Can You Consume Marijuana On Ozempic

It is the current hot silver bullet to slim down and look good. But can you consume marijuana on Ozempic?

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Classic Marijuana Infused Peanut Butter Fudge

A boozy version is on the rise, but what about making this classic marijuana infused peanut butter fudge?

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Plus, Sturgill Simpson and More Event Updates for June 13

by EverOut Staff

Top 40 rapper G-Eazy will stop by Seattle this fall to support his forthcoming album, Freak Show. Rising alt-R&B star Omar Apollo has announced his God Said No tour. Plus, reigning king of outlaw country Sturgill Simpson is coming to Gorge this September on his Why Not? tour. Read on for details on those and other newly announced events, plus some news you can use.

ON SALE FRIDAY, JUNE 14

MUSIC

Andy Grammer – Greater Than: A One Man Show
Moore Theatre (Wed Oct 9)

ANOHNI and the Johnsons
Paramount Theatre (Mon Oct 7)

Apocalyptica Plays Metallica Vol. 2 Tour
Moore Theatre (Feb 25, 2025)

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See someone? Say something!

by Anonymous

Cathedral yoga cutie

You: redhead who complimented my Metro sweatshirt after yoga at Saint Marks. Me: blond on the mat in front of you too shy to talk more!

Mutual awe at Shorty’s

U were gawking at my pinball game on Pulp Fiction, I said I loved your outfit. You were celebrating a friend’s graduation and I wish I got your info.

Near Seattle Central College

I saw The Stranger’s own editor Rich Smith leaving Seattle Central College on Thursday morning; I was too star-struck to yell “I love your work”

Talk nitrogen soil cycles to me??

me: lonely bisexual babe with opinions on local blackberry bushes. you: sexy weed control consultant with knotweed knowledge

Hoochie daddy shorts @ Bangrak Market

You have an “all you can eat” pussy tattoo on your thigh and asked me about a tasting room on Queen Anne. I wish you had come taste me in my room.

funky at funk night

us: curly hair with bangs we smoked a cigrarette while you changed your shoes and discussed a spliff later, i left b4 saying goodbye 🙁

Tatted Cyclist on the Sammamish River Trail

To the gorgeous man in navy blue, stars & triangles tatted on your left calf. You said hi & overtook me in the gray Rapha jersey. Let’s go for a ride.

Georgetown Carnival Hottie Hanging at Star Brass

You: mustachioed man in a bucket hat, talking to your mom(?). Did we lock eyes (I was the blonde in a tube top) or did the heat make me imagine this?

Is it a match? Leave a comment here or on our Instagram post to connect! 

Did you see someone? Say something! Submit your own I Saw U message here and maybe we’ll include it in the next roundup!

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Beer, Bratwurst, and More

by EverOut Staff

This Father’s Day, thank your father figure for all the sage advice and corny jokes with a feast fit for a king. Whether he prefers beer or chocolate, we’ve got your back with food and drink specials and gift ideas. For more ideas, check out our Father’s Day calendar and our food and drink guide.

Hellbent Brewing Company
Hellbent invites you to “juice up” Father’s Day with a four-pack of their Lucky Juiciano Hazy IPA, which is made with a blend of Ekuanot, Mosaic, Simcoe, Sabro, and El Dorado hops and “bursting with coconut, stone fruit, and just the right amount of bitterness.”
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Marijuana Might Help The Liver After Bing Drinking

Over one-quarter of people aged 30 to 50 do it, research shows marijuana might help the liver after bing drinking.

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The horror of Octavia Butler’s ‘Parable of the Sower’ is today’s Seattle.

by Charles Mudede

On the morning of June 10, I saw a cloud of grayish smoke rising from Little Saigon. I was walking down Elder Street. I had just passed the King County Juvenile Detention. The plan was to catch the 36 bus to Beacon Hill at a stop near the intersection of 12th and Jackson. But my plan was undone by a fire that, according to reports, “broke out at midnight” and destroyed much of the building vacated by Viet-Wah Supermarket in 2022. The Seattle Fire Department was still fighting the fire nearly 12 hours after it started. Buses, automobiles, streetcars, bikes, and pedestrians could not enter the area surrounding 12th and Jackson. 

