08/03/18 Overnight Links

KGOU: Oil and gas companies spent half a million dollars trying to defeat medical marijuana in Oklahoma Ed: Here’s the list:

  • Chesapeake Energy: $25,000
  • Cimarex Energy: $75,000
  • ConocoPhillips: $50,000
  • Continental Resources: $100,000
  • Devon Energy: $100,000
  • Enable Midstream Partners: $25,000
  • Gulfport Energy: $50,000
  • Helmerich & Payne: $15,000
  • Newfield Exploration: $100,000
  • OG&E Energy: $25,000
  • Phillips 66: $25,000

High Times: Governor of Illinois passes law to give students access to medical marijuana in school

National Review: Apple becomes first trillion-dollar public company

Volokh: Free speech and computer code–3D printer gun-making files and beyond

Techdirt: Report: TSA’s ground-based ‘VIPR’ teams are expensive, quite possibly useless

DOUG BANDOW: Would you send your son or daughter to die for Montenegro?

PAT BUCHANAN: War with Iran could destroy Trump’s presidency

FEE: How coders, not Drug Warriors, are preventing opioid overdoses and saving lives

The Free Thought Project: 54 years ago, government and the media created and spread fake news to start war with Vietnam

Alternet: Does microdosing psychedelics have any medical benefits?

Author: S. Smith