Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina
Saturday, Dec. 17, 2016
Huffington Post: This Proposed Pipeline Would Cut Right Through The Appalachian Trail
Denver Channel: CBD hemp oil named a Schedule I drug by DEA
Friday, Dec. 16, 2016
Mother Jones: Prop 47: California Set a Bunch of Drug Offenders Free—and Then Left Them Hanging
LA Times: Robert Durst said he was high on meth during some interviews for HBO series 'The Jinx'
NY Daily News: NY Cops bust $2 million magic mushroom grow house
USA Today: Indian Wells enacts state's strictest home grow rules
New Republic: Photo Essay: Nebraska-The Great Abandonment
Global News: Canadian medical pot company to grow 200,000 lbs a year
The Guardian: How price-gouging of opioid overdose cure costs lives
Thursday, Dec. 15, 2016
SF Chronicle: 106 MPH tornado-force wind gust recorded in Sierra Nevada Thursday morning
Seattle Times: Video: Bobcat in WA catches large salmon
Seattle Times: Bird drops salmon on Seattle power lines, knocks out power
Audubon: The World's Top Bird Detective
Daily Beast: Will Ryan Zinke Open Up 265 Million Acres of Land to Drilling and Mining?
LA Times: California's drought divergence: Wetter in the north, still bone dry in the south
Press Democrat: Santa Rosa marijuana processing plant back in business
Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2016
The Oregonian: Columbia River tribes one step away from housing at Bonneville Dam after U.S. Senate approves bill
The Oregonian: Racial, ethnic disparities emerge in Oregon's conviction rate for drug possession
Reveal: If You've Ridden With Uber, Your Personal Info Isn't Safe
Press Democrat: Sonoma County bans rural pot growing
LA Times: Teens are cutting back on drugs, alcohol, smoking and even electronic cigarettes, study finds
LA Times: The great California tree die-off turns into a Gold Rush
LA Times: The 102 million dead trees in California's forests are turning tree cutters into millionaires
SF Chronicle: Geophysical Union scientists protest Trump appointments
SF Chronicle: DEA dismissed its own misconceptions about pot, group says
Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2016
Huffington Post: Marijuana Pants For Kids Stoke Outrage
San Jose Mercury: California: Why tiny insects are tearing up Sierra forests
Washington Post: Trump selects Rep. Ryan Zinke, who frequently votes against environmentalists, to lead Interior
NY Times: Rise in Infant Drug Dependence Is Felt Most in Rural Areas
Washington Post: Bakersfield cop shoots dead old man with dementia
Monday, Dec. 12, 2016
Denver Post: Colorado marijuana shops sold more than $1 billion of cannabis in first 10 months of 2016
The Guardian: New Zealand: Epicentre of learning: the dairy farm teaching scientists how earthquakes form
The Guardian: Pipeline rupture spews oil into creek 150 miles from Standing Rock
The Oregonian: 41 well-paying jobs in Oregon that don't require college degrees
San Jose Mercury: Why California’s legal marijuana sales rollout could be delayed
The Guardian: Trump's transition: sceptics guide every agency dealing with climate change
SF Chronicle: Emeral Cup draws 30,000 guests to Santa Rosa
Sunday, Dec. 11, 2016
Seattle Times: Canada plans $7 billion dam in B.C. despite opposition
Washington Post: Editorial: The great opioid epidemic
Press Democrat: Marijuana: Prop. 64 mandates evolving
NY Times: It’s Our Land. Let’s Keep It That Way.
The Guardian: Pills that kill: why are thousands dying from fentanyl abuse?
Saturday, Dec. 10, 2016
ADN: Anchorage's first marijuana shop opens, with only plants for sale
Stat : In a land of thundering reindeer, suicide stalks the indigenous Sami (thanks, climate change)
Press Democrat: Witness: Slaying victim at Mendocino County pot farm had little chance at self-defense
The Guardian: New medical marijuana research could greenlight more uses in treatment
BBC: The Collosal African Solar Farm That Could Power Europe
NY Daily News: Masked white men in North Dakota terrorize the indigenous people of Standing Rock
Friday, Dec. 9, 2016
Washington Times: Legal weed advocates sneak marijuana into Jeff Sessions’ Senate office
NY Daily News: Radiation from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster detected on Oregon shores