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MAGA Has Red Scare Meltdown Over Word in Mamdani’s Speech
HYSTERIAThe New York City mayor had a ceremonial inauguration at City Hall on New Year’s Day.
Trump’s Jobs Boasts Hit by Humiliating Reality Check
WAIT A SECONDLabor data paints a far less flattering picture than the president’s claims suggest.
Artist Accuses DHS of Stealing His Work to Plug Deportations
HERE WE GO AGAINThe artist does not want to be associated with ICE Barbie Kristi Noem’s deportation department.
Trump Raked in a Fortune as His Investors Lost Out
📉📉📉The president’s media company ended his first year back in office on a low note.
Giuliani Roasted for Embarrassing Tech Fail at Trump Bash
AMERICA’S NIGHTMAREThe former mayor of New York flubbed a simple selfie clip from the NYE bash at Mar-a-Lago.
Trump, 79, Makes Desperate Defense After Health Revelations
CALL THE DOCTORThe president says he “ACED” an exam checking for signs of dementia “for the third straight time.”
ICE Barbie Guts Disaster Relief Staff After Floods Scandal
ICED OUTShocked FEMA workers said it’s “beyond cruel” to be given just a few days’ notice that they’re being let go.
Target of Andy Cohen’s Drunken New Year Rant Hits Back
BOOZY BALL DROPEric Adams mocked Cohen with an “AAA” jab on the day he was replaced as New York mayor by Zohram Mamdani.
Sleepless Trump, 79, Threatens New War in 3AM Rage Post
PEACEMAKER IN CHIEF?The
president, who has been lobbying for a Nobel Peace Prize, warned a
foreign adversary that the U.S. is “locked and loaded and ready to go.”
MAGA’s Favorite ‘Journalist’ Busted Paying to Fake ‘News’
SHIRLEY NOT?The far-right YouTuber alleging Somalian welfare fraud in Minnesota has a history of manufacturing news.
‘Wicked’ Icon Cancels Kennedy Center Appearance
DEFYING DEPRAVITYStephen
Schwartz, the composer who helped launch the Kennedy Center in 1971,
says he won’t return to the venue after Trump’s dubious rebrand.
I Know Truth About Why Epstein and Trump Fell Out: Wolff
BUSINESS RIVALSThe White House’s official explanation isn’t the whole story, according to the president’s biographer.
Millers’ Pregnancy Reveal Gives New Life to Musk Rumors
BABY ON BOARDStephen and Katie Miller are expecting baby No. 4—and some people have questions.
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Map of THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE | Briiliant Maps
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The
Columbian Exchange created the first truly global interconnectedness,
linking continents previously isolated, and set the stage for modern
world history, impacting everything from food on our tables to the
spread of diseases and patterns of human migration
The Columbian Exchange was the
massive transfer of plants, animals, diseases, technology, and people
between the Americas (New World) and Afro-Eurasia (Old World)
following Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage, creating global networks
and profoundly reshaping societies, diets, ecosystems, and economies on
both sides of the Atlantic, introducing vital crops like potatoes and
corn to the Old World, while bringing devastating diseases and livestock
to the New, leading to population shifts, new trade, and colonization.
What Was Exchanged?
From New World to Old World (Americas to Europe/Africa/Asia):
- Plants: Potatoes, corn (maize), tomatoes, cacao, tobacco, squash, chili peppers, pumpkins.
From Old World to New World (Europe/Africa/Asia to Americas):
- Plants: Wheat, sugar, coffee, bananas, olives, citrus fruits.
Key Impacts
- Demographic Shifts:Diseases caused massive decline in Indigenous populations, while new American crops fueled population booms in Europe, Africa, and Asia.
New World crops became staples worldwide, improving nutrition and increasing food supply, fundamentally changing global diets.
Established new global trade routes and spurred capitalism, though often through exploitation and colonialism.
Introduction of new species altered landscapes and ecosystems on both continents.
Spread of religions, languages, and technologies, reshaping cultures.
Significance
The
Columbian Exchange created the first truly global interconnectedness,
linking continents previously isolated, and set the stage for modern
world history, impacting everything from food on our tables to the
spread of diseases and patterns of human migration.
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It's High Time to Legalize Cannabis
Nations
around the world, including Australia, Canada, Germany, Israel and
Britain, regulate and acknowledge cannabis as a legitimate medicine.
It's high time the United States follows suit. The writer is deputy
director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.
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Why Trump is reclassifying marijuana to be less restricted.
U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Marijuana Companies’ Case Challenging Federal Prohibition
The U.S. Supreme Court is declining to take up a case challenging the constitutionality of federal marijuana prohibition—an issue that even one of the bench’s more conservative members, Justice Clarance Thomas, had previously argued must be resolved amid the state legalization movement.
The case, Canna Provisions v. Bondi,
was on the agenda for a closed-door meeting of the justices on Friday.
- On Monday, the court posted an order list showing that the matter failed to receive the needed votes from four justices to grant certiorari.
- Massachusetts-based marijuana businesses had asked the court to take their case because they argued that federal law unconstitutionally prohibits intrastate cannabis activity, contravening the Commerce Clause.
That issue was raised in amicus briefs filed by supporters of the suit over recent weeks. That includes a public interest law firm representing a man who says federal law infringed on his property rights, libertarian think tank the Cato Institute and the Koch-founded Americans for Prosperity Foundation.
- The powerhouse law firm Boies Schiller Flexner LLP submitted their petition for writ of certiorari from the court on behalf of their cannabis industry clients in October, and the Justice Department subsequently declined the opportunity to file a brief for or against the case’s consideration by the justices.
- A lead attorney representing the petitioners previously told Marijuana Moment that he was “hopeful”—albeit somewhat “nervous”—about the prospect of justices ultimately taking up the matter and deciding to address the key legal question about the constitutionality of federal cannabis prohibition.
“Time is of the essence,” Josh Schiller said, noting the dramatic shift in public opinion and state laws governing cannabis. “We think that this is the right time for this case because of the need—the industry needs to get relief from federal oversight at the moment.”
Schiller did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Marijuana Moment about the court’s action on Monday.
A U.S. appeals court rejected the arguments of the state-legal cannabis companies the firm is representing in May. It was one the latest blows to the high-profile lawsuit following a lower court’s dismissal of the claims.
- But it’s widely understood that the plaintiffs’ legal team has long intended the matter to end up before the nine high court justices.
One of the court’s justices, Thomas, said in 2021 that the federal government’s inconsistent approach to marijuana policy ought to be resolved, suggesting that outright national prohibition may be unconstitutional.
- “Once comprehensive, the Federal Government’s current approach is a half-in, half-out regime that simultaneously tolerates and forbids local use of marijuana,” Thomas said at the time.
- “This contradictory and unstable state of affairs strains basic principles of federalism and conceals traps for the unwary,” he said, adding that “though federal law still flatly forbids the intrastate possession, cultivation, or distribution of marijuana…the Government, post-Raich, has sent mixed signals on its views.”
Thomas’s comments seemed to suggest it’d be appropriate revisit the precedent-setting case, Gonzales v. Raich, where the Supreme Court narrowly determined that the federal government could enforce prohibition against cannabis cultivation that took place wholly within California based on Congress’s authority to regulate interstate commerce.
The initial complaint in the current case, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, argued that government’s ongoing prohibition on marijuana under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) was unconstitutional because Congress in recent decades had “dropped any assumption that federal control of state-regulated marijuana is necessary.”
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