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Is This The Secret To Long Lasting Health

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Is This The Secret To Long Lasting Health

Fantasy books and witch stories aren’t that crazy after all. Have wee been looking at a miracle and not noticing? Is this the secret to long lasting health? According a reputable study, it seems like the secret to long term health lies in youth. By consuming young people’s blood, older subjects may be able to avoid age-related diseases and live for longer periods of time.

The study conducted by the University of London was published in the journal Nature and found that older animals who had blood from younger animals injected into them showed significant overall health improvements. Researchers discovered that even animals with conditions such as cancer and heart disease were positively affected.

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“A lot of people regard aging as ‘natural’ and that therefore you shouldn’t interfere with nature. But we’ve always considered it an ethical imperative to cure illness where we find it,” says geneticist Linda Partridge, sounding very much like a mad scientist.

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This British study isn’t the first to find a relationship between youth and health. In fact, there have been plenty of studies that have found similar results, even demonstrating the effect young blood has on older humans.

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The New York Post reports this human trial was conducted on 70 subjects over the age of 35 who were given plasma from participants between the ages of 16 and 25. The study reflected health improvements over a variety of diseases. Ambrosia, the company that conducted the trial, is now selling blood plasma to interested customers for a price of $8,000.

A note the main study did not itself investigate blood transfusions for human longevity purposes but rather included a discussion of blood transfusions in animal studies as part of a larger review of the state of the longevity and aging fields. Third, “blood factors” refer to specific components of blood, not to blood as a whole.

Is Post Malone Living His Own ‘Final Destination’ Reality?

Brendan Bures
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Is Post Malone Living His Own ‘Final Destination’ Reality?

There is joke going around on Twitter that is simultaneously flippant and alarming because of its flippant attitude. It goes something like this: Post Malone is secretly living out his own Final Destination plot, but in real life. Though in the wake of tragic celebrity deaths like Mac Miller and the regular maelstrom of political news, you might’ve missed what’s happening with Post.

It started with an anxiety familiar to anyone scared of flying. A Gulfstream IV jet carrying 16 people, including Post, set off for London and blew out two of its tires during takeoff. Fans and curious peoples alike tracked the flight as it burned off fuel for hours, as it was diverted a couple times, before finally landing safely at New York Stewart International Airport.

Are blown tires during takeoff that rare? No. Was there anything special about this emergency response? Also no, airplane experts espoused online. But this was Aug. 21 and Post wouldn’t be done brushing up against death.

Then on Sept. 7, Post Malone was involved in a serious car accident after another vehicle ran into his Rolls-Royce Wraith, causing his car to spin out. The crash caused serious damage to the driver’s side of the Wraith and was completely leveled. Post responded how one does to these situations when they have a bunch of money—he bought a shinier, more armored Rolls-Royce to give him protection from errant drivers.

Following the incident, Post responded on Twitter once again about his unfortunate run-ins with bad transportation luck. “god must hate me lol,” he tweeted.

But guess what? We’re still not done! TMZ reported that three armed robbers targeted a house in the San Fernando Valley, believing it was Post’s home. The resident living there was pistol whipped and about $20K worth of jewelry, cash, and cell phones was stolen. But Post Malone had since moved out from the house and TMZ reports that one robber yelled at, “Where’s Post Malone!?”

The people living there now have no connection to Post Malone, however. Instead authorities believe this burglary is connected to an incident where robbers stole a safe from Rae Sremmurd’s house. Apparently robbers have been active in hitting celebrity homes lately, as Wiz Khalifa, John Mayer, Christina Milian, Bella Thorne and Yasiel Puig have all been victims of burglaries or attempted burglaries.

So maybe Post Malone should just lay low for a while? Maybe escape to a Caribbean island and wait for the bad Final Destination luck to run out. Either way, we’re hoping the rapper’s bad luck runs out sooner rather than later.

Patients Have To Choose: Medical Marijuana Or Federal Housing Assistance?

