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You Will Soon Be Able To Smoke Strains From Hunter S. Thompson’s Personal Stash

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You Will Soon Be Able To Smoke Strains From Hunter S. Thompson’s Personal Stash

It was approaching the late morning when the news began to take hold. Soon, we’d be able to participate in the cannabis strains from the good doctor himself. Dr. Gonzo that is.

That’s right. Anita Thompson, widow to famed writer Hunter S. Thompson, announced she would soon be cultivating and selling marijuana strains cloned from Thompson’s personal stash. While stating you’ll soon get as high as Thompson feels like an overstatement—the normal human body can’t handle that consumption—you can at least share in his haze.

Anita Thompson broke the news to the Aspen Times, detailing her future plans regarding the Owl Farm, Hunter’s secluded and “fortified compound” as he referred to it. Hunter S. Thompson had established a trust before his passing that allowed Anita to live there for the rest of her life, but it would be owned by the Gonzo Trust.

However, Anita purchased the rights to full ownership of the property back in June. The deal included Anita also gaining complete ownership over the “Gonzo” logo and to Hunter’s likeness, though she gave up her rights as beneficiary to Hunter’s book sales.

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One of her first projects with regards to Hunter’s likeness involves the aforementioned weed strains. Anita said she’d been approached previously by distributors and growers “to slap Hunter’s name on their strain,” but she refused every time. Instead she has six strains the good doctor toked himself, and will work with cannabis companies to sell them or hybrids of the strains to public.


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“I have found a legal method to extract the DNA from Hunter’s personal marijuana and hashish that I saved for 12-15 years,” Anita wrote in a follow-up Facebook post. “I am in the process of making the strains available to those who would like to enjoy the authentic Gonzo strains in legal states.”

The sales would go to support plans to turning Owl Farm into a private museum of sorts, as well as writer’s residence. Anita previously was hesitant to promote Hunter’s larger-than-life lifestyle, and wanted fans to focus on his writing and craft.

“I was always steering toward his work and away from his lifestyle, but now I feel like I can talk more openly about his lifestyle,” she said. “I’m proud to do it now. Before, it was a little too risky.”

Or as she more frankly put it: “I’m looking forward to being a drug lord.”

Winning? 50-Year Ban On Haggis To Be Lifted, Dish Coming To US

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Winning? 50-Year Ban On Haggis To Be Lifted, Dish Coming To US

Just the name is enough to send some folks into a fit of nausea: haggis.

The dish, made popular by the Scots, is a “savory pudding” made from ground up sheep organs (heart, liver, lungs), along with oatmeal and spices. And it’s all encased in the sheep’s stomach. It may sound disgusting, but once the stomach is slit open and the contents are served, it looks a lot like ground meat. And let’s face it, ground meat (especially commercial hot dogs and sausages) are no ingredient picnic, either.

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For those licking their lips over the description, good news: a nearly 50-year ban on this traditional meal may soon be lifted.

It all started in 1971 when the U.S. Department of Agriculture ruled that “livestock lungs shall not be saved for use as human food.” And the whole mad cow disease scare in the late 90s didn’t help matters.

But now, a milestone is said to have been reached between the U.S. and Scottish governments, and that the ban could be lifted by early next year.

Still not sold on the haggis idea? America’s unofficial voice of food reason, Anthony Bourdain, is here to talk some sense into you.


Watch A Giraffe Stomp All Over A Lion In Shocking New ‘Planet Earth II’ Clip

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Watch A Giraffe Stomp All Over A Lion In Shocking New ‘Planet Earth II’ Clip

We’ve already written about how amazing ‘Planet Earth II’ appears to be based on its extended trailer, a horrifying clip of a lizard outrunning dozens of speedy snakes, and a video of very good bears dancing/scratching their backs on trees to “Jungle Boogie.” Now, the BBC has released another preview of the documentary series, which is currently airing in the UK and will debut on January 28, 2017 in the U.S.

In the clip, a lion appears ready to pounce on its prey but then slowly begins to back away before leaping into the air as a big-ass giraffe gallops into the frame at full speed. The lion lashes at the giraffe with its claws, but it’s no use; the long-necked creature plows right over the predator and then tramples it with its hooves. The lion bounces back upright and appears to be considering giving chase to the giraffe when the video fades out. 

Who knew giraffes could ruin a lion like that? Not us, that’s for sure.

