Music festivals and summer go together like, well, weed and music festivals.
And with music festivals comes flower child appeal, like DIY crowns. Why not combine the two? With a cannabis crown adorning your head, you’ll be able to smoke the accessory once you’re done with it for the season. Sustainability and all that. (Just make sure you Instagram it first, or it never happened.)
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Here’s a super simple tutorial that requires just 5 household items, including your stash:
Floral tape
Floral wire
Fresh flowers/greens of your choice
Wire cutters
2-4 grams of your favorite strain
Step 1: measure you head by wrapping the floral wire around your head, like you would with a measuring tape. Leave 1 to 2 additional inches on each end for wrapping and cut the wire. Tape the circle shut with floral tape.
Step 2: Continue wrapping the tape around the rest of the crown for a more natural feel.
Step 3: Cut the flower stems so they’re short enough to adhere to your crown and long enough to tape (approx. 1-2 inches).
Step 4: Tape the stems to the crown, arranging however you’d like. Don’t forget to throw some weed nugs in there, too!
Pro-tip: If you’re having trouble getting your buds and their short stems to adhere, remove the bottom leaves to make more room on the stem.
And there you have it. Your own smokeable headdress! Enjoy responsibly.
Rob Kardashian is responding to Blac Chyna’s restraining order with allegations of domestic violence of his own.
Chyna told the judge at her restraining order hearing this morning that back in April Rob was mad at her and began speaking poorly of her in front of her son, King.
“I can say whatever the f*** I want!” and then grabbed her phone, pushed her to the ground, “aggressively shoving me by the side of my arm and hitting me on the thigh.”
She says she fell to the ground and when she got up she was bruised and could barely walk. Chyna also says she has been fully broken up with Rob since last December, adding, “Rob has been violent with me in the past and I am afraid to be around him.”
There’s another incident where she claims Rob hit her to the ground and she ran to her bedroom before he broke the door open. Chyna claims she has photos and pictures of the incident.
As for Rob, he says that day in December when Chyna moved out that she tried choking him with an iPhone cord and tried hitting him with a metal rod. Corey Gamble walked in and physically pulled Chyna off of Rob. She then went through the house smashing televisions, doors, and other items causing $35,000 in damage. Rob has video of the incident, but if you recall the aftermath was also documented on ‘Keeping Up with the Kardashian’ cameras and aired a few months back.
In what might be the most important component of Rob’s defense, Rob’s lawyers have texts from when Chyna moved out and she told a friend that Rob would never hit her.
Rob’s lawyer says they’re not fighting the restraining order and Rob agrees that ‘slut-shaming’ Chyna was a regrettable decision. His only concern now is baby Dream.
Daniel Craig Coming Back As James Bond
Daniel Craig has changed his mind and is set to sign up for his fifth Bond movie – with Adele lined up to join him. The actor, 48, claimed he would “rather slash my wrists” than play 007 again but his U-turn came after a host of British stars were tipped to replace him.
The Wire star Idris Elba, Peaky Blinders’ Tom Hardy, Happy Valley villain James Norton and Poldark’s Aidan Turner were all contenders. But Bond producer Barbara Broccoli is said to have secured Craig – and we can reveal she is “determined” that superstar singer Adele will record the theme tune.
The partnership made 2012’s Skyfall the most profitable Bond ever with takings of £885 million. Her song Skyfall was the first Bond theme to win at the Brit Awards, Grammy Awards and Golden Globes. Although Adele had to cancel the final two shows of her world tour because of damaged vocal chords, Barbara is said to be “talking the singer round”. She believes “Bond25” can start filming next year and will be a sure fire hit.
A source involved in the project said: “Craig and Adele together are the winning team, the ultimate choice, the money spinners. It’s taken time but Daniel has come round and the strong con–sensus in the Bond offices is that Mr Craig is 007 again. As for Adele, she’s more of an unknown quantity but loved being part of Bond, so the signs are positive.”
The insider said Craig’s actress wife Rachel Weisz, 47, is “on board with the decision” for him to spend a year away filming. Craig claimed in 2015 that if he did play the spy again “it would be for the money.” He was said to have been offered up to £120million for two more films. Skyfall and Spectre scriptwriter John Logan is also said to be involved in the project. [From The Daily Mirror]
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Marijuana sales have been legal in Nevada for just over one week and already the stores can’t keep up with the demand.
Late last week, officials from the state’s Department of Taxation made the surprising announcement that Gov. Brian Sandoval endorsed the department’s “statement of emergency.” State officials will meet this Thursday to consider adopting an emergency regulation that could solve the problem.
