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7 Stunning Marijuana Accessories You Might Not Know About

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7 Stunning Marijuana Accessories You Might Not Know About



You’ve rolled one up and burned it down… and now you feel like hitting the town. Do it in style and declare your love for cannabis with some (or all!) of these weed accessories. Who doesn’t love to shop—or at the very least, get a little “lifted” and try things on? Go on—you deserve to have your fun and wear it too.

Sweet Leaf Collection By Jacquie Aiche

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Starting at the high end: jewelry designer Jacquie Aiche’s sublime Sweet Leaf collection brings a sense of whimsy to the often-conservative world of expensive jewelry. Adorn yourself with a Sweet Leaf anklet, body chain or ear jacket. Slip on a blingy ring. You’ll want one of everything. jacquieaiche.com

PAX 2

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The PAX 2 is often the answer to the question “What’s in your pocket?” these days. Its sleek design and intelligent nature make this vape a go-to for flower-combusting connoisseurs. Lip- and motion-sensing technology release vapor at the touch, and four temperature settings heat your weed just right for the perfect draw. Step into high society. paxvapor.com

AnnaBís

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Annabís was designed for the discerning woman who pairs consuming cannabis with chic style. These beautifully designed bags are right at home around high society. Each one is outfitted with a secret compartment and tiny little aroma-locking innovations to safely carry your stash. annabisstyle.com

Trippy Travel Mug

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Before you head out the door for another jam-packed day, pour your beverage of choice into an inspired travel mug. Sip your coffee or yerba maté or ionized water on-the-go from a beautiful container… and remember, when someone cuts in front of you: there’s so much more to life. That’s why we smoke! redbubble.com

HoodLamb

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This Amsterdam-based clothing company  has always incorporated beautiful little touches for cannabis aficionados in its eco-conscious fashion, like a secret stash pocket in its luxurious furry hoody. Faux-fur pockets warm hands right back up after puffing on a cold day, and the all-encompassing hood keeps you snug as a bug in a rug. hoodlamb.com

Blazin’ Trails Backpack

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These street-stylish, sleekly designed backpacks feature a padded back, a velour laptop sleeve, a plush pocket for your shades, and a secret pocket—so you can flaunt your cannabis pride while keeping your stash safe. Check out the Blazin’ Trails and other upscale backpacks for the cannabis connoisseur. sprayground.com

Walnut Studio Doobie Tube

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When you whip out a perfect, unbent, freshly-rolled joint at a party, that’s great—and if you happen to pull it out of a hand-crafted leather carrying case, well, that shows you’ve got real style. Walnut Studio has risen to meet the demand of legal cannabis looking cool with its hand-stitched, hand-dyed, vegetable-tanned leather Doobie Tube. walnutstudiolo.com

Marijuana Microdosing: What Is It And How Do I Do It

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Marijuana Microdosing: What Is It And How Do I Do It

Is today’s weed stronger than what was available a generation ago? Yes. Are today’s cannabis-infused edibles more potent? Yes.

The Fresh Toast – It is all the buzz, especially among the canna curious. Marijuana microdosing: what is it and how to do it.

For many proponents of prohibition, the positive answers to these questions provide proof that marijuana is more dangerous than ever before. For those who actually consume cannabis, it means that you need less product to achieve the desired effect.

RELATED: Everything You Need To Know About Vaping Marijuana

Welcome to microdosing — a method, especially for edibles, for controlling the amount of THC consumed.

Here is what you need to know about microdosing:

The Basics

As the THC potency of cannabis strains increases, it would stand to reason that you need less of the herb to catch a buzz. In days gone by, an experienced toker would need a full joint to get high, if not more. Today, a few puffs off a joint should do the trick. And with improved delivery methods (vape pens, lozenges, etc.), joints may not be your go-to preference.

Edibles

In most states that have regulated marijuana manufacturing and sales, legal edibles have required dosage limits. Typically, a standard dose is 10 mg of THC, a fairly benign amount for regular consumers.

The beauty of microdosing edibles is that you know how much THC is in the product, allowing you to enjoy the chocolate or brownie in a more controlled way.

One popular form of small-dose edibles are breath mints. Mr. Moxley’s Mints, produced by botanicaSEATTLE, provides 5 mg of THC per mint, a microdose that allows for a mild, relaxed feeling.

How To Microdose Properly

The best advice for edibles is to start slow. It typically takes 45 minutes or so for most edibles to activate your system. So be patient and allow time for the edible to do work its way through your body.

If after 45 minutes, you feel the need for more, take another microdose. Listen to your body.

