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Kate Middleton And Meghan Markle Will Never Be BFFs; ‘Dancing With The Stars’ Livid With Kelly and Ryan

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Kate Middleton And Meghan Markle Will Never Be BFFs; ‘Dancing With The Stars’ Livid With Kelly and Ryan

KATE MIDDLETON AND MEGHAN MARKLE WILL NEVER BE BEST FRIENDS – EXCLUSIVE

The Palace has officially given up on trying to make Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle best friends – as it is never going to happen.

“The dream of Kate and Meghan becoming super close friends is officially over within the Palace, as the two ladies just don’t have very much in common with each other,” sources tell STRAIGHT SHUTER.

“The fantasy was that Kate and Meghan would become best friends and hang out together in public and behind the palace walls. But that simply has not happened. It is not that the ladies are enemies or at war, they simply have not bonded and become girlfriends. They both have very different styles and world views. There is still some hope that now that Meghan is going to be a mom the two will bond, but no one is holding the breathe.”

DANCING WITH THE STARS LIVID WITH KELLY AND RYAN – EXCLUSIVE

Kelly Ripa and Ryan Seacrest have been supporting radio pal Bobby Bones on this season’s Dancing With The Stars so aggressively that other people competing in the show have complained about fairness.

“Having Kelly and Ryan support Bobby on their show and their social media is one thing, but to have Kelly and Ryan record a message introducing Bobby that airs on the ABC broadcast itself is just not right,” sources tell STRAIGHT SHUTER. “Two seconds before Bobby hit the ballroom floor Kelly and Ryan are edited into the show supporting him. Everyone was shocked backstage. The other contestants couldn’t believe what they were seeing. What’s going to be allowed next week, Oprah appearing on Dancing With The Star to introduce and support some NFL player on the show you have never heard of? It is just not fair.”

TAYLOR SWIFT GIVES UP ON WINNING MORE GRAMMY AWARDS – EXCLUSIVE

Taylor Swift is admitting that her album ‘Reputation’ is not going to win the 2019 Grammy Awards for best album, by agreeing to perform at the American Music Awards.

“The rule in the music business is simple, The Grammys do not allow performers who’ve been on the AMAs to be on their show. There have been a few exceptions to this rule, but very few. Taylor knows she can kiss winning Album of the Year goodbye after she performs on a competing award show,” sources tell STRAIGHT SHUTER. “The fact the she performed “I Did Something Bad,” on the AMA’s is ironic. The Grammy people are livid. Taylor didn’t just do something bad, she did something unforgivable.”

Insiders expect that Arianna Grande will be the big winner of this daring Swift betrayal.

Toronto Police: Stop Snitching On Your Weed Smoking Neighbors

Mary Schumacher
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Toronto Police: Stop Snitching On Your Weed Smoking Neighbors

The Toronto police department is fed up with getting calls from the prudish neighbors about pot smokers. With cannabis legalization in full force now, they’ve actually developed a public service campaign to alert nosy neighbors that now is finally the time to stop snitching. From the sound of it, the unneighborly complaints would probably fall on deaf ears anyway.

Some of the PSAs came in the form of tongue-in-cheek tweets, which, unfortunately prompted a slew of false emergency calls that could only be called pranks. In response, the Toronto police tweeted this along with their other cautionary tweets:

Asking for directions because you’re lost is not a 911 call. Reporting an adult smoking a joint isn’t either. Cannabis is no longer illegal on October 17, 2018. Consumption is allowed anywhere cigarette smoking is allowed except in a motor vehicle. Do not call police for this.

The prank calls and response tweets may be humorous, at least a little bit and especially with a joint in hand, but they also speak volumes to the bigger picture. Advocates may have been waiting for this day for a long, long time, but those who bought into the reefer madness that born the stigma still carried, this is a nightmare. It will definitely take some getting used to, especially for non-imbibers.

Stigma has followed cannabis around for much of its life as a carefully cultivated plant of the 20th century. Because of decades of Drug War propaganda, stigma clings to people’s emotions like they just walked through a spider web. Luckily, webs wash off and the stigma can be scrubbed clean too, with time showing that the sky truly isn’t going to fall and that the benefits highly outweigh any risks.

