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Counting Canada, More Than 100 Million People Live in Places Where Pot Is Legalhttp://bit.ly/2tgwgUY 

If you thought Jeff Sessions had too much power already, you should see the new drug war bill Congress is about to pass.http://bit.ly/2tenR4p 

Calvin Harris has the temerity to tell you to suck lesshttp://bit.ly/2I5PmSw 

To fight Trump's awful immigration policies, what we really need are better smugglers.http://bit.ly/2I7gUqo 

On World Refugee Day, Mike Pompeo brags about U.S. "leadership" on the issue. Yet America is taking in record low numbers of refugees right when the global population is hitting an all-time high.http://bit.ly/2K4O7Vr 

"This Court is not responsible for vindicating generalized partisan preferences."http://bit.ly/2K3vr8z 

Alan Dershowitz, who has often defended Trump in the context of the Russia investigation, says that the president absolutely had the authority to end the separation policy, and should do so immediately.https://reason.com/blog/2018/06/20/trump-congress-immigration-separation …

Some Republicans want Congress to end family separation, but Chuck Schumer says, "There's no need for legislation."http://bit.ly/2te8t8d 

Just in case...https://reason.com/archives/2018/05/31/the-great-escape …

Today in China, if you email friends about books like George Orwell's Animal Farm or Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, your message will be blocked.https://reason.com/archives/2018/06/20/upset-about-facebook-invading-your-priva …

Brickbat: The Rule of Lawhttp://bit.ly/2I8wi6c 

If You Cross the Border, We’ll Kidnap Your Childhttp://bit.ly/2MGmyDI 

California moves closer to passing its own net neutrality rules.http://reason.com/blog/2018/06/19/the-fcc-has-a-new-challenge-rogue-state …

"In 2022, the district's spending on pensions, health care, and special education programs will be eating up over 57 percent LAUSD's main operational funding before a single dollar is spent on a regular school program," writes @LisSnell.https://reason.com/archives/2018/06/19/lausds-fiscal-crisis-cant-be-blamed-on-c …

"All kinds of physical characteristics can be broadly construed as gang-affiliated by cops and ICE if they're intent on locking someone up."http://reason.com/archives/2018/06/19/tattoos-shouldnt-be-cause-for-deportatio …

A judge concluded that, yes, it's possible that being placed on a kill list by your own government might constitute a violation of your First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendment rights.http://reason.com/blog/2018/06/19/us-citizen-suit-over-perhaps-being-on-a …

.@RandPaul calls the new rules on association health plans "one of the most significant free market health care reforms in a generation."http://reason.com/blog/2018/06/19/rand-paul-endorsed-association-health-pl …

The DEA cracked down on opioids. Users went to the dark web.http://reason.com/blog/2018/06/19/study-shows-drug-war-boosts-black-market …

Steve Bannon is now in the political wilderness, and Kris Kobach is still smarting from Chief Judge Robinson's unusually personal rebuke, but their nationalist, fact-untethered policy agenda is alive and well.https://reason.com/blog/2018/06/19/judge-spikes-kansas-voter-id-law-orders …

The early voting results coming in show 'yes' on DC's Initiative 77 is leading. @EricBoehm87 talked to DC bartenders and servers who were hoping people would vote 'no' because the minimum wage initiative intended to help them will actually hurt them.http://reason.com/blog/2018/06/19/dc-initiative-77-minimum-wage-bartenders …