In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights rally on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. (August 28, 1963), below is audio of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech.
Audio courtesy of Internet Archives.
The Arkansas Lottery announced this week that it will roll out 46 new instant games in the next year and revise its existing Million Dollar Raffle, according to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
We’ve said since the lottery was first pitched in 2008: State-run lotteries start strong, but soon begin to decline, and the only solution lottery officials can offer is new games to keep people interested.
The Arkansas Lottery is no different. Lottery ticket sales fell short by millions of dollars this past year, and lottery officials are turning to the only thing that keeps lotteries afloat: More gambling.
As people continue debating the topic of legalizing marijuana, it’s worth bringing up a research study published in the Journal of Neuroscience in the spring of 2011 examining the link between marijuana-use and paranoia.
The study found rats exposed to cannabinoid drugs exhibited increased fearfulness compared to rats that were not exposed to the drug.
As TIME magazine noted in an article about the study,
“The findings, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, suggest that activity in the basolateral amygdala is involved in marijuana-induced paranoia (the state of becoming afraid of things that wouldn’t normally trigger fear). That means marijuana is actually enhancing a type of learning about fear, leading the brain to jump to conclusions about mild experiences involving particular places or things, and to perceive them as scarier and more strongly connected than they are.
“This increased fear-based learning helps explain why stoners tend to see patterns in events that aren’t real, such as conspiracies.”
Below is a statement from the study’s leader, Dr. Steven Laviolette, discussing the ramifications of the study and its findings.