And here’s a video of a giraffe attacking a woman who’d wandered to close to it.

The lesson is: Don’t fight or walk near a giraffe, even if you’re a lion.

 

 

Golden Girls Get Real: Now You Can Flip Someone Off With Bea Arthur’s Face

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Golden Girls Get Real: Now You Can Flip Someone Off With Bea Arthur’s Face

The Golden Girls were lightyears ahead of their time for 60-somethings making it work in the ’80s. From their own sexual liberation (“I paid with nature’s credit card”) to homemaking (“If this sauce were a person, I’d get naked and make love to it.”), marriage (“me in white, even I couldn’t keep a straight face”) and homosexuality (“You really haven’t grasped the concept of this “gay thing” yet, have you, Blanche?”) they covered it all.

Thirty-one years later, they’re commemorated in a form they’d proudly raise a forkful of cheesecake to: Nail art.

Dorothy, Rose, Blanche and Sophia grace these fingernails by NYC-based Instagrammer Cotton Polish in caricatured glory. They’re surrounded by palm trees in a golden Miami sunset, and the words “Stay Golden” on the thumbs.

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If you’re needing your own set of ladies on your nails, Etsy’s got you, with photorealistic and doodle decals of the coolest squad since 1985.

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People Are Freaking About About Sapiosexuality: What You Need To Know

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People Are Freaking About About Sapiosexuality: What You Need To Know

A dictionary stirred up a controversial topic: Is sapiosexuality a legitimate sexual preference, or should it be relegated to the likes of lumbersexual?

It all started with a tweet:

On their blog, Merriam-Webster states that “sapiosexual” means to be “sexually attracted to highly intelligent people.” They may not have an official entry for it yet, but they offer this etymology of the word:

Sapiosexual is a hybrid word—that is, a word made up of parts of other words, typically from Latin or Greek. Often these words are recent coinages despite their Classical lineage. Sapio- comes from the Latin verb sapere, meaning “to be wise” or “to have sense.” It is also the root of such English words as sage, savant, savvy, and, most transparently, sapient, a fancy word for “wise.” It’s visible as well in the common Latin name for the human species, Homo sapiens.

But not everyone is as unbiased about this neologism as Merriam-Webster seems to be. “Pretentious Is Not A Sexual Orientation,” the Daily Beast asserted last year, when this word was having another moment:

We don’t need a special word—especially one modeled after minority identity labels like “homosexual” and “bisexual”—to describe a completely normative facet of human attraction. In the modern world, identifying as sapiosexual has about as much semantic utility as claiming that you are kind-sexual, dependable-sexual, or rich-sexual.

And the responses to Merriam-Webster’s blog post tweet are divided but mostly cutting, but totally amusing.

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Some think the question is legitimate and the word deserves a spot in the dictionary.

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It’s a controversial word, but it’s not worse than the dictionary’s top-searched word of 2016:

What do you think? Is it time to add “sapiosexual” or should it go straight to the cutting floor? 

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WATCH: Baby’s Hilarious Reaction To Eating A Pickle For The First Time

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WATCH: Baby’s Hilarious Reaction To Eating A Pickle For The First Time

The McCallister family filmed their baby, Mason, trying a dill pickle for the first time and the results are pretty adorable. The little guy obviously is taken aback by the tang of the pickled brine, but in a major plot twist, continues to eat it. Addiction: Kids learn it early.

Mason’s dad can be heard saying, “You forget so fast!” but hold on there! Don’t underestimate the power of a crunchy, salty, sour trifecta.

Watch baby Mason tackle his first pickle. One of the best reactions happens around the one minute mark, when Mason can’t decide if he wants to dry heave or smile. He somehow manages to do both.

Visualize The News: Fearing A Future Without Kim Kardashian, Tom Cruise As Messiah

Brendan Bures
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Visualize The News: Fearing A Future Without Kim Kardashian, Tom Cruise As Messiah

Within our hyper-accelerated news culture, it can be tough to keep up with everything. But maintaining an informed populace remains vital to our culture. So for those stories that don’t quite need your undivided attention, we’re helping you digest stuff with GIFS, pics, and whatever qualifies as a quick fix. Remember: Knowing is half the battle. The other half: Laughing at funny memes. 

