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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, October 29) – More Filipinos are getting diagnosed for the human immunodeficiency virus HIV), the Health department said.
The July report of the agency's epidemiology bureau on the HIV/AIDs and ART Registry of the Philippines showed that the average number of people who get infected daily in 2019 soared to 35, from just one in 2008.
The bureau also recorded 1,111 new cases of the incurable disease, which mostly affects males who have sex with males. This brings the total number of infected people to 7,483 since January 2019. The figure is also the highest reported since July of this year, and 29 percent higher than the number in the same period in 2018.
Of the total number, 199 were cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) or advanced HIV infection, the report stated.
Ninety four percent or 1,048 of new cases were male, and the most affected age range was 24-34, accounting for 51 percent of the new cases.
Most or 380 of the cases were reported in Metro Manila, the report added. CALABARZON came in second with 180 cases. Central Luzon followed with 134. Completing the top five regions with the most number of new HIV cases for the month were Central Visayas with 93 cases and Davao region with 60.
Sexual contact still emerged as the top mode of transmission. The report said 63 percent or 699 cases of infections were males having sex with males. A small number acquired the disease either through an infected needle (nine cases) or from their mothers (two). One case had no data on how the disease was acquired, according to the report.

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The goal of this International Roadmap for Devices and Systems (IRDS) chapter is to survey, catalog, and assess the status of technologies in the areas of cryogenic electronics and quantum information processing. Application drivers are identified for sufficiently developed technologies and application needs are mapped as a function of time against projected capabilities to identify challenges requiring research and development effort. Cryogenic electronics (also referred to as low-temperature electronics or cold electronics) is defined by operation at cryogenic temperatures (below −150 °C or 123.15 K) and includes devices and circuits made from a variety of materials including insulators, conductors, semiconductors, superconductors, or topological materials. Existing and emerging applications are driving development of novel cryogenic electronic technologies. Information processing refers to the input, transmission, storage, manipulation or processing, and output of data. Information processing systems to accomplish a specific function, in general, require several different interactive layers of technology. A top-down list of these layers begins with the required application or system function, leading to system architecture, micro- or nano-architecture, circuits, devices, and materials. A fundamental unit of information (e.g., a bit) is represented by a computational state variable, for example, the position of a bead in the ancient abacus calculator or the voltage (or charge) state of a node capacitance in CMOS logic. A binary computational state variable serves as the foundation for von Neumann computational system architectures that dominated conventional computing. Quantum information processing is different in that it uses qubits, two-state quantum-mechanical systems that can be in coherent superpositions of both states at the same time, which can have computational advantages. Measurement of a qubit in a given basis causes it to collapse to one of the basis states. Technology categories covered in this report include: • Superconductor electronics (SCE) • Cryogenic semiconductor electronics (Cryo-Semi) • Quantum information processing (QIP)
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This volume collects the referred papers based on plenary, invited, and oral talks, as well on the posters presented at the Third International Conference on Computer Simulations in Physics and beyond (CSP2018), which took place September 24-27, 2018 in Moscow. The Conference continues the tradition started by an inaugural conference in 2015. It took place on the campus of A.N. Tikhonov Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics in Strogino, was jointly organized by the National Research University Higher School of Economics, the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics and Science Center in Chernogolovka.
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This book highlights selected topics of standard and modern theory of accretion onto black holes and magnetized neutron stars. The structure of stationary standard discs and non-stationary viscous processes in accretion discs are discussed to the highest degree of accuracy analytic theory can provide, including relativistic effects in flat and warped discs around black holes. A special chapter is dedicated to a new theory of subsonic settling accretion onto a rotating magnetized neutron star. The book also describes supercritical accretion in quasars and its manifestation in lensing events. Several chapters cover the underlying physics of viscosity in astrophysical discs with some important aspects of turbulent viscosity generation. The book is aimed at specialists as well as graduate students interested in the field of theoretical astrophysics.
The present book gathers chapters from colleagues of A. Ezersky from Russia, especially those from Nizhny Novgorod Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Science and from France, with whom he has been collaborating on experimental and theoretical developments. The book is subdivided into two parts. Part I contains eight chapters related to nonlinear water waves and Part II addresses in five chapters, patterns dynamics in nonequilibrium media. The contributions of Alexander B. Ezersky were valuable from both the experimental and the theoretical points of view. We thank all the authors for their contributions and the Springer Editor for having kindly accepted the edition of this book in memory of our colleague and friend, Prof. Alexander Borisovich Ezersky.
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These notes have appeared as a result of a one-term course in superfluidity and superconductivity given by the author to fourth-year undergraduate students and first-year graduate students of the Department of Physics, Moscow State University of Education. The goal was not to give a detailed picture of these two macroscopic quantum phenomena with an extensive coverage of the experimental background and all the modern developments, but rather to show how the knowledge of undergraduate quantum mechanics and statistical physics could be used to discuss the basic concepts and simple problems, and draw parallels between superconductivity and superfluidity.
