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Gossip: Kim Kardashian On Family’s Pregnancy Trifecta; Khloe Kardashian Is Four Months Along

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Gossip: Kim Kardashian On Family’s Pregnancy Trifecta; Khloe Kardashian Is Four Months Along

In the past week, multiple outlets have confirmed that both Kylie Jenner and Khloe Kardashian are pregnant, while Kim Kardashian has reportedly found a surrogate for her third child with husband Kanye West.

The three sisters have yet to confirm or deny the rumors (mastermind Kris Jenner has also been unusually opaque about possible new grandchildren), but now Kim is breaking her silence about the rumors.

“Let me just say this,” she wrote. “People who supposedly work with us ‘confirming’ details they know nothing about! Especially when we haven’t even communicated with them SMH.”

Khloe Kardashian Is About Four Months Along in Her Pregnancy

Getting ready for baby! Khloe Kardashian is about four months along in her pregnancy, multiple sources confirm to Us Weekly.

Us Weekly exclusively revealed on Tuesday, September 26 that Kardashian, 33, and boyfriend Tristan Thompson are expecting their first child together. The Good American designer joked on the season 13 finale of “KUWTK” in June that Thompson, who she has been dating since September 2016, would like to have enough children to start his own basketball team. “He wants to have, like, five or six kids with me, and that’s lovely,” she said of the Cleveland Cavaliers center. “We could start at one and then grow from there. But now, knowing I’m not on birth control, it’s really scary. It’s like a really big step.”

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4 Great Whiskeys For A Dinner Party

Margarett Waterbury
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4 Great Whiskeys For A Dinner Party

Dinner parties offer a wonderful setting to share a special whiskey, but unless you’re hosting your local whiskey club, it’s probably not the right moment to bust out something super-nerdy or rare. You want something that will appeal to everybody, avid spirits fans and neophytes alike, and that’s fancy enough to feel special but not so fancy that you cringe as your college friend’s new spouse free-pours three ounces into an unwashed wine glass, traces of Syrah still clinging to its sides. Here are 4 great whiskeys for a a dinner party.

Here are my time-tested, proven suggestions for crowd-pleasing whiskeys to plunk down on the table after the plates are cleared and before the babysitters need to be relieved.

Oban14YO

Oban 14-Year-Old

Oban 14-Year-Old is quickly climbing the ranks of my favorite all-purpose single malts. It’s the best of both worlds. It has high-toned peat and opulent, vanilla-soaked oak. It’s rich yet nuanced, sweet yet smoky, and interesting without being in the least bit challenging. It also pairs beautifully with chocolate – just saying.

George Dickel Barrel Select

This small batch release from George Dickel is aged between 10 and 12 years, right in the sweet spot for American whiskey. Balanced, mellow, and with that signature George Dickel minerality, this is a lovely bottle to share with friends who might not know just how delicious Dickel can be.

Basil Hayden’s

Everybody loves bourbon, but not everybody loves the 120+ proof cask strength stuff that’s so popular these days. Basil Hayden’s is a gentler whiskey from Jim Beam that still manages to hang on to all those fruity, spicy characteristics that make American whiskey so enjoyable. Plus, it comes wearing a fun little paper vest.

Redbreast 12-Year-Old

I cringe from the word “smooth” used to describe whiskey—what does such a thing mean? Has anybody ever tasted a gritty whiskey?—but once in a while, the adjective does come to mind. Redbreast 12-Year-Old is silky, sweet, supple, and downright seductive, a seamless homage to the mellow flavors of malted barley and integrated oak. I won’t call it “smooth,” but your guests almost certainly will.

This article originally appeared on The Whiskey Wash.

Meet The Man Who Created Pepper X, The World’s Hottest Pepper

Amy Hansen
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Meet The Man Who Created Pepper X, The World’s Hottest Pepper

Remember back when the ghost pepper had everyone freaking out like it was hell in food form?

That was cute.

Today, there’s a new reigning terror in town and it goes by the name of Pepper X. It surpasses the Carolina Reaper (an average of 1.9 million Scovilles) and the Dragon’s Breath (2.4 million Scovilles) as the world’s hottest pepper clocking in at 3.18 million Scovilles. If that wasn’t terrifying enough, Hot Ones, known for their hot sauce challenges, has created a muthereffing sauce out of these peppers.

