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Girl Scouts Can Now Sell Cookies In Front Of Colorado Dispensaries

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Girl Scouts Can Now Sell Cookies In Front Of Colorado Dispensaries

Good news for those who want to buy their cannabis products and Girl Scout Cookies in the same place: you can totally do that now!

For those unaware, the Girls Scouts of San Diego weren’t happy to learn one member had sold more than 300 boxes of cookies outside a local dispensary, alleging that she hadn’t followed the rules properly. That mistake led to a major discovery that the Girl Scouts of Colorado had tweeted back in 2014 — the organization prohibits cookie sales outside of dispensaries. Who knew?

Fast forward to today…that same organization has announced it has changed its tune.

Girl Scouts of Colorado has updated its cookie policies to allow for the sale of cookies outside dispensaries.

Via Mashable:

Under the new policy, Colorado’s Girl Scouts will be allowed to set up cookie booths in front of previously-banned “adult-oriented” places, like dispensaries, bars, and tattoo parlors. In an email, Girl Scouts of Colorado spokesperson AnneMarie Harper said that it’s up to parents and guardians to discern whether or not a business is appropriate for cookie sales.

Harper explained that local councils and leaders are best equipped to establish “safety parameters” in their communities. Those “safety parameters” also include distance from roads and parking lots, and Girl Scouts would also need approval from local businesses themselves to set up shop.

“This change was made to allow troop leaders and families to determine the best location for My Sales with proper approval,” Harper said.

Though marijuana is recreationally legal in other states, she couldn’t say whether this policy would extend to other state Girl Scout organizations.

Could You Devour A 48-Layer Cake

Amy Hansen
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Could You Devour A 48-Layer Cake

 

No matter how big your sweet tooth is, there is no way a piece of 48-layer chocolate cake won’t make you want to puke. Skeptical? Head to … Elementaria Bakery in Mumbai, India and take their one-slice challenge.

Each slice of this cake, made with hazelnut and chocolate ganache and almond praline, weighs three pounds. And if you can eat it in under 10 minutes, it’s free (that’s a $15 value).

Just watching the slices get cut and plated is cathartic. It’s totally mesmerizing.

Related: Watch This Guy Eat The World’s Spiciest Curry And Live To Tell About It

The entire cake takes two days to make and weighs a gut-busting 13 pounds. INSIDER got their hands on some footage (shot by @curly.tales) and it’s no joke. For what it’s worth, the bakery also offers other, less colossal eating challenges.

Related: This Gelato In Glasgow Requires You To Sign A Waiver Before Eating

The Ele Jumbo is a sprinkle-rimmed margarita glass filled with whipped cream, chocolate fudge, sponge cake, four scoops of ice cream, a waffle slice and a cupcake. If you can down it in 7 minutes, it’s on the house. Please consult your stomach before attempting either challenge as a clean-up crew is likely not factored into the price.

The greatest number of layers in a layer cake is 260, and was achieved by The Watkins Co. (USA) in Winona, Minnesota, USA, 2018 to celebrate the company’s 150th anniversary.

The cake weighed 1,250 lbs, measured 6 ft 1 in tall, was 32 in wide by 24 in long at its base, and resulted in more than 5,000 individual servings. It was served to members of the community as well as donated to local businesses and charitable organizations.

The cake was made using the same recipes and techniques as those for a traditionally-sized vanilla buttercream layer cake, but was prepared with a total of 900 eggs, 480 lbs of sugar, 150 lbs of flour, 102 lbs shortening, 45 lbs butter, 32 lbs oil, 45 lbs milk, 30 lbs water, 2.5 lbs salt, and 7 lbs of Watkins All Natural Baking Vanilla Extract.

This Legislator Wants To Eliminate Marijuana Testing For Almost Everyone

Brendan Bures
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This Legislator Wants To Eliminate Marijuana Testing For Almost Everyone

Though legalization remains the loudest drum beat from cannabis activists, there’s another issue that has recently gained steam: employers discriminating against marijuana users. Just last week, Maine announced that businesses could not punish employees or job applicants for using cannabis during off hours.

Now, a similar movement is on in Wisconsin, where state representative David Bowen plans to introduce legislation that would prohibit employers from urine drug-testing for THC, or excluding applicants who have positive tests for marijuana usage. Bowen clarified the bill would target the public and private sectors, though wouldn’t include businesses where employees operate heavy machinery.

