#Katie MacBride

[biglisbonnews]

A Dangerous Substance Is Currently Spreading Through the Illicit Drug Supply Xylazine is a veterinary sedative that's increasingly found in the illicit drug supply — with potentially dangerous consequences. https://www.inverse.com/health/what-to-know-about-xylazine

[hatingwithfears]

BOOKS READ IN 2022

Here’s the complete list of books I managed to read in 2022.

168 books. 54,494 pages.

Renata Adler- Speedboat

Kendra Allen- The Collection Plate

Jonathan Alter- His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, A Life

Kenneth Anger- Hollywood Babylon

Jason Bailey- Fun City Cinema: New York City and the Movies That Made It

Peter Baker, Susan Glasser- The Divider: Trump in The White House 2017-2021

JG Ballard- The Atrocity Exhibition

Julien Barnes- Elizabeth Finch

Brit Bennett- The Vanishing Half

Charles M. Blow- The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto

Anthony Bourdain- Medium Raw

Anthony Bourdain, Laurie Woolever- World Travel: An Irreverent Guide

Box Brown- Cannabis: The Illegalization of Weed in America

Mariah Carey, Michaela Angela Davis- The Meaning of Mariah Carey

Nick Cave & Sean O’Hagan- Faith, Hope, and Carnage

David Chang- Eat a Peach

Dan Charnas- Dilla Time

Leonard Cohen- A Ballet of Lepers

Lee Cole- Groundskeeping

Teju Cole- Black Paper

Ray Connolly- Being Elvis: A Lonely Life

Brian Contoir- Practical Alchemy

Antoine Cosse- Metax

Charles R. Cross- Here We Are Now: The Lasting Impact of Kurt Cobain

Daniele Cybulskie- How To Live Like a Monk

Travis Dandro- King of King Court

John Darnelle- Devil House

Michael Deforge- Heaven No Hell

Rita Dove- Playlist for the Apocalypse

David Duchovny- The Reservoir

Jennifer Egan- The Candy House

Robert Evans- The Kid Stays in The Picture

Scott Eyman- Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise

Nicolas Ferraro- Cruz

Mark Fisher- Ghosts of My Life

Mark Fisher- Capitalist Realism

Johnathan Franzen- Crossroads

Harry Freedman- Leonard Cohen: The Mystical Roots of Genius

Matti Friedman- Who By Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai

James Gavin- George Michael: A Life

Lizzy Goodman- Meet Me in The Bathroom

Andrew Sean Greer- Less

Dave Grohl- The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music

Joseph Hansen- Troublemaker

Joy Harjo- Poet Warrior

Robert Harris- The Ghost Writer

Noah Hawley- Anthem

Wil Haygood- Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Film in a White World

Clinton Heylin- The Double Life of Bob Dylan

Andrew Holleran- The Kingdom of Sand

Michel Houellebecq- Serotonin

Sean Howe- Marvel Comics: The Untold Story

Dorthy B Hughes- In a Lonely Place

John Irving- The Fourth Hand

Walter Isaacson- Leonardo Da Vinci

Kazuo Ishiguro- Klara and The Sun

Junji Ito- No Longer Human

Robert Jones Jr- The Prophets

Saeed Jones- Alive at The End of the World

Stephen Graham Jones- My Heart is a Chainsaw

Rax King- Tacky

Stephen King- Billy Summers

Katie Kitamura- Intimacies

Chuck Klosterman- The Nineties

TJ Klune- Under The Whispering Door

Karl Ove Knausgaard- The Morning Star

Hideo Kojima- The Creative Dream

Milan Kundera- Slowness

Wally Lamb- I Know This Much is True

Yiyun Li- Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life

Thomas Ligotti- The Conspiracy Against The Human Race

Roger Lipsey- Make Peace Before the Sun Goes Down

Patricia Lockwood- No One is Talking About This

Ling Ma- Bliss Montage

Stuart B MacBride- Halfhead

Michael Mann & Meg Gardiner- Heat 2

Greil Marcus- Dead Elvis

Mike McCormack- Solar Bones

Jennette McCurdy- I’m Glad My Mom Died

Janelle Monae- The Memory Librarian

Ottessa Moshfegh- Lapvona

Leila Mottley- Nightcrawling

Alan Moore, Melinda Gebbie- Lost Girls

Grant Morrison- The Invisibles

Mannie Murphy- I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Sequoia Nagamatsu- How High We Go in The Dark

