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This Marijuana Inhaler Can Help Your Worst Insomnia

Terry Hacienda
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This Marijuana Inhaler Can Help Your Worst Insomnia

If you are among the 40 million of Americans suffering from some sort of sleep disorder, help may be on the way in the form of a marijuana inhaler. Much like an inhaler used for sufferers of asthma and other pulmonary ailments, a squirt of cannabis may all you need to combat insomnia.

According to UK newspaper the Daily Mail,  the device allows the patient to nod off within 1o minutes after inhalation and wake up refreshed without negative side effects. The report says the device will be available in Israel and California by 2018.

The product comes from iCAN, an Israeli company that hopes to get governmental approval in more states. “As an insomniac myself, I am proud to be involved in bringing a next generation cannabis product to the market. Doseable, repeatable cannabis is a reality,”  said Saul Kaye, a co-founder of iCAN.

According to a sleep psychologist Deirdre Conroy:

Over the past decade, research has focused more on the use of cannabis for medical purposes. Individuals with insomnia tend to use medical cannabis for sleep at a high rate. Up to 65 percent of former cannabis users identified poor sleep as a reason for relapsing. Use for sleep is particularly common in individuals with PTSD and pain.

Of the 40 million of Americans who have trouble sleeping, one fourth of them have a prescription for Ambien or some other pharmaceutical sleep medication and 4 percent of adults report that they have taken a sleeping pill or sedative in the previous month.

Some of the more common side effects for these pills include:

  • Daytime drowsiness, dizziness, weakness, feeling “drugged” or light-headed
  • Tired feeling, loss of coordination
  • Stuffy nose, dry mouth, nose or throat irritation
  • Nausea, constipation, diarrhea, upset stomach
  • Headache, muscle pain

Arizona State University sleep researcher Shawn Youngstedt is not an advocate for pharmaceuticals as a sleep aid. He told CNN:

“Sleeping pills are extremely hazardous. They are as bad as smoking a pack of cigarettes a day. Not to mention they cause infections, falling and dementia in the elderly, and they lose their effectiveness after a few weeks.”

Studies have shown that cannabis can improve the duration and quality of sleep. A 1973 study suggests that THC reduces the amount of time it takes those with insomnia to fall asleep. Another study found that those that regularly used THC fell asleep faster.

Can Medical Marijuana Help Me With My Nausea?

Richard Faulk
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Can Medical Marijuana Help Me With My Nausea?

In the sometimes hazy realm of medical marijuana research, the answer to “Can marijuana cure nausea?” is a rare, unambiguous “Yes.” But it’s a not quite a full-throated one.

For decades, anecdotal evidence of marijuana’s anti-nausea properties has been a major argument in the medical cannabis movement. In 1999, this position got a boost from the medical establishment, when the American Society of Clinical Oncology adopted guidelines for the use of antiemetics (medicines that keep you from barfing) that included a place for cannabis.

A new generation of antiemtics that target serotonin receptors and have been available for about twenty years take pride of place in the ASCO guidelines. However, for those patients who cannot tolerate these drugs or for whom they prove ineffective, there are a variety of “lower-therapeutic index” options. Among these options, the ASCO has ruled that cannabis is OK-ish. The guidelines cite evidence that cannabis is “significantly less” effective than metoclopramide, which is the best of the second-tier options. The preferred cannabinoid is synthetic THC, which is currently approved in the U.S. in two chemical forms, dronabinol and nabilone (which are marketed under the names Marinol and Cesamet, respectively).

<p< span=””>In 2015, the American Medical Association reexamined the antiemetic effect of marijuana as part of a comprehensive review> of the literature on medical cannabis. Its findings jibe with the ASCO’s earlier examination, but the AMA’s report is also clearer about the dearth of evidence on the topic. Only 28 studies were deemed robust enough for the AMA to consider, and of those 23 were at high risk of bias. The remaining 5 had an unclear risk of bias.

