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Two on-duty NYPD officers were caught in the Bronx smoking hookah while standing next to their patrol car over the weekend, the New York Post reports. Their vehicle was stationed outside of an apartment building across from the Bronx Zoo Sunday as part of an initiative to address the growing number of shootings across the city over the last few weeks. […]
Gabrielle Union has elaborated on what she says was “the very definition of a toxic work environment” during her time on America’s Got Talent. As you may recall, September 2019—just two months after the finale of Union’s first season on the talent competition series—brought word that both Union and fellow judge Julianne Hough had been dismissed from the […]
Those with underlying medical conditions are at a higher risk of being infected by coronavirus. Now, research shows that another group of people who could also be vulnerable are those who smoke, vape, or have substance abuse issues. “[T]he research community should be alert to the possibility that [Covid-19] could hit some populations with substance […]
A fresh cannabinoid dubbed THCP has inspired a wave of cravings-inducing headlines, due in large part to reports highlighting its potential for more than 30 times stronger potency than the old standard, THC. The compound, full name tetrahydrocannabiphorol, was discovered alongside another previously unknown compound that’s now being called CBDP. Per CNN, the latter is described as […]
Spencer Boston was a man with a plan. On Monday, the 20-year-old was in a Tennessee court for a simple marijuana possession charge, CNN reports. As he faced the judge, he began to share his views on the legalization of weed. And to drive that point home, he reached into his jacket pocket, pulled out a […]
CNN reports that it was a Happy New Year indeed for Illinois, which saw a haul of nearly $3.2 million in sales of recreational marijuana on its first day. The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation revealed that the state’s 37 dispensaries accounted for 77,128 transactions, which totaled more than $3.17 million. According to the Chicago Tribune, Illinois’ first-day sales were one of the […]
Politico reports that Congress plans on raising the minimum age for the purchase of tobacco to 21 as part of a $1.4 trillion spending bill that must be passed by December 20 to avoid a government shutdown. The bipartisan support that this legislation has received is likely in response to the 52 deaths in the United States stemming from the use […]
A Connecticut man shot and killed his girlfriends two teenage children before turning the gun on himself, BuzzFeed News reports. According to Watertown Police Chief John Gavallas, authorities received a phone call on Tuesday from a woman who “reported to us her live-in boyfriend was armed and had just shot her daughter and son.” When they […]
Lakeith Stanfield dropped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to talk everything from Knives Out to JAY-Z’s “Moonlight” video, which he said actually introduced him to Friends. Directed by Alan Yang (Master of None), the video from 4:44 is a parody of the iconic sitcom made with black actors, and Stanfield had somehow avoided the series until he was cast […]
A gay man has been awarded a whopping $157 million in a wrongful death lawsuit after his husband died of lung cancer related to smoking, NBC News reports. Tobacco companies R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris were ordered by a Broward County jury to pay Bryan Rintoul, the spouse of the late Edward Caprio, $157.4 million, […]
