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The First Major Sports Team To Have Marijuana Sponsorship

Brendan Bures
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The First Major Sports Team To Have Marijuana Sponsorship

For the first time, an American professional sports team will publicly associate with a cannabis company. The Las Vegas Lights is an expansion team in the United Soccer League, and thanks to a deal with the local Paiute tribe, they can partner with the NuWu Cannabis Marketplace. The team will promote NuWu Cannabis at the home stadium, Cashman Field. The Las Vegas 51s, the New York Mets Triple-A franchise, also plays there.

Related: Cannabis Company Receives Big Investment From Snoop Dogg

“We love Las Vegas, and we’re not embarrassed to support any business here,” team owner Brett Lashbrook told ESPN. “This is the right time and the right market to do this, and we’re not going to hide. We think this will be part of the destigmatization of this substance and business. This isn’t some shady guys walking around with hoods over their heads. This shop is closer to an Apple Store.”

Not only does NuWu Cannabis more closely resemble an Apple Store, it’s also the biggest marijuana store in the world at 5,800 square feet. It also operates a 24-hour drive thru. According to the vice chairman of the Chris Spotted Eagle tribe, the marketplace services more than 1,000 people a day through a combination of medical and recreational cannabis sales.

Related: Combining Seattle’s Coffee And Cannabis Cultures Into One Shop

How exactly the team will promote marijuana might prove tricky, due to federal laws regarding cannabis advertising to children. But Lashbrook expects the deal will lead to branded cannabis inside the store and Spotted Eagle indicated Las Vegas Lights paraphernalia is a possibility. Only in Las Vegas.

Nike Launches White Widow Sneaker For 4/20

Terry Hacienda
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Nike Launches White Widow Sneaker For 4/20

Nike has done it again. In honor of 4/20, the unofficial cannabis holiday, the global shoe giant has teamed up with renown skateboard artist Todd Bratrud to launch a limited-release sneaker inspired by the marijuana culture.

The Nike SB Dunk Mid “White Widow” pays homage to the popular type of marijuana found in just about every cannabis retail store in the nation. The sneaker features Bratrud’s unique design of a red-eyed spider on the insoles.

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This is not the first time Nike and Bratrud have collaborated on a shoe design specifically for the 4/2o holiday. In 2010, the creative partnership created Nike SB Dunk High “Skunk” and in 2011, there was the Nike SB Dunk High “Cheech & Chong.”

This is how Nike describes the footwear on its website:

Acclaimed skate artist Todd Bratrud brings his illustrative talents from skateboards to footwear, teaming up with Nike SB for this SB Dunk Mid Pro. Featuring a hairy suede upper in green with matching white overlays, red accents add style inspired by the white widow graphic on the sockliner. A stash pocket under the tongue helps secure your essentials before, during and after your session.

The sneaker will be available at select Nike retailers and on Nike.com beginning Friday, April 20. The retail price is $100.

The price may seem a bit high, but some shoe collectors consider these babies to be a worthwhile investment. A pair of the Cheech & Chong sneakers is for sale on eBay for $799. 

Social Media Pro Tips: How To Get Instagram Verified

Amy Hansen
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Social Media Pro Tips: How To Get Instagram Verified

When looking for someone important on Instagram, you usually stop scrolling when you see the little white checkmark encapsulated by a blue circle next to the name. Translation? That person is verified (i.e. important).

But not just anyone can get verified. According to Instagram:

Accounts representing well-known figures and brands are verified because they have a high likelihood of being impersonated. We want to make sure that people in the Instagram community can easily find the authentic people and brands they want to follow.

Forbes contributor Tom Ward made it his mission to try and find out if an average Joe like himself could get verified. And by “average Joe,” we mean someone who has a substantial Instagram following already.

According to Instagram, it’s not currently possible to request or purchase a verified badge. “Only some public figures, celebrities and brands have verified badges,” they say.

