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This Guy Used Mayo In His Coffee And Twitter Was Not Having It

Amy Hansen
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This Guy Used Mayo In His Coffee And Twitter Was Not Having It

If you found yourself with a hot cup of coffee and no creamer, would you A) drink it black B) not drink it at all or C) add an egg-based condiment. If you chose C, you and Philly sports reporter Jim Salisbury should go have a coffee klatch sometime.

Responding to a Tweet in which someone asked if they could swap cottage cheese for milk in a batch of mac and cheese, Jim chimed in with his own dairy hack:

And then everyone collectively threw up a little.

https://twitter.com/DKuzLA/status/897921004436996096

https://twitter.com/rocketdogjess/status/897921180841193472

https://twitter.com/christopher8289/status/897935973203431424

Adding weird forms of oil to coffee is nothing new, although it’s not everyone’s cup of tea. Adding coconut oil, ghee or butter to your coffee is said to increase energy and brain function. But mayo? This guy speaks for us all:

https://twitter.com/LoWuaSacar/status/897920777286234112

 

Snowboarder, Gold Medalist Ross Rebagliati Proudly Carries ‘Cannabis Torch’

Brendan Bures
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Snowboarder, Gold Medalist Ross Rebagliati Proudly Carries ‘Cannabis Torch’

Ross Rebagliati won the first Olympic Gold Medal for Men’s Snowboarding in the 1998 Games hosted in Nagano, Japan. He also is one of the first Olympians to open up about his marijuana usage, after he tested posted in those 1998 Olympics.

At the time, Rebagliati was briefly stripped of his gold medal before the International Olympic Committee ruled that marijuana was not a performance-enhancing drug. Rebagliati also received a US Travel ban from the positive test and has since become a major player within cannabis advocacy and the cannabis industry writ large.

Still, his legacy remains the Olympian who first carried the Cannabis Torch. And as he told Civilized recently, he couldn’t be happier about his reputation.

I’m proud to be the guy to take the hit for that. I feel that I represent tens of thousands of Canadians and citizens of the world that have unjustly paid different dues because of their cannabis use or their association with it. And I’m honored. Honestly, I love cannabis and I love the cannabis industry so much that I couldn’t be more honored not to be allowed into the States. To be that guy is a huge privilege. I thank my lucky stars every day that I tested positive for weed at the Olympics. I can’t imagine a better legacy for me as an Olympian than to carry the cannabis torch – to bear the cannabis flag.

But that appreciation only came with time. Initially Rebagliati was terrified, spending some time in a Japanese jail, and receiving the travel ban in the U.S. following 9/11.

Rebagliati says that ban has only helped promote his company Ross’ Gold—a cannabis “super brand” that sells products and accessories—which has earned a sort of “street cred,” the former Olympian told Civilized. Though he believes the federal marijuana ban won’t last much longer, especially after lawmakers and citizens note the tax revenue coming in from recreational legalized states.

Because, as he notes, in the age of the smartphone, it won’t be long before people start discovering the information for themselves.

“They really need to be pragmatic now because you can’t just lie to people anymore,” Rebagliati told Civilized. “We have the internet now. It’s the dawn of divine information. So if the government says something, people go out right away and fact check it. We have the power in our cellphones that the FBI used to have. People are not in the dark anymore”

Hooters Pivoting Brand Because Millennials Don’t Like Boobs

Brendan Bures
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Hooters Pivoting Brand Because Millennials Don’t Like Boobs

You must admit, millennials sure have put in work ruining things. They’ve ruined business lunches, crowdfunding, cruises, the 9-to-5 workday, the golf industry, and so much more when they aren’t eating all the avocado toast available in the world. Now millennials might be to blame for killing Hooters and other “breastaurants,” because who doesn’t love a good portmanteau. That’s because millennials are less interested in chests than their elders, according to data compiled by Pornhub.

“Pornhub visitors between the ages of 18 to 24 are 19% less likely to search for breasts when compared to all other age groups, but visitors aged 55 to 64 are 17% more likely to search,” concluded the study.

As Sarah Pedersen, professor of communications and media at Robert Gordon University, told Playboy: “We tend to have responses against what was previously in fashion. It tends to go in peaks and troughs. At the moment larger breasts are out though I’m sure they’ll come back. We tend to react to what went before.”

This trend is causing those “breastaraunts” (those are ironic scare quotes, I promise you) to rethink their strategy. Hooters specifically has seen a 7% drop in restaurant locations from 2012 to 2016. In addition, industry reports indicate that their sales have stagnated despite efforts to appeal millennials through new menu items.

