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Long-awaited bill to end federal ban on marijuana introduced in U.S. Senate
Long-awaited U.S. Senate cannabis legislation that would end the federal ban on marijuana while encouraging research and taking steps to help minority communities hardest hit by the war on drugs was introduced Thursday.
The Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act would leave it to the states to decide whether to legalize the drug. Many, including New Jersey, already have, putting them in conflict with federal law. Those state-legal businesses would be able to obtain checking accounts, credit cards and other financial services now denied to them.
The bill would expunge federal cannabis convictions and encourage states to follow suit; require the Food and Drug Administration to set strong cannabis health, safety and labeling standards; encourage research into the drug; impose a federal excise tax of 5% to 12.5% for smaller businesses and 10% to 25% for larger concerns; and direct the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to address drugged driving, requiring a standard for cannabis-impaired driving within three years.
“As more states legalize cannabis and work towards reversing the many injustices the failed war on drugs levied against Black, brown, and low-income people, the federal government continues to lag woefully behind,” said U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, one of the bill’s chief sponsors along with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Finance Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore.
“With strong restorative justice provisions for communities impacted by the drug war, support for small cannabis businesses, and expungement of federal cannabis offenses, this bill reflects long overdue, common sense drug policy,” Booker said.
Federal law would still prevent using or selling cannabis in states that have not legalized the drug. The Department of Justice would provide grants to help small law enforcement departments hire officers, investigators and community outreach specialists to combat black market sales.
The bill would limit the sale of cannabis to those 21 and older, and fund programs to prevent youth marijuana use. The FDA’s new Center for Cannabis Products would set labeling standards, including potency and servings.
The Department of Veterans Affairs and Indian Health Service would offer recommendations about the use of medical marijuana by patients, and work to prevent people from buying large quantities of the drug in states where it is legal in order to sell it elsewhere.
Those harmed by the war on drugs would get access to financing to enter the cannabis business and those who use marijuana wouldn’t face the loss of federal benefits such as housing or student loans. Marijuana testing for federal workers would be limited to those employees in areas such as national security, law enforcement, and commercial transportation.
The FDA and the Treasury Department’s Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau would take over jurisdiction over marijuana from the Drug Enforcement Agency and would regulate it like alcohol and tobacco. Legal marijuana businesses would be able to deduct their expenses like other enterprises.
Federal taxes would be used to help communities and individuals hardest hit by the war on drugs, including grants to community-based organizations to offer job training, legal aid, mentoring and literacy programs. Loans would be made directly to small businesses owned by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals, and to lenders who would make those loans.
And federal research into the medical properties would be increased, including offering grants to develop research facilities and universities, especially minority-serving institutions and Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
The bill was more than year in the making as Democrats took control of the Senate and Schumer vowed to introduce legislation with the hope it would attract the 60 votes needed for passage in their chamber.
That would require at least 10 Republicans to vote with every Democrat, but many GOP senators now hail from states that have legalized cannabis for medical or personal use.
“The introduction of comprehensive cannabis reform legislation in the Senate, by none less than the majority leader himself, is the strongest sign yet that cannabis prohibition in America is nearing its end,” said Steve Hawkins, chief executive of the U.S. Cannabis Council.
There were some dissenting voices, however.
“Under the guise of social justice, increased entrepreneurship, and other false narratives, this bill will guarantee our next slow motion public health crisis — all while bypassing stringent review/approval processes other psychoactive drugs had to clear,” said former Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., a co-founder of Smart Approaches to Marijuana.
“By commercializing legal marijuana, tobacco companies, liquor companies, financial institutions, and the pharmaceutical industry stand to make billions. Let’s not lose sight of who the real ‘winners’ are here.”
The House twice has passed legislation to end the federal ban on cannabis and help communities and individuals hardest hit by the war on drugs. But until now, the Senate has refused to go along.
“A majority of Americans now support legalizing cannabis, and Congress must act by working to end decades of over-criminalization,” Schumer said. “It is time to end the federal prohibition on cannabis.”
