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10 Types Of Marijuana That Can Make You More Creative

Brea Mosley
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10 Types Of Marijuana That Can Make You More Creative

From powerful sativas to soothing and uplifting indicas, to a little bit of both, these strains will be your go to next time you feel like you’re not being innovative enough.

Has your creativity hit a dead end? Do you find yourself unable to finish that masterpiece you started painting? Writing the final chapter to your latest book? Outlining the introduction of your snazzy business plan? Building the DIY shelves you saw on HGTV? Whatever it is that you’ve been struggling to finish because you’ve hit a roadblock, we’ve got news for you: these awesome strains that will make you creative once again.

From powerful sativas to soothing and uplifting indicas, to a little bit of both, these strains will be your go to next time you feel like you’re not being innovative enough.


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Know that there are multiple ways to consume marijuana, you can eat or drink it, rub it into your skin, vape, smoke and much more. Ask the budtenders at your local dispensary which products have the strains listed and then pick how you want to put it into your body.

Need help finding a dispensary? We got you. Just visit our directory.

The following are 10 strains you can order that should make you more creative:

Strawberry Dream

Ready to tackle a new project? Strawberry Dream is a hybrid strain perfect for the dreamers, movers and shakers. Strawberry, citrusy and sweet, this will be your new sidekick.

Flaming Cookies

Keeping things herbal and spicy, Flaming Cookies is an unsuspecting partner for the days when your creative instincts need a little boost.

Jack Diesel

The flavor is a combination of yes, diesel, but also sweet and earthy. Those who are fond of the sativa strain note it as a great daytime strain. It’s perfect for artistic expression.

Bananas

This shit is bananas, b-a-n-a-n-a-s. This hybrid strain really does taste like bananas and the smooth and tropical flavor will have your mind running wild, for the better.

Sour Willie

This is another pungent diesel sativa strain to make the list. However, this strain has a higher CBD concentrate, than THC so you can still be a person and get great shit done.

Pot of Gold

Relaxed, yet uplifted. This indica strain is just that, a Pot of Gold. Paint something, draw something let your creative intuitions run wild with this strong and sweet bud.

Higher Power

Higher Power has an equally triple effect: creativity, happiness, and focus. A predominantly sativa strain, this fruity and acidic herb will have you thanking the higher powers for the outside-of-the-box thinking that has been bestowed upon you.

Purple Cream

While this indica dominant strain is mellow and calming, it gives you a slight body high that makes you feel good about everything. You’ll be ready to make some art, write a song, and write out a business plan. Perhaps all at once?

Haze Heaven

Indeed, this hybrid strain will have you in a haze of your own thoughts. The happy and euphoria feeling are perfect for picking up a project, right where you left off. The flavor isn’t that distinct though, it’s just strong and pungent.

Green Crack Extreme

If the name alone doesn’t have you feeling creative, we don’t know what will. Green Crack Extreme is a sativa strain that bursts with flavors of flower and sweetness. While this isn’t the best strain if you want to be focused, it is good for channeling some creative energy.

No One Is Going To Put Marijuana Edibles In Your Kid’s Halloween Bag

Terry Hacienda
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No One Is Going To Put Marijuana Edibles In Your Kid’s Halloween Bag

Every year since 1966, families have been tuning into Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang celebrate Halloween on “It’s The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown” TV special. Spoiler Alert: Linus waits for The Great Pumpkin to materialize in the pumpkin patch but he nearly freezes to death. Drats.

Here’s another Halloween tradition that is equally fictional: Reefer Madness acolytes warn parents every year that some crazed freak is going to lace trick-or-treat candy with weed and your kids will overdose on the devil’s lettuce. But, like Linus awaiting the fictional Great Pumpkin, it never happens.