RELATED: 8 Ways to Enjoy Marijuana Without Smoking It

If you have never had a cannabis edible, or you have had negative experiences in the past, try microdosing.

And Don’t Worry

In the recorded history of man, there has been zero recorded fatal overdoses of marijuana. If you happen to take to strong of a dose, you may suffer from a racing heart or severe anxiety or hallucinations. But you will not die. Unless, of course, you do something stupid like get behind the wheel of a car or jump out a window.

Forget Kesha: Here Are 7 Other Ways Jerry Seinfeld Refuses To Play Nice

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Forget Kesha: Here Are 7 Other Ways Jerry Seinfeld Refuses To Play Nice

Most celebrities are willing to play the game. Out in public, on the red carpet, celebrities will act pleasant to one another. They will at the very least recognize a fellow celebrity when they see one. But Jerry Seinfeld is not most celebrities and the hug refusal heard ’round the world was epic. This week, while at David Lynch Foundation’s National Night of Laughter and Song at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Seinfeld was giving an interview when Kesha approached him and asked for a hug. It did not seems such an unreasonable request. Seinfeld denied her nonetheless. She asked again and still Seinfeld said no. Kesha didn’t give up until Seinfeld hit her with a third and final “no” to the hug request.

It was classic Seinfeld and quite hilarious.

Those surprised at Jerry Seinfeld’s actions either a) have never seen an episode of Seinfeld or b) never seen Seinfeld be himself on stage or in interviews. A rude man he is not, but he does not care for social rules that so many of us allow to define us. No matter the situation, Seinfeld will be Seinfeld.

Still don’t believe me? Here are the seven ways Seinfeld doesn’t care for your games.

He doesn’t care if you’re famous

Kesha learned this one the hard way. Fame will open many doors for you, but don’t expect Seinfeld to budge his open for you. When talking with David Letterman for a Paley Center for Media event, Seinfeld said, “I pretty much engage with funny people or weird people…Anybody who’s a little normal, even just like a normal actor or actress, I’m lost. I got nothing. I’m not curious, I’m not interested. You got a show? I don’t care.”

Those who call Seinfeld “the show about nothing”

Somewhere along the nine season run of the show, Seinfeld earned the moniker of being a show about nothing. The show is unconventional in that characters undergo few dramatic changes, but Jerry Seinfeld does not like you referring to the show in this way.

In a Reddit AMA, he revealed: The pitch for the show, the real pitch, when Larry and I went to NBC in 1988, was we want to show how a comedian gets his material. The show about nothing was just a joke in an episode many years later, and Larry and I to this day are surprised that it caught on as a way that people describe the show, because to us it’s the opposite of that.”

Hecklers

Comedians get heckled. The phenomenon is embedded within the culture of stand-up comedy. Each comedian has their own way of dealing with it. Seinfeld’s solution is a bit unique you might say.

Via the same Reddit AMA:

Very early on in my career, I hit upon this idea of being the Heckle Therapist. So that when people would say something nasty, I would immediately become very sympathetic to them and try to help them with their problem and try to work out what was upsetting them, and try to be very understanding with their anger. It opened up this whole fun avenue for me as a comedian, and no one had ever seen that before. Some of my comedian friends used to call me—what did they say?—that I would counsel the heckler instead of fighting them. Instead of fighting them, I would say “You seem so upset, and I know that’s not what you wanted to have happen tonight. Let’s talk about your problem” and the audience would find it funny and it would really discombobulate the heckler too, because I wouldn’t go against them, I would take their side.

Writer’s block

According to Seinfeld, “Writer’s block is a phony, made up, BS excuse for not doing your work.”

Modern-day Seinfeld accounts

Accounts like @Seinfeld2000 and @SeinfeldToday tantalize fans with re-imagining the classic show for the modern world. Only the man himself isn’t so big on them.

“As you can probably imagine, over the 9 years of doing the show, Larry David and I sat through hundreds of ideas that people wanted to do on the show,” Seinfeld wrote. “And most of the ideas are not good. Which I saw Larry say the other day on some show, somebody asked him the same question and he said ‘I know you think it’s funny, but it’s really hard.’ The ideas that Larry and I would respond to, I don’t even know, they just need to be very unique. It’s just a lot harder than it seems to come up with. And particularly for that show, where we tried to do things that were unusual, and you had to go through a lot of ideas to find the ones you like.”

Intentional mumbling

Seinfeld was co-created between Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David. The makeup of the show is inseparable between those two. If you’ve ever watched Curb Your Enthusiasm, David’s HBO show, you see that the tiniest social faux pas bother him.

