Democrats hope move to reschedule marijuana will help them in November The proposed change has the potential to set up a contrast between Biden and Trump, who has shown little interest in engaging with federal marijuana policy. 05/1/2024 - 10:56 am | View Link
What rescheduling marijuana means for Washington state’s cannabis industry The Biden administration’s move to reclassify marijuana as a lower-risk substance has broad implications for the cannabis industry at large, including in Washington state, a pioneer ... 05/1/2024 - 8:08 am | View Link
Cannabis stocks pull back after rallying on DEA’s plans to reclassify marijuana Canopy Growth Corp., Tilray Brands Inc. and Curaleaf Holdings Inc. were among cannabis stocks that were sliding into the red on Wednesday, a day after ... 05/1/2024 - 7:17 am | View Link
What marijuana reclassification means and the effects of rescheduling Reclassifying marijuana from a schedule I substance to schedule III would mark a historic shift in federal policy, but the implications are still murky. 05/1/2024 - 12:20 am | View Link
$20 Dollars Minimum Wage Falls Apart As Orders Drop at a Restaurant in Seattle Seattle, Washington is grappling with the effects of a radical adjustment to its minimum wage laws, causing a significant downturn in the economic fortunes of local restaurants and gig workers. As the ... 04/27/2024 - 3:40 am | View Link
Across social media, iPhone users have reported waking up to the scary realization that they had missed their alarm. “In the past six days of school, I’ve accumulated seven tardies,” said TikTok user CarterPCS. “I could’ve sworn it was because my alarm wasn’t going off.”
“I was literally late to work the other day because I slept through all four of my alarms that I had set,” TikTok user Charkaylotte recounted.
BEIJING — The death toll from a collapsed highway in southeastern China climbed to 48 on Thursday as searchers dug for a second day through a treacherous and mountainous area.
One side of the four-lane highway in the city of Meizhou gave way about 2 a.m. on Wednesday after a month of heavy rains in Guangdong province.
President Ronald Reagan warned in 1986 that if Nicaragua’s “Sandinistas” remained in power, “terrorists and subversives” would have sanctuary “just 2 days’ driving time from Harlingen, Texas.” During the 1980s, Reagan gave more speeches on the Central American country than about almost any other foreign policy issue. Congress voted countless times on his policy of undermining Nicaragua’s Cuban- and Soviet-backed government by arming insurgents known as the Contra.
LOS ANGELES — Police removed barricades and began dismantling a pro-Palestinian demonstrators’ fortified encampment early Thursday at the University of California, Los Angeles, after hundreds of protesters defied orders to leave. Some people were detained, their hands bound with zip ties.
The action came after officers spent hours threatening arrests over loudspeakers if people did not disperse.
In 2018, we worked with Bill Gates on a special issue of TIME dedicated to the power of optimism. Gates’ view, shared by many of the issue’s contributors, was that people are wired to focus on when things go wrong and when they don’t work. Sometimes this attention distracts us from the moments when progress is being made.
Sometimes all it takes is a cold email to start a revolution. Dr. Alex Oshmyansky, a radiologist who had become incensed by the runaway prices of prescription drugs, decided to email billionaire and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who famously makes his contact info public. He included a business plan for a small company he had created in 2018 that made drugs and sold them at cost.