“Consuming THC weeks or months out from a job interview should not disqualify someone from finding employment any more than someone who drank a few beers on another date should be kept out of work,” Bowen told Isthmus in an email. “While I am in favor of the safe legalization and regulation of marijuana for both recreational and medicinal use, until that happens, people should not be stigmatized for using a substance whose effect on society is less negative than society’s reaction to it.”

Wisconsin’s southeastern chapter of NORML—the cannabis activism group—strongly supports Bowen’s indicatives. The group has argued that urine testing is extremely ineffective, as someone could fail a drug test up to 10 weeks after using marijuana. That is long after marijuana’s THC psychoactive effects would be active.

Eric Marsch, an organizer for Wisconsin’s southeastern NORML chapter, believes drug testing “serves only to persecute medical patients and people with alternative (yet increasingly mainstream) lifestyles by denying them the right to employment.” In addition, a failed drug test, he told Isthmus, “can make a skilled and responsible worker unemployable, sending them into a downward spiral of poverty.”

Why Is Compton, CA Rejecting Legal Marijuana Sales?

Brendan Bures
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Why Is Compton, CA Rejecting Legal Marijuana Sales?

Kendrick Lamar hails from a long list of Compton rap progenies—a list that includes the likes of Eazy-E, The Game, and Dr. Dre, whom he collaborated with for a song on his debut album called The Recipe. The two Compton rappers boast about the recipe of why everyone loves the city they call home. “They come for women, weed and weather,” the pair raps.

Indeed Compton, California has a long association with cannabis and they can thank Dr. Dre for that (his inaugural album was called The Chronic, after all). Even now, rappers will brag that Compton has the best weed. So you think the city, with the booming green rush and California legalizing recreational marijuana sales, would want to cash in, right?

Except that hasn’t happened at all. Technically speaking, you still can’t purchase marijuana legally in Compton. That’s because Compton voters overwhelmingly voted against proposals to allow recreational and medicinal sales within the city.

Via the Los Angeles Times:

To some outsiders, it might be a surprise that Compton would close the doors on pot sales and the tax revenue they bring. But after decades of black Americans being cast as the face of the underground pot market, Compton and other Southern California cities with large African American populations have opted against legalizing the pot trade, worried about the effects on the community and the message it sends.

One city official described the voter decision the “healthiest and most forward-looking for our community.” Part of the problem revolves around the ongoing banking issue with legal cannabis sales. In short, federal banks will not accept cash produced from cannabis sales, which has forced the cannabis industry to remain an all-cash business, leading states like California to consider establishing its own banking system.

But the problem isn’t changing anytime soon. As a result, Compton estimates legal marijuana would cost $6 million to hire staff for necessary paperwork and increase law enforcement, fearing the all-cash businesses could be subject to robberies or worse.

Both potential measures to establish taxes and infrastructure for a Compton cannabis industry failed to pass by a 3-1 margin in a special election last month, thanks to grassroots local opposition. The city and its citizens have decided “the drawbacks outweighed any potential tax benefits the city would’ve collected.”

“They want to be the All-American Compton,”Marijuana licensing attorney Dermot Givens told the LA Times, but “Everybody in the world knows that if you go to Compton there are gangs and weed. True or not true. That’s the image.”

He also added, “Compton should want to capture the marijuana market and brand it just like the wines and champagne. Claim it. We got the best weed in the world. They would make a fortune. Like cognac.”

Apple’s Latest OS Update Fixed A Giant Bug You Didn’t Know About

Maria Loreto
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Apple’s Latest OS Update Fixed A Giant Bug You Didn’t Know About

Apple recently had a big problem with the Telugu language. For some reason, if you used a character of the Indian language a bug would pop up, crashing iMessage, Twitter, and even your wi-fi. Once the app crashed, it would become unresponsive, forcing people into their only recourse of action: uninstalling and then reinstalling or setting the phone on fire, either option is fine.

One week after reports surfaced about the bug, Apple released a software update fixing the Telugu bug—just one of many recent glitches.

The amount of bugs that are currently plaguing Apple devices is so bad that, according to Gizmodo, the company delayed the release of their new software, iOS 12, because they want to focus on fixing and ironing out the main issues with the iOS 11.

To update your software, head over to Settings, General, and finally tap on Software Update.

In the future, if you want to avoid bugs, the best thing you can do is keep your software up to date and check the General tab in your Settings regularly. If your iPhone is relatively old, then don’t update the software because it’ll only make your device slower. And stay far away from the Telugu language.

