Canadian stoners are already longing for the good old days of criminalized cannabis where it was easy to get excellent weed at a fair price with decent customer service and low risk of getting busted. Now that it’s ‘legal’ they’re confused and fearful about where they can smoke, what they can grow, how much they can carry, and how long they must wait after toking before they can drive or go to work. And that’s only if they can find any. Legalization is working for some, though: the former cops and politicians who used to prosecute potheads and are now dealing the stuff. Karen Selick reports.

Taking to heart the Orwellian adage that, “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others,” Facebook is torquing its algorithms for monitoring hate speech in a certain ideological direction. Karen Selick shows how the judiciary in past decades paved the way for social media’s current assault on freedom of expression.