In addition, the Senate never has taken up incremental steps such as the Secure and Fair Enforcement, or SAFE, Banking Act, even forcing it out of unrelated legislation that Democrats have succeeded in adding it to in the House.
Booker has objected to passing SAFE Banking on its own, saying that the monied interests pushing for that bill would lose their interest in also championing restorative justice issues if their priority is enacted.
But Hawkins said that Congress should move now on more incremental cannabis legislation.
“The ambitious and sweeping nature of the bill should not distract Congress from advancing limited yet critical reforms, such as expungement and the SAFE Banking Act, that are immediately within reach,” he said.
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Google’s worst hardware flop was introduced 10 years ago today
The Nexus Q was such a misguided product that Google decided to pull the plug before the device was ever released to consumers. Ten years to the day after its introduction at I/O 2012, the $299 media player positioned as a “social streaming device” remains a unique debacle in Google’s hardware story. Say what you will about Google Glass, but the company’s first foray into wearable tech at least got people talking. The Nexus Q, in contrast, was an example of what can happen when a company becomes very lost in its own walled garden.
There were promising aspects to the Q; in hindsight, you can clearly see the groundwork and early DNA of Google’s Chromecast within it. But everything about the execution was fundamentally shortsighted — and a little weird. In the below promo video that Google released on the day it announced the Nexus Q, someone describes the product as “this living alien object.”
“There’s something inside it. It wants to get out.” Totally normal stuff. Sixty seconds into the video, you’ve still got no clue what this thing is or what the hell it even does. Eventually, we learn that the Nexus Q is “a small, Android-powered computer” that can play music or videos from the cloud.
Over-the-top marketing aside, the Nexus Q wasn’t well-received. David Pogue wrote in The New York Times that it was “baffling” and “wildly overbuilt.” We gave it a 5. Reviews from CNET, Engadget, and others all shared the same consensus: for however impressive its hardware was, the Q just didn’t do enough to justify a price so much higher than a Roku or Apple TV at the time. A device that only worked with Google services just wasn’t practical or appealing for many people.
Designed by Google, made in the USA
But damn did it look cool. The Nexus Q genuinely gave off sci-fi vibes (especially when banana plugs and other A/V cables were running out of it) thanks to its orb-shaped industrial design and glowing LED ring. This was long before Amazon’s Echo came along, remember. The Q looked like something that could jack you into the matrix. And it was all original. Unlike other Nexus devices, which were collaborations with partners like LG, Samsung, Asus, Huawei, and others, the Nexus Q was conceptualized entirely by Google.
Most surprising of all is that it was designed and manufactured in the United States. Google never really highlighted or played up the US manufacturing bit — perhaps to avoid any notion that it would become a trend — but it undoubtedly contributed to the Q’s planned $299 price. (The original Moto X would later be assembled in the US, but that initiative didn’t last long.)
Inside the sphere was an “audiophile-grade” 25-watt amplifier that could power passive speakers — this remains the Q’s most unique hardware component — along with connections for optical, Micro HDMI, and ethernet. A Micro USB port was present “to encourage general hack-ability,” according to hardware director Matt Hershenson. The Nexus Q was powered by the same smartphone chip as the Galaxy Nexus. You could rotate the upper half of the sphere to control volume or tap it to mute whatever was playing. All the makings of a great living room device were there. But confining software limitations ruined that potential.
The Nexus Q only supported Google services including Play Music, Play Movies & TV, and YouTube. There was no Netflix or Hulu, and no Spotify. Google went to the trouble of putting in an amplifier, yet audiophiles had no way of getting lossless audio from the analog connectors.
The Q lacked any on-screen user interface and didn’t come with a remote; you could only control it using a dedicated Android app. Some of that will sound familiar to Chromecast owners. But there were major differences between the Nexus Q and Chromecast, which arrived a year later, that made the $35 streaming dongle such a success. Having learned a hard lesson from stubbornly favoring its own software, Google corrected course and made a heavy push for popular third-party apps to adopt casting. And crucially, the Chromecast also supported iOS.
