Marty's Travels

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WA Pot Laws

We're coming up on the fifth anniversary of legal cannabis sales in Washington state. I recall when the rules were being written, completely out of whole cloth given there was no experience, how many times the regulators and lawmakers wished they had some data, some numbers, anything concrete to help with setting the rules. How many customers? How many stores? How much to grow? What's the right tax? If only we had five years of data back then....

Yay! Firefox fixed

Seven or eight years ago I added an ad blocker to Firefox, my web browser. Now, some sites, mainly newspapers, detected my blocker and stopped me from reading their product. But they obviously felt their ads were more important than their content. Last week Mozilla.org changed their code which destroyed optional add-ons, including my ad blocker. So I've had to endure ads for a week now. Wow, I didn't know how pervasive those things were on the...