It’s called The Last Dab, and it just may be, if you decide to consume this stuff.

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Ed Currie, founder of PuckerButt Pepper Company, says Pepper X is three times hotter than any of the other peppers that are available commercially.

It’s twice as hot as the Reaper, so this is a dangerous pepper. We’ve been breeding it out since…it’s been about 10 years now. When we started the cross (breeding), there were two peppers that I really loved the flavor of, but neither of them were going to be hot enough for my taste—I’m an idiot. It’s just gotten hotter and hotter and we’re averaging now about 3.18 million (Scoville units) on this one.

As the only sauce in the world containing Pepper X, The Last Dab is hard to keep in stock because the pepper is in short supply.

You can see the entire interview with Currie below. By the way, Pepper X is a placeholder for the eventual permanent name. Rosemary’s Baby has a nice ring to it.

North Korea Owes New York Six Figures In Unpaid Parking Tickets

Brendan Bures
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North Korea Owes New York Six Figures In Unpaid Parking Tickets

North Korea finds itself embroiled in scandal yet again and this one might be more tedious than ever—apparently diplomats aren’t paying their parking tickets.

An investigation by New York NBC’s I-Team uncovered a cavalcade of unpaid fines dating back to the 1990s. The total amount numbers 1,300 parking tickets while the total debt sum is more than $156,000. Any other living person in New York would see jail time at just one unpaid parking ticket.

This violates a 2002 memorandum of understanding (MOU) between New York City and the US Department of State. If a vehicle with a diplomatic parking decal has three or more unpaid tickets, that document states that the City can withhold the decal.

In a stunning turn of events, North Korean diplomats denied the allegations when confronted by a New York NBC reporter.

“It’s not true,” Jong Jo, secretary of North Korea’s UN mission, said. “It is false. Whenever we have a ticket, we pay. Because, you know, if we have three tickets the city does not allow us to renew their permission.”

North Korea is far from the only country with unpaid parking ticket debt. The I-Team investigation discovered that since the 1990s there is more than $16 million in unpaid fine from a multitude of countries.

Here are the biggest offenders:

  • Syria, with $362,550 in parking debt
  • Iran, with $184,987 in parking debt
  • Russia, with $104,231 in parking debt
  • China, with $398,736 in parking debt

While those numbers are egregious and likely would infuriate most New Yorkers, it’s also kind of hilarious. Not only are most political leaders from around the world inept at confronting the complexities of our modern world, they can’t even pay their parking tickets on time.

Researcher: Legal Marijuana Saves Nearly 50,000 Lives A Year

Terry Hacienda
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Researcher: Legal Marijuana Saves Nearly 50,000 Lives A Year

Medical marijuana saves lives is not just a slogan. That simple truth was verified in a study released earlier this month by Dr. Thomas M. Clark of Indiana University.

According to Clark’s research, 47,500 American lives could be saved each year if medical marijuana were legalized nationally. To put that number in perspective, about 60,000 U.S. citizens die each year from drug overdose and about 45,000 die annually from suicide.

Clark, who is the chair of IU’s Department of Biology, concluded his research with a ringing indictment of America’s prohibition laws:

Cannabis use prevents thousands of premature deaths each year, and cannabis prohibition is revealed as a major cause of premature death in the U.S.

The study backs up earlier scientific research that cannabis has only “moderate” adverse effects.

“Cannabis use on physical health are subtle and rarely fatal, while cannabis use is associated with decreased rates of obesity, diabetes mellitus, mortality from traumatic brain injury, use of alcohol and prescription drugs, driving fatalities, and opioid overdose deaths,” according to Clark “These data suggest that cannabis use may decrease premature deaths. To date, no studies have attempted to estimate impacts of Cannabis use on premature death that include both adverse and beneficial effects on physical health.”

Clark’s analysis of the data “strongly suggest that cannabis prohibition is a significant failure of public health policy, causing more harm than benefit.”