It seems when he and Seinfeld get together, things are no different. When they first met in the 70s, they didn’t stop talking for hours. “We were both obsessed with the smallest possible issue,” Seinfeld said.

The smallest possible issue bothering them lately: intentional mumbling.

“We never obsess over anything that isn’t mundane,” Seinfeld revealed. “Most recent was intentional mumbling. We wrote this script for this thing that you will eventually see but I can’t reveal what it is at this time.

Hugging

Larry David had a strict “no hugging, no learning” policy for Seinfeld. The show wouldn’t veer into sentimentality or cause situations where the characters would grow into greater versions of themselves. This is sort of why people believe this is a show about nothing.

“A lot of people don’t understand that Seinfeld is a dark show,” David once said. “If you examine the premises, terrible things happen to people. They lose jobs; somebody breaks up with a stroke victim; somebody’s told they need a nose job. That’s my sensibility.”

If Kesha was a real fan, maybe she would’ve known about the “no hugging” rule.

Can You Guess Which Country Drinks The Most Whiskey?

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Can You Guess Which Country Drinks The Most Whiskey?

Cn yan you guess which country drinks the most whiskey? If you had to put money down for the bet, you might think the U.S. or the U.K.  They are two fairly populous countries with native whiskey-making traditions, were the biggest whiskey consumers worldwide. You’d be wrong.

It might come as a surprise that the country that drinks the most total whiskey, by a vast margin, is India. As of 2015, the south Asian nation consumes almost 1,600,000,000 liters of whiskey each year, or nearly half the world’s supply. Of course, as we’ve noted in the past, a lot of the “whiskey” made and sold in India is made with molasses, so it would be more accurate to describe it as rum.

Lots of whiskey

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On the other hand, since India is also the world’s second-most populous nation, with over a billion inhabitants, Indians are hardly the most prodigious whiskey drinkers on a per capita basis. That honor goes to the French, who drink more than two liters per person per year. Americans, in third place, drink about a liter and a half per year by that measure, and weirdly, Uruguay slides into second at around 1.8 liters.

In terms of share of the local spirits market, Angola is by far the whiskey-drinkingest nation—whiskey accounts for around 90% of all spirits sold there. In India and the United Arab Emirates, that figure is just over 50%.

What about specific types of whiskey? The French are the heaviest Scotch drinkers, buying around 180 million bottles of the stuff annually, or around three bottles a year for every Gallic man, woman, and child. The United States isn’t too far behind, at 120 million bottles a year. Americans do, however, drink the lion’s share of American-made whiskey, or roughly 230 million liters each year. However, in per capita terms, the Aussies just beat us out, drinking .661 liters of bourbon and other American whiskey for every .653 we drink.

This article originally appeared on The Whiskey Wash.

 

9 People Who Have The Right Idea About #NationalChocolateIceCreamDay

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9 People Who Have The Right Idea About #NationalChocolateIceCreamDay

Put on your party pants, it’s National Chocolate Ice Cream Day! Not to be confused with National Ice Cream Day (July 16), National Strawberry Ice Cream Day (Jan. 15) or National Vanilla Ice Cream Day (July 23), today is the day we wear our love for chocolate all over our faces and (probably) on our clothes. There’s something about chocolate in general that drives people bananas, and adding ice cream to the mix just adds to the insanity. Here are 9 people who totally understand the struggle.

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This Person Who Just Invented A New Ice Cream Sandwich 

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This Person Who Just Nailed Brunch 

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This Future President Of The National Dairy Council 

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This Kid Who Has Better Things To Do Than Watch A Dumb Game

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This Woman Who Has The Maury Show Dialed In

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New Jersey Candidate For Governor: Legalize It!

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New Jersey Candidate For Governor: Legalize It!

Democratic gubernatorial nominee Phil Murphy accepted his party’s nomination Tuesday night and promised in his victory speech to shed many of the policies of the Chris Christie era — including the legalization of marijuana.

“People in New Jersey are demanding change and I am here to change things,” Murphy said. “The criminalization of marijuana has only served to clog our courts and cloud people’s futures, so we will legalize marijuana. And while there are financial benefits, this is overwhelmingly about doing what is right and just.”

That proclamation is a stark change from current Gov. Chris Christie’s position on cannabis. Christie has steadfastly considered cannabis a gateway to addiction and more dangerous drugs. He has called legalizing marijuana “beyond stupidity.”

In a speech last month, Christie said the legalization push “is nothing more than crazy liberals who want to say everything’s OK. People like … Phil Murphy want to bring this poison, legalized, into this state under the premise that, well, it doesn’t matter because people can buy it illegally anyway,” Christie said. “Then why not legalize heroin? I mean, their argument fails just on that basis. Let’s legalize cocaine. Let’s legalize angel dust. Let’s legalize all of it. What’s the difference?” 

