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Eclipse Has South Carolina Worried About Supernatural ‘Lizard Man’

Brendan Bures
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Eclipse Has South Carolina Worried About Supernatural ‘Lizard Man’

This month American residents will gather from all over the country to bear witness to The Great American Eclipse. It’s the first eclipse to be visible in the continental United States since February 26, 1979 so people have prepared dutifully in anticipation. But they perhaps forgot to prepare for something else important: supernatural activity.

That is everywhere except South Carolina. There some individuals will worry more about witnessing the rare “Lizard Man” than the eclipse.

Yes, Lizard Man. This is not a drill.

In fact, the South Carolina Emergency Management Division posted the following tweet regarding “possible paranormal activity” during the eclipse. The graphic shows the possible Lizard Man sightings over the years and warns residents to stay away.

“SCEMD does not know if Lizardmen become more active during a solar eclipse,” reads the text accompanying the graphic.

The Lizard Man was last seen two years ago, when a woman leaving a Bishopville church witness something out of the ordinary. Scrambling closer she was able to document the Lizard Man in full view and the results look…well, they resemble found footage you’d watch on SyFy.

However, the original Lizard Man sighting was back in 1988. Christopher Davis, then 17 years of age, pulled over near the Scape Ore Swamp to change his tire. It was 2 a.m. in the morning and Davis was about to place the jack in his trunk when he heard a noise.

“I looked back and saw something running across the field towards me. It was about 25 yards away and I saw red eyes glowing,” he said. “I ran into the car and as I locked it, the thing grabbed the door handle. I could see him from the neck down; it had three big fingers, long black nails and green rough skin.”

So if you’re in South Carolina don’t just look up in the sky. Don’t forget to check around you, because the Lizard Man might be around. And that’s something you truly wouldn’t want to miss.

Wyoming To Eclipse Tourists: Don’t Bring Your Marijuana

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Wyoming To Eclipse Tourists: Don’t Bring Your Marijuana

Visitors from across the globe expected to travel to Wyoming for the Great American Solar Eclipse on August 21 are being advised by law enforcement officials that the state’s marijuana laws will be strictly enforced.

“Traffic laws will be strictly enforced and driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs will not be tolerated on Wyoming’s roadways,” Byron Oedekoven, executive director of the Wyoming Association of Sheriffs and Chiefs of Police (WASCOP). He added that, while other nearby states including Colorado have legalized marijuana, the drug is illegal in Wyoming.

“Medical marijuana is not legal in Wyoming, and even if you have a card from another state it is still illegal to possess marijuana in Wyoming,” he explained. “If you are caught with any controlled substance you will be charged with a misdemeanor or felony drug offense depending upon how much of that substance you have in your possession.”

It is estimated that 250,000 visitors will travel to Wyoming to experience the eclipse, according to Oedekoven. Under the leadership of Governor Matt Mead, federal, state, and local agencies are working together to safely accommodate visitors to the state.

From Jackson to Torrington, more than a dozen cities in Wyoming are in the “path of totality,” the narrow path across the earth’s surface where viewers will experience the total eclipse of the sun when the moon passes in front of its surface. Because of the state’s wide-open spaces, clear skies, and spectacular scenery, it is one of the top destinations in the world for people seeking the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to experience the eclipse.

Through its Traffic Safety Project (TSP) WASCOP is working with the Wyoming Office of Highway Safety and the Governor’s Commission on Impaired Driving to identify strategies to address traffic and other safety issues.

“We hope people will come to Wyoming to experience the incredible beauty and quality of life in our state,” said Oedekoven. “On behalf of the women and men of WASCOP dedicated to serving and protecting residents and visitors in our state, we promise to do everything possible to ensure you will have a safe and enjoyable visit.”

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What Trump’s Opioid Emergency Declaration Means For Marijuana

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What Trump’s Opioid Emergency Declaration Means For Marijuana

President Trump says he is preparing to declare a national emergency on the opioid crisis. This announcement comes just two days after he said that he favored “strong law enforcement” and a “Just Say No” type approach to prevention and education. He said on Tuesday, “talking to youth and telling them ‘no good, really bad for you’ … if they don’t start, it will never be a problem.”

