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Do You Qualify? NJ Has A New List Of MMJ Conditions

Mary Schumacher
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Do You Qualify? NJ Has A New List Of MMJ Conditions

Phil Murphy took one look at New Jersey’s floundering medical marijuana program and made it a top priority. Now he’s done something about it and it’s substantial. Even though the Governor ran on legalization as much as expanding medical, this is an enormous step in the right direction for the Garden State.

Effective immediately, new qualifying conditions have been added to the list of ailments that can get you a New Jersey medical marijuana card. Of course, the prior list still stands, but, according to NJ.com, here are the new qualifiers: anxiety, migraines, Tourette’s Syndrome, chronic pain related to musculoskeletal disorders (including rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, fibromyalgia and opioid use disorder) and chronic pain of “visceral origin,” (including pancreatitis, irritable bowel syndrome and bowel dysfunction.)

There are currently fewer than 20,000 registered cannabis patients in New Jersey, but that has everything to do with former governor Chris Christie and his loathing of marijuana. No matter how tightly he held the strings, he still called medical marijuana a front for legalization and made it as difficult as possible for patients to register and then even access medical cannabis.

There is speculation that the number will double within a year, but I personally speculate that it will be even higher than that. With expanded access in the way of new dispensaries and new qualifying conditions bulking up the list, patients should be coming out of the woodwork to treat their ailments.

This is beyond a step — it directly helps people compassionately treat and beat their conditions, often without the help of toxic, addictive or downright deadly medications. Patients suffering from debilitating anxiety have an opportunity to quash their limitations with the right strain of cannabis and may even be able to wean off of the benzo class of drugs that can be so addictive and harmful.

Now New Jerseyans wait with bated breath to see when full legalization will manifest. It’s more of an uphill battle, but it’s one of the reasons we elected Murphy and he seems to be doing his best by his constituents. Especially with this new, compassionate move to expand medical cannabis. The Garden State indeed.

How Much Has Snoop Dogg Made From Marijuana Investments?

Brendan Bures
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How Much Has Snoop Dogg Made From Marijuana Investments?

If there were a Mount Rushmore of celebrity cannabis advocates, Snoop Dogg would certainly make the cut. What started as a lifestyle became a business opportunity for the entertainer whose real name is Calvin Broadus. Though a West Coast hip hop progenitor, his second career as cannabis entrepreneur has been just as impressive.

In 2015, Snoop co-founded Casa Verde Capital, an investment firm that focuses on the “ancillary” aspects of the cannabis industry, like tech, transportation, and media. Casa Verde reached a milestone this month, officially raising more than $45 million in capital. The company focused on individual investors and limited relationships to collect the money.

Karan Wadhera, Snoop’s managing partner at Casa Verde, explained to TechCrunch that the company at first struggled to raise capital. But Snoop’s credibility within the cannabis scene eventually led Casa Verde to take off in the way that it has. The investment firm has also focused on investing in companies with leaders who have run successful enterprises outside the cannabis industry first, though they don’t limit themselves in that way either.

“We’re writing seed-stage to Series A-size checks, so $1 million plus, with roughly half our fund reserved for follow-on investments, where we can write another $3 million to $5 million [to a limited number of breakout companies],” Wadhera said. “And we’re only focused on the ancillary part of the cannabis industry, so we won’t invest in companies that touch the plants. No dispensaries or cultivators or manufacturers. We’re investing in the picks and shovels.”

He also explained that Snoop can be hands-off in the investment process but within certain industries where he’s more comfortable, he’ll be more involved.

“He’s hands-off on the investment process, but when it comes to certain companies, he’s very involved, including with Merry Jane, a lifestyle media site [focused around cannabis],” said Wadhera. “That’s content. That’s media. That’s Snoop’s bread and butter.”

Science Says This One Trick Can Make Sex Last Longer

Maria Loreto
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Science Says This One Trick Can Make Sex Last Longer

Sex is surrounded by so much hype that sometimes it can be an underwhelming and stressful experience. Premature ejaculation is one of these things that’s always discussed but that never stops being any less embarrassing or disappointing for all parties involved. According to a new study, there might be a solution for this pesky problem.

In a study conducted by the Yuksek Ihtisas Hospital in Turkey, researchers discovered that electrical stimulation can play an important role when it comes to stopping premature ejaculation. According to INSIDER, by applying a small electric current to the ankles of men who suffer from this, doctors were able to help these people have sex for longer periods of time.

This process is known as “electrical tibial nerve stimulation”, and it doesn’t involve anyone getting seriously shocked. The electric current administered is very mild, more like a tickle, stimulating the tibial nerve and traveling all the way through the body until it reaches the nerves located in the pelvis, which are involved in the process of orgasm.