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Smoked marijuana is not endorsed by either the ASCO or the AMA, nor is it likely to be, because of dosage difficulty among other medical objections (such as the one about smoking not being good for you). Nevertheless, partisans of inhaled cannabis have some compelling counter arguments—perhaps the most compelling being “How can you be expected to swallow a pill and keep it down, when throwing things up is the condition you’re trying to treat?”

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5 Reasons Why Your Sex Drive Might Be Super Low

Maria Loreto
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5 Reasons Why Your Sex Drive Might Be Super Low

Sex causes a lot of stress. Whether you’re having too little of it or too much, if it’s too bad or not good enough, the list can be as complicated as you want it to be. There are a million questions you could have regarding your sex life, and that’s okay. It’s important to understand that libidos are complicated, but they’re mostly affected by your mindset and stress.

Whether your libido is acting up due to hormones or is fluctuating due to your personal and romantic life, here are 5 innocuous day to day activities that might be putting a strain on your sex drive:

No Exercise

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Working out is a pain sometimes, especially when you have a job and other stuff you’d rather do like watch TV and go out. Still, there’s no other way around it, sometimes you gotta do it. Many physicians and doctors stress over the importance of exercise when it comes to our sex drives, enhancing your serotonin and dopamine levels while also increasing the blood flow to your genital area.

Not Having Enough Sex

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Maybe the reason you’re not as interested in sex is because you haven’t done it in a while and haven’t thought about it. Not having sex makes you less interested in sex, but the opposite is also true. You can make yourself have sex, which at first may feel boring or not awesome, but later on it’ll feel great and like it was just what you needed.

Eating The Wrong Foods

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Snacks, salty, and heavy foods are not the best for making you feel attractive. They’ll make you feel bloated and gross, which can contribute heavily to your image and to a lower sex drive. Eating things that make you feel energized, light, and good about your body will help you engage more easily with sex.

Not Masturbating

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Masturbating allows you to stay in touch with your body and your desires. It’s also a nice reminder that yes, you can orgasm, so you can also have sex. Make it a part of your routine, like working out and eating healthy.

Drinking Too Much

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While it’s true that wine makes people a little horny, alcohol is also depressant, which means that after a few glasses you’ll start to feel tired and your testosterone will drop. If you want to have a drink before sex then stick to a glass or two, which won’t impair your libido.

Here’s Why Trying On Lipstick Samples Is A Bad Idea

Maria Loreto
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Here’s Why Trying On Lipstick Samples Is A Bad Idea

The best part about shopping for makeup is the fact that you can enter the store with a clean face and leave looking like a Kardashian. Taking advantage of quality makeup samples and of makeup experts who compliment your skin is 80 percent of the reasons why we even go to places like Sephora and NYX. If these perks didn’t exist, people would just shop online and save themselves the trip through a crowded store.

According to Jezebel, a woman from California is suing Sephora over emotional distress. She reports that one of the stores’ lipstick samples gave her herpes, and that no one from the store warned her that this was a possibility. Sadly, herpes is a very common infection that stays in your body for life. This virus is mostly transmitted from skin to skin contact, since it needs a host to survive.

Even though it’s rare, it is possible to contract the virus through a lipstick sample. The Huffington Post spoke with Dr. Janelleen Smith who claimed that, as a rule of thumb, you shouldn’t share lipstick, clothes or anything with someone you’re not already kissing.

Even though it’s hard to contract Herpes via lipstick 1 out of 6 americans have the virus in their bodies, no matter if they have cold sores or not. Statistically speaking, you probably already have herpes, or have kissed someone with herpes, or are best friends with someone with herpes and have borrowed some of their lipstick. So use those makeup samples away, you’re only delaying the inevitable.

Miss ‘Jersey Shore’? Now Introducing MTV’s New Show ‘Floribama Shore’

Brendan Bures
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Miss ‘Jersey Shore’? Now Introducing MTV’s New Show ‘Floribama Shore’

When it debuted back in 2009, Jersey Shore captured the attention of the country precisely because we’d never seen something so singularly trashy and deliciously unapologetic on television before. These were people you maybe came across at a bar, ordering double-digit shots and picking fights over nothing, and wondered what their daily existence might be like. Chose seven of those characters to live together in a house, their personalities casted to perfectly embroil, entice, and imbibe with one another, and construct scenarios with as much alcohol and drama legally possible.

