Your October horoscopes are here! Check out if your strain of the month is more spooky or spectacular.

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What Does ‘Inshallah’ Mean And Why Did Biden Say It To Trump?

Biden’s use of the word “Inshallah” during the presidential debate has prompted a lot of questions from viewers. Here’s what it means.

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Does cannabis really enhance creativity? Yes, and it’s complicated.

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Yesterday at 4:20 pm PT the team at MERRY JANE finessed an iconic virtual smoke sesh between adult film actress Bridgette B and legendary drag queen Laganja Estranja for the second episode of our latest Instagram Live series, “What’s in the Box.”  

In collaboration with ZigZag, we sent Laganja, the host of our new show, and Bridgette B mystery boxes full of 420 smoking essentials, weed, and swag, and had them reveal what’s inside. They rolled joints, revealed projects their working on, and threw down on an epic smoke sesh.

Ms. Laganja Estranja showed up looking more glam than Gwen Stefani post No Doubt-era, while Bridgette B rocked a sunkissed natural beach babe look, making the duo ooze effortless sex appeal. Instagram was melting — or maybe we were just high AF. Either way, they were a sight for sore eyes. 

But, Laganja did not fuck around. She lit up a joint with a dab rig torch and began asking Bridgette about her career in the adult film space. And Bridgette gave us all the deets. 

“I have a podcast called ‘Ready, Sex, Chat’ and it started by not wanting to just be tits on a stick or tits and ass,” Bridgette said. “I started it a few months ago, actually when I started dabbling in cannabis and CBD, and it started making me feel lighter and more myself. It’s allowed me to express myself in whole new way.”

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Bridgette explained that she even put a couple of bonus episodes on her OnlyFans, which reveals what goes down in the room while recording her show. “I like to tell people who don’t know about cannabis that the industry is nothing like Boogie Nights!”

The duo received eighths of flower from Long Beach cannabis company Wonder Bread. Laganja got down on their OZ Kush while Bridgette received their Lemon OZ sativa strain. They also got organic hemp granola (because munchies, duh!), ZigZag hemp rolling papers, and rolling trays. And, because our hosts are hot intellectuals who love to read, we gifted them MERRY JANE’s new Sex and CBD book written by Ashley Manta, the one and only CannaSexual, which details how to incorporate the magic of CBD into your sex life.

Aside from getting an inside glimpse of Laganja and Bridgette B’s respective lives, the best part about yesterday’s “What’s in the Box” episode was the fact it featured two wildly talented figures from two counterculture industries: Cannabis and sex work. Laganja, representing our beloved LGBTQIA+ and cannabis communities, and Bridgette, representing the power of sex work, made these two off-beat worlds collide — and it was beautiful. It’s the type of intriguing content the Internet — a bottomless well of mindless productions — needs more of.

We’re not interested in mainstream pairings or making vanilla content. We’re interested in gritty sub-cultures that make life flavorful, fun, and weird, which is exactly what yesterday’s “What’s in the Box” live stream was. 

Stay tuned for information on the next episode of “What’s in the Box!” And don’t forget to follow MERRY JANE, Laganja Estranja, and Bridgette B on Instagram.

Stay high, friends. 

Ontario’s government-run cannabis store has dropped the price of their legal flower in an attempt to gain market share back from Canada’s thriving black market.

In a new quarterly financial review, the Ontario Cannabis Store (OCS) reported that its average price for dried flower has fallen to C$7.05 per gram during the first fiscal quarter of 2020. This new pricing undercuts the average cost of flower being sold via illegal mail-order sites, which averages $7.98 per gram. Between April and June, the OCS discounted 558 different cannabis products, but further cost-reduction plans were put on hold by the COVID pandemic.

The lower prices are helping the OCS win market share from illegal dealers, but the province’s legal weed stores still have a long way to go before they can break even. Last quarter, legal sales only accounted for 25.1 percent of all weed purchases in Ontario, up slightly from 24.7 percent in the previous quarter. And although Ontario’s share of legal sales is growing, it still lags behind the national share for Canada’s legal market.

“The growth of the market in terms of the volume of product sold and percentage of the illegal market captured are both inching upwards as a direct result of the collaboration between the OCS and its commercial partners – licensed producers and authorized cannabis retail stores,” said Cheri Mara, chief commercial officer of the OCS, in a letter published with the report, according to BNN Bloomberg.

