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WATCH: Bill Murray And Eddie Vedder Sing The Band’s “The Weight”

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WATCH: Bill Murray And Eddie Vedder Sing The Band’s “The Weight”

Saturday night, the Indians crushed the Cubs at Wrigley Field in Game 4 of the World Series, giving Cleveland a commanding 3-1 series lead. But Cubs super fans Bill Murray and Eddie Vedder didn’t sink into despair; instead they (probably) had a few beers and sang The Band’s “The Weight” together at a house party.

The video below, posted to Pearl Jam Radio’s Facebook page, shows Vedder strumming a guitar and singing next to former Allman Brothers guitarist Derek Trucks. A whole room of people seem to be singing along, including Bill Murray, who—for better or worse—didn’t use a Daffy Duck voice this time.

“These guys are good!” Murray shouts at one point. “Come on!”

All that positivity in the face of imminent defeat seems to have worked in the Cubs favor; since the video was recorded, the team has won two straight and are now tied with the Indians.

In a related story about Bill Murray, the comedy legend surprised a lucky Cubs fan looking to find a ticket to Game 6 Tuesday in Cleveland. As MLB.com reports, fan Karen Michel, clad in her Cubs gear, went to the ticket office at Progressive field hoping that maybe a single ticket might be available for the game. Alas, the game was still completely sold out, but as she was walking away she spotted Murray, who she began to follow, as one does. As two were walking near each other, Murray suddenly stopped.

“He turns around and says, ‘Here, here’s a ticket,'” she said. “And he kind of shuttled me into the door. I thought it was just a ticket to get in. But it was a ticket to sit right here.”

She ended up sitting the entire game next to Murray and just a few rows away from other notable celebrity fans.

“I watched five games at home and they’re showing Eddie Vedder, [Chris] Chelios, whatever, and I’m like, ‘I wonder if I’ll see any of those people,'” she said. “Of course now, I’m here, and I see all kinds of people.”

For more on Michel’s adventure with Murray, head over to MLB.com.

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Hospital Blames Surgery Patient’s Fart For Fire

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Hospital Blames Surgery Patient’s Fart For Fire

As with most surgery-related fart stories, this one is kind of tragic: A hospital in Tokyo says a patient farted during laser surgery earlier this year, triggering a fire that resulted in serious burns to the patient’s body.

The Asahi Shimbun reports the fire took place in April, when a woman in her 30s was undergoing a procedure that involved a laser being used on her cervix. At some point, the woman passed gas, which hit the laser and ignited a blaze that burned her waist, legs, and other parts of her body.

“When the patient’s intestinal gas leaked into the space of the operation (room), it ignited with the irradiation of the laser, and the burning spread, eventually reaching the surgical drape and causing the fire,” the report said, noting that all equipment was operating normally and that no flammable materials were in the surgery room at the time.

Now we can add fire-inducing farts to long list of things to worry about during surgery.

Mom Accidentally Cooks With Cannabutter And Doses The Entire Family

Brea Mosley
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Mom Accidentally Cooks With Cannabutter And Doses The Entire Family

Let us preface this tale with a two-word declaration: Accidents happen. Honestly and truly, they do. Remember that time the 53-year old Omahan accidentally ate four weed brownies from his car as he unloaded groceries, and then proceeded to vigorously diss the family cat? Or that time a Portland woman stole a Subaru that was identical to the one she was supposed to borrow, but then later returned it with a sincere note and $30 in gas money? These are accidents.

We now present you with Redditor Dreamblook whose mother mistakenly used his “high quality cannabutter” to make a chicken dinner for the family, because she thought it was vegan butter. Dreamblook had about 45 minutes before the effects kicked in and so what did he decide to do? He took the situation to Reddit.

Now before all hell breaks loose, Dreamblook takes us through his thoughts. On the one hand, he writes, “Guys I know I can just come clean and tell them. I will if it gets to the point where they are freaking out or something.” He adds, “I’m trying very hard to avoid them ever having to know.”

Users on the Reddit thread suggested he record the whole thing. You know the principle: if you didn’t record it did it really happen. Unfortunately, Dreamblook shuts that down because he doesn’t believe in embarrassing his family and he does believe in Karma.