Polling in New Jersey shows that nearly 60 percent support regulating and legalizing cannabis.

Which is exactly what Murphy emphasized in his speech. He also promised to “reform our criminal justice system, end mass incarceration and eliminate prisons for profit.”

Murphy will now face Lt. Gov. Kim Guadago, who won the Republican primary, in the general election in November.

Guadago, though not not a supporter of full legalization, has come out in favor of decriminalizing cannabis. “We should decriminalize it,” she she said. “Because no one should suffer because of the color of their skin or because of their social background or because they were picked up with a small quantity.”

For cannabis consumers and activists, both candidates offer a much brighter future for the herb than Christie.

New Jersey United for Marijuana Reform, a pro-cannabis group, is supporting the candidate that will legalize: “These laws have failed New Jerseyans for far too long. Anyone who hopes to become governor must be committed to ending prohibition and support replacing it with a safe and responsible legal marijuana system for adults. We look forward to all prospective candidates — regardless of political party — announcing their support for marijuana legalization,” the group said in a statement.

 

 

 

Gossip: Ryan Lochte Admits He Contemplated Suicide; Bill Maher’s Ex Hints He Uses N-Word Regularly

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Gossip: Ryan Lochte Admits He Contemplated Suicide; Bill Maher’s Ex Hints He Uses N-Word Regularly

Ryan Lochte contemplated suicide after his Rio Summer Olympics scandal in August 2016, the 12-time medalist told ESPN in an interview published on Tuesday, June 6.

“There were a couple of points where I was crying, thinking, ‘If I go to bed and never wake up, fine,’” Lochte, 32, told ESPN’s Allison Glock. “I was about to hang up my entire life.”

As previously reported, the swimmer was suspended from competing for 10 months and lost millions of dollars worth of sponsors after he embellished claims that he and three teammates were robbed at gunpoint in Rio last summer.

Bill Maher’s Ex Hints He Uses N-Word Regularly

An ex-girlfriend of Bill Maher hinted that the liberal comic has used to n-word around her in the past, and could benefit from “sensitivity training.”

“I’ve heard the word many times,” Nancy “Coco” Johnsen told TMZ when asked if Maher ever dropped the N-bomb in her presence.

When pushed on whether she’s heard the racial slur from Maher, specifically, she smiled and said: “I don’t want to say from where, but I’ve heard it many times.”

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Marijuana 101: A Simple Guide To Smoking Your First Bowl

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Marijuana 101: A Simple Guide To Smoking Your First Bowl

Welcome to Marijuana 101: Smoking a bowl is the simplest and most common way of consuming marijuana. The bowl is the part of the bong or pipe where you place the weed. These bowls can also be very misunderstood, having a lot of people waste and not make the most out of their cannabis.

We’ve come up with these simple guidelines to help you out when packing and smoking a bowl, so you can get comfortable with your pipe or bong and make the most out of your cannabis:  

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Getting Familiar With Your Pipe

Bongs and pipes come in all shapes and sizes, but a small pipe is the most common for solo use. Most pipes consist of a bowl –  the round-ish part of the pipe where the herbs are placed – and an airtight channel that connects the mouthpiece to the bowl. Some pipes and bongs have a carb, which is the little hole located at the side of the bowl that allows for better regulation and control of air.  

Pipes vary greatly in size, shape and complexity. Some even have space where you can store water, which will provide a smoother experience.

Packing Your Bowl

For this step you’ll need your pipe, the cannabis, and a heating device, most commonly a lighter. A lot of veteran smokers like to use a hemp wick for lighting their bowls, which is a waxy piece of hemp string that lights up very fast and doesn’t provide any undesirable aftertaste.

First, you’ll have to prepare your cannabis by breaking down the herb. This part is crucial because it’ll allow the necessary airflow to go through the herb, making it light up more easily. You can hand pull the herbs or use a grinder, which is the easiest and most practical way because it really breaks down the cannabis into small and manageable pieces.

Put a screen or a stem at the bottom part of your bowl so that you don’t inhale pieces of marijuana through the pipe. This will also improve airflow and will protect your lungs.

For an even and better smoke, pack your bowl very lightly at the bottom and more dense at the top. This will allow the top to have a steady burn and will also avoid clogging.

When Smoking With A Large Group

Make sure to pack the right amount when you’re smoking within a large group – a party bowl – so that everyone gets a chance to take a fresh hit of green herb instead of smoking some really burnt marijuana. A good tip for smoking within a group is to stick to the edges of the bowl, lighting up these parts and leaving some green parts for the others. Share!

