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And because of that, it could be summer, maybe later, before anyone in this state will get their first puff, taste or dose of medical marijuana.

In Colorado, marijuana goes fully “recreational” in January, making it as easy to buy as a bottle of booze if you’re 21 years of age.

WGN’s Julie Unruh traveled to Colorado how that state influenced what Illinois plans to do.

Kayvan Khalatbari owns Denver Relief, a dispensary in downtown Denver. He is a pioneer in the bud business. He not only sells medical marijuana, he grows it too, at a warehouse, a few miles away. He’s required to sell at least 70% of his grow under Colorado law.

Set up like bank tellers, the bud-tenders are happy to show a patient all sorts of medicine, much of which doesn`t resemble traditional medicine at all.

Medical marijuana comes in many forms: chocolates, gummies, suckers, seeds and nuts, even butter and olive oil and don`t forget the fruity beverages, all infused with cannabis.

For the old school smokers, you can buy a pre-roll or joint, or just buy a bag of buds.

You cannot smoke in the shop, you must buy it and take it home. That’s the law in Colorado and it will be the law in Illinois, too.

2 oz of cannabis products will cost a patient, with no help from insurance, $800-900 dollars. It should last 1-2 weeks.

Between 500 and 600 centers have popped up all over Colorado in recent years. There are also 800 plus cultivation centers in Colorado where the plants are grown.

By comparison, Illinois legislators have approved only 60 dispensaries and 22 cultivation center spread out over the 22 state police districts.

Representative Lou Lang is the sponsor of House Bill 1 in Illinois. He is a champion in the medical marijuana community for getting the bill signed this summer.

“It was important to pass the bill even with a few flaws in it because we have to get the ball rolling to help sick people feel better,” he said.

The few flaws, in Lang`s eyes:

Children in Illinois cannot get medical marijuana even with a doctors’ recommendation

A densely populated Cook County is allowed only one cultivation center to serve the entire area

How do you know when someone is legally impaired? Lang says you don’t and it`s a problem.

As imperfect as it may be, law makers have settled on a field sobriety test. It`s up to the officer who pulled you over to decide if a sobriety test is warranted. Just like in Colorado.

Illinois is greatly restricting how much “medicine” a patient can buy, no matter what form they purchase the plant – only 2.5 oz every two weeks. Legally, Colorado allows 2 oz per transaction- that can be multiple times in one day.

Illinois is requiring testing of these products for potency levels and safety. Colorado does not. And Illinois is requiring all systems be tied into one computer database including sellers, growers and government agencies with oversight. Colorado has no such program, using instead a lot of self-regulation.

Illinois will be a 4-year pilot program only. But advocates hope it will be extended with fewer limitation in 2018.

While the plan is to make the “medicine” “recreational” in places like Colorado, that is not necessarily the endgame in Illinois. At least not right now.<\|endoftext\|>Heinz Kerry was admitted into the emergency room of Nantucket Cottage Hospital. Teresa Heinz Kerry hospitalized

BOSTON (AP) — Teresa Heinz Kerry, the wife of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and heir to a ketchup company fortune, is in critical condition at a Boston hospital.

Heinz Kerry was flown to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston on Sunday night after doctors at a hospital on Massachusetts' Nantucket Island stabilized her, said Glen Johnson, a spokesman for Kerry. The secretary of state was with his 74-year-old wife as an ambulance first transported her to the island hospital, and also during her transfer to the Boston facility.

Story Continued Below

A spokesman for Nantucket Cottage Hospital said Heinz Kerry arrived in critical condition, although doctors were able to stabilize her. Neither the family nor hospital officials released any more details about her medical emergency or her condition Sunday night.

Doctors treated Heinz Kerry for breast cancer in late 2009.

She previously has said she found in September 2009 that she had cancer in her left breast after having her annual mammogram.

A month later, she underwent lumpectomies on both breasts at a Washington hospital after doctors also discovered what they thought was a benign growth on her right breast.

That diagnosis was initially confirmed in postoperative pathology, but two other doctors later found it to be malignant.

In November 2009, Heinz Kerry had another pair of lumpectomies performed at Massachusetts General Hospital.

On Sunday, shortly after 3:30 p.m., emergency officials on Nantucket got a call requesting medical aid at a home on Hulbert Avenue and dispatched an ambulance there, Nantucket Police Lt. Jerry Adams said. Online records show the property is connected to Heinz Kerry's family.

