Following Musk’s appearance on Rogan’s podcast, Tesla’s stock dropped 9%.
During a nearly three hour podcast taping with Joe Rogan, a man under investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission performed the following actions: sipping whiskey, smoking weed, admiring authentic 16th century samurai swords, conceptualizing electric air travel, confessing his plans to revolutionize public transportation might not work, and otherwise gabbing to wherever his drunken, stoned mind took him.
That person is Elon Musk, which hopefully you could identify through the massive smoke cloud surrounding his visage. Mainstream publications and social media alike were aghast that Musk puffed from a joint mixed with tobacco that Rogan handed him. It’s worth noting the podcast taping, like virtually all Rogan podcasts, occurred in California.
“I’m not a regular smoker of weed,” Musk admitted.
Last month, Musk generated even more headlines over tweets he made about taking Tesla Inc. private. “Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured,” he tweeted.
Musk later told the New York Times that the $420 figure was indeed a joke about the popular marijuana-related holiday. In the same interview, Musk explained that he wanted to offer a 20 percent premium for private investors from where the stock had been trading. The actual figure from his calculations was $419 and Musk couldn’t resist the opportunity. It was also strange, however, that Musk used the opportunity to badmouth marijuana as well.
“It seemed like better karma at $420 than at $419,” he said in the interview. “But I was not on weed, to be clear. Weed is not helpful for productivity. There’s a reason for the word ‘stoned.’ You just sit there like a stone on weed.”
Following Musk’s appearance on Rogan’s podcast, Tesla’s stock dropped 9% Friday morning. But the drop could also be explained by the announcement of two chief executives resigning as well.
This legislation would give V.A. doctors the authority to finally be able to issue marijuana scripts, as allowed from state to state and as allowed for the general population in medicalized states. And there’s nothing general about a veteran. Veterans have often given over everything to fight for our freedoms. It’s truly only fair that they enjoy the same rights to medical cannabis that their neighbors do.
The bill was authored by senators Bill Nelson (D-FL) and Brian Schatz (D-HI). Though both democrats, cannabis has proven itself time and again to be a non-partisan issue, lending even more hope that this bill will pass.
As well as allowing medical marijuana for vets, the Safe Harbor Act would be allocating $15 million to study, “the effects of medical marijuana on veterans in pain” as well as “the relationship between treatment programs involving medical marijuana that are approved by States, the access of veterans to such programs, and a reduction in opioid abuse among veterans.”
Opiates and benzos are some of the most commonly prescribed medications to veterans suffering from chronic pain and/or PTSD. They are also the types of pills that many people use marijuana to either slow the use of or stop entirely.
The bill’s introduction reads that it aims, “To allow veterans to use, possess, or transport medical marijuana and to discuss the use of medical marijuana with a physician of the Department of Veterans Affairs as authorized by State law, and for other purposes.” It also says, “States with medical cannabis laws have a 24.8 percent lower mean annual opioid overdose mortality rate compared with States without medical cannabis laws.”
“Chronic pain affects the veteran population, with almost 60 percent of veterans returning from serving in the Armed Forces in the Middle East, and more than 50 percent of older veterans who are using the health care system of the Department of Veterans Affairs living with some form of chronic pain,” it continued.
According to the press release that came out of Sen. Nelson’s office, “Veterans are twice as likely as non-veterans to die from opioid overdose.” It couldn’t be more clear that getting natural medicine into the hands and systems of veterans is the best way to combat that sad statistic. There has never been a fatal overdose of cannabis, which has also proven itself to be an exit drug for ofttimes deadly medications like oxycodone or xanax. Veterans deserve access to safe medicine and that is exactly what this bill aims to provide.
“Lisa is fuming over Denise joining the cast and the two of them are definitely going to be going at it,” a source close to Vanderpump, 57, said. “She feels like Denise is trying to dethrone her and really just thinks that Denise is an entitled b***h!”
“Lisa has been the head honcho since the show started and she is appalled to hear that Denise is already barking orders over such things as her trailer and her wardrobe,” the insider revealed.
A little bit of pain is expected after a good workout, especially if you’ve been inactive for a couple of days or if the routine you followed was particularly taxing on a set of muscles. Working out causes your muscles to tear, a normal process that leads to some pain and inflammation since your body is fixing itself and growing stronger. But if your pain continues to increase and your muscles keep on swelling, this could be a sign of something much more dangerous.