The biology professor said that cannabis prohibition:

  • Increases the mortality rate
  • Contributes to the largest per capita prison population in the world
  • Interferes with pursuit of promising medical research
  • Results in the loss of billions in potential tax revenues
  • Empowers violent drug cartels thus destabilizing governments of neighboring countries
  • Causes extensive economic and electoral disenfranchisement of the most vulnerable U.S. communities.

According to the study, America’s refusal to legalize medical marijuana on a national level  is responsible for an estimated minimum of 6,100 to 9,000 deaths annually due to lack of access to the herb, in addition to the increased deaths from cancer, diabetes mellitus, and traumatic brain injury arising from a decrease in the numbers of people using marijuana. His study also found that prohibition is estimated to lead to similar numbers of premature deaths as drunk driving, homicide, or fatal opioid overdose.

Clark hopes his study changes how scientists in the future analyze cannabis. “It is time to change the discussion, from determining how much harm is caused by cannabis use, to determining how many deaths are prevented by cannabis use,” he said. ” This does not, of course, mean that cannabis has no harmful effects, just that beneficial effects may outweigh harmful effects on physical health.”

The full paper can be downloaded here.

Gossip: Prince William’s Kensington MP Wants To Defund Cambridges; Did Kris Jenner Force Kylie To Get Pregnant?

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Gossip: Prince William’s Kensington MP Wants To Defund Cambridges; Did Kris Jenner Force Kylie To Get Pregnant?

Prince William and Kate Middleton, known as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, are “ridiculous” and should lose their public funding, the lawmaker who represents the royal couple’s West London district has said. Emma Dent Coad, elected this spring to represent Kensington as a left-wing Labour Party member of parliament (MP), laid into her two famous constituents and the “whole system” of the British royal family at a party conference event, Sky News reported.

“Their MP thinks the system is ridiculous,” she told an audience at the event on the fringes of her party’s most important annual meeting. “We should not be funding them.”

Dent Coad also said that it was “disgusting” that the Duchess had bought jumpers for the sum of £150 ($201) each. “That’s a food bill for a family of four,” she said. “That’s absolutely outrageous.” Dent Coad also criticized Britain’s national broadcaster, the BBC, calling it: “A piece of the whole propaganda machine.” She lashed out at its “sickeningly gratuitous coverage of anything royal” and accused it of being “very heavily directed by right-wing politics and the monarchy.”

The royal couple are based in Kensington Palace, which falls within the Kensington parliamentary constituency. Unlike the queen, the pair do not actually receive a direct “sovereign grant” from the government. Instead, they receive income from the Duchy of Cornwall, which is a private royal estate established by Edward III in 1337. But some sovereign grant funding is used to pay for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s official travel, and to maintain Kensington Palace.

An area with much extreme wealth, Kensington also has pockets of deprivation. Grenfell Tower, an apartment block that left dozens of poor residents dead and hundreds more homeless when it burned down in a huge blaze this summer, is also in Dent Coad’s constituency. Dent Coad’s victory in the area was a surprise, as the constituency is normally represented by the right-wing Conservative Party.
[From Newsweek]

Did Kris Jenner Force Kylie To Get Pregnant?

As usual rumors about the Kardashian-Jenner family are flying, and this time they’re saying that momager Kris Jenner may have orchestrated Kylie Jenner’s pregnancy.

Given the that ratings on her daughter’s TV spin-off tanked despite hyping what turned out to be a fake marriage ceremony, some believe the 20-year-old’s latest pregnancy news is an attempt by the momager to get “Life of Kylie” another season.

“There is a very good chance it will continue because Kardashian pregnancies always do well,” a source told Radar Online of the maternity news.

According to Forbes, Life of Kylie’s premiere garnered about 1.1 million viewers — the smallest premiere audience for a Kardashian-based series since 2008 — which paled in comparison to the 2.1 million viewers who tuned into the premiere of Rob & Chyna.

As fans know, Kourtney and Kim Kardashian’s pregnancies were documented on Keeping Up with the Kardashians and the storylines tended to play very well with fans. The show recently celebrated it’s 10-year anniversary, and continues to be the highest rated series on the E! network.

“Many believe that Kylie’s motivation for getting pregnant with Travis Scott’s baby was to get back at Tyga, but that is not actually the whole truth,” another insider says. “Kylie was devastated by her spin-off’s ratings, and knew that she needed something big if she was going to get another season.”

