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This Woman Supplies Hollywood’s Elite With The One Thing They Really Want

Brendan Bures
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This Woman Supplies Hollywood’s Elite With The One Thing They Really Want

It is probably the worst kept secret in Hollywood. Celebrities smoke marijuana. Whoopi Goldberg and Melissa Etheridge own businesses inside the cannabis industry. They are not the only ones. Other celebrities, like Henry Rollins, have become activists within for cannabis. For Montel Williams, well, he says weed saved his life. But this doesn’t address how some celebrities are purchasing their bud. Enter Cheryl Shulman, who is known as the Cannabis Queen of Beverly Hills and serves as supplier of some of the world’s best marijuana to Hollywood’s elite.

As Shulman told Sunday People: “I have more than 200 celebrity clients, virtually every A-List star you can think of.”

Shulman runs the business with her daughter Aimee, driving her Ferrari to the stars themselves, so they buy her “designer pot.” Shulman is linked to talent show veteran Nigel Lythgoe and has been seen by his side at red carpet events. But Lythgoe isn’t the only celebrity Shulman is associated with.

Via Sunday People:

At Hollywood red carpet events and galas, the stars ­gravitate around her. Friends include Aerosmith rocker Steven Tyler, actors Whoopi Goldberg, Elijah Wood and Chris Klein, marijuana advocate and comedy star Cheech Marin , and chat show legend Jay Leno.

Shulman says her product is specifically catered to her client needs. For the friskier celebs, she has strains that will sexually enhance their dalliances, or could relieve some serious pain for her older clients in their 60s or 70s.

Following a diagnosis of colon and bladder cancer in 2006, Shulman turned to marijuana after a recommendation from a friend. She was given just months to live and prepared to die in peace, until her friend informed her about the healing properties marijuana can have. Since then she’s become a cannabis evangelist and hopes even more celebrities join the cause.

As she told Sunday People: “I hope to take away the stigma of marijuana—one celebrity at a time.”

The Head Of The DEA Just Said ‘Marijuana Is Not Medicine’

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The Head Of The DEA Just Said ‘Marijuana Is Not Medicine’

Despite the fact that most states in the union have legalized the cannabis plant for medicinal purposes, Chuck Rosenberg, acting head of the DEA, just went on record with the quote, “marijuana is not medicine.”

It happened during a speaking engagement in Cleveland, Ohio, one of nearly 30 states to celebrate marijuana for its therapeutic benefits, Rosenberg told those in attendance that his opposing stance on the herb has not changed since the days when he served under President Obama.

“If it turns out that there is something in smoked marijuana that helps people, that’s awesome,” he said, according to the Washington Examiner. “I will be the last person to stand in the way of that. … But let’s run it through the Food and Drug Administration process, and let’s stick to the science on it.”

Regardless of the legitimate science that has emerged throughout the past several decades suggesting that marijuana could be beneficial in the treatment of various conditions, the federal government continues to lump the plant into the same Schedule I dangerous drug category as heroin – a rank that suggests the herb has no medicinal function.

Yet Uncle Sam has found a way to allow the pharmaceutical industry to thrive in the marketing of “heroin-based” drugs, like oxycodone, by positioning these dangerous, highly addictive substances into a Schedule II classification.

Several attempts have been made throughout the years to get the DEA to downgrade the Schedule I listing of the cannabis plant to one that allows it to be considered medicine, but the agency continues to deny these requests, saying the “decision is based on whether marijuana, as determined by the FDA, is a safe and effective medicine… and it’s not.”

However, the FDA has blamed outdated policies for its inability to recommend a less restrictive classification. But these rules would need to be revamped by none other than the DEA – and that’s not happening anytime soon.

President Trump said during his campaign that he supports the concept of medical marijuana, yet some of the latest comments coursing through the veins of his administration suggest that the government is far from recognizing cannabis as a legitimate drug.

If Trump truly supports medical marijuana, he would initiate the rescheduling process and finally allow the scientific community to begin exploring the truth behind this plant.

Gossip: Val Kilmer Wants In For Top Gun Sequel; Prince Harry Wants To ‘Acclimatize’ Meghan To Royal Life Before Proposing

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Gossip: Val Kilmer Wants In For Top Gun Sequel; Prince Harry Wants To ‘Acclimatize’ Meghan To Royal Life Before Proposing

As the A-list movie star finally confirmed a Top Gun sequel is officially underway, Cruise’s Val Kilmer took to social media Wednesday with an announcement: He’s ready to spread his wings and fly! Kilmer wrote alongside a selfie with his Iceman character on a graphic T-shirt, “friends said it’s official – #TOPGUN2 was announced today. I’m ready Tom- still got my top gun plaque! Still got the moves! Still got it!”

