Best of BS Opinion: Cannabis is no longer 'dangerous', gold loan, and more

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day

The situation at macro levels is hazy. Smaller pictures are clearer. Uddalok Bhattacharya sums up

Ajay Shah: Is global turbulence likely? The US Congress has cleared a huge package but we do not know how it will play out because there is no analogue to the present situation
 

Cannabis is on course to a new future. Surinder Sud explains
 

It is time to reduce the loan to value for gold loans, says Tamal Bandyopadhyay

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Today when the Founders are being attacked for trying to compromise and curtail academic autonomy and freedom of expression, I find it necessary as Chancellor and given my association with Ashoka from its inception, to state unambiguously that the Founders have never interfered with academic freedom …

Ashoka University Chancellor Rudrangshu Mukherjee