Heinz Kerry is the widow of former U.S. Senator John Heinz, and heir to the Heinz ketchup fortune. Heinz died in April 1991 when a helicopter collided with a plane over a schoolyard in Merion, Pa. The senator was among seven people, including two children, who perished in the accident.

Heinz Kerry and John Kerry married in 1995.

She enthusiastically participated in her husband's campaign for president in 2004 and became known for her strong opinions, sometimes attracting as much attention as the candidate.

Before Sunday's emergency, John Kerry had been at the Nantucket home since returning from a nearly two-week, around-the-world diplomatic trip to the Mideast and Southeast Asia in the pre-dawn hours of July 3.

Before his wife's medical problem, he had planned to return to Washington on Monday and then co-host with Treasury Secretary Jack Lew high-level strategic and economic talks with senior Chinese officials on Wednesday and Thursday.

Kerry had also spoken of his desire to make his sixth trip to Israel as secretary starting at the end of the week. State Department officials said Kerry's schedule may now change pending developments with his wife's health.

Follow @politico<\|endoftext\|>More than 80 years before JK Rowling testified to the Leveson inquiry into press standards that paparazzi attention left her feeling "under siege or like a hostage", James Joyce was writing to his son about the reporter "posted on the steps" outside his London home at midnight.

In a letter written on 9 July 1931 and published for the first time in digital form by the National Library of Ireland (NLI), the author describes to his son Giorgio and his daughter-in-law Helen how the press pursued him over details of his wedding to Nora Barnacle five days earlier. Joyce had been living with Nora for nearly 27 years – according to Ian Pindar's biography of the author, he "regarded wedding rings as symbols of slavery" – but the pair were legally married in 1931 to "legitimise [his children] in the eyes of the law".

The letter, which belongs to the Zurich James Joyce Foundation, shows how reporters went to great lengths to discover details of the ceremony Joyce had tried to keep a secret. The author told his son that anyone who thinks he married as "a publicity stunt he must be a congenital imbecile".

Joyce writes of how a "Press Association man" stopped him in Kensington's Campden Grove. "I was eating marchpane at the time out of my pocket and went on eating so as to gain time," he writes. "He went on to say he had been sent to me for a statement as to why if I married N.B. in 1904, I was etc etc. Having finished the marchpane I asked him upstairs."

The reporter repeatedly asked Joyce for a statement, but Joyce referred him to his solicitor, only to find himself the subject of a stream of press requests. "All day the bell went and the telephone. Even at midnight when we came back from supper there was a reporter posted on the steps. All got the same answer," he continued.

The most persistent was from a Sunday Express writer who tricked his way into the novelist's house on the day of the wedding: "he said he had been sent to inspect the register in which Nora was described as a 'spinster'", and to ask Joyce for a comment. The author declined, again referring the reporter to his solicitor, but the journalist soon returned with a message from his editor.

"It was pure blackmail," Joyce told his son. "They offered me half the middle page if I would write an article for the next day on Modern Marriage and Free Love, and he gave me to understand If I did I would be well paid and if I did not the paper would hold itself free to deal with my 'double marriage' as it pleased."

The reporter received short shrift from Joyce, who "told him to inform his editor that I did not write for the press and did not read it either".

Joyce told his son that "the story that we are to stand by is that there was a marriage in 1904 in Austria invalid for some reason I shall proceed to invent". The eventual statement to press was that Nora had given a false name, making the marriage invalid, and that they were now marrying for "testamentary reasons", according to Gordon Bowker's biography.

This didn't convince: The Mirror "was quick to sniff a scandal", writes Bowker, quoting the paper saying that "according to Who's Who he was married in 1904 to Miss Nora Barnacle of Galway".

The letter is one of 90 bequeathed to the Zurich foundation by Professor Hans E Jahnke, the son of Giorgio Joyce's second wife, Dr Asta Osterwalder Joyce, and made available digitally in some jurisdictions for the first time.

"The letters in the Joyce Foundation, mainly addressed to George Joyce (in Italian) and to Helen Joyce (Fleischman, in English), dealing largely with family matters, have some mainly biographical relevance, the ones to Helen Joyce also contain remarks on Joyce's work. The Foundation is also in collaboration with a project to publish all extant letters of Joyce – something that is overdue anyway," said the foundation's Fritz Senn.