Watch Anna Wintour Shade The Queen Of England At NYFW

Amy Hansen
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Watch Anna Wintour Shade The Queen Of England At NYFW

Anna Wintour is considered fashion royalty, so it was no surprise to see the editor of Vogue sitting front and center at New York Fashion Week. What was a bit surprising is that when she sat next to literal royalty, she kept her glasses on.

That’s a big no-no for Brits, who are royally pissed off at Wintour for not showing respect to their Queen by removing her signature sunglasses.

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Queen Elizabeth was at NYFW for designer Richard Quinn’s show, where she presented him with the inaugural Queen Elizabeth II Award for British Design; going forward, the award will be presented to a different designer each year.

Mashable spoke to royal etiquette expert William Hanson who said Wintour should have removed her shades in the presence of the Queen, saying that she’s removed her glasses for other royal events.

“Although I know that Dame Anna would have meant The Queen no deliberate disrespect, it is a shame that the queen of fashion’s protocol was far from on trend yesterday,” he says.

He does admit that the Queen probably didn’t think much of Wintour’s failed removal of the glasses and that the Queen “would probably have noticed and internally thought it was a bit odd, but The Queen has seen it all and clearly took it all in her stride!”

Wintour, who is rarely seen in public without her shades, once told 60 Minutes that she wears them to hide her reactions at fashion shows, which makes total sense. She said, “They’re seriously useful. I can sit at a [fashion] show and if I’m bored out of my mind nobody will notice. If I’m enjoying it, nobody will notice. So I think at this point they’ve become really armor.”

 

This Texas Lawmaker Is Blocking Congress From Voting On Marijuana

Mike Adams
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This Texas Lawmaker Is Blocking Congress From Voting On Marijuana

Congress has not approved any marijuana-related amendments since 2013, when the medical marijuana protections known as the Rohrabacher-Farr amendment was first pushed through. In fact, federal lawmakers have not given any consideration to additional riders protecting the cannabis industry for the past few years.

Some marijuana reform advocates believe Representative Pete Sessions of Texas, who serves as the chairman of the House Rules Committee, is to blame for this shortcoming. Not only does he decide what pieces of legislation reach the floor of the lower chamber, he also hates marijuana.

Earlier this week, Sessions told those in an attendance at the US Department of Health and Human Services Region VI Opioid Summit that legal marijuana is as much to blame for addiction in America than any other substance. Perhaps even more, since it is legal in many states.

“If addiction is the problem and we have marketers of addiction that include marijuana — because all you have to do is go to any of the stores in Colorado and they can give you high to low to medium to chocolate — we ought to call for it what it is,” he said. “If it were nicotine, it would have been outlawed; well, it would have been handled differently. But this is a political issue.”

Congressman Sessions’ comments are similar to those expressed by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who said recently that the opioid crisis “Is starting with marijuana and other drugs, too.” It seems the faces of the federal government have forgotten that not even their own health agencies believe marijuana to be a gateway drug. It was the National Institute on Drug Abuse that said, “The majority of people who use marijuana do not go on to use other, ‘harder’ substances.” The agency explained that alcohol and nicotine were more likely to inspire people to use harder substances.

Nevertheless, Sessions suggests there are “better alternatives” to solving the opioid crisis than legalizing marijuana. He believes the leaf is so much stronger now, that it is impossible to escape its grips.

“I referred to marijuana as merchants, this is merchants of addiction, they are making it more powerful and more powerful and more powerful,” Sessions said. “When I went to high school … in 1973, I graduated, marijuana, on average, is 300 times more powerful. That becomes an addictive element for a child to then go to the next thing.”

It is this anti-marijuana outlook that has prevented additional marijuana amendments from getting passed, according to some cannabis advocates. Reports show that Sessions’ Rule Committee has blocked proposals regarding cannabis banking and retail pot sales in the District of Columbia since 2016. Sessions, however, is up for reelection this year.

Treating Irritable Bowel Syndrome With Medical Cannabis

Evan Eitzel
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Treating Irritable Bowel Syndrome With Medical Cannabis

Irritable Bowel Syndrome affects an estimated 10 to 15 percent of the US population, though only five to seven percent have been diagnosed with it. The disease affects twice as many women as men.  It is one of the most commonly diagnosed diseases by primary care doctors and the most by gastroenterologists.

The symptoms include abdominal pain, constipation and diarrhea. It is also called irritable colon, mucous colitis, spastic colon, spastic colitis, and nervous stomach. There is no cure for IBS. Treatment currently focuses on addressing the symptoms. Those treatments typically focus on lifestyle and diet changes, and reducing stress levels.