While E! has yet to make an official on statement about whether or not Kylie’s show will be renewed, those close to the family claim it was a shock to the clan — especially to the Kylie Cosmetics founder — that Life of Kylie failed to reach expectations.

“She was really hoping that this was going to be her big break and that it would land her a huge future in reality TV,” an informant dishes. “She was hoping for spinoff’s as well!”

“After reading some of the reviews, Kylie just realized how far removed from reality she really is,” the source adds. “She didn’t know how detached she was until she saw how people reacted to her show. She is not a happy person to begin with and all this show did was solidify that to her fans.”

Though Kris says her youngest daughter is “not confirming anything” about the pregnancy at the moment, Caitlyn Jenner’s rep recently told The Sun the Olympian was informed about the baby “some time ago.” The family is said has to have not taken the news very well when Kylie told them she was pregnant.

“Her first reaction was, ‘Seriously?’” a source close to Kim, who is currently expecting her third child via surrogate with Kanye West, tells People. “She didn’t respond well at first. It’s like she and Kanye had gone on this whole journey to get pregnant for months, and now this happens to Kylie. She teared up. It definitely took a lot of time for her to process it.”

“It came out of nowhere,” the insider adds. “It was the last thing on their radar. Kylie is just 20 and hasn’t been with [boyfriend Travis] for very long. So no one saw this coming.”

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No Recreational Marijuana Sales This January For San Fran

Mary Schumacher
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No Recreational Marijuana Sales This January For San Fran

San Francisco is going to have to wait beyond the proposed January start date for recreational marijuana sales, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

The city is not issuing permits until new laws are in place to help regulate and make the new landscape more accessible to low-income people.

However, according to Supervisor Jeff Sheehy, city officials have yet to figure out any of the logistics and do not know how the laws will shake out.

“Out of a 70-page ordinance, less than a page talks about how to make [the cannabis industry] equitable,” said Sheehy, co-sponsor of the cannabis ordinance with Mayor Ed Lee. Sheehy also said the laws are still “far from perfect, and further from final.”

In July of this year, the Board of Supervisors asked both the city controller and the Office of Cannabis to have a report on equity ready and submitted by November 1st. And though all supervisors want to make the laws equitable for those who have been suppressed by the laws previously, it’s not going to be easy to make that date.

The first cannabis equity program was put in place in March by Oakland, which took over a year to put together and caused much infighting. The final version made it so that half of the permits issued went to low income individuals with either a past conviction or who live in a neighborhood that’s been riddled in the past by marijuana arrests. It was their way of quietly helping those of color who want to start their own business, as the California constitution bars discrimination by race.

San Francisco supervisors earlier this month put through a 45-day moratorium on new permits for dispensaries as it creates its own equity program.

All dispensaries will be required to continue carrying medical marijuana, even if they have a recreational license. That applies to new recreational dispensaries as well.

Aside from social equity issues, the city must come up with a new licensing system for medical marijuana dispensaries so that they are following the new laws and regulations. Growers that previously manufactured underground will also have to get licenses from the city.

On January 1st, medical marijuana dispensaries will be issued 120 day permits to remain open as they the program is continued to be built.

Trump Extends Marijuana Protections For A Few More Months

Terry Hacienda
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Trump Extends Marijuana Protections For A Few More Months

Here’s some good news coming out of the Trump administration this month: The Feds must keep their hands off state medical marijuana laws until Dec. 8. After that, it’s anybody’s guess as to what Attorney General Jeff Sessions will do.

When President Donald Trump and congressional Democratic leaders reached a temporary budget agreement to approve emergency hurricane relief, a little-noticed clause was included that will protect state from federal overreach. As Forbes reported:

The agreement included a Rohrabacher-Blumenauer clause (a.k.a. Rohrabacher-Farr), which will effectively serve to protect state medical marijuana programs from intrusion by federal authorities until Dec. 8, 2017.

The clause stipulates that the U.S. Department of Justice may not use any of its funds to prevent states, the District of Columbia, or Puerto Rico from “implementing a law that authorizes the use, distribution, possession, or cultivation of medical marijuana.” The language of the clause has appeared in proposed legislation since 2003, and finally became law in 2014 — joining the ‘Cole Memo’ as one of two landmark federal texts concerning cannabis.