These comments stand in stark contrast to the interim recommendations that President Trump’s own bipartisan opioid commission released last month that would prioritize a health-based response to the crisis and greater access to medication-assisted treatment and naloxone.

“An emergency declaration can be used for good but President Trump has given every indication so far he and his administration want to escalate the failed war on drugs,” said Grant Smith, deputy director of national affairs for the Drug Policy Alliance. “Trump’s emergency declaration is likely going to amount to very little in the way of greater access to treatment and other help from the federal government. What it could mean though is Trump and his attorney general Jeff Sessions using the emergency declaration to step up the kind of ‘strong law enforcement’ response to the opioid crisis that Sessions has been pursuing all along,” said Smith.

The opioid commission’s recommendations contrast sharply from the Trump administration’s overall response to the opioid crisis to date. For instance, President Trump made repeal of the Affordable Care Act a top priority, which would threaten healthcare and access to treatment and mental health services for millions of people living with substance use disorder.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has repeatedly dismissed the value of treatment and pursued a hardline agenda that has escalated the war on drugs. Sessions declared that the opioid crisis is a “winnable war” and urged law enforcement to pursue prosecutions for illegal possession of prescriptions just two days after the opioid commission released its interim report that called for a health-based response.

“President Trump’s bipartisan opioid commission makes clear that this crisis demands a health-based response,” said Smith. “People who are looking for this administration to use a national emergency to ramp up access to treatment and step up a health-based response to the opioid crisis are going to need to be vigilant that this indeed happens, and that the emergency declaration doesn’t give the Trump Administration more license to escalate the drug war,” said Smith.

Advocates say that the opioid commission’s recommendations reflect a dire need to treat the opioid overdose crisis as a health issue and not a criminal issue. The Trump Administration and Congress should prioritize scaling up access to the overdose-reversal drug naloxone and medication-assisted treatment, like methadone and buprenorphine, and resist efforts to expand the use of mandatory minimum sentences and criminalization.

This Video Of A Woman Peeling A Peach Is Freaking Out The Internet

Amy Hansen
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This Video Of A Woman Peeling A Peach Is Freaking Out The Internet

Peach season is here, and if you didn’t know that already, you sure will have that fact engrained into your head after watching this slightly NSFW video of a girl simply peeling the fruit.

It started with this Tweet, which went viral:

https://twitter.com/HOOOOJICHA/status/887623963286700032

And then a gif:

https://giphy.com/gifs/satisfying-peeling-peachy-l9Nk9PU1CiTks

So, how’d sh get the skin off so quick? In a move that would make Tinder proud, he likely boiled a ripe peach for 30 seconds and then plunged it into ice water. At least that’s what the pros say.

Even though the skin of a peach contains the most nutrients, you can bet it will be a second before anyone eats a peach any other way than peeled.

Now, go buy yourself some peaches.

Ex-NFL Player: Marijuana Is A ‘Godsend’ And Isn’t Addicting

Brendan Bures
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Ex-NFL Player: Marijuana Is A ‘Godsend’ And Isn’t Addicting

Ryan O’Callaghan is one of many ex-NFL players who experienced multiple serious injuries throughout the course of their career. Now he claims marijuana is a “godsend,” in dealing with the lingering pain, but at the time O’Callaghan was handed painkillers to manage his pain. The only problem: His injuries weren’t the only pain O’Callaghan was struggling with.

He revealed to OutSports in June that he used football to hide something he was personally ashamed of: O’Callaghan is gay. As a tough offensive lineman playing in the NFL, he figured no one would question him. But that emotional pain of harboring his identity made O’Callaghan make plans to commit suicide following his playing career because “he had decided many years ago that he would never—could never—live life as an openly gay man,” as OutSports wrote.

“I was abusing painkillers, no question,” O’Callaghan told OutSports. “It helped with the pain of the injuries, and with the pain of being gay. I just didn’t worry about being gay when I took the Vicodin. I just didn’t worry.”

