This newfangled age of legal cannabis offers seemingly endless high-end and high-tech products and devices for gift-giving season. Sure, you could make an impression with a smartphone-connected vaporizer or a box of CBD gummies in Hermès-worthy packaging.
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Big-wave surfers from around the globe have their eyes trained on a swell headed for the California coast—and in particular on Mavericks, the legendary northern California break where waves can top 60 ft (18 m).
Hemp has become one of the US’s rare bipartisan issues of 2018, and next week Donald Trump is expected to sign the bill that will end its prohibition.
Late on a Thursday morning in Eso Won Books in the Leimert Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, co-owner James Fugate was ready for a second cup of coffee.
Will Brownlow, who has been farming in southeast Kentucky for close to three decades, says he first planted 10 acres of hemp in 2016 for the “novelty factor.” This year, he planted 40, and next year he plans to cover 60 to 80 acres (25 to 32 hectares) of the 340 acres he farms in hemp.
“Time is a flat circle,” Matthew McConaughey once said, in character as True Detective’s Rust Cohle. “Everything we’ve ever done or will do, we’re gonna do over and over and over again.”
NASA-branded swag is having a fashion moment, and Sotheby’s has something even more special for the aerospace enthusiast on your holiday gift list. Tomorrow (Nov. 29) at 10am ET, the New York auction house will open bidding on a sale of art and memorabilia related to space exploration.
Until recently, hemp—the name for a cannabis plant bred to have little to no THC (tetrahydrocannabinol)—has been far less exciting in the popular imagination than its psychotropic sister, marijuana. But CBD (cannabidiol), the naturally occurring chemical compound found in both cannabis and hemp, has caught fire (so to speak) in the wellness world.
Yesterday (Nov. 20) in dire Thanksgiving menu news, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that everyone should avoid eating romaine lettuce, the classic dressing-vehicle of a Caesar salad—not because it can be bland and floppy, but because it could be life-threatening. Romaine, it seems, is the likely source of a new, multi-state outbreak of E. coli that has so far sickened at least 32 people and hospitalized 13. Those unfortunate souls reported eating romaine both in restaurants and at home, so the CDC is advising everyone to stay away from it, including any you have in the refrigerator.
In the US on Black Friday—the inaugural day of holiday shopping that follows Thanksgiving—it has become traditional for everyone to start kvetching about how awful it is to go shopping during the annual frenzy of holiday sales, and why we ought to stay home, watch movies, open up a second screen and order everything online.
Today (Nov. 15) at Christie’s, David Hockney’s Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) became the most expensive piece of art ever sold at auction by a living artist, as it was expected to do. At $90,312,500, it broke the record previously held by Jeff Koons’s Balloon Dog.
Remember 2015, when the Oxford English Dictionary’s “word” of the year was 😂? That was cute. This year it’s “toxic.”
The self-made fashion magnate Ralph Lauren is celebrated as one of the great interpreters—and embodiments—of the American dream. And yet, the Ralph Lauren aesthetic would be nowhere near as powerful without the designer’s aspirational appreciation of the British gentry.
Tonight (Nov. 14) in Geneva, Sotheby’s will auction a collection of royal jewelry that spans from the reign of Louis XVI to the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Among the offerings are a gold Patek Philippe pocket-watch that once belonged to Henri, Count of Chambord—who was disputably the king of France for a week in 1830—dragon-decorated neck badges denoting Knights of the Order of the Golden Fleece, and, most notably, several pieces of jewelry that once belonged to Marie Antoinette.
Over the past four years Eaze, a San Francisco-based tech platform for on-demand cannabis, has delivered nearly 3 million packages containing cannabis-enhanced edibles, tinctures, topicals, and vaporizers—not to mention cannabis flowers themselves—to more than 350,000 customers throughout California. Most of these products were purchased for their ability to deliver THC, or tetrahydrocannabinol, the chemical compound naturally found in cannabis that creates the psychosomatic effect expected of marijuana products. But now, a different compound in marijuana is starting upstage THC.
You might think that a creature like Trumpy Bear is a unique sign of the absurdity of our times. The stuffed bear—which features a yellow comb-over, a red tie, an American flag blanket, and happens to be made in China—debuted last year and has only recently gone viral on Twitter.
In recent months, cannabidiol, or CBD—the non-psychotropic chemical compound that occurs naturally in cannabis—has become increasingly popular in the US. CBD has been turning up in bath bombs, lattes, muscle rubs, vape pens, oil extracts, dog treats, and a multitude of other products, to create a market that the Hemp Business Journal reports was worth $190 million in 2017. It’s so mainstream the New York Times’ style section wrote about it last month.
There’s a glorious optimism in the moment that one decides to bake. Maybe you’re craving cookies, have been assigned something sweet for a potluck, or have just won yourself a free hour and have sufficient flour in the pantry. But that optimism that can quickly dissolve into paralysis when it comes time to choose a recipe.
It may seem implausible that the person in charge of overseeing Georgia’s gubernatorial race is also one of the candidates, but here we are. Georgia’s secretary of state Brian Kemp, who ran for governor against Stacey Abrams today, has made it notoriously difficult to vote in his home state—especially for people of color.
At approximately 4pm central time on Nov. 6—just a few hours before polls were scheduled to close—Beyoncé posted on Instagram in support of Beto O’Rourke, the Democrat candidate with a chance of unseating incumbent Ted Cruz as the junior senator for the pop star’s native state of Texas.
A single table-scape by the painter Manny Farber contains more life than many galleries. He painted surfaces littered with everyday detritus: handwritten notes on slips of paper, punnets of berries, root vegetables piled into colanders, vases of wilting homegrown flowers, rulers, matches, day planners, and half-finished glasses of water.
As of today (Nov.1), US doctors in all 50 states can legally prescribe an FDA-approved drug that contains compounds found in cannabis.
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