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Big Pharma Is Developing Cannabis-Based Painkillers

Maria Loreto
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Big Pharma Is Developing Cannabis-Based Painkillers

The success that medical cannabis has seen in the past five years has prompted researchers and scientists to dive deep into the plant’s medicinal properties and uses, one of the most important being the aid that cannabis can provide for victims of opioid addiction and chronic pain. 

The pharmaceutical industry has millions of dollars to lose from these new developments where people have begun to replace opioids with medical marijuana to treat the symptoms of a plethora of different diseases. 

Several publications claim that pharmaceutical industries are gearing up for these new developments, looking into other options where they can use cannabis as a way of replacing opioids and also avoiding the spread of the opioid crisis that’s taking place in America. It may take a while for this to happen though, especially considering the government’s history with the drug and the fact that marijuana is still considered a schedule I type of drug.

While marijuana can be a good way and a really great option of preventing an even larger spread of the opioid crisis and for providing relief for patients that suffer from different kinds of diseases, it may still not be enough for more serious types of issues that will surely need the strength of opioids to help patients cope with their more serious symptoms. 

Roast Chicken And Milk? A Look Back At 50 Years Of School Lunches

Jillian Peterson
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Roast Chicken And Milk? A Look Back At 50 Years Of School Lunches

Along with dress codes, standardized testing and technology, school lunches have also evolved over the years, and not always for the better. Back in the day, health was a real issue, and moms took classes that educated them on how to pack nutritious school lunches.

Kids were often fed hearty meals they wouldn’t otherwise have available at home. Today, kids often use their own money to buy pizza, burgers and ice cream; dessert is no longer an unexpected treat, it’s one of the main food groups. As kids across the country head back to school for the start of a new year, here’s a look back at school lunches in the U.S. from the 1930s to the 1980s.

Why Marijuana Is Dividing This Small Alaskan Tourist Town

Brendan Bures
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Why Marijuana Is Dividing This Small Alaskan Tourist Town

Even in states where cannabis is legalized for medicinal and recreational usage, marijuana can remain a divisive issue. Such is the case in the small quirky town of Talkeetna, Alaska. The town is a tourist attraction, as art galleries and souvenir shops and bread and breakfasts line the streets in historic log cabins.

Now included in that strip of log cabin businesses is a marijuana shop. It’s named The High Expedition Co., a nod to the longstanding climbing history of the town that supposedly inspired the 1990s television series Northern Exposure.

Joe McAneney co-owns The High Expedition Co. and the shop took about two years for him and his partner to open. Outside the shop doesn’t have any normal distinction of a marijuana shop. Its log cabin feel fits right in line with the main drag. The name itself, The High Expedition Co., serves as a tribute to the climbing tradition to the town as much as the high consuming marijuana gives. The only mention a cannabis shop resides inside? A small wooden “Cannabis Purveyors” sign that hangs outside.

“The sky hasn’t fallen on Talkeetna, the sun is shining, and this is now the most photographed shop in town,” McAneney told the Associated Press.

Via AP:

His store got its approval from the borough on a technicality when the assembly was writing regulations for marijuana businesses in unincorporated areas, like Talkeetna, and inadvertently omitted special land use districts – like the town’s Main Street. Talkeetna has no local governing body, only a nonvoting community council whose sole power is sending recommendations to borough officials roughly 75 miles (120 kilometers) away.

The biggest issue for critics of the small Alaskan town worry over tourists obeying cannabis laws. It’s illegal to smoke weed outside in Talkeetna, and like in other heavy tourist destinations, the question becomes where do visitors consume their weed?

However, Alaska state troopers have stated that they have issued no citations for public consumption of marijuana from April 1 to July 1, the same as it was last year.

To learn more about the divide in this Alaskan tourist town, watch the video above.

WATCH: 3 Grandpas Smoke Marijuana Together For The First Time

Maria Loreto
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WATCH: 3 Grandpas Smoke Marijuana Together For The First Time

Senior citizens tend to have very strong opinions about the world – about everything, really – and they tend to stick with those opinions through thick and thin, no matter what others tell them, and how much times have changed. The people from Cut Videos like to do social experiments on camera, and their best ones always include the unlikeliest groups of people getting together and smoking copious amounts of weed.

The protagonists of this video are three older men who’ve never ever smoked weed, and who’ve, for most of their lives, never felt curious about the herb. Not even during the 70’s.

