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Yes agreed. I'd also argue that black millennials (and younger) aren't just drivers of culture, they're also tech early adopters! Vine is a great example, Worldstar is a somewhat notorious example, BlackPlanet... those are just off the top of my head.

Congrats to Eaze! I run a popular networking event for CannaTech professionals in Denver and while it's a little scary to see Silicon Valley coming after this area that Colorado has been dominating, it's a good thing for the industry in general. Stigma and risk has kept a lot of top talent away and it's exciting to see that finally starting to change!

I want to push back on the "every sport is dangerous" argument I'm seeing in here.

There's a difference between "you might die right in the middle of this very fun activity" and "you might die slowly and horribly years from now when you're retired and in the midst of raising a family."

I ski pretty aggressively, and of course I might die doing that. But every day I go home and know, "well it wasn't today! Today was just great clean fun." If I had a nagging thought of "but today might give me a mental disorder in 20 years" then I'd be much less inclined to participate in the sport.

I agree that cannabis legalization could help public health addiction problems.

One idea that I don't see brought up a lot is using cannabis in a rehab setting; basically trying to get people to replace one mind-altering substance with another. I don't think that should necessarily be a permanent solution but it seems more realistic than asking someone to go from doing drugs every day to being stone cold sober at all times. Cannabis could take the edge off and provide the mind altering feeling that some addicts seem to crave. [1]

In all fairness I'm sure there are failures in this idea but I think it's worth exploring once we accept that cannabis is just nowhere near hard drugs on the harm spectrum.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/01/teens-dru...

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This is good advice to a friend or a loved one who is going through bullying or other nastiness. It is not a good policy prescription for making our world a more equitable place - and yes, that's a goal we should all be striving towards.

I agree that in the face of bullying or racist speech, we should try to thicken our skin and move on with our lives and understand that the problem is on the part of the perpetrators, not with me. But that doesn't mean I don't think we should try to get rid of bullying and racism in our society..

Scary to see so many journalists piling onto other journalists who are actually doing their jobs in the public interest (but against corporate interests). Reminds me of the "journalists" who were so fast to criticize Glenn Greenwald for his NSA reporting.

I absolutely support this and hope it spreads. It reduces bad behavior from all parties and removes the he-said she-said afterwards.

BUT I really hope that there is an expiration date on those tapes. If someone doesn't insist on that provision when these laws get written, all that street footage will be the government's to peruse at will forever, that's almost as scary as mass collection and storage of our emails.

I'm a big hip hop head and I applaud Wu-Tang and especially RZA for being one of the most innovative minds in rap. His book The Tao of Wu was excellent, I highly recommend it.

Aside from all the commentary on his intent with this, I have a simple question: do we think they can actually keep this album from being leaked? I know they're talking about making users use special headphones etc, but when push comes to shove, can't someone figure out a way to cheat this? Super tiny microphones that could record from inside the ear or something? Fake ear, if I'm coming up with crazy possibilities?

Like anything that claims extreme security, it begs someone to go to extremes to break it. Will they succeed? I kind of think someone will.