It’s not just your basic supply-and-demand economic principles at play here. According to the Reno Gazette-Journal:
As the state law legalizing recreational marijuana was passed in November, wholesale alcohol distributors were promised exclusive rights to transport wholesale marijuana for the first 18 months of legal sales. Since November, the state has received seven applications from liquor wholesalers.
The department tried to address the issue earlier this year by opening the application process up to the businesses that have been transporting medical marijuana and other marijuana businesses, but an 11th hour court battle ended in an order only to accept applications from wholesale alcohol distributors. The taxation department since appealed the court’s decision.
Now that any marijuana dispensary licensed to sell recreational marijuana must receive all product — both recreational and medical — from a distributor licensed to transport recreational marijuana, many of them are stuck with dwindling supplies of flower and edibles both.
Thursday’s hearing will examine the stranglehold distributors have on the process.
“Based on reports of adult-use marijuana sales already far exceeding the industry’s expectations at the state’s 47 licensed retail marijuana stores, and the reality that many stores are running out of inventory, the Department must address the lack of distributors immediately. Some establishments report the need for delivery within the next several days,” said department spokeswoman Stephanie Klapstein.
Plenty of great writers, including the ones on this list, have been whiskey drinkers—and unsurprisingly, whiskey also has a tendency to show up in their books. Here’s a short rundown of some boozy moments in literature, classic and otherwise:
John Steinbeck
Whiskey makes an appearance in several of Steinbeck’s books, including his magnum opus, The Grapes of Wrath. Tom Joad drains a pint in the early chapters as he makes his way back to the family homestead. His uncle John, meanwhile, has a well-known proclivity for whiskey and “jake,” an infamous Prohibition-era patent medicine that was both mostly alcohol and known to cause nerve damage.
Well-known alcoholic Ernest Hemingway was fond of many drinks, and while most people probably associate him with daiquiris or absinthe, he was also a prodigious whiskey drinker. Supposedly his real-life drink of choice was a scotch and soda, and that drink appears more frequently in his writing than any other—notably in The Snows of Kilimanjaro. In the autobiographical A Moveable Feast, he pounds quite a few whiskeys between rounds of smack-talk about F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein.
James Bond
The best-known Bond drink may be a vodka martini (say it with me: shaken, not stirred), but over the years, the MI6 agent has also indulged in plenty of whiskey. Although several of the Bond films feature Talisker or Macallan, in the books, he often drank bourbon, a choice that was apparently based on Ian Fleming’s real-life preference for American whiskey.
Supposedly, Fleming switched from gin to bourbon on the advice of his doctor, who thought it might be marginally less damaging to his ailing heart.
William Faulkner
Like his contemporary, Hemingway, the southern gothic master drank constantly; unlike Hemingway, who preferred to write “cold,” Faulkner’s writing was fueled by bourbon, corn whiskey, and mint juleps. Whiskey features in his writing, too: Joe Christmas, a central character in his 1932 novel Light in August, is a bootlegger in the Prohibition-era south.
The Hunger Games
Katniss Everdeen, the heroine of this dystopian YA series, hails from a post-apocalyptic Appalachia, re-designated District 12 by the authoritarian Capital. Besides imagining it as a coal-mining hub, author Suzanne Collins gives another nod to the area’s real-life history: in Catching Fire, several characters, including Katniss herself, are depicted drinking moonshine (referred to as “white liquor” in the book).
Marijuana reform slowed to a crawl last week in Massachusetts and Florida. In Massachusetts, negotiations between the state House and Senate to reconcile cannabis bills were suspended. And in Florida, a lawsuit was filed challenging the state’s ban on smoking marijuana for medical patients. Read all about this and more in our weekly marijuana legislative roundup,
Massachusetts:
On Wednesday, House Speaker Robert DeLeo temporarily suspended negotiations between members of the state House and Senate to reconcile the recreational marijuana bills passed by the two chambers. In June, the state House of Representatives passed legislation to repeal and replace the recreational marijuana law passed by voters in November.
The House bill would effectively raise taxes on marijuana sales from 12 percent to 28 percent, remove the authority of municipal voters to regulate the opening of cannabis retailers, and impose more stringent regulations on recreational cannabis than the ballot measure intended.
The Senate bill, meanwhile, would change the way marijuana is regulated at the state level, require municipal referenda on the opening of recreational retailers, and expunge past convictions for marijuana possession. With lawmakers close to a deal on the state’s budget, negotiators hope to resume talks in the near future.
