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These 5 Important Stocks Were Just Added to U.S. Marijuana Index

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These 5 Important Stocks Were Just Added to U.S. Marijuana Index

Several new cannabis-related companies have been successful enough in their business endeavors to be included in the U.S. Marijuana Index, according to a report from Forbes.

Earlier this week, Marijuana International Corporation (MJIC) added five new stocks to the index, which included companies dealing in multiple facets of the legal cannabis industry ranging from the construction to cannabinoid-based pharmaceuticals.

This is a rather significant development because it is a testament to the future of marijuana in the United States. After all, big money operations similar to what the country has grown accustom to seeing with respect to the alcohol, tobacco and pharmaceutical industries are the centerpiece of capitalist America.

Before a company can be indexed, it must have a market value weighted index of $30 million, a daily trading volume of $600,000 and a price per share of no less than 10 cents. Those companies with $5 million or more in revenue are exempt from these requirements.

Not surprisingly, the U.S. Marijuana Index has experienced around a 46 percent increase from where it was a year ago.

“The first quarter of 2017 saw the cannabis stock market settle from the previous fall’s elections, with average daily volatility and volume for the constituents on the North American Marijuana Index decreasing 67 percent compared to the fourth quarter of 2016,” Dan Nicholls, Vice President of MJIC, said in a press release. “Overall, the Canadian Marijuana Index increased seven percent and the U.S. Marijuana Index decreased one percent in the first quarter.”

Here Are The Five Stocks:

AmeriCann Inc: The company gained some noteriety earlier this year when it was announced that it would build the largest marijuana cultivation center in the United States. The Denver-based operation is set to construct a one-million-square-foot facility near Freetown, Massachusetts. The project will take place on over 50 acres previously owned by the Boston Beer Company. However, in addition to real estate deals, the company also raises venture capital for marijuana-related businesses. The company has experienced growth of about 400 percent over the past twelve months.

Cannabics Pharmaceuticals: This organization develops cannabinoid medications. It has a prominent research facility in Israel, where it is fully licensed by the government to look into the medicinal benefits of the cannabis plant. There is a lot of focus on this company right now because it is on the verge of showing the world how to kill cancer cells without harming the patient. In short, the company believes it has found a way to cure cancer using only cannabis. It makes sense why its stock has increased by around 2,000 percent in the last year.

Marapharm Ventures Inc: This group invests in medical and recreational marijuana businesses in the United States and Canada. Forbes contributor Debra Borchardt says, “the company has not earned any revenues in any of the last eight quarters, but it has traded up over 400% in the Canadian market. It has only been listed in the U.S. for a short time.”

Medical Cannabis Innovations Group (MCIG): This company is a bit bizarre. Not only does it market and distributed vaporizers but it also deals in the construction of marijuana cultivation sites. But this approach is apparently working, at least to some degree. Overall the company has experienced significant growth in the past twelve months, falling only slightly since January.

Solis Tek Inc: This is an interesting stock because in deals in the one aspect of the marijuana industry that is not talked about much: lighting. The company simply provides cultivation sites with digital lighting systems. “It has a $37 million market capitalization and recorded revenues of $8.5 million for the year ending 2016,” reports Forbes. “The stock’s share price over the past year has ranged between 25 cents and $1.42 and lately traded at $1.02.

5 Moments That Prove Charlie Murphy Was A Comedy Genius

Brendan Bures
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5 Moments That Prove Charlie Murphy Was A Comedy Genius

Comedian Charlie Murphy, brother of Eddie Murphy, passed away following a long battle with leukemia. He was 57.

Murphy gained notoriety following his sting on Chappelle’s Show where he delivered outlandishly hilarious impressions and developed lovable characters and more. He also was an underrated stand-up comic and gave memorable movie performances. He served in the Navy from 1978-83.

The night before he passed, he tweeted the following message.

