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Meme Of The Week: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Breaks Ribs And The Internet Freaks Out

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Meme Of The Week: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Breaks Ribs And The Internet Freaks Out

Following the announcement of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s recent hospitalization, the internet has become a crazy space, a big prayer circle where people are lining up to donate their ribs, organs, and more for the health of the beloved Supreme Court Justice.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg is an inspiring leader, with hundreds of achievements under her belt that have lead to the production of a beloved documentary and a biographical movie in the making. She’s an icon for women and progressives of all factions; a vital figure in a time where politics and societal issues are rife with tension.

It makes sense that people lost it when the White House announced that Ginsburg fell in her office and broke three of her ribs this past Wednesday night.

Thankfully, RBG is fine and has been released from the hospital, making these Twitter reactions all the more hilarious and heart warming. We wish her the very best and a speedy recovery.

Cannabis Infused Beverages Experience 88% Yearly Growth

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Cannabis Infused Beverages Experience 88% Yearly Growth

“Data is increasingly revealing cannabis consumers to be wellness-seeking millennials and mature professionals,” says Ryan Smith, CEO of LeafLink, and industry-leading B2B e-commerce platform, “These individuals are seeking out non-smokeable products, and some of the most familiar and effective products on the shelf just happen to be infused beverages.”

“It should be cause for concern in regard to the beverage industry dominators: beer and sugary soda companies,” adds Smith.

A Thriving Market for Wellness

While places like Canada have started off slow in allowing regulated products into the market, places like California have an already thriving infused food and beverage market, with products like colas to infused drops to kombuchas to functional beverages flying off the shelves and into the hands of the health-conscious consumer.

Infused-beverages sales in legal states are on the rise and are demonstrated by year over year results. Flowhub, a POS company, has indicated that beverage sales have increased 88% year over year from 2016 to 2017, with that trend seemingly continuing in 2018. When Flowhub compares data from the first half of 2018 against data from the second half of 2017, beverage sales have increased 18%.

According to LeafLink, these are the industry leading beverages:

  1. Pearl 20 Minis by Tarukino in California
  2. Sprig Lemon Tea 20mg CBD & Sprig Original 10mg THC by Sprig in California
  3. Orange Kush Soda 10mg by Keef Cola by K.I.N.D. Concentrates in Arizona
  4. 100mg Passionfruit by HIGHDRATE by Evergreen Herbal in Washington
  5. “Yippee Ki-Yay” – High Energy Blend Drops by ZOOTS by Bronnor in Colorado
  6. “Waking Giant” – 10 mg (Sativa) by Mirth Provisions in Washington

“[Cannabis beverages] are incredibly discreet, hide the taste of cannabis well, and provide a fast-acting dosage without the guesswork of a typical edible,” says Smith of the growth in popularity in cannabis-infused beverages. “The demand for non-smokeable product categories, like beverages, will only increase as long as people pursue the wellness benefits of cannabis,” he adds.

A Health-Conscious Driven Demand

Move over kombucha! As a representative for mood33, a cannabis-infused “functional beverage” herbal tonic company says, “We know that the modern consumer is actively searching for ways to reduce their alcohol consumption and the adverse effects that come with overconsumption, drunk driving, and hangovers.”

“Once consumers realize that cannabis can be consumed like an alcoholic beverage via products like mood33, we will see even more demand for cannabis beverages – as we expect the cannabis beverage category to consist of 20-25% of the overall market share within the next 5-7 years due to these developments and elements of market/category maturation,” mood33 adds.

The news has been rife with beverage companies eyeing the cannabis market, with the likes of Coca-Cola and now Pepsi moving in on the promises for infused beverages. Earlier this year, Constellation Brands (STZ) made a huge investment into Canopy Growth Corp (CGC) that Moody’s referred to as a speculative bet.

These investments and partnerships “have brought tremendous awareness to the nascent cannabis beverage category, and we predict every sophisticated cannabis company will have a cannabis beverage program in the coming years,” says mood33.

mood33 is hyper-focused on providing a cannabis beverage consumption experience for everyday people: the stressed out soccer mom, the overworked professional, the sore runner and the health & wellness/fitness maven.

The Global Future for Cannabis-Infused Beverages

The deals being made between cannabis and food and beverages industry big-wigs are something to pay attention to. While cannabis infused beverages are not permitted in Canada’s legal market yet, these deals indicate that cannabis-infused beverages can have a global demand outside of established legal markets.