Oregon:
On Thursday, the Oregon Senate passed a bill to modify the state’s recreational marijuana system. If signed by Governor Kate Brown, H.B. 2198 would create an Oregon Cannabis Commission to oversee the state’s medical and recreational cannabis regulations. The OCC would be comprised of representatives from various stakeholder groups and would operate under the Oregon Health Authority.
The bill would also allow thousands of Oregon medical marijuana dispensaries to sell a maximum of 20 pounds of excess product each into the recreational marijuana market. Additionally, the measure would allow cannabis retailers to operate within 1,000 feet of schools if a physical barrier exists to prevent children from wandering onto the premises.
Florida:
On Thursday, a lawsuit was filed that challenges Florida’s ban on smoking medical marijuana. In June, Governor Rick Scott signed a bill to implement the constitutional amendment passed by voters in November allowing patients with certain debilitating medical conditions to seek treatment with cannabis. Among other restrictions, the bill forbids patients from smoking marijuana.
Critics say that smoking may be the easiest and most effective means of consuming cannabis for patients with ALS and other severe conditions. The suit was brought by a trial lawyer named John Morgan, who was also the leading backer of the 2016 ballot measure.
Maryland:
On Wednesday, the Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission approved the first medical marijuana dispensary license in the state. The move allowed the Wellness Institute of Maryland to open its doors effective immediately, though it is not expected to have any product in stock for several months while licenses for growers and distributors are awarded.
Last year, the state awarded 15 preliminary grower licenses and 15 preliminary processor licenses. However, if the state does not provide final licenses by August 15, the Commission could revoke their permission to operate in Maryland. The Wellness Institute began taking pre-orders on Thursday.
Also on Thursday, Maryland Governor Larry Hogan overhauled the Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission by appointing 10 new members to the 16-member panel. The Commission has been criticized for failing to get the state’s medical cannabis system off the ground and potentially abusing taxpayer funds while awarding contracts to outside consulting groups.
Making a cheese plate for a cannabis connoisseur is definitely limited to what you can have with your cheese. Adding cannabis to cheese is much trickier than dosing all of your accoutrement. Hopefully one day we find a way to have medicated cheeses that don’t get any dairy animals high in the process.
The best lazy-fancy dinner is the cheese plate. Stocking up on little pleasures like nuts, gherkins, jams and olives can make the mundane into the supreme as quickly as you can slice some smoked Gouda. For optimal variety, always choose cheeses of different hardness and undertones, and don’t underestimate cheeses that seem unfriendly to non-savory pairing, like pecorino or feta.
Photo by Danielle Guercio
Make The Most Of Mustard
Gourmet-ify and add that bitter and spice hit that is so necessary with medicated mustard. Simply add a dash (¼ oz or so) of glycerin tincture* to your favorite kind.
The sweetness will amp up the taste and be slightly reminiscent of a honey mustard. It will play that much more harmoniously with nutty, milky cheeses like raclette and Swiss.
Photo by Danielle Guercio
Olives Are Essential Eats
Quick tapenade is had by simply mashing all of the things you’d like to add to compliment olives. Cannahacking it happens when you add a shot (1 oz) of cannabis olive oil* to the blend. Add garlic cloves, herbs, and mash in a mortar until you have the paste of the gods.
Photo by Danielle Guercio
Turn Up The Jam
Sweet things go with cheese plates like beer and pizza. Peach and raspberry are excellent store bought. That’s where you add a smidge (1/8th oz per ½ cup) of glycerin tincture* to the jam. Spoon onto funky cheeses like Brie.
Photo by Danielle Guercio
CannaCrackers
We’ve covered crackers before, stuffed with cheese and olives, but they’re such a simple recipe that becoming proficient is really a worthy skill.
You can use any cannabis oil or butter* you have on hand to make crackers for your cheese plate. Within 30 minutes and with literally any combination of herbs, spices, or oil that you’re into.
Photo by Danielle Guercio
Nuts For Hash Nuts
Make a standard candied nuts recipe, throw in some decarboxylated concentrate, hash, or kief at the end. Boom. Just keep the dosing chill if you want to be able to actually munch them.
*Cannabis Infused Liquids
Decarboxylate 3.5g of finely ground cannabis at 225 degrees for 20 minutes in a tightly sealed, oven safe container. Put in lidded mason jar or vacuum sealed bag with cannabis and four ounces of desired base. Heat in water bath just under boiling for at least 1 hour. Strain and chill to use in recipes.
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Upgrade your cheese plate to the outer limits with these tips, you won’t regret it and if you medicate gently, you can eat the entire thing if you are into that sort of thing. Not only will this plate be seemingly bougie and high end, it will be full of the cannabinoids that can make your smile wider and laugh louder. Who doesn’t want to laugh over a cheese plate with friends?
