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The Best Developments In Marijuana So Far In 2017

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The Best Developments In Marijuana So Far In 2017

Political turmoil have made cannabis companies reconsider their future and adjust their plans. Still, the growth of the industry is rising due to the decriminalization and legalization of the plant in over 29 states within the US, a landmark in the history of the plant (at least in this country). In a short amount of time, legal marijuana has become the fastest growing industry in the U.S. with a 25 billion dollar opportunity for revenue according to USA Today. Why didn’t we legalize it before?

Due to the plant’s newfound value, smart companies have been working hard to use it to their advantage, developing tools and strains that have cannabis enthusiasts very excited. Here we list some of the most rousing developments within the marijuana world.

Green Energy

Thanks to the plant’s versatility, the hemp is at the forefront of many ecological companies that are planning to develop oil, paper, clothes and even a hemp airplane that will run on biofuel at 210 mph. All with the purpose of helping out our planet and being cool while they’re at it.

Social Media

Apps like MassRoots and Duby have been huge in creating a social media presence for cannabis and connecting people that have common interests. 

There’s also MyDx Inc, a company that’s developing an affordable analyzer that gives users knowledge on what they’re consuming, checking for contamination and giving information on the chemicals that we can’t see. These tools give users the best marijuana experience, eliminating negative side effects and leaving you with only the good stuff. 

Medical Marijuana

Developers of marijuana strains have gotten creative with their concoctions, coming up with amazing stuff like Mendo Breath, Sour Kush, Candyland, Red Dragon, and so much more, with the purpose of helping people who are suffering from chronic pain, insomnia, nausea and others. 

Amazing Tech

DAVINCI IQ:

 

The slickest portable vaporizer ever.

Lean Green Wizard Cone Machine:

Grind & load like a boss with the new Lean Green Wizard all-in-one kits!

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This grinder and cone filling combo will make your life so much easier. Say goodbye to messy and poorly wrapped joints.

Wax Liquidizer:

For creating your own vaping juice. 

Goldleaf Grow Journals:

These journals are beautiful and handy for the growing field of cannabis cultivation. They’re also great for the recreational or medicinal user, logging and documenting their marijuana habits.

 

The Stars’ Secret To Filming Those Naughty ‘Fifty Shades’ Scenes

Brendan Bures
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The Stars’ Secret To Filming Those Naughty ‘Fifty Shades’ Scenes

The one subject most everyone associates with the Fifty Shades franchise is sex. It is, truly, the only reason the books or movies exist. So it stands to reason one of the topics frequently asked of Fifty Shades co-stars Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan are about those steamy sex scenes.

Dornan was asked once again about those sex scenes on the Graham Norton Show, where the actor revealed that this installment will be more romantic than the first. But—to the delight of house mom everywhere—there will be more sex.

That’s when Keanu Reeves inquired what kind of direction Dornan receives regarding “vocalization.” Dornan responded: “My temptation is always just to try to make Dakota laugh. So sometimes I’ll do things like, when there’s a moment where I’m meant to orgasm, I’ll be like, ‘do-do-do do do-do.”

“Do-do-do do do-do” as the trumpet sound you hear before someone yells “charge!” Try to not hear that sound next time you watch a sex scene.

Former NFL Player Arrested For Being Naked Three Times in 8 Months

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Former NFL Player Arrested For Being Naked Three Times in 8 Months

Days after he was sentenced to 10 days in jail for trying to break into a Portland, Ore., home while naked, former Detroit Lions cornerback Stanley Wilson II was arrested Saturday for allegedly trying to break into another Oregon home while nude. The most recent arrest comes just over a month after Wilson was arrested for allegedly hanging out in a stranger’s yard while in the buff.

The first nude incident took place last June, when Wilson stripped off all of his clothes and tried to break into the home of 78-year-old Robert McCall through a window, the Oregonian reports. McCall, as you might not expect, felt threatened at the sight of a nude, 33-year-old former professional football trying to break into his home, so he shot Wilson before he could enter. Police later found Wilson, who was still nude, standing in a fountain with a bullet wound in his stomach.

Seven months later, on January 10, Wilson was arrested after police reportedly found him wandering around a Portland neighborhood without clothes on. A month later he was sentenced to time served plus three years of probation and mandatory drug treatment (he has a history of methamphetamine abuse) for the first incident, which he pleaded guilty to. The relatively lenient sentence apparently wasn’t enough for the clearly troubled Wilson, who the Associated Press reports was detained just four days later for nearly an identical crime, though this time, thankfully, he wasn’t shot. He was taken by officers to Marion County Jail; it’s unclear what, if any, charges have been filed.

Brave Raccoon Free After Highly-Publicized Ride On Trash Truck

Taylor Berman
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Brave Raccoon Free After Highly-Publicized Ride On Trash Truck

On Friday, Politico reporter Helena B. Evich spotted a raccoon hanging on for dear life from the back of an trash truck in an Arlington, Virginia neighborhood. Evich snapped a photo of the critter and shared it to Twitter, where it quickly went viral.

“This raccoon is having a rough morning-just wanted some trash & ended up in Rosslyn!,” she wrote. “And yes I alerted the driver.”