The Kansas City Chiefs organization convinced O’Callaghan not to commit suicide. His NFL career eventually ended in 2010, but O’Callaghan says he uses marijuana to manage the physical injuries he acquired playing football. He also says the NFL should change their policy regarding allowing players to use marijuana.

“For people like me, marijuana is a godsend because you don’t want to take these pills,” O’Callaghan told USAToday. “Marijuana is not addicting. People who say that have never smoked it. I have an addictive personality. It’s not addictive.”

For decades access to marijuana for NFL players has been extremely off-limits, resulting in player fines and suspensions. But the league might be softening its stance. The NFL and Players’ Union are looking to research how cannabis can treat athlete’s pain. In addition, the league’s chief medical officer came out in support, saying it’s “really important” the league study cannabis.

“They know it’s harmless, and it’s not performance enhancing. I’ve known guys who’ve played stoned. Absolutely,” O’Callaghan said, regarding the NFL’s stance on cannabis. “The NFL can be stressful and there’s not a lot you can do. Smoking a joint’s pretty harmless. It really is. Don’t tell the Attorney General that, but it’s very harmless.’’

Cannabis Cosmic Toast Is Your New Breakfast Obsession

Jessie Moore
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Cannabis Cosmic Toast Is Your New Breakfast Obsession

It’s official: your boring, beige toast kind of sucks. However, I have an easy solution to increase its awesomeness: simply add rainbows…and cannabis. The world is your cosmic playground when you’ve got yourself a carb-o-licious slice of this magic Cannabis Cosmic Toast.

Easy to prepare, this recipe really only requires about a minute of your time and has an extremely basic ingredients list. Of course, if you’re not keen on cannabis at the moment, you can omit it; the results will still be unicorn-approved and Instagram-worthy.

Cosmic Cannabis Toast

(1 serving)

  • 1 tsp cannabutter (see note on dosage, below)
  • 1-2 Tbsp cream cheese, very soft
  • Food coloring in red, orange, yellow, blue, green, and violet
  • Optional but highly suggested: sprinkles or edible glitter

1. In a small bowl, combine the cannabutter and cream cheese. Stir together (I use a butter knife to kind of palette-knife mix) until combined and no streaks remain.

2. Spread the cream cheese mixture on the top portion of your slice of toast. Drop a tiny little drop of each color of food coloring on top. Try to make sure that the drops don’t touch, but no need to get militant about it.

3. With your knife, spread each color as you drag the cream cheese to cover the rest of the surface of the toast. Clean the knife between colors so that you can control how they mix and don’t end up with weird brown ugliness.

4. Once you’ve gotten an initial spread of each color, use the knife to refine or add texture to the cream cheese, if desired.

5. Garnish with sprinkles or edible glitter, take a photo for Instagram, then enjoy immediately.

Photos by Jessie Moore

Recipe notes:

● Be sure to use very soft cream cheese for this recipe, as it will spread and mix with the food coloring far easier (and not to mention less messily) than with hard or cold cream cheese. Low fat cream cheese such as Neufchatel or vegan cream cheese is also fine.

● Food coloring: You don’t have to use the colors I suggested; you can use any mix you’d like. Choose your own adventure!

● For extra shimmery toast, add a sprinkle of luster dust (available in cake decorating supply stores) on top of the cream cheese before spreading.

A note on dosage:

I “dosed” this recipe with 1 teaspoon of cannabutter per serving (3 teaspoons = 1 tablespoon). The strength of your finished product will depend on many factors, including the type of marijuana you used and how you made your cannabutter.

For more tips on proper dosage, visit my post on 5 Ways To Figure Out THC Dosage With Cannabutter.

Finally, A Film Festival Just For Cannabis Lovers

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Finally, A Film Festival Just For Cannabis Lovers

Cannabis-loving film buffs in Colorado rejoice: Infinite Wellness Center is bringing the CannaBus Culture Film Fest to Fort Collins Colorado with cannabis themed movies and stand-up comic Rob Cantrell on September 22, 2017 and September 23, 2017.