We must protect the Kardashians

Like pro football, apple pie, and the Michael Jordan crying meme, Keeping Up With The Kardashians is an American institution. We rely on these entities to persist, even amidst our collapsing, frightening world. Maybe we’re not lost without them, but imagining a universe where I can’t place a MJ-crying face on my friend’s face isn’t a universe I’m much interested in living.

Our reality may be ruptured soon it seems. According to TMZ, KUWTK’s production will remain on hiatus through the end of the year. The show initially stopped production after Kim Kardashian was robbed in her Pairs hotel this past October. Plans were to resume filming soon until Kanye was hospitalized following reports he suffered from “temporary psychosis.”

Apparently there’s enough footage to meet series requirements, though the plan was to film through December. Since the robbery, TMZ’s sources say Kim has been “rethinking everything.”

There you have it. Kim’s rethinking everything, like if we’re all living in a simulation, whether LeBron James is a better basketball player than Michael Jordan, and whether social media benefits or destroy our social structures. You know, things of that nature.

How might this impact the future of KUWTK? As I said, it’s an American institution (what’s an institution again?). The possibility of it ending isn’t heartwarming. Just ask Kanye.


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We must embrace this unstable future of ours, though. While KUWTK will probably continue (because the Kardashians aren’t turning down that E! money), let’s briefly reminisce on what we might soon miss.


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Your response to all this news could be a resounding Who Cares? If so, why are you reading this? Also, what more do you want? Are you not enlightened by Kendall’s philosophical musings?

I won’t waste my time. Kourt, can you help us out here.


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Tom Cruise, the Messenger

Stop me if you heard this one before: Tom Cruise is the Messiah. Have I been known to casually toss out such a statement? Depends. How recently have I seen Top Gun? Easy to slip into hyperbole then. But what if A Few Good Men is the last Cruise vehicle I’ve seen? I’ll probably go around “demanding answers” that “I think I’m entitled to.” If Vanilla Sky and/or Minority Report have popped on a streaming device, then I’ll be questioning the nature of my reality and thinking Cameron Diaz is one crazy bitch.

Within the Church of Scientology, such variables don’t exist. He’s their Messiah.


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Stop laughing, Tom. This is real, at least according to former Church member and King of Queens actress Leah Remini. She’s hosting a miniseries on A&E called Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath and published her account of leaving the Church in the 2015 bestseller Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology. To promote the show, she hosted a recent AMA on Reddit where someone asked “Is Tom Cruise really the ‘Messiah?’ ”

Remini was blunt in her response:

To the “Church,” yes. Parishioners believe that he is singlehandedly changing the planet because that is what the “Church” is telling them.

To which I say: What does this GIF mean to you? Because to me it sums up all feelings and thoughts regarding this news.


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Watch This Pianist Blow Minds With Her Jazzy Mozart Rendition

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Watch This Pianist Blow Minds With Her Jazzy Mozart Rendition

Think you can’t get into piano concertos? The thought of listening to Mozart make you yawn? Then you haven’t met Yuja Wang and her jazzy Mozart tunes.

She turns the old dusty Rondo alla Turca into a completely new piece, infusing it with jazz and honky-tonk influences, in a now-viral video that’s been viewed more than 18 million times and shared over 330,000 times on Facebook. Her fingers fly across the keys, mounting a frenzied pace that at moments seem crazed but never out of her control. Her signature look of flowing, sparkling dresses with cutout accents and stiletto heels on the pedals make the performance that much more mesmerizing.

A music blog reports that it’s a mishmash of Arcadi Volodos and Fazil Say’s versions of the piece, for those classical wonks wondering. 

Wang’s habit of following soaring, technically challenging performances — such as the one that preceded this piece, with the Berlin Philharmonic — with a playful work of her own design is well-documented. Sometimes, critics find this off-putting or disrespectful to the rest of the concert. Her response, as told in a New Yorker interview earlier this month, is as defiant as her stage presence:

“If instead of feeling exhausted I feel exhilarated, and want to make people happy by giving them a gift, why not do it? It feels like home to play those familiar pieces. People play encores after much more sublime pieces. Why can’t you do it after climbing Mt. Everest? Stupid conservative doctrine.”

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Would You Like Some Weed Delivery With Your Newspaper?

Brendan Bures
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Would You Like Some Weed Delivery With Your Newspaper?

Working within the media industry, you hears tons of conversation around the decline of the print industry. This is especially true with the fall of newspapers, an idea bolstered by sliding advertiser numbers and single-copy print sales.

