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Who Is The New Drug Czar

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Who Is The New Drug Czar

SAfter months of speculation, President Donald Trump apparently has found another leader. Who is the new drug czar? Congressman Tom Marino, an early and vocal supporter of Trump’s run for the White House, reportedly will be nominated director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP).

According to CBS, the first news outlet to  break the news of the pending announcement, reported that “Marino is in the final stages of completing his paperwork and an official announcement is forthcoming.” If true, Marino will resign from his seat in the House, which he has held since 2011.

The position is not a cabinet post, but requires a Senate confirmation. Historically, the ONDCP advises the executive branch on drug-control issues and coordinates activities to combat drug-related issues. The agency’s charter includes fighting to reduce illicit drug use, putting a stop illegal narcotic manufacturing and trafficking, reducing drug-related crime and violence, and improving drug-related health consequences.

“My understanding is that Tom has a deep understanding of the issue and is excited to get started,” Kevin Sabet, who served for three presidents as an ONDCP adviser, told CBS News.

The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), a leading cannabis advocacy group, gives Marino a “D” grade for his positions. The former prosecutor has a long record of voting against progressive marijuana legislation, including opposing amendments that would have allowed Department of Veterans Affairs doctors to recommend cannabis to veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.

Robert Capecchi, director of federal policies for the Marijuana Policy Project, another pro-cannabis advocacy organization, opposes Marino for the job. According to Capecchi:

“We are disappointed but not at all surprised to hear a marijuana prohibitionist is being selected as the next drug czar. After all, whoever fills the position is required by law to oppose any attempts to legalize the use of marijuana for any purpose.

“Despite a steady stream of anti-marijuana drug czars over the past several decades, 28 states have legalized marijuana for medical use and eight states have enacted laws regulating it for adult use. We expect that trend to continue regardless of who the next drug czar is.

“President Trump repeatedly said he believes states should be able to determine their own marijuana policies, and the vast majority of Americans agree. We remain hopeful that the administration will respect state marijuana laws. It is also critical that Congress take action to ease the tension that exists between state and federal marijuana laws.”

Based on his record and his public statements, Marino has focused more on the opioid epidemic than marijuana use. Last year, he was appointed to serve on the House’s bipartisan committee charged with tackling the opioid crisis. And as the drug czar, it would appear Marino’s focus would remain on this major national issue.

When he ran for re-election last year, Marino was asked by a reporter for the Williamsport Sun-Gazette if marijuana “should marijuana be legalized on a national level, either for medical or recreational use.” Here is his response:

“The only way I would agree to consider legalizing marijuana is if we had a really in depth-medical scientific study. If it does help people one way or another, then produce it in pill form … You can’t smoke it for this, but you take a pill. But don’t make an excuse because you want to smoke marijuana. Look what’s happening to states and cities who are legalizing it. They are running into a lot of problems.

“I’m a states’ rights guy. The less federal government in my life, the best. I think it’s a states’ right issue. If Pennsylvania passes it… and if I don’t like it, I can pick up and move.

“But I don’t agree with the smoking part of it.”

Marino easily defeated Mike Molesevich, his Democratic challenger, in the November election with more than 70 percent of the vote. Trump won every county in Marino’s district and collected 60 percent of the vote there. Who is the new drug czar? Hopefully someone who is an help to the industry.

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Oregon Refuses To Hand Over Data On Marijuana Users To Feds

Al Olson
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Oregon Refuses To Hand Over Data On Marijuana Users To Feds

Lawmakers in Oregon have sent a clear message to federal agencies: We will protect our voter-mandated state marijuana laws and the customer data we collect is none of your business.

In a bipartisan 53-5 vote, the Oregon House of Representatives on Monday passed a bill that outlaws marijuana retailers from storing customer data for more than 48 hours. Typical information collected from consumers include name, age and home address.

The bill is expected to be signed by Gov. Kate Brown, who supports the state’s nascent cannabis industry.

