Still-life exhibit or political statement?

That’s a question on a lot of people’s minds about an orange Judge Elliot Daum is displaying on the wall of his Santa Rosa courtroom in the space once reserved for a photograph of the sitting U.S. president.
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/6696923-181/sonoma-county-judge-replaces-presidential?artslide=0

But the reason I said I think it is the most significant problem that we’ve got is that I think some of the aspects of current American government that people on both sides find frustrating are in part a function of the inability of people to understand how government can and should function.

It is a product of civic ignorance.

What I worry about is a remark that Benjamin Franklin made and Susan Leahy quoted Jefferson at the beginning about how “an ignorant people can never remain a free people."

Democracy cannot survive too much ignorance.
http://crooksandliars.com/2016/10/justice-david-souter-civic-ignorance-how|

Proposition 64 passes, effective January 1, 2018, a 15 percent excise tax, based on the gross receipts from the retail sale, would be imposed upon retail purchasers of all marijuana and marijuana products, including medical marijuana. In addition, a tax on cultivators of marijuana would be imposed. Patients would not be excluded from these taxes.

The ID card program is voluntary in California; however patients with a doctor’s recommendation only will not qualify for the tax break should Prop. 64 pass.
http://www.canorml.org/news/Tax_Fee_Changes_for_Medical_Marijuana_Patients_upon_Prop._64_Passage

Weekly roundup of marijuana-related events coming soon across the Golden State, from seminars to festivals. Journalists from 25 newsrooms across the state have joined forces through this website to tell the remarkable story and answer the many questions we all have about the expanding legal use of marijuana in California.
http://www.thecannifornian.com/