Open thread for night owls: Excerpts from the Harper's Index

From the Harper's Index, February:

' Projected annual revenue Mexican drug cartels stand to lose from pot legalization in Colorado and Washington: $1,400,000,000 ' Percentage rate at which Arcata, California, plans to tax excessive electricity use in an effort to punish marijuana growers: 45 ' Percentage of children living in Japan's Fukushima Prefecture who have thyroid abnormalities: 40 ' Number of hours before power was restored to the majority of Long Island residents affected by the storm: 361 ' Estimated cost of maintaining Afghanistan's national security forces in the year after U.S. troops leave: $4,100,000,000 ' Annual budget of the Afghan government: $3,300,000,000 ' Last full month in which the average daily temperature did not exceed twentieth-century norms: 2/1985

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