Rhabdomyolisis is a serious condition that can affect your kidneys and the overall health of your body, making your muscles swell and grow stiff. The disease degrades your muscles, contaminating your bloodstream with waste. While working out is mostly a good thing, overdoing it can lead to the overproduction of myoglobin and enzymes that can build up and become really hard to process for your kidneys and liver.
Luckily, there’s a small chance you’ll get confused between regular workout pains and “Rhabdo” disease. Symptoms of rhadomyolisis include extremely painful muscles that grow stiff and become really hard to move. The excess of myoglobin produced by the disease can also lead to a very dark urine color.
Statistics on Rhabdo and its frequency are conflicting. While some people think that it’s an extremely rare disease, others believe that it’s actually on the rise. It’s important to visit a doctor as soon as possible if you think you’re showing symptoms of it, and to moderate your workouts to a rational and manageable degree. Instead of pushing yourself to the limit in just one go, work hard over time, training your body to be as efficient as possible in the long run.
At the French Open, Serena Williams wore a custom-made black catsuit. On August 24, the president of the French Tennis Federation said the outfit “wouldn’t be back.” It “went too far,” he continued. It didn’t “respect the game and the place.”
As a historian of the American fashion industry, I’m not surprised when an outfit worn by a female athlete generates outrage. I thought of Suzanne Lenglen, the French tennis star of the late 1910s who shocked onlookers with her knee-length tennis dress. Coincidentally, Stade Roland Garros, the stadium where Serena wore her suit during the French Open, has a court named after Lenglen.
In a 1926 photo, French tennis player Suzanne Lenglen wears a knee-high skirt. AP Photo
Women who play sports, he wrote, “stick out places when they play, wear funny clothes, get out of breath or perspire.” He didn’t like that because “it’s a lady’s business to look beautiful, and there are hardly any sports in which she seems able to do it.”
Nothing, it seemed, pissed people off more than women in shorts. Starting in the late 1920s, shorts became the much-contested replacement for bloomers, the puffy-legged, bifurcated garment worn under long skirts. Women who did wear athletic garb were supposed to keep out of the public eye because it was deemed unfeminine and, yes, immodest.
Female tennis players were on the frontlines of the battle for public acceptance of shorts. Even though tennis industry officials and country club muckety mucks wrote dress codes that outlawed shorts, many women refused to adhere to the rules and continued showing up to play wearing them.
Some were thrown off the courts. But it’s hard to enforce dress codes when everybody’s doing it.
Not surprisingly, this really rankled the old guard.
“If you gals really knew how cute you look in a well-cut dress, you wouldn’t hanker to wear shorts,” one etiquette writer grumbled in the 1936 book, “Co-Ediquette: Poise and Popularity for Every Girl.” “Of course, you’ve got to be comfortable, ah, me! Even if you have to insult the aesthetic sense of men to do it?”
Most women shrugged – and kept on wearing shorts, on and off the court.
In time, shorts as hiking wear, shorts as gardening garb and shorts as loungewear became increasingly common. It seems the old guard had been worn down – or simply died off.
By the end of the 1930s, younger women were acknowledging a shift in attitudes. “American women live 24 hours a day in sports clothes,” one college student told the Boston Post. “Husband no longer come home and deliver stern lectures upon finding their wives cooking supper in shorts. It’s just taken for granted.”
While some husbands may have skipped the stern lectures, it took three more decades for shorts to fully reach widespread acceptance.
But in tennis, notions of immodesty and informality die hard. When female tennis players such as Billie Jean King wore very short, gored skirts and sleeveless polo shirts in the 1970s, they were criticized for their “radical” outfits. Time and again, the powers-that-be in tennis push back on immodesty, and the players push forward towards personal choice and – dare we say – personal style.
Wearing a sleeveless top, Billie Jean King competes during the finals match for the women’s singles title at Wimbledon in July 1973. AP Photo
So, we’ve seen this all before. New stuff – never-seen-before stuff – has long spelled trouble for female athletes and sparked public outcry.
Today, the sartorial standards of what you can and can’t wear in certain settings have changed so radically that institutions can’t keep up. You almost feel sorry for the French official who announced the ban on the catsuit. In the big picture, he won’t do anything to stop the crawl of social change.
