“The Canadian government has worked for the past three years to expand its involvement in Tuscan, without public acknowledgment or public consultation.”
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/21/canada-us-tuscan-anti-terrorist-database-at-borders
“A company that developed a massive database for police body cameras has joined forces with the world’s biggest manufacturer of consumer unmanned aerial vehicles to sell surveillance drones to police departments.”
“The Constitution must take account of vast technological changes, Chief Justice Roberts wrote, noting that digital data can provide a comprehensive, detailed — and intrusive — overview of private affairs that would have been impossible to imagine not long ago.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/22/us/politics/supreme-court-warrants-cell-phone-privacy.html
“Trump’s Supreme Court pick, Gorsuch, cast the tie-breaking vote to drop the guillotine on online small businesses.”
“A powerful U.S. Senate panel has moved to block an amendment to let marijuana businesses store their profits in banks.”
“In addition to decriminalization, the party voted to call for marijuana to be rescheduled to a lower class of drug federally and for the legalization of industrial hemp.”
Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/texas-republicans-marijuana-legalization-weed-pot-982324
“The findings support the idea that marijuana is an ‘exit drug,’ rather than a ‘gateway drug,’ as drug warriors used to claim.”
Read more: https://herb.co/marijuana/news/cbd-treat-addiction
“New research adds to an increasing body of evidence that restricting opioid prescribing has not solved the opioid crisis but instead worsened it.”
Read more: https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2018/jun/16/making_matters_worse_deas_move
“In the five years that Hickory Springs Manufacturing has begun offering to send its employees abroad for medical treatment, the company has saved over $10 million on health care costs.”
Read more: https://fee.org/articles/patients-without-borders-the-rise-of-medical-tourism/
“The ruling is likely to lead states to try to collect sales tax on purchases from out-of-state online businesses more aggressively.”