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Portland Woman Accidentally Steals Subaru, Returns It With Very Nice Note And Cash

Taylor Berman
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Portland Woman Accidentally Steals Subaru, Returns It With Very Nice Note And Cash

In what might be the quintessential Portland-area crime, a woman accidentally stole a Subaru that was identical to the one she was supposed to borrow and later returned it with a polite note apologizing and $30 for gas.

Erin Hatzi told People that her husband first noticed her car was missing Tuesday evening.

“He got back and he asked, ‘Hey, where’d you park you car?’ and I said, ‘It’s in the driveway,’ ” she said. “And he was like, ‘No, it’s not.’ ”

After determining that her husband was not pranking her, the couple reviewed security footage of their driveway. “We watched this woman like walk behind the car and then kind of look at it,” Hatzi said. “She was texting, and then she went over to the driver side door and she was texting, and then she got in the car and she was texting. She started it, and then she sent a couple more texts. And then she pulled out of the driveway and took off.”

When Hatzi and her husband filed a police report, they learned from the Portland police department that older Subarus sometimes have identical keys, which explained why the would-be car thief seemed so nonchalant during the crime. “It didn’t make very much sense why a thief would spend 10 minutes hanging around the car they were about to steal in front of somebody’s house,” Hatzi said. “It just didn’t make any sense.”

The next day, the Hatzis noticed police lights outside their house, where a patrol car had parked behind their missing red Subaru. “They just happened to show up at the same time the woman was dropping it back off at my house,” Hatzi said. “[The woman] pulled up in front of my house, locked it and started to walk away.”

As police questioned the woman, Hatzi’s husband inspected the car for damage and found a note inside.

“Hello, so sorry I stole your car,” the note read. “I sent my friend with my key to pick up my red Subaru at [a nearby home], and she came back with your car. I did not see the car until this morning and I said, ‘That is not my car.’ There is some cash for gas and I more than apologize for the shock and upset this must have caused you.”

The woman/accidental thief, who’d been trying to pick up a car for a friend recovering from surgery, was released after the responding officer located the second red Subaru and watched the couple’s security footage. “It’s a very Portland thing to have happened, especially with a Subaru,” Hatzi told People, adding that her husband has since purchased a club for the car’s steering wheel.

Ina Garten Puts Us All To Shame With Her Cheese Plate Skills

Jillian Peterson
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Ina Garten Puts Us All To Shame With Her Cheese Plate Skills

One of the more enjoyable parts of an author’s cookbook tour is watching them do cooking segments on late night television, when it’s more acceptable, and even encouraged, to drink cocktails while hovering over flames and other electrical gadgets.

While promoting her new book Cooking For Jeffrey, Food Network star and everyone’s fantasy best friend, Ina Garten, went off script and decided that building a cheese plate during a recent stop on Late Night With Seth Meyers would be more fun that pretending anyone wants to see an elaborate recipe unfold at midnight. The two started with a pair of refreshing Prosecco cocktails  and proceeded to egg each other on in a cheese plate building contest. “Are you okay?,” asks Seth as Ina struggles with some grapes. “I feel like you’re off your game. Are you throwing this to make me feel better?”

Here’s Ina, always making things look effortless. And Seth, always with the perfectly timed jokes. The two really, really need their own cooking show.

Consume is an essential source for food and beverage news, trends, tips, original recipes and everything in between. Want to read more? Try these posts: Decoding The Subtle Cues Of Restaurants, 9 Of The Best Pumpkin Beers In America, and What I Ate Today: Coquine’s Katy Millard.

How An Ex-NBA Star Guided His Grandma To Cannabis

Al Olson
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How An Ex-NBA Star Guided His Grandma To Cannabis

Jay Z. Sarah Silverman. Danny Glover. Harry Belafonte. Al Harrington. All are cannabis supporters fighting for legalization in California And all are household names, except, of course, the last guy on the list. Who is Al Harrington?

Harrington spent 16 years playing professional basketball and is part of Artists for 64, a coalition of artists who have come together to support California’s Prop. 64 (the Adult Use of Marijuana Act). The voter initiative will control, regulate and tax responsible adult use, sale and cultivation of marijuana in California.