Social streaming
Aside from the Nexus Q’s core functionality of playing music and videos, Google also tried to pitch the product as a social experience. Multiple people would be able to contribute to music playlists without passing someone’s phone around or jostling over control of a Bluetooth speaker. Friends could share YouTube or Play Movies content on the TV screen in a similar fashion — as long as they were on your Wi-Fi.
That all sounds fine in theory, but again, this was pre-Chromecast. The process for “social” streaming was… let’s say, inconvenient. If you actually wanted to make the “everyone at the party can DJ” scenario happen, all of your friends would also need to download and install the Nexus Q app before they could add songs to the queue. Even then, reviews complained about the software being unintuitive when it came to managing music playlists. It was too easy to accidentally play a song and blow up the collaborative mix that was in the works.
Fast forward a few years and, eventually, the top streaming music services figured out they could just solve this on their own. Now, you can make a collaborative playlist on Spotify (or YouTube Music) — no special device or random apps required.
End of the queue
Google heard the negative reviews and “that’s all it does?” criticisms of the Nexus Q loud and clear. By late July 2012, just a month after its announcement, the company announced it was postponing a consumer launch of the product “while we work on making it even better.” Early preorder customers would receive the device for free as a show of thanks for their early interest.
But the Nexus Q never made it to store shelves. By the end of 2012, Google quietly removed the product from its website. In 2013, the company’s apps started breaking compatibility with the device altogether. With so few Q units out in the world, Google didn’t waste time leaving it in the rearview mirror.
After Google abandoned the hardware, tinkerers and mod developers spent a few years trying to give the Nexus Q a new lease on life. It made it onto the CyanogenMod circuit, and one person even managed to turn it into a USB audio device to take advantage of that integrated amp. But there just aren’t many devices in circulation, so those efforts have largely faded into history.
The Nexus Q was a complete failure of a product, but Google wasn’t wrong about a “third wave of consumer electronics” that would make greater use of the cloud to keep all of your entertainment (music, movies, TV) close at hand. We’re seeing that everywhere today, and now you can add gaming to the equation. It was an embarrassing misstep, but Google’s canceled $299 media player showed that consumers have high expectations of living room entertainment devices — and not even giant tech companies can afford to go it alone.
Mike Brown introduced as Sacramento Kings coach, ready to embrace winning after lengthy playoff drought
A day removed from the Golden State Warriors’ championship parade in San Francisco, Mike Brown appeared 90 miles up Interstate 80 on Tuesday, reporting for duty as the new head coach of the Sacramento Kings.
“I hope I don’t get in trouble for saying this,” Brown said as he sat next to Kings general manager and president of basketball operations Monte McNair during his introductory news conference. “I really couldn’t turn up like I wanted to because of this doggone press conference today.”
Although his celebration was subdued after his third title in his six years as a Golden State assistant, Brown said he was ecstatic to discuss his fourth head-coaching opportunity after two stints with the Cleveland Cavaliers and a spell with the Los Angeles Lakers.
“The potential here, I truly believe the potential is off the charts,” he said. “It gets me excited thinking about it. … The players here, I’m excited about.
“There’s just a lot of opportunity here for this place to explode, and I want to be a part of it.”
There’s nowhere for the Kings to go but up.
Sacramento hasn’t qualified for the postseason since 2006, and finished in last place in the Pacific Division in seven of those 16 years. The Kings went 30-52 this past season, firing Luke Walton midway through the campaign and then dismissing Alvin Gentry from his interim position after they finished ranked 25th in offensive efficiency and 27th in defensive efficiency.
Brown addressed the playoff drought head on Tuesday.
“There ain’t no elephant in the room,” he said. “You can speak on it. We’re going to embrace that. I’m not coming here to have fun, be excited, join the area. I’m coming here to win. So we’re going to embrace anything that’s in front of us that talks about winning. So, we look forward to it.”
Brown, who accepted the job while the Warriors were in the middle of their second-round playoff series against the Memphis Grizzlies, said he was “heavily involved” in taking over the Kings while still finishing out the Warriors’ championship run. On Tuesday, he revealed a majority of his coaching staff, hiring Jordi Fernandez from the Denver Nuggets, Jay Triano from the Charlotte Hornets, Luke Loucks from the Phoenix Suns and Doug Christie, a former Kings standout whom he played against in college.
