A moon is on the loose in Fuzhou, China.
Shaghaiist reports that the runaway moon was a decoration for the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival before it was dislodged by Super Typhoon Meranti’s winds. Now it’s a wandering, half-deflated menace.
Watch out for the moon.
The great clowns epidemic of 2016 has drifted south to Georgia, where children in two cities have reportedly been harassed by the make-up-covered walking nightmares.
In LaGrange, Ga. on Monday, a Facebook group purportedly started by a clown (or clowns) threatened to drive a van to five local schools and abduct children, according to WXIA. The Facebook group has since been taken down, but the LaGrange police department isn’t taking any chances.
The same day, 95 miles to the east, in Macon, Ga., a woman claims three of her children were chased by clowns who had emerged from the woods.
“They’re still shaken up,” Aisha Thompson told WGXA. “My oldest daughter, she’s the big sister of all four of them, she’s shaking in her jacket. When I was hugging her she was shaking and she’s in the mentor’s program, on the softball team, and JLC. She doesn’t want to go to school, and my children love school.”
Mother of 4 who lives on Elkan Ave. says her children were chased by clowns while walking sister to school @WGXAnews pic.twitter.com/ndYTifpgn4
— Emily Swecker (@EmilySweckerTV) September 13, 2016
According to Thompson’s youngest son, the clowns were carrying lasers; other witnesses told police they were holding flashlights and fake knives. There were also reports of Facebook messages sent from people in clown make-up that read, “I will find you.”
Like the incident of LaGrange, police have so far found no physical evidence to support the clown claims.
The Georgia clown developments come fast on the (floppy, red, oversized) heels of similar incidents in South and North Carolina, and just days after Stephen King told a reporter he suspects the entire thing is a series of hoaxes.
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If you’re new to reddit, there’s a thing called AMA where someone, usually a famous someone, opens up the flood gates, urging users to Ask Me Anything! Today, someone with the handle TomDermotBrown, a guy claiming to be a former UK Domino’s Pizza employee, took a stab at it. And the results are pretty entertaining (and eye-opening). Here are a few highlights:
A few takeaways: Domino’s Pizza tastes better in the UK, but it’s also more expensive (about $20 per pie) and smaller, by about half an inch. They also have toppings like tandoori chicken, sweetcorn, tuna and green chilies. And they use tortillas for their thin crust pizza. Also: four cocaines.
“Hello, your driverless car has arrived.” That message is greeting Uber users in Pittsburgh today, as the company unveils its brand-new driverless car function. “Why Pittsburgh?” you might ask. According to Popular Science, it’s where Uber established its secretive robotics plants, pilfering minds from Carnegie Mellon’s renowned robotics program.
But also, Pittsburgh’s apparently a really hard city to drive around even if you’re human! As Uber Engineering Director Raffi Krikorian told PopSci, “We jokingly call Pittsburgh the double black diamond of driving […] We say if we can drive in Pittsburgh, we can drive anywhere.”
In that same interview, Krikorian posits that manifesting the driverless car is a safety issue, and definitely not to eliminate a human work force. “Driving is actually a pretty dangerous thing,” he says, sounding every bit the economic existentialist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmofgf-Y3Mc
Living in Austin, Texas, I may or may not have a personal bias against Uber (and Lyft) for leaving the city after voters passed regulations on the ride-share services. (Business Insider has a good recap, if you’re unfamiliar.) So if I sound *down* on Uber’s driverless car thing, take it with a shaker of salt.
That being said, I’m terrified. Almost every major tech company is chasing the driverless car: Apple, Google, Lyft. More and more technology has replaced not just our need to provide for ourselves, but might be replacing, well, us. Humans. AI and tech making humans obsolete is very much an ongoing conversation currently.
Excuse me if I sound like a Luddite, but driverless cars isn’t the only technology pushing human jobs (and humans!) into irrelevancy. In fact, there’s enough to make you a little uncomfortable about the future.
When Jeff Bezos announced these bad boys during a 2013 60 Minutes interview, the reaction was clinically tepid. It sounded like a marketing gimmick. But now they’re real and happening.