Mary Schumacher
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Patients Have To Choose: Medical Marijuana Or Federal Housing Assistance?

It’s a terrible choice to have to make, but one that many are forced into. No matter where medical or recreational cannabis is legalized in the states, it remains a Schedule I drug, meaning that it’s illegal at the federal level. Thus, it’s not allowed in Section 8 public housing.

Living on a low income is hard enough. Now add an ailment like cancer or PTSD to the mix. Then to have what the doctor recommends as the best medicine for relief, marijuana, not be an option in one’s own home is just cruel.

As it stands, people living in medical states are able to get a medical marijuana card to ease what ails them and then are able to go to a dispensary or otherwise legally obtain cannabis to use in a safe space. There are a few problems with that when it comes to federal housing.

First and foremost, one is not even allowed to have a medical marijuana card and still apply for federal housing at the same time. Even if that stipulation was lifted, patients still aren’t allowed to imbibe inside the housing. There just aren’t a lot of places to vape or toke that aren’t home. Lounges are not allowed in most states, and though there would be the potential option of going to a friend’s house to medicate, asking the very ill to be mobile as well isn’t always going to be an option.

In June, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) introduced a bill called the “Marijuana in Federally Assisted Housing Parity Act of 2018” to allow for recreational or medicinal usage of cannabis in federally assisted housing when cannabis is allowed by state law. A spokesperson for the congresswoman said that they are still seeking cosponsors for the bill.

One patient caught in these crossfire is Ms. Cease, who was approved for her medical marijuana card and then immediately denied her application for federal housing. She has no criminal background, weaned herself off of opiates with cannabis and has a qualifying condition for cannabis use. She’s been back and forth with the housing committee since last December and has one more chance to make her case, but she’s not optimistic.

“What they’re going to do is say, ‘We get federal funding and it’s against federal law,’” Cease told the Pittsburgh-Post Gazette. “It’s a crazy thing to do to an old woman who has no criminal background, and who owes nobody anything, and is living in a place where you cannot expand your mind.”

Will Tobacco Companies Get Involved With Legal Marijuana?

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Will Tobacco Companies Get Involved With Legal Marijuana?

Now that marijuana has been made legal at the national level in Canada, alcohol companies are claiming their stake in what has the potential to become a $22 billion marketplace. Nearly all of the major brewing companies aside from Anheuser-Busch have joined forces with cannabis firms to produce their version of THC-infused beverages. Hell, there are even rumors that the maker of Budweiser is presently in talk about doing the same.

Yet, so far, we have not heard much from the one sector that was expected to get in on the ganja game before any other – the tobacco companies. But make no mistake about it Big Tobacco is searching for a way into the cannabis space. It is just a matter of time before those developments are made public.

So far only Imperial Brands, maker of the Kool and Winston cigarette brands, has announced an investment in medical marijuana. The company was recently part of a round of funding for Oxford Cannabinoid Technologies, raising nearly $10 million for the development of non-smokeable cannabis products.

More of these types of business arrangements are expected to happen in the near future.

In fact, Peter Luongo, managing director of Rothmans, Benson & Hedges Inc., which is affiliated with Philip Morris International Inc., told Bloomberg that smoke-free cannabis products are the most “logical entry point” for tobacco firms to get into the business of legal weed. But he stopped short of admitting that the company was exploring this option.

Market analyst Nigram Arora believes tobacco firms will inevitably find a way to weasel into the cannabis space. After all, the two business sectors are “complementary” to each other, and with cigarette markers experiencing diminishing sales over the past few years, these companies “are looking for growth levers” like legal weed.

Further, the tobacco companies have the financial girth to get into the cannabis space and do it right, not to mention they already have the infrastructure necessary to “develop successful brands” and handle strict regulatory controls,” Arora said in his column.

