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Meghan Markle Is Learning How To Be A Royal From Someone Named ‘Samantha The Panther’

Amy Hansen
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Meghan Markle Is Learning How To Be A Royal From Someone Named ‘Samantha The Panther’

Meghan Markle has only been a member of the royal family for about a week and she’s already been assigned someone to help her navigate her way through royal protocol.

The Queen herself has “lent” the Duchess one of her most trusted aides. Her name is Samantha Cohen and according to The Daily Mail, the “feisty Australian” earned the nickname “Samantha the Panther” because of her no-nonsense approach. And if you ask The Queen, it’s just the thing Markle needs to kick her into royal gear.

Cohen, 49, is the Queen’s assistant private secretary. The Daily Mail reports she has 17 years of experience as part of the Queen’s top team who advises Her Majesty on a daily basis. Markle should be a breeze compared to this.

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Via The Daily Mail:

The married mother-of-three, who doesn’t mince her words, will guide Harry and Meghan through their first year of marriage and has already played a key role at the royal wedding and [the] Buckingham Palace garden party – [Markle’s] first appearance as Her Royal Highness.

Markle is said to be willing to “listen” under the mentorship of Cohen.

A source told The Times:

It will be six months of listening. She is seeking out advice from a range of people. She is going to proceed with humility. It is not going to be quiet, though. It is going to be a very busy office. She has worked every day of her life. She is used to a demanding schedule.

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This City Is Ranked Highest In Multiple Orgasms

Amy Hansen
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This City Is Ranked Highest In Multiple Orgasms

The results are in and orgasms are up — at least for once city in particular, according to a new survey by SKYN Condoms.

Nearly 4,000 people were polled for the 2018 SKYN Condoms Millennial Sex Survey, revealing that Atlanta is having more orgasms than any other U.S. state. The survey finds that 19 percent of respondents say they have three or more orgasms. Seems Georgia has a good reputation for high quality, and not just peaches.

Speaking of peaches, redheads reported having the most sex with 77 percent reporting weekly sex. Half of redheads also report sexting at least once a week, which might explain why they’re having more sex.

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Favorite position? Doggy-style is the clear winner with 31 percent of both men and women saying it was their favorite followed by missionary and cowgirl.

Now, for a bit of a downer. More than half (54 percent) of respondents said they perceive women negatively for having multiple sexual partners with women being the most judgy: 61 percent of females say they have a negative view of of women who have multiple sex partners. Do better, ladies.

Related Story:

Politically speaking, Republicans report having sex more frequently than Democrats. While 77 percent of Republicans report having sex at least once a week, only 68 percent of Democrats say the same. However, Democrats are the ones using condoms more frequently: 66 percent of democrats report using condoms either ‘always’, ‘most of the time’ or ‘sometimes.’

Still want more? Here’s the complete survey rundown.

American Pain Society: Let Scientists Study Cannabis

Terry Hacienda
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American Pain Society: Let Scientists Study Cannabis

Does cannabis really relieve pain? If there remains any doubt, let’s examine how the American Pain Society answers the question.

The Chicago-based organization, comprised of scientists, clinicians and other health professionals, earlier this week endorsed compromise legislation in the U.S. Senate amending provisions of the Marijuana Effective Studies Act of 2016. The bill would remove excessive regulatory barriers inhibiting researchers from obtaining marijuana plants for studies to assess the herb’s medical effectiveness and safety.

“This is a very important bill that I fully endorse,” said a leading medical cannabis researcher, Mark Wallace, MD, an APS Board Member and chair, Pain Medicine Division, Department of Anesthesiology, University of California San Diego. “A key component is Title 3, which will allow researchers to manufacture cannabis that represents more real-world experience. Currently, researchers are limited to working with NIH-produced marijuana for their studies.”

The original MEDS Act was co-sponsored by Senators Brian Schatz (D-HI) and Orrin Hatch (R-UT). A second bill with a similar purpose but different details is co-sponsored by Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Charles Grassley (R-IA). Sponsors of the competing bills have reconciled their differences and now support compromise legislation.

Wallace said that many regulatory barriers prevent legitimate and responsible scientific research on the potential benefits and risks of medical cannabis, and countless individuals with chronic pain use marijuana without professional guidance based on reliable studies.