Also there was a duck phone.

But now we have the internet. You can see 20-somethings make fools of themselves willingly on Instagram accounts like @5thyear and @drunkpeopledoingthings. Social media almost ruins the cultural functionality of something like Jersey Shore. But reality TV can provide something social media overwhelmingly fails at, which is constructing an engaging narrative.

Despite some try-hard pop stars asking to be excuse from this narrative, our brains won’t allow it. (That we attempt to refuse cultural narratives as they are and instead push ourselves to believe ones lacking in scope of facts and characters might explain why this country’s so dang ornery all the time, but…maybe this isn’t the right conversation to have in a MTV reality show article). We love narratives and stories more than anything; it’s how we make sense of the world and that Joan Didion jazz.

Which is why MTV and SallyAnn Salsano, executive producer and creator of Jersey Shore, wants to recreate the magic with their new show Floribama Shore. It features eight Southern kids in Panama City Beach—the filthy, debauchery-laden party town that served as inspiration for Spring Breakers—as they party and “put the real world on hold for just a little bit longer.”

Via Deadline:

According to the producers, each cast member “is armed with incredible life experiences and standing at a crossroads, whether it’s ending a relationship, tasting independence for the first time, or trying to escape the past. This coming of age story captures the very real thrill and angst of being young and trying to figure out the future with a group of people you’ll come to call family.”

Sound familiar? As they say, cabs are here—er, Ubers are here! With as many reboots and reimagining’s as the media/entertainment complex keeps churning out, you shouldn’t be surprised that Jersey Shore would eventually undergo that treatment. Why wouldn’t MTV want to recycle the biggest reality TV show of all time?

The company released a short teaser trailer to announce Floribama Shore. The duck phone has transformed into the gator phone. Really, what more do you need to know?

Watch This Public Official Lose It During Marijuana Legalization Hearing

Terry Hacienda
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Watch This Public Official Lose It During Marijuana Legalization Hearing

Losing your temper is one thing. But when you are the mayor pro tem and you lose your cool during a city council meeting and it is caught on tape, the outburst goes viral.

Folks in Colfax, a small northern California town, have been debating whether to allow marijuana retail sales within the city boundaries. And the discussion got a little bit out of hand last month when Colfax Mayor pro tem Tony Hesch lost his cool.

Mark Younggren, a citizen who wants to open a dispensary in the town, stood up and began asking questions to council members. Apparently, he interrupted Hesch a few times and the conversation turned into a shouting match.

“I was the one speaking, you idiot!” Hesch shouted as he slammed his fist on the table. “You shut the [expletive] up when somebody’s talking.”

When asked by fellow councilmembers to calm down, Hesch got even more heated. “I’m not going to settle down,” he said. “That’s just plain ridiculous, childish, unbelievable activities by you guys.”  Hesch has served on the city council for five years.

But his tantrum didn’t end there. “All you’re doing is wanting to make money,” Hesch said. “You don’t give a damn about anybody in this community, you just want to make money. You should be ashamed of yourself.”

According to a report in the Sacramento Bee:

Hesch referred to pro-marijuana advocates as “people who have wasted our freaking time” over the last three years. He and Mayor Steve Harvey repeatedly called for order as audience members objected to that characterization. When Younggren continued to question the council, Hesch flew into a rage.

Younggren wasn’t exactly surprised by the outburst. “I was but I kind of wasn’t, because I’ve seen him get mad before,” he told Fox40 News.

Watch the video of the outburst:

What You Need To Know About Marijuana And Glaucoma

Richard Faulk
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What You Need To Know About Marijuana And Glaucoma

The ability to reduce eye pressure and ease the effects of glaucoma was the first scientifically confirmed health benefit of medical marijuana, and it may still be the most well known argument supporting medical marijuana. However, this effect was discovered quite by accident. In the early 1970s, a group of UCLA researchers, who were studying the telltale marijuana “red eye” in hopes of somehow using the phenomenon to help the DEA to narc out stoners, incidentally found that cannabis reduced eye pressure by about 25 percent. That result was as good as any produced by an FDA approved glaucoma medication. (In fact, it still is today.)