In Toronto, another smell may cause the squares next door to go up in arms (for naught, but still…). Because the conservative government of Ontario, where Toronto is located, needed more time to establish store fronts, residents have the options of ordering bud through the mail via internet, growing their own or a combination of both. When it’s both, the earthy, green penetrating smell of a Skunk #2 plant and its freshly formed buds may go through walls and vents, thus creating a new bouquet.

No matter, the police aren’t picking up for grow room calls, smoke sesh calls, “Are you kidding me, it smells like a skunk sprayed in here!” calls or any of the such. The police are here to protect the people and the law, and the law now states, clearly and unabashedly, that any adult can smoke anywhere cigarettes or tobacco products are also allowed and that, depending on the territory rules, they can grow their own, too. Snitchers be warned.

How Facebook Is Reviving MTV’s ‘Real World’

Maria Loreto
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How Facebook Is Reviving MTV’s ‘Real World’

In an era of remakes and crippling amounts of television content, it was only natural that someone would make a remake of the Real World, the first reality TV show that shaped the way in which we consume media.

It’s crazy to think that a show from MTV in the early 90s would have such a big impact on America’s current consumption of media. But here we are, in an age of Bravo, and channel dedicated entirely to reality television.

This new version of the Real World will be produced by the joint efforts of Facebook and MTV. According to Deadline, Real World will air in the spring of 2019 and three seasons have already been ordered. Each season will focus on a different country — USA, Mexico, and Thailand — where seven strangers will live together in a house, taking part of a social experiment of sorts that has proven to be extremely successful over the years.

Via Deadline:

MTV’s The Real World helped to define a generation and created a new genre of television with a simple yet powerful idea of connecting people from wildly divergent backgrounds to find common ground on the issues that often divided them. By partnering with Facebook Watch and BMP, we have the opportunity to impact culture and create a new genre of television all over again, while engaging the next generation of content consumers around the world.

Facebook Watch is a streaming service created by Facebook that was released in August 2017. It’s an interesting service, one that blurs the lines between internet content and more prestigious and TV-like programs, such as the well received half-hour drama “Sorry For Your Loss.”

The Complicated Relationship Marijuana Has With Social Media

Brendan Bures
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The Complicated Relationship Marijuana Has With Social Media

Marijuana and social media have had a complicated relationship. Because cannabis companies cannot purchase ad inventory from the biggest digital advertisers on the internet, Google and Facebook, most have turned to growing organic audiences from social media accounts. The problem is those accounts are subject to deletion without a moment’s notice.

Earlier this year popular cannabis-focused YouTube vloggers like SilencedHippie and CustomGrow420 had their accounts deleted without warning from Google (which owns YouTube). Many within the cannabis community criticized YouTube for its Cannabis Purge, which apparently stemmed from advertisers not wanting their ads appearing in front of potentially “inappropriate content.”

We say apparently, because YouTube never offered any explanation for why these accounts were deleted. After vocal criticism and petitioning, some accounts were restored like CustomGrow420 and StrainCentral, while others, like SilencedHippie, remain deleted.

Now businesses and influencers have experienced similar turmoil on Instagram, according to AdWeek. Accounts featuring cannabis content have been deleted, reinstated, and deleted again on Instagram for violating “community guidelines,” a phrase invoked by YouTube as well. Company heads from Green Lion Partners and Binkse were vocal in their criticism of Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, and the platform’s inconsistent application of such rules.

“It’s almost like they have some sort of random generator,” Jeffrey Zucker, co-founder and president of Green Lion Partners, told AdWeek, adding:

What random cannabis account are we going to delete today?

Unfortunately, they have us in handcuffs, because this is the platform that’s most used by our customers. Most people in the space try to tread carefully because we know that this is an industry in transition.

Instagram’s community guidelines specifically prohibit the buying and selling of cannabis on its platform, but it makes no mention of organic posts that simply feature flower, edibles, and other products. When prompted, Instagram referred to Facebook’s community guidelines, which forbids content that “promotes, encourages, coordinates or provides instructions for use of non-medical drugs [or] admits, either in writing or verbally, to personal use of non-medical drugs unless posted in a recovery context.”

