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• That 17 years after California launched a “notoriously lax” medical marijuana program, accompanying social problems have been minimal? —Mick Dumke
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• Sasha Frere-Jones on Lou Reed? —Leor Galil
• Robert Christgau on Lou Reed? —Mara Shalhoup
• Jim DeRogatis on Lou Reed? (I just really wanted to contribute one.) —Gwynedd Stuart
• That, this being the 28th/58th anniversary of the events in Back to the Future, the Hill Valley Project is reconstructing the movie in “real time” as a series of tweets? —Tony Adler
• Jay Z on his controversial partnership with luxury department store Barneys, which was recently accused of racial profiling? —Drew Hunt
• All those times that the Ventra reader fails to read your card? It might not be failing to charge you. —Sam Worley