After dinner, mom started to get suspicious. Dreamblook writes, “My mother just asked me if there was anything wrong with my vegan butter. I decided to tell her it was really old, so they will all just think they have food poisoning or something.” Smart move, right?

Then he breaks down the entire family’s behavior: Sister is asleep; dad is in a trance “with a smile on his face”; mom is going “apeshit” and wants to go to the hospital and Uncle appears to be fine and is trying to calm down mom. Dreamblook notes that if they were to go to the hospital, they’d have to call an ambulance because no one can drive since they ate that baked chicken, pun all the way intended.

Then, the cannabutter culprit starts to notice that his uncle is unbelievably unaffected by the chicken. “He laughs his ass off every time he looks at me. I think he knows.” Yeah, dude, he definitely knows.

But wait, there’s more.

Uncle apparently knew what it was but didn’t want to say anything until everyone finished eating. The dad also knows now because the uncle told him what was up. All three of the men, including Dreamblook agreed that telling mom what she really ate was a terrible idea. (At this point mom has thrown up and is in bed having an existential crisis, still thinking she has food poisoning).

Now you’re probably wondering why he wouldn’t just tell his mom that she had a little (a lot) of THC and that she will be fine, right? Well, according to Dreamblook his mom has never had any kind of drug including coffee, cigarettes and alcohol and she would be destroyed if she found out that she consumed the “devil’s lettuce.”

Meanwhile, his sister has locked herself in her room and no one seems to be concerned because she does this quite often. They’ve all assumed she’s just sleeping it off.

Finally, Dreamblook goes to sleep and this story goes from 0-200 really quick. His sister wakes up and feels like she’s dying so she calls the medics, who in turn call the police. The uncle takes the fall for the entire ordeal and is arrested on felony possession because they live in Arizona, and well, it’s very illegal. Dreamblook says his parents kicked him out the house as soon as the EMT and PD left, and provided an update from a gas station down the road.

Now we don’t know where Dreamblook is now, but he does offer some sound advice “Please let this be a cautionary [tale] to NEVER have your drugs in the family fridge.”

No kidding!

Cue Outrage: Starbucks Unveils Symbolic Green Holiday Cups

Amy Hansen
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Cue Outrage: Starbucks Unveils Symbolic Green Holiday Cups

Halloween is over, which means Christmas decorations will soon be flooding stores and hate comments about the new Starbucks holiday cups will be flooding Twitter.

Last season, the traditional red cups were deemed a “war on Christmas” because of their overt lack of festive design. And now this year, in advance of its official holiday cup release, the company has introduced a “unity” cup of sorts; a green cup with a bunch of people (132 faces, to be exact) drawn in a single continuous line by artist Shogo Ota.

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Explains CEO Howard Schultz:

During a divisive time in our country, Starbucks wanted to  create a symbol of unity as a reminder of our shared values, and the need to be good to each  other.

These new green cups will be offered for a limited time. Basically, until the “real” holiday cups are introduced after the election.

But a handful of confused consumers believe these Grinch cups have stolen the traditional red cups, and are having some issues coming to terms with that:


It’s rumored this year’s red cups will have a chalk design. The official announcement comes November 3, but nothing is really a secret anymore thanks to the Interwebs.

I peeked.

According to People, red cup deliveries have already been made (and photographed), and labeled “No peeking until November 10,” which we can only assume is when Starbucks officially plans to unveil the cups.

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If the green cups don’t unite us, their useless drama will. Well played, Starbucks.

WANTED: Your Favorite Cannabis Recipes

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WANTED: Your Favorite Cannabis Recipes

The Fresh Toast is building its recipe box and we need your help!

Whether it’s your family’s special brownie recipe, a kicky hot sauce, mulled wine or pumpkin pie, if it’s made with cannabis, we’d love for you to share it with us.

Each month, we’ll chose a handful of submissions to add to our recipe section. And for a lucky few, we’ll turn your recipes into a short cooking video (giving you full credit, of course).

Please send your recipes to: consume@thefreshtoast.com

Your contributions are greatly appreciated.