Superconductivity and superfluidity are two phenomena where quantum mechanics, typically constrained to the microscopic realm, shows itself on the macroscopic level. Conceptually and mathematically, these phenomena are related very closely, and some results obtained for one can, with a few modifications, be immediately carried over to the other. However, the student of these notes should be aware of important differences between superconductivity and superfluidity that stem mainly from two facts: (1) electrons in a superconductor carry a charge, therefore one has to take into account interaction with electromagnetic radiation; (2) electrons move in a lattice, therefore phonons play a role not only a mediators of attractive interaction between pairs of electrons, but also as scatterers of charge carriers.
Although these are notes on superfluidity and superconductivity, and there are a few cross-references, the two subjects can be studied independently with, perhaps, a little extra work by the student to fill in the gaps resulting from such study. The material of Chapter 1 introduces the method of second quantisation that is commonly used to discuss systems with many interacting particles. It is then applied in Chaper 2 to treat the uniform weakly interacting Bose gas within the approach by N. Bogoliubov, and in Chapter 4 to formulate the theory of the uniform superconducting state put forth by J. Bardeen, L. Cooper and R. Schrieffer. Chapter 3 presents the theory proposed independently by E. Gross and L. Pitaevskii of a non-uniform weakly interacting Bose gas, with a discussion of vortices, rotation of the condensate, and the Bogoliubov equations. In Chapter 5 we discuss the Ginzburd-Landau theory of a non-uniform superconductor near the critical temperature and apply it to a few simple problems such as the surface energy of the boundary between a normal metal and a superconductor, critical current and critical magnetic field, and vortices.
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Superconducting properties of metallic nanowires can be entirely different from those of bulk superconductors because of the dominating role played by thermal and quantum fluctuations of the order parameter. For superconducting channels with diameters below ∼ 50 nm fluctuations of the phase of the complex order parameter - the phase slippage - lead to non-zero resistance below the critical temperature. Fluctuations of the modulus of the complex order parameter broaden the gap edge of the quasiparticle energy spectrum and modify the density of states. In extreme case of very narrow channels imbedded in high-impedance environment (which fix the charge and, hence, enable strong fluctuations of the quantum-conjugated variable, the phase) the superconductor can be driven to insulating state – the Coulomb blockade. We review recent experimental activities in the field demonstrating rather unusual phenomena.
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In this volume we have collected papers based on the presentations given at the International Conference on Computer Simulations in Physics and beyond (CSP2015), held in Moscow, September 6-10, 2015. We hope that this volume will be helpful and scientifically interesting for readers.
The Conference was organized for the first time with the common efforts of the Moscow Institute for Electronics and Mathematics (MIEM) of the National Research University Higher School of Economics, the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, and the Science Center in Chernogolovka. The name of the Conference emphasizes the multidisciplinary nature of computational physics. Its methods are applied to the broad range of current research in science and society. The choice of venue was motivated by the multidisciplinary character of the MIEM. It is a former independent university, which has recently become the part of the National Research University Higher School of Economics.
The development of terahertz imaging instruments for security systems is on the cutting edge of terahertz technology. We are developing a THz imaging system based on a superconducting integrated receiver (SIR). An SIR is a new type of heterodyne receiver based on an SIS mixer integrated with a flux-flow oscillator (FFO) and a harmonic mixer which is used for phase-locking the FFO. Employing an SIR in an imaging system means building an entirely new instrument with many advantages compared to traditional systems. In this project we propose a prototype THz imaging system using an 1 pixel SIR and 2D scanner. At a local oscillator frequency of 500 GHz the best noise equivalent temperature difference (NETD) of the SIR is 10 mK at an integration time of 1 s and a detection bandwidth of 4 GHz. The scanner consists of two rotating flat mirrors placed in front of the antenna consisting of a spherical primary reflector and an aspherical secondary reflector. The diameter of the primary reflector is 0.3 m. The operating frequency of the imaging system is 600 GHz, the frame rate is 0.1 FPS, the scanning area is 0.5 × 0.5 m2, the image resolution is 50 × 50 pixels, the distance from an object to the scanner was 3 m. We have obtained THz images with a spatial resolution of 8 mm and a NETD of less than 2 K.
IVEC was originally created in 2000 by merging the U.S. Power Tubes Conferences and the European Space Agency TWTA Workshops. Now a fully international conference, IVEC is held every other year in the U.S., and in Europe and Asia alternately every fourth year. After the successful and enjoyable meeting in Paris, France in May, IVEC 2014 will return to its beautiful U.S. location in the city of Monterey.
We discuss the effect of self-heating on performance of injection microdisk lasers operating in continuous-wave (CW) regime at room and elevated temperature. A model is developed that allows one to obtain analytical expressions for the peak optical power limited by the thermal rollover effect, the corresponding injection current and excess temperature of the device. The model predicts, there exists the maximum temperature of microlaser operation in CW regime and the minimum mircrodisk diameter, at which CW lasing is possible. The model allows one to determine the dependence of the device characteristics on its diameter and the inherent parameters, such as thermal resistance, electrical resistance, non-radiative recombination and characteristic temperature of the threshold current. It is found that a rapid growth of the threshold current density with decreasing the diameter (which takes place even in the absence of the self-heating effect) is the main internal reason leading to the dependence of the temperature characteristics of the mirodisk laser on its size. In the calculations, we used a set of parameters extracted from experiments with InGaAs quantum dot microdisk lasers. The simulation results (in particular, the light-current curve and the dependence of the minimum microdisk diameter on ambient temperature) comply well with the measured dependences.
