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Can You Get A Marijuana Hangover

Troy Antonucci
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Can You Get A Marijuana Hangover

We all know what an alcohol hangover looks like. Splitting headaches, fatigue, and an intense craving for overly-expensive Chinese delivery are all tell-tale signs that you were out drinking the night before. What are the signs, if there even are any, that you smoked weed the night before?

The hard truth about weed is that, just like with alcohol, you can get a hangover. And, just like alcohol, they occur when you’ve had too much. You might have even experienced a weed hangover yourself and just not noticed it. Here are some of the signs that you might have taken just one hit too many last night.

1. Headache

We all know that weed causes cotton mouth so it only makes sense that smoking too much pot will cause dehydration. Dehydration, obviously, causes headaches. Or maybe your brain hurts because you overexerted it last night during your high adventures. Either way, there’s an easy solution: drink lots of water. Drink before, during, and after your marijuana use to prevent waking up feeling like your mind traveled to the fifth dimension and back.

RELATED: Science: Why More Marijuana May Equal Fewer Migraines

2. Red Eyes

Bloodshot Eyes when Hungover from Pot
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Red eyes are a common and noticeable sign that you just smoked weed but those fire eyes can last through the morning. After inhaling, the cannabinoids in marijuana slow your tear and saliva glands, causing your eyes to dry up and turn red. The solution? Easy: just drink lots of water! Get some good hydrating eyedrops too so you don’t look like you just swam five miles without goggles in a chlorine swimming pool.

3. Fatigue

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Nothing spells weed hangover like waking up fatigued. Though some use marijuana to treat insomnia and other sleep disorders, some studies have shown that weed can actually hinder your sleep performance. Part of the reason why you feel so tired when you wake up in the morning after a long night of smoking is that marijuana affects your REM sleep, sometimes cutting it off short. If you know you’re sleep is easily affected by smoking weed, try not to smoke to close to going to bed and give yourself a good 8 hours of sleep to make sure your body fully recovers.

4. Brain Fog

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Marijuana hangovers are known to create brain fogginess or sluggishness in users that smoked too much the night before. This is the result of a few factors, including weed’s impact on memory and cognitive function. Studies have shown that marijuana adversely affects short-term memory in long-term users. Sometimes, it might take second for you to remember where you are when you wake up. Hot coffee and sweaty exercise are full-proof ways of clearing up the fog, though.

RELATED: Is It Possible To Be Addicted To Cannabis?

Still Worth It

Even though weed does cause hangovers of some sort, they’re easy to get through. With just a little bit of water, some coffee, and maybe some exercise you’ll be feeling back to normal in no time. Now, all I have to do is get the energy to go to the gym.

Internet Hilariously Drags Makeup Company That Tried To Cater To Men

Maria Loreto
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Internet Hilariously Drags Makeup Company That Tried To Cater To Men

Men’s self-care products are advertised as clean and simple, as if the company was afraid of putting guys’ masculinity at risk. While women’s products mention a long list of flowery and feminine smells, men’s products are pretty basic. Their commercials might show a guy riding a horse and eating a burger, even if that doesn’t reflect anything about the product they’re meant to be advertising.

This issue has been around since forever. By deeming things “masculine,” companies make them more accessible, even if the product in question is makeup.

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War Paint claims to distinguish themselves from other companies by creating makeup that’s specifically made for men. According to their site: “Men’s skin is naturally tougher, the skin on a man’s face is 25% thicker than a woman’s, men’s skin also has bigger pores and a lot more of them which produces more sebum than a woman. The difference in men’s skin to woman’s skin is caused by hormones, specifically testosterone.”

A few days ago, War Paint’s twitter account uploaded a video which was quickly deleted because of all the jokes that followed. In it, a man with tattoos is taking a shower and later putting on makeup. There’s a skull and you can barely see the guys’ face, all suggesting that War Paint’s makeup is not like other makeup because it’s very manly.