While the qualifications necessary to order Amazon Air—chief among them: living near an Amazon plant and not living in a city—chills its immediate impact, it’s just a small part of how Amazon plans to revolutionize the transportation of their goods. It could be seen as Amazon pushing out the third-party transportation services they’ve relied on—FedEx, UPS, the United States Postal Service—but the New York Times says that’s not what happening here. Instead, all deliveries will look to the sky.
What’s that in the sky? A bird, a plane, Superman? Nope, it’s a robot delivering your mom’s marijuana tampons.
This one seems miniscule: A roving robot sucking up whatever dirty crusties lie on your floor. Parks & Rec’s Tom Haverford even transformed this little guy into a DJ.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXhsUPtsiLU
But beware of leaving the Roomba running while at work: Not all may be white and clean in your home upon returning. It may be brown and shitty. The “poopocalypse” of last month reminds us that robots still exhibit human levels of stupidity: A Roomba scooped up a piece of dog poop, and smeared and sprayed it all over the house. What’s worse: A spokesperson for iRobot, makers of the Roomba, relayed this message to the Guardian regarding the incident: ““Quite honestly, we see this a lot.”
The future: a magical world full of poop floors.
Hmm. In a world full of dating apps like Tinder, Bumble, and Grindr, in a world full of tele-cocooning individuals who date while never seeing each other, in a world where the Japanese government hosts matchmaking events to boost a falling birth rate, in our world of modern romance, maybe a female robot who can answer questions and heed your demands from anywhere in the house isn’t the best idea.
Spike Jonze should make a movie about this.
Pornography tends to influence technology: It helped VHS defeat Betamax, it instituted online transactions, and claims loads of internet content. As this Business Insider headline states: PORN: The Hidden Engine that Drives Innovation in Tech.
Many proclaim that porn could usher in a new era of virtual reality. With companies like PornHub offering free Google Cardboard quality devices, it doesn’t seem far off. But goodness, what a scary world.
I’m positive this will solve the sex problems of nerds everywhere.
Why create anything? Why make anything? Why craft new products? We have 3D printing.
3D printing can “print” organs, guns, prosthetics, and car parts. It is literally the future. And the machine will makes its own parts and makes improved 3D printers and we will become obsolete. Because we’re humans and the world doesn’t need us anymore. It has our technology.
Ever wonder how to have a long, brilliant career in the NFL? Well, thanks to a Tom Brady interview with New York Magazine to promote fluffy shoes, now we know. The secret is: Eat like a finicky child raised by bad parents.
“Do you need to eat a cheeseburger every day to realize that you love a cheeseburger?” the four-time Super Bowl champion replied when asked if he ever misses junk food. “Or could you eat it once a week … or once every two weeks … or once a month … or once every two months?”
Great questions, Tom. Maybe all of the above? But the real key to his success became apparent later in the interview, when Brady made a startling confession.
“I’ve never eaten a strawberry in my life. I have no desire to do that.”
Huh. Add strawberries (and coffee!) to the list of foods—“tomatoes, peppers, mushrooms, and eggplants”—that Brady and his wife, super model Gisele Bündchen never eat, according to Alan Campbell, their personal chef. So what do they eat? From Campbell’s recent interview with Boston.com:
80 percent of what they eat is vegetables. [I buy] the freshest vegetables. If it’s not organic, I don’t use it. And whole grains: brown rice, quinoa, millet, beans. The other 20 percent is lean meats: grass-fed organic steak, duck every now and then, and chicken. As for fish, I mostly cook wild salmon.
It’s very different than a traditional American diet. But if you just eat sugar and carbs—which a lot of people do—your body is so acidic, and that causes disease. Tom recently outed Frosted Flakes and Coca-Cola on WEEI. I love that he did that. Sugar is the death of people.
Success in the NFL might be cool and all, but it sounds really hard. Sugar and carbs are so delicious!
Four years ago, husband-and-wife team Ben Sinclair and Katja Blichfeld released the first episode of High Maintenance on Vimeo. The low-budget web series, which follows a weed dealer—known only as The Guy—as he visits regular customers around New York City, became a cult hit and eventually drew the attention of HBO, where a new season of the show will debut September 16. At this week’s premiere, The Fresh Toast spoke to Sinclair and Blichfeld about the new season, what they enjoy watching after smoking, their dealer’s opinion of the show, and more.
The Fresh Toast: Has your dealer seen the show? If so, what do they think?