The increasing luminosities of future Large Hadron Collider runs and next generation of collider experiments will require an unprecedented amount of simulated events to be produced. Such large scale productions are extremely demanding in terms of computing resources. Thus new approaches to event generation and simulation of detector responses are needed. In LHCb, the accurate simulation of Cherenkov detectors takes a sizeable fraction of CPU time. An alternative approach is described here, when one generates high-level reconstructed observables using a generative neural network to bypass low level details. This network is trained to reproduce the particle species likelihood function values based on the track kinematic parameters and detector occupancy. The fast simulation is trained using real data samples collected by LHCb during run 2. We demonstrate that this approach provides high-fidelity results.
Thin current sheets (TCSs) with thicknesses about ion Larmor radii are widespread in space. It is important to describe their equilibrium structure allowing them to store and then explosively release the accumulated free energy. When ions are moving along quasi‐adiabatic trajectories while magnetized electrons follow guiding center drift orbits, TCSs can be described within the framework of a hybrid approach. The thickness of the embedded electron sheet remains uncertain because of the scale‐free character of electron motion. In this work, we propose a novel analytical model of the multilayer TCS that provides a universal expression describing the inner (embedded) electron sheet in dependence of TCS characteristics. An unusual property of the embedded electron layer revealed in this analysis is the nonlinear profile of the magnetic field in the inner layer: B(z) ~ z1/3, which conforms excellently with MAVEN observations of 43 TCSs in the Martian magnetotail.
We propose a new method to estimate sub-decadal to centennial time scales of sea-level change. Since the coastal data exhibit large spatial heterogeneity and temporal variability, the global sea-level rate is estimated as an appropriate average of the rates observed at available locations and computed with sliding windows. We claim that under such heterogeneity the median serves as a better representative of an adequate average than the mean. With this approach, the sea-level rate in 60 to 70 yr windows over the past century is found to be smaller than 1.7-1.9 mm/yr. These upper estimates are in line with those obtained with a scarce list of available long quasi-gapless series
A major challenge in the design of electrochemical biodevices is to achieve fast rates of electron exchange between proteins and electrodes. In this work, we show that a significant increase in the direct electron transfer rate between a graphite electrode and Tobacco Peroxidase takes place when a surface exposed leucine, located in the vicinity of the heme pocket, is replaced by tryptophan. The analysis of the Fe(III)/Fe(II) voltammetric responses of native and mutated proteins, as a function of solution pH and temperature, leads to similar values of the reduction entropy and reorganization energy, but to a higher electronic coupling in the case of the mutant. In addition, the mutated and native proteins are shown to display similar electrocatalytic activities to reduce hydrogen peroxide at positive potentials, indicating that the molecular structure of the heme pocket is largely unaffected by the mutation.
We consider the structure of a coherent vortex formed around a solid rotating disc in two-dimensional turbu- lent flow. We find the average velocity profile of the coherent vortex for different rotation velocities
A self-consistent model for the formation and evolution of dusty plasmas in the Martian ionosphere is developed. The effects of the initial distributions of dust particles, as well as condensation and absorption of carbon dioxide and water molecules by dust particles, are studied. Theory values of characteristic sizes of dust grains and their charges are obtained. The theoretical values of the sizes are in agreement with the data of observations. The possibility of the formation of dusty plasma structures in the Martian ionosphere which are analogous to noctilucent clouds in the atmosphere of the Earth is discussed.
We study dust vortices called dust devils and dynamics of dust in this structures. Dust devils are well formed relatively short-lived vortices that can appear over well heated surfaces like deserts and are clearly visible due to large amount of dust raised. Dust particles rotating in a flow bump and scrape each other and as a result particles obtain electric charges. Space separation of particles with opposite charges leads to generation of macroscopic electric field. We simulate dust dynamics with taking into account the electric field of the vortex.
The development of advanced electrochemical devices for energy conversion and storage requires fine tuning of electrode reactions, which can be accomplished by altering the electrode/solution interface structure. Particularly, in case of an alkali-salt electrolyte the electric double layer (EDL) composition can be managed by introducing organic cations (e.g. room temperature ionic liquid cations) that may possess polar fragments. To explore this approach, we develop a theoretical model predicting the efficient replacement of simple (alkali) cations with dipolar (organic) ones within the EDL. For the typical values of the molecular dipole moment ($2-4~D$) the effect manifests itself at the surface charge densities higher than 30 $\mu C/cm^2$. We show that the predicted behavior of the system is in qualitative agreement with the molecular dynamics simulation results.


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Civil Rights Groups Push To End Criminalization Of Marijuana And Other Drugs
A coalition of more than 100 civil rights groups—including ACLU, NAACP, National Education Association and National Organization for Women—released a criminal justice reform platform for the 2020 elections on Thursday that calls for the legalization of marijuana and supports the "dismantling" of the criminalization of other drugs.