“I’ve talked to every single player on multiple occasions,” Brown said. “Some of them I talked to in person. Some of them I talked to on Zoom. Same with the staff that’s still around, talked to them on Zoom, talked to them on the phone multiple times. Obviously, Monty’s wife, she’s a great lady, but every once in a while she might get a little irritated with him because I think he answers my calls more than hers.”
He said he used an off day in between the conference finals and NBA Finals to fly down to San Diego and see point guard De’Aaron Fox work out. He calls him “Foxy,” a nickname he gave him in high school when he coached him at a basketball camp.
“Obviously I walked away impressed with his speed, but I thought he was a dog defensively,” Brown said of Fox. “So there’s going to be a lot of pressure on him coming from me, not anybody else, to get back to what I know he can do on this level night in and night out.”
Brown said the Warriors’ defensive success last season despite a roster rife with players with limited defensive reputations shows what the Kings can do on that end.
“People look at Steph Curry, [Nemanja Bjelica], Otto Porter, Jordan Poole, [Andrew] Wiggins in Minnesota, I mean I could go down the line of the personnel that we had with the Warriors and people did not think they could defend,” Brown said. “And somehow, someway, we ended up the No. 2 defense in the league. Now, will we be that next year? I don’t know. Probably not. It’s going to be a process. But I’m excited about all the guys.”
Brown also mentioned Davion Mitchell, Harrison Barnes, Domantas Sabonis and Richaun Holmes during the news conference, as well as the Kings’ No. 4 pick in Thursday’s NBA draft, as reasons to be encouraged about the team’s future.
“I’m excited about being here in Sacramento,” Brown said. “I have a lot of friends that live up this way. Nobody has told me anything or said anything bad about the area. It’s always been positive. And that’s even before I got the job. So, I’m excited about being in … what is it? Sactown. Sacto. Sac. The Big Tomato, something like that. There’s a lot of different nicknames for it.”
Flashback: the iPhone 6 introduced a new design in 2014 that still lives
Earlier this week Apple announced the iPhone SE (2022) – the third generation model in the series that spans 7 years. We have already talked at length about the original iPhone SE from 2016, but in truth the new model isn’t really a sequel to that one. No, both the second and third SE models are based on the design of the phone that we will talk about today.
And that is the Apple iPhone 6, which (ironically) is older than the original SE – the 6-series arrived in 2014. Of course, the SE itself was based on the iPhone 5 from 2012, a game-changing phone in its day. If you look at the iPhone 5 and the iPhone SE (2016) side by side, you will barely be able to notice any differences.
iPhone 6 on the left and iPhone SE (2022) on the right
The same goes for the iPhone 6 and the iPhone SE (2022). It has the same rounded silhouette and almost the exact dimensions – the differences are less than a millimeter. The phone still has a 4.7” display, still with 750 x 1,334 px resolution (and 326 ppi pixel density to make it a Retina Display, something the 4 introduced).
The chunky bezels above the below the display remain, the bottom one of which holds the sole remaining Touch ID fingerprint reader on iPhone. iPads have front or side-mounted readers too, but Apple’s phones have long since moved on to Face ID. Since the iPhone X (from 2017), in fact, a hated but influential design decision. One that Apple may never undo as analysts predict the company will turn the notch into a punch hole and then push the Face ID module under the display. An under display fingerprint reader does not sound likely.
Fingerprint readers do have their uses. For example, you can’t confuse one by wearing a mask and that is something that Face ID has been struggling with. Also, if you’re nimble enough, you can put your thumb on the FP reader while pulling the phone out of your pocket and it will be unlocked by the time it is in front of your eyes. This works especially well when it is a physical reader that you can feel by touch rather than something hiding under the glass display.
To be fair, some things have changed since the iPhone 6. In fact the change happened on the iPhone 8 – did you notice the antenna lines on the back of the 6? Those are there because the iPhone 6 had an aluminum back, which blocks signals. More recent Phone models (since the 8 and X generation) have glass backs, which simplifies antenna placement.