The study was conducted on 30 people, and even though it produced positive results, a larger study needs to be done in order to determine if this stimulation is a valid option for curing premature ejaculation.

WhatsApp’s Founder Tells Users To Delete Facebook

Maria Loreto
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WhatsApp’s Founder Tells Users To Delete Facebook

Facebook made headlines in 2014 when it bought WhatsApp for $16 billion. At the time, WhatsApp was run by Jan Kuom and Brian Acton, and both men came out very rich after the transaction.

Things have changed recently and Facebook has been all over the news for different reasons, with people from all over the world questioning their precious social media presence and the uncertainty that this now causes. Facebook was the first real social media website, and to some users, it still is the most important site out of them all.

According to The Verge, Kuom continues to run WhatsApp, but Acton quit earlier this year to start his own foundation. Last month, Acton invested $50 million into Signal, another encrypted chat app that could serve as an alternative to WhatsApp. A few days ago, after the whole Cambridge Analytica scandal happened, Acton tweeted that it was time to delete Facebook.

Acton didn’t elaborate further and hasn’t made any other comments. He joins other ex-Facebook executives and employees such as Sean Parker (Justin Timberlake from the Facebook movie), Justin Rosestein and Chamath Palihapitiya, who’ve all spoken out against Facebook.

In a particularly newsy statement, Palihaptiya said that people should take breaks from social media and that he feels guilty over creating “tools that are ripping apart the social fabric of how society works.” Yikes.

6 Cannabis Treats Everyone Wants In Their Easter Basket This Year

Sara Somerset
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6 Cannabis Treats Everyone Wants In Their Easter Basket This Year

Good luck preparing your Easter cannabaskets! (By the way, we aren’t paid to promote these products. We genuinely like them! Three cheers for authenticity.)

According to Scientific American, anything goes in an Easter basket! Here is a sneak peek at what The Fresh Toast is packing into our cannabaskets.

Pastilles, Goodship

Goodship’s Parisian-inspired pastilles come in a variety of flavors such as tart cherry and lemon-lime. Their retro tin pastel colored packaging is absolutely adorbs. The sweets have 2.5mg of THC, so have fun micro-dosing during your Easter egg hunt. Goodship’s Jellies are tasty too, with the texture of French Pate de fruit, coated in sugar crystals. Ra-Ra raspberry flavor is vegan, gluten-free, and made with real fruit. Almost anything from Goodship will make a perfect addition to your Easter Basket. Bon(g) appetite!

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Chocolate Easter Eggs, House of Cannabis

House of Cannabis makes Double Chocolate Ganache Easter Eggs with 175 mg THC. Need we say more?

Gummies, Flav 

Flav has gummies galore, with 13 THC and 27 CBD flavors to choose from, including peach rings and blueberry belts. You could put together an entire basket, from Flav edibles alone, but please keep these products out of reach from kids!

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Infused Oil, Levo

If you don’t live in a state where cannabis is legal, getting your hands on infused edibles isn’t easy. It is time to roll up your sleeves (to prevent them being stained with Easter egg dye) and make your own.

Almost any edible will leave your guests feeling baked, as long as you use infused oil or butter. Too time consuming and messy to make? Not anymore. Levo takes all the fun of pouring preserves and labeling mason jars with your grandma into the 21st century. Forget about the cheese-cloth, the strainer, and all the “bubble, bubble, toil and trouble.” Levo is the first device designed exclusively for infusing oil and butter. Think of it as the Keurig coffee machine of oil infusions. The sophisticated design comes in four colors, including avocado green, rose gold and basic black. Any version makes a perfectly unique present. Once you have followed the simple instructions for infusing oil or butter at the touch of a button, you are ready to make almost any edible.

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Coconut CBD Oil, Ojai Energetics

For a mild, but non-psychoactive nosh that will still put party people in good spirits, prepare your edibles with Ojai Energetics coconut CBD oil, in place of non-infused oil.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BX0sR5OjgtN

Bath Essentials, Bellabomb

Remember, not everything in an Easter basket has to be edible. Bellabomb makes some lovely CBD bath bombs, salts, and soaks. Stress Dissolve bath salts are made only from pure, pink, Himalayan salt and CBD isolates. Bella, You’re the Bomb also contains CBD isolates and Eucalyptus essential oil. Both items are sold in the carefully curated Weekend Box. These items (or anything bath related, really) will be appreciated by moms, who will want to relax and unwind in a hot bath, after hosting a brunch or cleaning up their kids’ Easter mess.