 Sessions, in speeches and statements throughout the spring and summer, indicated that he was against such protections and it appeared the longtime drug warrior was hell bent on cracking down on the state cannabis regulations.

Here is a quick timeline of what has transpired this year:

  • In May, the controversial attorney general sent a letter to congressional leaders urging them to reject federal law established by the Obama administration that allowed states to enforce medical marijuana policies without interference from Washington D.C.
  • In July the Senate Appropriations Committee ignored Sessions and approved a version of the amendment.
  • In August, a U.S. District Court upheld the ruling.
  • Earlier this month, the GOP-led House Rules Committee rejected its version of the amendment.
  • Trump, working with Democratic lawmakers , agreed to include the clause, at least until December.

Despite the extension, states are still reluctant to move to far with their marijuana regulations. The amendment remains in limbo and there is a feeling among many political insiders that Sessions will be gone long before December.

1 Out Of 4 Cancer Patients Are Turning To Cannabis

Terry Hacienda
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1 Out Of 4 Cancer Patients Are Turning To Cannabis

If marijuana is legalized, cancer patients will choose it as their preferred medicine, according to a new survey from one of the nation’s leading cancer research facilities.

A team of researchers from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, based in Seattle, Wash., surveyed 926 cancer patients and found that roughly 25 percent of them used cannabis as a medicinal therapy in the past year. The results were published on Monday in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society.

The groundbreaking study concluded:

This study of cancer patients in a state with legalized cannabis found high rates of active use across broad subgroups, and legalization was reported to be important in patients’ decision to use. Cancer patients desire but are not receiving information about cannabis use during their treatment from oncology providers.

Most cancer patients report that cannabis helps them with pain, nausea, stress, depression, insomnia and other conditions. But patients are frustrated by the lack of information they receive from the American health care system. Doctors, nurses and other health professionals lack training and education in cannabis science.

“More than half of active users reported that legalization significantly increased their likelihood of using, and cannabis use was spread across demographic subsets, including age, sex, and cancer diagnosis subsets,” the study finds.

According to the research:

  • The median age of those surveyed was 58.
  • 74 percent of the patients wanted information from cancer providers and had a strong interest in learning about cannabis during treatment.
  • 24 percent used cannabis as a medical therapy in the past year.
  • 21 percent self-treated with cannabis in the past month.
  • 70 percent inhaled (smoked or vaped) their medicine.
  • 70 percent consumed edibles.
  • 40 percent did both.
  • 75 percent reported their primary use was for physical pain.
  • 64 percent used it for neuropsychiatric symptoms.

“We hope that this study helps to open up the door for more studies aimed at evaluating the risks and benefits of marijuana in this population,” said study author Dr. Steven Pergam. “This is important, because if we do not educate our patients about marijuana, they will continue to get their information elsewhere.”

The American Cancer Society concedes that more research is needed on marijuana as a treatment for cancer symptoms. The organization has said that properties in marijuana have the potential to combat cancer cells.

Medical marijuana is legal in 29 states; adult recreational use is legal in eight states. Washington, where the study was conducted, allows both.

Will Medical Marijuana Ease The Pain From My Migraines?

Richard Faulk
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Will Medical Marijuana Ease The Pain From My Migraines?

Meh, couldn’t hurt. At least, not any more than your head already does.

A comprehensive overview of medical marijuana studies released by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) found just one study on migraines. The report was released back in 1999, but not much has changed: A similar review conducted by The Journal of the American Medical Association in 2015 makes no mention of headaches at all.

This is odd. In traditional medicine, all the way from ancient India to the Islamic world and pre-modern Europe, cannabis was used to cure a headache. In fact, during the Victorian era, cannabis was the favored treatment for migraines.

Ironically, the only reliable modern study on the subject shows that abruptly halting marijuana intake can cause migraines. Even the IOM finds this a strange situation. Citing the weight of anecdotal evidence—as well as neurological research that shows an abundance of cannabinoid receptors in the very region of the brain that is believed to produce migraines—the government agency calls for more research.

Our verdict on the cannabis headache cure: Meh, couldn’t hurt. At least, not any more than your head already does.

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