Mindset Sunday Reading 1/15/23

Interesting Reads for your Sunday

Cannabis News and Links:

Pain patients are switching to cannabis to treat pain: “About one in three chronic pain patients report using marijuana as a treatment option, and most of that group has used cannabis as a substitute for other pain medications, including opioids, a new study published by the American Medical Association (AMA) found.”

Todd Harrison @todd_harrison

People Living In States With Legal Marijuana Have Lower Rates Of Alcohol Use Disorder, Federally Funded Twin Study Finds 🇺🇸 #cannabis 🌿 marijuanamoment.net/people-living-…

“Scarpulla said the medical marijuana he uses is so expensive and access so limited that he still goes to the black and gray markets for better deals.” Cannabis consumers are irked by high prices of cannabis in New Jersey.

The President of the State Senate in Kentucky and a Republican signals he is open to medical cannabis for the first time.

Thailand, South Korea, Japan and Malaysia are all moving forward on cannabis reform. Is cannabis’ next frontier Asia?

Mexico Links:

Great report from leading Mexican stock brokerage GBM on why Mexican stocks and the economy may be poised to start a big bull run. On page 23 is a nice overview of Consorcio Ara (Mexico: ARA), which is not only exceptionally cheap, but set up to grow as well. Full disclosure, ARA is one of my largest investments and I have written about it before as the most undervalued stock in North America.

Cancun airport just broke its all time record. Ara owns a kilometer of beachfront property in Cancun as well as a kilometer of beach front property right next to the new Four Seasons in Baja California. Here is the link to the new Four Seasons.

Miscellaneous Links:

Why has Roman concrete lasted so long?

Joe Lonsdale @JTLonsdale

It’s been a mystery why Roman concrete often lasted thousands of years, but ours decays in mere decades. Turns out they incorporated chemicals in a process that induces self-healing; scientists at MIT just figured this all out - in 2022. Extraordinary.

news.mit.eduRiddle solved: Why was Roman concrete so durable?Researchers have discovered ancient Roman concrete-manufacturing strategies that incorporated self-healing. Applying this knowledge toward modern cement production, they hope to improve the material’s environmental impact.

Doing nothing promotes creativity. I talked about this in my book, The Hard Break: The Case for a 24/6 Lifestyle.

Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer

Researchers studied the relationship between doing nothing and creativity. The results are interesting...

Crazy statistic: 18% of kidney donations in America come from Orthodox Jews!

David Wolpe @RabbiWolpe

18% of the kidney transplants in America come from Orthodox Jews, 0.2% of the population. When you hear about “insularity” and “indifference to outsiders” please remember that. Taking mitzvot seriously often leads - astonishingly- to mitzvot! (And yes, I’m a Conservative Rabbi…)

MENDY REINER @mendyreiner

Renewal in 2022… * Facilitated over 90 life-saving transplants. * Broke the 900 mark for total transplants facilitated since Renewal was founded. * At one point we did 18 transplants in 21 days! Most probably a world record. #savinglives

Funny Links:

Lil Bit 🌈 @LizerReal

As I was being put under for my colonoscopy, I apparently announced to the room, "Y'all are in for a real treat" and then passed out. 😭😭😭

Georgia won another national championship and as a long time Seinfeld fan, this was my favorite tweet:

Wayne Knight @iWayneKnight

From one UGA mailman to another, congratulations Stetson Bennett IV and Go Dawgs!