But it really doesn’t seem likely that cannabis consumers will one day be able to walk into a pot dispensary and buy a pack of Marlboro pre-rolls. Some of the latest research suggests smoking marijuana is a dying trend. And the tobacco companies are well aware. The future of cannabis is edibles, vaporizers and other more socially acceptable products. These are the products most likely to receive investment dollars.

It is for this reason that experts like Shane MacGuill, head of tobacco research at Euromonitor International, says tobacco companies will likely use legal cannabis as a way to shift gears and become “more of a pleasure substance provider than a tobacco and nicotine provider.”

Investment professionals like Robert Fagan, who works as an analyst at GMP Securities in Montreal, says tobacco companies are not rushing to get in on legal weed. “If anything, they’re waiting for regulations to be crystal clear before diving in,” he told Marijuana Business Daily.

This appears to be true.

Murray Garnick, executive vice president at Altria Group, which owns Philip Morris, maker of the Marlboro cigarette brand, recently said that while “cannabis remains illegal” in the United States, the company is “mindful of the possibility” that the nation’s pot law could change. So “we’re studying and evaluating market opportunities,” in the cannabis space.

SJP Calls ‘Sex And The City’ Tone Deaf; Chris Pine Talks About His Full Frontal Debut

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SJP Calls ‘Sex And The City’ Tone Deaf; Chris Pine Talks About His Full Frontal Debut

SARAH JESSICA PARKER THINKS SEX AND THE CITY LOOKS ‘TONE DEAF’ IN 2018

At the Deauville Film Festival in France on Friday, she said that the show would today seem “tone deaf” given the fact that the four women who comprise its leads are all white. “You couldn’t make it today because of the lack of diversity onscreen,” Parker told The Hollywood Reporter. “I personally think it would feel bizarre.”

Parker isn’t behind a reboot either, due in part to other changes that have shifted society in the two decades—and New York City—since 1998. Two thousand and eighteen is a vastly different world in terms of how people consider and give more nuanced attention to issues of sex and sexuality, dating, careers, feminism (and all its intersections), and family life. When all is said and done, she said, “I don’t know that you could do it with a different cast. I think that’s radical and interesting, but you can’t pretend it’s the same.”

“It wouldn’t be a reboot as I understand it,” Parker added. “If you came back and did six episodes, you’d have to acknowledge the city is not hospitable to those same ideas. You’d look like you were generationally removed from reality, but it would be certainly interesting to see four diverse women experiencing NYC their way…. It would be interesting and very worthwhile exploring, but it couldn’t be the same.”

KIM KARDASHIAN NOT IN LAW SCHOOL, KANYE WEST MISSPOKE

West mentioned over the weekend that his wife is in school. “My wife is in law school now, and it’s extremely serious to us,” West, 41, told Extra.

A rep for Kardashian clarified that she is not in school but rather she’s deeply involved in prison reform and likened her work to attending school.

Kardashian’s activism seems to make her husband proud. “I love it, I love it,” the rapper told Extra. “That’s all we focus on, helping people that don’t have a voice, breaking down the class system.”

CHRIS PINE ON HIS FULL FRONTAL DEBUT: ‘IT’S A HELL OF A THING TO SEE ON A 40-FOOT SCREEN’

“We’re trying to make a film about a man and it’s a man who happens to become king. And it’s a story about power and who has power and why and the world of power – all these really primal elements. And one of the primal elements is this is a film that takes place in the mud and the rain and there’s fire, there’s sex, there’s killing, there’s violence, there’s love, there’s all of it. All the things that make animals animals, and humans humans, and human animals…and that particular scene on this hero journey the man is stripped of everything and ends up in a cave in the darkest recesses of his mind and imagination, he’s wrestling, and the next scene he reenters life and becomes a new man. That was the idea behind it, but it’s a hell of a thing to see on a 40-foot screen.”

He talked about it more with The Hollywood Reporter: “There’s so much beheading in this, and yet, people want to talk about my penis. I think that says something about our society where people can get disemboweled but it’s the man’s junk that is of interest.”