As I approached the police’s “Do Not Cross Tape” on the east side of Jackson, as more and more smoke drifted across the otherwise sunny sky, as I noticed a number of people sleeping in the shady space between the sidewalk and walls of this and that business, the intensity of a dread-filled feeling struck and surprised me. It was as if my own experience of this city’s not-unusual (and self-imposed) scenes of misery, degradation, and destruction were displaced by someone else’s. But who was making me feel this way? A moment of thought revealed the answer: Octavia Butler. 

Celebrate our 2024 Seattle Reads selection “Parable of the Sower” by Octavia Butler by attending an event! Learn more at https://t.co/wvQO4aTsj5 pic.twitter.com/hdOYv1fjh6

— Seattle Public Library (@SPLBuzz) May 2, 2024

At the end of May, I began reading two books, David Bohm’s Wholeness and the Implicate Order and Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower. The former concerns a metaphysical interpretation of the strange world revealed by quantum physics; the former is a 1993 novel that begins in the year we are now in, 2024. The timeliness of Parable of the Sower made it an obvious pick for Seattle Public Library’s 2024 Seattle Reads. I decided to join this “city-wide reading book group,” as I had never read what has to be Octavia Butler’s second-most famous novel. (For reasons related to my obsession with time and quantum physics, I kept returning to Kindred, Butler’s most famous work.) 

From Seattle Read’s webpage for Parable of the Sower:

When global climate change and economic crises lead to social chaos in the early 2020s, California becomes full of dangers, from pervasive water shortage to masses of vagabonds who will do anything to live to see another day. Fifteen-year-old Lauren Olamina lives inside a gated community with her preacher father, family, and neighbors, sheltered from the surrounding anarchy. In a society where any vulnerability is a risk, she suffers from hyperempathy, a debilitating sensitivity to others’ emotions.

Hyperempathy is the key to the novel and the novelist and the intense dread I felt while watching Viet-Wah Supermarket’s former location go up in smoke. Lauren Olamina, Parable‘s teenage narrator, suffers from a condition that makes her feel the pain of others (and other animals). The condition, medically called “organic delusional syndrome,” resulted from her mother’s abuse, during pregnancy, of a prescription drug, Paracetco, that was “as popular as coffee.” The drug, initially made for people with Alzheimer’s disease, turned out to be great for a competitive society. It improved intellectual performance and gave its users (mostly professionals) an edge with calculations and computers. Lauren’s mother did not survive her birth. And, worst of all, she is hyperempathetic in a world that has lost almost all empathy.

Climate change has turned much of the country into a wasteland. Old diseases are returning; new diseases are arriving. Blizzards are freezing these states; tornadoes are ripping through those states. The man in the White House, President Donner, is basically Donald Trump on steroids—in fact, the “carnage” America in Trump’s inaugural speech is almost identical to the one in Parables. Nearly everyone is homeless or in a gang. There is still law enforcement but nothing that resembles law and order in the usual sense. There is still capitalism, but no jobs, no middle class, no social services. The latest drug makes young people get high at the sight of fire. Food is too expensive. Everyone is armed to the teeth. If you are lucky, you live in a gated community. If you are really lucky, you live in Oregon or Washington or faraway Canada (the novel is set in Southern California). 

The horror never ends. Page after page. It’s relentlessly intense. The corpses, the misery, the stench, the broken bones, the fires, the smoke. The reader becomes one with Lauren’s hyperempathy. You see and feel it all the way she does—and also her creator, Butler, whose vision of America’s post-everything future was so present to her senses that she, like Lauren, decided to leave Southern California and move to the Pacific Northwest. Butler spent her last years (1999 to 2006) in Lake Forest Park. She was possibly the region’s first climate refugee. Here before the shit really hit the fan. I saw Seattle 2024 through her eyes.

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Including Dunkz, Moon Valley Cannabis, and Humo.

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The Stranger’s morning news roundup.

by Hannah Krieg

Weather: Today will not be as nice as yesterday, so I’m really sorry if you didn’t drink prosecco outside with your dear friends in the sunshine. I sure did! But you can definitely still spend time outside this fine Thursday— we’ll get a high of 68, we’ll just have a little more cloud cover than Wednesday. Not too bad!

