While a recent large investment by McDonald’s in Guatemala has brought them kudos from conscious consumers, sustainable principles embodied in ‘Certified Organic’ and ‘Fair Trade’ standards are facing a challenge from a natural hazard: Roya.
While times may be tough for many American workers and businesses, 2011 was a great year for the global fast food giant, which included a 50,000 worker, single day hiring blitz in April, and the best performance of any Dow Jones stock.
In the 2009 “Ogden Memo,” Obama’s Deputy Attorney General, David Ogden signaled that the Obama Administration did not consider prosecution of medical marijuana patients an “efficient use of federal resources.” But in a memo issued Wednesday by Deputy Atty.
We’ve all heard about how the Declaration of Independence was penned on hemp paper and how our founding fathers grew the stuff like it was, well, a weed. Their reasons for growing it were sensible enough: hemp offered unparalleled capital potential as a cash crop with its seemingly limitless industrial applications, not to mention its nutritional properties.
A battle between the town of Isleton, California and federal prosecutors over medicinal marijuana cultivation perfectly illustrates the stakes involved in the Tenth Amendment debate.
Lost in last week’s coverage and commentary of the unfolding Osama bin Laden story was the discovery of yet another drug tunnel on the U.S.-Mexico border, this time in Arizona. Border Patrol agents working in conjunction with the Government of Mexico confirmed the existence of an illicit tunnel on May 5th, three days after U.S.
In the midst of America’s perpetual campaign cycle, President Obama and a handful of GOP hopefuls aren’t the only ones getting ready for 2012.
