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A budtender (right) shows cannabis buds to a customer at the Green Pearl Organics dispensary on the first day of legal recreational marijuana sales in Desert Hot Springs, California. (Getty/Robyn Beck)

A big blow to the failed U.S. drug war

Julia Conley - Common Dreams
Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why losing is "psychic death" for Trump

Matthew Rozsa
A tree sprouting in a forest (Getty Images)

Wild ginseng is at a crossroads

Emily Cataneo - Undark
People going about leisure activities on a Sunday afternoon and daily routines while wearing face masks (Diego Cupolo/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

How Montana changed its mask strategy

Katheryn Houghton - KFF Health News
Donald Trump, Joe Biden, and the NYT poll dials (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/NYT)

Why pollsters blew it again

Matthew Rozsa
U.S. President Donald Trump removes his mask upon return to the White House from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on October 05, 2020 in Washington, DC. Trump spent three days hospitalized for coronavirus. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Swing-state doctors target Trump

Danielle Renwick - KFF Health News
US President Donald Trump (L) listens to White House coronavirus adviser Dr. Scott Atlas speak during a press conference in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House on September 23, 2020, in Washington, DC. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Who is Trump COVID adviser Scott Atlas?

Matthew Rozsa
Right Whale mother and calf (Getty Images)

Boats can't stop hitting right whales

Nicole Karlis
Young exhausted and wasted woman waking up suffering headache and hangover after drinking alcohol lying on bed sick and miserable still drunk (Getty Images)

Is the pandemic making us sober up?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Empty Halloween pumpkin candy bucket (Getty Images)

5 tips for a safe Halloween during COVID

Sheri Madigan, Craig Jenne, Rachel Eirich - The Conversation
Ingrid Newkirk (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Ingrid Newkirk on animal individuality

Matthew Rozsa
Man using tablet pc, laptop and smartphone (Getty Images)

Multitasking is bad for memory

Matthew Rozsa
This illustration shows the lightning phenomenon known as a sprite and what a sprite could look like in Jupiter's atmosphere. Named after a mischievous, quick-witted character in English folklore, sprites last for only a few milliseconds. They feature a central blob of light with long tendrils of light extending down toward the ground and upward. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI)

Sprites haunt Jupiter’s atmosphere

Nicole Karlis
The US Supreme Court in Washington, DC (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Climate action stymied in new Court

Shannon Osaka - Grist
A nurse inoculates volunteer Ilya Dubrovin, 36, with Russia's new coronavirus vaccine in a post-registration trials at a clinic in Moscow on September 10, 2020. (Getty Images)

The COVID-19 immunity misconception

Nicole Karlis
Computer illustration of a view across the rocky surface of the planet Venus, showing clouds of sulphuric acid obscuring the Sun. (Getty Images)

Cold water on possibility of Venus life

Matthew Rozsa
President Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How narcissists react to losing

Matthew Rozsa
Couple watching scary movie on the couch (Getty Images)

Why horror is good for your health

Nicole Karlis
Crowd of people with face masks walking in the shopping block in Cologne, Germany, on October 17, 2020 as NRW state mandate face covering in most of city center areas (Ying Tang/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

New study raises herd immunity doubts

Matthew Rozsa
This illustration highlights the Moon’s Clavius Crater with an illustration depicting water trapped in the lunar soil there, along with an image of NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) that found sunlit lunar water. (NASA/Daniel Rutter)

Exploring a watery moon

Nicole Karlis
Rajesh Khanna (background) unidentified scientist in foreground (Kris Hanning via University of Arizona)

Coronavirus' latest evolutionary trick

Matthew Rozsa
U.S. President Donald Trump walks out of White House on October 26, 2020 in Washington, DC. Trump plans to head to three campaign rallies in Pennsylvania this afternoon. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

WH staff chief: We've given up on COVID

Matthew Rozsa
Andrew Wheeler, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (Al Drago-Pool/Getty Images)

EPA refuses to reduce COVID pollutants

Lisa Song, Lylla Younes - ProPublica
Gavin Newsom (GettyKevork Djansezian)

Gov. Newsom greenlights more fracking

Steve Horn - Capital & Main
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