As part of the document's plank on ending the war on drugs, the organizations said states should "legalize marijuana through a racial justice framework that focuses on access, equity, and repairing the damage of prohibition" and the federal government should end cannabis prohibition and "implement marijuana reform through a racial justice lens."
They pointed to a bill recently introduced by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) as an example of legalization legislation that would meet their standard.
But because passing such a bill will take time, the coalition said the Justice Department should immediately reinstate Obama-era guidance that directed federal prosecutors to generally stay out of the way of state cannabis law implementation.
The platform, called "Vision for Justice 2020 and Beyond," also encourages decriminalizing possession of all drugs as well as certain trafficking offenses that "over the last 40 years have caused an explosion in our incarcerated population."
But the groups said even simple decriminalization isn't enough and argued that officials should "work toward dismantling the current paradigm of drug criminalization and replacing the current system with a regulatory approach that treats substance use as a public health issue."
That would be achieved through "investments in medical care, mental health care, community empowerment, and other evidence-based wellness practices that reduce overdose deaths, such as syringe and naloxone programs, drug checking, safe consumption spaces, and medication-assisted treatment."
"The failed War on Drugs has devastated thousands of communities, particularly those of color, while overwhelming our jails and prisons. We must immediately end these failed policies and proactively invest in those communities that have been harmed most."
The groups also said that the Drug Enforcement Administration should be overhauled and all federal agencies dealing with drugs should take a public health approach to the issue that focuses on harm reduction and treatment.
Money saved by implementing these reform proposals should be used "to rebuild those communities that have been most damaged by the War on Drugs, including by providing resources to address addiction and other behavioral health issues," the platform states.
In addition to these drug-specific policy positions, the coalition also wants to "dismantle and reverse all harmful policies" of the 1994 crime bill that former Vice President Joe Biden (D) helped author and replace them with a "modern 21st century public safety bill."
Civil asset forfeiture, for-profit prisons, mandatory minimum sentences and the death penalty should also be ended, says the platform, which was shared with presidential candidates.
"The U.S. incarcerates more people than any other developed nation, with more than 6.6 million people under some form of institutionalized restraint—an undue proportion of whom are Brown or Black," Vanita Gupta, president of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, which led the 117 groups that signed onto the platform, said in a press release. "We simply cannot live up to the values we profess if we don't end mass incarceration and eliminate the deep racial bias entrenched in the current system."
BREAKING: With @CivRightsCorps & 115 other orgs, we released a platform for the 2020 state & federal elections proposing a vision for transforming our criminal-legal system into one that respects the humanity, dignity & rights of ALL: https://t.co/eJDKby4Tcb #VisionForJustice2020 pic.twitter.com/cV6K2B4R3Q
— The Leadership Conference (@civilrightsorg) September 5, 2019
"We offer this comprehensive roadmap to create a new way to approach public safety, rebalancing spending and prioritizing upfront investments in the communities that most urgently need them," she said. "It is time to remove the stain that has lingered on our democracy as a result of an excessively punitive system. The solutions we offer are actionable tools we can use to begin that process."
The groups also expressed concern about criminal laws targeting poverty, mental health, disability and homelessness.
"All reforms must produce decarceral results and work to end racial and economic inequity," they said. "All reforms, as they shrink the criminal-legal system, must invest resources in those communities that have been most harmed by mass incarceration and mass criminalization."
Voting rights should be restored for those currently and formerly incarcerated, restrictions on things like public housing and employment should be eliminated and misdemeanor convictions should be automatically sealed and expunged, they said. The platform also states that certain felony convictions should be expunged over time.
"Throughout the history of this country, the American system of criminal punishment has been used to perpetuate white supremacy, promote inequality, and control marginalized people," Alec Karakatsanis, founder of Civil Rights Corps, another signee, said. "Vision for Justice lays out actionable policy solutions to begin dismantling those harmful systems and begin meaningful reinvestment in the communities that have been devastated by the system as it stands."
Other signatories include civil rights groups Color Of Change, Drug Policy Alliance, Immigrant Legal Resource Center, Innocence Project, Lambda Legal, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, MomsRising, National Action Network, National Association of Social Workers, People For the American Way, The Legal Aid Society and The Southern Poverty Law Center.
"The treatment of communities of color in the criminal-legal system is the most profound civil rights crisis facing America in the 21st century," they wrote. "This platform seeks to remove this moral stain on our democracy by offering specific, measurable steps to begin to transform the system."
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Tulsi Gabbard Talks CBD For Military Members, Biden's Legalization Opposition And Congressional Retirement
Over her eight years in Congress, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) quickly established herself as a leading advocate for marijuana and hemp reform by introducing numerous pieces of cannabis legislation and actively working to build bipartisan support around the issue.
And while the congresswoman will be retiring after this session, she's made clear she plans to keep pushing legislative reform until her last day on Capitol Hill—and beyond. Last month, for example, she filed an amendment to allow military service members to use hemp-derived CBD at a time when multiple branches are expanding their ban. The House approved the measure, and now it remains to be seen if it can survive bicameral negotiations with the Senate.
A military veteran herself, Gabbard says the non-intoxicating cannabinoid represents a promising alternative treatment for those on the front lines and argued, contrary to military leaders, that it can actually improve readiness. And while it remains to be seen whether her measure will make it to the president's desk, she says moving leadership in that direction will be a priority in the weeks ahead.