Oregon lawmakers — and consumers — feared federal overreach as the current administration has sent mixed signals as to its approach to states with laws legalizing cannabis sales. Oregon is one of eight states that allow adult recreational use of marijuana and 29 states have established legal medical marijuana programs, but it remains illegal under federal law.

“I personally am very concerned that we give as much protection to Oregon citizens to ensure that their personal identification information is not somehow compromised,” said Senator Floyd Prozanski.

Oregon’s law would put it in line with Alaska, Colorado and Washington, states that have also mandated the information collected by consumers be protected from the federal government.

President Donald J. Trump has not clarified his administration’s position on marijuana, but members of his inner circle — including Attorney General Jeff Session and White House spokesman Sean Spicer — have floated trial balloons suggesting that a crackdown on recreational cannabis is a real possibility.

“Given the immediate privacy issues … this is a good bill protecting the privacy of Oregonians choosing to purchase marijuana,” state Rep. Carl Wilson said. Wilson, who was one of the bill’s sponsors, is a Republican.

Last week, four governors of states with legal recreational marijuana — Alaska, Colorado, Oregon and Washington — sent letters to Sessions and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin requesting clarity from the federal government. Sessions is on record saying that the Department of Justice will conduct a “crime-reduction policy review,” which will include a statement on cannabis. The review is scheduled to conclude sometime this summer.

Japanese Sex Shows Are A Mash Up of Games Show and Crazy!

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Japanese Sex Shows Are A Mash Up of Games Show and Crazy!

Japan is an amazing country, filled with culture, delicious food and interesting history. They’re also popular for having a lot of weird hangups, especially when it comes to sex. There’s a strange combination that occurs when they mix their traditional Japanese game shows (which are already odd enough) with sex, resulting in humiliating endurance sex games.

Here are some of the worst sex games we’ve ever seen: 

Strip The Girl

Photo by JESHOOTS-com via Pixabay

Here, a referee dictates the rules for two teams of guys that have to throw balls at some moveable boxes which will uncover a naked girl. Wow, that is so not misogynistic. To add some difficulty to the game, the guys have to maintain their balance on a slippery slide that’s just on the edge of a tar pit.

Sing What Happens

This show is the game that we mentioned before, where a guy sings karaoke and a girl with a nurse outfit (we’re not even gonna ask for a motive) jerks him off. Contestants try to keep singing while avoiding getting distracted by the nurses’ hands. This has to be late night TV and what channel would have it going?

 

Orgasm Wars

With a name like that you have to expect the worse, but nothing can prepare you for this video.

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Photo by Nico De Pasquale Photography/Getty Images

The game squares off two participants, a la orgasmic-Mortal Kombat, and manages to be homophobic and awful in equal parts. In this episode, a straight porn star tries not to orgasm while receiving oral sex from a flamboyant gay man, but before all of this starts they introduce themselves by mocking and insulting each other. Classy.

There’s also a “modesty box” that hides all of the action from the viewer, making this show the lovechild of porn and a late night talk show.

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Gossip: Orlando Bloom Gets Candid On Those Naked Paddleboarding Pics; Bradley Cooper and Irina Shayk’s Baby Name and Sex Revealed

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Gossip: Orlando Bloom Gets Candid On Those Naked Paddleboarding Pics; Bradley Cooper and Irina Shayk’s Baby Name and Sex Revealed

The 40-year-old British actor opens up about their breakup in ELLE UK’s May issue:

“We’re friends, it’s good,” Orlando Bloom says. “We’re all grown-up. She happens to be someone who is very visible, but I don’t think anybody cares about what I’m up to. Nor should they. It’s between us. It’s better to set an example for kids and show that [breakups] don’t have to be about hate.”

“Yes, it was extremely surprising, I wouldn’t have put myself in that position if I’d thought it would happen,” he shares. “I’ve been photographed a million times in a million different ways. I have a good radar. We’d been completely alone for five days. Nothing around us. There was no way anyone could get anything. So I had a moment of feeling free… What can I tell you? Note to self: you’re never free. Ha!”

“I’m not a millennial. They live their lives through their phones,” he explains. “What happens to my son? How is he going to have a real relationship if it’s all happening on his phone? Disconnecting is massively important.”