Bikini Contestants Recreate ‘The Last Supper,’ Immediately Regret It

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Bikini Contestants Recreate ‘The Last Supper,’ Immediately Regret It

Let’s start with the fact that there’s a swimsuit competition in Brazil called the Miss Bumbum Pageant.

Recently, a promotional photo was taken wherein all of the finalists posed in their bikinis to recreate “The Last Supper.” You know, that famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci depicting the 12 apostles the moment Jesus announced one of them would betray him?

Pageant creator Cacau Oliver apparently looked at that painting and said, “You know what’s missing? Some scantily clad women sitting on plates of food. Somebody call a photographer!” And that’s how this elegant knock-off was born.


Oliver told The Daily Mail:

It was the last meeting of the women before the grand final. It reminded me of “The Last Supper.” It was where Jesus was betrayed by Judas, because of jealousy, and like it or not the woman with the most votes is also the target of jealousy. She is at the centre, and the other girls will want to crucify her because she got more votes than them.

“The woman with the most votes” is Daiana Fegueredo from Ceará, who beat out 14 other contestants to play Jesus after receiving the most call-in votes for best bottom.

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Danny Morais, a contestant from Santa Catarina, admitted she didn’t even realize what they were being asked to do until it was too late. “Afterwards I was filled with remorse,” she told The Daily Mail. “God knows my heart and knows I wasn’t being bad. I think we can be controversial in other ways, but not using God’s name, not using a biblical story. Her sentiment is echoed by many of her fellow contestants, not to mention religious leaders.

The final eight ladies, whittled down from 27 contestants, battle it out on stage November 9.

Let’s Talk About How Bono Just Won Woman Of The Year

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Let’s Talk About How Bono Just Won Woman Of The Year

Singer-songwriter and philanthropist Paul David Hewson just won this year’s prestigious Woman of the Year award from Glamour.

Hewson joins the gold-standard ranks of women including Olympian Simone Biles, the founders of #BlackLivesMatter Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Opal Tometi, first female finance minister of France Christine Lagarde, and several more women who have shaped our year and carved a path into the future.

But everyone’s talking about this Irish billionaire musician. He did a lot of really nice things for women, and gosh darn it, he gets a gold star.

After hearing the news, he called his wife, Alison Hewson, as Glamour writes: “I asked did she think I deserved it. She wasn’t sure. She said I’ve work to do!”

The wife of this Woman of the Year award winner has been involved in anti-nuclear activism since the 90s, and in 2004 tabloids speculated that the Labour Party wanted to put Hewson up for the Irish presidential election. Her work with the Chernobyl Children’s Project inspired a Cranberries song, and she received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the National University of Ireland for her work on environmental issues.

Who were we talking about again? Oh, yes, Paul David Hewson. This amazing Woman of the Year was named one of the 100 Greatest Britons in 2002 in a public poll despite the fact he is Irish, and the most politically effective celebrity of all time by the National Journal. He was named one of Time Magazine’s “100 Most Influential People” in May 2004 and again in the 2006. Breaking glass ceilings everywhere.

In 2005 he recorded a version of “Don’t Give Up” with Alicia Keys, with proceeds going to Keys’ Keep a Child Alive foundation, a non-profit organization that provides medicine to families with HIV and AIDS in Africa. Keys’ philanthropic work with those affected by HIV has continued since childhood when her mother’s friend died from the disease. She now uses her fame to empowering the next generation of women.

Wait, sorry, back to the amazing PDH. He received the Philadelphia Liberty Medal in 2007, along with a $100,000 prize. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala accepted the award on behalf of Debt AIDS Trade Africa. Okonjo-Iweala served two terms as Finance Minister of Nigeria, was the first female, black candidate to contest for the presidency of the World Bank Group, and was Managing Director of the World Bank from 2007 to 2011. She is Chair of the Board of the African Union’s African Risk Capacity and Chair of the Board of the Nelson Mandela Institution. Among other awards, she’s been listed for 5 consecutive years as one of the 100 Most Powerful Women in the World by Forbes Magazine.

What were we saying? Oh, right. Paul David Hewson, Glamour’s first Man of the Year on the Women of the Year list, has done some noteworthy things for women around the world. He also sometimes goes by the nickname Bono.

