On Thursday, President Biden announced that he will be pardoning all past offenses of simple possession of marijuana by citizens and legal residents in violation of the Controlled Substances Act. He stated that these offenses have affected “thousands” of people (the Sentencing Commission’s latest data is from 2008-2013 and it is in the low thousands).
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The Douro Valley is where Portuguese wine tourism began . Carved by centuries of hand-built terraces climbing steep granite slopes, this is the oldest demarcated wine region in the world, officially established in 1756, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2001 . The Douro River winds through it all, connecting remote quintas to the city of Porto , and for generations it has been as much a working route for wine as a source of some of the country's most striking landscapes.
Oggi ci sono sostanzialmente tre temi sempre caldi e pronti ad infiammare animi e tastiere degli appassionati di vino. Il vino naturale non muore mai . Che tu abbia venti anni o due mesi di militanza enoica, quel manto religioso … continua »
I am in Healdsburg, California, and as I sometimes do while traveling, I revisit a Sundays Are For Sebastian. This comes from about thirteen years ago when Seba was five. Several months ago, I started a new weekly theme: Sundays Are … Continue reading →
