Microdosing is an effective way to introduce small amounts of cannabis into your lifestyle. Work from home is the perfect time to do it.

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Four years after medical cannabis was legalized, Florida patients can now enjoy their meds in an edible form.

How Brett Favre Went From Vicodin Addict To CBD Advocate

Like former athletes before him, The Gunslinger has turned to CBD to alleviate lingering pain from pro-sports.

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Start low. Go slow. Don’t take 1,000 mg and board a plane.

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Hip-hop icon Wiz Khalifa is prepping to set Houston ablaze with his new reefer-themed eatery, a restaurant appropriately named Hotbox by Wiz. The motto says it all: “Light up. Bite down.”

Operating as a ghost kitchen, the delivery-only Hot Box will offer a cannabis-friendly array of Wiz’s favorite culinary concoctions. Each dish will pay tribute to the rapper’s life, music, and/or his love of the green goddess.

“Blazed Ends,” for example, are crisp, savory burnt brisket ends swimming in barbecue sauce that’s sweet and, of course, smoky. The “Taylor Gang Turkey Burger” comes with a side of crunchy “Chip Hits,” and “Mac and Yellow” mac-and-cheese is named after one of Wiz’s original chart-topping jams. Dessert choices include a “Mile High Brownie.” Seems delicious.

And that’s just for starters. The full menu remains yet to be revealed. Some clues might be gleaned, though, from Wiz’s 2012 sit-down with Hot 97’s DJ Enuff. 

That’s when the rapper revealed his go-to munchie choices, which included cold leftover chicken, cold leftover pizza, cold left over French fries, Hot Cheetos, Hot Funyuns, Starbursts, ramen noodles, cheese Pizza Rolls, and chocolate chip cookies fresh out of the oven, all washed down with Simply Lemonade. At #1, though, Wiz declared full stoner devotion to the chocolate-coated malted milk ball confections, Whoppers.

While based in Houston, Hotbox by Wiz offerings will be available after launch in DC, Denver, Pittsburgh, San Diego, Washington, and Indianapolis by way of third-party delivery apps, including Uber Eats, DoorDash, Postmates, and Grubhub.

For Wiz, Hotbox is just his latest marijuana-related undertaking. His existing elevated businesses include Khalifa Kush, a signature weed strain; an international line of weed-infused concentrates and oils; and a weed farming video game mobile app.

In 2019, Wiz even took his first foray into stoner food favorites by starring in his own Oreo commercial. It’s a 30-second charmer guaranteed to warm your heart and ignite your munchified craving for those milk-dunkable delights.

Here at MERRY JANE, we’re hoping Wiz might partner with Snoop Dogg to feature the Doggfather’s “Chip Fried Chicken Wings” or any other toke-related taste sensations from Snoop’s cookbook, From Crook to Cook: Platinum Recipes from Tha Boss Dogg’s Kitchen, at Hotbox. Maybe Snoop and Wiz can even collaborate on ice cream “Kush Ups.” Give the people what they want!

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The chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC) just said that individual US states should have the right to legalize medical cannabis. 

In a recent interview with Gray Television Washington News Bureau, RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel attempted to dodge several questions regarding the Republican party’s official stance on medicinal pot. In the interview, journalist Alana Austin recounted the story of an RNC delegate who used pot to treat chronic pain, and asked McDaniel whether there is “a place in the GOP for folks who support medical marijuana,” according to Marijuana Moment.

“I don’t really address policy issues like medical marijuana,” said McDaniel in response. “That’s left up to the states and there’s going to be variances between states, but that’s not something that the RNC puts forward as policy, that’s a legislative issue.” 

This year, the RNC is re-using their 2016 party platform without any changes or amendments, and this platform admits that in “many jurisdictions, marijuana is virtually legalized despite its illegality under federal law… This highlights the continuing conflicts and contradictions in public attitudes and public policy toward illegal substances. Congress and a new administration should consider the long-range implications of these trends for public health and safety and prepare to deal with the problematic consequences.”

Austin persisted in trying to get McDaniel to clarify the Republican party’s official stance on medical cannabis, but the RNC chair refused to discuss the issue further. “I’m not going to get into the use of medical marijuana,” McDaniel said. “We didn’t have a platform this year because of changing our rules. That’s going to be left up to the states and our legislators and I’m not going to engage in something that hasn’t been vetted through our full platform and the ability for our delegates to meet to discuss an issue like that.”

In 2018, President Trump said that he would consider supporting the STATES Act, a bill affirming states’ rights to legalize. The bill failed to pass Congress, however, and the Trump administration has doubled down on its anti-cannabis position since then. At a recent rally, the president also expressed concerns that cannabis legalization ballot measures would increase Democratic voter turnout.

The Democratic party’s official stance on weed is more substantial than the current administration’s, but not by much. Both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have a long history of cracking down on minor weed offenders with extreme punishments, but the candidates have recently proposed their own modest cannabis reform policies.

Even though a solid two-thirds of Americans are in favor of legalization, Biden and Harris are only willing to make concessions towards reform. Biden has endorsed legalizing medical marijuana, not full adult-use, but is at least in favor of full decriminalization. The former vice president is also down with providing federal support to states that are expunging the criminal records of former pot offenders.

Elephant Receives CBD Oil To Cope With Anxiety and Stress

A stressed out elephant in Poland has been given the compound to help her deal with the death of a loved one. 

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Zoom Outage Triggers A Lot Of Porn Viewing

When there’s a Zoom outage, people turn to Pornhub. Who’s surprised?

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According to a new study published in the American Journal of Public Health, intravenous opioid users who routinely consume cannabis are more likely to cease their injections, and to do so more rapidly than IV users who don’t use weed. 

An investigative team with the British Columbia Centre on Substance Use reached their conclusions by studying the correlation between cannabis consumption and IV drug use in a sample group of more than 2,000 participants.

In addition to determining that regular weed use corresponded to “swifter rates” of giving up injections, the study also found that cannabis did not increase the subjects’ tendency toward relapse.

“In the adjusted analysis, at-least-daily cannabis use was significantly associated with increased rates of injection cessation” the study reports. “To our knowledge, this is the first longitudinal study to identify a positive association between cannabis use and cessation of injection drug use.”

A number of prior research projects have highlighted how cannabis scientifically helps chronic pain patients veer away from opioids, but this is among the first to be conducted specifically on a population of IV drug users.

“These observations are encouraging given the uncertainty surrounding the impact of cannabis legalization policies during the ongoing opioid overdose crisis… particularly among PWID [people who inject drugs],” the study states. “The accumulating evidence… linking cannabis use to opioid use behaviors further supports the evaluation of the therapeutic benefits of cannabis and specific cannabinoids (e.g., CBD and THC) for people living with opioid use disorder.”

Last year, researchers at New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital gathered clinical data that determined CBD reduced cravings and alleviated anxiety among heroin users. The team assessed the impact of a CBD-versus-placebo study involving 42 drug-abstinent subjects who had used heroin in the past. Participants who got CBD reported unmistakable relief.

The final results, published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, concluded, “CBD’s potential to reduce cue-induced craving and anxiety provides a strong basis for further investigation of this phytocannabinoid as a treatment option for opioid use disorder.”

Kamala Harris Vs. Rudy Giuliani: Who Was Worse On Marijuana?

Giuliani sparked the match that lit a bonfire while Harris has used her power to put out whatever flames she caused. You decide who was a bigger opponent to cannabis.

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