Meanwhile, fellow award-winning musician Bob Dylan is probably still shaking his head and hiding with the blinds closed.

Visualize The News: Justin Bieber Gets ‘Weird,’ Bey And Jay Slay Halloween

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Visualize The News: Justin Bieber Gets ‘Weird,’ Bey And Jay Slay Halloween

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.

Justin Bieber Goes Hippie

Social media, texting, constant connection—a few qualities attributed to this second, digital world contained inside our pockets and purses. That world often times doesn’t allow a moment to disconnect and digest the bigger questions. Or, as contemporary philosopher Kylie Jenner put it, “of just, like, realizing things.”

The white-hot, always-on spotlight of celebrity only intensifies these pressures. Just ask Justin Bieber. Following his brand reclamation project/2015 album Purpose release—though, also a fresh record!—the Biebs has been touring since early March. The global Purpose tour hasn’t stopped and won’t anytime soon—Bieber’s slated to be on the road until late April 2017, with no real break in between. That’s over a year touring, a grind more Sisyphean than Herculean with its tedious monotony of high-pitched adoration and perpetual reproduction.

How’s Justin been handling it? Well…he’s gone a bit hippie-high existential. He got extremely woke about awards shows (“When I look in the audience I see a bunch of fake smiles”), quit Instagram, and buzzed his head. Little diva, sure, but he’s supposed to be one. Then he strolled barefoot through Boston, playing with a squirrel and climbing trees. Which, hey, squirrels are cute and fun. Who hasn’t climbed a tree? No shame, bruh.

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It reached a somewhat breaking point during a Manchester concert as Biebs tried to “have a moment” with his fans, speak some of that real-real, maybe deliver some Kanye-concert wisdom, but they wouldn’t stop cheering. So he stormed off, dropping the mic. He returned, because brand damage control, but seemed genuinely frustrated he couldn’t have a genuine minute in a concert where he genuinely places himself inside a glass case of his genuine emotions.

The latest act that has celebrity oglers reacting “Why is Justin acting so wEiRd!?” occurred in Scotland, where Bieber, minding his own business, was chided by some locals. Driving by, the Scots greeted the pop star in heavy slang—indecipherable on the first listen—while Bieber appeared confused and lost. The “wEiRd” behavior? Bieber was hanging alone on a brick wall, deep in thought, alone, when the Scots happened upon him.

We’ll dive deeper into just what those existentialist thoughts might be next week, but for now, can’t the world give the kid some space?

LeBron James: Basketball GOAT, Troll King

So often we forget why people troll: done lighthearted, it’s damn fun. [Insert rebuttal on trolling’s darker evils if you’re the type of person who needs that sort of thing.]

Twitter has long replaced bridges as the home for trolls worldwide. Damp, delectable, and deplorable, Twitter provides all a troll needs. Any power of an internet cultural artifact lies in its repetition and ubiquity. Think Michael Jordan’s crying face meme, Nyan Cat, Rick Rolling, the Kardashians. You can’t forget them; they’re everywhere. That must mean something.

So the funniest Twitter trolls remind you of facts (super sarcastic italics here) you couldn’t possibly forget. It’s too important to forget. The best of these forceful tokens have been two memes recited over and over again, especially when they don’t really make sense. It’s such a simple phrase, the first one: “J. Cole went platinum with no features.” Once a chip J. Cole stans used to argue their guy was the certified GOAT, its online recurring echo has stripped it of any power it once had. Now it’s just a punchline.

Let the tweets explain.

https://twitter.com/MatthewACherry/status/739486259567988738

https://twitter.com/SuperPusha/status/747877932941647873

https://twitter.com/SheaSerrano/status/741374229845680128

https://twitter.com/big_business_/status/734819504694263808

Funny, right? That’s an online joke running close to two years now and hasn’t lost any steam. The other is more recent, but no less silly.

Posting a 73-9 regular season record, the Golden State Warriors were a historically great basketball team last season. This much reigns indisputable. But the fact remains: Golden State blew a 3-1 lead to LeBron James’ Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA Finals. Can’t be the best if you ain’t the champ. The joke writes itself.