Ultimately most will remember Charlie Murphy from his “Real Hollywood Stories” sketches from Chappelle’s Show where he comically re-told brazen stories partying with Rick James and Prince, both of which became iconic cultural touchstones. Without Charlie Murphy, there would be no “I’m Rick James, bitch!”

The Rick James Sketch

True Hollywood Stories: Prince

And who could forget Charlie Murphy and his crew playing against Prince and the Revolution? People still tweet “Game, blouses!” after sports games. (Prince reportedly loved the sketch.)


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Buc Nasty, Playa Hater Extraordinaire

The “Playa Haters’ Ball” sketch is my favorite Chappelle’s Show bit. Charlie Murphy is a large part of that, playing the hilarious Buc Nasty. You can watch the whole sketch here but this outtake of Charlie Murphy “shaking” in character is one of the five funniest videos on the internet.

Gusto, CB4

While Charlie Murphy wasn’t a bona fide movie star, he still gave us memorable characters like Gusto in CB4.

Stand-Up

Though it wasn’t what made him a star, Charlie Murphy’s standup was clever and wry, just like much of the rest of his comedy.

Gossip: What Name Did Caitlyn Jenner Almost Pick? About Beyonce’s Pregnant Sex Tape

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Gossip: What Name Did Caitlyn Jenner Almost Pick? About Beyonce’s Pregnant Sex Tape

The other option:  Just days after Caitlyn Jenner revealed her sex change surgery, sources say she also says that she almost didn’t pick the name Caitlyn. Her other option was Heather.

Pregnant Sex Tape Of Beyonce Is Fake

Rumors are blowing up that Russian hackers have “stolen” a Beyonce “pregnancy sextape.”

The hackers claim to have stolen a “pregnancy sextape” of Beyonce, which they are offering for sale. The hackers also claim to be selling some sexual pics of 14-year-old internet star Danielle ‘Cash Me Outside’ Bregoli. Possession or sale of sexual material concerning underage persons is a federal crime.

However, sources tell Naughty Gossip no such tape exists.

“The tape is fake,” sources tell Naughty Gossip. “Beyonce does not have a sex tape and nothing has been stolen. It is a sad fake and the hackers should be ashamed of themselves. She is pregnant with twins and doesn’t need this sort of nonsense in her life.”

Love the fresh dirt we bring over daily from Naughty Gossip? Let us know in the comments!

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A Giant Scary Asteroid Will Come Kind Of Close To Hitting Earth Pretty Soon

Brendan Bures
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A Giant Scary Asteroid Will Come Kind Of Close To Hitting Earth Pretty Soon

I bet asteroids think they’re real slick. They’re basically giant heaps of space trash zooming around the universe kind of possibly freaking out every planet it passes, but never doing much about it. They’re big talkers is what I’m saying.

Logically, yes, we should remain nervous about the hypothetical impact of an asteroid striking our planet and possibly killing us or whatever. And the latest asteroid worrying some of the world is asteroid 2014 JO25.

But as NASA confirms in a press release, the asteroid “will fly safely past Earth on April 19 at a distance of about 1.1 million miles (1.8 million kilometers), or about 4.6 times the distance from Earth to the moon.”

Via NASA:

The asteroid is roughly 2,000 feet (650 meters) in size, and its surface is about twice as reflective as that of the moon….The encounter on April 19 is the closest this asteroid has come to Earth for at least the last 400 years and will be its closest approach for at least the next 500 years.

Though NASA confirms that “there is no possibility for the asteroid to collide with our planet,” it does mention that “this will be a very close approach for an asteroid of this size.”

In fact the asteroid is probably more exciting than worrisome. As this asteroid will be significantly reflective, you might be able to see it crossing the night sky, though a telescope will be far more effective. If you’re stuck indoors April 19 or it’s cloudy night where you are, you can always check out The Virtual Telescope.

Yes, a giant scary monster asteroid will come kind of close to Earth, there is very little for you to fear. Instead let the asteroid do the talking and listen to what the cosmos is telling us about itself.

