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Johann Hari Wants To Change Everything You Know About Drugs
"The drug war distorts how we think about drugs themselves. You might put on Facebook, 'I had a great bottle of wine last night', but you'd be foolish to put 'I had a great line of coke last night'."
Alan Weedon
8.17.15
grandmas

British Grandmothers Are Always Drunk on Airplanes
According to recent poll of 1,000 Brits, women over the age of 65 drink way more than anyone else before stepping foot on a plane.
Munchies Staff
8.17.15
amateurism

NLRB To Northwestern Football Union: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
A unionization bid by Northwestern University football players is dead in the water after the National Labor Relations Board declined to assert jurisdiction over their case. What happened, and what does it mean for college sports?
Patrick Hruby
8.17.15
short circuit

Facebook Is Trying to Make Blogging Happen Again
With its Notes feature. From, you know, the late 2000s.
Clinton Nguyen
8.17.15
americas

This Ex-KGB Agent Lived in a Church for Six Years to Avoid Deportation From Canada
Now, Mikhail Lennikov has left the country voluntarily, according to his lawyer. “I can only hope he is safe,” his lawyer told Canadian media.
Hilary Beaumont
8.17.15
Tacos

These Falafel Tacos Let You Eat the Whole World at Once
For centuries, through conquest, colonization, and migration, North Africa, and Latin America has been engaged in an ongoing culinary exchange. Fast forward to 2015, and you have things like falafel and shakshouka-filled tacos in South LA.
Tasbeeh Herwees
8.17.15
crime & drugs

Critics Say New Plan to Stop Heroin Overdoses Shows White House 'Still Doesn’t Get It'
A new federal initiative aims to prevent overdoses by having public health and law enforcement officials work together, but some say it’s “destined to fail."
Liz Fields
8.17.15
parties

Reporting from the Front Lines of Kylie Jenner's 18th Birthday Event
Kylie Jenner celebrated her 18th birthday at Beachclub, an Ibiza-esque nightclub located in Quebec. We went and spoke to her excited fans.
Neha Chandrachud
8.17.15
short circuit

Sprint, Too, Kills Its Two-Year Contracts
And then there was one.
Nicholas Deleon
8.17.15
pfb

In Photos: The Selma to Washington 'Journey for Justice'
Members and supporters of the NAACP converged in Selma, Alabama to embark on a historic march under the banner "our lives, our votes, our jobs, and our schools matter."
VICE News
8.17.15
Festivals 2015

Royal Trux and Dead Moon Dominated Day Three of Berserktown II
Day three brought a stacked bill of strong women, from Vexx to White Lung to Sheer Mag to Dead Moon to Royal Trux.
Timothy Norris
8.17.15
Science

Scientists Have Figured Out How to Make Sugar into Narcotics
There’s a new sort of drug cave in town and it has a hell of a lot more in common with an Au Bon Pain than some back alley in Shanghai.
Alex Swerdloff
8.17.15
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