“We think [Canada and other markets] will eventually see that infused edibles and drinks pose no more risk than any other product currently allowed for adult use,” says LeafLink’s Ryan Smith.

As for mood33’s plans, they want to see cannabis infused beverages hit the mainstream: “we are eager to help develop a national framework where manufactures and marketers can develop mainstream inspired, regulated cannabis food and beverage products that could one day sit on a Whole Foods shelf.”

This article originally appeared on Green Market Report.

Ohio Working To Expand Qualified Conditions For Not Yet Functional Medical Marijuana Program

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Ohio Working To Expand Qualified Conditions For Not Yet Functional Medical Marijuana Program

Although Ohio is having some difficulty getting its medical marijuana program off the ground – it’s still not going to be up and running by the end of the month — the state has decided that this would be an excellent time to expand its list of qualified conditions. But before health officials can determine which new ailments should be lumped in with the 21 others that have been there since the beginning, they need some input from the public.

The State Medical Board of Ohio is considering a handful of proposals it has received since it began accepting applications at the beginning of the month. Severe arthritis, liver failure, “lots of pain,” premenstrual dysphoric disorder, fibromyalgia and neuropathy, and interstitial cystitis (inflammation of the bladder) have all been suggested, according to a report from Cleveland.com.

However, the Board’s executive director, AJ Groeber, told an advisory committee earlier this week that people will be given until the end of the year (Dec. 31) to provide them with recommendations.

It will then be up to the board to determine which additional conditions should be approved. The updated list will be published sometime in 2019.

But is the state getting ahead of itself? So far, not a single medical marijuana patient has been serviced in Ohio. The state was supposed to have the program fully functioning by September, but snags with the cultivation process and preliminary inspections prevented it from staying on schedule.

There is hope that patients will have access to medical marijuana by the end of the year, but it is not likely to happen any sooner than that, reports Cincinnati.com. Only 10 out of the state’s 26 licensed cultivators are in a position to grow marijuana. The rest are still working toward passing inspections.

Once the initial crop is ready for harvest, it will need to be tested before making its way to dispensary shelves. That’s going to take more time because, as of now, none of the testing facilities have been approved to open.

There is also another major holdup — patient registry. The Ohio State Board of Pharmacy should have had it in place months ago, but it has decided instead to delay it until the state gets closer to selling medical marijuana.

“We are watching the industry,” Erin Reed, a spokesperson with the Ohio Board of Pharmacy, told multiple news sources. “We’re communicating closely with the Department of Commerce for when they expect their licensees to have product available.”

When medical marijuana is finally distributed to dispensaries, Ohio patients can expect to see a lot of dried flower to be used for vaping – pot smoking is not permitted under the law. But it will be a while before these people have access to a variety of pot products, such as oils and edibles. None of the 14 cannabis producers licensed to manufacture these items are operational. Once again, this will prevent the full scope of the program from being realized until sometime in 2019.

For now, the focus is on expanding the list of qualified conditions. Anyone interested in proposing a health condition can do so by visiting this link.

Michelle Obama Reveals Miscarriage, IVF And Marriage Counseling With Barack; Kim Kardashian Forced to Evacuate Her Home Amid Wildfire

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Michelle Obama Reveals Miscarriage, IVF And Marriage Counseling With Barack; Kim Kardashian Forced to Evacuate Her Home Amid Wildfire

Michelle Obama Reveals Miscarriage, IVF and Marriage Counseling With Barack Obama!

In her upcoming book, Becoming, however, the mother of two shed light on some personal battles she long kept out of the public spotlight.

Among those struggles were her and Barack’s challenges starting a family. As ABC News anchor Robin Roberts reported on Friday, Michelle had gotten pregnant and then suffered a miscarriage.

“I felt lost and alone and I felt like I failed because I didn’t know how common miscarriages were because we don’t talk about them,” Obama said in the exclusive interview with Roberts. “We sit in our own pain, thinking that somehow we’re broken.”

Through in-vitro fertilization, the couple conceived their two daughters, Malia, 20, and Sasha, 17. “That’s one of the reasons why I think it’s important to talk to young mothers about the fact that miscarriages happen and the biological clock is real because egg production is limited and I realized that as I was 34 and 35. We had to do IVF,” she told Roberts. “I think it’s the worst thing that we do to each other as women—not share the truth about our bodies and how they work and how they don’t work.”