They even pivoted from their typical approach of scantily-clad women and sports bar atmosphere and opened a new fast-casual concept called Hoots, where it’s about the wings, not the women. However, the verdict is out if the change has had any long-term effect.

“Could it be that millennials aren’t into breasts because, simply, they like big butts and cannot lie?” Pornhub VP Corey Price said in an interview with Mel Magazine. He also added, “It’s not our job to speculate, but rather provide compelling data for our fans to digest and draw their own inferences from.”

Maybe it’s the wings, maybe it’s—wait, why are we so worried about the future of Hooters, such a venerable American institution so worthy of defending again? Why knows. Either way, as always, blame millennials.

The Fresh Toast Marijuana Legislative Roundup: August 21

Alec Engber
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The Fresh Toast Marijuana Legislative Roundup: August 21

Last week in cannabis news, a Maine legislative panel announced that recreational marijuana sales will be delayed. In Nevada, distribution is still being debated. And, in Alaska, the governor released a letter written by Attorney General Jeff Sessions warning about marijuana regulations. Find out about this and more in our weekly marijuana legislative roundup.

Maine: 

On Tuesday, members of the special legislative committee tasked with implementing marijuana legalization announced that they would be unable to meet a February 2018 deadline for the start of recreational sales. After the committee wrapped up preliminary work on tax rates, licensing fees, and a number of other basic regulatory issues, regulators will now analyze months of committee votes to craft a draft bill before a series of public hearings in September.

A vote by the full legislature on the final bill is set for October. However, lawmakers say that the agencies involved in implementation will need additional time to write rules, hire staff, and issue licenses. The legislature already voted in January to delay implementation of the Marijuana Legalization Act until February 2018. It is unclear at this time when recreational sales will begin in Maine, which voted to legalize marijuana for adult use in November 2016. 

Nevada:  

On Thursday, a Carson City judge issued a ruling that will allow the Department of Taxation to issue cannabis distributor licenses to businesses other than liquor wholesalers. A unique provision of the legalization measure passed by Nevada voters grants alcohol wholesalers exclusive rights to distributor licenses unless they are incapable of keeping up with demand.

The Department of Taxation had made such a determination earlier this year, which was challenged in court by a group of liquor wholesalers. After initially siding with the wholesalers, the judge subsequently approved a set of emergency regulations allowing the state to consider other applicants. In his ruling Thursday, the judge ruled that the state has provided sufficient evidence that liquor wholesalers are incapable of meeting demand, and lifted the moratorium on issuing licenses to non-liquor wholesalers. The protracted judicial process has led to a bottleneck in the state’s recreational cannabis system, driving up prices for legal marijuana. A related case is now before the state Supreme Court, though it concerns administrative procedure and is therefore unlikely to have an impact on recreational sales.  

Alaska:  

Last week, the governor of Alaska released a letter from Attorney General Jeff Sessions expressing concern over the state’s ability to regulate its recreational marijuana industry effectively. The letter cited a 2015 Annual Drug Report by the Alaska State Troopers, which found that marijuana was widely available throughout the state and was seen by many as a “gateway drug” to more harmful substances. The letter follows the release of similar letters sent to the governors of Washington, Oregon, and Colorado. This has raised concerns by advocates of state legalization that the federal government is planning a crackdown on states that have legalized cannabis for adults.

Sessions has been a frequent critic of the Obama administration’s largely hand-off policy on state marijuana policy as outlined in the 2013 Cole Memorandum, which laid out a number of public health and safety guidelines for states implementing marijuana legalization. 

Texas Needs To Expand Conditions Under Limited Marijuana Program

Brendan Bures
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Texas Needs To Expand Conditions Under Limited Marijuana Program

The Texas Compassionate Use Act, which opened the door for medical marijuana in the state, will go into full effect Sept. 1. The bill allows for patients to be prescribed “low-THC” cannabis as medication. By Sept. 1, the Texas Department of Public Safety must license at least three business, known as “dispensing organization.” These licenses will authorize those businesses to cultivate, process and dispense low-THC cannabis to prescribed patients.

However, the only medical condition that allows doctors to prescribe this “low-THC” cannabis is intractable epilepsy. Marijuana advocates have openly questioned if the bill is too limiting in nature, and if it will change in the future.

One North Texas couple hopes that change comes sooner rather than later, as they recently told NBC DFW.

The Zartlers have an autistic daughter, Kara, who regularly has violent fits. As her father, Mark Zartler, said, “She closed-fisted punches her cheeks and her ears, drawing blood.”