Cannabis really does counteract glaucoma. It’s a medical fact.

Cannabis really does counteract glaucoma. It’s a medical fact. Unfortunately, the effects only last about three hours, and it seems that the most effective cannabinoids are also the most psychoactively potent. Thus, to be completely treated, you’d need to smoke six or seven joints a day. In other words, you’d be high all the time. Very high.

As fun as that might seem at first, it’s clearly an untenable way to live. For the elderly, who are most effected by glaucoma, a prolonged cannabis high can be downright dangerous, since it can depress blood pressure and cause heart attack. So for now, the cannabis cure is impractical but grounds for further research.

In 1978, reggae man Peter Tosh immortalized the UCLA clinical findings in the single “Bush Doctor” (you know how lab reports are just so sing-able), thus giving generations of college students still decades away from material risk of degenerative eye disease both an anthem and a medically sound defense for their recreational use of marijuana.

White House Opioid Commission Blows A Teachable Moment

Widney Brown
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White House Opioid Commission Blows A Teachable Moment

The White House opioidcommission released its final report on Nov.1. The report contained a range of recommendations including increasing the number of drug courts and launching a public campaign to prevent abuse of opioids and to challenge the stigma associated with its use.

While much of the focus on the Commission’s final report is understandably on critiquing its recommendations, there is a larger issue at play—what is absent from the report altogether. The Commission blew an opportunity to share with the public what is well-known and understood by public health and addiction experts on the frontlines of the opioid epidemic—that there are proven harm reduction and treatment interventions that will be far more effective at curbing overdose fatalities than any supply reduction or enforcement strategy.

By adopting an integrated approach to prevention, education, harm reduction, including ensuring widespread distribution of naloxone, and evidence-based treatment it is possible to dramatically reduce the number of deaths related to opioid use.

Prevention programs should focus on empowering and educating people, especially young people who are dying preventable deaths, about opioids. While understanding the root causes of problematic drug use is complicated, educating and empowering those who use or may be considering using opioids is a move away from the hopelessness that appears to be driving opioid use in young people.

What we do know is that campaigns based on orders to “just say no” fail in part because they do not engage young people or provide realistic and safe options for people who may choose to use despite potentially negative consequences.

Harm reduction strategies and programs have a strong track record of improving the health of people using opioids and preventing overdose deaths.  There are a wide range of well-established harm reduction practices.  Some are as simple of teaching young people how to stay safe when partying. Other proven measures are setting up safe consumption sites, enacting Good Samaritan laws that encourage people to seek help when someone is in distress without fear of punishment and ensuring that people in the best position to reverse an overdose—people who use drugs themselves or their friends and families—have easy access to the overdose antidote medication naloxone.

Another life-saving harm reduction technique is to give people who use opioids a means of testing the substance they are using to see if it has been adulterated with fentanyl or some other substance that could lead to an overdose or other adverse reaction.

Harm reduction programs enable people with expertise in drug use to engage with those who are using problematically, earn their trust, and potentially guide them toward voluntary treatment programs. Judgment and the threat of being punished for drug use drives people who use drugs underground and into greater danger of an overdose or other adverse reaction. Harm reduction, on the other hand, saves lives.  And yet, the term “harm reduction” is not even mentioned throughout the Commission’s 100+ page report.

There were, however, some glimmers of hope in the Commission’s recommendations, such as calling for increased access to evidence-based addiction treatment with medications such as methadone and buprenorphine. But, there are serious reservations about how President Trump’s analysis will influence the implementation of even the best recommendations and legitimate concerns that ramping up a failed war on drugs will lead to more preventable deaths.