Joyce Carol Oates- Blonde

Joyce Carol Oates- American Melancholy

John O’Connell- Bowie’s Bookshelf

Ryan O’Connell- Just By Looking at Him

Jenny Offill- Weather

Paul Ortiz- An African American and Latinx History of The United States

Hiroko Oyamada- The Factory

Hiroko Oyamada- The Hole

Helen Oyeymi- What is Not Yours is Not Yours

James Patterson- Hear No Evil

Larissa Pham- Pop Song

Brian Phillips- Impossible Owls

Stephanie Phillips- Why Solange Matters

Keith Phipps- Age of Cage

Michael Pollan- This Is Your Mind on Plants

Richard Powers- Bewilderment

Questlove- Music is History

Kristen Radtke- Seek You

Sue Rainsford- Follow Me to Ground

Claudia Rankine- Just Us: An American Conversation

George A Romero, Daniel Kraus- The Living Dead

Karen Russell- Orange World

George Saunders- A Swim in a Pond in The Rain

George Saunders- Liberation Day

Samantha Schweblin— Fever Dream

Leonardo Sciascia- Equal Danger

Mark Seal- Leave The Gun, Take The Cannoli

Seth- Clyde Fans

Alan Sepinwall- Breaking Bad 101

Zadie Smith- Feel Free

Won-Pyung Sohn- Almond

Bob Spitz- Led Zeppelin: The Biography

Elizabeth Strout- Oh William!

J Randy Taraborrelli- The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe

Herve Le Tellier- The Anomaly

Manjit Thapp- Feelings

Olga Tokarczuk- The Books of Jacob

Jia Tolentino- Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self Delusion

Leo Trezenick- The Confession of a Mad Man

Stanley Tucci- Taste

Una- Becoming Unbecoming

Ocean Vuong- Time is a Mother

Chris Ware- Rusty Brown

WC Ware- Jimmy Corrigan

John Waters- Liarmouth

Peter Weiss- The Shadow of The Coachman’s Body

Missouri Williams- The Doloriad

Antoine Wilson- Mouth to Mouth

Sarah Winman- Still Life

Laurie Wollever- Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography

Kenneth Womack- Solid State: The Story of Abbey Road and The End of The Beatles

Hanya Yanagihara- To Paradise

Ed. Jelani Cobb & David Remnick- The Matter of Black Lives

Ed. Sinead Gleeson & Kim Gordon- This Woman’s Work: Essays on Music

[chickenfarmersan]

[thebeautifulsentence]

To drink, you must lie. If you are lying, it’s either about drinking or because you were drinking. Horse and carriage.

Katie MacBride, Longreads

[medica-pseudoacademica]

The point that Rat Park is used to underscore is true. Environment often plays a role in a person developing an addiction and the War on Drugs does nothing to address that. In fact, the War on Drugs has done tremendous harm by ignoring the sociological factors that contribute to addiction and focusing exclusively on criminalization. [Bruce] Alexander and [Johann] Hari argue that we need a more humane approach to drug policy, a belief that is widely shared. But ignoring the greater body of addiction science in favor of a neat narrative is the kind of thinking that fueled the War on Drugs. It’s precisely because this is such an important fight that we should make sure our arguments, and the evidence we use to support them, are sound.

- Katie MacBride, “This 38-year-old Study is Still Spreading Bad Ideas About Addiction” on The Outline (September 5, 2017) (link)

[longform]

Inside the fight for safe cannabis for all.

Katie MacBride | Playboy | Jul 2019

[robinallender]

As ever, I didn’t read as much as I wanted to in 2021 and, of course, I still haven’t finished Finnegans Wake. Here are a few more books I finished this year and the complete list is below.

A Lonely Man by Chris Power is a brilliant and ingeniously layered literary thriller. Like a postmodern Le Carre with much to say about what stories are ours to tell.