Advocating for cannabis legalization and its medical usage, however, is allowed on the platform.

“Our policies do not preclude people from discussing cannabis and its potential benefits or advocating for its legality,” an Instagram spokesperson told AdWeek. “Dispensaries can promote the use and federal legalization of marijuana provided that they do not also promote its sale or provide contact information to their store.”

For now, the cannabis industry’s operators and influencers remain at the mercy of these platforms’ discrimination. In the digital space, social media is the only potent form of advertising anyone hoping to promote their cannabis product has. Until that changes, the best anyone can do is keep their fingers crossed.

Meghan Markle Is Saving This Piece Of Jewelry For Her Future Daughter

Amy Hansen
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Meghan Markle Is Saving This Piece Of Jewelry For Her Future Daughter

For someone who has access to royal jewels and other expensive accoutrement that come with being a member of a prominent family, Meghan Markle cherishes a piece of jewelry that she bought for herself before she even met Prince Harry.

As royal watchers wait with baited breath for an announcement on the sex of the couple’s first child, an old interview has been unearthed in which Markle talks about a significant piece of jewelry that belongs to her personal collection. One that she’s saving specifically for a daughter.

Back in 2015, pre Harry, Markle talked to Hello! about the gift she gave herself when her TV show, “Suits,” was renewed for a third season. Said Markle:

I’ve always coveted the Cartier French Tank watch. When I found out Suits had been picked up for our third season – which, at the time, felt like such a milestone – I totally splurged and bought the two-tone version. I had it engraved on the back, “To M.M. From M.M.” and I plan to give it to my daughter one day. That’s what makes pieces special, the connection you have to them.

At the very least, a Cartier Tank costs a few thousand dollars. Higher end styles can set you back as much as $8K. That’s one lucky little girl!

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Police Have Been Ordered To Return California Man’s Personal Marijuana Stash

Mike Adams
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Police Have Been Ordered To Return California Man’s Personal Marijuana Stash

Although marijuana is legal in California, there has been some dispute over whether police can be prosecuted under federal law for returning personal stashes of marijuana to people, just like other personal belongings such as money and car keys, when they are released from jail. But a San Francisco court issued a verdict earlier this week that will help clarify the issue for confused law enforcement agencies.

On Monday, the San Francisco Superior Court ruled police agencies, judges and other members of the law enforcement community are protected from federal prosecution when returning less than an ounce of weed back to those people being released from incarceration.

The situation is no different than returning other personal property, the court said. Although the U.S. government considers the possession and distribution of marijuana to be a criminal offense, law enforcement is removed from any liability when “lawfully engaged in the enforcement of any law or municipal ordinance relating to controlled substances,” according to the verdict.

This question of liability was brought forth earlier this year after a man by the name of Robert Smith was arrested on other charges. In his backpack, officers found three-quarters of an ounce of marijuana. A judge ruled in April that the cops were not required to give Smith his weed back since doing so could put them in a position of having to answer to Uncle Sam.

However, the latest ruling, which indicates that California’s pot laws require police to return marijuana as long as it is well within the possession limits, sets a precedent for all future cases. California police cannot permanently confiscate personal amounts of marijuana from suspects on their way home.

Interestingly, the courts should have never been forced to decide on this case, to begin with. It had already been dealt with.

Last year, a California appeals court ruled that police must return medical marijuana to patients once they are released from jail. The panel in the latest case finds that the situation is no different now that marijuana is legal for recreational use. Marijuana is personal property and it should be given back to the owner.

“The San Francisco Police Department would be returning the … marijuana pursuant to a court order, and not acting as drug ‘pushers’ the (federal law) was designed to combat,” the court said.

It is important to understand that the Smith case is not an isolated incident. Police have been seizing and keeping legal marijuana for some time. Smith’s attorney, University of San Francisco law professor Lara Bazelon, who calls the verdict “an important victory in (a) seemingly small case,” says she, alone, has represented several clients who got wrapped up in the same situation.

