Estate Planning

Organ donation, trasnplant discussed on NPR
Weekend Edition - Sunday had a very fine segment this morning on organ donation. Given what they were trying to do with this piece, there probably wasn't time to portray the personal impact of donating and receiving, convey some of the statistics about the various waiting lists, provide a brief overview of some of the evolving strategies for increasing organ yields, AND discuss some of the

Smoke 'em if you got 'em, says Sask. Court of Appeal
The distinctive aroma of weed in the air isn't enough to search or arrest someone, the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal...

The death row inmate as organ donor
In a recent issue of Good Magazine, Graeme Wood argues that we should explore the possibility of allowing death row prisoners to, essentially, die by organ donation: The real objection to the Mayan Protocol [death by organ donation] is aesthetic...

Legal Weed not allowed either
The International Herald Tribune reports: SACRAMENTO, Calif.: Vaune Dillmann thought the wording on his bottle caps was just a clever play on the name of the Northern California town where he brews his beer ? Weed...

A "Responsible Adult" Would Be Someone Carrying Less Than a Quarter-Pound of Weed
Someone at CNN must be smoking a little weed (or today must be a really, really slow news day) because CNN is featuring a story about a bill that was introduced back in April. [Legislators aim to snuff out penalties...

'Try Legal Weed'
From Weed, Calif., where a beer brewer is in a tussle with the fed's over his supposed-to-be-funny bottle-cap slogan. They say his packaging alludes to marijuana use. So maybe his brews do include Shastafarian Porter and Mountain High IPA...

Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm Failure

Kidde
Recalls Dual Sensor Smoke Alarms