Oregon's new law is quite different on the taxation end than Washington's or Colorado's - for one, it's to be taxed at a flat $35/ounce. (We have no sales tax) That should add a little over $1/gram to retail price, which, at the medicinal dispensaries, currently runs pretty even with "street" prices. In addition,…

The king of weird: Cordwainer Smith. He was also a spy during WW2 and he wrote THE book about psychological warfare, required reading at the time.

Funnily enough, "having your brain cored with a neon tube" was exactly what Dick was going for.

I don't smoke, but I voted for legalization (yay Colorado!), and you actually touched on the reason with the reference to tobacco. You're right, tobacco's objectively terrible for people, but it's still perfectly legal.

Yet another validation of my long term thinking and fashion forward trendsetting.

"And I saw the Four Horsemen of the Comment Apocalypse, and they said in unison unto me: 'Beware the false idol Kinja and her wily ways.' And I, for my part, took up my mobile device and screeched, 'EVEN NATIVE AMERICANS DON'T THINK THE NAME IS OFFENSIVE!' and lo, the Angel Snyder smiled down on me, well pleased."

While we may have the freedom to be anonymous, I can't see how we have a right to anonymity. It's just a feature of a service or a website and if it's guaranteed by anyone, it would be the service or site, not the Constitution or the UN.

Someone needs to improve their viewing choices.

Come on! Disney has already given us the Angry Pigs Death Star. Obviously there's no viable content left in the Star Wars universe. All that remains is for Disney to partner with Paramount and begin Star Wars versus Star Trek reality TV competition show to fulfill the end of days.

Cry me a river. That's not a keying, or the truck was keyed by someone with serious OCD problems.