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Good luck preparing your Easter cannabaskets!

(By the way, we aren’t paid to promote these products. We genuinely like them! Three cheers for authenticity.)

This Is The Dress Code For Prince Harry And Meghan Markle’s Wedding

Amy Hansen
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This Is The Dress Code For Prince Harry And Meghan Markle’s Wedding

The highly anticipated wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle is less than two months away. We’ve already gotten a glimpse of their invitations, a description of their wedding cakes, and now, we know what guests will be wearing.

The dress code for the wedding is very specific. According to Best Life, men must wear “uniform, morning coat, or lounge suits.”

This means if a gentleman is currently in the military, he may wear his uniform, but most men in attendance will be in morning coats and top hats. (According to Debrett’s, the British authority on modern etiquette, a “lounge suit” is “an expression only seen on invitations as a dress code. In conversation the terms dark suit or business suit or possibly business dress or business attire are used.”)

Women have been asked to wear a “day dress with hat,” which is a little fuzzy and could be interpreted in many ways. Want to wear a conservative head piece? Go for it. Want to ball out with a crazy fascinator? You do you. The crazier the better, according to the dress code.

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In addition, female guests are expected to wear a knee-length dress with sleeves covering the shoulders. Unlike the hats, the less adventurous, the better. No skin is best.

The wedding reception is black-tie.

The Palace announced last week that 200 guests have been invited to the reception at Frogmore House given by The Prince of Wales. Guests have also been invited to the service at St George’s Chapel and to the lunchtime reception at St George’s Hall, which is being given by Her Majesty The Queen.

The wedding invitations, sent out last Thursday, were made by London-based printers Barnard Westwood, who, according to Kensington Palace, have been making Royal invitations since 1985. They feature the Three-Feathered Badge of the Prince of Wales (Prince Charles) printed in gold ink. Harry and Meghan’s engagement announcement were also issued in Charles’ name, which is customary.

If you haven’t heard by now, the wedding is May 19.

Football Legend Joe Montana Publicly Joins Team Cannabis

Brendan Bures
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Football Legend Joe Montana Publicly Joins Team Cannabis

Montana’s cannabis advocacy and his All-American image will no doubt help lift the negative stigma around cannabis.

Few quarterbacks can match the widespread respect and recognition than four-time Super Bowl champion Joe Montana claims in the world of football. Now, he’s joining the likes of Ricky Williams, Eben Britton, and Jim McMahon on Team Cannabis.

Talking to Playboy, Montana came out as supportive of cannabis and the need for education regarding the plant. Though other celebrities of his stature have supported marijuana, like Whoopi Goldberg, Snoop Dogg, and Melissa Etheredge, Montana is among the first mega-celebrities from the sports world to stand up for the cause.

“Legalization is picking up steam on a global level and I feel like now is the time to spread information about the curing capabilities of this plant,” Montana told Playboy. “As with any medicine, increased accessibility comes with the need for education.”

According to the San Jose Mercury-News, Montana was an investor in seed funding for Herb, which publishes weed content.

Montana’s cannabis advocacy and his All-American image will no doubt help lift the negative stigma around cannabis. Another high-profile former NFL star made cannabis industry news in Ricky Williams, who recently started his own marijuana product line called Real Wellness.

We Cant Stop Watching This Video Of A Super-Impressive Beer Magician

Amy Hansen
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We Cant Stop Watching This Video Of A Super-Impressive Beer Magician

A video recently surfaced on Reddit showing a guy making beer disappear like it’s his job. What is this trickery?

As seen in this clip, David Copperfield II (assuming that’s his name) effortlessly grabs a guy’s cup of beer, pours it into a coned paper, and then — voila — unfolds the paper and the beer is gone. He then grabs another guy’s beer, empties the beer into a paper, and — voila — the beer is gone. BUT THEN…he unfolds yet another paper and proceeds to pour (presumably) the same beer out of it like it was no big deal! And the crowd went ape shit.

Check out this black magic.

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Commenters had a filed day trying to figure out the magic:

“I bet he’s got a cup inside his body.”

“It’s gotta be a plastic bag or similar container hidden in the folds of the newspaper. Very impressive performance though, as he hides it so well. Knowing the secret doesn’t make me any less entertained.”

“I assume it involves a sacrifice and pledging your eternal soul to some ancient Deity. Instructions would be nice though.”

“This is typically done with a false thumb and a lower quantity of liquid. See how he has a fanny pack and he hides his left hand? He likely has some kind of false hand that holds the drink.”