“With Miranda, there was a sense that I don’t want my son to go back through the internet where people made up lies,” he adds. “Miranda and I have a remarkable relationship. We co-parent really well.”

Bradley Cooper And Irina Shayk’s Baby Name And Sex Revealed

Bradley Cooper and Irina Shayk are proud parents of a baby girl!

Shayk gave birth to their daughter on March 21, and the couple decided to name her Lea De Seine Shayk Cooper, according to her birth certificate.

On Thursday, the 31-year-old Russian supermodel was spotted at a farmer’s market in Los Angeles with her mother, looking healthy and happy just days after giving birth.

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

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Pot Valet: Marijuana Products For Women Delivered By Female Drivers

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Pot Valet: Marijuana Products For Women Delivered By Female Drivers

Pot Valet is a leading provider of premium-grade cannabis in California. With its medical marijuana delivery service available to every city in the state, and soon the whole country, the company offers patients safe, legal, and discreet access to their medicine, eliminating their need to visit a cannabis dispensary.

According to Pot Valet, courier companies should focus on becoming more progressive and protecting women’s rights. Because it offers immediate marijuana delivery right to your doorstep, it is now protecting the privacy of its female patients by sending women drivers to their homes instead of men. Furthermore, the company now stocks only the purest cannabis products for women.

Many women are uncomfortable when strange men arrive on their doorstep, knowing where they live and when they are home. Women seldom allow men onto their property, and such concerns are very valid. Male delivery drivers are unwelcome, especially when women are home alone. Pot Valet no longer sends men to the homes of its female patients. Instead, they now get cannabis by female drivers.

Respecting women’s rights is crucial to every business. In the cannabis delivery industry, privacy and safety is paramount. Men will no longer deliver marijuana to women patients using the Pot Valet service. Additionally, the company is introducing a new range of cannabis products for women. It is important that women have access to safe, effective, and uncontaminated female products.

Companies saturate most feminine hygiene products with toxic chemicals. Tampons and sanitary pads contain chlorine as a bleaching agent, flammable absorbents, foam, plastics, dioxins, synthetics, petrochemical additives, fragrances, odor neutralizers, crude oil, and even phthalates. The skin easily absorbs these toxins, which cause serious illnesses in staggering numbers of women.

Science links plastics, such as BPS and BPA, to cancer, heart disease and embryonic dysfunction. DEHP damages multiple organs. Phthalates disrupt gene expression. Synthetics also trap damp and heat, as they restrict airflow. This encourages bacterial and yeast infections, forcing women to buy more products to treat it. The safest feminine hygiene products are all natural.

Pot Valet now stocks a chemical-free range of tampons, sanitary pads, and suppositories, so its female patients do not have to worry about harmful toxins. They all come medicated with the highest quality medical marijuana. Cannabis-infused pads and tampons effectively ease the pain of menstrual cramps and female discomfort, while suppositories are for both pleasure and pain relief.

Pot Valet is an online cannabis dispensary based in Santa Monica, yet catering to patients across California and the United States. Its large selection of products consistently meet regulatory requirements for the highest quality medical marijuana, and the company only delivers to valid medical patients.

Its Immediate Delivery Service serves more than 30 cities across California. Patients receive their orders in less than 45 minutes. Those using the company’s Overnight Delivery Service will get their orders the next day, but Pot Valet is expanding its Immediate Delivery Service throughout the United States. Soon, patients everywhere will also receive their medication within 45 minutes.

To order marijuana delivery through Pot Valet, patients must upload a copy of their Medical Marijuana Card and a recent I.D. photograph. The company approves every registration before patients can order cannabis from its online medical marijuana dispensary.   

For more cannabis business coverage, visit the MJ News Network.  

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Nevada Tribes Believe Legal Cannabis May Be Their Economic Salvation

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Nevada Tribes Believe Legal Cannabis May Be Their Economic Salvation

In an effort to rejuvenate the economic spine of tribal lands and put their people back to work, Native American communities all across Nevada are pushing to become a part of the state’s newfound cannabis trade, reports the Reno Gazette-Journal.