His wife Christy added: “It’s painful. I feel like I’m in hell on Earth.”

Both parents said their daughter was on over a dozen of prescriptions, but nothing would cure her violent fits. That’s when a neighbor suggested trying cannabis. Though they initially contemplated the stigma revolving around cannabis, they followed their neighbor’s advice and the medicine did its job.

“This is safer than allowing her to hit herself, and she has a better day,” Mark said. “It always works.”

Now Kara has been taking cannabis treatments to calm her fits since 2013. The Zartlers have gone public with the treatments, posting online videos displaying the before and after effects of when their daughter receives the medicine.

But when the legislative session ended this year, their daughter remained excluded from participating in the Texas Compassionate Use Act. Treating their daughter with the medicine she needs wasn’t decriminalized. The bill remains entrenched in its limiting form, though that won’t stop the Zartlers from continue to advocate for change.

“[Kara’s] pharmacy medications are more harmful than marijuana,” Christy said, also noting her daughter only takes two prescriptions and two over-the-counter medications since using cannabis. “I want to help people. I want parents of children like her to know there’s a better life.”

Looks Like Jeff Sessions Might Leave Marijuana Alone

Mary Schumacher
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Looks Like Jeff Sessions Might Leave Marijuana Alone

Okay, we all know that Attorney General Jeff Sessions hates weed. Many also know that he assembled a hand-picked DOJ panel called the Task Force on Crime and Public Safety, whose main purpose was to find crime spikes and other negative aspects in states that have legalized marijuana.

The AP called the Task Force’s findings “tepid” at best, but it still seemed Sessions was out on an anti-pot mission. Now, it looks like he’s digested the findings and may even be heeding the Task Force’s advice, that it, “has come up with no new policy recommendations to advance the attorney general’s aggressively anti-marijuana views,” as quoted by the AP.

The 2013 Obama era “Cole Memo” is Sessions current guiding light, and that’s a good and not so good thing. The memo is vague, and though it does imply that the status quo, the laws that The People voted in, should be left as is, it also leaves more than enough wiggle room for prosecutions.

Sessions has called the memo “truly valuable.” Inside said memo, there are eight “enforcement priorities” that could potentially give the go ahead to hassle state-licensed cannabis operations, but they’re muddy at best. One even reads as vague as, preventing “adverse public health consequences associated with marijuana use,” which also smacks of reefer madness. Sorry, Cole.

Basically, Sessions really could do harm with the Cole memo as is. It ranges from lackadaisical policy to scary criminal forfeiture, which could really put manufacturers and purveyors out of business. Sessions seems content, however, with something of a compromise.

He’s had six months in office to start implementing any anti-cannabis protocols, and though the task force was a step in that direction, it pretty much fizzled out. Plus, Sessions has gone after the drug war and hard drug trafficking without implicitly including marijuana in the mix during his time in office.

Maybe Sessions realizes that a full-scale pot crackdown isn’t in his best interest. From not getting the support he needed from the task force to launch a marijuana massacre to not wanting to upset his already unpopular boss, he may just leave well enough alone. For now.

Gossip: Kris Jenner Wants Kylie To Get Married; Kourtney Kardashian Going To Law School?

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Gossip: Kris Jenner Wants Kylie To Get Married; Kourtney Kardashian Going To Law School?

When you’re a Kardashian, everything you do is captured on camera. From their most intimate moments (hello, sex tape) to their biggest milestones, nearly every moment of their lives has been filmed for television. So naturally, the Kardashians will always have a cameraman present at their family weddings.

Over the ten years Keeping Up with the Kardashians has been on the air, fans have seen not one, but two lavish weddings that ended in divorce: Khloé Kardashian’s 2009 wedding to Lamar Odom and Kim Kardashian’s multi-million dollar nuptials to Kris Humphries in 2011. Both had a film crew present and were broadcasted for viewers on TV specials.

Though you’d think this so-called Kardashian curse may deter momager Kris Jenner from having her kids’ future weddings filmed for TV, you’d be wrong.

In the family’s new tell-all interview with The Hollywood Reporter about their E! reality series, the Kardashian-Jenner matriarch revealed she had previously joked about wanting to see her youngest daughter, Kylie Jenner, get hitched on screen.

Now that the reality starlet is all grown up and dating Travis Scott, the little innocent remark seems like a huge possibility for a future story line. After all, Kylie is so popular these days that she’s even spawned her own Keeping Up with the Kardashians spin-off, Life of Kylie!

