The DEA Ran a Massive Database of People Who Bought Money-Counting Machines for Years

The Drug Enforcement Administration maintained a database of people who purchased money-counting machines as part of a “legally questionable” effort to identify suspected drug dealers for further surveillance and enforcement efforts, the New York Times reported on Saturday.

Perplexing Condition Linked to Marijuana Use Is Troubling Doctors

A perplexing new syndrome that’s linked to marijuana users is becoming a concern for doctors, Business Insider reports.

GINKGO BIOWORKS IS TURNING HUMAN CELLS INTO ON-DEMAND FACTORIES

FROM THE WINDOWS of Ginkgo Bioworks’ Boston offices you can peer down into a grimy vestige of the city’s past. Across the street, workers in yellow-slicker overalls scrub, scrape, and repair the decks of worn-out warships and ocean tankers parked in a drydock. During World War II, 50,000 people worked the docks and the eight-story waterside warehouse that Ginkgo now calls home. Inside the synthetic biology company’s glass-walled foundries, humans are now less obvious, with algorithms designing industrial organisms and robot armies building them in humming, hypnotic synchronicity.

Addictive behavior could trace back to an ancient retrovirus in our DNA

Millions of Americans struggle with substance abuse and tens of thousands die each year, according to the American Society of Addiction Medicine. Though treating addiction has become a vast (and at times abusive) industry, the underlying causes of drug or alcohol dependency—and how to successfully treat these debilitating conditions—are still poorly understood by science. Now, researchers think they’ve found the germ of an answer in our genetic past.

DRUG WAR BLAMED FOR 14 MURDERS IN 36 HOURS IN MEXICAN PARTY TOWN

Cancun’s murder rate reached staggering new heights earlier this month after 14 people were murdered in just 36 hours. Five others sustained gunshot wounds in six separate incidents. 

Trump Administration Is Reportedly Looking to Allow the Death Penalty for Drug Dealers

The Trump administration may introduce legislation that seeks the death penalty for drug dealers.

The Cannabis Industry Made $1.2 Billion in January

The cannabis industry registered $1.23 billion in investments for January, according to Viridian Cannabis Deal Tracker. The total represents an almost 600 percent growth from the $178 million in the first five weeks of 2017. While it’s no secret that the cannabis industry has turned out to be a money-making machine, what made last month’s numbers even more remarkable was that they nearly eclipsed the investments of $1.29 billion from all of last year.

Drake & Future – Life Is Good

Travis Scott – HIGHEST IN THE ROOM

The Weeknd – Heartless

Teyana Taylor Feat. Kehlani – Morning

Tyler, the Creator – A BOY IS A GUN

Dreamville – Under The Sun ft. J. Cole, DaBaby & Lute

The Living Goddess of Nepal

Whale Dance

DRIVE THRU

SUNSET IN PARADISE

FLYING LOW

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