Prince Harry Wants To ‘Acclimatize’ Meghan To Royal Life Before Proposing

After celebrating Pippa Middleton’s nuptials together, are Prince Harry and Meghan Markle next? The couple, who have been dating for about a year, are being tipped as the next ones to walk down the aisle.

“Harry was being the perfect gentleman with Meghan,” an insider tells People of the royal’s chivalrous behavior at Middleton’s lavish reception. According to Majesty’s Ingrid Seward, the prince doesn’t want to “hurry things” before getting down on one knee.

“He wants her to acclimatize to it all,” Seward tells People. “It’s such a whole different world to move into — there’s so much to get used to.” She adds, “He’s really in love with her, but wants to give it his best crack.”

British bookmakers agree that a proposal is in the cards. Prince Harry is the frontrunner to be the next royal to wed, according to Ladbrokes. As Markle made her appearance at Middleton’s high society wedding on Saturday, the bookies are now taking wagers on which member of the royal family will be getting married next, and all eyes are on Prince Harry as the favorite. Harry is even with Princess Eugenie at 2/1. Eugenie and longtime boyfriend Jack Brooksbank have been dating for over six years. Rival bookmakers William Hill believes that the coast is clear for Harry to propose to his girlfriend. As a result, the bookies have trimmed the price of a 2017 engagement from 3/1 to 2/1.

This year’s Invictus Games will take place in September in Toronto, where Markle lives while she’s filming her USA legal drama, Suits. Markle is also getting back to business. She’s scheduled to attend a Suits panel at the ATX Television Festival in Austin, which will take place June 8-11. The couple, who travel back and forth between Toronto and Buckingham Palace, are good about finding time to spend with each other in between their busy schedules.

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5 Simple Ways To Make The Best Iced Coffee

Amy Hansen
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5 Simple Ways To Make The Best Iced Coffee

Starbucks has announced that it’s going to start offering…wait for it…coffee ice cubes. That right. Coffee. Ice. Cubes. And they’re charging extra for it. It’ll be an offered add-on, like soy milk or syrup. And they’re being tested in 100 stores throughout St. Louis and Baltimore for the next couple of months. Here’s a pro-tip: You can easily make your own ice coffee and will be a whole lot more affordable.

Coffee ice cubes are great, because they keep your iced coffee from getting diluted with regular ol’ water. And they take no time at all to create, assuming you have a freezer and access to espresso, cold brew, or other strong coffee. You can also add flavored syrups, chocolate, raw sugar or creamer to the coffee before freezing. The possibilities are endless! Just stick your favorite combo into an ice tray and freeze. Next time you make yourself an iced coffee, you’ll have some extra support to keep your drink flavorful and fully caffeinated.

Here are 5 other tricks to create a perfect DIY iced coffee.

1. Flavor Your Ice Cubes With Fresh Mint

The oil in the mint will naturally flavor your iced coffee. Top your drink off with a splash of soda water, add a little simple syrup, garnish with mint, and you have a refreshing drink that would cost you a handsome sum at any coffee shop. Bonus: You can use this trick in any summer drink, not just iced coffee.

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2. Make Vanilla Ice Cubes

These gems are great for those who think coffee ice cubes are too strong. To make these, you’ll need vanilla, sugar and milk (hemp and soy milk work great). Once melted, the combo adds a touch of sweetness to your iced coffee, not to  mention will keep “Ice Ice Baby” stuck in your head for hours.

3. Try Your Hand At Cold Brew

There are tons of “how to” videos and instructions on making the perfect cold brew. Here’s one we like. Also, Bon Appetit went ahead and made a “things not to do” list for you to peruse before you begin.

4. Make It “To Go”

If you rarely have time to make coffee in the morning, stick your iced coffee in a tumbler or some other type of traveling mug, place in the freezer overnight, then grab before you head to work. By the time you get to the office, your coffee will be ready to drink.

5. Turn It Into Vietnamese Iced Coffee

Just add sweetened condensed milk (and get yourself a Vietnamese coffee press). It’s addicting and you might never go back to regular iced coffee. Steamy Kitchen has an easy technique that’s also the base of a Vietnamese coffee ice cream recipe.