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Evich contacted someone at American Disposal Services who assured her the company would investigate. The company was apparently good to its word, and a few miles later the driver, along with the help of police, managed to get the situation under control. Now brave raccoon free after highly-publicized ride on trash truck.

“It was as gentle as it could be,” Susan Finarelli, a spokeswoman for the city of Falls Church, told the Post.

Raccoons are very curious and used to living near people, so they can sometimes seem very bold. A raccoon’s natural response to a confrontation is to freeze and stare at you. It’s still afraid of you, it’s just waiting to see what is your next move. They are opportunistic scavengers, this means they will eat almost anything they come across. And a trash truck is a buffet for them.

The Week in Hot Messes: Bigfoot in Alabama, Frozen Penises, and a Bloody Valentine

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The Week in Hot Messes: Bigfoot in Alabama, Frozen Penises, and a Bloody Valentine

Perhaps Valentine’s Day brought out the strange in people this week because there was no shortage of bizarre news stories over the past seven days. There was a man who accidentally shot himself trying to make jewelry on Valentine’s Day, a spa in England that will freeze your penis or vagina to sharpen up your sex life, and a town in Alabama trying to get national recognition for its Sasquatch sightings. Let’s review the Week in Hot Messes.

We’ll start in Evergreen, Alabama, where city officials have declared the town to be the Official Bigfoot Capital of Alabama. After noting that he personally had not seen Bigfoot or anything similar, Councilman Luther Upton said, “A lot of people have seen these things. They aren’t quacks. They are legitimate people who’ve seen these things.” We agree with the councilman.

Moving on to Manchester, England, where a spa is reportedly offering a treatment that freezes people’s genitals in an attempt to make them look better and sexier. “It’s not uncomfortable, it’s quite relaxing,” Cryotherapy UK co-director Debra Lister said last year. “You can feel it nipping a little bit but it’s not invasive at all.” Mhm.

Back in L.A., hundreds of people celebrated Valentine’s Day by giving their loved one a bouquet stuffed with $400 worth of weed. “I just thought it was a cool way that you could give flowers but instead of them dying and throwing them away in a week you can get some practical use out of them,” one customer said. “You come home from a long day of work and you have a headache, flowers aren’t going to help you any.’’

In Connecticut, a heroic teen allegedy stole a pizza guy’s car for a joy ride and led the police on a wild chase before finally being apprehended. And in Ottawa a man making a necklace on Valentine’s Day…accidentally shot himself with the bullet he was hoping to decorated the necklace with. “If you go do some research on what’s in a bullet, it’s not something you want to make a necklace out of,” a police spokesman said. “The reason why we put it out obviously is not in humor, it’s the public education piece here. Ammunition is live, it’s not a toy, and it should be dealt with carefully.” Solid advice.

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Master Of Fortune Cookie Writing Quits Because Of Writer’s Block

Sam Jones
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Master Of Fortune Cookie Writing Quits Because Of Writer’s Block

The man responsible for the best part of every Chinese takeout meal, the fortune cookie, has quit his post. He’s got a serious case of writer’s block.

Donald Lau has worked as the “Chief Fortune Writer” at Wonton Food — one of the largest fortune cookie distributors in the game — for 30 years.

He used to crank out 100 fortunes a year, but now only feels inspired for two or three fortunes a month. It’s easy to imagine that the burnout rate for writing tiny koans and quips that go into free cookies as your full-time job is pretty high, but that’s not the entire problem with Lau’s creative block. He told Time that a shift in the industry is partially to blame for killing his mojo:

“In the ’80s, when Lau first landed the role at the Queens and Brooklyn-based company, cookie fortunes were, well, fortuitous (think: “A dream you have will come true”). But today, he says, the premium is on new, inspirational sayings that promote Yogi tea bag-style well-being.”

So, if you’ve noticed your own fortune cookies lately have shifted from the more astrological, “You will battle a great foe who is sitting at this table with you RIGHT NOW” style of predictions, to the shitty faux-encouragement of Hallmark cards – that “Your greatest foe is within you” silliness – it’s not just you, but the whole cookie market changing.

“When they eat their fortune cookie, I want the customers to open the fortune, read it, maybe laugh, and leave the restaurant happy so that they come back again next week,” Lau said, according to the New York Post. And dammit, he just can’t find that spark anymore.

But there is some sweet to this sour story: He isn’t bailing out of his love for fortune cookies forever. He’s focusing on being Wonton Food’s Chief Financial Officer full-time. Hopefully he brings back the fortune-telling spirit of cookies with his new power.

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11 People Who Perfectly Capture The Existential Horror That Is Public Transportation

Brendan Bures
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11 People Who Perfectly Capture The Existential Horror That Is Public Transportation

The act of riding public transportation isn’t so bad. It gets you, mostly reliably, from one place to another. What makes public transportation potentially awful is the people.