Marijuana Moment caught up with the congresswoman, who made legalization a centerpiece of her 2020 Democratic presidential campaign, in a phone interview. She discussed her amendment, the evolving politics of cannabis reform, former presidential primary opponent Joe Biden's opposition to marijuana legalization and more.
Marijuana Moment's Patreon supporters can listen to the audio recording of our conversation with Gabbard. In addition to the topics covered in this publicly available writeup of the interview, the congresswoman also talks about whether she has plans to join the cannabis industry after leaving Congress and reacts to the Democratic National Committee's refusal to endorse legalization.
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Marijuana Moment: I wanted to start by asking about your CBD amendment. What motivated that, and have you heard from service members about the need for this legislation?
Tulsi Gabbard: I have, and it really came about as a result of the changes that were included in the 2018 Farm Bill that really opened a lot of doors of opportunity for more research and more products to come into the market that can help people with day-to-day ailments that, as a service member, I'm very well aware are common occurrences.
Being able to have other options of alternative forms of treatment other than, 'Hey, just take another Motrin or prescription drug X, Y or Z' is something that can actually increase our service members' health and wellbeing and, ultimately, their readiness to be able to do their job.
MM: It was interesting to see just days after the House approved the measure, the Navy announced it was expanding its CBD ban, prohibiting members from using even products like hemp-infused shampoos and conditioners. What do you make of that?
TG: It seemed really strange and, frankly, almost silly. I don't know what instigated that change, and I'm not going to make any assumptions. But, you know, it just speaks, to me, a very backward way of viewing these products and the changes that are being made in both state and federal law as it relates to CBD and hemp products.
MM: Do you have any thoughts about the prospects of advancing the amendment through the House-Senate conference committee? Are you talking to leadership about that process?
TG: It's something we're working on currently. I think it's too early to say, but conference can be a place where great things go to die unfortunately so we're trying to do as much work as we can, both with senators on the Senate Armed Services Committee—those who anticipate being in the conference committee—as well as the leadership to make sure that this and a few other key amendments that we included in the House bill actually stay in the bill.
MM: Looking back at your time in Congress, what would you say about the way its evolved on this issue?
TG: It has been interesting over my eight years in Congress to see how this issue at the very beginning of my first term in office was something that, you know, you could tell the people who were for and against. It was mostly partisan, but also just based on people saying things like, "I don't want my kids to smoke pot" and therefore voting against any legislation that had anything to do with whether it was decriminalization as a whole or taking it off the [Controlled Substances Act] or even saying, "Hey, for states where it's legal, we should allow people to use our banking system."
But it's changed, I feel, too slowly, but it is changing over the years to where we've built support, as we saw even recently in some amendments to the appropriations bill to people who are saying, "Hey look, this is a states' right issue." Those who may have been opposed traditionally are recognizing that, in states where this is legal, we should be supporting the state's decision in that. And frankly, others who, whether through personal experience or through actually doing research, are seeing that there just are so many fear-based myths that have perpetuated opposition, where there's actually some incredible game-changing research being done both from a medical perspective as well as from an economic opportunity perspective, as we've seen in Kentucky obviously.
This is something that we should support more of the exploration of and the introduction into our everyday commerce and lives.
MM: Speaking of Kentucky, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-CA) and other Republicans recently criticized House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) over her defense of including cannabis banking language in your chamber's latest COVID-19 relief bill. They argue it's not germane. Do you feel its a relevant provision for this legislation?
TG: I think it's relevant because, from the data I've seen, the numbers of people who've been going to their local dispensary has dramatically increased in the midst of this pandemic. By continuing to disallow anyone associated with these industries that states have deemed legal is further perpetuating serious problems and uncertainty during time when, frankly, we need as much certainty as we can get.
Marijuana Moment asked Gabbard about whether she has plans to work in the marijuana industry following her retirement from Congress early next year, as other lawmakers have done. She also reacted to the Democratic National Committee's rejection of a cannabis legalization platform plank.
The congresswoman's answers to those questions, and the full audio of our interview, are available exclusively for Marijuana Moment supporters pledging at least $10/month on Patreon.
MM: Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden remains opposed to legalizing marijuana. What message would you send to the former vice president about the importance of embracing the policy change?
TG: I would speak from personal experience—just the more information that I've learned, the more research that I have done, it shows how, number one, outdated our laws are as it relates to cannabis in particular and how much opportunity there is, again from a medical perspective as well as from an economic perspective, especially related to hemp, which is you know why I introduced the Hemp For Victory Act. There's tremendous opportunity available. I would urge him to examine this information with the hopes that, with information, he would be willing to reconsider his position.
MM: A staffer to a committee chair told us recently that there are plans in the work to put House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler's (D-NY) marijuana legalization bill on the floor for a vote in September. Have you heard anything about that?
TG: I have not, about the scheduling of it. I know that the chairman has been very committed to moving this forward and that we knew from the beginning that of any cannabis-related legislation, it would likely be something like this that would have the greatest chance of actually getting a vote on the House floor. So I'm hopeful.