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Gossip: Lindsay Lohan Making A Lot Of Shady ‘Research’ Trips To Russia; Brad Pitt Removing Angelina Jolie For Good

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Gossip: Lindsay Lohan Making A Lot Of Shady ‘Research’ Trips To Russia; Brad Pitt Removing Angelina Jolie For Good

Always in step with the headlines, Lindsay Lohan says she has a new project in the works — about Russia. The actress was overheard at a luxe Cannes Film Festival villa party telling fellow guests about the upcoming TV series she’s working on.

“She was saying she’s writing it with a partner for Netflix,” a source told us. “And that they’re writing it every day while she’s in town. She described it as being about ‘Russian oligarchs’ — three princesses, and covering different ages.

The source said, “She plans to act and co-direct or direct, but said she hasn’t decided yet.” Lohan also described the show as “kind of like [Netflix series] ‘The OA,” and “she was saying she’s going to Moscow to see some of the people that are working on it with her.”

Also at the bash, hosted by power player David Unger and his Three Six Zero Entertainment, where guests arrived via helicopter, was Adrien Brody. Earlier this year, increasingly international Lohan met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogğan after visiting Syrian refugees. A rep for Netflix did not immediately get back to us.

Brad Pitt Is Removing Angelina Jolie For Good

The actor is said to be starting the process of removing all of the tattoos he had done for her on his body.

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We Dare You To Read This Story About Mister Rogers And Not Cry

Sam Jones
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We Dare You To Read This Story About Mister Rogers And Not Cry

On the 50th anniversary of the first airing of “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” writer Anthony Breznican shared on Twitter his encounter with the man in the cardigan himself.

https://twitter.com/Breznican/status/866861079023857664

Breznican writes that he’d grown up watching Mister Rogers as a child, but a chance run-in on his college campus brought it back to life. It was a time when Breznican needed a calming influence the most: He shares that college was a tough period for him, but his rediscovery of the show after the death of his grandfather was a calming influence.

So Breznican was stunned to stumble into Fred Rogers himself in an elevator one day, where he imparted some of that classic wisdom in real life.

https://twitter.com/Breznican/status/866868815774089216

Rogers shared his own story of loss with the heartbroken young man, about his own grandfather and the gifts he gave him. “You’ll never stop missing the people you love,” Rogers said.

https://twitter.com/Breznican/status/866872045195345920

Are you tearing up yet? Here are a few more simple yet profound quotes from the man who was everyone’s neighbor.

On traumatic moments:

“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’ To this day, especially in times of ‘disaster,’ I remember my mother’s words, and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers–so many caring people in this world.”

On helping:

“I hope you’re proud of yourself for the times you’ve said ‘yes,’ when all it meant was extra work for you and was seemingly helpful only to somebody else.”

On being truly strong:

“Confronting our feelings and giving them appropriate expression always takes strength, not weakness. It takes strength to acknowledge our anger, and sometimes more strength yet to curb the aggressive urges anger may bring and to channel them into nonviolent outlets. It takes strength to face our sadness and to grieve and to let our grief and our anger flow in tears when they need to. It takes strength to talk about our feelings and to reach out for help and comfort when we need it.”

On the preciousness of life and expression:

“As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has–or ever will have–something inside that is unique to all time. It’s our job to encourage each other to discover that uniqueness and to provide ways of developing its expression.”

Stop Everything And Watch These Bees Get Sexy

Maria Loreto
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Stop Everything And Watch These Bees Get Sexy

Some people hate bees, some people love them. These insects even have several fan-made twitter accounts that talk about how cute and angry they are and also about how important their contributions are towards the well being of our environment, pollinating around a third of the plants that make up our diet. But bees have a freaky side too.

Karla Thompson, an arthropod macro photographer, took her love and interest for bees a step further, filming a couple of them as they engaged in some steamy sex. The video gets pretty weird, so be prepared.

All the video needs is some porn-y background music because its uncomfortably NSFW. It’s still an interesting watch (if you can stomach it) where you learn about the insects’ strange mating behaviors. The most shocking part of the clip is when the male bee strokes the female bee’s antennae like a pervy old man. That’s pretty creepy, but it’s also nature.

For our well being, and the environment’s, just keep going at it bees! Pay no mind to the photographer and keep on having bee babies.

5 Airplane Food Hacks You Need To Know Before Your Next Flight

Amy Hansen
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5 Airplane Food Hacks You Need To Know Before Your Next Flight

One of the downers of traveling is not having any good food to eat. You can try to cram as much terminal food into your carry on as possible, but unless you packed super light, that’s often a difficult ask. And eating on a plane is not ideal, either. Low cabin pressure, recycled air and loud noises all contribute to suppressing our ability to taste and smell food. Here are 5 airplane food hacks to make your air travel a little less hangry.