This Halloween tale of fright is picking up steam as more and more states legalize cannabis. The latest version of the bogus story comes from the Township of Moorestown, N.J., a burg east of Philadelphia. The township’s police department, in its infinite wisdom, decided to scare the bejesus out of its 19,000 residents with a Special Halloween Alert:

PUBLIC AWARENESS IN REGARD TO MARIJUANA CANDY

There is a significant presence of marijuana candy and other edible forms in New Jersey and nearby states. The presence of these edible forms of marijuana poses a great risk to users, especially to children, who may accidently receive marijuana candy during Halloween. Marijuana candy is illegal in New Jersey. It contains Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), which is the main active ingredient that causes a high. Marijuana candy often imitates hard or gummy candy or chocolate. THC levels in marijuana candy can be as high as 90% compared to 10 to 20% found in marijuana vegetation.

Adults should check for unusual candy packaging (e.g. homemade packages, such as plastic bags). Because of the similarities between marijuana candy and brand name candy, it is often difficult to distinguish the difference based on appearance alone. In addition to the packaging, marijuana candy can have an odor similar to that of the marijuana plant making it easier to identify.

Recommendations:
• If you believe you or your child has received marijuana candy, immediately contact your local police department.
• Wear vinyl or non-latex gloves if handling possible marijuana candy.
• Thoroughly wash hands after removing and disposing of the gloves properly to prevent potential ingestion of any drug particles.

That’s right! Make sure to wear gloves and wash your hands to prevent drug particles!

It would be worth a chuckle if it wasn’t so misguided. These alerts make great headlines and grab viewers of local TV news. But when has it ever happened?

Medical marijuana programs have been in existence for more than 20 years and 29 states now allow for it. Eight states have legal weed. A basic internet search through news reports do not show a single incident of marijuana-laced candy harming a trick-or-treater.

Name The New Oreo Mystery Flavor And Win $50K

Maria Loreto
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Name The New Oreo Mystery Flavor And Win $50K

Oreo’s latest cookie flavor was finally launched in October, which over the years has included crazy things such as fruit punch and banana split. This year, the company kept their new flavor a secret, aptly calling them the “Mystery Flavor Oreos”. They plan to award 50,000 dollars to the person who identifies the flavor. 

Obviously, everyone went crazy and bought all the Oreo’s they could find. The packaging is smart, basically blank, stating only the name of the cookie. Even the description is bare, only stating that these are “chocolate sandwich cookies”. We know this, thank you very much.

Most of those who tried the cookies claimed that the filling was Fruity Pebbles flavor, which is super random and kind of gross.

Make up your mind, people.

Oreo will be accepting submissions until November 30th, which is when they’ll finally award the 50,000 dollars to the winner. Runner ups can even get 10,000 dollars each. Before you access the website and just type in Fruity Pebbles, know that to be considered for the prize you must upload a picture of you eating the cookie or a picture of your receipt. They’re being thorough here, so take your best guess and hopefully earn all that money.

The Majority Of Republicans Now Favor Marijuana Legalization

Tony Newman
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The Majority Of Republicans Now Favor Marijuana Legalization

A new Gallup poll shows record-breaking support for marijuana legalization, with 64 percent of Americans now in favor of marijuana legalization.

The number is the highest level of support in nearly half a century of surveying adults on the issue, according to Gallup, with a majority backing legalization across the political spectrum. 51% of Republicans, 72 percent of Democrats and 67 percent of independents are on board. Since 2012, voters in eight US states and the District of Columbia have approved legalization.

“Marijuana legalization is far more popular than Jeff Sessions or Donald Trump and will survive them both,” said Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance. “Instead of wasting limited law enforcement resources trying to stop successful state-level legalization initiatives, US officials should listen to the clear, bipartisan message the public is sending them, and support federal marijuana reform as well.”

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By shifting away from counterproductive marijuana arrests and focusing instead on public health, states that have legalized marijuana are diminishing many of the worst harms of the war on drugs, while managing to raise substantial new revenues. A Drug Policy Alliance report found that Colorado, Washington, Alaska and Oregon have benefited from a dramatic decrease in marijuana arrests and convictions, as well as increased tax revenues, since the adult possession of marijuana became legal.  At the same time, these states did not experience increases in youth marijuana use or traffic fatalities.