The video starts off by introducing its leads, Robert, Melvin and Graham, who each explain their backstory and the reason why they’d never consumed marijuana before. The three of them express a certain fear towards the drug, which is definitely related to how marijuana was viewed a few years ago, and the stigma it used to carry. Melvin explains his catholic upbringing and the fact that drugs were almost never discussed in his house. He also compares marijuana to “needles” and other kinds of drugs that are definitely more serious, but that in his mind, are still grouped together. 

After their initial introductions, the video producers hand them a bong, a joint, and a pipe, which they all look at with trepidation, referring to it as “paraphernalia”. Robert and Melvin stick with the joint and at first don’t seem to feel much, but half an hour in you can tell they’re super high even if they don’t want to admit that they are. Graham was a trooper and decided to try the joint and then to take a hit off of the bong. We believe that he became to a stoner really really fast, proving that it’s never too late to try new things.

Gossip: George Clooney Discusses Twins’ Personalities; Quantasia Sharpton Claims Usher Sex Tape

Naughty Gossip
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Gossip: George Clooney Discusses Twins’ Personalities; Quantasia Sharpton Claims Usher Sex Tape

George and Amal Clooney looked completely stunning on the red carpet at Venice Film Festival and now, George has opened up about becoming a father to twins, and revealed what exactly inspired the names Alexander and Ella.

Speaking to Entertainment Tonight, Clooney explained, “We figured these kids are going to be looked at a lot and watched and [have their] every move sort of judged… So we looked for some sort of normal names. We didn’t have any great inspiration. It wasn’t Alexander the Great and Ella Fitzgerald.” Above all, though, Clooney revealed that it was important that the twins didn’t have “really dumb names.”

Clearly, Clooney is adjusting to fatherhood pretty well, and lovingly discussed what family life is like now that the babies have arrived. He told Entertainment Tonight, “They start out with a personality right off the bat. [Alexander] is a thug already… He’s a moose! Literally, he just sits and he eats.” But as for his daughter, Ella, Clooney revealed, “She’s very elegant, and all eyes. She looks like Amal, thank god.” The actor is obviously very smitten with his wife and children.

Quantasia Sharpton Claims Usher Sex Tape

Quantasia Sharpton says that not ONLY did she and Usher have sex after he was allegedly diagnosed with herpes — but she got their acts on tape.

She also claims there’s security footage of Usher at her hotel.

via TMZ:

Quantasia also said her rep, celeb attorney Lisa Bloom, is attempting to subpoena hotel surveillance video which she claims shows Usher going to her hotel room in 2014.

As we reported … an ex-hotel staffer claims she saw Usher walk into the Days Inn lobby in Atlantic City where she says Quantasia came down and took him up to her room a little after midnight. Usher’s denied this, saying he couldn’t have been there ’cause he was too busy falling in love with his now-wife … plus, Quantasia isn’t his type.

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Washington State Marijuana Has Seen A 70% Price Plunge

Mary Schumacher
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Washington State Marijuana Has Seen A 70% Price Plunge

The jury is still out on all the effects that legalization has had on the market, but one consequence is plain to see: the price of pot hasn’t been this low in years.

Steven Davenport of Pardee Rand Graduate School has tracked the retail prices in Washington since legalization opened for business in 2014. His findings show that the price of cannabis has dropped, every single quarter.

The current average price of a gram in Washington is $7.38, a 67 percent drop in just three years. Even with taxes tacked on, the prices are still lower than they were. And they’re likely to go down even more.

That’s not to say that pot’s no longer a profitable enterprise. In fact, these falling prices are great for the cannabis economy. Just as there are a variety of strains and forms of pot, people’s tastes vary wildly, and there will always be the consumer who loves the pricier, higher end weed and there will always be those who love a good deal on some good herb.

The steady decline in the price of marijuana has far reaching implications for how we handle drug policy all together. The reality unfolding in Washington – and the other legal states – show just how much prohibition raises the price of a drug. In one good example, it took heroin ten years to drop 16% in price, something that took legal marijuana only eight months to achieve.

Prohibition is a dated practice with much proof in its pudding that it accomplishes very little but to drive up drug prices and put otherwise innocent human beings in jail. High prices and the fear of incarceration keep many people out of the black market and sitting much more comfortably with their alcohol, cigarettes and doctor prescribed pills.