Kim Kardashian Forced to Evacuate Her Home Amid Wildfire!

Kim Kardashian was forced to evacuate her home on Thursday night after a wildfire started spreading in California.

The Keeping Up With the Kardashians star was just returning from a trip when she saw the flames from the window of her private plane. Once she touched down, she had to quickly gather her belongings and head to safer grounds.

“Pray for Calabasas,” she wrote on Instagram. “Just landed back home and had 1 hour to pack up & evacuate our home. I pray everyone is safe.”

Kardashian also shared footage of the police and fire departments responding to the emergency.

“Fire fighters are arriving,” she wrote in another post. “Thank you for all that you do for us.”

Teresa Giudice Hasn’t Had Sex in 2 Years, 7 Months

The Real Housewives of New Jersey star revealed to Andy Cohen the details of her cold bed and lonely nights:

“There have always been rumors that you and Joe were going to get divorced, and now he’s been away and my poor girl has not had sex in a long time ‘cause there’s no conjugal visits,” Andy Cohen pointed out on Wednesday, November 7. Teresa, 46, nodded and responded, “Two years and seven months. I’m counting.”

How Many Calories Do You Burn On A Daily Basis?

Maria Loreto
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How Many Calories Do You Burn On A Daily Basis?

“You burn calories by breathing” is a thing people like to say. And it may sound dramatic, but it’s true. Everything you do consumes calories, and the more effort you put into a tax, the more calories you burn. You can burn a good amount of calories just by doing everyday things that don’t demand a lot of movement, like sleeping, cleaning, reading, and studying.

Healthline compiled a list of everyday activities that burn calories and we chose our favorites and most random ones. Check them out.

Sleeping

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Related: You Can Lose Weight By Having Sex And Here’s How

According to Healthline, a person that weighs 155 pounds burns 23 calories per every half hour of sleep. That’s not a lot but if you multiply that by eight hours of sleep then it results in something like 400 calories. Should we just sleep all the time and give up on life?

Reading

Reading burns 42 calories per half hour. Must be all that activity in your head or the strain it takes to reach for your coffee.

Cooking

This activity burns over 90 calories per half hour, making cooking one of the most calorie-burning-activities you can do that don’t require moving your legs a lot and stepping out into the sunlight.

Gardening

Gardening burns a crazy amount of 167 calories per half hour. That’s an entire can of Coke! All while you’re tending your cute plants.

Playing with kids

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Related: 10 Tips To Help You Stay Active When Life Gets Busy

Kids are stressful, so it makes sense that a 155 pound person would burn 149 calories per half hour of play time. I guess this number can vary depending on the size and intensity of the child you’re playing with. Also, the amount of kids.

Watching TV

Sadly, you only burn 28 calories per every half hour of TV activity. Even though this number is not surprising, it’s still disappointing.

Sex

The amount of calories you burn during sex depends on the level of activity, gender, and amount of time. Men tend to have more muscle mass, burning around 100 calories for every half hour of action. Women burn approximately 69 calories per session.

Grocery shopping with a cart

The cart is very important here, helping you burn up to 130 calories every time you shop for more than half hour. The super market is a great place to burn calories, being distracting and fun if you’re the type of person who enjoys grocery shopping. Who isn’t?

Walking

Logically, walking for half hour is a decent enough workout, burning over 150 calories. It also depends on your speed, but that’s a pretty good number.

Standing in line

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Another reason why you should spend more time at the grocery store is that you also burn 50 calories for every half hour you wait in line. Lines are still awful but at least now you know that you’re not completely wasting your time.

3 Best Online Head Shops For Holiday Gift Giving

Mary Schumacher
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3 Best Online Head Shops For Holiday Gift Giving

Finding the right canna-product or putting together a cannabis themed goodie bag for someone you care about can be daunting, but in a fun kind of way. The truth of the matter is that there is so much selection out there that one head shop blends into another, whether brick and mortar or online. The following three smoke shops were chosen for their selection, their customer base and ease of use, so that you can easily tick one more thing off your list.

DankGeek

 

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DankGeek is a good looking site that’s easy to navigate. The homepage features categories with beautifully shot example pics. Choose from “Heady Glass,” “Geeky Glass,” “Dab Rigs” and more. Proudly displaying the near 4,000 five star reviews they’ve received and with their popup buys going past, the site instills a sense of peace that your piece will arrive in tact, on time and discreetly. Cool feature: The site also offers a “Rest In Piece” program where you can snap a photo of your broken pipe/bong/rig and email them with “Help me DankGeek” and they’ll send you a discount code with free shipping (they always ship free…).