Other things have changed too, the SE phones now have IP67 ratings for dust and water resistance (they can last for half an hour under 1m of water). The new SE also gained a Ceramic Shield glass for the front, which is more durable than typical glass (more durable than even Gorilla Glass, if you believe Apple’s marketing). The iPhone 6 had “Ion-strengthened glass” instead.
The iPhone 6 did not arrive alone – in fact, 2014 was the first time Apple offered two different sizes. The iPhone 6 Plus had a larger 5.5” display and a larger battery (2,915 mAh vs. 1,810 mAh) and that was almost the only difference.
There was a single camera on the back (it was the iPhone 7 Plus that added the second camera), but the 6 Plus was the first iPhone to offer Optical Image Stabilization (OIS). That was its one camera advantage over the vanilla 6. However, both the 6 and the 6 Plus could shoot 1080p video at 60 fps, while the 5s from the year before could only do 30 fps. Phase detection autofocus was another upgrade over the 5s, which only had contrast detection AF.
Some might have hoped for a second camera on the iPhone SE (2022), but Apple really didn’t stray too far from the iPhone 6 design. The new SE has a much better camera, of course. It has a higher resolution sensor (12MP vs. 8MP), a brighter aperture (f/1.8 vs. f/2.2) and OIS, not to mention an Apple A15 chipset that has much, much more number crunching power to throw at image processing.
Also, the selfie camera was bumped up to Apple’s old 7MP unit. That’s better than the 1.2MP cam that the 6 had, which really was only good enough for FaceTime video calls. Newer iPhones (since the 11 series) have 12 MP front cameras with wider lenses. But even the latest models don’t have Center Stage, Apple’s clever system that uses the wide-angle lens to always keep you in the center of the frame even as you move around.
Having mentioned the Apple A15, we should note another major change – the SE model now offers 5G connectivity. 4G was a relatively fresh feature for Apple when the 6 came out, it was introduced with the iPhone 5 in 2012. As we mentioned before, metal and antennas don’t play well with each other, something that Apple found out the hard way with the 4 and the whole “antennagate” scandal. The proper design was figured out before the iPhone 6 came out, though.
The iPhone 6 series introduced NFC to Apple’s line-up. It was still quite locked down compared to the functionality offered by Androids – dedicated exclusively to Apple Pay.
The iPhone 6 generation had its own “gate” scandal. The way that the all-aluminum body was designed created weak spots around the buttons, which made the phones easier to bend if you sit on them or apply force on them in another way. A related issue was that the touch screen could become disconnected form the motherboard. There were other problems too, ones related to the flash storage and the frustrating “Error 53” that plagued the Touch ID fingerprint reader.
Going back to the chipset for a moment, the Apple A8 was the company’s second chipset with a 64-bit CPU (the A7 inside the iPhone 5s was the first). However, even these chips can’t run the latest iOS (support for them ended with iOS 12). Newer models (e.g. iPhone 6s, the original SE) do currently run the latest iOS 15.
Before we wrap up, a few audio-related things we wanted to note. The iPhone 6 had a 3.5mm headphone jack, something that the iPhone 7 series took away two years later. However, it also only had a single speaker, while newer models (SE included) have stereo speakers.
It wasn’t perfect, but the iPhone 6 series reached a record-breaking 10 million sales over the weekend after launch. A week later the number rose to 13 million units. And this was before the series reached some major markets (e.g. China).
It’s safe to say that superficially the design of the iPhone SE (2022) is nearly identical to that of the iPhone 6, which will be eight years old soon. Looks can be deceiving, a lot has changed since 2014’s finest iPhone. Most importantly, the flaws of the original design have been fixed and many improvements have been implemented. Looking old-fashioned is not something that can be fixed without moving forward a few years to the iPhone X derived designs.
PS. we brushed past the iPhone 6 Plus too quickly. We want to spend more time on the history of iPhone sizes in another installment. Here we will just mention that the iPhone 6 Plus lineage ends with the iPhone 8 Plus from 2017.
