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Max Slavkin

Max Slavkin

I'm a big fan of the the arts, community, activist hippies, and policy wonks. Also, Stevie Wonder, Joni Mitchell, Josiah Bartlet, and Katniss Everdeen. I bet if they could, they'd all make stuff for Upworthy too. For now, you'll have to settle for me on the Twitters.

If We Go Another 332 Consecutive Months Like This, We Should Really Think About Doing Something

According to a new report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, October "is the 332nd consecutive month with an above-average temperature." As in, the last time we had a cooler-than-average month was February 1985. As in, NEVER IN MY LIFE have I experienced a month on this planet that was cooler than the historical average, and the last 27 years have looked something like this:

There's No Amount Of Pot You Could Smoke That Would Lead To This Big Of A Policy Reversal

Back in the 2008 presidential primary, then-Sen. Obama made an awful lotta sense talking about medical marijuana. In the last four years, however, despite statements like these, his Justice Department has escalated raids of dispensaries that were legal under state law. Now that both Colorado and Washington have voted to legalize marijuana, Obama is going to have to act, and we can only hope he listens to himself.