In 2012, Colorado and Washington became the first two US states – and the first two jurisdictions in the world – to approve ending marijuana prohibition and legally regulating marijuana production, distribution and sales. In the 2014 election, Alaska and Oregon followed suit, while Washington DC passed a more limited measure that legalized possession and home cultivation of marijuana.  In 2016, voters in California, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada doubled the number of states that legally regulate marijuana, bringing the total to eight.

The most significant victory was California’s Proposition 64, which legalized the adult use of marijuana and enacted across-the-board retroactive sentencing reform for marijuana offenses, while establishing a comprehensive, strictly-controlled system to tax and regulate businesses to produce and distribute marijuana in a legal market. Its cutting edge provisions to undo the most egregious harms of marijuana prohibition on impacted communities of color and the environment, as well as its sensible approaches to public health, youth protection, licensing and revenue allocation, set a new gold standard for marijuana legalization.

Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) recently introduced the Marijuana Justice Act, a bill modeled on Prop. 64 that ends federal marijuana prohibition and centers communities most devastated by the war on drugs.

“The question is no longer whether we should legalize marijuana, but rather how we should do it,” added McFarland Sánchez-Moreno. “The Marijuana Justice Act would legalize marijuana the right way, by not only stopping the ongoing harms of prohibition, but also beginning to address the devastation that marijuana prohibition has wrought, particularly among communities of color.”

This story first appeared on the Drug Policy Alliance website. 

‘Orange Is The New Black’ Star Calls Out Drug War Hypocrisy

Brendan Bures
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‘Orange Is The New Black’ Star Calls Out Drug War Hypocrisy

For a television program that major television providers have effectively shunned, Cannabis Planet is capable of pulling some serious guests on their show. The latest is “Orange Is The New Black” star Matt Peters, who recently joined the program to decry America’s War on Drugs.

“I think the criminalization of cannabis is very stupid,” he says.

Cannabis Planet Preview from Cannabis Planet on Vimeo.

On Orange Is The New Black, Peters plays the Corrections Officer Joel Luscheck. His characters cops to being somewhat of a drug enthusiast and middleman for dealing, but unlike the inmates, he never gets caught.

This weekend’s Cannabis Planet episode will feature Peters sitting down former law enforcement officers to discuss what we talk about when we talk about the War On Drugs in America. The conversation will hone in on the hypocrisy of the Drug War and also its failure within the country writ large.

“I think it’s ridiculous to incarcerate anybody for something that so many people have admitted to doing,” Peters says in a preview.

Working Out Too Much Can Be Bad For Your Sex Life

Maria Loreto
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Working Out Too Much Can Be Bad For Your Sex Life

A study from the University of North Carolina discovered that men who worked out too much had lower libidos and sex drives, disrupting the thought that you can never work out too much. Exercise has always been referred to as a miracle drug, helping cope with depression, improving your memory and protecting your brain against cognitive decline, but this research proves that all things, even the good ones, should be enjoyed in moderation. 

The study surveyed over 1,000 male participants and found that, across all ages, men who worked out excessively reported that they didn’t think about sex, or desired it as much as others who worked out less vigorously. 

Insider reports that another study from the New York Times demonstrated a similar trend in women, where those who worked out excessively reported hormonal imbalances that affected their libidos and sex drives. Excessive workouts can also lead to eating disorders and body dysmorphic disorders, which can both impact negatively on your self-esteem. 

Even though these results are surprising and a little shitty, the same research proves that working out normally and regularly increases people’s interest in sex and libido in a healthy manner. this study highlights that it’s important to avoid overworking ourselves, and that, if we feel tired or our body demands rest, we give it to it. It’s also good to remember that sex is another form of working out. 

