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EICHSFELD, Germany AP 鈥?When Erdina Laca goes grocery shopping in Eichsfeld these days, she pulls out a special payment card thats for asylum-seekers only.She no longer pays in cash for her apples, eggs and fish 鈥?like most of the Germans standing in line with her at the register.Laca, 45, came from Albania with her husband and three children and applied for asylum in Germany last September. The family lives in the county of Eichsfeld in the eastern state of Thuringia and has stanley quencher been one of the first in the country to receive half of their government benefits in the form of cashless payments on a plastic card. With half the money that is on the card, I can buy groceries, and wit stanley cup h the other half in cash I can buy in every shop whatever I need for me and my children, Laca said.The new rule, which was passed by parliament last month, calls for asylum-seekers to receive their benefits on a card for use at local shops and to pay for services. They will only be able to withdraw limited amounts of cash and wont be able to transfer money outside Germany. The aim is to prevent migrants stanley thermoskanne from sending money to family and friends abroad, or to smugglers.Migrant advocates groups have criticized the new regulation as discriminatory 鈥?especially as its being implemented in a country thats still much more cash-centric than many other European countries and where some businesses, especially restaurants, wont even accept card payments.They say people fleeing war and persecution wont be deterr Vpff Head of Russian private army Wagner says his forces are handing control of Bakhmut to Moscow
SAN FRANCISCO 鈥?Voter support for legal marijuana in Washington and Colorado is spurring similar campaigns in California and three other states that together may bring pot within lawful reach of nearly one in five Americans.Advocates are seeking the signatures of registered voters in California, Arizona, Oregon and Alaska, with a combined population of 49 million, stanley mugs to put the question on ballots in 2014. Colorado and Washington last year legalized marijuana for 12.1 stanley cup million people. Because of Colorado and Washington, its created a cannabis tidal wave across the country, Mike Jolson, 45, a legalization activist in Santa Cruz, said by telephone. We want to capitalize on this wave. Washington and Colorado became the first U.S. states to legalize recreational marijuana through referendums last November, defying federal law that has prohibited pot since the 1930s. In August, the U.S. Justice Department said it wouldnt challenge the states, opening the door for others.In Washington state, regulators are finalizing rules for growing, processing and selling marijuana ahead of a Dec. 1 deadline to begin issuing licenses. In Colorado, which has finished setting its rules, voters will decide next month whether to tax retail sales at rates of as much as 25 percent. Their success in Colorado was very inspiring, and I thought it would be a good time for us to try here, said Dennis Bohlke, a computer programmer from Phoenix w stanley uk ho said he modeled the Arizona initiative after the Colorado mea