“This is where the story becomes quite curious. The new bill will reduce output for all brewers except for one: the new Guinness Brewery being built in southwest Baltimore.”
Read more: https://fee.org/articles/a-beer-war-is-brewing-in-maryland/
“The answer to monopolistic costs imposed upon consumers is competition. With these three major corporations turning their attentions to providing just that, it may be possible to get genuine reform.”
Read more: https://fee.org/articles/can-amazon-fix-american-health-care/
“Research demonstrates the Importance of immigrants to the creation and growth of America’s largest and most valuable companies.”
Read more: https://fee.org/articles/4-little-known-facts-about-immigrants-and-company-founders/
“SpaceX has said it will offer speeds of up to a gigabit per second, with latencies between 25ms and 35ms. Those latencies would make SpaceX’s service comparable to cable and fiber. Today’s satellite broadband services use satellites in much higher orbits and thus have latencies of 600ms or more, according to FCC measurements. OneWeb was the first company to seek FCC approval to enter the US broadband market with low-Earth orbit satellites and received approval in June 2017. OneWeb wants to offer service in Alaska as early as 2019. Boeing is also planning to offer satellite broadband.”
“They’re leapfrogging pharmaceutical companies’ incentive structures, funding and organizing their own research in search of a cure. And they’re trying many of the same approaches that Silicon Valley entrepreneurs have used for decades.”
Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/a-familys-race-to-cure-a-daughters-genetic-disease/
“For those suffering from severe depression or PTSD, suicide is often just one dark thought away. But these souls are told they must suffer lest they be thrown in jail for using something as ‘evil’ as marijuana or psychedelics, both illegal in the eyes of the state.”
Read more: https://fee.org/articles/support-the-troops-with-peace-and-the-right-to-try/
“The DA’s office announced that it is suing 10 pharmaceutical companies in connection with the opioid epidemic and is dropping all outstanding marijuana possession charges.”
Read more: https://www.phillymag.com/news/2018/02/16/krasner-big-pharma-marijuana-possession/
“The initiative and referendum process continues to serve as a direct popular vote alternative to the crapshoot that is trying to get a pot bill through two houses and signed by a governor.”
Read more: https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2018/feb/06/six_states_could_pass_marijuana
“Seattle, San Francisco and San Diego appear to be the only major jurisdictions erasing convictions without even requiring the defendants to request it.”
Read more: https://www.thecannabist.co/2018/02/08/seattle-marijuana-convictions/98513/
“No American is safer because Ross Ulbricht is in jail for life. He is just one more casualty of our futile war against drugs.”
Read more: https://reason.com/archives/2018/02/07/government-threw-silk-roads-founder-in-j/print