1. Listen To Music

Professor Charles Spence, author of Gastrophysics: The New Science of Eating, suggest putting on noise-cancelling headphones is one of the easiest ways to increase you sense of smell and taste.

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2. Order A Glass Of Wine

Wine writer Barry Smith says that high-altitude wines, like Malbec, tend to taste better in the air than on the ground, mainly because the altitude in an airplane is closer to the altitude the grapes were actually grown in.

3. BYOB

Before you board, go buy yourself one of those mini 3 oz. bottles booze to sneak into you soda, coffee, seltzer or tomato juice.

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4. Make your own fast food

The Loop has recipes, like Pad Thai and Taco Soup, that include nothing more than instant noodles, flavor packets, and travel sized condiments. All you need is some hot water, courtesy of your kind flight attendant, and you’re in business.

5. Order A Vegetarian Dish

When was the last time you had a good cut of meat on a plane? Play it safe.

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Science: Bromance Makes The World A Better Place

Maria Loreto
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Science: Bromance Makes The World A Better Place

Recent research claims that bromances, deep friendships between heterosexual men, are making the world a better place, reducing homophobia, misogyny and making men happier.

The study, conducted by the University of Winchester in England, observed a group of 30 undergraduate males who were enrolled in some sort of sport activity, meaning that they fraternized with a lot of men. They all answered questions that tried to define the meaning of  bromance and how it fit into their lives. Most guys claimed that bromances were more than friendships, that they were relationships were they could be completely open and unafraid to speak their minds. 

These results revealed a pattern that’s present in most bromances like an affinity for sports, having similar interests, and the presence of physical and emotional vulnerability. Researchers claimed that this openness gave men the ability to be confront their feelings without fear of ridicule, reducing the damaging masculinity that permeates our entire society. 

“Men, and particularly young men, often get bad press for a range of socio-negative behaviors, whether that is lad culture, issues of misogyny, excessive alcohol consumption, violence and so on. The bromance – being a supportive and emotionally open form of close friendship – may be one way of reducing some of these issue that young men experience.”

Having the ability to develop strong relationship with other guys leaves to a big dent in toxic masculinity, something our society could very well do without. We should all binge-watch some Judd Apatow movies and learn a thing or two while basking in their bromancing glory.

Gossip: Chris Pine Uses A Flip-Phone; Tom Cruise Hasn’t Seen Daughter In 1,346 Days

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Gossip: Chris Pine Uses A Flip-Phone; Tom Cruise Hasn’t Seen Daughter In 1,346 Days

In the age of technology and chaos, Chris Pine yearns for simplicity. In fact, the Wonder Woman star uses a flip phone instead of a smart phone.

“I have a flip-phone. The flip world is a whole world you gotta get into,” Pine, 36, told “Good Morning America” anchor Michael Strahan Tuesday.

“I’ll tell you what, here we go,” Pine attempted to explain his technology quirk. “I recently got a record player and a flip phone. I kind of like the simplifying down. I just like the simple, I just like the non-complicated.”

While the globe is desperate to constantly spread and share information, Pine wants to back away. “I don’t want to be connected so much,” he added. Despite making life simple, having a flip phone comes with its own setbacks – including difficulty texting.

“I don’t know if you remember, like, T9?” he quipped about having a limited number of buttons. “Like you remember when you had to do that T9 thing, wow!”

Tom Cruise Hasn’t Seen Daughter Suri In-person In 1,346 Days

Tom said words about his daughter Suri. Tom hasn’t said much of anything to or about Suri in many, many years. Most people believe that he’s completely cut off ties with Suri and that CoS has convinced him that Suri is a Suppressive Person (SP). Anyway, Tom was asked if he thinks Suri wants to become an actor like her parents, and all Tom said was “You never know, you never know.”

In Touch Weekly says Tom just ignores Suri now. Like, he was in LA for this Mummy Day thing and Katie Holmes and Suri were in LA too, just a few miles away and Tom “did not set up a visit with her” and after the event, he got on a plane to Australia. In Touch says that he hasn’t seen Suri in person in “1,346 days.”

Don’t touch the hair. Tom’s surrounded by people, and those people tell other people to “step away” from The Cruise. The Cruise’s hair will not be touched by mere mortals. The Cruise’s hair will not be touched by Australian TV hair stylists. One of Tom’s people said that staffers are not allowed to touch the hair unless he was in total “privacy.”

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