Today’s comic by Jen Sorensen is
• The high price of cheap marijuana and the double-edged sword of legalization:
[C]hange is coming, thanks to voters’ passage last year of Prop 64. Starting in 2018, Californians will be able to legally grow and possess recreational cannabis. That’s in addition to medical weed, which the state legalized in 1996.
From an environmental standpoint, ending prohibition should be a boon. Illegal cultivation creates a raft of environmental problems — erosion, clear-cutting, garbage dumping, poisoned watersheds, and water diversions from creeks that support imperiled salmon and steelhead trout. The state will also begin collecting fees and taxes from growers who go legit; about $1 billion is expected next year, of which 20 percent will go toward watershed protection and remediation of state lands that were damaged by growers.
But for the O’Neills and other small-scale growers in the Emerald Triangle, legalization looks a lot less appealing.
• Inside the CIA’s black site torture room
• Iran’s President Rouhani says world will condemn U.S. if it steps away from nuclear agreement:
Amid reports that President Donald Trump is planning to decertify the Iran nuclear accord sometime this coming week, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani warned Saturday that any attempt to undermine the deal will earn the United States condemnation from “the entire world.”
“We have achieved benefits that are irreversible. Nobody can roll them back, neither Trump, nor 10 other Trumps,” Rouhani said in an address to students at Tehran University. “If the United States violates [the nuclear deal], the entire world will condemn America, not Iran.”
• John Oliver has a few ideas for replacing Confederate monuments.
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• After nearly a quarter century, Sheriff Arpaio’s inhumane tent city jail shut down for good:
Former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio opened his infamous Tent City outdoor jail in 1993, supposedly as an answer to overcrowding in Phoenix, Az., jails. It was a source of controversy for the entirety of its existence, and this weekend, it finally closed for good, just ten months shy of its 25-year anniversary.
AZCentral reports that the remaining inmates that the “facility” were taken to a county jail facility located a few blocks away.
• Supreme Court chooses not to review mining CEO Don Blankenship’s conviction: Blankenship was convicted of conspiracy to violate federal safety standards at a West Virginia mine where 29 miners died seven years ago. Blankenship recently completed a one-year prison term and is arguing that the judge erred in instructing the jury and limiting cross-examination. He claims he is “100 percent innocent.” But four investigations found worn and broken cutting equipment created a spark that ignited coal dust and methane.
• Right-wingers generate smear against professor over tweets asking why mass shootings like the one in Las Vegas are almost always carried out by white men.
• Nevada A.G. is investigating claims that scam charities are feeding on Las Vegas slayings:
Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt’s office is investigating charity scammers in the aftermath of the Oct. 1 shooting in Las Vegas.
Laxalt said Monday his office has shut down a fraudulent Facebook page and is investigating other complaints about false websites soliciting donations.
• It’s the Rock Test—a hack for men who don’t want to be accused of sexual harassment:
Are you a man confused on how to treat the women you work with? Do you feel like if you can’t say or do *anything* you don’t know what to say or do at all? Well stress no more! This life hack will have you treating women like people in no time.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: Big day for Trump psycho-profiles. Everyone weighed in on the craziness & the “pressure cooker.” Meanwhile, he continues pocketing emoluments and swinging wildly at whatever’s on TV. Paula Apynys brings us Part 7 of her series on Gop domestic abusers.
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