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Day: March 16, 2018

Pastor’s Reduced Sentence for ‘Sex With Minors’ Cast a Cloud Over International Women’s Day in Jamaica

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Jamaica (GV) – Jamaicans celebrated International Women’s Day in style this year, with numerous celebratory events and greetings flooding social media — but online celebrations took a pause around midday, when news broke that a former pastor in the Moravian Church, Rupert Clarke, was sentenced to eight years in prison for two counts of “having sex with a minor”. In November 2017, Clarke pled guilty to having sex with two sisters, who were both under 16 at the time. Netizens expressed their disapproval at what they saw as a very…

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Warning Shots Give a Sense of How Large the Black Market for Pot Remains

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California (VOSD) – California pot regulators have stepped up their enforcement efforts. In recent weeks, they sent more than 1,240 cease-and-desist letters to unlicensed operators, according to the state’s Bureau of Cannabis Control, and the number is rising by the day. So far, about 375 of those warning shots have been fired at San Diego-based operators. Image source; Pixabay Across California, about 2,500 entities are permitted to either grow, manufacture, distribute, test or sell marijuana. In San Diego, there are currently 12 licensed dispensaries selling medical and recreational products, nine distributors…

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