The Eighth Girl by Maxine Mei-Fung Chung has an interesting premise (a multiple-personality psychological thriller) but I found the writing clunky and cliched at times (the phrase ‘murder of crows’ appears twice). Great story though and I’ll be interested to see the TV adaptation if it comes to light.

I read Satan is Real in preparation for my interview with Wendy Erskine for Your Own Personal Beatles. Two brilliantly written and very disturbing short stories. I can’t wait to read Wendy’s new collection Dance Move which is published next year. When I spoke to Wendy she had just interviewed Paul Muldoon so I also read his latest collection of poems Howdie-Skelp, which is playful, inscrutable and surprisingly filthy. Muldoon of course edited the collection of Paul McCartney’s Lyrics this year so it was nice to see a mention of ‘Lovely Rita’ in the poem ‘An Item’.

Shappi Khorsandi also appeared on Your Own Personal Beatles this year and I absolutely loved her book A Beginner’s Guide to Acting English. Shappi writes so well from the point of view of a child and this memoir is a really extraordinary account of her family’s arrival in the UK following the Iranian Revolution in the late 70s.

Happy new year to you all – my resolution for next year is to only read one book at a time!

Here are all the other books I read in 2021:

Close to the Bone – Stuart MacBride The Death of Francis Bacon – Max Porter Asylum Road – Olivia Sudjic Girl A – Abigail Dean Klara and the Sun – Kazuo Ishiguro The Dark is Rising – Susan Cooper Boy Parts – Eliza Clark My Phantoms – Gwendoline Riley (my book of the year) Delicacy: A Memoir about Cake and Death – Katy Wix What Belongs to You – Garth Greenwell No One is Talking about This – Patricia Lockwood Sweet Home – Wendy Erskine A Song for the Dark Times – Ian Rankin How to Write One Song – Jeff Tweedy The Last Landlady – Laura Thompson Acts of Desperation – Megan Nolan Good Morning, Midnight – Jean Rhys A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro Beautiful World, Where Are You? – Sally Rooney Far From the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy Beatles ’66: The Revolutionary Year – Steve Turner The Beatles: The Authorised Biography – Hunter Davies

[news-mashable-yahoopartner-blog]

Elizabeth Warren has a plan to fix everything, even our sad love lives

Elizabeth Warren is all about making plans, and she's bringing her expert policy-making skills to social media.

The 2020 presidential candidate has plans to forgive student debt, rebuild the middle class, and even end the opioid crisis. But she's also open to helping people navigate their tricky love lives.

On Saturday, comedian Ashley Nicole Black asked her 88,000 followers if they thought Warren had a plan to fix her love life. On Sunday, Warren, queen of policies, unexpectedly replied to the tweet directly.

"DM me and let's figure this out," Warren tweeted. Simply iconic.

DM me and let’s figure this out.

— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) May 19, 2019

SEE ALSO: Elizabeth Warren takes a ‘hard pass’ on Fox News town hall

Black was absolutely shook upon receiving Warren's response, and she tweeted a screenshot of the exchange, along with the words, "I am deceased. And ready to welcome new love in my life. And then get our new pres elected. #shehasaplan"

We stan a Queen. Nay, a PRESIDENT. https://t.co/WIPCbUzWNJ

— Ashley Nicole Black (@ashleyn1cole) May 19, 2019

Other Twitter users were equally impressed by Warren's hilarious tweet, and digitally bowed down to the Democratic candidate by showering her with praise.

Welp, she did it. Elizabeth Warren just won the presidency. Give her the White House, the Iron Throne, a Nobel prize, a pony, whatever she wants. pic.twitter.com/AlKOC9oFDy

— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) May 19, 2019

This is the most magical thing I’ve ever seen happen on this website or anywhere

— Katie MacBride (@msmacb) May 19, 2019

How effin' awesome is this?! A POTUS with a heart, a mind, a sense of humor and two X chromosomes. Yes! We are so ready for this! #ElizabethWarren #Warren2020

