RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) — President Barack Obama said Tuesday he would nominate a candidate to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court who is "indisputably" qualified. He called on the staunch Republican opposition in the Senate to rise above "venom and rancor" and give the nominee a vote.
"I intend to do my job between now and January 20 of 2017," Obama said. "I expect them to do their job as well."
BOSTON — As a medical marijuana dispensary opened its doors in Lowell Tuesday morning, demonstrators who support a move to make sales of the drug legal for recreational use gathered nearby to call on the company that owns the shop to break ties with a lobbyist opposing their campaign.
Patriot Care, the company that operates the dispensary and plans to open others in Boston and Greenfield, contends that the issues of medical and recreational marijuana use are separate, according to Greg Czarnowski, a spokesman, who called the demonstration "odd."
