Why Canada Won’t Face a Legal Weed Shortage Next Year: Here’s What We’re Reading
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Here’s what we’re reading today.
1. Here’s why Canada won’t face a legal weed shortage in 2018
“The misconception around weed supply is a failure to recognize how large and well-financed Canadian licensed producers are. ‘There might have been far more LPs in say Colorado back when they legalized, but these producers are far, far larger than the average producer was in Colorado. They’re doing a massive buildup,'” says Miles Light, co-founder of the Denver-based Marijuana Policy Group (MPG)
2. Bitcoin is none of the things it was supposed to be
From Adrianne Jeffries: “The cryptocurrency was supposed to replace the finance industry. Instead, it has replicated it.”
+1: The Bitcoin whales: 1,000 people own 40 per cent of the market – Bloomberg
3. The unsolved mystery of Michael Flynn’s plea deal
“It might be a dramatic breakthrough in the investigation of Donald Trump — or a revelation of Robert Mueller’s weak hand.”
4. How our housing choices make adult friendships more difficult
“Our ability to form and maintain friendships is shaped in crucial ways by the physical spaces in which we live. “Land use,” as it’s rather aridly known, shapes behavior and sociality. And in America we have settled on patterns of land use that might as well have been designed to prevent spontaneous encounters, the kind out of which rich social ties are built.”
– Vox
5. Flat Earthers and the psychology behind conspiracy theories
“Though conspiracy theories certainly existed before the internet, they did not have the ability to spread swiftly like brushfire. You had to seek them out. Now, if you let them, they will find you.”
– The Awl