— Annie Fox (@Annie_Fox) May 19, 2019

All hail.... pic.twitter.com/RCNOy0SzMp

— Isaac Butler (@parabasis) May 19, 2019

This is the kind of leadership I want for this nation pic.twitter.com/3aVFYd88ki

— Karen Kilgariff (@KarenKilgariff) May 19, 2019

First, this is hilarious. Second, if you give folks student loan debt relief, some help with higher wages and access to affordable housing and daycare, all those things give space to actually wanna go on dates and make it possible to build a family. So she kinda does have a plan! https://t.co/Nrs0w74xiJ

— Brittney Cooper (@ProfessorCrunk) May 19, 2019

She has a plan for EVERYTHING! https://t.co/0fsaqJAuQD

— Jenny Han (@jennyhan) May 19, 2019

Whoever says women candidates aren't relatable or likeable or funny is nuts. I adore this woman. https://t.co/AJtlEhbRiR

— Belle 🌹 Resists (@BelleResist) May 19, 2019

Many were well aware Warren has established herself as the 2020 election's Sam from Holes by saying "I can fix that" in the face of any challenge. But to see her keeping things light, acknowledging, and extending her own strong policy plans to social media was a delight.

Warren, the American people stan you giving relationship advice, but can you please make it public next time so we can all benefit? Thanks.

WATCH: Beto O'Rourke announces $5 trillion climate crisis plan

[tendance-news]

Elizabeth Warren is all about making plans, and she's bringing her expert policy-making skills to social media.The 2020 presidential candidate has plans to forgive student debt, rebuild the middle class, and even end the opioid crisis. But she's also open to helping people navigate their tricky love lives.On Saturday, comedian Ashley Nicole Black asked her 88,000 followers if they thought Warren had a plan to fix her love life. On Sunday, Warren, queen of policies, unexpectedly replied to the tweet directly."DM me and let's figure this out," Warren tweeted. Simply iconic.> DM me and let's figure this out.> > -- Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) May 19, 2019SEE ALSO: Elizabeth Warren takes a 'hard pass' on Fox News town hallBlack was absolutely shook upon receiving Warren's response, and she tweeted a screenshot of the exchange, along with the words, "I am deceased. And ready to welcome new love in my life. And then get our new pres elected. ~~~~ shehasaplan"> We stan a Queen. Nay, a PRESIDENT. https://t.co/WIPCbUzWNJ> > -- Ashley Nicole Black (@ashleyn1cole) May 19, 2019Other Twitter users were equally impressed by Warren's hilarious tweet, and digitally bowed down to the Democratic candidate by showering her with praise.> Welp, she did it. Elizabeth Warren just won the presidency. Give her the White House, the Iron Throne, a Nobel prize, a pony, whatever she wants. pic.twitter.com/AlKOC9oFDy> > -- Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) May 19, 2019> This is the most magical thing I've ever seen happen on this website or anywhere> > -- Katie MacBride (@msmacb) May 19, 2019> How effin' awesome is this?! A POTUS with a heart, a mind, a sense of humor and two X chromosomes. Yes! We are so ready for this! ElizabethWarren Warren2020> > -- Annie Fox (@Annie_Fox) May 19, 2019> All hail.... pic.twitter.com/RCNOy0SzMp> > -- Isaac Butler (@parabasis) May 19, 2019> This is the kind of leadership I want for this nation pic.twitter.com/3aVFYd88ki> > -- Karen Kilgariff (@KarenKilgariff) May 19, 2019> First, this is hilarious. Second, if you give folks student loan debt relief, some help with higher wages and access to affordable housing and daycare, all those things give space to actually wanna go on dates and make it possible to build a family. So she kinda does have a plan! https://t.co/Nrs0w74xiJ> > -- Brittney Cooper (@ProfessorCrunk) May 19, 2019> She has a plan for EVERYTHING! https://t.co/0fsaqJAuQD> > -- Jenny Han (@jennyhan) May 19, 2019> Whoever says women candidates aren't relatable or likeable or funny is nuts. I adore this woman. https://t.co/AJtlEhbRiR> > -- Belle Resists (@BelleResist) May 19, 2019Many were well aware Warren has established herself as the 2020 election's Sam from Holes by saying "I can fix that" in the face of any challenge. But to see her keeping things light, acknowledging, and extending her own strong policy plans to social media was a delight.Warren, the American people stan you giving relationship advice, but can you please make it public next time so we can all benefit? Thanks. WATCH: Beto O'Rourke announces $5 trillion climate crisis plan

from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2JSsv1c

[nickyschneiderus]

Dianne Feinstein becomes target of ‘lock her up’ chant at Trump rally

Every time President Donald Trump hosts a presidential rally, he sinks to a new low. Just last week, Trump mocked Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser Dr. Christine Blasey Ford in front of his voters. This time around, he claimed Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) leaked Dr. Ford’s accusation letter, encouraging supporters who chanted “lock her up.”