Sinclair: We’ve had many dealers over the years because we’ve been making the show for more than four years, so we have some of them that know…and it doesn’t get us free weed. You’d be surprised. With our dealers, they’re like, “So, it’s $200 or whatever.”
Blichfeld: But they’re not the boss.
Sinclair: I know, I know. I’m just trying to make a snappy joke about weed.
What are the best shows to watch while high?
Sinclair: The best show to watch while stoned is the Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! and also their Bedtime Stories. We used to watch Ancient Aliens in like 2011.
Are you worried that if marijuana becomes fully legal, it’ll mean the end of your show?
Sinclair: It seems like the press is really worried that weeds gonna get legal and our show is going to end. We really never had that worry before. We’ll figure it out, like we figure out everything.
The weed users on your show are very normal, everyday people and rarely resemble stereotypical stoners. Was that an intentional decision?
Blichfeld: It was absolutely intentional. It was kind of before we knew we were making a show about pot, I think we were conscious of the fact that we wanted it portrayed in a normal way, to have characters smoking it recreationally like it was no big deal. This is probably because we were feeling insecure about our stonerdom at the time, but we don’t feel that way anymore.
Sinclair: Ever since we were like, “We’re stoners!” people have been like, “Tell me more!” So we’re going to keep doing it.
He’s been a loser. He’s gone through sea changes. He’s gotten his haircut by the devil. Beck (nee Beck Hansen, nee Bek David Campbell), like Madonna, Cher, and other great one-name artists, has crafted a career as a master pop-music shape-shifter.
Last month, he re-emerged with a track that took a far-out mariachi horn line and pumped it up with a booming, buttery beat. Then he had the great idea to call the song “Wow” — which is very much the reaction you’ll have when contemplating the new video.
As Slate notes, the clip “showcases a series of surreal surprises, intermixing footage of horse-straddling cowboys, floating children, blooming roses (with eyes), and other compellingly weird images.” Oh, and his kids: Cosimo and Tuesday Hansen.
While the video is more than enough fantastical eye-candy to keep you delighted this Wednesday, the song also warrants a closer listen for the lyrics. Early in his career, Beck was drawn to fairly surrealistic word-scapes — even in the song that launched his career way back in 1993, “Loser.” That funk-folk song opened by announcing to the world:
In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey
Butane in my veins so I’m out to cut the junkie
With the plastic eyeballs, spray paint the vegetables
Dog food stalls with the beefcake pantyhose
Kill the headlights and put it in neutral
Stock car flamin’ with a loser and the cruise control
Baby’s in Reno with the vitamin D
Trippy, no? Before long, however, Beck was exploring more traditional song and lyrical structures, culminating, in many ways, with the Grammy-winning 2014 album, Morning Phase. That record moved methodically through 13 sweet and soulful songs, and presented Beck as a clear-eyed, curious chronicler of the Modern Human Condition.
So what better, Beck-ier way to follow that up than returning to his strange roots and blowing eyes and minds with a video that plays like a dreamy hallucination and words that present a surrealist portrait of our pixelated new world.
It’s your life
Falling like a hot knife
Call your wife; secular times, these times
My demon’s on the cell phone
To your demons, nothing’s even right or wrong
It’s irrelevant, elephant in the room goes boom
Standing on the lawn doin’ jiu jitsu
Girl in a bikini with the Lamborghini shih-tzu
Yep. That’s life. Can you feel him now?
Here’s a new social media account for you to follow. The Shadow Doodle is your new Instagram obsession. It’s from a filmmaker in Belgium named Vincent Bal. He uses shadows from everyday objects, many kitchen items, to create doodles. If you scroll down far enough, you can see the exact moment he fell into this new passion (around April, with a teacup).
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Bal sells postcards on his Etsy account and he tells us a book is coming in December. Here’s a sample of some of his work. It’s pretty addictive.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BJw9DxDhtG8/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BKNMCt0hB9K/
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https://www.instagram.com/p/BJPlID_BVaf/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BJADpnPhX_Y/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BI3CZ2BhzD7
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Born in 1971, Vincent Bal is a Belgian filmmaker and visual artist widely known for his artwork based around shadows cast by everyday objects. As a writer and director he is best known for Miss Minoes (2001), The Zigzag Kid (2012), Belgian Rhapsody (2014), and The Bloody Olive (1997).
