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1. Can marijuana help broken bones heal?
By Judah Ari Gross in the Times of Israel
2. Parking spaces make it harder to build affordable housing.
By Joseph Stromberg in Vox
By Gareth Evans at Project Syndicate
4. Want better police relations with the community? Let teenagers train the cops.
By Brentin Mock in CityLab
5. Could today’s militias dividing Iraq and Syria become the peacekeepers of a future truce?
By Barbara F. Walter in Political Violence at a Glance

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