While much of the surprising twists of this much-hyped “Game of Thrones” off-season have focused on where the characters’ storylines will go next season, the newest development involves one actor’s real-life drama. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, who plays the moody Jaime Lannister on the show, is being sued by his former manager Jill Littman for $2 million in backpay plus interest. In addition, the actor is facing immigration fraud accusations, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The dispute revolves around a decade-long contract between Littman’s agency, Impression Entertainment, and Coster-Waldau. Coster-Waldau terminated their business relationship in 2015 for reasons he claimed were personal, not financial.
“I am nothing but grateful for our many years working together and the success we shared,” the actor’s e-mail to Littman read. “And the reason I have decided to leave Impression is not to go somewhere else but to basically take control myself. ‘Game of Thrones’ is coming to an end now.”
Throughout their agreement, Littman earned 10 percent of whatever income Coster-Waldau was paid. Coster-Waldau insisted that their partnership was strictly an oral agreement, which did not include compensation for his manager following the termination, However, according to Littman, the unusual arrangement of their deal included her receiving compensation post-termination.
How was their deal unusual? In April, Littman came forward with a written contract that refutes Coster-Waldau’s claims. “This agreement dated from the time that her agency sponsored Coster-Waldau for a 0-1 visa. As part of what needed to be given to U.S. immigration authorities, she delivered to the government a signed agreement between Impression and Coster-Waldau,” wrote THR.
Through his agent at William Morris Endeavor, Coster-Waldau insisted the agreement was a “sham.” The comment has cast the spotlight on possible immigration fraud operating in Hollywood. A Los Angeles Court determined this week the written agreement was real and ordered Coster-Waldau to pay up. But the actor refuses to comment on the trial and his lawyer appealed the verdict, requesting a retrial.
“Although a Lannister always pays his debts, NCW has declined to honor the final ruling of the arbitrator and pay the compensation found to be due his former manager for all the successes she contributed to during her eight-year reign,” said Howard King, an attorney representing Littman.
Through the trial, Coster-Waldau’s payments per episode on the HBO show were made public. He was reportedly paid $942,857 for each “Game of Thrones” episode, which was then raised to $1,066,667 for the upcoming season. He also received loads of assorted bonuses for his role, including a $50K bump for a SAG nomination and $10K for allowing his likeness to be used for “Game of Thrones” trading cards.
The passage of a liberal medical marijuana law in Oklahoma was a surprise to many across the nation, whether involved in the cannabis industry or not. It turns out, when it comes to pot, Oklahomans are full of surprises, most of which revolve around wanting to get into the cannabis industry at the ground level.
State Question 788 passed during the primaries, thus legalizing medical marijuana on June 26, 2018. The following day, the first medical marijuana dispensary opened, waiting for regulations to hit so they could begin business in their Tulsa location. Since then, it’s been a landslide of applications to grow, manufacture and sell medical marijuana.
So far 1,100 commercial applications have been received by the State Department of Health. Compared to the 2,200 patients and caregivers who have thus far signed up for medical cannabis, a glut is on the horizon.
There were not many emergency rules written into the law in order to regulate businesses, creating a free marketplace, but also creating somewhat of a jumble. “We’re on pace right now to out-license Colorado [commercially],” stated Bud Scott, executive director of the medical cannabis trade group, New Health Solutions Oklahoma.
At the pace that Oklahomans are joining the commercial side of the marijuana movement, it seems like legalization could either be on the horizon or is even being teased at right now. “It’s a really interesting scenario that we’re opening up like a recreational market,” added Scott.
Interesting is definitely the word for what’s unfolding in this corner of the Bible Belt. Oklahoma has been a red state, with a majority of its residents voting for Republican presidential candidates, since 1968. It goes to show that cannabis is truly a non-partisan issue and that conservatives feel the need for weed as strongly as those on the left.
With the sheer number of ganjapreneurs already applying to open up shop in the cannabis field, the impending overgrowth it could create would likely drive prices of medical cannabis down heftily. One prediction put future wholesale marijuana at $800 per pound. Which is great for patients, especially low income adults, seniors and veterans, but perhaps not so hot for those who were looking to cash in on the green rush.
It’s still nothing to complain about as of yet. Sarah Lee Gossett Parrish, an Oklahoma City attorney and Oklahoma Cannabis Trade Association member, optimistically chimed in to Muskogee Phoenix, “I think it will all shake out. Right now, I think it’s an unknown adventure.”