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8 Facts About The Rainbow Gay Pride Flag You Didn’t Know

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8 Facts About The Rainbow Gay Pride Flag You Didn’t Know

The man behind the ubiquitous rainbow gay pride flag died last month at 65, peacefully, in his home. His creation, however, will live on for generations to come.

In celebration of the eight stripes of his original flag design, check out these eight facts about Baker’s creation of the rainbow pride flag.

It Was Inspired By Harvey Milk

In the 1970s, a young man named Gilbert Baker arrived in San Fransisco from Kansas. After being discharged, he stayed in SF and sewed clothing. Gay rights activist and first openly gay politician Harvey Milk challenged him to create a symbol the community could rally behind. Baker quickly realized he wasn’t in Kansas anymore. He told SF Travel:

“It all goes back to the first moment of the first flag back in 1978 for me. Raising it up and seeing it there blowing in the wind for everyone to see. It completely astounded me that people just got it, in an instant like a bolt of lightening – that this was their flag. It belonged to all of us. It was the most thrilling moment of my life. Because I knew right then that this was the most important thing I would ever do – that my whole life was going to be about the Rainbow Flag.”

A Different Humanitarian Design Inspired The Flag

Baker was inspired by the five-striped “Flag of the Races,” which is red, black, brown, yellow and white, according to the Carleton Sexuality and Gender Center.

Some Rumor A Different Story

The 1999 book Queer Sites: Gay Urban Histories Since 1600 suggests that the influence of Judy Garland’s then-popular song “Over the Rainbow,” and her celebrity status as a gay ally, wouldn’t have been far from Baker’s mind during the making of the flag.

The First Flags Were Labor Intensive

Hand-dyed versions of Baker’s creation were first used at the 1978 Gay and Lesbian Freedom Day March in San Francisco.

Each Color Has A Meaning

The eight stripes of the original flag represented individual components of the gay community, according to Gay Pride New Orleans: hot pink for sex, red for life, orange for healing, yellow for sun, green for nature, turquoise for the arts, indigo for harmony, and violet for spirit.

The Six-Color Flag Has Tragic Origins

Once the flags hit mass-production status, the hot pink color was difficult to reproduce affordably. Then, after Harvey Milk’s assassination, activists dropped turquoise, in order to march with the flag in even number: Three on one side of the street, three on the other.

Baker Eventually Brought The Other Colors Back

The flagmaker reintroduced pink and turquoise for a flag at the 2004 Key West Pride Festival. According to New Orleans Pride, he said:

“We lost two of the original colors, pink and turquoise. It’s time, however, to restore the original design. First, it is simply more beautiful and more authentic. Moreover, when we lost the pink, we lost the symbol for our sexual liberation. The missing turquoise honors Native Americans and the magic of life. Both colors are needed to embrace our history.”

The Largest Pride Flag Was Huge

To commemorate the gay rights movement’s 25th anniversary in 1994, Baker made a mile-long flag in New York. In 2003, Baker made the world’s longest of his creations to stretch from the Gulf of Mexico to the Florida Strait.

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Marley Natural Showcases Celebrity Marijuana Strains As The Newest Cannabis Trend

Brendan Bures
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Marley Natural Showcases Celebrity Marijuana Strains As The Newest Cannabis Trend

It’s not a new trend that stars are getting into the cannabis with game with celebrity marijuana strains. Not only is it a fruitful investment, celebrities are tacitly raising cannabis awareness and ushering it further into the mainstream by embracing the green.

The latest celebrity to continue their brand rollout of an official cannabis line is a big one. Marley Natural, the official Bob Marley cannabis brand, launched in Washington recently (it first began by selling products in California). Marley Natural is run with the blessing of the late Marley’s remaining family and owned by Privateer Holdings.

According to Leafly, two of Marley’s granddaughters, Zuri and Shacia, were in attendance at the brand’s launch party and talked to customers about the product.