Once again, we’ll allow the tweets to explain.

https://twitter.com/edsbs/status/768443812356030464

https://twitter.com/MarronMatt/status/768172497590112256

https://twitter.com/iamHectorDiaz/status/767758954197757952

https://twitter.com/RealLifeKaz/status/767762851897499649

Never is the answer. But these tweets hold little weight against the biggest troll of this meme: LeBron James. Notoriously, the man’s a big Halloween fan and this year he and his Cavs teammates celebrated in full, with costumes and a big party hosted by James. At this party, as is customary, was a DJ. Check the message on the kickdrum.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BMNi-6BhLDQ/

That wasn’t all. James posted what seemed like an innocuous spread of their extravagant dessert spread. Only it contained a ruthless, gloriously petty burn within something so sugary and sweet. Check those owl cookies on the bottom right. If you squint tight, you might realize two gravestone pastries rest at the top, but it’s difficult to discern what the inscription reads.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BMPKiAGhQ92/?taken-by=kingjames

Well thankfully, some users enhanced and caught the joke: Gravestones for Steph Curry and Klay Thompson. Ouch.

Wonderful. Not only is LeBron James the basketball GOAT, he’s a troll king.

Beyoncé and Jay Z Slay Halloween

Stars really love this Halloween holiday, huh? Maybe it’s because, as celebrities, they’re forced to play a strict, two-dimensional, digestible version of themselves all the time and Halloween is the one time a year they can shed their own weary, heavy skin and walk around the world with the armor of another temporary character. Who knows, though.

Anyways, Beyoncé and Jay Z, along with their daughter Blue Ivy, took top honors in the “fam costume” honors with their black Barbie and Ken getup.

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An insider source revealed that when Jay Z complained that his friends Memphis Bleek and Swizz Beatz and Ti Ti and others might make fun of him, Bey told her husband to refer kindly to “the tape.”


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Gird Your Loins: Cheese Lattes Are Now A Thing

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Gird Your Loins: Cheese Lattes Are Now A Thing

So you think that the idea of cheese lattes sound crazy? If you had told any regular coffee drinker two decades ago that in 2016, an extremely popular coffee beverage would be a pumpkin-flavored beverage, they’d have laughed you out of the diner. Maybe even roughed you up in the parking lot for good measure. The idea, if you look at it objectively is, well, gross.

Pumpkin is a gourd. A big, stereotypically orange, earthy sphere of a vegetable. In general, it’s most commonly seen as a savory addition to pastas or other starchy delights. That is, except for its ubiquitous presence as an uber-popular Thanksgiving dessert. A popular after-dinner treat, where pumpkin plays a texture role, with sugar, cloves and cinnamon adding the “dessert” aspect — conscripted by Starbucks into a teeth-rotting beverage now considered to be one of their very best-sellers. The evolution in taste occurred because of savvy marketing and a lot of sugar, and we can now think of pumpkin in not only liquid form, but milky, frothy, espresso-tinged liquid form.

What if we went another step forward into the world of flavored coffee beverages? What if someone, somewhere, decided that the general public was ready for a more “savory” coffee beverage? What if they decided that what coffee really needed was cheese? What we’re trying to say is that a cheese latte exists. And it may not be as disgusting as it sounds. Let’s start from the beginning.

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What exactly are cheese lattes? The combination of words brings together some horrendous combination of queso and coffee blended together and then topped with a frothy blast of gouda-flavored whipped cream — a market-tested monstrosity invented to grace the Instagram feeds of appalled consumers. And though the exact origin of the cheese latte (commonly called the honey cheese latte) seems to have been lost to the history books, the brief amount of information online points to those gastronomic mad scientists in Korea as the originators of the beverage.

Honey in Korea is a big deal. It’s been served to royalty as far back as 1392; it appears in the traditional half-moon rice cakes served during the country’s Great Mid-Autumn Festival; hell, the word “honey” even slips its way into how Korean’s write and talk about their enjoyment of food. Korean’s love honey in whatever form — powder, syrup, straight sticky, whatever — including the Honey Cheese Latte, a saccharine mixture of milk, honey and yes, cheese. It’s so popular that even 7-11 makes its own take-home variety. The concept seemingly has grown popular enough in Korea to reach across the Yellow Sea to China, where Starbucks has released it’s own “Lemon Cheese” variant on the idea.

