Alex Hess

1 week ago | deseret.com | Alex Hess

In working with infants and families in the NICU over the last six years, I have seen the cultural changes related to cannabis use in pregnancy since the legalization of medicinal cannabis. In March of 2020, the first medical cannabis facility opened its doors in Utah, and many improvements have been made in Utah's cannabis program since that time. Bills have since been passed involving employment protection and cannabis use, use with children in the home, and use while pregnant.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Alex Hess

OpinionAlex HessMon, April 14, 2025 at 10:48 PM UTC3 min readIn working with infants and families in the NICU over the last six years, I have seen the cultural changes related to cannabis use in pregnancy since the legalization of medicinal cannabis. In March of 2020, the first medical cannabis facility opened its doors in Utah, and many improvements have been made in Utah’s cannabis program since that time.

Nov 18, 2023 | thebureauinvestigates.com | Alex Hess

Fossil fuel extraction is destroying the planet. As the climate crisis accelerates, even the world’s major oil and gas companies now openly accept the need to transition to sustainable sources of energy for the sake of our future. Two years ago, the International Energy Agency declared that the key aim set out in the Paris Agreement – to limit global heating to 1.5C – could only be achieved by halting all investment in new oil and gas infrastructure worldwide.

Oct 12, 2023 | esquiremag.ph | Alex Hess

The director's 2003 masterpiece marked the point when pared-back plotting turned into a protracted pastiche. Not many filmmakers can claim to have their very own entry in the Oxford English Dictionary, but Tarantinoesque[adj]is in there for good reason. No director has seen their style aped and plagiarised the way Quentin Tarantino did after he burst onto the scene in the early 90s.

Aug 3, 2023 | msn.com | Alex Hess

Early on in the new Mission Impossible film, a group of sharp-suited intelligence agents gather to discuss a grave new threat to national security. Their nemesis is apparently a “godless, stateless enemy” which is “everywhere and nowhere”, “a self-aware, self-learning, truth-eating digital parasite”. Your heart sinks slightly as you realise that Tom Cruise’s latest adversary is in fact a sentient computer code. An action movie without a real villain? Hans Gruber would be spinning in his grave.