Harrison retired from the NBA two years ago and has become involved in the cannabis industry. This week, he released a video (see below) detailing his personal relationship — and his grandmother’s experience — with the herb.

In an interview in The Root, Harrington said:

“What made me change my opinion of the cannabis plant was because of my grandmother’s story. My grandmother suffered from glaucoma and she also has diabetes. I got her to try it pretty much on a whim, just from me seeing things on TV and different things like that, and people talking about the relief that it gives. It worked out for her better than I expected. So, at that point, I started reading up even more on the plant and how it was helping so many people.”

Harrington also shared how medical marijuana helped him.

“In 2011, I was sending my grandmother cannabis that she needed just to give her relief, and the next year I ended up with a meniscus tear that led to a staph infection. When I had my fourth surgery, I was in Vail, Colo., and my cousin introduced me to cannabinoids (CBDs) and from that point forward, I’ve never taken another Vicodin or anti-inflammatory pill.”

Artists for 64 are not only supporting the measure for medical reasons; there is a huge social justice component to the campaign.

Says actor Danny Glover:

“In California, the question on whether to legalize marijuana for adult use is a policy change that will have a lasting impact on historically marginalized communities. Marijuana laws have been used as a tool by law enforcement to racially profile, harass, intimidate and criminalize mostly young African American and Latino men for decades. Ending the arrest and conviction of adults who use and sell marijuana is a social justice issue and simply a smart, sensible and practical policy solution for the mass arrests in and the over surveillance of racially targeted communities. “

Check out Harrington’s video:

 

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Meet Popeye, The Rescue Pup Who Now Eats At Pet Friendly Restaurants Every Day

Taylor Berman
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Meet Popeye, The Rescue Pup Who Now Eats At Pet Friendly Restaurants Every Day

If you can believe it, the cute little guy in the photos above was once an abandoned and homeless pup. “He was such a mess – super skinny, heavily matted, dirty,” his owner Ivy Diep told Bored Panda. But soon after his rescue, Popeye the dog was fully healthy and enjoying life with Diep’s family.

“It wasn’t long before he made himself at home at my place with my other dogs,” Diep said. “And of course, my husband and I fell in love [with him].”

At the suggestion of a friend, Diep began an Instagram account for Popeye caled PopeeyeTheFoodie. “One of my friends, Jen, suggested that I create an Instagram account for Popeye because he was cute,” she said. “Jen and I liked to go on what we call ‘Instagram dates’ and take pics of our food. I’d bring Popeye any time I can.”

Photos of the Popeye at restaurants went viral, and his account now has more than 108,000 followers. But how does the formerly homeless pup behave around so much people food?

“He doesn’t lunge for food or really even care for it,” Diep said. “He just liked to be out. He’ll get nibbles of anything that’s safe for him. I also carry a bag of treats for him, in case there’s nothing he can have.”

Here he is resisting chicken fingers and fries at Raising Caine’s Chicken Fingers

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And here he is ignoring some tasty-looking hot cakes at Jack in the Box.

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Mmmm. In-N-Out Burger.

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Popeye is not scared of this huge pizza pie.

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Living the dream at Shake Shack.

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A little spinach dip at California Pizza Kitchen.

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Nice bib, Popeye!

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For more, check out the PopeyeTheFoodie’s Instagram account here.

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WATCH: Dog Completely Loses It After Owner Dresses Up As Favorite Toy For Halloween

Taylor Berman
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WATCH: Dog Completely Loses It After Owner Dresses Up As Favorite Toy For Halloween

If you’re looking for an inspired Halloween costume, you could do worse than dressing up as your dog’s favorite toy.

Last night, Facebook user Emily Crisp, who works as a training technician for Guide Dogs for the Blind, posted a video of a man dressed up as his dog Jolene’s favorite toy. When the video starts, Jolene is contentedly gnawing on her beloved Gumby doll when in walks a man dressed in a Gumby costume. At first, Jolene stares in calm shock at the human-sized Gumby. She then slowly walks over, never taking her eyes of giant green man, and calmly jumps on him, sniffing. She becomes more and more excited, and the two fall to the ground, where Jolene proceeds to jump around and bark.