Chameleon Glass

 

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Family owned and operated glass blowers since 1991, there are a lot of good reasons to choose Chameleon. For one thing all of their merchandise is made in the U.S. and for another, all of their glass is double blown. It goes beyond that, though. This is a head shop that crosses over into the artisan class. They make character pipes like Rick from Rick and Morty and do customizations as well. There’s even a Santa bowl if that’s the way you celebrate.

420 Science

 

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Related: 5 Gadgets Every Cannabis Connoisseur Needs To Know About

The first thing you see when visiting 420 Science is a banner for Stax, which is basically a build a bong. That innovative set could be the answer to your gifting quest right there, but it’s a good idea to browse around before making any decisions. Their guides to different products and how they work are great if you’re getting something for someone that’s out of your normal wheelhouse and 420 Science has stocked their site with all the accoutrements for anyone from beginner to expert in the realm of cannabis and concentrates.

Twitter Is Upset Over This Marathon Marriage Proposal

Amy Hansen
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Twitter Is Upset Over This Marathon Marriage Proposal

When you’ve trained for the better part of a year to run your first marathon with the hopes of crossing the finish line still alive and able to walk upright, the last thing you want to encounter is an obstacle along the way. Enter a young man who thought mile 16 of 26.2 miles would be the appropriate time to propose to his girlfriend, who was only 10 miles from completing the race.

The question is not, was this a kind gesture? Was this pure love in all its glory? The question, as Twitter reminded us, is: couldn’t this guy have waited at the finish line?

Related: Couple Airlifted, Hospitalized Immediately After Romantic Mountaintop Proposal

And of course she said yes! She had stuff to do! It’s like how you let your kid have that candy bar at the grocery store because you’d rather finish your shopping than deal with a tantrum on aisle 9.

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Related: Yankees Fan Loses Ring While Proposing To Girlfriend On Scoreboard

The woman, Kaitlyn Curran, certainly looked happy when she ran off after accepting the marriage proposal from her now fiancé, Dennis Galvin. And, sure, maybe she wasn’t running the race for time, but fellas, let your ladies have their moment before you hog the spotlight and make it all about you. 1/10, would not recommend.

What You Need To Know About Marijuana And Breast Cancer

Richard Faulk
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What You Need To Know About Marijuana And Breast Cancer

Breast cancer is the second most common cancer in women; one in ten will be affected by it at some point. There are a variety of highly successful chemical, radiological, and surgical treatment options. But they’re not particularly pleasant. Moreover, some tumors are resistant and prone to relapse.

Ideally, we would find an effective nonsurgical intervention with minimal side effects. Could such a cure exist, or is it just a tantalizing will o’the wisp?

As remarkable as it may seem, there is reliable and growing for-real evidence suggesting that cannabis can slow the growth of tumors by hindering their ability to hijack blood vessels for their own nefarious purposes (aka angiogenesis), hamper the migration of cancer cells throughout the body (aka metastasis), and actually hasten the death (aka autophagy and apoptosis) of these otherwise uncontrollably proliferating rogue cells. In other words, cannabis really does fight cancer.

Now that we’ve glitter-bombed your eyes with stardust, allow us to wipe some of it away. There is not this one thing called “cancer.” It has many, many forms—each one of which must be studied separately. Success in brain cancer, for instance, may not apply to cancer of the colon. And no studies have been done on living people. Tissue samples and lab mice supply all our data so far.

So, in short, there is no cannabis cancer pill. And we’re not likely to have one anytime soon.

Researchers have documented anti-cancer activity in cannabis since the 1990s. But the big breakthrough in breast cancer came in 2007, when Dr. Sean McAllister showed that CBD, the gentle, non-intoxicating sibling of THC, fights the most malignant forms of the disease by switching off the ID-1 gene. That’s a gene that is furiously active when we are embryos, but, once we’re fully constructed fetuses, it checks out to an early retirement. If the ID-1 gene should wake up later in life, however, which it occasionally does for mysterious reasons, its unwanted labor gifts us with malignant, invasive tumors.