The controversy began during a rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where Trump methodically listed Democratic senators and attacked them one by one. After making fun of Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), he turned to Feinstein, claiming that she purposefully leaked Dr. Ford’s letter accusing Kavanaugh of sexual assault.

“Did you leak the documents?” Trump quipped as the crowd behind him gradually began chanting “lock her up.” After he heard the chants, Trump laughed and smiled.

“Did she leak it? 100 percent,” Trump told the crowd. “No, I don’t want to get sued, so 99 percent. Now I can’t get sued.”

WATCH: President Trump mocks Sen. Feinstein at last night's rally, crowd chants "Lock her up." https://t.co/UwQN1yezkj pic.twitter.com/YwLROOTNyp

— The Hill (@thehill) October 10, 2018

Trump then compared voting Democrat to handing “matches to an arsonist” and giving “power to an angry left-wing mob.”

“They would turn our country so fast into Venezuela—and Venezuela’s not doing too well, folks,” Trump told the crowd. “If you want to drain the swamp, you must defeat the Democrats, or you’re gonna have one hell of a swamp.”

Feinstein has since denied Trump’s statements and criticized his rhetoric.

“Dr. Blasey Ford knows I kept her confidence, she and her lawyers said so repeatedly,” Feinstein said according to the Washington Post. “Republican senators admit it. Even the reporter who broke the story said it wasn’t me or my staff. The president’s remarks are ridiculous and an embarrassment.”

While Feinstein was the first senator to receive Dr. Ford’s letter, she has vehemently denied leaking it. Instead, she claims she received the letter in July and protected its confidentiality since then, as part of Ford’s request. The letter later leaked to the Intercept, where bureau chief Ryan Grim confirmed Feinstein did not leak the letter.

It remains unclear who leaked Dr. Ford’s original letter, which sparked one of the most contentious Supreme Court confirmations since Anita Hill’s sexual harassment accusations against Clarence Thomas in 1991. Either way, Trump’s accusations last night sparked concern across Twitter as onlookers realized Trump was more than happy to target female politicians who went against his administration’s goals.

At the same rally where President Trump called Democrats dangerous, unhinged, and an "angry left-wing mob"

It appeared that the president laughed as the crowd chanted that Sen. Dianne Feinstein should be locked up. https://t.co/YxZ5Tj7mT1

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) October 10, 2018

interesting how "lock her up" has become just a standard chant now at trump rallies to levy against any woman supporters don't like https://t.co/7KKUf57xQe

— Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel) October 9, 2018

"Lock her up" is now the go-to solution for any woman who defies Trump https://t.co/GnHRQhPf3x

— Jessica Valenti (@JessicaValenti) October 10, 2018

Oh hey look it’s the same people screaming about due process for Kavanaugh chanting “lock her up” at a Trump rally. https://t.co/QoxJ70p0DV

— Bridget Phetasy (@BridgetPhetasy) October 9, 2018

Civility from Trump in last couple of days: Encouraged "lock her up chants" about Dianne Feinstein Called Kavanaugh opponents "evil" Labeled Dems as "radical socialists who want to model America’s economy after Venezuela." https://t.co/PpgedVUplL

— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) October 10, 2018

So now it’s “lock her up” for ANY female political opponent of Trump, including one of the longest-serving US senators in our country.

He has been doing this for more than 2 years.

He is a threat to democracy.

Where are you now, @JeffFlake? https://t.co/IoagGgEBqd

— Mark Follman (@markfollman) October 10, 2018

Some hope the midterm elections will stop Trump and his supporters in their tracks and prevent his base from feeling emboldened to go after more women in politics.