“Jolene, he’s real!” the woman recording says. “You have a real live Gumby! He’s so happy.”

Watch the full video, which has now been viewed more than 2.3 million times in just 13 hours, below.

Are You Serious? This Hash Is 99.9 Percent THC

Al Olson
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Are You Serious? This Hash Is 99.9 Percent THC

There’s a hot new cannabis concentrate popping up on retail shelves. It’s potent, pricey and definitely not for cannabis neophytes. It’s called THC-A Crystalline and it has been tested at 99.9 percent psychoactive THC. Did I say it’s not for the beginner?

Crystalline began showing up at southern California shops last year, but started to really take off this summer. California medical dispensaries have had trouble keeping the product in stock. But what, exactly, is it?

According to Guild Extracts, one of the popular manufacturers of Crystalline:

THCa Crystalline was developed as a means of delivering large, quantifiable doses of THCa and is known as the purest isolate anywhere on the market – testing at 99-100%. This pure THCa converts to THC when vaped and creates a clear and highly cerebral effect, or remains non-psychoactive when ingested.

To put the 99.9 percent purity in perspective, consider that most concentrates deliver anywhere between 45 to 80 percent THC. And that’s incredibly potent compared to your basic bud in a typical marijuana joint, which is 12 to 20 percent.

The cost of Crystalline varies, but it is generally $200 per gram. You read that correctly: $200 for a single gram. Yes, the price is sky high. And so is the effect.

What the consumer receives for  hit of Yes, the good stuff is a clear-headed, focused high. And you usually do not need more than one long hit to feel an instant effect.

What exactly is THC-A?

First of all, you should know that cannabis, in its natural raw form, is a bundle of cannabinoids, including THC-A. When heated — via vaporization or smoking — decarboxylation occurs.  This process removes the acidic carbon atom (the “A” in THC-A) and creates THC, the psychoactive component.

This explains why you can eat raw cannabis without getting high. It must be decarboxylated.

Should I try Crystalline?

If you have to ask, you should steer clear of it. If you have tried other concentrates (shatter, BHO, ice hash, etc.), and are looking for something new, give it a try … if you can find it.

Remember, it’s not for rookies.

 

Highway is an essential source for cannabis science, how-to stories and demystifying marijuana. Want to read more? Thy these posts: One Man’s Journey In Pursuit Of The Truth Behind Marijuana Prohibition, Marijuana Myth Busting: Does Holding In Smoke Get You Higher? and A Drag Queen’s Visit To The Cannabis Store.

 

How To Transform A Cannabis Chocolate Bar Into 5 Spooky Snacks

Seamus Read
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How To Transform A Cannabis Chocolate Bar Into 5 Spooky Snacks

Halloween is near and though you may not be an expert cannaisseur chef, if you can get your hands on a cannabis chocolate bar there are some fun and easy Halloweed treats you can make with a quick substitution or two! Check out the below recipes for some fun snacks to make that will get you nice and stoned! Just be sure if you’re having a party that all of the guests are properly forewarned.

Marshmallow Pops

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These are an absolute favorite among friends — consider even welcoming your guests with a nice sativa to smoke right off the bat before bringing them into the kitchen to make their own marshmallow pops. Set up the ingredients beforehand and you’ll simply have to melt the chocolate in the microwave. Guests can choose from a variety of toppings and create their own unique Halloweed Treat. Here’s what you’ll need:

Ingredients:
Cannabis Chocolate Bar (Note Strength and Portion Accordingly)
½ Cup Chocolate Chips
Wooden Skewer or Straw
Marshmallows
Variety of Decorative Sprinkles
1-2 teaspoons Vegetable Shortening
Wax or Parchment Paper

Directions:
Set out the different types of sprinkles or toppings you bought on different plates and line up all of the marshmallows with the skewers or straws sticking out of their tops.

In a microwave-safe dish, combine a ½ cup of regular chocolate chips of your choice with your desired dose of cannabis chocolate (start low for beginners). Microwave in short 10-15 second bursts while adding vegetable shortening to get the correct consistency.

Once it’s melted, simply roll your marshmallows through the chocolate first and then through the sprinkles and let them dry!