“Passage of The MEDS Act will allow scientists to study more thoroughly the safety and clinical efficacy of medical cannabis,” said Wallace. “Cannabinoids are clinically promising chemical compounds, but there is a critical need for robust research to find targets for medical development.”

In June 2016, the APS published guidance in The Journal of Pain for physicians caring for patients who use cannabis. The paper identified future research priorities to better understand the health effects of cannabinoids and explained that expanded medical use will require high-quality medicinal grade cannabis with strict quality control and known constituents.

Dear Mainstream Media: Stoner Stereotypes Are No Longer Relevant

Terry Hacienda
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Dear Mainstream Media: Stoner Stereotypes Are No Longer Relevant

Not every cannabis consumer is a Grateful Dead-loving, tie-dyed wearing, patchouli-smelling hippie with a peace sign tattoed on her arm. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

A new class of cannabis consumers is helping reshape the marijuana culture. According to a new survey of 800 legal cannabis users, conducted by New York-based media and brand consultancy Miner and Co. Studio, today’s cannabis consumer is not what the hackneyed stereotype suggests.

Respondents to the survey were:

  • 21 to 55 years old (35 on average)
  • 51 percent male; 49 percent female
  • 77 percent have a household income of $75,000 or more
  • 86 percent employed full-time
  • 73 percent married or living with a significant other
  • 72 percent parents of children under 18
  • 49 percent Democrat; 30 percent Republican

A major contributing factor to the changing consumer acceptance is the impact media has played. According to the study, 72 percent of respondents believe having cannabis consumption and consumers portrayed in TV shows and mainstream media has influenced legalization.

These viewers want their favorite shows to continue to play a positive cultural role in promoting greater acceptance and legalization and 85 percent want their shows to find ways to have storylines and characters speak out if federal law enforcement starts to prosecute buyers/sellers of cannabis in states where it has been legalized.

“Media has played an incredibly important role in the societal acceptance of cannabis consumption, but there’s still work to do” said Robert Miner, president of Miner & Co. Studio. “The same recognizable trope of the harmless silly stoner that drove normalization has now become an impediment to acceptance for productive and engaged consumers of cannabis.

“Recreational consumers feel concern that non-consumers of cannabis will take them less seriously and question their judgement, and consumers of medical marijuana too often find that they need to be careful discussing their use with some peers or employers who may see them as unreliable or lazy based on ingrained stereotypes of cannabis use – even for medical needs,” Miner added.

“When a character on a show drinks a beer or a glass of wine, they aren’t presented as an out of control drunk or an alcoholic – but consumption of cannabis in any amount far too consistently turns that character into a zoned out bumbling stoner.  The creative community has an opportunity to recognize the impact of these representations and present cannabis consumption in a more positive light to help overcome the stoner stereotype that casts a stigma on key members of their audience.”

Meme Of The Week: By Age 35 You Should…

Maria Loreto
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Meme Of The Week: By Age 35 You Should…

MarketWatch really screwed things up for themselves when they published an article claiming that by age 35, you should have double your salary sitting pretty in a savings account. Of course, with a changing world that’s progressively growing more and more expensive, that advice wasn’t well received. Saving money in today’s world isn’t as easy as they make it sound. If it were, millennials would just do it.

The meme is very simple. Keep the first part of the phrase and switch out the “have twice your salary saved” with something outrageous or hilarious that sometimes ends up being more plausible than saving large amounts of money.

The Washington Post reports that this article joins a long list of moments that belittle millennials and their experiences, such as the time when a millionaire claimed that young people couldn’t afford a home because of their obsession with avocado toast. The truth is that older millennials who are in their 30s lived through the recession and also have college debts, which are crippling and last for most of their lives. There’s also the fact that expenses are increasing every year while salaries remain unchanged.

So, for future financial advice, it might be best to comment on these issues and to offer actual help instead of being critical and listing out the million things that millennials are ruining for the world. But whatever. Let’s just laugh with some memes:

Bill O’Reilly Still Hates Marijuana And No One Cares

Terry Hacienda
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Bill O’Reilly Still Hates Marijuana And No One Cares

Bill O’Reilly, the disgraced former host of Fox News’ “O’Reilly Factor,” is no fan of Democratic politicians. And he certainly is no fan of marijuana.