Trump's Iowa rally chanted "lock her up"… about Dianne Feinstein.

It's not even just Hillary anymore. Now the MAGA hats want to imprison any woman politician they dislike. Trump supporters might not be better than this, but America is. Vote accordingly. pic.twitter.com/JPWc1DREP1

— Adam Best (@adamcbest) October 10, 2018

Senator Mitch loves Trump's angry mobs, like the one that killed Heather Heyer.

Due process? #LockHerUp

Democrats protesting his illegitimate elevation of two SCOTUS justices?

Real mobs. Huh?#TheResistance will not forget.

We will vote.https://t.co/ZdBySG49pt

— Grant Stern (@grantstern) October 10, 2018

This is what an actual mob looks like. A party whose only contribution to the political discourse is the frenzied “lock her up” and dog-whistling “MAGA” appeals to the lowest common denominator of the lowest of lowlifes. If you don’t want them running the country, VOTE on Nov 6. https://t.co/DC6KlGBpPX

— Beau Willimon (@BeauWillimon) October 10, 2018

Trump calls women who speak out against their sexual abusers “evil” and his supporters shout “lock her up” about every strong woman that won’t bow down to him.

This is who the GOP is. Vote them out.

— Christie (@Christie_D22) October 10, 2018

Anytime you hear some Trumper shout “lock her up”, make sure 3 women you know are registered to vote. https://t.co/dXTN4xbnpD

— Katie MacBride (@msmacb) October 10, 2018

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President Trump has since turned to Twitter, criticizing the media because “92 percent of stories on Donald Trump are negative on ABC, CBS, and ABC.” He went on to call these publications “FAKE NEWS!” and argue they are missing out on “positive events and victories” for the administration.

H/T the Washington Post

from Ricky Schneiderus Curation https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/lock-her-up-trump-dianne-feinstein-dr-ford/

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Are 'Clean Beauty' Products Worth It? Dermatologists Break Down the Wellness Trend Skincare and cosmetics companies have started touting the importance of "clean beauty," but what does that really mean? https://www.inverse.com/health/clean-beauty-products-science

[cbdhemp-oil]

Rolling Stone Weighs in on CBD: What About Quality?

CBD seems to be everywhere these days. Everyday someone is sending me a link to an article or a segment on TV bestowing the myriad benefits of CBD. I’ve been cultivating hemp and CBD oils for the better part of three decades and for the vast majority of this time, I did so with an abundance of caution as I well understood the risks I was taking. So while it’s refreshing that CBD has stepped out of the proverbial shadows, there remains a great deal of confusion about a variety of aspects surrounding both the legality of CBDs in general as well as gaps in consumer’s understanding regarding the vast differences in quality between various CBD products currently in the market.

So it’s encouraging to see some of these issues being addressed in mainstream publications such as this excellent article by Rolling Stone contributor Katie MacBride “How CBD Became the Unexpected Star of Legalized Pot” who among other things, does an admirable job parsing complex nuances in how the DEA goes about distinguishing legal versus illegal CBD:

“For the DEA to determine if a product is federally legal, they start by seeing which plant the CBD came from – marijuana or hemp. Hemp and marijuana both come from the same genus and species, Cannabis sativa, and both contain CBD. Hemp, traditionally grown for fiber and seeds, is simply cannabis with the THC bred out. Federal law dictates that hemp must have less than .3 percent THC – making it useless to someone looking to get high. For this reason, it's often easier to refer to psychoactive or high-THC cannabis as marijuana. Technically speaking, the CBD produced in marijuana is exactly the same as CBD from hemp, though according to the federal government, only one of those kinds of CBD is ever legal – the kind that comes from hemp.

Once you’ve wrapped your head around that, Katie delves into one of the most pressing challenges facing our young industry: how to ensure quality in today's largely unregulated environment and what questions CBD consumers need to ask to better educate themselves - especially as more and more products hit the market making unsubstantiated claims about their contents and efficacy:

"More likely, this gray area allows some CBD manufacturing to go unnoticed, be willfully ignored, or be shipped from out of state… But what about quality? Aside from legal distinctions, is one kind of CBD superior to the other? It depends on whom you ask. Pamela Hadfield, co-founder of HelloMD.com, an online guide to medical cannabis, notes that industrial hemp is a "bioaccumulator," meaning it pulls environmental contaminants out of the soil. "It's really effective at drawing toxins out of the soil and into the plant itself," she says. "So you don't always know what, in addition to CBD, might have been in the plant.”

