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Our favorite thing this week so far is our friend Marcus Whitney’s rant about why younger people in this city act like they love it, but don’t VOTE like they do. Read the whole thing here and SHARE SHARE SHARE. #VoteYall

As of this week, if you have a medical condition – epilepsy, for example – that a medical doctor believes could be treated with cannabis oil, then it is now technically legal for you to buy it somewhere else, like Colorado, and use it here. Details, if you care. Meanwhile, pot in a diaper bag. 

We’ve been advocating awhile now for y’all to take the bus as often as you can, as you can’t even get from Midtown to Downtown in less than 20 minutes anymore. The city is building an app that will soon make riding the bus almost as easy as telling people to ride it.

Also, watch this video about why traffic is so bad. 

Here’s a doozy from a candidate forum hosted by the YWCA.

"Just the other day, I was having lunch with somebody in the power structure," said mayoral contender Megan Barry, one of two women running in this hotly contested race to lead Nashville into what we thought was 2016. "And after we had a long conversation about some complicated financial tools, he reached across the table. He took my hair and said, 'Oh, I guess you really aren't a dumb blonde.'

No one leaves Nashville anymore. Here is a story about people who came here for college and stayed, along with stats that show you're basically just like everyone else.