MM: Are you optimistic about the prospect of legalization advancing in your state of Hawaii in the near future?
TG: I don't know is the honest answer to that. This just shows that cannabis legislation is not limited to party lines because we've got a very strong Democratic legislature here in the state, obviously a Democratic governor, but there have been very strange responses, in my opinion, to some of the cannabis-related legislation. So it remains to be seen.
Just to add to that, one example that continues to perplex me is the data very clearly shown how, in states where there is some form of legal cannabis use in place, medicinal or otherwise, a direct correlation with the reduction of opioid addiction and opioid-related deaths. That's an indisputable fact. However, even with bipartisan support, bicameral support, in the passage of legislation that would make opioid addiction eligible for medicinal marijuana use in our state, that bill was vetoed by our Democratic governor, claiming a lack of evidence and information and stating that, if proponents want to push this, they should go through the Department of Health bureaucracy to do so.
Things like that, frankly, scientifically it makes no sense. And in the way of people in a state like ours where just under, I think last time I checked, just under like 500,000 active opioid prescriptions in a state with a population of about 1.3 million people. There's clearly an issue here, and by providing this, you give people an alternative form of treatment.
MM: Looking back at your eight years in Congress, what are you most proud of in terms of advancing cannabis reform?
TG: You know, I've introduced a number of pieces of legislation, amendments, provisions in larger bills throughout my time in Congress, and I appreciate having played a role in helping to build bipartisan support for some of the changes that we've actually seen take place.
It may sound like, "Well, that's not much," but when you work in a place where too many members of Congress on both sides of the aisle are unwilling to have real dialogue and conversations with one another purely because of prejudging them based on their partisan affiliation, this is exactly the only way how we'll actually make change around these and other important issues that impact all Americans, not just those of one party or another.
MM: Is there anything else you want to add?
What's going to be interesting is whether the Pentagon, obviously, whether officially or unofficially weighs in on [the NDAA CBD and hemp amendment]. That is going to be an issue of contention with that. We'll see.
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Texas Lawsuit Challenges State's New Ban On Smokable Hemp
Four Texas companies are suing to overturn the state's new ban on the manufacture and sale of smokable hemp products, which they warn will shut Texas companies out of a multibillion-dollar industry and lead to inaccurately labeled products on store shelves.
In a lawsuit filed in Travis County District Court on Wednesday, the companies are asking a judge to declare the ban unconstitutional and allow hemp products intended for smoking or vaping to be produced and sold legally across the state.
"At a time when the Texas economy is reeling from the fiscal impact of COVID-19, it is unfortunate that the State chose to foreclose such a large economic opportunity for our state and instead chose to force long-standing Texas businesses and jobs across the border to neighboring states, such as Oklahoma," said attorney Chelsie Spencer, counsel for lead plaintiff Crown Distributing LLC.
"Crown Distributing, which manufactures the popular Wild Hemp brand of smokable products, stands to lose $59.6 million in revenue over the next five years if the bans are upheld," Spencer told Marijuana Moment in an email. "The state of Texas stands to lose $2.9 million in sales tax revenue alone."
Texas legalized hemp in 2019, in large part to capture a piece of an industry that is booming following the federal legalization of the crop through the 2018 Farm Bill. Hemp, a category of cannabis that contains less than 0.3 percent THC, has a variety of uses: Its seeds are a nutritious food source, its fibrous stalks can be made into textiles or building materials and its flowers can produce a variety of cannabinoids, most notably cannabidiol (CBD).
Texas's hemp law as passed by the legislature specifically prohibited the manufacture of hemp products intended for smoking or vaping, though it left open the door for selling products made out of state. But a year later, regulators at the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) issued rules extending that ban to forbid the retail sale of any smokable hemp products. That restriction took effect on Sunday.
Plaintiffs in the lawsuit argue that both those provisions should be overturned. The state legislature's ban on processing and manufacturing smokable products violated the state constitution's protection of economic freedom, they say, while DSHS lacked the authority to extend lawmakers' ban to include retail sales.
"DSHS characterizes banning distribution and retail as 'a logical extension' of banning manufacturing," the lawsuit says. "But even if this were true (it is not), agencies have no authority to enact rules that they deem to be a 'logical extension' of law."
Cannabis advocates in the state agree, calling the change a regulatory overreach.
"Hemp regulators are over-stepping their authority and encroaching on the economic liberty of Texas business owners," Heather Fazio, director of Texans for Responsible Marijuana Policy, told Marijuana Moment. "It's absurd to forbid the in-state sale of products that are completely legal in Texas and across the country. Consumers can simply make their purchases online and have it shipped, legally. Cutting local entrepreneurs out of this thriving market is bad for business and bad for Texas."
Joining in the lawsuit are America Juice Co. LLC, a Crown affiliate that also manufacturers smokable products; Custom Botanical Dispensary LLC, an Austin-based retailer that sells smokable hemp products; and 1937 Apothecary, also based in Austin, which makes and sells consumable hemp products including tea, smokables and gummies.
"If allowed to move forward, these bans on smokable hemp products will shutter businesses across the state, resulting in a loss of jobs and tax revenue," the companies said in their complaint. "They impede the economic liberty of Texas businesses, pose an existential threat to Texas hemp manufacturers, farmers, and retailers, and are sure to stifle growth of a budding Texas industry."