Added Pine, when asked how he “geared up” for a day like that on set: “Well it was very cold, I remember, and it was on the side of a major highway, so it’s not exactly the elements I would choose myself. I’d choose some sort of hot tub in Bali, and less men probably.

Boozy Marijuana Gummies: Because We All Need More Happiness

Danielle Guercio
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Boozy Marijuana Gummies: Because We All Need More Happiness

The idea of making yummy food laced with a potent dose of piff is great, but it’s often labor intensive. If you’re not an experienced cook or into following explicit directions, it’s just not always feasible to take what you can twist into a joint and process it into a food item.

In the realm of easy to make cannasnacks, there’s not too many options. One would be the Firecracker, but they just don’t seem very appetizing to me, personally. Whether you buy or make your own tinctures, alcohol based tinctures make adding strength to uncooked items very simple.

The old dorm room favorite, booze spiked gummy candy, is a near perfect vessel for alcoholic tinctures. Gummies can soak up a lot of alcohol, which means you can make these with just ‘the goods’ (a small amount of tincture) or mix into a larger amount of alcohol and soak them into the buzzed zone. Either way you decide to prepare them, they are hands off and ready in mere hours.

Photos by Danielle Guercio

Weed Tincture Soaked Gummies

Danielle Guercio 2016

  • 1 package Gummy candy
  • 1 oz alcohol tincture*
  • Additional ½ cup liquor or wine (optional)

Soaking gelatin based gummy candy in alcohol is a straightforward procedure, but requires a little extra care if you’re looking to have uniform dosing across each candy. If you are making them haphazardly, just beware of accidentally strong ones.

Photos by Danielle Guercio

To make a uniform strength candy, pack the candies in a shallow jelly jar so they are standing up vertically. Pour tincture over candy. Seal and allow to infuse 4 hours or overnight in the fridge.

If you want them to be extra alcoholic, mix tincture into liquor of choice before pouring over candy. They’ll need more space to puff up if that’s the case, so try laying them flat in a plastic container and then pouring over the alcohol.

Photos by Danielle Guercio

*Alcohol Cannabis Tincture

Decarboxylate an eighth of finely ground cannabis by heating in an oven safe and well sealed container for 20 minutes at 225 degrees. Put Cannabis and high proof spirit like 151 rum into a jar or vacuum sealed bag and place in a water bath at just under boiling for 1-3 hours Strain into dropper bottle and dispense 1-5mL as a dose or use in recipes.

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These are beyond simple, they are effortless. You can use them for discreet medicating or party favors, and if you want them extra boozy you’re doing two jobs in one, just make sure to not overdo it, they’re deceptively tasty!

 

This Cannabis Milk Will Calm You Down

Brea Mosley
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This Cannabis Milk Will Calm You Down

We’ve all been there: tossing and turning late at night, restless as hell, waiting for our melatonin, Xanax and other sleeping aids to kick in, but ending up defeated. You know, when you were supposed to get to bed by midnight and you look up and it’s 3 a.m. and you’re wondering how did you end up here? This cannabis milk will calm you down.

Or when you’ve come home from a long, bothersome day at work and you want to unwind without reaching for the nearest bottle of whiskey.

Insomniacs, anxiety sufferers and everyone in between, meet Relax, by Rawligion: a 100 percent organic, dairy-free, hemp-based cannabidiol “mylk” that will calm you right down.

Produced by some cool lads in the U.K., the drink is complete with only seven ingredients (all of which you can actually pronounce): hemp seeds, cashews, alkaline water, dates, coconut oil, vanilla and cannabidiol (CBD) oil. The raw drink promises to reduce stress and anxiety, relieve pain and aid in sleep.

Let’s rewind: this drink contains CBD oil? Yes! And, because cannabidiol is cannabis’ non-psychoactive ingredient, you won’t get high from consuming it, unlike it’s superstar counterpart Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), that will get you stoned. Plus, CBD has been proven to have some amazing effects on the body, too. Preclinical studies have shown that CBD helps reduce anxiety and chronic pain.