Joe Rogan Admits He May Have Developed A ‘Dependency’ On Marijuana

Brendan Bures
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Joe Rogan Admits He May Have Developed A ‘Dependency’ On Marijuana

Joe Rogan, one of the most outspoken cannabis advocates, now admits he may have developed a “dependency” to marijuana. As we’ve previously written about, Rogan and his fellow comedian buddies decided to go sober for the entire month of October. Initially that only meant no alcohol, but went on to include marijuana.

And Rogan is feeling the effects.

“Pot, for me and my fucked-up brain, has a lot of really positive personality effects. But I think I might be downplaying my dependence on it,” the comedian said on a recent episode of his podcast. “I think I might’ve been thinking, ‘That’s nothing. I’ll quit pot, it’s nothing.’ I don’t know about that anymore.”

He describes himself “more tense, less kind, and I have to like catch myself before I get upset about things” when consuming marijuana. “I’m much more aware of gratitude and fortune, like I’m lucky and appreciative of my friends. I want to hug people more,” he would also add.

Rogan also spoke on how not smoking marijuana has affected his dreams. Since quitting cannabis for the month, he describes how he’s been having “predator dreams” that feature “cartoon wolves with giant feet” and “a lot of falling.”

“I don’t need pot it’s not an issue. I don’t need it obviously, I’ve gone through this whole month,” Rogan said. “But I’m stunned at the differences at how I’m dreaming. I never expected it to be so extreme, so vivid. Every night I’m having crazy dreams and they’re almost all primal.”

Rogan later posted the above article, which describes how THC can affect REM sleep, the type of sleep scientists believe is when humans dream. October is soon ending, and chances are Rogan will resume his marijuana-smoking habits. However, as he alluded to, there might be an adjustment period.

“I’m legitimately nervous about smoking pot again,” he said.

How To Use Every Part Of The Cannabis Plant This Harvest Season

Trey Reckling
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How To Use Every Part Of The Cannabis Plant This Harvest Season

This is the time of year when home growing cannabis farmers are drying and curing their summer crops. Drying rooms, closets and curing jars take on the pungent smells of drying leaves and a wonderful mix of terpenes that perfume the home and make your nose open its eyes wide.

While many home growers are all about putting up several jars of finely cured buds, medical marijuana patients often think about harvest as opportunity on many levels. Whether you are a registered medical marijuana patient or not, cannabis offers relief from pain, sleeplessness, lack of appetite, and inflammation to just name a few.

People with a little knowledge can create a variety of products at home that will stock the home herbal medicine cabinet. Making full use of the plant is not only a matter of efficiency but of respecting the plant enough to use all of what it has to offer.

There are many ways to make use of your harvest to make it take on special character and last a bit longer. Let’s take a look at a few:

Buds

The tried and true, gold standard. Once properly dried and cured, a few jars of well trimmed buds provide a nice supply for smoking and vaping. Storage in dark, glass jars help protect potency. An optional humidor packet, like those made by Boveda, ensure proper humidity level in storage.

Fresh trim

Trim or trimmed leaves from manicured bud has become much more valuable over the years as people have learned how to make better use of it. Though lower in potency, a look through a microscope or good loupe glass will show that trim can still be a trichome rich environment.

Fresh frozen trim

It allows for the production of great homemade bubble hash, tinctures and raw cannabis smoothies.

Dried Trim

Well dried trim is the key ingredient for traditional Moroccan dry sieved hashish, tincture and can be made into butters/oils. With a couple of simple tools you can turn dry trim into fresh pressed solventless rosin. Weed tea, a traditional Jamaican relaxant is an easy treat to make as well.

Males And Hermies 

While often harvested as soon as they appear, a grown male of hermaphroditic plant can still be cannabinoid rich. Male plants contain the same cannabinoid acids as females, though lower in potency. They may be dried and processed as lower potency butters/oils.

Cannabis Oils 

Once you have created some good, clean cannabutter or infused oil you can make canna caps, edibles, medicated syrups and jams.