Marvel Almost Introduced Guardians of the Galaxy Heroes in Four Solo One-Shot Short Films
Before the Guardians of the Galaxy became household names in their own Marvel Studios franchise, the characters were nearly introduced to movie-goers in a series of short films. In an excerpt from The Story of Marvel Studios: The Making of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige recalls a time when the studio was ready to make four short films to get fans caught up on the respective characters — one with Rocket Raccoon and Groot, and one each for Gamora, Drax, and Star-Lord. After all, the outfit had just given each of the four primary Avengers their own solo film.
“We toyed with the idea of doing short films on Drax, on Rocket and Groot, and on Gamora, leading up to Guardians,” Feige told the writers behind the tell-all book. The producer then recalled wanting to do a fourth short film about a kid that was fascinated by fantasy stories.
“Then you’d star Guardians. And half-way through, we would reveal that big space hero is the kid from the short. We thought that would be clever, but it was too much,” he added.
In the same section of the book, it was revealed the Marvel Creative Committee — a group of creatives with Marvel Entertainment — also didn’t take kindly to much of James Gunn’s work on the franchise, including a big reveal in Vol. 2.
“The thinking was, when you tell your fan base that Kurt Russell and Chris Pratt are going to be playing father and son roles—two beloved actors from different generations who have hit action-comidies on their resumes—you’re signaling that they’re in for a great time,” the book says.
It quickly adds, “Yet Russell was as sure of the twist as Marvel Studios, [James] Gunn, and Pratt were.”
The Marvel Creative Committee found itself disbanded by 2017.
The first two Guardians of the Galaxy movies are now streaming on Disney+ while Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is due to hit theaters May 5, 2023. I Am Groot and the Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special have yet to receive release dates.
What members of the Guardians would you like to see spin-off shows of? Let us know your thoughts either in the comments section or by hitting our writer @AdamBarnhardt up on Twitter to chat all things MCU!
Sony has introduced free game trials to PlayStation 5
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Death Stranding: Directors Cut can be played for six hours and Sackboy: A Big Adventure can be played for five hours, according to Sony’s marketing.
The trials are only applicable to the PS5 versions of the games and any DLC purchased during the free period will only be usable after expiration if users purchase the full game.
Recent patents suggested that Sony may be planning to add PlayStation 5 games to its streaming service PlayStation Now, which could potentially offer a smoother way for players to trial games in the future.
The patent shows how Sony plans to group multiple high-speed NVMe SSDs together and store the same information on them, for the purposes of providing data at high speeds to a client device.
The description specifically uses games as an example, and explains how information can be sent to the user from multiple different SSDs to ensure stable performance if an SSD is overloaded or dies.
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‘Cyberpunk 2077’ update introduced a game-breaking bug
Cyberpunk 2077’s 1.1 update was supposed to set the troubled game on the path toward redemption. Instead, it seems to have come with its own set of problems. Per Eurogamer, players have discovered a game-breaking bug involving Cyberpunk 2077’s “Down on the Street” quest. To move the mission forward, your character is supposed to receive a call from an NPC named Goro Takemura (pictured above). Unfortunately, as things stand, Takemura will call V but won’t say anything, making you unable to progress the quest, and subsequently move the main storyline forward.
We’re working on the issue where the conversation with Takemura may not start during the quest “Down on the Street” for @CyberpunkGame and plan to release a Hotfix to address it as soon as possible.
In the meantime, here’s a potential workaround👇https://t.co/ujjxb8snGu— CD PROJEKT RED CS (@CDPRED_Support) January 25, 2021
CDPR said it’s working on a hotfix to address the issue it plans to release “as soon as possible.” We’ll update this article once it’s live. In the meantime, the studio has shared a workaround you can use to bypass the problem, but you’ll need an earlier save. As you might imagine, the Takemura bug is one of the reasons 1.1 hasn’t gone down well with Cyberpunk 2077 players. When CDPR detailed its schedule of updates earlier in the month, it said the game’s upcoming 1.2 update would include more significant fixes and improvements.