So what do you do when you just can’t fathom drinking another glass of warm milk before bed? Relax and grab some Relax. According to the brave souls that have tried it, “The Relax milk tastes very similar to almond milk – albeit slightly earthier – and has a cannabis-like aftertaste. It’s sweet and moreish.”

Sweet and moreish? We can totally get behind that.

Unfortunately, and according to Rawligion’s Instagram, this must-have milk is only available in Central London (for now), where it’s pressed, fresh and raw. But, fear not! The company is looking to expand their offerings of Relax in the near future. This would be solid, considering everyone in the company’s Instagram comments have been begging Rawligion to bring Relax to the United States.

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So in the event you’re feeling really festive and are able to get your hands on this milk, you can grab your Relax and dip one of these delicious edible cookies in it, for a little late night snack. But be warned, most edibles pack quite the punch.

However, in the event you are a) not in Central London and b) too impatient to wait to get your hands on Relax, the drink does only have seven natural and accessible ingredients, so hey, maybe you can just make your own?

Tesla Employee Fired For Using Marijuana

Brendan Bures
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Tesla Employee Fired For Using Marijuana

It was the puff tweeted around the world when Tesla CEO Elon Musk shared a few tokes of a joint with comedian Joe Rogan on Rogan’s podcast last week. Social media went abuzz with Musk’s devil-may-care attitude, adding to the disastrous public relations run that the tech giant has endured over the past month. And now a new issue, a Tesla employee fired for using marijuana.

Now, a former Tesla employee is adding more fuel to the fire. Crystal Guardado, a single mother, worked at Tesla’s Fremont, California, factory for four months. Guardado claims she was dismissed for violating the company’s “vague” drug use policy that Musk and Tesla allegedly use to terminate any employee they deem as a “threat.” This is adding more fuel to the fire in Musk world.

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So when Guardado watched Musk gallivanting with Rogan, smoking a joint and swilling whiskey, it reeked of hypocrisy.

“It was just like a slap in the face to me and my son,” Guardado told Bloomberg. “Elon Musk is just smoking it out in the open, knowing that he uses his very vague drug policy as a way to fire people that are a threat to him.”

What makes Guardado’s claims more alarming is that she never hid her cannabis use from Tesla. Instead she told a supervisors about “her outside-work, doctor-recommended use of drops that could make her test positive for THC.” Instead, Guardado insinuated her cannabis usage was pretense to fire her after she criticized the company’s safety issues and for supporting the United Auto Workers (UAW) union.

Related: Woman Fired For Consuming Weed After Work Is Not Going Down Without A Fight

Tesla told Bloomberg that no one at the company has been dismissed because of their support of the UAW. Instead a spokesperson said that Guardado was fired for violating the company substance abuse and testing policy. In a separate interview with the Guardian, Musk said, “Our policy allows trace amounts of THC during work times, provided they are below the safety limit (much like a minimum alcohol level).”

Tesla’s stock prices dropped following Musk’s appearance on the podcast. It should also be mentioned that a chief executive of the company announced his resignation on the same day, citing that the public scrutiny and negative attention the company had received in his short tenure.

Former Mexican President Wants Cannabis Added To NAFTA

Mike Adams
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Former Mexican President Wants Cannabis Added To NAFTA

Former Mexican President Vicente Fox would like to legitimatize cannabis across international boarders in an attempt to boost the economies of Canada, Mexico and the United Sates. He wants to incorporate cannabis into the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and provide weed producers with the same economic possibilities as those connected to any other form of produce. Although Fox’s plan is on the right track in the grand scheme of how the three countries are presently doing business together, some cannabis growers, especially those connected to smaller farming operations, are not exactly champing at the bit for this idea come to fruition.