Root Ball 

Although it is the least utilized part of the plant, the root ball may be cleaned, dried, ground and infused into a tincture. Ancient Chinese doctors used cannabis root as a diuretic. The Romans used it for joint stiffness and gout. 

As many cannabis enthusiasts know, with homemade products the real trick is figuring out appropriate dosing. Since legal access to legitimate and low cost testing is limited, most kitchen wizards will have to continue to be their own guinea pig and taste their own products in trial runs.

Wishing you a bountiful post harvest. May your cabinets be stocked with a great variety of cannabinoid goodness. 

Gossip: Katy Perry And Lionel Richie Not Getting Along; Anthony Bourdain Is An Elevator Diva

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Gossip: Katy Perry And Lionel Richie Not Getting Along; Anthony Bourdain Is An Elevator Diva

The reboot of “American Idol” hasn’t even started airing yet and already there is tension between Katy Perry and Lionel Richie.

“Lionel is a grown-ass man and he is a music legend. He wrote ‘We Are The World,’ and now has to wait around for Katy Perry and change his entire schedule so it fits with hers,” sources tell Straight Shuter. “A few weeks ago the show taped auditions in New York and Katy’s schedule determined everything. Idol was shot around Katy’s scheduled concerts at Madison Square Garden. Lionel was treated like one of her backup singers and wasn’t happy. Plus, remember this is just the beginning. Things are going to get worse.”

Anthony Bourdain Is An Elevator Diva

Chef and CNN star Anthony Bourdain is known to be a master in the kitchen but now sources tell Straight Shuter that Bourdain is a diva in the elevator.

“Guess who was too big a star to share the back of house private Javits Center elevator with other panelists at NY Comic Con this weekend? Believe it or not, Anthony Bourdain,” sources tell Straight Shuter. “He had a giant service elevator all to himself – other than his entourage. The doors opened for another panel of actors to get on and make their way to the panel area and his security barred all from entering. He was a total diva. He thinks he’s Angelina Jolie.”

However, a pal close to Tony tells us, “The security guard was been over protective. Tony was embarrassed and this had nothing to do with him. He’s a great guy and will share a meal or an elevator.”

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Jackpot! Nevada’s Legal Weed Retail Sales Hit $33 Million

Terry Hacienda
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Jackpot! Nevada’s Legal Weed Retail Sales Hit $33 Million

When it comes to Nevada’s legal weed retail sales, the state hit the jackpot in August, selling $33 million worth of recreational cannabis in the month, a $6 million jump from July figures.

The data, released earlier this week by the Nevada Department of Taxation, also shows that almost $5 million in taxes filled the state’s coffers, an increase of about $1.3 million from the previous month. Nevada’s recreational marijuana program was launched in July, so the numbers are encouraging.

As the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports:

The recreational sales numbers were significantly ahead of the state’s projected $21.5 million in sales for August. In fact, the state did not project any month in the first year of recreational sales to eclipse $28 million.

Andrew Jolley, CEO of The+Source dispensaries and president of the Nevada Dispensary Association, said those projections will likely prove to be fairly conservative, and expects the market to continue to grow steadily over the next several months.

“I think it is a good indication that there was a large, pent-up demand that was being served by the black market,” Jolley said.

Earlier this year, Gov. Brian Sandoval projected that the state would bring in more than $100 million from taxes and fees in the first two years of recreational sales. But the Department of Taxation recalibrated that estimate to more than $120 million. Although it is difficult to forecast based on just two months of data, that forecast may move up even more.

The taxes collected from cannabis goes to the state’s rainy day fund, which can be spent anywhere, but is normally reserved for emergencies.

State Sen. Tick Segerblom, D-Las Vegas, who was a strong advocate for legalization, was upbeat about the latest tax figures. “Obviously there’s a demand,” Segerblom said. He also told the Review-Journal that he is bullish on the long-term growth of the industry, noting that retail outlets continue to open its doors.

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