Earlier last week, tribal leaders from various parts of the state came before the Nevada Legislature to testify in support of a proposal (Senate Bill 375) that would allow tribes that have legalized the leaf to become active participants in the cultivation and sale of marijuana.

The bill would essentially give tribes the power to manage the pot trade on their respective reservation, but hold them to the same rules as other operations in the state.

Tribes are interested in getting involved with the business of legal marijuana because many see it as the only way out of a pit of destitution and despair. A number of tribal leaders told the Senate Judiciary Committee last Thursday that the marijuana industry could help their communities get back in the saddle of gainful employment and chisel away at high poverty rates.

Some tribes, many of which are home to just over 1,000 members, are experiencing 98 percent unemployment. It is for this reason that the leaders of these lands say they are in desperate need for the hundreds of jobs that stand to be created through the legal cannabis trade. In 2014, the Justice Department published the Wilkinson Memo, a policy designed to give tribal communities the freedom to engage in marijuana-related activities. The document is basically an extension of the Obama Administration’s 2013 Cole Memorandum, which is simply a list of temporary guidelines intended to prevent federal prosecutors from bringing the hammer down on states that have legalized marijuana.

There are concerns, however, that President Trump’s cronies over at the Justice Department, specifically U.S. Attorney General Jeff Session, are on the verge of revoking all of Obama’s temporary pot protections – putting legal weed at risk for a federal crackdown. In fact, it was just earlier this year that the Moapa Band of Paiutes got a taste of what it could soon be like under the Sessions hammer. The tribe, which accepted a bid to host a 2017 High Times Cannabis Cup, received a letter from U.S. Attorney Daniel Bogden, suggesting the tribal council had misinterpreted the language of the Cole memo. Although the letter did some tension and a certain level of panic; in the end,

it was only the high winds pounding the area that managed to shut down a portion of the festivities.

According to the Gazette-Journal, not too many tribal leaders are worried about the threat of federal interference. They are more concerned with the well being of the people they serve.

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Watch: This British Man Invented A Real-Life Flying Iron Man Suit

Brendan Bures
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Watch: This British Man Invented A Real-Life Flying Iron Man Suit

Within the pantheon of classic superheroes, Tony Stark’s ability might seem obscure. You’re prone to assume it’s the suit that makes him a hero, but you would be mistaken. In reality, his “superpower” is his brain, which allows him to build technology like the suits and Jarvis and Stark Tower and all his other devices. So that someone could build a real-life Iron Man suit isn’t outside the realm of possibility. Richard Browning, a 38-year-old UK inventor, did just that.

For the past 18 months Browning has been secretly tinkering inside his garage, constructing and testing his high-powered suit. Without his neighbors knowing, the ex-Royal Marine built a jet engine exoskeleton suit that allows him to hover in the air, just like Iron Man.

“The philosophy behind all this was: Could we reimagine how a really raw form of human flight would work?” Browning told Live Science.

Browning revealed it requires an enormous effort of upper-body strength and coordination to control the suit. The only steering and speed mechanism is manual, meaning the user must direct the thrusters through sheer force alone. Browning was inspired by the Greek mythology of Daedalus, who fabricated wings so he and his son Icarus could escape imprisonment. Hence, Browning named his suit after the myth.

“You have a trigger at your right hand, which controls the arm engines, and you have a trigger at your left hand, which controls the rear engines,” Browning said to Live Science.

Currently Browning can only fly around 10 minutes in the suit at a running speed around 5 miles per hour. Eventually he envision long-distance flights with speeds of 60 mph and a cruising altitude of 330 feet in the air. Since the reveal, Browning has received multiple inquiries to show off the technology at events and from interested parties seeking to have their own Iron Man suits.

“The cost is about $250,000, so it’s something that you could buy instead of a Lamborghini,” Browning told Live Science. “It’s not intended for the mass market at this stage.”