The verdict does not protect people caught in possession of more than the allotted 28 grams.

How Medical Cannabis Can Be A Silver Bullet For Neuropathy

Kent Gruetzmacher
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How Medical Cannabis Can Be A Silver Bullet For Neuropathy

Neuropathy is a generalized term which signifies exhibited symptoms of nerve damage in human beings—neuropathic pain is one of these symptoms. Neuropathy pain arises from a wide variety of sources that all stem from nerve injury, including: “diabetes mellitus…infections, alcoholism, traumatic injuries, autoimmune diseases, medications, infections, tumors, and inherited disorders”. Due to the aforementioned life afflictions, neuropathy manifests in different ways depending on the sort of nerve damage involved with each specific case. When a patient’s neuropathic symptoms are manifested in the form of physical pain, the resultant condition is often referred to under the umbrella term of “chronic pain”. Taken as a whole, neuropathy and neuropathic pain have no cure—modern day medical research into these disorders exists to better the lives of those patients suffering from these afflictions. For the most part, doctors and patients are looking to medical marijuana as a non-addictive, unobtrusive pain medication that stands in stark contradiction to opioids and other debilitating prescription drugs.

Studies And Debates: Medical Marijuana And Neuropathic Pain

In 2014 the World Congress assembled in Buenos Aires, Argentina to discuss the scientific validity of medical marijuana as a pain medicine—neuropathic pain was one of the disorders discussed at the assembly. Mark Ware, who works as “a pain clinician at McGill University, Montreal, Canada” represented the pro-cannabis side of the symposium. Interestingly, Ware argued that medical marijuana is beneficial in neurological pain management as THC and CBD react with the theoretical and somewhat contested endocannabinoid systems in the human body. To illustrate, Ware stated at the assembly: “Throughout the nervous system, endogenous cannabinoids act as synaptic circuit breakers…Because their receptors are widespread, cannabinoids, whether endogenous, plant-derived, or synthetic, regulate neurotransmission in many circuits, including pain producing pathways”. Speculation and scientific jargon aside, there seems to be enough evidence of the beneficial effects of cannabis in relation to neuropathic pain to warrant more research.

Various studies have shown that medical marijuana has proven efficacious in lessening pain levels for neuropathic pain patients where other prescription medications have proven un-effective. To illustrate, patients afflicted with diabetes, multiple sclerosis, cancer, central neuropathic pain, and HIV all report that various forms of cannabis use greatly reduce their pain symptoms. More specifically, a similar study reports that smoking marijuana was reported effective for pain management in “12 of 15 chronic pain patients”.

Organic Vs. Synthetic THC And CBD Compounds

In a little known arena of the medical marijuana movement is the fact that FDA approved, synthetic THC compounds have been both legal and prescribed in the United States since 1985—a majority of mainstream medical studies into cannabis have been a result of these drugs. For the most part, these synthesized marijuana compounds have been only prescribed to treat nausea and anorexia for terminally ill cancer and HIV patients. However, many doctors prescribe these meds for chronic / neurological pain as well, even though it is not explicit on prescription labelling and paperwork. Moreover, the Canadian medical field has developed and prescribed a pain medication derived from synthesized THC and CBD that they labeled “nabiximols”.

In a somewhat ironic twist, many medical professionals feel that synthesized cannabis products are safer, for both the short and long term use, than traditional plant-based organic cannabis flowers. The irony in this concept is evident as the U.S. government has only allowed for medical testing in relation to synthesized THC and CBD compounds, while criminalizing the use of a simple plant.

Canadians With Marijuana Convictions Will Still Have To Wait For Pardons

Allison Tierney
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Canadians With Marijuana Convictions Will Still Have To Wait For Pardons

Canadians have a lot to celebrate, as the country is now one of only a few in the world to legalize cannabis.

But for those with pot possession convictions, they’ll still be waiting for the opportunity to even apply for a pardon, The Globe and Mail reports.

Canadian Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said at a news conference today that the Liberal government plans to have legislation for the application process for pot pardons before 2019. But, it will take time for that legislation to become law—not to mention the length of time an application would take to process once the supposed system is in place.