The festival’s co-sponsor, Infinite Wellness Center, is the largest Northern Colorado marijuana dispensary and September 2017 is their Anniversary. The Fort Collins tour stop promises to elevate its legal state audience to new levels by combining top billing features and short films with a cannabis stand-up comedy act.

The festival’s stand-up comic Rob Cantrell has spent over a decade headlining theaters and comedy clubs across the country and appearing on major TV networks like NBC, HBO, and Comedy Central. He is a frequent guest on the popular podcast “Doug Loves Movies”, where he has hung out with Edgar Wright, Mark Wahlberg, TJ Miller, and many others alongside Doug Benson. Rob will be performing his cannabis themed stand-up comedy act to CannaBus Culture Film Fest audiences on both nights of the festival.

True to the mission of its inaugural event last year in New York, this year’s festival aims to, “Celebrate entertaining and educational films about cannabis in hopes to further transform, stimulate change, and share the expanding horizons of cannabis culture in the U.S.”, according to their website. The festival showcases a variety of feature and short narrative films covering numerous genres in efforts to “give filmmakers mainstream audience exposure and provide a forum to share their work with distributors and the general public.”

The first screening kicks off at 8:30 pm Friday September 22, movies showcased will include feature film Baked in Brooklyn by Rory Rooney; short films Trippin’ With the Folks by Meghan Weinstein, and Zion Curtain by Wendell Nielson. Baked in Brooklyn features Josh Brener, Big Head from Silicon Valley, as a guy who decides to sell weed after losing his job, but things soon go out of hand as demand of business and paranoia start to take over. It also co-stars the beautiful Alexandra Daddario who went on to “Baywatch” right after making the film.

The second screening on Saturday September 23 begins at 8:30 pm, screening that night is feature film Dark Harvest by James Hutson; short films The Lotus Gun by Amanda Milius, and Recalculating by Diane Weis. Dark Harvest co-stars Cheech Marin in his first cannabis movie since his final Cheech and Chong film of the ’80s and it also co-stars A.C. Peterson know for his work on Shooter as well as other Hollywood feature films. The feature’s lawless marijuana landscape creates a web of sexual intrigue and violence in which the cop and grower are forced to settle their moral differences to stop a cunning psychopath.

You can purchase tickets for $15 each night, or pay $25 for a full Festival Pass that gets you into both screenings on September 22 and 23, 2017.

Tokyo Smoke Introduces Premium Line Of Medical Marijuana

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Tokyo Smoke Introduces Premium Line Of Medical Marijuana

Tokyo Smoke introduces four medical cannabis strains in collaboration with Aphria, one of Canada’s largest licensed producers of medical marijuana.

This is the first time a Canadian consumer brand will partner with a Licensed Producer to launch medical cannabis in Canada, an inaugural event for the lifestyle brand, as well as the Canadian marketplace.

Grown and distributed by Aphria under the ACMPR (Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes Regulations), the cannabis strains will be available to patients with a valid medical prescription from August 24, 2017.

The four strains will launch as a part of a kit ($250), featuring unique Tokyo Smoke packaging, five grams of each strain along with custom crafted black glass jars and special welcome accessories. They will be available to order through the Aphria website.

Photos courtesy of Tokyo Smoke

“This launch is the culmination of Tokyo Smoke’s vision of providing a beautiful cannabis experience in both design and product,” says Alan Gertner, co-founder and CEO of Tokyo Smoke. “When conceptualizing each strain, we wanted to pair consistent, high-quality cannabis with a focus on Tokyo Smoke branding, design and packaging. Contemporary customers deserve to have a cannabis experience that aligns with the rest of their lifestyle.”

Meet Nevada’s First Black Master Grower

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Meet Nevada’s First Black Master Grower

The industry’s first black master grower Aaron McCrary says he’s worked in every role in marijuana cultivation, from “the street corner now to the boardroom.”