While local and state regulations likely make CBD from a dispensary safe, all the experts Rolling Stone spoke with stressed the importance of being an educated consumer and doing research about the company behind any CBD product. It's not enough to just read the ingredients and confirm that what you're buying is "lab tested," you're going to want to look into the company. Do they make a range of CBD products? Are they carried most reputable places that sell CBD oil in your area? The more restrictive the cannabis/CBD regulations are in your area, the more investigative work you're going to want to do.

The issues of quality and consistency are near and dear to everyone here at Functional Remedies and something you will hear us talk about at length. Not only have we spent decades refining the genetics of our plants to maximize CBD yield while minimizing THC, we also own the entire supply chain which allows us to assure quality at every stage of production. From seed to finished product, all of our cultivation and manufacturing processes are done in strict accordance with sustainable farming practices.

Interested in learning how to be a more educated CBD consumer? Read our Buying Guide to CBD Oil to ensure you are asking the right questions and purchasing the highest quality CBD product.

[irmaphel-blog]

Choices of the Heart: A Christian Romance Novella - Kelsey MacBride | Religious |888131519

Choices of the Heart: A Christian Romance Novella Kelsey MacBride Genre: Religious Price: Get Publish Date: June 10, 2014 Choices of the Heart is the first Christian Romance novella in the Bradley Sisters series and begins the story of each sister’s search for a Godly man worthy of their heart.  Each story highlights a sister’s hopes, her struggles, and her achievements as she trusts God to bring her the perfect soul mate. (This novella is approximately 90 pages) Lauren Bradley wants to find true love and goes about experimenting with online dating and attending church singles groups to find the perfect Godly man.  But her efforts are met with disaster and her frustration grows as she becomes impatient waiting for God to bring the right man into her life.  She decides to become an entrepreneur and purchase Emilia’s, an Italian restaurant.  But her goals of buying the restaurant are thwarted by Andrew, a handsome man who also wants the restaurant for himself.  Lauren is attracted to Andrew, but becomes involved with her boss, knowing he may not be the man God intended for her. Andrew has had a passion for cooking since childhood, spending lots of time in the kitchen with his mother.  Now he wants to switch from being a teacher, to fulfilling his lifelong dream of owning a restaurant.  But there’s one problem, he’s attracted to Lauren and has to fight her for Emilia’s.  Will he fulfill his lifelong dream at the expense of driving Lauren away?  Or will he sacrifice his dream and compete with her boss for the chance at true love? Other titles in the Christian romance series by Kelsey MacBride: -Desires of the Heart: Megan’s story (Available now!) -Passions of the Heart: Tiffany’s story (Available now!) -Redemption of the Heart: Katie’s story (July 2014) Don't miss out on these inspirational love stories of faith, family and romance.

[senkyosakki-blog]

Choices of the Heart: A Christian Romance Novella - Kelsey MacBride | Religious |888131519

Choices of the Heart: A Christian Romance Novella Kelsey MacBride Genre: Religious Price: Get Publish Date: June 10, 2014 Choices of the Heart is the first Christian Romance novella in the Bradley Sisters series and begins the story of each sister’s search for a Godly man worthy of their heart.  Each story highlights a sister’s hopes, her struggles, and her achievements as she trusts God to bring her the perfect soul mate. (This novella is approximately 90 pages) Lauren Bradley wants to find true love and goes about experimenting with online dating and attending church singles groups to find the perfect Godly man.  But her efforts are met with disaster and her frustration grows as she becomes impatient waiting for God to bring the right man into her life.  She decides to become an entrepreneur and purchase Emilia’s, an Italian restaurant.  But her goals of buying the restaurant are thwarted by Andrew, a handsome man who also wants the restaurant for himself.  Lauren is attracted to Andrew, but becomes involved with her boss, knowing he may not be the man God intended for her. Andrew has had a passion for cooking since childhood, spending lots of time in the kitchen with his mother.  Now he wants to switch from being a teacher, to fulfilling his lifelong dream of owning a restaurant.  But there’s one problem, he’s attracted to Lauren and has to fight her for Emilia’s.  Will he fulfill his lifelong dream at the expense of driving Lauren away?  Or will he sacrifice his dream and compete with her boss for the chance at true love? Other titles in the Christian romance series by Kelsey MacBride: -Desires of the Heart: Megan’s story (Available now!) -Passions of the Heart: Tiffany’s story (Available now!) -Redemption of the Heart: Katie’s story (July 2014) Don't miss out on these inspirational love stories of faith, family and romance.