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Marley Natural’s extension to Washington showcases the further proliferation of celebrity brands. Just recently Annie Nelson, wife of Willie Nelson, announced her own marijuana-infused artisanal chocolate edible line. This move falls in line with celebrities appealing to possibly more niche consumers, sometimes in a more adult way or to target an underserved people in the marketplace.

That’s what Whoopi Goldberg is doing with her cannabis company, Whoopi & Maya, that’s marketed toward women. The Whoopi & Maya line produces balms and bath soaks—and more—that help ease the pain women experience from periods and/or cramps. There’s also Bethenny Frankel, progenitor of Skinnygirl cocktails, is also creating a “diet weed.” It will aim to eliminate the “munchies” most marijuana smokers experience and likely be called “Skinnygirl Marijuana.”

Marley Natural and Annie Nelson and others are showing that cannabis has the possibility to be more nuanced and mainstream simultaneously. It doesn’t hurt they’re making green by making green.

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Your Smelly Lunch Is Now A Criminal Offense In Italy

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Your Smelly Lunch Is Now A Criminal Offense In Italy

Finally, justice comes for the public nuisance coworkers who insist on microwaving their fish tacos and tuna salad sandwiches at work.

Italy’s supreme court ruled that stinky food is now a criminal offense. The Court of Cassation in Rome calls it “olfactory molestation.”

According to the Telegraph, the ruling came after a spat between neighbors over vats of “fritti misti,” a mixed fried seafood dish. The pungent smell wafted across the neighborhood, and the wannabe chefs were found guilty of anti-social behavior.

The Telegraph reports:

The judges in Rome said the couple’s enthusiastic cooking resulted in ‘the emission of odours and noises in the overhead apartment on the third floor,’ owned by another couple. The smells were so strong that they were “beyond the limits of tolerability” and constituted what the court called ‘olfactory molestation.’ One of the neighbours complained that when the couple were cooking, ‘the whole of my apartment became impregnated with the smell of the pasta sauce and the fried fish. It felt like their kitchen was in my flat.’

Complaints about food smells aren’t uncommon in Italy, where people have claimed that stinky dishes caused them to suffer depression and psychological trauma.

In the United States, it’s possible to take someone to court for their offensive kitchen-smells, if the smell diminishes the value of your residence or drove you out of your home. That’s a spicy beef to try and settle.

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If Aliens Actually Spoke To Us, What Would They Say?

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If Aliens Actually Spoke To Us, What Would They Say?

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute recently announced that a beacon seemingly from a star system 94 light-years away reached the giant ear of a Russian telescope. Everyone immediately started screaming “ALIENS!”

Let’s get this out of the way first: It’s probably not aliens.

Scientists have made truly amazing space-discoveries in the last month alone. They’ve confirmed the existence of a potentially life-supporting planet in another solar system, gotten cozy with Jupiter, discovered a whole slew of exoplanets, and found a galaxy that could be made almost entirely of dark matter.

So, when someone says “ALIENS!” it’s like pulling the fire alarm for burnt popcorn. Or pulling the emergency brake in a subway car full of crickets. It’s overreaction. The scientific community’s response is not far from this:

Even SETI scientists aren’t that hype on it. Eric Korpela at Berkeley SETI wrote in response:

Because the receivers used were making broad band measurements, there’s really nothing about this ‘signal’ that would distinguish it from a natural radio transient (stellar flare, active galactic nucleus, microlensing of a background source, etc.) There’s also nothing that could distinguish it from a satellite passing through the telescope field of view. All in all, it’s relatively uninteresting from a SETI standpoint […] It’s not our first time at this rodeo, so we know how it works.

Okay. Now that we’re done playing Scully, it’s time to go Mulder on this case and entertain the idea that it could be a highly advanced civilization attempting to communicate. What would they want to say?