Why Rihanna’s Stance On Body Shaming Is Amazing

Brendan Bures
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Why Rihanna’s Stance On Body Shaming Is Amazing

Let this be a lesson to everyone: Do not come after Rihanna. Not because she will appropriately shut your body shaming comments down, but because Rihanna is one of our last remaining embodiment of “living life my way.”

We have an entire blog post in me about Rihanna being the Frank Sinatra of this generation but that’s not what this is about.

Regardless, Rihanna silenced a small contingency who were body-shaming her with an amusing Gucci Mane meme. On her Instagram are two pictures of Gucci side by side. Bubbly meme text over the photo reads, “If you can’t handle me at my 2007 Gucci Mane / You don’t’ deserve me at my 2017 Gucci Mane.”

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This is all in response to a minor internet controversy following a Barstool Sports writer Chris Spagnolo posting an article titled, “Is Rihanna Going to Make Fat the Hot New Trend?”

Here is a small sample of what he wrote:

A world of ladies shaped like the Hindenburg loaded into one-piece bathing suits may be on the horizon now that Rihanna is traipsing around out there looking like she’s in a sumo suit.

No good. The article ignited serious vitriol from fans and caused Barstool founder Dave Portnoy to delete the post, suspend Spagnolo indefinitely, and explain the situation on the website.

Hopefully now that this controversy is over Rihanna may continuing what she does best: trolling Kevin Durant.

Will The DOJ’s New Marijuana Task Force Kill Legal Weed?

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Will The DOJ’s New Marijuana Task Force Kill Legal Weed?

One of the primary reasons there has not been much talk, as of late, about a crackdown on statewide marijuana legalization is U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is still waiting for a marijuana task force to submit a review of federal marijuana policy.

Although there is not much known about the inner workings of this so-called marijuana subcommittee, the group is expected to deliver its recommendations to Sessions by the end of next month.

There is speculation that the details of this report could sabotage the cannabis industry, completely. At bare minimum, the findings of the task force, which is reportedly being overseen by Michael Murray, counsel to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, could lead to a reversal of an Obama-era memo (Cole) that gives states the freedom to experiment with marijuana legalization under a set of specific guidelines.

A recent report from U.S. News indicates that the Department of Justice seems to be hell bent on keeping the marijuana review a secret, perhaps suggesting there is plenty of cause for concern within the cannabis community. In fact, when Congressman Dana Rohrabacher of California, a member of the newly formed Cannabis Caucus, reached out to Sessions recently to discuss the issue of marijuana legalization, he refused to speak with the lawmaker at any level.

“Without knowing much about the approach the subcommittee is taking, it’s hard to say whether we’d expect them to reach out,” said Rohrabacher spokesman Ken Grubbs. “So far, [Sessions’] comments have not indicated a lot of willingness to work together toward common ground.”

However, back in April, Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper told MSNBC’s Chuck Todd that after meeting with Attorney General Sessions, he was not under the impression that he planned to pull the plug on legalization. In fact, Sessions reportedly told Hickenlooper, “You haven’t seen us cracking down, have you?” when asked about his master plan.

The Colorado governor said he believes that Sessions’ reply suggested that the Justice Department has its hands too full already with drug cartel activity to give two flying squirts about legal weed. But then again, he added that Sessions would not be cutting marijuana any slack.

President Trump, who said throughout his entire campaign that he supports medical marijuana “100 percent,” does not appear to have a heavy hand in determining the fate of marijuana legalization. But, as we have seen with respect to other issues, President Trump can turn on a dime.

In fact, Trump recently said in a signing statement concerning medical marijuana protections that he basically had no problem defying Congress by sending in the troops to tear down the medical marijuana community, if there would ever come a time when that was necessary. The bottom line is: this administration cannot be trusted to do the right thing when it comes to whether marijuana legalization should be allowed to continue or if it should die a savage death in the name of a new drug war.

Make no mistake about it, the billions of dollars expected to come from the cannabis industry over the next few years will have no place in the decision.

As policy expert John Hudak of the Brookings Institution said earlier this year, the cannabis industry “is small by any metric of American capitalism. You are a speck of dust in a clutter of dirt of American capitalism… The president is planning to repeal the Affordable Care Act. If you think that hospitals, doctors and the pharmaceutical industry are small enough to be shaken down by the president, but the cannabis industry is too big to face the same challenge from the president, once again, you’re insane.”

Attorney General Sessions task force will submit its recomendations by July 27.

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