Now this isn’t some cynical posturing—you stuff that many people in an confined space, some weird shit is bound to happen. Or, in the case of some people, you’re bound to stop giving a shit. But if these people prove one thing it’s that’ riding the train or bus is never a dull moment.

https://twitter.com/BrandonBotelho_/status/830585115365502977

https://twitter.com/kaitblab/status/831623056997117953

https://twitter.com/BrokenBiros/status/829780663314313216

https://twitter.com/Will_MerryEsq/status/829793717099839492

https://twitter.com/csavvy21/status/831706411759435776

https://twitter.com/Rainchills/status/831260650949206022

https://twitter.com/RegularFred/status/831532274973712385

https://twitter.com/matthewxmeehan/status/831151380924596224

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WATCH: Michael Bolton Sings Coffee Orders To Bewildered Customers

Jillian Peterson
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WATCH: Michael Bolton Sings Coffee Orders To Bewildered Customers

“Are you going to ask me to sing or something? What, like coffee orders to strangers? Like I work there or something? You will never get me to do that.” And that’s how this viral video of Michael Bolton singing coffee orders to strangers begins.

Vanity Fair set the whole thing up at L.A.’s Alfred Coffee & Kitchen. The mostly millennial crowd started whipping out their phones, likely wondering who this unknown barista with the velvet voice was. Actually, Bolton’s career is seeing somewhat of a resurgence, thanks to his naughty Netflix one-off, Michael Bolton’s Big, Sexy Valentine’s Day Special.

Every woman (and one man named Jay) looks like they want to bang him right there on the counter. He’s still got it.

 

No word how much in tips he earned during his shift.

Watch Joe Rogan Get Into A Drunken Debate About Marijuana

Sam Jones
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Watch Joe Rogan Get Into A Drunken Debate About Marijuana

If you like watching people argue on the internet, but wish they would yell directly at each other’s faces in real life more often than in the comment sections of websites, hold on tight because we have got the video interview for you.

 

On the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, #917, the comedian had Steven Crowder on as a guest. Crowder is a conservative talk show host and talking head, himself, and it’s fair to say Rogan’s brought him on for exactly the purpose that played out: Forty minutes of talking over each other about marijuana laws.

It’s important to know a few things, first: Rogan gets so salty throughout this debate, that he felt the need to apologize on Instagram later. He says he suggested they drink as “social lubricant” early in the chat and by the end of it, things got heated and he was drunk.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BQlNJ1KgJN3/

Second, Rogan’s not shy about his support of legal weed. He knows his shit when it comes to cannabis. He hosted the documentary The Union: The Business Behind Getting High, and was featured in Marijuana: A Chronic History and The Culture High.

Which is probably why Rogan leads Crowder, who claims to not have any strong opinions on legal weed, into a debate on the subject. What follows is an obnoxiously thorough combing-through of Crowder’s published statements and commentary on marijuana, most of which echoes the kind of outdated propagandist beliefs that the DEA formerly spread. And a lot of name-calling and gas-lighting out of Drunk Rogan.

Their argument wanders from the economy, to marijuana as a “cure-all,” to whether marijuana makes you “more of a moron,” to traffic fatalities and back again. It’s exhausting to watch, but good points arise, and if you’re into watching Joe Rogan berate a right-wing conservative for 40 minutes about marijuana, here it is in full:

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3 Heroic Pets Who Adorably Rescued Their Humans From Great Danger

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3 Heroic Pets Who Adorably Rescued Their Humans From Great Danger

People adopt pets for a variety of reasons. Companionship usually tops the list, but some people get them for practical reasons while others might get them as a promise to a child. Sometimes dogs are taken in to serve as guards, but those pups are usually of the large and fierce type—your Rottweilers, pit bulls, and German shepherds. But it’s not always the large and scary animals that end up as heroes; on occasion it’s a less assuming pet, like a lil pug or a cat or even a squirrel. Below are three examples of little animals getting big on bravery.

Joey the Squirrel

It’s probably safe to say that the burglar who broke into Adam Pearl’s Idaho home last week to steal his gun collection wasn’t counting on meeting a protective pet squirrel named Joey. When police investigated the break-in, they met Joey, who Pearl said wouldn’t bite but might scratch. A few hours later, police returned to the home with some of Pearl’s belongings. As WPXI reports, Officer Ashley Turner said she found it after finding a man with scratches all over his hand who said they’d come from Joey the squirrel, who the man reportedly said wouldn’t stop attacking him until he left the house. Good squirrel.

Hero Cat

Hero cat likely needs no introduction but in case you’ve forgotten: In 2014, a toddler was riding his bike in his driveway when a neighbor’s very aggressive dog attacked him. Thankfully, hero cat rushed out—all fluffed up to make himself look larger—and chased the dog away. Good work, hero cat.

Jaxson the Snaggletoothed Pug

Photo via City Merdian

Who could forget Jaxson the snaggletoothed pug? Last year, the brave lil guy spotted a fire in his family’s house as everyone was sleeping. He began to bark loudly in an “irregular tone and cadence,” waking up his owners. If it hadn’t been for his barks, his family and the house likely would’ve been destroyed, according to firefighters. For his bravery, Jaxon became the first animal to receive Meridian, Idaho’s coveted Hometown Hero. But he might have some company soon—Meridian is the same town where Joey the squirrel lives.

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