“There’s a flat bag taped along the newspaper that has a U-shaped pouch so the liquid doesnt spill out when moved correctly. I still dont know how the hell he hid it so well though since it’s not clear water and there’s so many people around him.”

“Is there such thing as beer bending?

But this commenter is all of us, regardless of how beer guy pulled off the trick: “no one man should have all that power…”

Introducing Petzbe, The Social Media App For Dogs And Cats

Brendan Bures
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Introducing Petzbe, The Social Media App For Dogs And Cats

If you’ve become burned out by most social media platforms—riddled with trolls, politicos, and Facebook leaks—we don’t blame you. In the beginning, social media was a fun diversion and still can be, but a toxic wasteland has materialized around that oasis.

Might we offer a new suggestion? It’s called Petzbe, an Instagram-style platform with a strict no-humans policy—even their CEO is a Brussels Griffon named Angus. Your feed on Petzbe is flooded with cat and dog photos where you don’t “follow” or “like,” but rather “sniff” and “lick.” You don’t post pictures of your pet, but adopt the voice of your pet, posting comments as if you were literally a cat or dog.

Photo courtesy of Petzbe

Now, if you’re thinking a similar thing already happens on Twitter and Instagram, you wouldn’t be wrong. You have this Bassett Hound named Dean or Marnie, a 16-year-old Shih Zhu, and dozens others, who all post classic content.

But on Petzbe, you don’t have to deal with the messiness of humans. It allows people to be more vulnerable than they’d otherwise be and, good news, Petzbe also runs user challenges to raise money for animal rescue centers. Andrea Nerep is the creator of Petzbe—and the owner of Angus—and she recently explained to WIRED the inception of her app:

Photo courtesy of Petzbe

 

Nerep began working on an app that would bring out the kind of empathetic interactions she experienced during her dog walks. If it provided a space to archive her 1,000 photos of Angus, even better. Petzbe’s “No Humans Allowed” policy makes pet-owners more or less anonymous. Without knowledge of who the person attached to the account is, preconceptions around that person are wiped away, at least a little bit. “Social barriers are broken down,” says Nerep, as well as “social status, economic status, appearance. Nothing matters anymore.”

So basically, social media’s going where it’s always been headed: to the dogs. But on Petzbe, that’s actually a good thing.

Death Penalty For Marijuana? Here’s How Much It Takes

Terry Hacienda
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Death Penalty For Marijuana? Here’s How Much It Takes

Last week, Attorney Jeff “Good People Don’t Smoke Marijuana” Sessions fired off a memo instructing federal prosecutors to pursue the death penalty in cases “dealing in extremely large quantities of drugs.” It is part of the  Trump administration’s vindictive, impracticable and nonsensical response to the nation’s opioid addiction crisis.

Sessions’ unworkable solution was revealed right after President Trump trumpeted his opinion on how to “win” the war on drugs. “If we don’t get tough on the drug dealers, we are wasting our time,” Trump said in a combative speech in New Hampshire. “And that toughness includes the death penalty.”

The get-tough policy — which failed miserably under President Richard Nixon and President Reagan — got some Americans curious as to what constitutes “extremely large quantities of drugs.” How much weed would it take to get the death penalty?

Well, Christopher Ingraham of The Washington Post went digging for the answer and here’s what he discovered:

[T]here is federal capital punishment on the books for large quantities of marijuana – a substance with no known lethal dose that is legal for recreational use in nine states plus the District of Columbia. The threshold is huge – 60,000 kilograms, or 60,000 plants, enough to fill several shipping containers.

So unless you have 60,000 plants somewhere hidden from view, you should be safe from the death penalty. For now.

“The Supreme Court has never upheld the death penalty for a crime that did not involve death,” Tamar Todd, director of the Office of Legal Affairs at the Drug Policy Alliance, told Ingraham. “No one has been sentenced to death under that provision,” Todd said. “People have long thought that the provision would be unconstitutional, but it hasn’t been challenged because there have been no cases.”

According to The Washington Post story, here are the quantities of other illegal drugs that would trigger the death penalty:

  • LSD: Just under 0.6 kilograms (about 6 million doses (100-microgram per dose).
  • Meth: 3 kilograms.
  • PCP: 6 kilograms.
  • Fentanyl: 24 kilograms.
  • Heroin: 60 kilograms.
  • Pure cocaine: 300 kilograms.
  • Crack cocaine: 16.8 kilograms. (Yep. As Ingraham points out, the two substances are chemically identical, but crack is treated 18 times more severely under federal law – a relic of racial drug sentencing disparities that have traditionally treated African American drug users much more severely than white ones.
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