In a video released earlier this week, O’Reilly, whose career was destroyed by an assortment of sex scandals, returned in front of the camera. But instead of the powerhouse ratings of Fox News, O’Reilly is now vlogging on his personal web page.

In a segment published on May 22, O’Reilly railed against Mayor Bill de Blasio, marijuana consumers, housing project dwellers and a few other boogeymen in his crosshairs.

He even tweeted the next day about his disgust for the mayor and marijuana:

Of course, this is not the first time O’Reilly got a bee in his bonnet over the evil devil’s lettuce. Four years ago the longtime reefer madness acolyte and prohibitionist and drug warrior wrote:

The legalization of marijuana still full of unintended consequence; sends a signal to children that drug use is an acceptable part of life. That’s big.

The [New York] Times says marijuana is not a gateway drug. That it does not lead to other drug use that is false. According to a recent study by the Yale School of Medicine, adolescents who use pot or alcohol are three times more likely to abuse hard drugs than children who do not use intoxicants.

O’Reilly apparently doesn’t know that the gateway theory is no longer a relevant talking point. All researchers who study the available data dismiss the concept that cannabis consumption leads to more dangerous drugs. It is alcohol and tobacco, more than any other substance, that may contribute to heavier drug use. But even that data is unclear. Remember: Correlation does not equal causation.

Good luck in your new career, Bill. When New York legalizes, you will remain just as irrelevant as you are now.

Stephen King Hates Twitter, Calls It ‘Poverty Of Thought’

Brendan Bures
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Stephen King Hates Twitter, Calls It ‘Poverty Of Thought’

Stephen King might be a prolific and entertaining tweeter—we’ve written about his tweets before—but it turns out the horror master isn’t a fan of the platform. And by that, we mean Stephen King freaking hates Twitter.

This week King received the PEN Literary Service Award at the 2018 PEN Literary Awards. The Literary Service Award is rewarded each year to an author and advocate of free speech. In King’s eyes, Twitter is not a place where the honor of his award is represented.

According to Mashable, King believes that “the intellectual dead zone known as Twitter where clear thinking and kindness is too often replaced by schoolyard taunts. And not to mention, bad spelling and bad grammar.”

King also went on Stephen Colbert’s The Late Show and revealed that the man they call the President of the United States has blocked him on Twitter. So King blocked him back. King joked that he blocked Trump from watching It last year, but he for real blocked Vice President Mike Pence because he looks so “creepy.”

“The last time I was here, I had a president who had just given me a National Medal of the Arts,” Stephen King said when he sat down on The Late Show couch Wednesday night. “Now we’ve got a president who blocked me on Twitter.”

During his PEN acceptance speech, King thanked his editors at Simon & Schuster, as well as the school shooting survivors and student activists from Parkland, Florida. But King wasn’t done with his Twitter roasting.

“The percentage of readers is relatively small compared to the population as a whole,” he said. “Just think for a minute of all the people you see on these streets every day staring at their phones or with earbuds in their ears. Then think of how few of them are staring at a printed page instead.”

King also went on to defend the majesty and power of books.

“Reading is powerful. From my earliest days working as a high school teacher, I’ve been telling kids: those who can read can learn to write, and those who can do both will eventually succeed in the world,” King said. “Readers learn to be fair and writers learn to think…They are the crucial counter weight to those who are close minded and mean spirited. Too many of those are currently in positions of power.”

Those people, King added, reside on Twitter, which is the best place for them to dish out their “poverty of thought.”

Nevada’s Cannabis Industry Just Set Yet Another Retail Record

Terry Hacienda
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Nevada’s Cannabis Industry Just Set Yet Another Retail Record

Recreational sales of cannabis in Nevada set a new monthly record in March, racking up a total of $41 million, translating into more than $7 million in tax revenue. In the nine months since Nevada began collecting taxes on cannabis revenues, the state’s coffers are roughly now $50 million richer.

“March numbers continue to point to a strong likelihood that Nevada will close out the fiscal year this June with much more robust marijuana revenue collections than anticipated,” department executive director Bill Anderson said in a statement.