And because of that, it could be summer, maybe later, before anyone in this state will get their first puff, taste or dose of medical marijuana.

In Colorado, marijuana goes fully “recreational” in January, making it as easy to buy as a bottle of booze if you’re 21 years of age.

WGN’s Julie Unruh traveled to Colorado how that state influenced what Illinois plans to do.

Kayvan Khalatbari owns Denver Relief, a dispensary in downtown Denver. He is a pioneer in the bud business. He not only sells medical marijuana, he grows it too, at a warehouse, a few miles away. He’s required to sell at least 70% of his grow under Colorado law.

Set up like bank tellers, the bud-tenders are happy to show a patient all sorts of medicine, much of which doesn`t resemble traditional medicine at all.

Medical marijuana comes in many forms: chocolates, gummies, suckers, seeds and nuts, even butter and olive oil and don`t forget the fruity beverages, all infused with cannabis.

For the old school smokers, you can buy a pre-roll or joint, or just buy a bag of buds.

You cannot smoke in the shop, you must buy it and take it home. That’s the law in Colorado and it will be the law in Illinois, too.

2 oz of cannabis products will cost a patient, with no help from insurance, $800-900 dollars. It should last 1-2 weeks.

Between 500 and 600 centers have popped up all over Colorado in recent years. There are also 800 plus cultivation centers in Colorado where the plants are grown.

By comparison, Illinois legislators have approved only 60 dispensaries and 22 cultivation center spread out over the 22 state police districts.

Representative Lou Lang is the sponsor of House Bill 1 in Illinois. He is a champion in the medical marijuana community for getting the bill signed this summer.

“It was important to pass the bill even with a few flaws in it because we have to get the ball rolling to help sick people feel better,” he said.

The few flaws, in Lang`s eyes:

Children in Illinois cannot get medical marijuana even with a doctors’ recommendation

A densely populated Cook County is allowed only one cultivation center to serve the entire area

How do you know when someone is legally impaired? Lang says you don’t and it`s a problem.

As imperfect as it may be, law makers have settled on a field sobriety test. It`s up to the officer who pulled you over to decide if a sobriety test is warranted. Just like in Colorado.

Illinois is greatly restricting how much “medicine” a patient can buy, no matter what form they purchase the plant – only 2.5 oz every two weeks. Legally, Colorado allows 2 oz per transaction- that can be multiple times in one day.

Illinois is requiring testing of these products for potency levels and safety. Colorado does not. And Illinois is requiring all systems be tied into one computer database including sellers, growers and government agencies with oversight. Colorado has no such program, using instead a lot of self-regulation.

Illinois will be a 4-year pilot program only. But advocates hope it will be extended with fewer limitation in 2018.

While the plan is to make the “medicine” “recreational” in places like Colorado, that is not necessarily the endgame in Illinois. At least not right now.<|endoftext|>Heinz Kerry was admitted into the emergency room of Nantucket Cottage Hospital. Teresa Heinz Kerry hospitalized

BOSTON (AP) — Teresa Heinz Kerry, the wife of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and heir to a ketchup company fortune, is in critical condition at a Boston hospital.

Heinz Kerry was flown to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston on Sunday night after doctors at a hospital on Massachusetts' Nantucket Island stabilized her, said Glen Johnson, a spokesman for Kerry. The secretary of state was with his 74-year-old wife as an ambulance first transported her to the island hospital, and also during her transfer to the Boston facility.

Story Continued Below

A spokesman for Nantucket Cottage Hospital said Heinz Kerry arrived in critical condition, although doctors were able to stabilize her. Neither the family nor hospital officials released any more details about her medical emergency or her condition Sunday night.

Doctors treated Heinz Kerry for breast cancer in late 2009.

She previously has said she found in September 2009 that she had cancer in her left breast after having her annual mammogram.

A month later, she underwent lumpectomies on both breasts at a Washington hospital after doctors also discovered what they thought was a benign growth on her right breast.

That diagnosis was initially confirmed in postoperative pathology, but two other doctors later found it to be malignant.

In November 2009, Heinz Kerry had another pair of lumpectomies performed at Massachusetts General Hospital.

On Sunday, shortly after 3:30 p.m., emergency officials on Nantucket got a call requesting medical aid at a home on Hulbert Avenue and dispatched an ambulance there, Nantucket Police Lt. Jerry Adams said. Online records show the property is connected to Heinz Kerry's family.