Since the McAllister report, there have been a number of studies confirming and extending its findings. This 2012 review gives an excellent overview, if you’re interested and want to wade through the science. The authors (who themselves have been engaged in extensive cancer research at Madrid’s Computense University) conclude that cannabinoids that work on the CB1 and CB2 receptors (typically that means THC and CBD, respectively) have “anti-tumor activity” but do not harm healthy tissue—at least in test-tube experiments and mouse studies. This position has gained the imprimatur of the National Cancer Institute, which proclaims that the cannabinoid receptors “may be potential targets” in breast cancer.

As the next step toward a full-scale clinical trial, the review authors recommend isolating the most effective cannabinoid or blend of them. This challenge wast taken up by the authors of a 2014 study, which found that a cannabinoid compound with the dystopian sci-fi worthy name 0-1663 was more effective at combatting breast tumors and extending life (in mice) than a blend of THC and CBD.

And that, for the time, is the state of the art of cannabinoid and breast cancer research.

Meanwhile, on the symptom-management front, Sativex, an oral spray that combines THC and CBD, is currently in trial in the US for treating breast cancer pain. (It’s already approved for other uses in Europe and Canada.)

Microdosing Marijuana And Mushrooms To Combat Seasonal Affective Disorder

Mary Schumacher
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Microdosing Marijuana And Mushrooms To Combat Seasonal Affective Disorder

The idea of microdosing marijuana isn’t for everyone or even the majority of imbibers, but it’s the miracle answer for many people who deal with depression, anxiety and the upcoming Seasonal Affective Disorder. Microdosing mushrooms is another way that we open up pathways in our thinking and clear out the cobwebs and has been a popular tool for Silicon Valley innovators.

When the two are paired, microdosing takes on a whole new level of experience. You don’t take a full dose of either, but both doses are somehow enhanced. It’s your basic psychedelic entourage effect. Any magic mushroom eater knows that cannabis can kick your trip into high gear; well this works in a similar way, just on a much smaller, yet very effective, scale.

Ingesting, smoking or vaping small amounts of cannabis stimulate our bodies’ endocannabinoid system and though it usually won’t get one high, per se, it is enough to reset the mind. Same with mushrooms, you’re not going to have melting or breathing walls, but you are likely to add a little sparkle to the day.

When combating something as weighted as SAD, it’s important to treat the herb and fungi as medicine. Find the regimen that works best for you by conducting slight variations on the experiment. A quarter of a gram or even less of ground up mushrooms three times a day is a good place to start and you’re not likely to deviate too far from that dosage and schedule unless consciously deciding to trip.

With cannabis, take a half-pull to a pull off a vape pen or pipe or ingest 2-7 mg of an edible or tincture 3-5 times a day. This microdose will keep that endocannabinoid system chugging along and will build up in the system over time, meaning that the activation and effects come on more quickly as the days and weeks go by.

If you’re still experiencing symptoms of SAD after a week or if you suspect you have something deeper going on than seasonal blues, it’s important that you see your doctor and perhaps take the pharmaceutical route or add therapy to your established microdosing regime. Just take care of yourself and remember that spring is closer than you think.

JK Rowling Sues Assistant For Scamming The S*** Out Of Her

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JK Rowling Sues Assistant For Scamming The S*** Out Of Her

Amanda Donaldson, J.K. Rowling’s former personal assistant, is accused of violating work protocol by making several unauthorized purchases with Rowling’s credit card. According to the BBC, Donaldson spent over $31,000 on different expenses, including two cats and a whole lot of candles.

Donaldson worked with Rowling for a couple of years, starting off in February 2014 until her dismissal in April 2017. She spent over $1,600 on two cats (very fancy ones, apparently), $2,100 on Starbuck orders, and $1,900 on candles. Donaldson duties as personal assistant included the management of fan requests of toys and memorabilia, which she’s also accused of stealing. She’s your average fan girl.

Via The BBC:

Ms Rowling also claims Ms Donaldson, who controlled memorabilia requests from fans, used her position to steal a Harry Potter motorised Hogwarts Express worth £467.56 ($610.22), a Harry Potter Wizard Collection worth £2231.76 ($2,912.69) and a Harry Potter Tales of Beedle The Bard Set worth £395 ($515.52).

Although $31,000 seems like a lot of money for us average human beings, Rowling is worth an estimated $650 billion. Does she really have to sue this poor cat lady and obvious Harry Potter fan? Ok, so she stole some money and that’s wrong, but Rowling can make that back in an hour, tops.

Donaldson denies all of Rowling’s accusations and the case is due back in court later this year.

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