According to Ward, that’s not actually true. You can both request and pay for a badge — just not through Instagram. Says Ward:

I reached out to every verified person that I knew, and found that there are really only three ways to be verified: Be famous and have a ton of followers, work with a digital agency and have them submit a request for you, or pay a third party or someone at Instagram to get you verified.

Ward says most of the verified people he spoke with worked with a digital agency or publicist to get their badge, because “agencies and publicists have access to a digital portal that the rest of us don’t.”

Public figures with millions of followers will likely have no problem getting verified, even if it takes awhile. But regular folks? “Really, the only way to do it is to know someone at Instagram or pay a third party to do it for you,” says Ward, who reached out on Twitter to see if anyone had any advice.

He was contacted by a guy who knows a guy at Instagram who charges $500 per verified badge. Very blackmarket.

“He told me it’s his friend’s side hustle, and although Instagram has cracked down on employees getting their friends verified; he still charges a couple of people a month to get verified.”

So, which is easier? Giving up $500 or making that blue dot your next side hustle by working tirelessly to grow followers the old-fashioned way, through content creation and engagement? Both sound terrible.

Inside Lyft’s 420 Campaign That Hopes To Keep Roads Safe

Terry Hacienda
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Inside Lyft’s 420 Campaign That Hopes To Keep Roads Safe

If you’re going to be celebrating 4/20, the unofficial cannabis holiday, the last thing you want to do is drive impaired. Ride-sharing service Lyft is teaming up with the movie Super Troopers 2 to spread the word.

“Lyft wants to be a reliable, and affordable partner for marijuana enthusiasts,” according to the company’s website. “That’s why during April 20 we will also be offering up to $4.20 off your next ride.”

The PSA campaign and ride discounts will be available in six large cities from legal marijuana states:

  • Denver
  • Las Vegas
  • Los Angeles
  • San Francisco
  • Portland
  • Seattle

In each of these cities, Lyfe will be offering discounted rides of up to $4.2o.

A recent report by The Journal of the American Medical Association reported that, after analyzing data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, deadly crashes rise 12 percent after 4:20 p.m. through the rest of the day.

Researchers looked at records from April 20ths in the past 25 years. The crash was considered fatal if someone involved in it died within 30 days of it happening. Calculations showed 7.1 crashes per hour during that time period. Similar incidents during the control group, the same time period a week before and after that day, were 6.1.

“These crashes really don’t have to happen,” the senior author, Dr. Donald A. Redelmeier, a professor of medicine at the University of Toronto, told The New York Times. “In the Netherlands, they’ve had legalized marijuana for years, but they have many more interventions—speed cameras, radar, sobriety checkpoints. The roads in the Netherlands are now much safer than those in the U.S.”

The increase is in line with the rise in risk on Super Bowl Sunday.

When the data was broken down by state, New York topped the list of fatal crashes on April 20 with Georgia second. Minnesota saw the smallest increase.

Prince William And His Bodyguard Can’t Get Enough Of This Fast Food Chain

Amy Hansen
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Prince William And His Bodyguard Can’t Get Enough Of This Fast Food Chain

We’re seriously starting to wonder if Prince William has ever eaten anything other than chicken. He’s acknowledged it’s the one dish he loves to cook, it’s the dish he and Kate make at home when they’re just hanging out being royal, and now, he “reveals” that he’s a big fan of a fast-food chicken joint. You’re a thrill a minute, Will.

The future brother-in-law of Meghan Markle said that he’s a fan of a place called Nando’s, which has locations across the globe, including Illinois, Virginia, Maryland and Washington DC Nando’s serves peri-peri chicken, which according to their website, “PERi-PERi, also known as the African Bird’s Eye Chilli, is the key to our legendary, flame-grilled PERi-PERi chicken. It’s grown in the African soil, so the magic starts from the ground up. ”

Will says he became a fan after one of his protection officers, who is a diehard fan, introduced him to the fast-casual spot.

According to People, Will told told Robert Brozin, the guy who started the company in Johannesburg, South Africa back in 1987, that he recently started eating the eatery’s spicy chicken. Referring to his protection officer, Will told Brozin, “This man here is your biggest fan, he’s introduced me to Nando’s. It’s very good.”