With cannabis, we can watch the stripping away of prohibition in real time. So far, even beyond monetarily, the results are good. It gives us an idea of what might happen if prohibition was lifted off all drugs. One thing’s for sure, people would be getting their fixes on the cheap.

Nitro Vs. Cold Brew Coffee: What’s The Difference?

Noah Sanders
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Nitro Vs. Cold Brew Coffee: What’s The Difference?

To say the very least, we are a culture inundated with cold coffee. The frigid, caffeinated beverage has gone from a low-cost, high-profit staple of specialty cafes, to a ubiquitous beverage served at the Peet’s and Starbucks of the world. It has become synonymous for the coffee-drinking public with the idea of a hot summer day.

Flavor is thought to improve with experimentation and profit is driven by innovation, so a simple jar of cold brew cooling in a fridge has evolved. Cold brew now flows from taps installed into bars, the syrupy beverage moving away from it’s casual, pitcher past into a new world of kegs. And now, well…now the the coffee-consuming public is privy to a selection of beverages that fall under the “cold brew” moniker, nitro cold brew the newest, and most popular addition to the stable. And though nitro cold brew (NCB) may flow from a different tap at your favorite coffee shop, and though nitro cold brew may pour like a hearty breakfast Guinness, make no mistake, this is cold brew — water and coffee — with one simple addition.

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Don’t let anybody fool you: the basics of cold brew aren’t rocket science. Prior to this wave of cold brew passion, cold coffee was called “iced coffee” and was concentrated hot coffee poured over ice, the melted cubes thinning the beverage to make it drinkable. Cold brew isn’t exactly a galactic step forward from that. Is is, quite simply, ground coffee mixed with water, left to sit for anywhere between 12 and 24 hours, strained through a cloth filter, chilled, poured, presumably over ice and served.

Yes, there are a variety of blends and recipes many coffee companies have perfected in order to create the exact flavor profiles they’re looking for. And yes, some companies are pioneering new and exciting ways to create cold brew to maintain the subtlety and nuance it’s known to lose during the cold brew process (Four Barrel, we salute you). At the end of the day though, cold brew is cold-steeped coffee, filtered, chilled and dumped over ice.

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NCB isn’t any different than cold brew in terms of preparation. You’re still making your basic cold coffee — with the mixing and the filtering and so on — but post cold brew readiness, your nitro cold brew purveyor is infusing the now chilly coffee with nitrogen and pumping it into a keg.

When NCB is served, the thicker, maltier coffee liquid is released through a tiny-holed valve and then shot past a “disc” of sorts that forms the Guinness-like head and preceding waterfall effect. Nitro cold brew, in general, is served without ice to let those about to consume it ogle the foam’s descent to the bottom of the glass.

The only real difference between cold brew and nitro cold brew (outside of the presence of nitrogen) is flavor.

Cold brew has an occasionally acrid, near-bitter taste — a flavor most cold brewed coffee, regardless of recipe or producer, could be described as tasting. Nitro cold brew, on the other hand, because of the nitrogen, has a smooth mouth feel (again, similar to a Guinness or Boddington — both nitro poured beers) and a richer, nuttier flavor. Like cold brew though, nitro cold brew loses some of its subtlety, on most occasions, taking on a flavor that could be described as “the taste of nitro cold brew.”

When you’re vacillating between cold brew and nitro cold brew at the register, know that whatever you decide, you’re getting two beverages that are extremely close to one another: cold-steeped caffeinated coffee served in a glass. Hell, you’re getting the same beverage with the exception that one is produced with an element from the periodic table and one’s not. Leaving you, the cold coffee fan, with only the power of your own preference to guide you.

Here Is Clinical Evidence That Marijuana Fights Epilepsy

Richard Faulk
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Here Is Clinical Evidence That Marijuana Fights Epilepsy

In the ancient world, epilepsy was considered a spiritual condition. Epileptics, so it was thought, had been favored by the gods with a hard-to-define genius.

Anyone who actually experienced the anxious uncertainty of awaiting the next onset of tremors—Will I break 20 today? 50? 100?—or endured the frothing, convulsive terror of a grand mal seizure, however, may be excused for entertaining sacrilegious ideas about what the gods could do with their shitty “favor.”