“When we first started, I jokingly said, ‘We’ll be on season 32, Kylie gets married.’ I was kidding, and here we are, and it’s season 14, so be careful what you wish for,” Kris teased.

Kourtney Kardashian Going To Law School?

While her youngest sister is set to become a billionaire by slinging lip gloss, Kourtney Kardashian has reportedly set her sights on law school.

via Radar Online:

“She probably doesn’t have to work for the rest of her life, but that’s not how she rolls,” an insider told Radar. “She’s always wanted to go back to school and nearly signed up for another college degree last year.”

Unfortunately for 38-year-old Kardashian, the timing was wrong for her to go after her new career dream.

“She really wishes she had, but things were falling apart with her and Scott so she put it off,” explained the insider of the implosion of Kardashian’s relationship with her baby daddy, Disick.

But now that they’ve both moved on, Kardashian is ready to honor her late dad, Robert Kardashian, who successfully helped defend O.J. Simpson on murder charges in 1995 and passed away almost eight years later from esophageal cancer.

“She’s very proud of her father’s achievements and she knows he always wanted her to be a lawyer,” said the source.

“She’s already looking into doing a course online so she can still be around the kids.”

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Hey, DOJ: Focus On Opioid Crisis, Not Cannabis Reform

Vince Sliwoski
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Hey, DOJ: Focus On Opioid Crisis, Not Cannabis Reform

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is worried about this country’s “historic drug epidemic and potentially long-term uptick in violent crime.” Because he is so worried, Sessions has spent the past month doing things like:

  1. Asking his old colleagues for funds to prosecute the War on Drugs, including medical marijuana.
  2. Writing letters to state Governors with “serious questions” about their local cannabis programs (which letters the states have politely observed are misleading and inaccurate).
  3. Disseminating bogus weed statistics far and wide. Every day that Sessions perseverates on cannabis enforcement, an average of 142 Americans die from opioid abuse, per the Centers for Disease Control. And since 1999, a total of 560,000 drug overdose deaths have occurred. That number is accelerating.

If Jeff Sessions were truly concerned about our nation’s historic drug epidemic, he would not be scheming to shutter state cannabis programs. Instead, he would be taking action against the bad actors who have fueled the opioid epidemic. Specifically, he would be filing public interest lawsuits, like last week’s bombshell filed by Multnomah County (the home of Portland, Oregon). As it stands, however, the federal government has done little to engage the opioid crisis apart from commissioning a report, and Sessions has done nothing. It tends to boggle the mind.

As with cannabis law and policy, the federal government has been terribly slow and backward in its consideration of the opioid crisis. This means that once again, states and local jurisdictions are being forced to take the lead. Lately, these localities have been doing so with gusto: a growing number are suing pharmaceutical companies and doctors for causing a public health hazard by pushing opioids on their citizens. Fundamentally, this is the same strategy that states first pursued in the 1990s with lawsuits against Big Tobacco. The local governments are essentially saying: you guys knew what you were doing all along with opioids; we are going to make you stop and make you pay.

In legal terms, the allegations in these cases include tort claims like public nuisance, fraud, conspiracy, negligence, gross negligence, etc. These lawsuits contain jarring and memorable lines, such as “the Purdue Frederick Company, Inc., is a convicted felon and admitted liar.” The filings also detail the methods used by the defendants to push their highly addictive products, and they contain demoralizing statistics, such as:

  • Opioids are now the most prescribed class of drugs, generating $11 billion in revenue for drug companies in 2014 alone;
  • Since 1999, the amount of prescription opioids has nearly quadrupled;
  • In 2010, some 254 million prescriptions for opioids were filled in the U.S. – enough to medicate every adult in America around the clock for a month;
  • In 2010, 20% of all doctors’ visits resulted in the prescription of an opioid;
  • While Americans represent only 4.6% of the world’s population, they consume 80% of the opioids supplied around the world and 99% of the global hydrocodone supply; and
  • By 2014, nearly two million Americans either abused or were dependent on opioids.

And Jeff Sessions is concerned about marijuana.

According to its website, the mission statement of the Department of Justice (DOJ) is to “…ensure public safety against threats foreign and domestic; to provide leadership in preventing and controlling crime; [and] to seek just punishment for those guilty of unlawful behavior…”. With respect to controlled substances in general and opioids in particular, DOJ should be doing all of these things. It is not. Instead, it is beating about the bushes with states on cannabis.