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And though, yes, it is hard to wrap one’s head (or tastebuds) around the concept of cheese and latte mixed together into a beverage, a description from the Starbucks China Lemon Cheese Lattes page at least paints a picture of something slightly edible:

Bringing a touch of sunshine to your day with fresh lemon flavor and savory cheese balanced with classic Starbuck’s espresso, topped with citrus peels and mixed dried fruits.

Though it does boggle the mind to think that someone in some lab somewhere believed that this mixture of flavors would taste good super-heated and then covered with whipped cream, this description at least doesn’t make it sound completely inedible. More so, it feels like so many other heavily flavored coffee beverage concepts in which a company has taken a more complex food experience and tried to extract a simpler, sweeter version into a cup. Think of the PSL’s liquid form of pumpkin pie, but instead of cloves, gourds and cinnamon mashed into your Venti paper cup, the cheese latte is something a bit more experiential. Imagine a quaint French cafe, a block of hard cheese with a drizzle of honey, and a strong cup of coffee accompanying all of it. Now, take that image, toss it into a blender, throw in some steamed milk, squirt some whipped cream on top, throw a few grates of Pecorino on top, and voila —  cheese latte. One online reviewer described it as, “a cheesecake milkshake waiting to happen.” Do with that what you will.

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Let’s be honest: the words cheese and latte don’t go together. They are a separate experience that are perhaps sometimes served together, but never mixed. Well, at least for now. Thirty years ago we drank our coffee black and thought espresso was for Europeans. But look at us now. We obsess over pumpkin spice. We happily pound matcha tea-infused coffee beverages. Starbucks is rolling out a “Chili Mocha” this holiday season and we don’t even flinch. Sure, the combination of cheese and coffee isn’t one that’s graced our national palates as of yet, but the American tastebud is always evolving. A couple curly shaves of Parmesan and a touch of honey mixed with our coffee bevy might not be that far off in the future.

WATCH: The World’s First Pro-Cannabis Commercial, ‘Cannabis Clicker’

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WATCH: The World’s First Pro-Cannabis Commercial, ‘Cannabis Clicker’

Seattle-based multimedia company Higher Ground has created a new ad to support legalization reform efforts across the country. “Cannabis Clicker” will air in the five states with recreational legalization ballots: California, Maine, Nevada, Arizona and Massachusetts. The ad will also run in states with medical marijuana votes, including Oklahoma, Florida, Arkansas, North Dakota and Montana. All told, nine states will be voting on ballot initiatives related to legalizing and regulating cannabis on November 8th.

“We wanted to use the old reefer madness propaganda as part of our ad,” noted EIC Michael A. Stusser, “and juxtapose it with what’s really going on.” The ad, titled “Cannabis Clicker,” shows side-by-side living rooms, one playing anti-drug commercials and films from a now bygone era, while the set in the modern living room plays news stories about legalization from the past few years. “Sometimes it’s best just to let the story tell itself,” Stusser notes. “Teen drug use has actually gone down since legalization, massive taxes have been raised, there has been no increase in traffic fatalities – and the sky has not fallen.”  

The Cannabis Clicker ad uses clips from the original Reefer Madness movie, the infamous “Your Brain on Drugs” PSA, as well as modern-day news clips featuring studies and research related to the legalization of marijuana.

Based out of Seattle, where recreational marijuana was legalized in 2012, Higher Ground is attempting to “Elevate the Dialogue” and broaden the movement nationally. While legal in Washington, Colorado, Alaska and Oregon, the use, sale or distribution of cannabis is still a felony at the federal level, and over 700,000 Americans are arrested every year for marijuana-related offenses.

The parody ad has been provided to all the pro-legalization campaigns, and is being used both on social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and VIMEO) as well as paid television in selected markets in California and Nevada.

 

Highway is an essential source for cannabis science, how-to stories and demystifying marijuana. Want to read more? Try 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. 

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