As for the ban on producing and manufacturing smokable hemp products, the companies say it violates the state constitution's protections against arbitrary economic restrictions.
"There is no plausible law enforcement benefit from banning the Texas manufacture and processing of smokable hemp products," the lawsuit argues. "Imposing an arbitrary constraint here is particularly perverse because the law does not ban the use or consumption of smokable hemp products. As such, Texas consumers will simply buy smokable products made out-of-state."
"Stated differently," it continues, "if Texas had banned the processing and manufacture of cheese in Texas, Texans wouldn't stop eating cheese."
Banning in-state sales are also problematic from a practical standpoint, the lawsuit argues. Because smokable hemp flower is indistinguishable from hemp flower intended to be used for other purposes, the companies argue, marketers will be encouraged to mislabel products in efforts to skirt the ban.
"The retail ban—especially in view of DSHS's public comments—has no more logic to it than the ban on processing and manufacturing smokables," the lawsuit says. "Texans can still purchase and use smokable hemp products manufactured out-of-state. Texans can also purchase hemp that is not labeled or marketed 'for smoking'—for example, hemp marketed as 'tea'—and they can use that hemp to make their own smokables or with the vaporizing devices shown above. If anything, the Rule and DSHS commentary encourages Texas farmers and retailers to mislabel hemp flower so that consumers will still be able to purchase hemp flower grown in Texas."
While Texas's legalization of hemp last year was met with considerable fanfare, its rollout has been bumpy. In addition to industry frustration over bans on smokables, legalization has also sparked unintentional disruptions in marijuana enforcement across the state.
Because hemp—whether as flower or vape liquid—is virtually indistinguishable from marijuana without testing, law enforcement agencies across the state say they're now unable to bring sound criminal cases without analyzing seized cannabis for THC. Facing backlogs and high costs of private labs, prosecutors have dropped hundreds of low-level cases. The situation has led to a patchwork of marijuana enforcement policies across the state and uncertainty for consumers, who still risk arrest for hemp products that are perfectly legal.
In February, state officials announced a crucial caveat to a long-awaited test to help determine whether samples were hemp or marijuana: State labs wouldn't perform testing in misdemeanor cases. The Texas Department of Public Safety "will not have the capacity to accept those," a letter from Director Steve McCraw said.
In the meantime, Texas hemp companies that once saw the state as a business-friendly environment are considering whether to set up shop elsewhere. The new lawsuit says that Crown is already weighing a move to Oklahoma, citing concerns of more than $50 million in lost revenue during the next five years and as many as 60 lost jobs.
It's not just about profits, the companies insist. "To the extent the Legislative Ban purports to address law enforcement concerns or health related concerns," they argue, "it does nothing."
"The Legislative Ban cannot rationally be understood to reduce the prevalence of smokable hemp in Texas. On the contrary, it works against promoting safe and effective products for consumers," the lawsuit says. "Rather than keeping the manufacture and processing of smokable hemp products in-state, the products will be manufactured and processed out-of-state and shipped into Texas outside its full regulatory reach for consumer safety. The state of Texas will have little to no regulatory oversight over these products."
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Vermont Will Advance Marijuana Sales Legalization Bill Within Weeks, House Speaker's Office Says
A bill to legalize marijuana sales in Vermont is set to advance during a special session this month or next, a top lawmaker's office confirmed to Marijuana Moment on Wednesday.
While Vermont legalized cannabis possession of up to one ounce and cultivation of two plants in 2018, there is currently no regulatory system in place that allows for retail sales. A bill to establish that program, S. 54, cleared both the House and Senate in differing forms, but now it must move through a bicameral conference committee charged with reconciling the versions into a single proposal to send to the governor.
The panel was appointed in March but has not met yet. Advocates have grown frustrated over the delay, questioning when the committee will be authorized to convene.
"S.54 is currently in a committee of conference and we expect that committee to meet during the August/September legislative session," the chief of staff to House Speaker Mitzi Johnson (D) told Marijuana Moment in an email. "That's consistent with what the leader said during a June telephone town hall, where she said they were 'aiming to get in passed in August.'"
Asked about minutes from a recent Vermont Department of Health Substance Misuse Prevention Oversight and Advisory Council meeting—in which participants said the tax-and-regulate legislation "is not currently slated to be discussed in this special session"—the staffer said "I do not see anyone who speaks for the legislature listed as attending the meeting, nor do I see that opinion credited to a person."
"I'm really not sure why that was said or where that information came from," she said.
Marijuana Moment reached out to the Health Department for clarification, but a representative was not immediately available.
Johnson has repeatedly said that the legislature will get around to moving the cannabis commerce bill this year, but she said in May that she felt lawmakers and the administration are appropriately focused on responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
In terms of the economic impact of the health crisis, it stands to reason that taxing and regulating marijuana could represent one method of generating needed revenue. According to a new analysis from Vicente Sederberg LLP, the state could take in more than $175 million in cannabis revenue through 2025 if it allows sales starting 2021.