Florida’s not so lucky:

Sunrise revealed ongoing water rescues one day after catastrophic flooding in South Florida. 20″ of rain fell between Miami and Fort Lauderdale the last two days. Another 3-6″+ of rain is expected today with the next round of downpours only a few hours away. #FLwx pic.twitter.com/4JCJajTCMO

— Brandon Orr (@BrandonOrrWPLG) June 13, 2024

Hold up: Remember Council President Sara Nelson’s big hurry to repeal the gig delivery driver minimum wage ordinance? Well, the council was supposed to vote on it May 28, but now the council won’t even tell the Seattle Times when they will get around to it. Council Member Joy Hollingsworth will host a stakeholdering meeting today to talk about the amendments she’s working on. She may meet with the competing parties again next week, too. Her amendments need to be pretty strong if she wants to help Nelson pass some version of this repeal. They really don’t seem to have the numbers to pass this thing anymore. 

FBI: A woman came into the Seattle FBI building yesterday afternoon with a gun pointed at her chest, according to KIRO 7. No one got hurt, but she’s in custody now.

VIDEO | Footage of police surrounding the FBI building in Seattle at gunpoint

They have shut down the roads#breaking #seattle #washington

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— Bobby Ellison (@BobbyEllisonKY) June 12, 2024

So long: UW President Ana Mari Cauce announced yesterday that she will step down at the end of her term next June. Cauce claimed she planned all along to call it quits after her second term in the role, but I think if I were a student from the recently disbanded encampment protest, I would take some credit for giving her a little hell the past few weeks. 

Contempt: All but one Republican voted yesterday to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for refusing to hand over audio recordings of President Joe Biden’s interviews as part of a probe into his handling of classified materials. Garland said it was “deeply disappointing” that the House “turned a serious congressional authority into a partisan weapon” that “disregards the constitutional separation of powers” and undermines the Justice Department’s responsibility to protect its investigations. Besides, Congress already has access to a written transcript of the Biden interviews. 

Breaking: The Supreme Court unanimously agreed that the morons who sued the Food and Drug Administration for approving a widely used abortion pill did not have the right to sue, and so they rejected the case. That’s nice for now. In another case, a majority of the justices sided with Starbucks, which means it will now be more difficult for courts to protect the jobs of workers fired for organizing. Boo. 

Ceasefire now: Hamas proposed changes to the US-backed ceasefire deal. According to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, some of those changes are “workable” and others are not. Blinken didn’t give much detail, but in general he expressed frustration that Hamas had not accepted. Meanwhile, Hamas says they haven’t heard Israeli officials saying they’d accept the deal, they’ve only heard the US insisting that Israel would accept the deal, so they don’t think they are the ones slow-rolling the situation. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to insist the war will only end once they “destroy” Hamas and free the hostages. As for the amendments, Hamas spokesman Jihad Taha said that they “aim to guarantee a permanent ceasefire and complete Israeli troop withdrawal from Gaza,” the AP wrote. 

Crimes against humanity: A United Nations inquiry found that Hamas committed war crimes in its October 7 attack. This includes torture, murder, outrages upon personal dignity, and inhuman or cruel treatment. The report also found that Israel did all that shit and used starvation as an act of warfare, which amounts to a crime against humanity. The report notes the scale of Israel’s actions: “The immense numbers of civilian casualties in Gaza and widespread destruction of civilian objects and infrastructure were the inevitable result of a strategy undertaken with intent to cause maximum damage, disregarding the principles of distinction, proportionality and adequate precautions.”

Get fucked, Putin: At the Group of Seven summit, the US and some European countries agreed to a lil scheme where they’ll lock up about $300 billion in Russian assets and use the windfall profits to pay for a $50 billion loan for Ukraine.

End of an era: Twitter (I know it is called “X,” but I just can’t say that without compromising my morals) just made “likes” private, so we can no longer catch Ted Cruz liking porn clips on main. Some people seem to be taking advantage of the change.

Now that twitter likes are private, there’s a man who is currently scrolling through my media tab and liking every boob selfie. He just reached 2021. Huge day for him. pic.twitter.com/doD5oTQLfr

— cinnamon bun (@notsofiacoppola) June 12, 2024

ICYMI: Did anyone notice that the City took down the chain-link fence in the middle of Cal Anderson? Parks and Rec put up the fence after it demolished the Black Lives Memorial garden at the end of December, presumably to keep gardeners from replanting. It really cramped my style for several months. Like, why is the lawn in jail? Libs really only have one strategy to handle shit they don’t like, huh? Anyways, super glad I got to sit in that space again. 

PANIC: Ashley sang this song at karaoke on Tuesday btw.

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Important Steps If Your Dog Has Marijuana

Sometimes things happen and you have to act…here are the important steps if your dog has marijuana.

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