Today we know that epileptic seizures are caused by disruptions in the brain’s electrical impulses. Now, since the body’s cannabis receptors are densely clustered in parts of the brain that control coordination, it stands to reason that marijuana might help ease epileptic seizures.

Clinical evidence—as with much of the available medical cannabis research, you should assume the caveat what little there is—shows that THC does indeed reduce convulsions. Unfortunately, it can also provoke them. But there is still a promising avenue of cannabis research. Cannabidiol, or CBD, is the less known and even less understood cousin of THC. It’s less fun too, since CBD doesn’t produce the high that THC does. What it can produce, however, is a considerable lessening in epileptic seizures, with almost no side effect

In a 2015 study, the drug Epidiolex, which is 99 percent CBD, decreased seizures by at least 50 percent in slightly more than half the subjects of the 12-week trial. Side effects were quite mild: fatigue in less than a quarter of participants and weight gain in an even smaller proportion.

There is no research on the longterm effects CBD—particularly on kids, who are susceptible to some of the most debilitating and hard to treat forms of epilepsy. But, to be fair, the same caution applies to our current battery of epilepsy medications.

Because of these favorable results, the Epilepsy Foundation considers cannabis a “not unreasonable” option for epilepsy patients who have not found success with standard treatments.

What Are Marijuana Tampons And What Do They Do?

Al Olson
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What Are Marijuana Tampons And What Do They Do?

When it comes to treating those painful monthly menstrual cramps, it may be time to put that Motrin, Midol or Vicodin back in your medicine cabinet and give marijuana a try. More specifically, marijuana tampons.

Foria Relief, currently available only in California and Colorado, has introduced a medicated tampon that the company promises will “maximize the muscle relaxing and pain relieving properties of cannabis without inducing a psychotropic high.”

The vaginal suppository come in a package of four at a retail price of $44. It’s not an absorbant product, so you’ll want to keep your regular tampons around. But each suppository contains 60mg of THC and 10mg of CBD.

Photo courtesy of ForiaPleasureThe Ingredients Label Is Short:

  • Organic Fair Trade Cocoa Butter
  • Distilled THC Oil
  • CBD Isolate (99.99%) from Organically Grown Hemp

The product will give your vagina a slightly intoxicated sensation, but the effect won’t travel to your brain. (And it won’t exactly make your vagina high.) According to one happy customer, the product “smells like cookie dough and cocoa butter.”

On the website Racked.com, Sophie Saint-Thomas tested the suppositories and reported her results:

It was like if Ativan made a baby with Tylenol, except I hadn’t thrust any nasty pharmaceuticals into my vag; just cannabis and cocoa butter.

And here’s the science:

THC positively affects the nerves and assists in blocking out pain while also allowing for more pleasant signals to be received by the brain. CBD works in the immune system by suppressing the mechanisms responsible for inflammation. CBD also slows down electrical signaling to muscles and allows them to relax, thereby reducing cramping.

Is it FDA approved? Nope. Since cannabis is considered a Schedule 1 drug by our federal government, the FDA cannot and will not sanction the medical efficacy of the product. Yet.

Watch A Texas Man Catch Fish Barehanded In Living Room

Brendan Bures
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Watch A Texas Man Catch Fish Barehanded In Living Room

Hurricane Harvey ravaged the city of Houston with floodwater and rain. It wasn’t just Houstonians who were feeling the storm’s effects either. “Our whole city is underwater right now,” Port Arthur Mayor Derrick Freeman wrote on Facebook.

Heartwarming videos continue to pop up across social media of humans risking their lives to help other strangers. One group of individuals formed a human chain to rescue one man washing away in floodwater. In the middle of a live shot, CNN correspondent Drew Griffin noticed a man accidentally drive into a ravine that appeared to be a road. His crew luckily found some rope to pull the man in and save his life.

So while Hurricane Harvey isn’t nothing to joke about, it’s still encouraging that some affected by the storm have found ways to laugh in the face of such tragedy.

That’s what Saul Saldana and his daughter Viviana did as floodwater filled their house. But then they noticed something sinister swimming around. Something that needed to be caught. So Saul went to work while his daughter recorded him catching a fish swimming in his living room.

Vivian later wrote that they had opened the door to let some of the knee-high floodwater out. In the process they unwittingly allowed the creature to swim in. Thankfully, as you see in the video, Saul is a keen fisherman and was able to capture the critter with his bare hands.

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