Dave Silberman, a pro bono drug policy reform advocate and candidate for the elected office of high bailiff in Addison County, told Marijuana Moment that beyond that revenue, "an adult-use cannabis market will provide an economic lifeline to thousands of Vermonters by creating new, well-paying jobs that support our rural economy."
"Continued foot-dragging on this bill, which has passed both chambers by overwhelming margins and which could be quickly reconciled by legislators acting in good faith, makes no sense," he said. "Creating a well-regulated cannabis economy should be a centerpiece of our statewide COVID recovery plans, instead of the afterthought that House leadership has so far made it out to be."
Matt Simon, New England political director for the Marijuana Policy Project, said in a press release about the new economic analysis that "Vermonters overwhelmingly supported the effort to regulate cannabis sales prior to COVID-19, and the sense of urgency has only increased in light of the economic downturn."
"It's time for advocates to stand together and support legislators as they determine the best path forward for the state," he said.
One potential complication down the line concerns Gov. Phil Scott (R), who reluctantly signed the earlier noncommercial legalization bill into law and has voiced concerns with adding legal sales to the mix.
In particular, he is worried about road safety issues. However, top lawmakers and an administration official indicated earlier this year that the governor is "at the table" in discussions about the current legislation and would be open to using cannabis tax revenue to fund an after-school program he's pushing.
As the tax-and-regulate bill awaits conference committee action, the Senate approved a bill in June that would double the amount of marijuana that can be possessed and grown without the threat of jail time.
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True. This is an ongoing problem with packaging discussions.
It would, but it's typically been near-impossible to do. I'd love to get such input (in an unbiased form - I'd be cautious about anecdotal information from groups that potentially have a level of bias, such as experienced developers, or users of a particular tool, etc). But I don't want to block progress on chasing after an unattainable ideal.
That's a matter of opinion, as I'm sure you'll agree.
Agreed, but it's also not a strong argument for TOML-style syntax. Any format that includes quotes is IMO a potential usability problem, given the quirks of quoting in different shells. The best I can say here is that of the two proposed formats, PEP 508 uses less special characters. But I don't feel that either proposal can reasonably claim to be ideal for use on the command line. Inventing an additional, CLI-only, format may be even worse, though. Having said all that, this discussion is not about CLI usage, "can it be copied to the CLI" is an incidental question at best.
Correct. I find the PEP 508 version far easier to read. So there's little point to the comparison, as all it does is confirm that people have different views.
I'm not aware of pip/setuptools users complaining about PEP 508 format, either. But I haven't investigated much, so if we really care about that sort of data, we should do a proper survey.
True. But unless we get 100% consensus, it is always going to be the case that some tools will need to change to conform to the standard. I sympathise with the fact that Poetry deliberately chose to use something other than PEP 508, and so this would feel like a regression, but so far the arguments that convinced you to take the route you did with Poetry either haven't been explained clearly enough in this discussion, or haven't been sufficiently convincing to change people's minds.
I think this is the key here. We don't all agree on what to optimise for, so we keep circling round the same arguments - but no-one is convinced, because we all have different goals.
To give a personal perspective, I consider it "obvious" that the following are the highest priorities:
- Simple cases can be written with minimal syntax overhead.
- Knowledge of how to write dependencies in
pyproject.tomlshould be transferrable to other situations (CLI usage, other configuration files, metadata, …) and vice versa.
Conversely, I don't put any priority on (for example):
- Making it easy to specify complex cases.
- Similarity to other language ecosystems.
- What libraries tools need to use to parse the data.
There are plenty of other aspects that come somewhere in the middle (teachability, discoverability, for example).


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Last Minute Cinco de Mayo Suggestions
Here are five things to do tonight.
You can always wait in line for an hour outside La Carta de Oaxaca. It's always worth it. Or you could do one of these things.
1. Go to La Casa Azul up north for a strawberry margarita. We've talked about this already. That restaurant is awesome.
2. Get a margarita that changes color at the bar at Canlis.
3. Go to Pike Brewing and drink a Cerveza Rosanna—an ale made with chili peppers.
4. Go to Rob Roy and ask owner Zane Harris for something with mezcal. He loves mezcal, (What's not to love?), and he makes a fine cocktail. The last time I was there, I told him he should have a Cinco de Mayo party, and he didn't like that idea. We won't hold that against him because we want the mezcal cocktail.
5. Make some margaritas at home and drink alongside these crazy Theo Chocolate tacos.


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Under the administration's current plan, Congress will have six months to implement DACA legislatively before protections end. In his statement, Smith urges Congress to make this a priority, taking precedence ahead of even tax reform. From Smith:
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In the event that Congress fails to act, Smith says that Microsoft will commit to legally protecting the 39 Dreamers that it currently employs. Says Smith:
This is why we will work as needed with other companies and the broader business community to vigorously defend the legal rights of all Dreamers. For the 39 Dreamers that we know of who are our employees, our commitment is clear. If Congress fails to act, our company will exercise its legal rights properly to help protect our employees. If the government seeks to deport any one of them, we will provide and pay for their legal counsel. We will also file an amicus brief and explore whether we can directly intervene in any such case. In short, if Dreamers who are our employees are in court, we will be by their side.
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