But one demographic hasn’t received the just spotlight deserved: the paperboy/weed delivery guy. This story comes courtesy of The Buffalo News, who learned a paperboy was allegedly selling weed while tossing out papers.

Police received an anonymous tip that a morning delivery person was selling drugs during his route. This eventually led to them pulling over the 58-year-old Douglas Lukehart (more paperman than paperboy, if we’re being honest) for “a violation of vehicle and traffic law, the nature of which was not included in the news release,” says The Buffalo News.

A deputy and K9 unit searched the vehicle and discovered a bag of marijuana hidden among the newspapers. Lukehart was charged with unlawful possession of marijuana and several vehicle and traffic violations

“This person was an independent contractor and not an employee of The News,” a Buffalo News spokesman said. “The News separately contracts with many delivery persons for paper delivery routes. We became aware of this situation and have taken immediate steps to sever our contractual relationship with this individual.”

So now it looks like Lukehart is out of not one, but potentially two jobs. It’s hard not to consider Lukehart another victim in the demise of print. Perhaps he can get in with California farmers trying add cannabis to their produce delivery. And at least he didn’t lose $50,000 worth of edibles like this delivery truck on that Delaware Bridge that burst into flames.

 

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CannKorp Creates the ‘Keurig of Marijuana’ Because Why the Hell Not

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CannKorp Creates the ‘Keurig of Marijuana’ Because Why the Hell Not

Just when you think you’ve seen it all, companies like Massachussetts-based CannaKorp disrupt that thought to bring you CannaCloud, the world’s first single-use pod vaporizing system. Some users have crowned the system, the “Keurig of marijuana” which is undoubtedly fitting, considering the company’s team includes not one, not two, but three former Keurig executives.

Go figure.

Anyways, here’s how it works: First, the user inserts the pre-sealed, dose controlled CannaCloud pod or “CPod” the same way one would enter the K-cup in the top of the Keurig, except instead of fresh ground coffee, you have fresh cannabis. Then, the vaporization process begins, which only takes about 60 seconds.

Then, you inhale the vapor through a mouthpiece. It’s as simple as that! Plus, this nifty little system calls for no waste: once you stop inhaling, the cannister blocks the passageway so that no additional vapor is released until you inhale again.

Did we mention that the detachable canister is dishwasher safe, for easy cleaning? Boom!


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And just as everyone likes their coffee fresh, those interested in the CannaCloud can expect that same freshness from whichever strains they chose to consume. According to the website, “Pods are pre-ground cannabis flower that are sealed to lock in flavor, aroma and freshness that ensures a great experience every time.”

The pods will be available in a wide variety of strains, according to the company website. Users can pick between sativa, indica, hybrid and CBD-only.

While they haven’t specifically released the types of strains that are available, we can pinpoint a few we’d definitely like to see.

First, some Blue Dream sativa would be an amazing choice for someone looking to jump start their day. The sweet, blueberry aroma is sure to awaken the senses and basically get you ready to take on the world: mountain climbing, sky diving or whatever it is that you’re into.


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Alternatively, for people trying to set the mood late night (or hell, midday) we think the CannaCloud should include some Gobbilygoo, an indica strain that will leave your body relaxed, stimulated and soothed, at the same time.

Most importantly, we hope the CPods are available in Pineapple Express (and no it’s not because we loved Seth Rogen and James Franco in the movie). Some good P.E. will give users the best of both worlds: energy and ease; intoxication and relaxation.

Co-founder and CEO of CannaKorp, James Winokur, told CNBC that they wanted to create a product that would “simplify and improve the cannabis consumer experience.” And if you think this product is only for medical marijuana users, think again. Winokur adds, “We really think of it as wellness. People are using cannabis in a range of areas to make themselves feel better.”

So whether you consume for medical or recreational reasons Winokur classifies their product as a “wellness” device so everyone is invited to partake. (And partake on the go?)

The device is set to retail at around $150 and each pod will go for about $6 or $7. Just how the Keurig provides K-cups in different flavors, CannaCloud is no different.

The company has raised over $1.5 million in funding and is getting ready to start manufacturing, with hopes that the Canna Cloud and its pods will be available in states where marijuana is regulated, but legal.

So are you down with the CannaCloud? Let us know in the comments!

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