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Are men okay?

This Dating Site Now Offers Professional Advice From Dating Coaches

Maria Loreto
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This Dating Site Now Offers Professional Advice From Dating Coaches

Match Group, which manages sites like Match, OKCupid, Tinder, Hinge, and Plenty of Fish, is looking to make the dating world more personal and accessible. That’s why they’ve come up with a new feature that puts users in contact with professional dating coaches.

Unlike most apps that have AI chatbots, Match’s AskMatch service comes with the help of real-life trained professionals, ready to answer all of your questions and accept phone consultations. The information dispensed ranges from creating appropriate dating profiles to more complex stuff like dressing for a first date, how to define a new relationship, coping with ghosting and more.

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Hesam Hosseini, Match’s CEO, tells Business Insider that AskMatch could be a welcome feature for men who have trouble discussing their love life. “I think in general, men are half as likely as women to talk to family and friends about their relationships because they struggle with opening up.” he said. “We see that women want a second opinion and validation for the path they’re on, and men are just asking advice.”

Aside from being a safe outlet for people, AskMatch also sounds like the ideal service for those who find Tinder hard to access, especially users who are older and don’t feel as comfortable with relying on interactions through a website.

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While Tinder is one of the most used apps in the world, it has also changed the way people date and meet each other, giving a safe space to those who feel more comfortable meeting people online.

The AskMatch feature is now available for users in New York City and will be available throughout the country by 2020. Although its trial run is free to use, it’s not known how long this will remain the case. If you live in New York, take advantage of that free consultation.

5 Apps To Help You Train Your Puppy

Maria Loreto
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5 Apps To Help You Train Your Puppy

People in their 20s and 30s love their pets, sometimes even prioritizing them over having children and long term commitments. It’s understandable; a strange economy, weird society and global warming are a few of the most striking factors that are influencing the stability of younger generations. Cats and dogs remind us of simpler things. They’re also great cuddle buddies.

According to Pet Business, 7 in 10 millennials own a pet, with more than half of them choosing to own a dog. Sixty-seven percent of the people interviewed consider their pet a family member and spend an average of $1,285 on the care of their little buddy. While none of this information is surprising, it highlights how important pets are to us and the fact that we’re invested in them and want them to lead happy lives.

Bustle compiled a list of the best apps when it comes to the training of your dog. Here are five of our favorites.

DOGO

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DOGO was clearly created by a young person, appropriating the most famous pet name for all dogs online. The app allows you to participate in challenges with other users and has over 60 tricks, teaching them to you step by step. If your pet is particularly unruly, the app allows you to contact trainers in order to get the best service you can.

TrainAway

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This app is designed for dogs who bark crazily when they hear certain sounds, like a skateboard, a truck or anything that disturbs them. TrainAway tries to remove “negative reactions” to sounds by exposing your dog to them and giving you instructions on how to keep them calm.

Puppr

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Puppr is one of the best reviewed apps on this list and by many users is called the equivalent of having a dog trainer in your home, only it’s cheaper. The app includes a clicker for positive reinforcement, chat features so you can get help, and more.

PetSafe SmartDog Trainer

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This app is part of a bundle, featuring a collar that works with tones, vibrations, and small electric pulses in order to coax different reactions out of your dog. It’s very efficient when you need to train your dog from a distance, preventing you from screaming when they’re doing something they shouldn’t be doing.

Social Puppy

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This app is personalized, providing you with a 12 week program that includes all sorts of tricks and rules that will transform your dog into the decent and polite companion you want them to be. The program has a strong focus on positive reinforcement and socialization.

Prince Harry Wants To Raise Archie As A ‘Private Citizen’; Remember Those Rumors That John Mayer And Kourtney Kardashian Hooked Up?

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Prince Harry Wants To Raise Archie As A ‘Private Citizen’; Remember Those Rumors That John Mayer And Kourtney Kardashian Hooked Up?

