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NEW YORK 鈥?Voters in some states weighed in Tuesday on several of most volatile issues facing America 鈥?gun control, marijuana legalization, the death penalty and the ri stanley cup ght of a terminally ill person to get a doctor help in dying.Proposals addressing those topics were among more than 150 measures appearing on statewide ballots. California led the pack with 17 ballot questions, including one that would require actors in porn movies to wear condoms during filming of sexual intercourse. Another would ban single-use plastic grocery bags.California was among five states 鈥?along with Arizona, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada 鈥?voting on whether to legalize the recreational use of marijuana. Three others 鈥?Florida, Arkansas and North Dakota 鈥?decided whether to permit marijuana stanley cup for medical purposes. Montanans voted on whether to ease restrictions on an existing medical marijuana law.Collectively, it was the closest the U.S. has ever come to a national referendum on marijuana.If yes votes prevail across the board, more than 23 percent of the U.S. population will live in states where recreational pot is legal. The jurisdictions where that already the case 鈥?Alaska, Colorado, Oregon, Washington state and the District of Columbia 鈥?have less than 6 percent of the population.Another hot-button issue 鈥?gun control 鈥?was on the ballot in four states, including California, which already has stanley cup some of the nation toughest gun-related laws. Proposition 63 wou Rtcy Maine Legislature expected to consider gun restrictions after state s deadliest mass shooting
For mother day, Tony Anderson installed a compact florescent light bulb in his grandmother house a few years ago. Several months later, while visiting her again, he overhead her say to a friend, Girl, I ;m going green! Anderson immediately knew that he found a way to include people who had been left out of the public discourse on climate change.African- American low income communi jordan ties did not seem to be talking about global warming, Anderson noticed, that conversation just wasn ;t being had in our community; but with the compact fluorescent light bulb, which use far less energy than tradition incandescent bulbs, Anderson saw a way to directly connect people to their environmental impact every time they turn on a light.As a junior at Morehouse College, Anderson started the Let Raise a Million Project to install one million clean blubs, as his organization calls them, in peoples ; homes. T yeezy hanks to a fellowship from the Compton Foundation and support from the Sierra Club and the National Wildlife Foundation, Anderson has already changed 12,000 bulbs.Social entrepreneurism is not always glamorous. Anderson started with 800 light b air max ulbs from the Sierra Club stashed under beds and in the closets of six different friends ; houses because he had no place to put them.He expanded quickly, but says that he it has not been without its difficulty, overwhelming is a complete and utter understatement |
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