California slapping high taxes on marijuana
California’s legal marijuana marketplace is coming with a kaleidoscope of new taxes and fees that could influence where it’s grown, how pot cookies and other munchies are produced and the price tag on just about everything. Be ready for sticker shock. On a retail level,…
Kevin Spacey is Gay! Plus Rape, Terrorism & Radical Islam
Lawyer in Egypt says “Raping Women is a National Duty”, Radical Islam strikes a bike path in New York City killing eight and no surprise here Kevin Spacey is a gay and into young boys. All this plus some creep Harvey Weinstein shit on the…
HISTORY OF HALLOWEEN
ANCIENT ORIGINS OF HALLOWEEN Halloween’s origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-in). The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom and northern France, celebrated their new year on November 1. This…
Beer Company “Corona” invests $200 million into Marijuana
Beer and weed could be a good mix for companies that sell both. The decision by Corona beer seller Constellation Brands Inc. to buy a minority stake in a Canadian pot company marked the first major foray of an alcohol brand into the nascent weed industry. With…
Facebook, Google and Twitter will tell Congress that Russia’s election meddling was wider than they first reported
Facebook, Google and Twitter plan to tell congressional investigators this week that the scope of Russia’s campaign to spread disinformation on their sites — and to potentially disrupt the 2016 U.S. presidential race — is much broader than the companies initially reported. At Facebook, roughly…
Marijuana users have more sex, researchers find
Regular marijuana users have about 20 percent more sex than abstainers, according to a new study from researchers at Stanford University. The study analyzed data on 28,000 female and 23,000 male participants in the National Survey of Family Growth, a nationally representative CDC survey of Americans age 15 to 49. It found…
Catalonia Declares Full Independence From Spain
For the first time in Spain’s democratic history, the government will take direct control over one of the country’s autonomous regions, after lawmakers in Catalonia ended weeks of agonized fence-sitting on Friday and voted to secede. The dueling declarations — by the national parliament in…
Majority Of White Americans Say They Face Discrimination
A majority of whites say discrimination against them exists in America today, according to a poll released Tuesday from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. “If you apply for a job, they seem to give the…
DJ Premier & The Badder Band: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
Three-time Grammy winner DJ Premier, one of the definitive architects of New York hip-hop, brought a new type of life to NPR’s Tiny Desk. This is the coolest Tiny Desk performance to date!
Oral sex can cause mouth and throat cancer study says
Lotharios who smoke and go down on their girlfriends are more likely to get a rare mouth and throat cancer. Smokers who have had more than five sexual partners are at greater risk of getting the cancer triggered by the human papilloma virus. But scientists…