Prince Harry wants to raise Archie as a ‘private citizen’ & ‘shield him’ from the public eye

Via Page Six:

Don’t expect Archie to come out of his bunker anytime soon. Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, reportedly think of their new son as a “private citizen” and plan to “shield him” from the public eye.

The Sunday Times of London, citing sources close to the family, speculated that Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, the youngest member of the royal family, may be kept away from crowds of admirers — and will show up at only “big family occasions with his parents.” Proud dad Prince Harry has said he believes that combining private life with an official royal role requires a “tricky balancing act.”

A friend of Harry has said that privacy was more precious to the prince “than to almost any other member of the royal family,’’ the newspaper reported.

Remember those rumors that John Mayer and Kourtney Kardashian were hooking up?

On SiriusXM’s Radio Andy, John Mayer told host Andy Cohen that he believes one of the Kardashian’s leaked the story to the press. Hinting at how they may have been behind it all, John told Andy:

‘Little suspicious about the origin of the story…not sure the call’s not coming from inside the house on this one.’ He continued, commending the rumor-starters for their devious yet ingenious strategy.

‘If the call is coming from inside the house…it’s diabolical and genius,’ John said, ‘Because when people start gossiping about you and someone else, and they start putting your pictures together, it gets real suggestive.’

Lots Of People Are Dropping Their AirPods Onto Subway Tracks

Maria Loreto
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Lots Of People Are Dropping Their AirPods Onto Subway Tracks

AirPods have always been a hotly debated topic. The tiny headphones that come with their small container/charging station are futuristic and comfy, but also small and easy to lose. You can’t stuff them down your pockets as you would with any other pair of headphones. The Bay Area transit system reports that these devices also have a tendency of ending up down the subway tracks.

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In an email exchange with Mashable, BART officials explain that this year 52 AirPods lost and found reports have been filed. If the rate keep up, this number will beat last year’s 80 filed reports.

BART’s Twitter account is surprisingly responsive, peppered with requests and comments from users who think they’ve dropped their AirPods down the subway’s tracks.

People really don’t want to lose the $159 they spent on their headphones.

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Always sympathetic, BART officials express their condolences when they deem the AirPods lost or let users know about the grabbing tool employees keep nearby in order to retrieve lost items.

“Keep them in your pocket when on escalators or the platform and while boarding the train,” advises a BART representative. “Besides falling into the trackway they can also easily fall in the gap between the platform and the train when boarding. Once on the train, just know if they fall out, you’ll be searching the floors of a likely crowded train car moving at speeds of up to 80 mph.”

I’m not going to tell you how to live your life, but do you really want to risk the possibility of having to fish for an AirPod down the subway’s tracks? That thing goes in your ear.

Y’all Won’t Stop Flying With Weed Through California’s LAX Airport, Huh?

Brendan Bures
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Y’all Won’t Stop Flying With Weed Through California’s LAX Airport, Huh?

Have you ever googled “Can I Fly With Weed?” Don’t worry because you’re not alone, especially if it involves flying from a legal state like California. Police have seen trafficking arrests rise by 166% at LAX since California legalized cannabis in 2016, according to records obtained by the Los Angeles Times.

While authorities say passengers stuffing some weed on their carry-on is on the rise, the bigger issue is small-time smugglers trying to escape the state’s saturated cannabis market. Due to legalization and light penalties if caught, these marijuana runners don’t have much fear in any risking the consequences.

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Police are routinely discovering entire bags of checked luggage full of marijuana, transforming the world’s fourth busiest airport into the country’s premiere hub for transporting weed. And LAX isn’t the only airport in California where this is happening.

“We intercept large quantities of marijuana regularly,” said Sgt. Ray Kelly of the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office, which has jurisdiction over Oakland International Airport, in an interview with the LA Times. “We find it in about 50-pound quantities … the carry-on rate for luggage. I would imagine we’re only intercepting some of it, not all of it.”

