“I have a sense that I’ve given people a sense of what the possibilities are with

“I have a sense that I’ve given people a sense of what the possibilities are with libraries. If I have increased peoples’ sense of possibilities, that’s something that I’d be proud of.”

Carlton Sears, reflecting on his 15 years as director of the Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County. Sears retires July 31, and a reception in his honor is planned today at the Poland library.

“We’re shifting toward a stricter state control of the distribution and production of this drug. It’s a fight on both fronts: against consumption and drug trafficking. We think the prohibition of some drugs is creating more problems to society than the drug itself.”

Eleuterio Fernandez Huidobro, Uraguay Minister of Defense, in announcing a plan in which the government would be allowed to sell marijuana but only to adults who register on a government database.