Halloweed S’mores

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There is no reason the deliciousness of s’mores should be relegated to only when you’re sitting around a campfire because honestly, how often does that happen above the age of 18? Plus, with a couple of easy substitutions you can revamp this age-old classic recipe to be both adult-friendly and Halloween specific.

Ingredients:
Cannabis Chocolate Bar (Note Strength and Portion Accordingly)
Ghost Peep
Graham Crackers

Directions:
Nothing fancy here — no one’s judging you. Follow normal s’more etiquette, stick it in the microwave for a few seconds and enjoy.

Munchie Mix

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It’s always nice to have bowls of snacks lying around the party and you’d be hard-pressed to find a better choice than a munchie mix of sorts. Combine your favorite ingredients with some cannabis chocolate for a nice, relaxing high that will last throughout the evening. Just remember to remind your guests which snacks are medicated so that everyone is aware.

Ingredients (vary to your liking):
Cannabis Chocolate Bar (Note Strength and Portion Accordingly)
Pretzel sticks
Reese’s Pieces
Chex Cereal

Directions:
Chop your cannabis chocolate into small pieces and combine into bowls with the rest of your ingredients. Serve and enjoy!

Weedy Peanut Butter Chocolate Cups

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Nothing goes together better than chocolate and peanut butter and your guests will no doubt be reaching for these homemade weedy peanut butter chocolate cups if given the chance. With only a couple of necessary ingredients, these are easy to make too, which will free up more time for the rest of the party prep … or smoking a pre-party bowl to relax.

Ingredients:
Cannabis Chocolate Bar (Note Strength and Portion Accordingly)
Regular Milk Chocolate Bar
1 tablespoon Vegetable Shortening
¼ Cup Creamy Peanut Butter

Directions:
In a microwave-safe dish, combine a ½ cup of regular chocolate chips of your choice with your desired dose of cannabis chocolate (start low for beginners). Microwave in short 10-15 second bursts while adding vegetable shortening to get the correct consistency.

Place baking cups in a miniature muffin tin (or a makeshift replacement) and place a bottom layer of chocolate in each cup.

Next, melt the peanut butter in the microwave and layer into each of the cups on top of the chocolate. Finally, top it off with the remaining chocolate mixture. Refrigerate until solidified.

Candy Bark

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If there’s anything that tastes delicious when you’re already stoned, it’s all of that Halloween candy you’ve amassed while trick-er … taking someone else’s kid trick-or-treating. While this final recipe can be used pre-Halloween, it might be best served once you’ve got a stash of post-Halloween candy sitting around. You can take whatever leftover candy you’ve got lying around and throw it together with a nice, chocolate, stoney base layer and have a delicious treat to close out the holiday with.

Ingredients:

Cannabis Chocolate Bar (Note Strength and Portion Accordingly)
1 Bag Chocolate Chips
Leftover Candy
1-2 teaspoons Vegetable Shortening

Directions:
In a microwave-safe dish, combine regular chocolate chips of your choice with your desired dose of cannabis chocolate (start low for beginners). Microwave in short 10-15 second bursts while adding vegetable shortening to get the correct consistency.

Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and pour the chocolate mixture onto the sheet while spreading it evenly with a spoon or spatula. While the chocolate is warm, take your leftover Halloween candy and and set it on top of the chocolate, lightly pressing it downwards make sure it sticks. Let it cool before eating.

 

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Why Marijuana-Spiked Candy Is The Most Moronic Halloween Scare Ever

Al Olson
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Why Marijuana-Spiked Candy Is The Most Moronic Halloween Scare Ever

Each year, these fear mongering headlines appear. And each year, the idea of your kid getting THC in their Halloween candy is debunked

Holiday traditions are supposed to be fun, festive and family-friendly. Halloween customs are no different: The costumes. The parties. The “fun-sized” candy.

Oh, about that candy. One of the Halloween traditions scaring the bejesus out of gullible parents is that their trick-or-treating kiddos will get weed-tainted treats from a cabal of crazed evil-doing potheads.

The Great Halloween Candy Scare got a boost this year in Florida. On Monday, the Florida Sheriffs Association held a press conference once again spreading this unfounded fear that kids will get reefer with their Reese’s on Halloween night.