Bal is known for his shadow art illustrations, made by combining shadows cast from everyday objects with hand-drawn doodles. He began his ongoing “Shadowology” series in 2016 when he challenged himself to make a shadow doodle every day. On where the inspiration for the series came from, Bal says:
“Like all good things in life, it came by accident. I was working on a film script (for a film that is never made) when I noticed how the shadow of my teacup looked a bit like an elephant. I gave the shadow animal eyes and a smile, and took a picture. When I shared it on social media, the reactions were really nice, so I decided to try and make one every day. That was may 2016 and I haven’t stopped since.”[3]
Bal is currently working on the Shadowology live-action film that incorporates his shadow drawings and also has a published book of his illustrations by the same name.
Few would accuse Vince Staples of having a big head. You wouldn’t suspect so, anyways. But at 23 years, Staples carries with him an air of living multiple lives. He’s a rapper for start, a very adept one at that, but his career began out of necessity to leave his 2N Gangsta Crip past. His rhymes weave with such earnest bluntness and a conflicted heavy heart. On “Like It Is” from his Summertime ’06 debut album, he rapped: “No matter what we grow into, we never gon’ escape our past.” Pretty bleak outlook for a then 21-year-old kid.
His music often sounds like gangsta rap, but with none of the bravado. There are no heroes in Vince’s stories. “Nate,” a hard-eyed ode to his father locked up when Vince was a first grader, succinctly sums it up: “Knew he was the villain never been a fan of Superman.”
In online circles most know Vince as a funny man. And for good reason—dude’s hilarious. His caustic wit and no bullshit demeanor heard in his raps carry over to his jokes. There’s his “Ray J is a top 5 west coast rapper” legitimate (once-you-hear-it) theory and how Sprite could end rap beefs. GQ partnered with him for videos even; proof enough his jokes are lucrative online. But he blasts internet culture routinely and threatens to leave the online world just as frequently.
Vince Staples could be high on himself, but he chooses levelheadedness at all turns is what I mean. To NPR last year, he said “My job is not for sales. My job is to keep my sanity.” From the outside, he seemed to be succeeding.
So why did this even-keeled, anti-rap rapper Vince Staples go ahead and decide to inflate his head? Especially a guy who boasts about never drinking and never smoking? Had something changed, had he succumbed to the fame, fast women, fast cars?
His recent Prima Donna EP features an artificially big-headed Vince on its cover. That big head tilts sideways, too big for its body, the way a baby’s head is. The expression’s deadpan, bored, perhaps numbed to pain, fame, and everything in between. He just doesn’t seem to give a shit anymore.
The EP begins with a bang. Vince sings a downright lugubrious version of “This Little Light of Mine,” prior to a gunshot going off. It’s a suicide and this character’s light has been extinguished. Only after a few listens do you realize Prima Donna tells its story in reverse order: A rapper achieves stardom following a successful banger (“Big Time”), establishing a bad-ass persona of some kind. This rapper starts to believe he is his persona (“Prima Donna”), but can’t duplicate the glory, skidding into a macabre insanity. Listening to the EP in reverse order, the gunshot almost comes as relief, putting this character out of his misery.
The music marks a leap in artistry and complexity for Vince. He spits furious after furious fusillade on tracks like “Loco” and “War Ready” while deftly navigating chaotic, bust-your-head-open production, thanks in bulk to DJ Dahi and one-time Kanye mentor No I.D. Special recognition goes to James Blake and the head-bopping “Big Time,” surely the hardest beat Blake’s ever created (that retro video game sample during the bridge drives me insane).
The emotions, the journey told on this EP feel personal, and Vince’s appeal has always been his personality, hilarious and candid even trapped within violence and drama. He never postures and almost ruthlessly mocks rappers who do. “I ain’t paying homage to nobody with no bodies,” he raps on “Big Time.” So again: Why the big head, Vince?
Vince also released a short film, also called Prima Donna, which he wrote, to coincide with the EP. It opens with Vince, again with that big head, bobbing between two twerking booties. He doesn’t appear happy. But it’s part of a music video shoot for “Big Time,” the director yells cut, and Vince’s head shrinks back to normal. He leaves the shoot and the film follows Vince’s descent into madness: cab drivers sing his songs without prompting to him, a woman dances and gropes him on an elevator ride, screaming fans materialize around corners to glimpse him.