Cannabis has shown in one study that it can help with IBS treatment, especially strains with a high level of CBD. Cannabidiol or CBD addresses pain but doesn’t get the user high the way the more commonly known compound in marijuana, THC, does.

A 2015 survey by Care By Design showed a marked improvement in symptoms.

Among IBS sufferers who had been taking high CBD cannabis in several forms, respondents reported:

  • Before starting CBD treatment the average pain score of IBS sufferers from one to ten with the latter being “I feel the worst imaginable” was just more than seven.
  • Following CBD use the average pain score was four.
  • Seventy percent of CBD users reported improved mood.
  • More than 15 percent said they had more energy after the treatment.

The survey didn’t just focus on IBS. It included 16 ailments from sleep problems to post-traumatic stress syndrome. And although Care By Design obviously had a stake in the results, other surveys have backed up the findings, somewhat.

A 2005 report said CBD has potential in treating the disease, that CBD products “provide new therapeutics for the treatment of a number of gastrointestinal diseases, including nausea and vomiting, gastric ulcers, irritable bowel syndrome, Crohn’s disease,” and related ailments.

The bottom line: If you are in a medical-marijuana state, ask your doctor. If you aren’t in one, ask your doctor. There are other conventional treatments they can prescribe. Remember there is no cure for Irritable Bowel Syndrome, but there is help.

People Have This Many Bad Days A Year, Study Finds

Amy Hansen
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People Have This Many Bad Days A Year, Study Finds

Having a bad day? Take comfort in knowing you’re not alone. A new study shows Americans have roughly 60 bad days each year.

Two-thousand people (all employed) were surveyed by fitness app Freeletics, which conducted the study to find out what triggers our bad days and the toll it takes on our health. The number-one day ruiner? Sleep.

Not getting enough sleep was the biggest bad day trigger, with 67 percent of people surveyed saying it’s a total downer. The survey also showed the average person blames work for 4 out of 5 bad days each month, or to put it another way, just about every Monday.

The New York Post reports that 34 percent have had their days ruined by having plans fall through, and a whopping 25 percent said a bad hair day led to a dud day.

Other day ruiners: worrying about money, not having hot water for a morning shower and feeling sick. To make matters worse, the research showed that 50 percent of people reach for junk food to cope with a bad day, while 34 percent reach for the bottle.

Freeletics says that a little workout therapy can do wonders by boosting your mood and helping you sleep better, among other things. According to The New York Post, the more frequently somebody works out correlated with how likely they were to report that exercise helps them deal with stress.

John-Francis Kennedy, Training Specialist at Freeletics, said:

These findings make a lot of sense, as working out after a tough day can be a very effective stress reliever, especially because it boosts those all-important endorphin levels.

Of the people who worked out just 2 to 3 times per week, nearly half (46 percent) deemed it a good stress reliever. And for those who worked out up to five times per week, the percentage skyrocketed to 64 percent.

Kennedy says any form of exercise can help relieve stress by increasing the level of some hormones, dopamine, serotonin and endorphins in the body. He added, “These, in turn, contribute to the feeling of happiness and a reduced level of the stress hormone cortisol.”

And Kennedy says you don’t need to kill yourself with sweat; a simple 20 minute workout will do the trick. And that does not include walking to the nearest fast-food joint and back.

Royal Movie Alert: Who Will Play Prince Harry And Meghan Markle?

Maria Loreto
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Royal Movie Alert: Who Will Play Prince Harry And Meghan Markle?

The Lifetime channel is making a movie out of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s romance, because nothing stays good in this world forever.

The movie called Harry & Meghan: A Royal Romance (gag) has already started shooting in Vancouver, and it stars fellow ginger Murray Fraser as Prince Harry, and Parisa Fitz-Henley as Meghan Markle.

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle aren’t the first royal couple to get the Lifetime treatment; back in 2011, Lifetime also made a movie about Prince William and Kate Middleton, titled William & Kate. The film had awful reviews, but it proved to be a successful experiment, since thousands of people watched it. Lifetime was pretty smart in releasing the film right before the wedding took place, so they could get the most attention and viewers as possible.

As for Meghan and Harry, the Lifetime channel still hasn’t announced the film’s release date. The channel will probably release it during the week of the wedding, just to keep things interesting and increase their amount of viewers. We’ll be sure to hate watch it the minute it’s available. How could you not?

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