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Cannabis has been legal for medical purposes in New York state since 2016, and it became legal for recreational use since then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed legislation in 2021. Coffee, on the other hand, has been legal for centuries.  Has cannabis use in New York state caught up to coffee in just a couple years? That’s what John Kagia, acting executive director for the New York’s Office of Cannabis Management, said in an April 2 interview with Politico, for an article marking the law’s fifth anniversary. “The number of New Yorkers who consume cannabis daily or near daily is the same…

If you want to open a hospital, you have to convince the government that there’s a need for it. And all of the existing hospitals—your potential competitors—get to show up at the hearing and explain why, actually, there’s no real need. When you have to ask your competitors for permission to open a business, don’t expect to get it.  The post Is This the Dumbest Health Care Law? appeared first on Reason.com. Source link

 Gary Wilson, Struggle – La Lucha. U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth went to Singapore on May 30 with an order for Washington’s allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific: spend more on war or face consequences. Hegseth used China as the pretext to demand that U.S.-aligned governments spend more on war, buy more weapons and bind their militaries more tightly to Washington. At the annual Shangri-La Dialogue, Hegseth told defense ministers, military chiefs and diplomats that U.S. military power had carried the region for too long. “The era of the United States subsidizing the defense of wealthy nations is over,”…

We don’t know what Graham Platner, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine, wrote in his sexually explicit texts with women other than his wife—six, according to his campaign; a dozen, according to an ex-aide—but do we need to? The glaring question that the texts pose to voters about the presumptive Democratic nominee at this point in a pivotal midterm race is: Are we really going to do this again?Read Full Article ⟶ Source link

When Republicans moved to redraw congressional maps in Texas to maximize their advantage in the House, California Gov. Gavin Newsom responded with a counterpunch: Proposition 50, a California redistricting measure explicitly designed to eliminate up to five Republican congressional seats and offset Democratic losses elsewhere. It was partisan hardball in the open, justified by Newsom and Democrats as a necessary response to GOP map-drawing in Texas and other states. It also had the added benefit of buoying Newsom’s national political capital with his party as he gears up for a likely White House run in 2028. Newsom cast the move…

Cassandra Jaramillo Propublica Co-published with North Dakota Monitor If Eric Murphy loses his primary election on June 9, he believes he already knows one reason why. Last year, the North Dakota state representative, a Republican, tried to expand the window of pregnancy in which women could access abortion. The state legislature had banned it for almost everyone from the moment of conception. Tied up in court, the ban hadn’t yet gone into effect. But Murphy wanted to lock in a less restrictive law, making abortion accessible up to 15 weeks and even later for women whose doctors deemed it a…

Photograph Source: Procida per Una Palestina Libera — stop the Genocide This past weekend, the small and beautiful island of Procida offered a warm, heartfelt, and deeply moving welcome to the Freedom Flotilla Italia and its proud vessel, the Ghassan Kanafani. The arrival of the boat marked a powerful and symbolic moment of solidarity as part of the national campaign “100 Ports, 100 Cities,” a mission sailing along the Italian coast to keep the world’s attention fixed on the ongoing genocide in Gaza, raise vital funds for one of the last functioning hospitals in the besieged Strip — Al Awda…

Seven Republicans have joined every House Democrat to bring pro-union legislation to the floor next week. Source link

Glacial Vote Counting Undermines Faith in Elections Source link

By Hend Salama Abo Helow This article was originally published by Truthout A Palestinian doctor in Gaza says the territory is facing its worst medication shortage since Israel began the genocide. My mother has been a hypertension patient for the past 25 years. Ever since her initial diagnosis, she has adhered strictly to her prescribed medication. Yet since the genocide broke out, her medicine gradually ran out until it vanished from the markets altogether, with no clinic, pharmacy, warehouse, or stockpile left untouched by the shortage. Eventually, my mother was forced to redraw her therapeutic map around two alternative…