bills. "For the first time, the wind is behind our back."
The Justice Department
Blumenauer and Polis are due to release a paper this week urging Congress to make a number of changes, including altering tax codes to let marijuana dispensaries deduct business expenses on federal taxes, and making it easier for marijuana-related businesses to get bank accounts. Many operate on a cash basis because federally insured banks won't work with them, they noted.
hasn't said how it plans to respond to the votes in Washington and Colorado. It could sue to block the states from issuing licenses to marijuana growers, processors and retail stores, on the grounds that doing so would conflict with federal drug law.
Blumenauer said he expects to introduce the tax-code legislation as well as a bill that would reschedule marijuana under the Controlled Substances Act, allowing states to enact medical marijuana laws without fear that federal authorities will continue raiding dispensaries or prosecuting providers. It makes no sense that marijuana is a Schedule I drug, in the same category as heroin and a more restrictive category than cocaine, Blumenauer said.
The measures have little chance of passing, said Kevin Sabet, a former White House drug policy adviser.
"These are really extreme solutions to the marijuana problem we have in this country," Sabet said. "The marijuana problem we have is a problem of addiction among kids, and stigma of people who have a criminal record for marijuana crimes.
"There are a lot more people in Congress who think that marijuana should be illegal but treated as a public health problem, than think it should be legal."
Project SAM suggests people shouldn't get criminal records for small-time marijuana offenses, but instead could face probation or treatment.
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