“We are certainly concerned about trick-or-treating this year as well,” Sheriff Jerry Demings warned. “Even though the potential for the marijuana edibles appearing this year may be somewhat minimal, it is still a threat in our community.”

For Demings and other fear-mongers out “somewhat minimal” means it just won’t happen.

When asked, Demings could not provide any instances of children receiving marijuana-laced trick-or-treat candy in legal marijuana states. Not one. Why? Because a child is more likely to get a winning lottery ticket in their bag than cannabis.

Each year, these headlines of fear and danger appear. And each year, it is debunked.

In his press conference, Demings made this audacious claim:

“It looks like any other candy. Sometimes there’s just mean-spirited people who infuse these type of products into our society to create confusion and injure our children and other people.”

The only confusion is that seemingly intelligent people continue to fall for this candy canard. It makes for a good horror story. But it is pure fiction.

California has had legal medical marijuana for 20 years. A basic search through news reports do not show a single incident of this happening. You would think ONE case would emerge in a state as large as California if it happened.

What you DO find is a lot of warnings from authorities who know better.

Enjoy your trick-or-treating this year. And when you watch the video below, take off your tinfoil hat, unless that is your costume.

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Watch: Stephen Colbert And Run The Jewels Create New Halloween Classic

Taylor Berman
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Watch: Stephen Colbert And Run The Jewels Create New Halloween Classic

On last night’s Late Show, Stephen Colbert spoke of the need for a new Halloween classic, noting—semi-accurately—that there hasn’t been one since 1950’s “Monster Mash.” Thankfully, the host enlisted his pals from the rap duo Run the Jewels to help him create the “Halloween Wiggle.”

The song opens with a goofy Colbert dancing cheesily in an orange “Boo!” sweater before Run the Jewel’s El-P and Killer Mike cut in with lyrics like: “Drop pumpkin down low/and make my fun size sticky/I’m about to find out if you a treaty or a tricky/spread your cobwebs/and arch your back/and I’m gonna stick my hand down your candy sack.”

Colbert tries to bring it back to more wholesome territory with a ditty about a harmless dance that includes a “skeleton clap,” but he’s no match for El-P’s raunchy rhymes: “I’m gonna haunt you hard with my unwrapped Snickers/stick my face in a candy bowl/turn you around and lick your Hershey hole.”

We can’t wait to add the “Halloween Wiggle” to our Halloween playlist. Watch the full song below.

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Visual Artist Merges Your Favorite Directors Into Their Cult-Classic Characters

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Visual Artist Merges Your Favorite Directors Into Their Cult-Classic Characters

Creating a timeless film is all-consuming. The directors’ months or years of hard work often merges them into the fabric of the story, and to the rest of the movie-consuming world, they are the cult-classic characters that they create.

Artist Mike Leavitt created “King Cuts” to personify their blood, sweat and tears. According to the bio on his website, Leavitt is a “38 year-old making dolls in his basement” who quit Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute of Art after freshman year. He did alright for himself after that decision, going on to establish his own company in 1997 and hold more than 126 exhibitions around the world.

With “King Cuts,” he’s carved and sculpted 16 of the greatest filmmakers of all time in wood and polymer clay, transforming them into the works they’re famous for. From the portfolio page:

Great film directors get cut up. They take pains with the details, story, money and sacrifices to their vision. Their body succumbs to the pressure. So Mike Leavitt carved Tarantino, Kubrick, Scorsese and more physically consumed by their work. Hitchcock, Coppola and others are cut from blocks of wood like directors cut a take or reel. There’s a risk of mistakes with every slice. Directors commit to a story at every cut. Leavitt unmasks wizards behind the camera like Spielberg and David Lynch to get a taste of their own medicine. ‘King Cuts’ are totems of satire and devotion to the 16 best storytellers ever.

Some of them are hard to look at: We see Quentin Tarantino as a bloodied Kill Bill homage, David Lynch as the Elephant Man and Steven Spielberg as a bizarre ET. Others are just whimsical, with Wes Anderson dressed in his characters’ quirky style and George Lucas as a reclining Jabba the Hutt.

Click through the slideshow above to see more of Leavitt’s work, and read about the exhibition here.

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