Legalizing Cannabis Would Greatly Reduce Racist Police Abuse
By Steven Maxwell It’s getting much harder to justify prosecuting people for cannabis when it is considered an essential business in legal weed states during…
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A Revolution in Legal Tech is Leading Toward Smarter Firms and Smarter Clients
By Steven Maxwell The double-edged sword of “smart” technology is ever present as we have seen the rise of automation offer new levels of convenience…
Hemp Is Economically And Environmentally Sustainable
By Steven Maxwell As the world continues to reel from the economic impact from the widespread lockdown, people are trying to come to grips with…
Prepper Foods and Supplies to Survive Coronavirus Without Leaving the House
By Steven Maxwell Growing concern over the spread of coronavirus is fueling prepping sprees at big box retailers like Costco. Costco stores across America were…
How Decentralization Can Help Manage the Complexity of Modern Technology
By Steven Maxwell Handling the complexity of modern technology and its growing inter-connectivity in our daily life is emerging as one of the greatest challenges…
Tech Can Help Overcome the Pitfalls of Starting a Small Business
By Steven Maxwell For the better part of the last 20 years I’ve chosen small business endeavors over a 9-5 corporate routine. My short time…
5 Sectors of The U.S. Economy That Are In Decline
By Steven Maxwell As regular readers of this site are probably well aware, it often feels like we are living in parallel worlds when it…
CBD for the Mind: The Many Mental Health Benefits of CBD
By Steven Maxwell CBD. It’s currently a celebrated phenomenon in the US as more and more people are realizing the positive effects of cannabis. You…
Digital Privacy Is A Valuable Commodity In An Era of Surveillance and Censorship
By Steven Maxwell The modern tools of connectivity, innovation, research, and freedom of expression offered to us in the digital age have been turned against…
Capping Interest Rates On Credit Cards Will Lead To Kneecapping
Capping credit card interest rates could lead to worse outcomes for risky borrowers. By Steven Maxwell At first glance credit cards with high interest rates…
The Future of Education is Borderless
By Steven Maxwell The entire formal education apparatus seems to reinforce the repetition of learning from past generations rather than forging new ideas and new…
The New Cash? Why Governments Don’t Like Cryptocurrency
By Steven Maxwell Cash is a problem for banks and governments. And, as we know, banks and governments are joined at the hip – each…
Colleges Can Kill Creativity By Offering One-Size-Fits-All Education
By Steven Maxwell With student debt at record levels (and a more aggressive approach to collecting those loans), combined with a diminishing guarantee of employment…
Vermont Lawmakers Vote To Legalize Recreational Marijuana
By Steven Maxwell Yesterday the Vermont State House voted 79-66 to legalize recreational marijuana starting next year. The law, Senate Bill 22, removes penalties for…