Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina
Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2017
The Oregonian: Cops seize 3,000 lbs. of pot grown for 5 medical patients, authorities say
Huffington Post: Energy Bill Would Make It Easier For Companies To Harm, Kill Marine Mammals
NY Times: Cancer Doctors Cite Risks of Drinking Alcohol
Herb: Citing Health Benefits, Norway Reduced The Punishment For LSD Possession To Community Service
Vanity Fair: Inside Trump's Campaign Against The USDA's Scientists
Press Democrat: California treasurer proposes banking strategies for cannabis industry
BisNow: Cannabis Campuses Coming To Golden State In 2018
Herald & News: Klamath County Sheriff's office seizes millions in illegal cannabis
NY Times: As Wild Salmon Decline, Norway Pressures Its Giant Fish Farms
Daily Beast: Lawmakers defend 'unprecedented' Pentagon health panel, which could undermine FDA
The Guardian: 'Bike theft is not inevitable': Vancouver rolls out a cycle crime revolution
Washington Post: Two words in the GOP tax bill mean tens of billions for the super-wealthy
LA Times: California homeowners could get a tax break to capture rainwater in their backyards
SF Chronicle: There's only 1 quail left in San Francisco, and cats are likely to blame
Daily Mail: Housing Crisis: 169,000 are homeless on West Coast
Monday, Nov. 6, 2017
Video: PBS: How the opioid crisis decimated the American workforce
NY Times: Competition Is Ruining Childhood. The Kids Should Fight Back.
The Oregonian: Homelessness increases 100% in some Oregon counties: Find out how it looks throughout the state
The Oregonian: Third wolf illegally killed in Southern Oregon, $5,000 reward posted
NY Times: Here's How Far The World Is From Meeting Its Climate Goals
San Jose Mercury: Meet the startups fighting soaring housing costs
Washington Post: Welcome to the new Gilded Age: Corporations Benefitting from Tax Changes
Washington Post: The Air Force says it failed to follow procedures, allowing Texas church shooter to obtain firearms
Press Democrat: Solful gives Sebastopol a second sales outlet for medical cannabis
The Guardian: What are the Paradise Papers and what do they tell us?
Washington Post: Veterans tell of medical marijuana use in defiance of backward federal policy
SF Chronicle: Native Hawaiians again seek political sovereignty with a new constitution
SF Chronicle: Homelessness soars on West Coast as cities struggle to cope
Sunday, Nov. 5, 2017
Daily Beast: U.S. Sends Lesbian Refugee Back to Country Where She Was Raped
NY Times: Modest Dressing, as a Virtue
Vice: Europe's Largest Legal Weed Farm Is Being Built in a Nuclear Bunker
Washington Post: A powerful lawmaker wants to ‘invalidate’ the Endangered Species Act. He’s getting close.
LA Times: In a rural Northern California valley, a development battle asks: Is a helicopter a tractor?
LA Times: California slapping high taxes on marijuana, causing sticker shock for some users
Friday, Nov. 3, 2017
LA Times: OP ED: Four dams in the West are coming down — a victory wrapped in a defeat for smart water policy
Thursday, Nov. 2, 2017
NY Times: Throwback Thurs: Marijuana Goes Industrial in California
NY Times: F.D.A. Warns Companies Against Claims That Marijuana Cures Diseases
Press Democrat: In the wake of fires, Santa Rosa’s underpass homeless camps grow
Washington Post: Dennis Banks, founder of American Indian Movement, dies at 80
Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2017
Huffington Post: EPA Replaced Its Top Science Advisers Without Telling Them
The Oregonian: Oregon overpays more than $74 million for Medicaid, governor kept in the dark
Press Democrat: 4 abalone hunters rescued after boat sinks off Mendocino coast
Kansan City Star: Is that service dog a fake? Under federal law, you can’t even ask
Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2017
Daily Mail: Calif. black market pot expected to dominate after January
Seattle Times: EPA leader to drop scientists from advisory board
Vice: The Future of Legal Weed Looks More Corporate Than You'd Think
LA Times: Cannabis ads appear in TSA checkpoint trays at Ontario airport
The Guardian: British Antarctic research station to shut for second winter as cracks in ice grow
The Guardian: A new documentary, Rodents of Unusual Size, follows the Louisiana hunters waging war against an invasive species
The Guardian: Oregon scraps water rights deal for Nestle's Cascade Locks bottling plant