07/28/18 Links

KOCO: New draft of medical marijuana rules restores smokable products, removes pharmacist requirement

KFOR: Gubernatorial candidates weigh in on medical marijuana debate Ed: The article mentions only Cornett and Stitt, both of whom are against recreational marijuana, but, more importantly, both of whom are the type of people who can’t give a straight answer. There will be another candidate on the ballot, Chris Powell of the Libertarian Party, who will not only give you a non-waffling straight answer, but is currently spending the majority of his free time driving around the state and knocking on doors himself. Could you imagine Cornett doing anything close to that?

Gizmodo: Amazon accidentally makes rock-solid case for not giving its facial recognition tech to the police

Mises: 40 years of pummeling the Postal Service

Techdirt: Court rejects evidence from warrantless search of phone six years after gov’t seized it

Reason: Off-duty Florida cop arrested for kicking pregnant woman so hard she went into labor

Also Reason: Liberty makes us unfree, argues ACLU

Truthdig: Opioid distribution data can’t be made public, judge rules

Antiwar.com: Reporters struggle to get Pentagon to answer questions about war

DANIEL HARSANYI: Sorry if you’re offended, but socialism leads to misery and destitution

Motherboard: 23andMe sold access to your DNA library to Big Pharma

High Times: NYPD watch group says 93% of weed arrests in 2018 were people of color

The Nation: How Israeli tech firms act as global agents of repression

Tricycle: Psychedelics’ Buddhist revival

Author: S. Smith