In a recent interview with Bloomberg, Fox, who sits on the board of the Vancouver-based cannabis firm Khiron Life Sciences Corp, said changes are coming with respect to cannabis at the international level. He told the news source that in addition to Mexico’s move to legalize a medical marijuana program in 2017, he believes the current government will make strides to legalize for recreational use later next year. If this happens, Fox believes that giving the cartels the right to distribute cannabis legally through a NAFTA deal could be a solid step in curbing violent, illicit affairs.

“We can change criminals for businessmen, we can change underground, illegal non-taxpayers into an industry, a sector of the economy,” he said last Thursday in Toronto.

“I think it should be part of NAFTA and that’s what I’m pursuing,” he added.

By making marijuana a part of international trade, Mexico would once again become a major exporter of cannabis. Prior to cannabis going legal in some parts of the United States, Mexican drug cartels were responsible for a large majority of the country’s cannabis distribution.

If Mexico would happen to go fully legal in 2019, and cannabis was miraculously affixed to NAFTA under the Trump Administration, some of those same blood-thirsty cartel operations that have dominated the black market dope trade for decades could supply the U.S. and Canada with legal weed. After all, labor is cheap south of the border.

“On vegetables, on fruits, on avocados, Mexico produces and provides up to 70 percent of the U.S. and Canadian market so we are efficient in producing, we’re efficient in farming and we’re low-cost and competitive,” Fox said during his interview.

However, making legal weed a part of NAFA is not something that is technically possible while the United States government maintains a prohibitionary standard. Marijuana must first be made legal at the national level, and Congress is nowhere even close passing a bill. In fact, there is a White House committee presently trying to roll back the public opinion on weed.

But even if it were possible, cannabis producers argue that a NAFTA deal would be yet another detriment to the American farmer.

“Cannabis is one crop that small farms have relied on for income, Jaime Warm, CEO of the California-based cannabis firm Henry’s Originals, told the Huffington Post.

Other U.S. cannabis producers, like Lex Corwin, the founder of Stone Road Farms, say that pot businesses are already combating excessive regulations, so adding “foreign-grown, low-cost marijuana to the equation…would be a death sentence for many American marijuana businesses and the tens of thousands of well-paying jobs this industry provides.”

But cannabis investors are not worried about the small American farmer. In fact, many believe adding cannabis to NAFTA would be a good move. Yet, even Fox understands that this is not something that is going to happen anytime soon, but there is definitely some potential for a deal to be made in the future. The United States government has been trying to kill off the American farmer for the past several decades. Why stop now?

GOSSIP: Lady Gaga Talks About Her Instant Connection With Bradley Cooper; Kim Kardashian Is In…Law School?

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GOSSIP: Lady Gaga Talks About Her Instant Connection With Bradley Cooper; Kim Kardashian Is In…Law School?

LADY GAGA HAS OPENED UP ABOUT HER INSTANT CONNECTION TO COSTAR BRADLEY COOPE

She tells E, “We had just an instant connection. I could just see it in his eyes. And when I heard him sing for the first time, I stopped dead in my tracks, playing the piano, and I looked over to him and I said, ‘Bradley, you can sing!’ Oh my gosh! It was wonderful.

REVEALED!?!? DID KANYE WEST JUST REVEAL A SECRET ABOUT WIFE KIM KARDASHIAN?

West talked to “Extra’s” AJ Calloway over the weekend, praising her for the work she is doing with the White House.

West also broke some news, informing “Extra,” “My wife is in LAW SCHOOL now, and it’s extremely serious to us.” WHAT !?!? Is Kimmy back in school?

REALLY: JOHN LEGEND HAS REVEALED THAT KANYE WEST IS DEFINITELY THINKING ABOUT RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT

The hitmaker, 39, who has recently admitted that he is still ‘civil’ with the rapper after the two disagreed on their political views, has admitted that the 41-year-old has spoken of his desire for Presidency ‘multiple times’. ‘I think he’s serious,’ John admitted in the Dan Wootton Interview podcast.

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