As reporter Wade Tyler Millward wrote in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, “Move over sagebrush, Nevada may have a new state flower.” Indeed, Mr. Millward. Indeed. According to the Review-Journal story:

Total taxable sales for marijuana and marijuana-related goods for medical or recreational use is $385.99 million for the first nine months of the fiscal year.

The marijuana flower or bud accounted for half of all purchases by consumers, either for medical or recreational purpose. Concentrates accounted for a quarter of sales. Infused edibles accounted for 13 percent.

March’s record topped the previous record set just one month earlier in February. According to data from the state’s Department of Taxation:

  • $18.5 million of the revenue came from the wholesale marijuana tax paid by cultivators of medical and recreational marijuana.
  • $30.47 million came from the retail marijuana tax paid by consumers of recreational marijuana
  • $10.2 million came from marijuana-related fees, penalties and assessments.

What Happened When Matthew McConaughey Got ‘Snooped’ By Snoop Dogg

Brendan Bures
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What Happened When Matthew McConaughey Got ‘Snooped’ By Snoop Dogg

Enter a new word to enter the cannabis lexicon—“Snooped.” What does it mean? For the answer, ask Matthew McConaughey who learned firsthand that working with Snoop Dogg on a movie project might involve some extracurricular activities, as the actor revealed on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The two recently wrapped filming for Harmony Korine’s upcoming project The Beach Bum. At one point in the movie, McConaughey’s character Moondog (yes that’s the real name) visits Snoop’s for some “magic weed” to fix his writer’s block. The scene requires the actors to share a joint, but McConaughey checked beforehand with the prop department to ensure the weed was fake. But thanks to Snoop, the joint became very, very real once the cameras started rolling.

“I went to the prop man to make sure I have the prop weed which is like crushed oregano,” McConaughey said. “[In the scene], we pass back and forth and all of sudden at the end he goes, ‘Yo Moondog, that ain’t prop weed, that’s Snoop Weed.’ I was like, ‘Oh you son of a gun.’”

That, ladies and gentlemen, is what we call being Snooped. What are the possible side effects of being Snooped. Once again, we turn to Mr. McConaughey.

“The next 9 hours were a lot of fun but I don’t think we used one word in the English language,” McConaughey admitted.

Beach Bum is a stoner comedy that will star McConaughey, Snoop, and Zac Efron. The film has no set release date yet, but might premiere as early as this fall.

Interesting Everyday Uses For Those Marijuana Fan Leaves

Maria Loreto
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Interesting Everyday Uses For Those Marijuana Fan Leaves

Marijuana fan leaves are pretty iconic looking but, if you think about it, they don’t seem all that useful. While they are largely unrecognized, they’re filled with good things like flavor, resin and tons of nutrients, which can be used in several different ways.

What Are They?

Fan leaves are the marijuana symbol and they’re the main leaves of the plant. They are generally used to check up on the status of the plant and to see if it’s developing properly. They’re the primary marijuana leaves and they’re the first and best when it comes to expressing anything that the plant is feeling, whether if everything’s going great of it something’s wrong with the development process. Experts on cannabis know how to tend to these leaves and know what to do if something seems off.

Fan leaves don’t contain a lot of cannabinoids, only traces of them, which is why they’re not generally used to be consumed. As the years go by and marijuana strains becomes stronger and more potent, it’s expected that there’ll be a larger presence of cannabinoids on the plant’s leaves.

What To Do With Them?

If you find yourself with a bunch of cannabis fan leaves, you can use them to a good purpose. Raw cannabis is always great for green juices and smoothies and by adding some fan leaves you’ll make your drink ultra powerful and beneficial. You can also use the raw cannabis leaves as garnish for a special meal, adding a nice looking touch of healthy greens. By consuming the cannabis raw, you’ll get all of the good and healthy stuff of the plant without getting high, which is something that some people are into.

Teas are also a great option. By adding some coconut oil or butter, the fat will activate the cannabinoids on the leaves and will get you a little high. If you don’t add anything, you’ll simply have a relaxing tea with a side of some really great nutrients. The cannabis plant has so much to offer; don’t waste any bit of it.  

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