Brozin said he wasn’t surprised Will had eaten his chicken because “the beauty of Prince Harry and Prince William is that they’re really accessible and they are guys that go out a lot – I’m very happy that they’ve tried it.”

Other celebs who enjoy a Nando’s every now and then include Oprah, Jay-Z, David Beckham, and Rihanna.

Brozin credits “the people that work for us and the product obviously, it’s the people that make the chicken.”

Meghan Markle And Prince Harry’s Honeymoon Destination

Patricia Wallace
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Meghan Markle And Prince Harry’s Honeymoon Destination

The royal wedding is just a couple of weeks away and the world can’t get enough of the details. Now it seems Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s honeymoon destination has been leaked. Several reports regarding the couple’s honeymoon indicate they will be traveling to Namibia for a low-key and intimate getaway.

A source confirmed  the newlyweds have chosen Namibia because the “south-western African nation is filled with once-in-a-lifetime experiences.” It also helps that it’s a beautiful place, surrounded by sand-dunes, mountains and huge expanses of desert, and perhaps most importantly — it’s very remote and underpopulated. The Sun reports that Namibia has a population of less than 2.48 million people despite the fact that it’s four times larger than England. 

RELATED: What Will Be Meghan Markle’s Title After The Wedding?

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will also be staying at Hoanib Valley Camp in Kaokoland, a beautiful camp located in north-western Namibia. This camp is known for having the world’s only giraffe conservation organization.

Prince Harry has traveled to Africa several times in the past, even working there for a period of time while he was serving the army. In 2006 he spent time there with ex-girlfriend Chelsy Davy, in 2008 he stayed in Namibia’s skeleton coast with the army, and in 2015 he worked there in a conservation center in the wilderness.

Later on, Harry decided to propose to Meghan in Botswana in southern Africa, while they were camping. They spent five days together there, which Harry claimed were very important so that they could get to know each other well. 

Designer Nipples Are Now A ‘Thing’ Thanks To Kendall Jenner

Amy Hansen
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Designer Nipples Are Now A ‘Thing’ Thanks To Kendall Jenner

Say what you will about the Kardashian lips and *other body parts* that may (or may not!) have been plumped with some filler. Now there’s a new type of cosmetic procedure that the family has sparked demand for: nipple injections. Any true fan knows that Kendall Jenner is not exactly a bra enthusiast and takes every chance she gets to “free the nipple.” And now, ironically, people are paying lots of money to get her look — that’s anything but free.

Dr. Norman Rowe, a Park Avenue plastic surgeon, tells the New York Post that many of his female patients come in asking for the “high beam or headlight look.” In order to achieve that, patients get what is essentially Botox filler into the areola.

“I love Kendall Jenner, and I love that she just doesn’t wear a bra,” says one of Rowe’s patients, anonymously. “You can’t see her nipples, but you can see the pointiness. I think there’s something really sexy and feminine about it,”

Procedures range from changing the color of the areola to the shape of the areola and the shape of the nipples. Says Rowe, “The filler I use lasts about two years. Now, to put that in perspective, let’s say Botox, which we generally treat the face with, most women get that three to four times a year, so that lasts about three to four months.”

The financial cost is a minimum of $700, but the ultimate cost of having up to two years of perkiness is priceless.

Rowe says the prominent nipple “look” has become more popular as of late, a trend that many of his patients want, “and with the plastic surgery and advances we’re making every day, it is possible to have perfection.”

Busted: Police Find Exactly 420 Grams Of Marijuana On Migos Tour Bus

Brendan Bures
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Busted: Police Find Exactly 420 Grams Of Marijuana On Migos Tour Bus

Normally, we wouldn’t consider this news. But when it’s April and the rap trio that loves to rap about weed gets caught with exactly 420 grams of marijuana on their tour bus, it’s not not news.