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Choices of the Heart: A Christian Romance Novella - Kelsey MacBride | Religious |888131519

Choices of the Heart: A Christian Romance Novella Kelsey MacBride Genre: Religious Price: Get Publish Date: June 10, 2014 Choices of the Heart is the first Christian Romance novella in the Bradley Sisters series and begins the story of each sister’s search for a Godly man worthy of their heart.  Each story highlights a sister’s hopes, her struggles, and her achievements as she trusts God to bring her the perfect soul mate. (This novella is approximately 90 pages) Lauren Bradley wants to find true love and goes about experimenting with online dating and attending church singles groups to find the perfect Godly man.  But her efforts are met with disaster and her frustration grows as she becomes impatient waiting for God to bring the right man into her life.  She decides to become an entrepreneur and purchase Emilia’s, an Italian restaurant.  But her goals of buying the restaurant are thwarted by Andrew, a handsome man who also wants the restaurant for himself.  Lauren is attracted to Andrew, but becomes involved with her boss, knowing he may not be the man God intended for her. Andrew has had a passion for cooking since childhood, spending lots of time in the kitchen with his mother.  Now he wants to switch from being a teacher, to fulfilling his lifelong dream of owning a restaurant.  But there’s one problem, he’s attracted to Lauren and has to fight her for Emilia’s.  Will he fulfill his lifelong dream at the expense of driving Lauren away?  Or will he sacrifice his dream and compete with her boss for the chance at true love? Other titles in the Christian romance series by Kelsey MacBride: -Desires of the Heart: Megan’s story (Available now!) -Passions of the Heart: Tiffany’s story (Available now!) -Redemption of the Heart: Katie’s story (July 2014) Don't miss out on these inspirational love stories of faith, family and romance.

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Choices of the Heart: A Christian Romance Novella - Kelsey MacBride | Religious |888131519

Choices of the Heart: A Christian Romance Novella Kelsey MacBride Genre: Religious Price: Get Publish Date: June 10, 2014 Choices of the Heart is the first Christian Romance novella in the Bradley Sisters series and begins the story of each sister’s search for a Godly man worthy of their heart.  Each story highlights a sister’s hopes, her struggles, and her achievements as she trusts God to bring her the perfect soul mate. (This novella is approximately 90 pages) Lauren Bradley wants to find true love and goes about experimenting with online dating and attending church singles groups to find the perfect Godly man.  But her efforts are met with disaster and her frustration grows as she becomes impatient waiting for God to bring the right man into her life.  She decides to become an entrepreneur and purchase Emilia’s, an Italian restaurant.  But her goals of buying the restaurant are thwarted by Andrew, a handsome man who also wants the restaurant for himself.  Lauren is attracted to Andrew, but becomes involved with her boss, knowing he may not be the man God intended for her. Andrew has had a passion for cooking since childhood, spending lots of time in the kitchen with his mother.  Now he wants to switch from being a teacher, to fulfilling his lifelong dream of owning a restaurant.  But there’s one problem, he’s attracted to Lauren and has to fight her for Emilia’s.  Will he fulfill his lifelong dream at the expense of driving Lauren away?  Or will he sacrifice his dream and compete with her boss for the chance at true love? Other titles in the Christian romance series by Kelsey MacBride: -Desires of the Heart: Megan’s story (Available now!) -Passions of the Heart: Tiffany’s story (Available now!) -Redemption of the Heart: Katie’s story (July 2014) Don't miss out on these inspirational love stories of faith, family and romance.