Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina
Sunday, Dec. 4, 2016
Press Democrat: Petaluma hydroponics company expanding amid pot boom
Press Democrat: Explore the mystery of North Coast pygmy forests
Press Democrat: Sonoma County to tackle pot regulations next week
Saturday, Dec. 3, 2016
NY Times: Trends: Mother Nature Is Brought to You By …
Quartz: A cannabis marketing company is bringing pot parties to the elderly
NY Times: A Dose of a Hallucinogen From a ‘Magic Mushroom,’ and Then Lasting Peace
NY Times: How the World’s Big Banks Are Putting Rain Forests in Peril
NY Times: Fake Cowboys and Real Indians
The Oregonian: 25 places to rent a yurt around Oregon
Friday, Dec. 2, 2016
Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016
NCJ: Ack! The Internet
The Guardian: Magic mushroom ingredient psilocybin could be key to treating depression - studies
The Guardian: Canada prepares for surge of Mexican immigrants after visa lift and Trump win
Del Norte Triplicate: Yurok Youth Center opens in klamath
Washington Post: Bernie Sanders: Carrier just showed corporations how to beat Donald Trump
Washington Post: ‘Magic mushroom’ compound relieved cancer patients of ‘existential distress’
Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2016
Huffington Post: The NFL Is Punishing A Player Who Uses Marijuana To Treat His Crohn’s Disease
Press Democrat: ‘Trimmigrant’ tensions flare on North Coast
Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2016
Redding Searchlight: Shasta County's final tallies released; Voters narrowly pass $139m college bond
Times-Standard: State funding cut prompts cuts at College of the Redwoods
SF Chronicle: Standing Rock activists asking white people to stop treating pipeline protest like Burning Man
Monday, Nov. 28, 2016
The Guardian: Neil Young asks Obama to stop "violent aggression" at pipeline protest
San Jose Mercury: People over 80 who use tech tools feel less lonely, more fit, Stanford study finds
AAAS: Health Alert: New study shows marijuana users have low blood flow to the brain
AP: Gov’t Will Not Forcibly Remove Pipeline Protesters
Sunday, Nov. 27, 2016
Seattle Times: Upstate NY towns embroiled in fight over tall wind turbines
The Guardian: ‘A recipe for scandal’: Trump conflicts of interest point to constitutional crisis
Washington Post: Virginia’s first hemp crop in decades could signal new opportunity
SF Chronicle: California marijuana would fail Oregon’s standards, study finds
Saturday, Nov. 26, 2016
Huffington Post: In The Weeks Before Trump Takes Office, Obama’s Mad Dash To Save Public Lands
SF Chronicle: Legalized marijuana setting scores of defendants free
LA Times: Why giving up your phone number can mean giving up your privacy
Friday, Nov. 25, 2016
San Jose Mercury: California marijuana legalization comes with legal reprieves
SF Examiner: Killing the golden goose — don’t strangle the new cannabis industry with a big tax grab
Thursday, Nov. 24, 2016
Financial Times: US alcohol makers ponder effect of cannabis legalisation
Washington Post: National Geographic asked photographers to show the impact of climate change, here’s what they shot
Washington Post: American Samoa: This island is now powered almost entirely by solar energy
SF Chronicle: Commercial crab season delayed again this year
Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2016
Washington Post: Marijuana is becoming a billion-dollar business in Canada. Now all it has to do is become legal.
Scientific American: Tuna’s Declining Mercury Contamination Linked to U.S. Shift Away from Coal
LA Times: Wal-Mart loses minimum wage pay fight as jury awards California truck drivers $54 million
NY Times: In a California Valley, Healthy Food Everywhere but on the Table
UK Daily Mail: Humboldt's largest cow makes British paper
Priceonomics: How the American West Became Overrun with Wild Horses
Trinity Journal: Man gets two life sentences for double homicide in Hayfork
NY Times: Here’s Why You Should Call, Not Email, Your Legislators
NY Times: Where Marijuana Is the Doctor’s Orders, Will Insurers Pay?
Washington Post: Popular aloe vera gels may lack a key ingredient: Aloe vera
Washington Post: Utah: DEA raids colossal fentanyl operation. Could produce thousands of pills per hour.