Police raided the Migos tour bus following a concert last week in North Carolina. According to police, officers working security smelled weed wafting from the bus when the group left the Holmes Convocation Center, where they were performing. After stopping the vehicle on the highway, police searched the bus and seized 420 grams of weed, 26 ounces of codeine and Xanax.

An ironic happenstance, though the rest of the charges are serious.

Jharon Ahmad Murphy was arrested and charged with a felony possession of marijuana with intent to sell or deliver and a misdemeanor charge for codeine. Daryl Irvon McPherson was cited for simple possession of marijuana and codeine, while Dominic Kevin Spigner received a citation for misdemeanor possession of Xanax.

It isn’t exactly clear how Migos members Quavo, Offset, and Takeoff evaded charges, but their tour continues, regardless.

This isn’t the first time the group has experienced a run-in with authorities. During the past few years, the Migos have faced a multitude of criminal charges regarding drugs, firearms, fights, and misdemeanors. In March, the Washington Avenue Armory in Albany filed a lawsuit against the group for allegedly inciting a riot back in 2015.

Dictionary Searches For ‘Slimeball’ Spike 60,000 Percent After Trump Tweets

Maria Loreto
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Dictionary Searches For ‘Slimeball’ Spike 60,000 Percent After Trump Tweets

In an angry string of tweets, President Trump called James Comey “weak”,  “liar”, “leaker” and “slimeball.” Merriam-Webster reports that after this, the number of searches for the word “slimeball” were up by 60,000 percent. We didn’t even know that word was a part of the dictionary.

These tweets were prompted by excerpts of James Comey’s new book, A Higher Loyalty; Truth, Lies, and Leadership, which was released on April 17 and is rumored to be very scandalous, particularly for the Trump administration. In it, Comey compares President Trump to a mob boss and more.

Taking advantage of the drama and spotlight, Merriam-Webster tweeted the definition of the word.

According to Mashable, the words “slime” and “ball” have been in the dictionary for ages; it was only in 1972 when the two were first used together in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette.

Merriam-Webster has a pretty cool presence on social media, correcting people, trolling politicians, and calling feminism their word of the year. They’ve also added words like embiggens and dumpster-fire — both created by “The Simpsons” — to their dictionary. Because we need these things for posterity.

Here’s What Happened When New Orleans Decriminalized Marijuana

Terry Hacienda
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Here’s What Happened When New Orleans Decriminalized Marijuana

One year ago, the New Orleans City Council voted unanimously to decriminalize marijuana possession. The results of the change in law have been staggering.

According to data collected by city officials, possession arrests have nose-dived in The Big Easy. Just one percent of encounters between police and a citizen accused of carrying marijuana resulted in an arrest between June 2016 and May 2017. Before decriminalization, more than  70 percent of such encounters resulted in an arrest. In those cases, roughly 75 percent of those arrested were African Americans.

According to the New Orleans Times-Picayune:

[City Councilwoman Susan] Guidry said those numbers reflect the fact that beginning in 2010, City Council members began urging the New Orleans Police Department to stop spending time on simple marijuana possession arrests because it was a waste of its resources.

During that time period, Guidry said, the message resulted in police reducing simple marijuana possession arrests by about 5,000 compared with the four years prior to the council taking office. She said it also reduced the number of contacts police made with marijuana offenders.

“It was just astounding to see the effect this message had,” Guidry said.

Under Louisiana state law, marijuana possession offenses are punishable by a term of incarceration of up to eight years, depending on whether the person convicted is a repeat offender. But last March of last year, the city council voted 7-0 in favor of legislation permitting police to cite rather than arrest minor marijuana offenders (14 grams or less). First-time violators are subject to a $40 fine while subsequent offenders may face fines of up to $100.

In recent years, nearly 60 municipalities in states where cannabis remains criminalized have enacted local ordinances either partially or fully decriminalizing minor marijuana possession offenses.

Legislation is currently pending in the Louisiana House of Representatives to decriminalize the possession of up to one ounce of cannabis, along with the possession of marijuana-related paraphernalia, statewide.

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