 

This Guy Is Trying to Get 18 Million Retweets For A Year of Free Chicken Nuggets from Wendy’s

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This Guy Is Trying to Get 18 Million Retweets For A Year of Free Chicken Nuggets from Wendy’s

What would you do for a year’s worth of free chicken from your favorite fast food joint? Some might stand in line for hours to spend the night inside a Chick Fil A with a bunch of church camp weirdos while others, like Twitter user Carter Wilkerson, are trying to get limitless nuggets for a year from Wendy’s by achieving the seemingly impossible goal of 18 million retweets.

Last week, Wilkerson apparently tweeted at Wendy’s out of the blue. “Yo @Wendys how many retweets for a year of free chicken nuggets?” he asked.

“18 million,” the fast food giant tweeted in reply.

Wilkerson screenshot the conversation and posted it on his Twitter, where it has since been retweeted over 988,000 times. While that’s a huge number, the 18-year old shouldn’t get too excited—it’s still 17 million and change short of the final number and the most popular tweet of all time was Ellen Degeneres’s selfie at the Oscars, which currently has about 3.3 million retweets.

Even if he doesn’t get the nuggets, Wilkerson is still making the most of and enjoying his new found internet fame.

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Talking To Your Dog Or Cat Means You’re Smart, Not Crazy

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Talking To Your Dog Or Cat Means You’re Smart, Not Crazy

If people ever try to make you feel bad or dumb for talking to your dog or even your plants or car, politely inform them that—according to science—it is they that are the dumb ones for not talking to their animals or Toyota Camry.

Anthropomorphizing, or assigning human characteristics to non-human objects, is a sign of intelligence, according to Nicholas Epley, a behavioral science professor at the University of Chicago, who recently spoke to Quartz.

“Historically, anthropomorphizing has been treated as a sign of childishness or stupidity, but it’s actually a natural byproduct of the tendency that makes humans uniquely smart on this planet,” Epley told Quartz. “No other species that has this tendency.”

But why do we do this? The practice apparently goes back thousands of years.  If you’re a legendary knight, you trust and defend your life through your weapon, and if you’re on a ship a few hundred years ago, your life is at the mercy of the vessel,” Macquarie University linguistics professor Ingrid Piller told Quartz. “You name the vessel because it becomes your most important companion. You want to believe it has vested interest in keeping you safe—even though it truly has no interests at all.”

This is, without a doubt, great news for pet and plant owners. Don’t forget to tell your cat about it!

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Vin Diesel Really, Really Loves Karaoke And These Videos Will Make Your Day

Brendan Bures
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Vin Diesel Really, Really Loves Karaoke And These Videos Will Make Your Day

Vin Diesel is one of our two biggest action stars. The other, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, stars with Diesel in America’s biggest homegrown franchise The Fast and The Furious, where undoubtedly Diesel’s the star. They drive cars across skyscrapers and make no-way-this-happens-in-real-life mid-air catches of loved ones. They brawl and they race; it’s super cool.

But that is not Diesel’s secret dream. Because what Vin Diesel really wants to do is sing. To say he sings karaoke seems diminutive—karaoke singers are generally drunk and require cajoling. Vin Diesel needs neither. Here he is just this week singing “Lean on Me” on The Tonight Show in a chipmunk voice.

Get it? With the chipmunk voice and cheesy background, it’s a joke. Only this isn’t a joke. Diesel really really loves singing. Just a few weeks ago, he went for it singing over the Selena Gomez-featuring Kygo track “It Ain’t Me.” Apparently Kygo had given him his blessing.


Of course the internet remember that time Diesel sung Rihanna’s “Stay” in that gravely (what’s gravel?), smoky (like 12 packs a day for 30 years smoker) voice of his.

Here is singing Sam Smith’s “Stay With Me,” because you wish you had this confidence.

Who could forget a few years ago when Diesel wished us all a glorious Valentine’s Day rendition of Maroon 5’s “My Heart Is Open.”

And in case you’ve somehow never watched the greatest video on the internet before…here’s Vin Diesel dancing to Katy Perry’s “Dark Horse.”

Fate of the Furious drops April 14. We’ll be watching Vin Diesel YouTube videos until then.

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