In his hotel room, the four walls collapse as the hotel attendant pounds on the door, and an audience rips open the doors, demanding more Vince. You get the sense Vince believes this is how outsiders see him, the fame-hungry rapper, despite insistent evidence to the contrary. Just like listening to the EP backwards, when the gunshot fires, it relieves as much as it startles.
But Vince shoots a mirrored image of himself. The camera rushes into the destruction, passing through a stage, until it returns to an earlier shot of Vince laying on his back, staring up at the sun amidst idyllic trees and fallen leaves. Blood pools around his head, so viscous and vibrant, and the film cuts to black.
A slew of visual albums and/or short films have released in 2016. As the streaming wars heat up, and more great music releases, artists almost need to go, well, artsy to demand your attention and respect. Frank Ocean went full-blown pretentious art kid. Radiohead got Paul Thomas Anderson. Kanye invited you into his laboratory to experience his mad genius process alongside him. Rihanna pulled us in further by receding more, her enigma growing. Drake (kind of) did his same thing and was lambasted.
But of all the side projects, of all the rollouts to the main meat that is the album, I’ve only returned to Beyoncé’s Lemonade visuals and Vince’s short film. Beyoncé invites listeners in, exposing her story of the backstage drama and messy relationships we’ve all heard/suspected was going on. Plus, who am I kidding: it’s pure ecstasy watching Bey smash that bat around.
Vince is different; he’s pulling back a curtain we never knew was there. The conclusion reached is twofold: he’s playing out a version of the rapper he could’ve been, a character he could still be. You start wondering if part of him wishes to be that guy now. And that this whole artistic exercise was a mean to killing off that undesired part of himself.
That’s all speculation, though. Vince Staples remains that clear-eyed, unpretentious spitter rap needs. It’s a form of hip hop that might never make him a superstar; it’s too honest, too personal. Vince will likely never be a real prima donna. But, man, it sure was fun to pretend.
This November, voters in at least nine states will check a box for either full cannabis legalization or a medical marijuana program. Never before in our history have so many voters had the opportunity to have their voices heard on this issue.
Five states will vote on full legalization of recreational cannabis, while voters in four (more, depending on last-minute legal challenges) will decide on whether to allow medical marijuana.
Here, in order of likelihood, are where cannabis enthusiasts will celebrate on the morning of Nov. 9:
California: Full legalization
This vote is the big enchilada. The Golden State is the world’s sixth largest economic engine and is home to the most cannabis farms in the U.S. As California goes, so goes the nation. Proposition 64 — the Adult Use of Marijuana Act — will allow adults (21 and older) to possess and grow small amounts of cannabis for personal use.
California was the first state to allow for medical marijuana back in 1996 and that program generates nearly $3 billion. This is the state’s second attempt at full legalization; it failed in a contentious 2010 campaign that didn’t garner the support of longtime cannabis growers in California’s northern region. This year, Proposition 64 is comfortably ahead in the polls and looks headed for certain victory.
The Sunshine State appears poised to join the growing number of states with a fully functioning medical marijuana program.
Florida: Medical
The Sunshine State appears poised to join the growing number of states with a fully functioning medical marijuana program. Amendment 2 — United For Care — will allow patients with certain qualifying conditions to consume cannabis without fear of arrest. There is no provision for growing your own plants. Most statewide news organizations have endorsed the measure and polling shows that more than 75 percent of likely voters support it. Just two years ago, a similar amendment received 58 percent of the vote. Unfortunately, it required 60 percent to pass.
Nevada: Full legalization
Question 2 — Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol — will achieve what the title of the measure clearly states: Make marijuana legal for adults 21 years of age and older and establish a system in which marijuana is regulated and taxed similarly to alcohol. The ballot initiative is based on Colorado’s successful 2012 campaign and polling suggests a clear path to victory. Clearly, Las Vegas — long considered the nation’s Sin City — is poised to benefit financially from full cannabis legalization. Reno, with its proximity to California and Lake Tahoe ski resorts, is also gearing up for a new industry.
Only 2.8 million people live in Nevada, but more than 40 million tourists head to the state annually. Legalization here will have a broader impact than most smaller states.
