“The two Koreas have reached a landmark Panmunjeom Agreement to achieve full denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and agreed to pursue a peace treaty to formally end the Korean War.”
“Under the new bill, marijuana would be removed from the list of substances classified under the Controlled Substances Act. Schumer’s legislation would leave in place decisions by states on how to regulate marijuana.”
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/19/politics/schumer-marijuana/index.html
“Canada may offer the sharpest glimpse of the future—and the business opportunities—for financial-services companies willing to take the risk.”
“The world is a wonderful place, full of opportunity, and it is only getting better. So here are the facts to keep in mind every time the media, politicians, and your peers start dragging you into the pit of despair.”
“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/
“Overall, an increase of $775 million for the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security for drug war efforts. The Trump budget does include $900 million in increased funding for the Department of Health and Human Services to address the opioid epidemic, and it claims it would allocate a total of $13 billion to ‘combat the opioid epidemic,’ but that figure mixes treatment, prevention and war on drugs funding.”
Read more: https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2018/feb/14/trumps_drug_budget_doubles_down
“Former Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) discusses Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ decision to rescind the Obama-era policy of non-interference in marijuana-friendly states.”
“A leading figure in the latter years of the Soviet government, Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev began his career as a Red Army officer and a Communist Party apparatchik, but he ultimately became a devoted and effective enemy of Soviet tyranny. He will be remembered as the architect of ‘perestroika’ (restructuring of the political and economic systems) in the late 1980s and its consequences: exposure of the heinous lies and crimes of the criminal Soviet regime and the inevitable demise of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). For most of his life, Yakovlev was a closet classical liberal in one of the most illiberal and collectivist societies in history.”
Read more: https://fee.org/articles/the-man-who-saved-russia-from-the-soviet-union/
“AutoNation may represent the first wave of a coming trend as marijuana becomes more socially acceptable and companies vie for workers in the tightest labor market in 17 years. As more states legalize — Vermont will do so in July — more employees are testing positive on drug tests, according to a Quest Diagnostics report released last year. Positive tests for marijuana rose about 75 percent from 2013 to 2016, the study showed. Results were based on more than 10 million drug tests.”
“This isn’t the first time a national bank has taken such a strong and aggressive stance against digital currency. Last October, many customers of TD Bank experienced severe delays and blocks to their accounts while trying to purchase bitcoin on Coinbase. PNC Bank has also begun taking measures against bitcoin by preventing customers from buying it directly through their bank accounts.”
Read more: https://bitsonline.com/banks-cryptocurrency-ban/