Minnesota medical marijuana patients will soon be able to smoke their medicine. (Creative Commons)
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Illinois House Passes Marijuana Equity Bill. The House on Tuesday passed House Bill 1443, which would revamp the state s system for awarding marijuana dispensary licenses with an eye toward increasing minority participation in the legal industry. The bill would create two new lotteries for dispensary licenses creating 110 new licenses in addition to the 75 already licensed. The bill now heads to the Senate, which has until Monday’s legislative deadline to pass it with a simple majority.
Louisiana House Panel Advances Bill to Lower Marijuana Penalties. The Senate Judiciary C Committee voted on Tuesday to approve House Bill 652, which would remove the threat of jail time for low-level marijuana possession offenses. Pot possession would remain a misdemeanor, but punishable only by a $100 fine. The bill has already passed the House and now heads for a final Senate floo
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Andrew Yang Says He s a Jay-Z Fan, but Can t Think of Any of His Songs
On 5/23/21 at 8:10 AM EDT
Appearing on comedian Ziwe Fumudoh s show, the Democrat was quizzed about his taste in music.
Yang, 46, replied that he listened a lot to hip hop during the 1990s and aughts, and named New Yorker Jay-Z among his favorite artists.
Asked to name his favorite song by the man who enjoyed hits such as 99 Problems, Can I Get A. and Izzo (H.O.V.A.) during the 90s and 00s, Yang appeared to struggle to name one.
Here s the exchange:
3 signs the climate op-ed you re reading is full of it
The Camp Fire burning in California in 2018.
Image: U.S. Geological Survey / processed by Pierre Markuse
Shoddy climate opinion articles are like zombies.
Washington Post opinion section on May 14, was written by a Fox News contributor and political columnist at the
Post with the headline, An Obama scientist debunks the climate doom-mongers. Â
There s actually only one person implied as a doom-monger in the opinion article â the current presidential envoy for climate, John Kerry, who s not much of a doomist, but does aim to fulfill the Paris Agreement, the United Nations climate pact agreed upon by all the world s nations. Of course, most climate scientists, like those who create deeply vetted climate reports for the UN, aren t doom-mongers. Just the opposite: Climate scientists