Douglas A. Vakoch, director of interstellar message composition at SETI Institute, outlined in his book Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence what another world would be trying to say to us via an isotropic beacon like SETI discovered this week, if such a thing were happening:

“ALF Was Here.”

A form of interstellar graffiti, this is like tagging your home world’s name on the wall of space future generations to see and go, “Who’s that?” and also “What kind of dick spray-painted the side of someone’s garage just because he could?” Cave-dwelling people did it, Mayans did it, we do it today. Why not aliens?

“We Ruled.”

Vakoch’s “High Church” theory is that a civilization with this much achievement would want to proclaim, “We are the best. Recognize.”

“We’re Screwed.”

A beacon sent out as a funeral pyre for a dying world. A dying civilization might send out one last prideful cry that they totally ruled, but are now screwed beyond help. This one’s inspired a Percy Bysshe Shelly sonnet about stumbling upon a statue in the desert:

And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

“Help!”

It would take millennia for another civilization to contact us this way, but in a last-ditch attempt to save their own asses, another world might fling an SOS into the universe. Wouldn’t do much good, since we’re light years away.

“Join Us”

They’re looking for religious converts and getting really ambitious about where they leave their pamphlets lying around.

All of these messages would have to originate from a Kardashev Type I or II civilization — a world that’s gotten very, very good at harnessing power from its sun and home planet, and is able to convert that energy into communication tools. It’d need 1013 watts of power, or all of the power used by all of mankind on Earth, New Scientist notes. Humankind is currently a Type 0 civilization, with a long way to go. We just got solar chargers on our backpacks, for christsakes.

SETI’s using the Allen Telescope Array in northern California to listen for more. Even if astronomers are cautious or downright dismissive of the repercussions of this signal, it’s started a lot of people thinking about science and space, and that’s not the worst outcome.

Morgan Freeman Absolutely Delivers In Hilarious ‘Shawshank Redemption’ Parody

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Morgan Freeman Absolutely Delivers In Hilarious ‘Shawshank Redemption’ Parody

I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it’s only the excitement a free man can feel, or someone who’s just watched this video of Morgan Freeman parodying The Shawshank Redemption on The Graham Norton Show.

Undoubtedly Morgan Freeman is the GOAT when it comes to delivering narration voiceovers in film or TV or any form really. Even Dave Chappelle upon his long-awaited return to stand-up comedy recruited Freeman to give a tongue-in-cheek voiceover to open his Deep in the Heart of Texas, the second of his new Netflix specials.

While discussing The Shawshank Redemption on Norton’s show, Freeman revealed that the movie was the start of long and fruitful second career as a voiceover narrator. Of course Norton couldn’t resist asking Freeman to give a little narration in Shawshank parody.

Freeman didn’t disappoint.

“I must admit I didn’t think much of Graham Norton the first time I laid eyes on him,” Freeman said in that glorious voice of his. “Looked like a stiff breeze could blow him over. That was my first impression of the man.”

“I could see why some people took him for annoying… And boy, did he drink. He drank like a man without a care or worry in the world.”

Get busy watching this video or get busy dying.

13 Cherry Blossom Desserts That Are Almost Too Pretty To Eat

Amy Hansen
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13 Cherry Blossom Desserts That Are Almost Too Pretty To Eat

When the cherry blossom (also known as sakura) is your country’s unofficial national flower, you celebrate it when its in full bloom, which is right about…now. And because Japan is the master of novelty foods, they celebrate with gorgeous desserts. Even Haagen-Dazs makes a sakura flavored ice cream, so you know it’s a legit thing.

Many cherry blossom trees bloom for just a few days, making it a very special occasion. It’s not unusual for the Japanese to create viewing parties around the spectacle, which often include special treats (what good is a stunning dessert if you can’t pose with it in front of an equally attractive backdrop?). From kakigōri (shaved ice) to mochi, here are 13 cherry blossom desserts that are as eye-catching as their namesake ingredient.

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