Legal haze: D.C. pot users face questions as deadline expires this week

File photo of pedestrians passing by a DC Cannabis Campaign sign in WashingtonVoters in the District of Columbia last year passed a measure clearing the way for pot possession, but members of Congress have used their power over the city to prevent local officials from coming up with any plan to let the drug be sold legally for recreational purposes. With the congressional review period for the new measure set to expire on Wednesday, District of Columbia pot users will be left in a murkier position than those in Colorado and Washington state, which fully legalized marijuana last year. You can possess a small amount … but you can only get it, I guess, illegally," said Eleanor Holmes Norton, Washington's non-voting representative in Congress. A key argument by supporters was that marijuana laws unfairly victimized black people in Washington, who represent about half the city's population.

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Professor, two others dead in apparent murder-suicide in Arkansas

By Steve Barnes LITTLE ROCK, Ark (Reuters) – A university professor, his wife and his sister were found shot to death on Friday night in the family’s burning home in a prosperous Little Rock suburb, Arkansas authorities said. “The initial indication is murder-suicide, but it’s an open investigation so I can’t comment beyond that,” Captain Jim Hansard of the Maumelle, Arkansas police department, said on Saturday.  Maumelle is a city of 18,000 located across the Arkansas River from Little Rock, the state capital. The dead included Dr. James Wilbanks, 41, a professor of management at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
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