That’s the site run by Alex Jones, the radio show host and conspiracy theorist who has said that both the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School and the Boston Marathon bombing were staged. Moon Juice is frequently recommended by Gwyneth Paltrow’s wellness blog, Goop; it’s a favorite of Hollywood celebrities and others who can afford things like $25 “activated cashews.” Infowars, on the other hand, is a dark corner of the American right, heavy on guns, light on government intervention, and still very mad at Obama.
Celebrity Jeweler Reveals Blac Chyna Tried to Charge $300,000 To Rob
Ben Baller, the celebrity jeweler responsible for keeping all of your faves blinged-out (including Nas, Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey, Kanye West, Drake, Justin Bieber — the list goes on), has accused Blac Chyna of trying to scam up $300,000 worth of jewels on Rob Kardashian’s credit card just three days ago.
As you know, Chyna’s attorney Lisa Bloom announced via Twitter that they’ll be seeking a restraining order against Rob on Monday. After telling Lisa to ‘STFU,’ Ben revealed that there’s a lot more happening between Rob & Chyna that we didn’t see.
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Kief is the collection of small crystal-like trichomes that gather on top of the marijuana bud. This powder is hard to collect, but it can be found at the bottom of a grinder, which is one of the main reasons the device is so awesome. Kief is beloved by everyone because it has a really high concentration of THC and it’s also very malleable and easy to use in different forms.
Here are 5 creative ways in which you can put your kief to good use:
You can add some kief onto any cookie or brownie recipe that you have lying around, just be sure to heat it so that the THC and the other psychoactive compounds can come out. This process is known as decarboxylation and it’s pretty simple. Set your oven to 300° F, place the kief on a glass container and cover it, baking it for about 5 minutes. When this is done, you can add your prepped kief onto your mixture and proceed with the recipe as usual.
Sprinkles
Following the delicious example of rainbow sprinkles added onto an ice cream cone, you can sprinkle some kief on top of your marijuana bowl or joint and make it taste even better, giving you a more powerful high. The strength of the kief can vary depending on the strain, so be mindful of that and start off by adding a small pinch of it.
Adding on kief to your dabs will enhance the flavor and greatly increase the THC you’re be consuming.
Add It To Your Coffee
This is an easy way of getting a nice shot of THC without doing anything that requires extra effort. By adding the kief onto a hot cup of coffee, you’ll activate the THC as the crystals heat in your drink. This will produce a strong and long lasting effect that’s very similar to that of an edible.
Place butter onto a crock pot and melt it with medium heat. Add on some kief and stir every 15 minutes for a period of 5 hours. After this is done, you can place the kief butter on a heat proof container and put it on the fridge to cool. This butter can be used on everything, from coffee, to meals, to dessert.
A leisurely swim in Washington state’s Cliff Lake turned into something from a B-movie horror plot, when a swimmer was attacked by a pair of otters.
On his way out for a training swim while on vacation, triathlete Stew Larsen said he swam past what he thought was a curious river otter. A little splashing sent the critter scurrying into the brush.
But on his way home, Larsen said the otter came back with a buddy: Two of them were now watching him swim past. The splashing didn’t help this time, and the emboldened otters advanced on the swimmer.
In the resulting waterborne scuffle, Larsen said he “connected with one of them” and ended up bitten on his right thigh, where an otter’s fangs cut through his wetsuit to draw a bit of blood. “I had been thinking that if they’re protecting a den, I’d be better off in the middle of the water and away from the shore,” he said, “but I finally figured that if I’m going to be bitten, I need to be on land and I swam with everything that I had left.” Eventually, he said, he was able to make it to some rocks, where the otters backed off and a relative in a boat was able to make a rescue.
Otter attacks are rare in southwest Montana, and otters aren’t hungry for human flesh. But they can be territorial, and are apex predators capable of taking on crocodiles. They’re cute from afar, but don’t piss them off on their own turf.
While you might think of Spam as a basic canned meat, it’s actually one of the greatest business success stories of all time: Since Hormel Foods Corporation launched the affordable, canned pork product in 1937, it’s sold over eight billion cans in 44 countries around the world.
On July 5, Spam celebrated its 80th anniversary. It’s fitting that this comes only a day after the birthday of the United States. The product is up there with Coca-Cola, McDonald’s and Pizza Hut as one of the most distinctive American brands of all time.
As a consumer behavior researcher, I believe Spam’s widespread success can be attributed to two factors: it addressed a real need, and also formed an emotional connection with its consumers, by tapping into American ideals like ingenuity and resourcefulness.