Sheldon Adelson, the conservative billionaire who funded Florida’s anti-cannabis forces in 2014 with a $5 million contribution, is the new owner of the Las Vegas Review-Tribune and is once again fighting against marijuana.
Maine: Full legalization
Mainers will get a chance to legalize cannabis — and at the same time repudiate embattled anti-marijuana Gov. Paul LePage — this November.
LePage, along with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, have been two of the most ardent anti-marijuana politicians in the nation. But both governors appear out of step with the will of their states’ voters.
Question 1 — Regulate and Tax Marijuana — allows adults 21 years of age and older to possess a limited amount of marijuana, grow a limited number of marijuana plants in their homes, and possess the marijuana produced by those plants. It will remain illegal to use marijuana in public. Recent polling data shows 55 percent support the ballot measure; 41 percent lean against it.
Maine was one of the early states to decriminalize cannabis back in the 1970s and legalizing medical marijuana in 1999.
Arkansas: Medical
Well, Arkansas is currently a bit of a mess. There are two competing measures on the ballot which could lead to voter confusion. If both measures — pass, the one with the highest number of yes votes will be enacted. Yes, it’s an electoral mess.
A medical marijuana victory in Arkansas would be huge.
Four years ago, Arkansans voted against a similar measure in a close vote. This year, polling suggests that nearly 60 percent of likely voters will support it.
But a medical marijuana victory in Arkansas would be huge. It will be the first state in the south to enact a program designed to assist patients who want and need cannabis as a medicine. It likely will force other southern states to consider adopting similar laws.
Arkansas Business, a statewide publication, describes how the AMCA snd the AMMA differ.
Massachusetts: Full legalization
The Bay State proves that cannabis legislation is not a blue-red, Democratic-Republican, conservative-progressive issue. The perennially liberal state will most likely reject the legalization of marijuana this year.
Question 4 — the Tax and Regulate Marijuana ballot measure — is polling at 41 percent in favor, according to the latest data.
Meanwhile, the “No on 4” campaign has garnered support from Gov. Charlie Baker and Boston Mayor Martin Walsh.
New England states have become a key battleground for the legalization movement. Because of the proximity of the cluster of states, most advocates believe that once one or two states legalize the entire region will jump aboard the tax revenue train. But, as of now, 2016 does not bode well for those supporting legal weed.
North Dakota: Medical
This ballot measure — the North Dakota Compassionate Care Act of 2016 — is a real wild card. Polling in North Dakota is as sparse as the state’s population — the latest data from two years ago suggests narrow support.
The state’s conservative political leaders have fought hard to keep this off the ballot, but cannabis advocates scrambled to get enough signatures in August to qualify for the ballot.
Trying to predict an outcome here is essentially like flipping a coin.
Arizona: Full legalization
It is highly unlikely that Arizonans will vote for full legalization of cannabis. Proposition 205 — Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol — is polling at less than 40 percent approval, according to a July survey.
The measure is similar to Nevada’s and Maine’s, but Arizona is still a deep red conservative state. It would take a a miracle for this state to pass full legalization.
Oklahoma: Medical
Another long shot for patients in Oklahoma. Proponents in this state, a grassroots organization called Oklahomans for Health, have submitted signatures that are currently being verified. Even though a 2013 poll showed that 71 percent of residents of the state agreed with the concept of “joining … other states who now have laws allowing seriously ill patients to possess marijuana for medical purposes,” the chances of a measure on the ballot in time is unlikely.
This may not be the year here, but the winds in Oklahoma are shifting on the issue.
Oklahoma is a deep-red state and Republicans dominate the statehouse, but a majority of GOP voters support medical marijuana. This may not be the year here, but the winds in Oklahoma are shifting on the issue.
Montana: Medical
Montana’s medical marijuana situation is like its weather: Unpredictable and wild. The state already approved an MMJ program 12 years ago, but the conservative legislature has been gutting it ever since. In 2011, the state essentially outlawed dispensaries and led patients back into the black market for their cannabis.
Initiative 182 — Montana’s New Medical Marijuana Initiative — promises responsible access for patients and ensures accountability.
There is no polling data available in the state and advocates continue to fight an uphill battle with state legislators who appear hard-bent on keeping marijuana out of the state.
NOTE: Missouri and Michigan do not have initiatives currently on the ballot, but there is still a remote chance of a last-minute addition. But don’t get your hopes up too high.
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