Ontario was able to drop its average price by offering large-scale bulk purchases of 28-gram value packs. These low-cost bulk value sales are gradually becoming more popular across Canada as legal retailers struggle to find a way to compete with illegal dealers, who are able to skirt licensing fees and other costs of compliance.

“This quarter marks a milestone for the sector on the critical front of pricing,” Mara said in the report, the Canadian Press reports. “Despite the challenges COVID-19 presented, our marketplace has consistently delivered strong sales through this first quarter.”

Like most adult-use countries and US states, Canada declared legal weed retailers to be an essential service and allowed them to remain open during the pandemic. Legal pot sales skyrocketed during the pandemic, and many US states and Canadian provinces broke new sales records on an almost monthly basis.

This spring, Ontarians spent around $126 million to buy nearly 14 million grams of pot. Dried flower remains the most popular product, accounting for $74.5 million, or 61 percent of total legal sales. Vaping products were the next most popular category, at 14.5 percent, followed by pre-rolls at 9.1 percent. Edibles, which only became legally available for sale in January, now account for about 4.3 percent of sales, and infused beverage sales have climbed to 1.2 percent this quarter.

But even though Ontario’s bulk weed price is now cheaper than black market weed, about 17 percent of weed buyers still said that OCS weed was too expensive, and another 14 percent said they found cheaper weed elsewhere. Another 40 percent of shoppers complained that OCS stores did not always have their favorite products in stock, and 11 percent said the legal products they bought were of poor quality.

Although it only commands a quarter of the province’s total market for weed, Ontario is constantly working to boost its share of the market. Officials recently increased the total number of legal retail outlets to 110 and allowed stores to begin selling pot seeds, while local cops continue to bust illegal shops and dealers.

Why Does Cannabis Work So Well To Combat Nausea?

Cannabis does not actually calm the digestive tract. Instead, this is how it treats nausea. 

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With recent polls indicating bipartisan majority support for legalizing marijuana, New Jersey has continued its momentum toward ending pot prohibition with an official “get out the vote” endorsement from the Garden State’s governor.

The New Jersey Democratic State Committee fired off an email blast this week in which longtime pro-pot Gov. Phil Murphy explicitly urged residents to vote “yes” on Public Question #1, the ballot initiative that would “legalize the possession and use of marijuana for persons age 21 and older and legalize the commercial cultivation, processing, and sale of retail marijuana.”

“When I first announced my campaign for Governor, legalizing adult-use marijuana was one of my top priorities,” Murphy wrote. “It was as clear then as it is now — marijuana prohibition causes serious, lasting damage to our state, especially to the 35,000 mostly young, Black and Hispanic residents who are arrested for possession of marijuana every year. In fact, Black residents are 3.5 times more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession than White residents. Legalization would right those wrongs while also spurring massive economic development opportunities, job creation, and new tax revenue.”

Calling legalization “something we must do to make our state both stronger and fairer,” Murphy stated, “New Jersey spends about $147 million a year on the legal processing of marijuana possession and makes 35,000 annual arrests. Using our public safety dollars for marijuana arrests doesn’t make us any safer. By legalizing adult-use marijuana, we can free up police resources to focus on serious, violent and unsolved crimes, and reinvest those saved dollars into social services.”

Noting the overall human toll, Murphy wrote, “Our current marijuana laws can ruin lives based on one decision. Under current law, a person can land in jail over marijuana – with a criminal record that stigmatizes them for life and can make it harder to get a job, an apartment or a credit card; to adopt a child; or to visit one’s own children. Legalization has the potential to remove unfairly harsh punishments now suffered by entire families due to marijuana offenses.”

“We know that marijuana legalization works,” Murphy wrote in summation, “and passing this ballot measure will allow New Jersey to take advantage of everything that we’ve learned from the states that went before us… Legalization will not be the end of the story — there is more work to do, particularly in expunging past marijuana-related offenses.”

Following the email blast, Murphy posted a geographic image of New Jersey awash in pot leaves, and simply tweeted, “Legalize it.”

Red Light Holland is officially in the truffle biz!

Cleaning Videos Are So Hot Right Now — Here’s Why

TikTok and other media outlets have become platforms for people cleaning and organizing. What’s the deal?

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3 Things To Know About Fall Allergies And Marijuana

The thought of treating allergies to weed with weed can make some pause, but the science is sound. 

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