Punitive responses to opioid drug use, including the promotion of drug courts which are integrated into the criminal justice system, not only fail to protect the lives of people who use drugs, but by portraying opioids and fentanyl as “bad” drugs, people seeking palliative care are also made to suffer. Opioids, including fentanyl, can be used to great effect therapeutically. Opioids can also lead to deadly overdoses. Doubling down on a punitive approach to drug use will impact both people’s access to pain medicines as well as their willingness to voluntarily seek help and treatment for any problematic drug use. Creating drug policies that are grounded in public health principles and informed by compassion, not judgment, means that the government can implement measures that save lives and reduce suffering.

Widney Brown is the Drug Policy Alliance’s Managing Director of Policy.

13 Life Lessons From Seinfeld

Brendan Bures
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13 Life Lessons From Seinfeld

Let’s get this straight: Seinfeld is a “show about nothing,” a sitcom that examined those infinitely small life moments that perhaps matter most.

It’s why Seinfeld so often felt revelatory. Heck, it continues to feel revelatory. Every time you watch an episode you can’t help connecting with a social faux pas or a deep-rooted emotional response to something small like eating at a Chinese restaurant.

RELATED: Here Are 7 Ways Jerry Seinfeld Refuses To Play Nice

All this is to say that Seinfeld taught us a lot—about the characters, but also about ourselves. That’s why Hash Night asked users on social media what Seinfeld taught them. It turns out, more than you think. In fact, here are 13 lessons from Seinfeld which are still relevant.

Maybe Don’t Wear Skinny Jeans

How to Say “Hello”

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Good Naked vs. Bad Naked

On Dancing

How To Enter A Room

“It’s Not A Lie If You Believe It”

Don’t Be A “Close Talker”

Be Ready With The Comeback

Napping At Work

Eating Pretzels? Have A Beverage On Hand

On Reservations

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Be Wary Of Family Members On Holidays

…But The Only Holiday You Should Celebrate Is Festivus

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6 Cannabis Stocks We’re Watching Today:November 7th, 2017

Steven Lachard
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6 Cannabis Stocks We’re Watching Today:November 7th, 2017

Out of over 200 cannabis stocks, there’s six that we’re going to be watching as the markets open due to breaking news out this morning.

Here’s six cannabis companies to watch today including Aurora Cannabis Inc. (TSX:ACB) (OTC:ACBFF) and more.

Aurora Cannabis Inc. (TSX:ACB) (OTC:ACBFF)

Today, Aurora Cannabis Inc. announced that it’s partnership with Namaste Technologies Inc. is off to a good start, with over 200 orders in the first three days since the launch.

CannaRoyalty Corp. (CSE:CRZ) (OTC:CNNRF)

This morning, CannaRoyalty Corp. announced that it signed a letter of intent with Æther Gardens for the launch of CR Brands products into the Nevada marketthrough AEG with a focus on Las Vegas.

Canopy Growth Corp. (TSX:WEED) (OTC:TWMJF)

This morning, Canopy Growth Corp. announced that it has signed a definitive licensing agreement with Farm to Farma Inc. for FTF’s innovative Trokie® lozenges. Under this licensing agreement, Canopy Growth will have the exclusive right to manufacture and distribute FTF’s Trokie® lozenges through its subsidiaries in Canada.

Cure Pharmaceutical Holding Corp. (OTC:CURR)

This morning, Therapix Biosciences Ltd. announced that it has entered into a product development agreement with Cure Pharmaceutical Holding Corp. focusing on the development of cannabinoid-based treatments on CURE’s patented, multilayer oral thin film (OTF), CureFilm™, for the treatment of a wide range of sleep disorders.

Namaste Technologies Inc. (CSE:N) (OTC:NXTTF)

Today, Aurora Cannabis Inc. announced that it’s partnership with Namaste Technologies Inc. is off to a good start, with over 200 orders in the first three days since the launch.

Therapix Biosciences Ltd. (NASDAQ:TRPX)

This morning, Therapix Biosciences Ltd. announced that it has entered into a product development agreement with Cure Pharmaceutical Holding Corp. focusing on the development of cannabinoid-based treatments on CURE’s patented, multilayer oral thin film (OTF), CureFilm™, for the treatment of a wide range of sleep disorders.

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