Spam ‘Hits The Spot’
Spam isn’t exactly the most exciting product.
The original recipe included chopped pork shoulder meat with ham, salt, water, sugar and sodium nitrite. (This remained unchanged until 2009, when Hormel added potato starch in an effort to eliminate one of the product’s less attractive features: the gelatin layer created by the cooking process.) At the time it was introduced, it was the only canned meat product on the market that needed no refrigeration. This feature gave Spam a significant competitive advantage.
Hormel also created buzz around its new product by sponsoring a name contest to promote it.
The winner was an actor named Kenneth Daigneau, who was awarded US$100 for coming up with the name “Spam.” (He was also the brother of Hormel’s vice president, so there may have been a bit of nepotism involved.)
Anointed with its new name, the product was buoyed by a heavy advertising effort that emphasized its versatility. For example, in 1940, Hornel fielded submissions from Spam fans to create a 20-page recipe book featuring 50 ways of incorporating the canned meat into meals.
Homemakers readily embraced Spam, and it became a popular lunch and breakfast meat. But sales really took off during World War II. Over 150 million pounds were used in the war effort, making Spam a cornerstone of troops’ diets. (Soldiers also used Spam’s grease to lubricate their guns and waterproof their boots.) In each country where they were stationed, American soldiers introduced it to the locals, giving foreigners their first taste of Spam.
Since then, Spam has become a sought-after product in many countries around the world, especially those that have faced economic hardship. Because it’s cheap, filling and has a long shelf life, it addresses a real need.
As American As Apple Pie?
But how did it become such a cultural icon?
In a 2012 paper, marketing researchers Rajeev Batra, Aaron Ahuvia and Richard P. Bagozzi developed a model of “brand love.” Based on studies on consumers’ brand attachment, they showed that in order to form meaningful attachment with brands, consumers need to experience them in ways beyond simply buying and using the product.
Hormel seemed to intuitively understand these ideas. Simply selling a cheap, useful product wouldn’t be enough. In creative and humorous ways that went beyond traditional advertising, they appealed to consumers by positioning the brand as a patriotic food that reflected American ingenuity – with a streak of eccentricity.
In the years after the war, the Hormel Girls – a musical troupe of female World War II veterans – traveled the country performing songs and promoting the product. The group even starred in a top-rated radio show on three national networks.
Since then, the Spamarama cooking festival (1976-2007), a Spam museum (1991), a Spam recipe contest (1991), a Spam-sponsored NASCAR race car (1995) and even a 2005 Broadway musical – “Spamalot” – all enhanced what’s called the brand experience, the way consumers interact and connect with a product.
These marketing ventures were accompanied by the introduction of new products and flavors. The Spamburger (1992), Spam Lite with 50 percent less fat (1995), Spam Hot and Spicy (2000), Spam with Bacon (2004), Spam Teriyaki and Spam Jalapeño (2012) reflected consumers’ evolving tastes and preferences. Spam Spread was even introduced just in case you’re “a spreader, not a slicer.”
An ad for the ‘Spam Burger.’
Refashioning Spam In The 21st century
In other cultures around the world, Spam is viewed as a distinctly American product, though it’s been incorporated into local cuisine in creative ways. In Hawaii – where seven million cans are sold each year – McDonald’s franchises will offer Spam-based products, like Spam, eggs and rice. The Spam Musubi – Spam on rice wrapped in seaweed – is also a popular snack and lunch food.
In South Korea, Spam is considered a popular holiday gift, while in the U.K., the Spam fritter is served with chips and mushy peas in burger bars. In the Philippines, Spamsilog is a common breakfast meal of Spam, fried rice and sunny-side up egg.
Back in the United States, restaurateurs have seized upon Spam’s place in the cultural imagination to (somewhat ironically) incorporate the product in refined dishes. At San Francisco’s Liholiho Yacht Club, you can get Spam fried rice with uni and mushrooms. Animal in Los Angeles offers foie gras and Spam, while New York City’s Noreetuh serves Spam agnolotti with burgundy truffles. It was even featured in a culinary challenge on Season 11 of Top Chef.
When Spam was first introduced, Hormel was eager to promote the product’s versatility with taglines like “Cold or hot…Spam hits the spot.”
But with the canned meat moving from the front lines of World War II to $40 entrees at high-end restaurants, its various incarnations have likely surpassed its inventors’ wildest visions.
But with the canned meat moving from the front lines of World War II to $40 entrees at high-end restaurants, its various incarnations have likely surpassed its inventors’ wildest visions.