Bill Kroger Jr., a 20-year criminal defense lawyer who specializes in cannabis cases, told the Times “the money is outside of California,” because of all the new players with fat pockets flooding the industry. Data backs this up, as California is the country’s leading producer of cannabis, growing 13.5 million pounds in 2016. That figure, by the way, is five times the amount state residents ended up consuming.

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Hence, all the smuggling. LAX arrest records show only 20 trafficking arrests were made in 2016. That number rose slightly to 38 in 2017, before soaring to 101 in 2018, the first year of legal recreational marijuana sales in California. Among the most popular destinations for marijuana smugglers were Atlanta, Dallas, Indianapolis, and Chicago.

“This is normal procedure for these guys, and I would say 29 out of 30 times they make it through without a problem,” Kroger said.

Part of the reason is because though marijuana trafficking is on the rise, police’s primary attention remains elsewhere. While the federal government still attests that marijuana is a Schedule I drug—meaning it has no medical value—and the DEA is against legalizing the plant, authorities maintain that it’s a “low-enforcement priority.”

Did You Hear? Gossiping Might Be Good For Us

Maria Loreto
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Although gossiping is a habit that has some negative connotations, it’s something most everyone participates in. It’s somewhat of a bonding move because it unites us, just like any other type of shared interaction.

A study published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science found that we spend 52 minutes each day engaged in gossip. And if you think that sounds high, gossip in this instance is not synonymous with divulging secrets and whispering behind someone’s back.

The study found that the majority of the gossip we share is harmless, made up of neutral information that doesn’t paint anyone in a bad light. Mentioning to your coworker that your brother moved across the country or that your dad adopted a new cat are ways of communicating and cementing relationships.

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“About three-quarters of the conversation we heard in our sampled conversations was neither positive nor negative,” says Megan Robbins, one of the psychologists who lead the study.

The research consisted of analyzing snippets of conversations caught by participants who were wearing portable recording devices for two to five days. These recordings showed some interesting evidence, like the fact that women and men engage in the same amount of gossip and that extroverts are more likely to talk about others when compared to introverts. Around 15% of the gossip shared had some sort of negative judgment attached to it.

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NPR reports that although negative gossip is hurtful for those at the center of it, it’s a practice that can also lead to self-reflection. If a coworker complains about the fact that you’re lazy, you might feel awful but you’ll surely monitor your work performance more closely. Same if you warm up smelly food in the office’s microwave and get the stink eye from everyone else in the building.

Stop Judging Moms For Using Marijuana

Brendan Bures
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Stop Judging Moms For Using Marijuana

Moms make the world go round, plain and simple. The duty and responsibility they bear is greater than any job requirement found in a 9-to-5 gig. It’s no wonder why the image of mom having a glass of wine on the couch after a long day to wind down is so prevalent in our culture. Yet, it looks different when it is weed, so stop judging moms for using marijuana.

But why does everyone react so differently when moms replace that wine glass with cannabis? According to a new poll published by Miss Grass, a cannabis-focused publication for women, 21% of moms say they have completely replaced alcohol usage with marijuana. In addition, 38% of moms admit they prefer cannabis over alcohol at least some of the time.

RELATED: Are Weed Moms The New Wine Moms?

This isn’t astonishing data, by any means. We’ve already documented the trend of how weed moms are becoming the new wine moms while other data suggests that microdosing mamas have emerged as new key consumers in the industry. These narratives might be celebrated within the industry, but not as much outside of it.

According to the same Miss Grass poll, 68% of moms confess they’ve experienced discrimination for their cannabis use. As one mom said, “I see so many photos of parents with a child in one hand and a drink in the other even. It’s not okay but it happens. If a parent, especially a mother were to even admit to smoking cannabis, they’d be reported for child abuse. It’s a complete shame; the stigma and judgement people pass.”