That likely means Canadians who’ve been convicted of possession of cannabis under 30 grams will not begin to be pardoned until next year.

 

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“The laws with respect to cannabis that have existed historically, we believe, are out of step with current mores and views in Canada, but are not of the same nature as the historic, social injustice that was imposed in relation to the LGBTQ2 community,” Goodale said. He referenced how those who were convicted of crimes in Canada before 1969 related to homosexuality had their records expunged due to “profound historical injustice.”

The application for pardons for simple cannabis-related convictions in Canada are to be free of charge and will not include a prerequisite waiting period following sentence served, according to Goodale.

“As a general principle, removing the stigma of a criminal record for people who have served their sentence and then have shown themselves to be law-abiding citizens enhances public safety for all Canadians,” he said.

Before entering a caucus meeting, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told reporters that pardons will make a “real difference,” according to CTV News. However, when confronted with pardons will not being available immediately, he said it would’ve been “irresponsible” to make moves before cannabis legalization.

As for how pardons for cannabis possession convictions could affect Canadians bearing them who will be crossing the U.S. border, Goodale said these would not necessarily eliminate potential issues.

“The Americans determine their own processes and procedures… Obviously, we will be watching closely to ensure the experience at the border is a good one—but the fact of the matter is that they can establish their own rules,” he said.

WATCH: True Story Of The 80-Year-Old Michigan Marijuana Outlaw

Brendan Bures
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WATCH: True Story Of The 80-Year-Old Michigan Marijuana Outlaw

Michigan may be on the verge of legalizing adult-use marijuana this November, but as one 80-year-old local woman learned, the law of medical marijuana use only is still enforced in the state. Mrs. Saltzman Goes to Jail, a documentary from Racing Horse Productions, tells the story of Dolores Saltzman, who uses cannabis to treat her chronic pain and arthritis. But in June 2018, she was arrested because her marijuana card had expired.

“I started using marijuana because it did this wonderful thing for me,” Saltzman says in the documentary.

Her story showcases the absurdity of our present law that police officials must enforce. The officer who knocked on Saltzman’s door handcuffed and put her in jail, after smelling cannabis from her house and learning of Saltzman’s expired card. Sleeping the night in a cold cell placed stress on her arthritis and she claims it took her two months to rid herself o the cold in her body.

Emmy-nominated director Rebecca Richman Cohen managed to get Sheriff John Wilson to appear on screen for an interview. He was adamant in defending the actions of his officer.

“I mean, morally in this country, we don’t want to put this old lady in jail,” Wilson said. “But if the officer doesn’t enforce the law with her and the 25-year-old gets in trouble for it—that’s not good fairness across the board.”

The latest poll from the Detroit Free Press found that 55 percent of Michigan voters supported full legalization of recreational cannabis.

New Dating Show Requires Couples To Have Sex Immediately

Amy Hansen
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New Dating Show Requires Couples To Have Sex Immediately

So much for romance. A new dating show forgoes dating entirely in order to get couples into the sack as soon as they meet. Like, potentially before they even exchange names.

“Making Love” premiered at MIPCOM, the world’s biggest TV market in Cannes, France, when they unveiled the concept of having total strangers have sex before deciding if they like each other. This is Tinder’s world and we’re just living in it.

According to the AFP (Agence France-Presse) the show’s French producers said it has brought together “scientifically-matched singles” to ask the essential question, “Could making love make you fall in love?” and pitched the show as “a ground-breaking experiment into how humans fall in love.”

Behind the (bedroom) door cameras have captured the new couple’s every move, every awkward moment,” the producers said, before pulling away at the last minute only to reappear in the post-coital glow — or gloom. Contestants can then hurry into the bathroom to debrief the audience on just how their new partner performed.

The show’s trailer promised that “We will follow the daters over the next few weeks to see if the pair remain friends-with-benefits only or will they chose to get to know each other and start a relationship.”

The format is said to be one of several new series which are likely to pop up on TVs across the globe in the next few years.

[h/t New York Post]

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