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Robert Mueller indicts three members of Trump's campaign in almost unprecedented day of White House drama | The Independent Five months after he was appointed to lead the investigation after Mr Trump fired FBI Director James Comey,  Robert Mueller announced 12 charges , including money laundering and conspiracy to defraud the US, against former campaign manager Paul Manafort and associate Rick Gates. Also,  George Papadopoulos  admitted lying to the FBI  when being questioned about his contact with two Russians with apparent close ties to their government. Mr Papadopoulos’s guilty plea – coming hours ahead of Mr Manafort’s and Mr Gates’s court appearance – made him the first Trump campaign official to face charges relating to links to Russian contacts. 

Scientists Have Discovered a Material that Could Store Quantum Information - ScienceAlert "Due to these particular geometries, the spins of electrons never freeze. They keep jiggling around without ever being able to freeze and form a magnet, which is the natural tendency of the material. This phenomenon is called 'magnetic frustration'." The unusual phase occupied by this material is known as  quantum spin liquid . The spins of electrons in the magnets we encounter in day-to-day life are all frozen in the same direction. In spin liquids, they're never frozen, even if  their temperature reaches absolute zero . This allows for some unusual traits, like a phenomenon known as long-range entanglement where the quantum state of one particle is paired with another non-adjacent particle.

All signs point to a corporate takeover of the marijuana industry by Bayer, Monsanto Germany-based Bayer purchased the seed giant Monsanto for $66 billion. The merger is reported to be the largest all-cash deal on record. That means a lot of things, none of them good for consumers. It strengthens the monopolization of the world’s food supply, more genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and more chemicals to be doused on them. Now, some are predicting the merge could also mean the takeover of the marijuana industry.

(1345) It's Mueller Time! Trump Administration Season Ending - YouTube ♪ "I've traveled the world to learn I must return from Russia with love I've seen places, faces and smiled for a moment But oh, you haunted me so Still my tongue tied, young pride Would not let my love for you show In case you'd say no To Russia I flew but there and then I suddenly knew you'd care again My running around is through, I fly to you, from Russia with love" ♪

Watch Ari Berman Explain How Voter Suppression Handed Wisconsin to Trump – Mother Jones Mother Jones  senior reporter Ari Berman on Sunday sat down with  MSNBC’s Joy Reid  to discuss Farr’s controversial nomination, as well as Berman’s recent cover story examining how similar voter suppression measures effectively  handed the crucial state of Wisconsin to Trump  in the 2016 election. “If we don’t learn this lesson, if we don’t learn the lesson that voter suppression works and you have to fight to protect the right to vote, history is going to repeat itself in 2018 and 2020,” he told Reid.

'Exchanging Prohibition for Extreme Regulation': Toronto Braces for New Cannabis Reality | Leafly “I can tell you that many cops are not very excited about these raids and realize that it’s really a very low policing priority. This is being pushed from above. Dispensaries have been operating openly in Toronto for about 20 years and no one cared too much about them until we started to get closer to legalization. Ironically, it’s on the eve of legalization, when the government announces their plans for legal cannabis, that they want to launch an enforcement summit to shut down dispensaries? They’re most concerned now? When it’s about to be legal? Which really tells you what their priorities about. They’ve got this public health fig leaf that they are trying to hold up but it’s not about public health, it’s about them making money and protecting their turf.”

Data Dive: Canadian Medical Marijuana Patient Total Tops 200,000 | Leafly BC and Alberta are roughly comparable in adult population (3.8 million and 3.2 million, respectively), but Alberta has about nine times as many medical marijuana patients registered with Health Canada.

Jamaican Study Gives Surprising Insight Into Marijuana During Pregnancy Dr. Dreher and her team  compared babies  of Jamaican women who smoked marijuana during pregnancy and those who did not. The researchers tested infants on a variety of functions one, three, and 30 days after birth. Their findings were surprising: cannabis-exposed babies scored significantly higher in their reflex tests as well as tests of basic functions like blood pressure and heart rate. The infants of cannabis-using moms were also less irritable and more alert.

The war on coal is over. The war on breathing has begun. - Baltimore Sun Burning coal produces large quantities of air pollution, including mercury, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides. And that’s not even counting the carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change. That isn’t conjecture, it’s scientific fact. The only way electricity created by burning coal can be regarded as “cheap” is to ignore these human costs — to effectively subsidize the grid by ignoring premature death, asthma attacks and billions in medical expenses. 

Kentucky Governor Trots Out That Old Lie About People Overdosing On Marijuana If Bevin is still worried, HuffPost has  compiled an exhaustive list  of every single person who has died solely from a marijuana overdose. (Spoiler: there’s nobody on the list.)

'America, stand up' – Eminem's freestyle and the 10 best anti-Trump protest songs (so far) | Music | The Guardian  Love it!

Elon Musk, Puerto Rico governor speak on Tesla rebuilding power grid | TheHill “The Tesla team has [built solar grids] for many smaller islands around the world, but there is no scalability limit, so it can be done for Puerto Rico too,” Musk  said .

(1244) BRUCE COCKBURN - If I Had A Rocket Launcher - YouTube Here comes the helicopter -- second time today Everybody scatters and hopes it goes away How many kids they've murdered only God can say If I had a rocket launcher...I'd make somebody pay I don't believe in guarded borders and I don't believe in hate I don't believe in generals or their stinking torture states And when I talk with the survivors of things too sickening to relate If I had a rocket launcher...I would retaliate

Edmonton mom hopes 15-year-old daughter can smoke medical marijuana at school - Edmonton - CBC News

Edmonton attack suspect facing terrorism charges was investigated by RCMP in 2015 - The Globe and Mail  Terrorism comes to Edmonton. Horrible.