This is why 20% of moms hide their cannabis use from friends and 36% don’t tell their parents or family members. The potential backlash they might receive just isn’t worth any admission. Which is an abject shame, right? Moms shouldn’t be discriminated against for having a couple puffs of a vaporizer at night or rubbing THC-infused lotions on their feet after being up all day.

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“A mother who’s in good mental, physical, emotional form is a better mom, and for a lot of people, cannabis is a really critical tool in helping them achieve wellbeing,” one woman responded in the survey. “A lot of them are approaching it as medicine, as they would any over-the-counter medication.”

How does this not strike people as a legitimately healthy response mechanism to stress, pain, and the other troubles life tends to throw our way? Any criticism moms receive—particularly moms who maintain a wellness and health approach to cannabis usage—represent a double standard. It’s long past time we have just one standard. If you approve a glass of wine at night, marijuana should receive the attitude. Give moms that break. They could sure use it.

Anti-Cannabis Minister Threatens To Bring Down Government

Mark Taylor
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Anti-Cannabis Minister Threatens To Bring Down Government

An anti-cannabis minister is threatens to bring down the Italian government. The firebrand Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has promised to shutter every legal cannabis shop in Italy “one by one” and collapse the government should his coalition partner, the Five Star Movement, not comply with the demand.

“From today, I’ll go to war on cannabis street by street, shop by shop, neighbourhood by neighbourhood, city by city,” Salvini said on Wednesday, May 8.

Salvini, who leads the ruling far-right Lega party, said the war on drugs was “a new national emergency”, and has demanded the government close “these places of mass miseducation”.

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Legal cannabis retailers litter Italy’s high streets, and report an estimated turnover of €6.5m of CBD-related products. More than 300 additional stores were opened in 2018, up 75 percent from the previous year.

The retailers sell mainly CBD, which is derived from the cannabis plants, and contains less than 0.2 percent of the active substance tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), allowed by law.

Similar shops have appeared across Europe in recent years with little pushback from areas other than Austria. Italian lawmakers have only regulated the level of THC in weed, not the retail and marketing of CBD products. A judgement from the Supreme Court of Cassation, the highest court of appeal in Italy, is expected at the end of the month.

A day after Salvini’s announcement, police closed three cannabis shops in the city of Macerata, in the centre of Italy. Products were seized, and it has been reported some contained THC levels exceeding the legal limit.

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Salvini backed the “Macerata’s model” and said he will enact a directive in Italy allowing local regions to take the same action.

“We should not give wrong information, because cannabis shops don’t sell drugs,” replied Italy’s Health Minister Giulia Grillo, a member of the Five Star Movement.

She said the only current legal prohibitions the sale of CBD are linked to vulnerable populations, such as pregnant women and minors, and that the cannabis extracts are not illegal.

“I can assess only the health aspect. However, it should be stressed that the concentration of the active ingredient in those products is not such as to have narcotic effects on consumers,” she said, adding there was no place for free drugs in Italy.

The controversy is the latest in a number of splits emerging between the far-right Lega party and anti-establishment group Five Star Movement, which govern Italy via coalition.

In a TV debate, Salvini said he would immediately topple the government if the Five Star Movement attempted to legalise cannabis.

Five Start deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio urged caution. “Enough,” he said in a note sent to the press. “We are all against drugs, but now Italian citizens are tired of these threats to the government,” Di Maio said.

In January, a Five Star senator, Matteo Mantero, filed a draft law allowing citizens to grow up to three marijuana plants for recreational use. The hardline Salvini said he expected the draft law to be iced.

The minister also wants to stamp out hemp or cannabis fairs. “They’re havoc, this must be stopped,” Salvini said, adding he was “not the minister of a drug-dealer state”.

In response, organisers of the hemp festival Sativa Torino Expo have cancel their event expected to take place from 17 to 19 May in Turin.

“Now it is difficult to make people understand that our expo is not a party that aims to promote soft drugs but to make clarity and divulgation over these new products,” said Claudia Ottone, marketing director of the agency behind the event.

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