The opioid crisis kills 146 Americans every single day; conversely, even the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration acknowledges that no one has ever died of a cannabis overdose. If Jeff Sessions and DOJ continue to waste valuable federal resources investigating state-legal weed and not the opioid crisis, it will be an American travesty. In fact, it already is one.

Vince Sliwoski is an attorney at Harris Bricken, a law firm with lawyers in Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Barcelona, and Beijing. This story was originally published on the Canna Law Blog. 

Photograph The Eclipse With Your Smartphone: 5 Tips

Brendan Bures
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Photograph The Eclipse With Your Smartphone: 5 Tips

With the upcoming Solar Eclipse 2017 around the corner, people have made numerous plans to witness the once-in-a-lifetime event. At this point, you probably already know where and how you’re watching.

However, you may still need tips on capturing photography of the eclipse. Using any general smartphone like an iPhone likely won’t produce great images. But thanks to the folks over at NASA, there are a few modifications you could make to radically improve your eclipse photography.

Focus Your Image Properly

Most smartphones have an auto-focus feature that should properly expose the photo, but that won’t cut it for the eclipse. You will need to manually focus the shot, which can be done by a simple tap of the screen on the eclipse itself. If you want to practice, NASA suggests using the moon.

“Practice photographing the full moon to get an idea of how large the sun-in-eclipse will appear with your smartphone’s lens, or with a telephoto lens attachment.”

Buy A Lens

Believe it or not, your smartphones’ camera lens is highly adjustable with the right accessories. Numerous companies make lenses, and NASA recommends a “zoom lens attachment that will give you 12x to 18x.” If you don’t, and instead use the camera to digitally zoom, the eclipse will appear grainy and unclear. It’ll be an image you won’t want to post on Instagram or Facebook.

However, if you can’t afford the extra attachment, most smartphones have a wide-angle lens. So zoom out and don’t focus on getting a close up. That way “you will be able to see the bright corona surrounding a black spot in the sky,” NASA writes.

Which leads us to our next point.

Use The Landscape Around You

The eclipse is a rare once-in-a-lifetime event. It paints the sky fantastical colors rarely seen and causes people to travel from all over the world to be in its path. So instead of focusing the camera on the eclipse itself, aim your camera at the landscape and people around you. If utilizing only your basic smartphone setup, capturing how the eclipse affects the world you will be the best approach with the camera lens you have.

“Take a time-lapse photo series of the scenery as the light dims with the smartphone secured on a tripod or other mounting so that you can watch the eclipse while your camera photographs the scenery,” NASA suggests. “You might even want to shoot some video in the minutes before, during and after to record people’s reactions and the invariable oohs and aahs!”

Stabilize Your Phone

Sometimes the simplest efforts mark the biggest results in photography. In that vein, mounting your phone on a tripod or setting it along a flat surface will produce a far clearer image than if you’re holding the camera in-hand. “The vibration of your hands will be enough to smear the image and make it very difficult to focus on it,” NASA writes.

Put The Phone Down

This is a once-in-a-lifetime event and you should treat it as such! View the eclipse through the best lens you’ll ever have: your own eyes. Of course you should be wearing proper sun-viewing glasses so you don’t damage your retinas, but don’t forget to watch the eclipse yourself. Blink and you might miss it.

4 Stories You Need To Read About Medical Marijuana’s Effect On Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Maria Loreto
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4 Stories You Need To Read About Medical Marijuana’s Effect On Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is a devastating but elusive disease, characterized by severe fatigue, memory problems and headaches. Approximately 2.5 million people in America suffer from it, and no exact cause has ever been pinpointed. Recent research discovered that people with CFS have a significantly slower metabolism and that their bodies enter a state of almost hibernation. While these people are not actually hibernating, their metabolisms undergo similar processes that are seen in other animals that go through this seasonal event, leaving them in hazy state where they’re awake but not present.

The biggest problems patients face is the fact that CFS is misunderstood and that there are few treatments and options available. Sue Curry, a victim of CFS, claimed that her quality of life improved dramatically when she discovered cannabis. The plant is known for controlling muscle spasms and treating chronic pain and insomnia, which are all symptoms that CFS victims face. 

Other studies have concluded that even though there’s still a lot to learn about marijuana and its properties, there’s been some conclusive evidence that cement the plant as as a viable option for people who suffer from chronic pain and multiple sclerosis. A Canadian team conducted a clinical trial that showed that patients who took 3 puffs a day of marijuana coped better with their pain than the patients who belonged to the placebo group. All of the patients were still taking their prescribed medication, suggesting that the plant works best as an addition to an ongoing treatment.

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