07/12/18 Overnight Links

07/12/18 Overnight Links

KOCO: Gov. Fallin signs medical marijuana rules, including ban on smokable forms at dispensaries

KFOR: DEA: Pharmacists dispensing marijuana would be in violation of federal law

NewsOn6: Oklahoma medical marijuana groups vow legal action over last-minute regulation changes

Forbes: Medical marijuana reduces opioid prescriptions, another study finds

Slate: The Surveillance State’s eyes at the U.S. border

The Outline: Silicon Valley is funding the future of warfare

Common Dreams: Legal scholars warn ICE agents that ‘just following orders’ won’t save them

The American Conservative: Killing Yemen with hunger

Daily Beast: Hacker selling Pentagon’s killer drone manual on the dark web for cheap

Gizmodo: Walmart patents audio surveillance tool to monitor employees

Techdirt: Federal court says taking people’s licenses away for failure to pay court fees is unconstitutional

Reason: A cop attacked and threatened a man who did nothing wrong, then made his life hell for complaining about it

Consortium News: Israel bulldozes Al Ahmar and buries the two-state solution

Seattle Times: Inside China’s dystopian future: AI, shame, and lots of cameras

DAVID STOCKMAN: Time for a mercy killing at NATO

FEE: 7 things you might not know about Hayek’s ‘The Road to Serfdom”Ed: Hayek’s work has always had a ‘through the looking glass’ air about it, especially his later work into spontaneous order.  Shackle’s work as well, with his strange and wonderful terminology such as ‘unknowledge’ and kaleidics. But for Hayek, the Road to Serfdom is the book to begin with.

PLOSblog: Ayahuasca: Ritual psychedelic turns modern-day anti-depressant

Rolling Stone: Behold the DEA’s massive list of marijuana nicknames

ASCH: Is aging a disease?

Author: S. Smith