Heinz Kerry is the widow of former U.S. Senator John Heinz, and heir to the Heinz ketchup fortune. Heinz died in April 1991 when a helicopter collided with a plane over a schoolyard in Merion, Pa. The senator was among seven people, including two children, who perished in the accident.

Heinz Kerry and John Kerry married in 1995.

She enthusiastically participated in her husband's campaign for president in 2004 and became known for her strong opinions, sometimes attracting as much attention as the candidate.

Before Sunday's emergency, John Kerry had been at the Nantucket home since returning from a nearly two-week, around-the-world diplomatic trip to the Mideast and Southeast Asia in the pre-dawn hours of July 3.

Before his wife's medical problem, he had planned to return to Washington on Monday and then co-host with Treasury Secretary Jack Lew high-level strategic and economic talks with senior Chinese officials on Wednesday and Thursday.

Kerry had also spoken of his desire to make his sixth trip to Israel as secretary starting at the end of the week. State Department officials said Kerry's schedule may now change pending developments with his wife's health.

Follow @politico<|endoftext|>More than 80 years before JK Rowling testified to the Leveson inquiry into press standards that paparazzi attention left her feeling "under siege or like a hostage", James Joyce was writing to his son about the reporter "posted on the steps" outside his London home at midnight.

In a letter written on 9 July 1931 and published for the first time in digital form by the National Library of Ireland (NLI), the author describes to his son Giorgio and his daughter-in-law Helen how the press pursued him over details of his wedding to Nora Barnacle five days earlier. Joyce had been living with Nora for nearly 27 years – according to Ian Pindar's biography of the author, he "regarded wedding rings as symbols of slavery" – but the pair were legally married in 1931 to "legitimise [his children] in the eyes of the law".

The letter, which belongs to the Zurich James Joyce Foundation, shows how reporters went to great lengths to discover details of the ceremony Joyce had tried to keep a secret. The author told his son that anyone who thinks he married as "a publicity stunt he must be a congenital imbecile".

Joyce writes of how a "Press Association man" stopped him in Kensington's Campden Grove. "I was eating marchpane at the time out of my pocket and went on eating so as to gain time," he writes. "He went on to say he had been sent to me for a statement as to why if I married N.B. in 1904, I was etc etc. Having finished the marchpane I asked him upstairs."

The reporter repeatedly asked Joyce for a statement, but Joyce referred him to his solicitor, only to find himself the subject of a stream of press requests. "All day the bell went and the telephone. Even at midnight when we came back from supper there was a reporter posted on the steps. All got the same answer," he continued.

The most persistent was from a Sunday Express writer who tricked his way into the novelist's house on the day of the wedding: "he said he had been sent to inspect the register in which Nora was described as a 'spinster'", and to ask Joyce for a comment. The author declined, again referring the reporter to his solicitor, but the journalist soon returned with a message from his editor.

"It was pure blackmail," Joyce told his son. "They offered me half the middle page if I would write an article for the next day on Modern Marriage and Free Love, and he gave me to understand If I did I would be well paid and if I did not the paper would hold itself free to deal with my 'double marriage' as it pleased."

The reporter received short shrift from Joyce, who "told him to inform his editor that I did not write for the press and did not read it either".

Joyce told his son that "the story that we are to stand by is that there was a marriage in 1904 in Austria invalid for some reason I shall proceed to invent". The eventual statement to press was that Nora had given a false name, making the marriage invalid, and that they were now marrying for "testamentary reasons", according to Gordon Bowker's biography.

This didn't convince: The Mirror "was quick to sniff a scandal", writes Bowker, quoting the paper saying that "according to Who's Who he was married in 1904 to Miss Nora Barnacle of Galway".

The letter is one of 90 bequeathed to the Zurich foundation by Professor Hans E Jahnke, the son of Giorgio Joyce's second wife, Dr Asta Osterwalder Joyce, and made available digitally in some jurisdictions for the first time.

"The letters in the Joyce Foundation, mainly addressed to George Joyce (in Italian) and to Helen Joyce (Fleischman, in English), dealing largely with family matters, have some mainly biographical relevance, the ones to Helen Joyce also contain remarks on Joyce's work. The Foundation is also in collaboration with a project to publish all extant letters of Joyce – something that is overdue anyway," said the foundation's Fritz Senn.