Recent reports from Mac analysts suggest that Apple may get rid of the Touch ID feature in their new batch of phones, choosing to stick with Face ID since that’s the security measure that most users are excited about.
On September 12, Apple will finally unveil their upcoming iPhones. The three predicted smartphones are rumored to be iterations of the iPhone X, all with different capabilities and prices, running on Apple’s latest software and featuring apps that were previously exclusive to the company’s most expensive phone. 9to5Mac reports that Apple has decided to scrap Touch ID and that all of their devices will rely 0n Facial ID as their main security measure. So if you’re paranoid and believe that the NSA is spying on you through your camera, you’re screwed.
While no one knows the reasoning behind this decision, Mac analysts claim OLED screens (the ones used on the iPhone X) have sensors that are very limited and that would only enable Touch ID on specific areas of the screen. Having Touch ID and Face ID could also seem redundant for Apple, since users will choose one security measure over the other, and everything suggests that people will be interested in the latest technology that’s mostly proven to be very safe and reliable.
This removal of fingerprint ID may seem like something small, but it could become another major difference between iPhone and Android devices. While Samsung is working on improving their version of Facial ID, no one has mastered the technology as much as Apple has, incorporating it into Memojis and other features that run exclusively on the iPhone.
Android has other security features like Android pattern that are very famous among users, but Face ID is still the most discussed security measure out of all smartphones. We’d be surprised if that were to change anytime soon.
Rapper Young Thug is facing eight counts of drug and gun felony charges stemming from a September 2017 arrest in Atlanta, Georgia. According to TMZ, the rapper (whose real name is Jeffrey Lamar Williams) is being charged with possession of hydrocodone, methamphetamine, and marijuana with intent to distribute. In addition, he faces two counts of codeine possession, possession of amphetamine, and alprazolam, plus a firearm possession charge.
The eight felony charges is fallout from last year, when Young Thug was pulled over by cops for tinted windows and found in possession of 2.5 oz. of marijuana. These charges are reportedly unrelated to the gun felony charge the rapper was hit with last month in Los Angeles, following a release party for his Slime Language album at Dave & Busters.
Atlanta doesn’t seem to be a good place for rappers and cannabis, as Ty Dolla $ign was arrested in the city Wednesday after a vehicle search found marijuana and cocaine in the limousine van he was in. The crooner was in Atlanta to perform alongside G-Eazy, Lil Uzi Vert, and YBN Nahmir on the Endless Summer Tour.
He was released on a $6,000 bond, though his lawyer, Drew Findling, contests the charges.
“He had no drugs on his person at all,” Findling told Channel 2 Action News. He said there were five others in the car, not six as police initially reported. “Apparently there was a small amount of some drug found in the car, and they let five people walk away. And they let the international superstar go into custody.”
Back in 2015, Rick Ross was also arrested on misdemeanor marijuana charges outside Atlanta in Fayette County. Cops reportedly smelled marijuana emanating from the car and found five joints, leading to the charges.
Nobody really seems to know the secret behind a successful relationship, but a couple in Japan knows what works for them. And they might be worth listening to, because they’ve been married for 80 years.
Masao Matsumoto, 108, and his 100-year-old wife, Miyako, have been declared by Guinness World Records to be the oldest living spouses. They got married in October 1937. They will celebrate 81 years of marriage next month.
“It’s thanks to my patience, really,” she added, as she posed with Masao in front of a framed Guinness certificate at the nursing home where they live.
According to Reuters, the couple never actually had a wedding, with Japan heading into war and Masao being sent overseas to help fight. But the two do have a large family, including 25 great grandkids.
“They’ve entered the last chapter of their life. It was a honor (for them) to receive this award. I would love them to continue living a peaceful life,” said the couple’s daughter Hiromi.
Says Guinness:
Miyako was still preparing family meals at the age of 98 while her husband continued to watch sport until earlier this year when his eyesight reached a point which meant he was no longer able to watch his favourite games on TV. Nevertheless, their love for each other has seen them enter the record books.
Japanese rank second in the world (just barely behind Hong Kong) for longevity with an average age of 84.
The record for oldest married couple ever by aggregate age, according to Guinness, continues to be held by Karl and Gurdren Dolven of Norway, who had a combined age of 210 years, 1 month and 34 days before Gurdrun died in 2004.
