KFOR: Officials: Over 35,000 Oklahoma patients have medical marijuana licenses
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: St. Louis officer accused of killing fellow officer in Russian-roulette shooting is booked into jail
Reason: When Reason requested the new L.A. sheriff’s disciplinary records, the deputies union got an injunction to block us
Also Reason: The cops were the aggressors in this week’s deadly Houston drug raid. Ed: A gang of Barney Fifes, living out their Punisher-esque fantasy, busted down the door in a no-knock drug raid, immediately killed the middle-aged couple’s dogs, and then proceeded to murder the couple when confronted with the natural armed response. There is a pattern of police departments hiring those with military fantasies yet could never hack it in the actual military. The end result: innocent dead, a lawsuit, and a city’s taxpayers on the hook for millions.
The Week: The forensic pathologist who shed light on police violence
Slate: We are completely overreacting to vaping
The Verge: San Francisco proposal would ban government facial recognition use in city
TED GALEN CARPENTER: Washington’s incoherent policy towards dictators: “It’s been either self-serving fawning collaboration or hostile meddling. Will Venezuela be any different?”
Libertarian Institute: Venezuela needs to sort itself without US intervention
Independent: US no longer in top 20 least-corrupt countries, major survey finds
Activist Post: Walgreens, Nestle, Coors, and more use iris-tracking cameras to spy on shoppers
Inverse: Tripping brains reveal how the drug creates the psychedelic experience
RCS: Physicists made a flying army of laser Schroedinger’s Cats