The co-owner and operator of Zion Gardens cultivation facility in North Las Vegas, McCrary spoke with the Las Vegas Sun about his success and business model, and how he sees the industry growing.

“I think I was wasting my gift in Washington as a profiteer,” he said, of his previous role in business in his home state, “putting profit over product. Coming here to this emerging market gave me an opportunity to re-create myself and move from a commercial marketplace to actively take a role in the development of not only the way my social group and ethnic group is perceived in the market, but in general for the industry.”

As questions arise around how the industry will cope with rapid growth, McCrary outlined his perspective on hiring for his business: “I am pursuing talented employees who are traditionally excluded, regardless of what that exclusion is: woman, Hispanic, if you’re disabled in some way. It doesn’t matter who it is, I just want to provide opportunities to other people like myself, who otherwise wouldn’t have had it, regardless of race, gender, sexuality, whatever.”

Diversity in marijuana businesses applying for licenses and justice for punishments that unfairly target people of color for marijuana-based offenses are big topics that the industry will have to address as it grows.

This Woman Left The Police Department For the Marijuana Industry

Brendan Bures
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This Woman Left The Police Department For the Marijuana Industry

As much as contemporary perceptions shift around cannabis usage and legalization, old stigmas and opposition still linger. It isn’t always easy to inform co-workers or family members that you use cannabis. For other who want to enter the cannabis industry, that disconnect can grow even larger. It’s one thing to use marijuana, but another thing entirely to make it your livelihood and work full-time in the marijuana industry.

That was the dilemma facing Leone Posod. Growing up, she was taught the “Just Say No” campaign so prevalent through the 80s and early 90s. Throughout college she never tried cannabis as a result. It seemed taboo.

You might be surprised to learn Posod eventually entered the cannabis space with her childhood best friend Cindy Pinzon. Together they run Treat Yourself, the women-centered edible company that sells healthy, vegan treats. Based in California, it’s become an influential brand because of Treat Yourself’s thoughtful philosophy to producing approachable products aimed at women.

But that wasn’t always the case. For a long a time Posod didn’t try marijuana. She was shocked to learn Pinzon did upon a college visit as she revealed in a recent CNBC op-ed.

Posod wrote:

The first time I went to visit Cindy at UCLA, her roommate informed me that Cindy had a secret to confess: Cindy tried marijuana, and she enjoyed it. I was shocked—I could not believe that she would do that! I was also puzzled that she looked healthy and was maintaining good grades. I didn’t understand it, but I trusted that she knew how to take care of herself.

Posod would later take a job as a police dispatcher. Her duties included directing 911 calls and police radio, and her dedication would lead her into crime and intelligence analysis training. Posod intended only to work as a police dispatcher through college, but soon a decade would pass. It became her full-time job, and she eventually realized she was deeply unsatisfied.

So she thought of changing careers, starting over as a yoga instructor. To remove the temptation of stability her previous job offered, Posod would move to San Francisco. At the same time her friend Pinzon was earning her health coach certification. She had plans of starting a healthy marijuana edible line and planned a move to San Francisco as well. When the two shared their plans together, Pinzon asked if Posod would partner with her in entering the cannabis space.

Via Posod:

I agreed to Cindy’s proposal, but with reservations. If I tried cannabis, I would be abandoning any chance to return to my old job. And what would I say to my former co-workers, whom I told I was leaving to teach yoga? Many of them were vocal about their views against marijuana. I spent three more months researching and deliberating before trying any cannabis. I enjoyed it, and grew even more excited about starting our business. But now I had a secret that I needed to share with the rest of my friends, family, and former co-workers.

When Posod informed others of her change, she was met with some shock and disappointment. She worried she had “damaged some of my relationships beyond repair” while some of her former co-workers were nothing but supportive.

Now Treat Yourself, which intends “to inspire women to indulge in a little self-love, every day​,” is struggling to meet demand. Posod and Pinzon are successful in every sense of the word. As Posod wrote, “[W]e are confident in what we’ve created. And I won’t be looking back.

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