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Thursday, Oct. 08, 2009

Should Kentucky legalize and tax weed?

October 8, 2009

A link to the Kentucky News Review is available throughout the day on Kentucky.com, under the Find It Now tab, in the black navigation bar above.

• The Kentucky Journal of Equine, Agriculture and Natural Resources Law poses the question: Would Kentucky benefit from a tax on marijuana? The question is extended to asking instead of funding eradication efforts to destroy this recession-proof crop, could the state benefit from the legalization of marijuana? "Kentucky is a major producer of marijuana, a crop that, if taxed, could result in large revenues for the Commonwealth. However, some people have doubts that a 'tax revenue would offset the full cost of regulating and enforcing the legal market.'"
  

• The Dallas Morning News is covering the annual conference in Lexington of the Aviation Forecast Summit. Michael Boyd, of Boyd Group, and the conference speakers agreed that the losses to the airline industry are huge, the traffic declines are bad and airline revenues don't look to bounce back quickly. But they expect U.S. carriers to fare better this year than airlines in other parts of the world. The U.S. airlines were first to cut their costs and reduce their capacity to adjust to last year's record jet fuel prices and this year to a drop in passenger demand and revenues.
  

• Georgetown firefighter and bagpiper Anne Zielske is profiled in the Georgetown News-Graphic. While the bagpipes are an enjoyable musical hobby, Zielske’s main job focus is working for Georgetown Fire Department, a job she really enjoys. "I really, and truly, enjoy helping people," she told the newspaper.
  

• Dale Walker, a retired Knoxville mining engineer who spent 17 years working around the coal mines of Eastern Kentucky, has written a thriller about an international conspiracy of arms smuggling that begins and ends in an Appalachian coal mine, according to the Knoxville News-Sentinel. "There are not that many books written about engineers. I wanted to write a book where an engineer's the hero," Walker told the newspaper.
  

• The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America lists the top 100 "most challenging places to live with allergies" for the fall season this year. Louisville is third on the list. The ranking is based on pollen scores, number of allergy medications used per patient and number of allergy specialists per patient.
  

• The Governor's Arts Awards were presented Tuesday in Frankfort at the State Capitol. WFPL has a report on the recipients.