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thingsworsethancannabis:

Things worse than cannabis #1: Margarine.

Margarine is the result of vegetable oil put through a hydrogenation process which creates a solid substance, in essence spreadable fat. While it has been marketed as a healthier butter substitute, margarine is so full of trans fats that even minimal consumption could increase your risk of heart disease.

The most harmful aspect of consuming margarine is chronic inflammation - linked to Rheumatoid arthritis, Scleroderma, Systemic lupus and of course heart disease. Chronic inflammation has dietary roots and could be triggered by any diet involving dairy products.

While consumption peaked in 1993, United States citizens nowadays eat about 2 billion pounds of margarine per year. The margarine and cooking oil industry legally sold $4.2 billion worth of buttery spreads in 2011 and not one customer was fined or imprisoned from consuming this harmful substance.

futurejournalismproject:

Mapping the Price of Weed

How to study underground economies? One way is to crowdsource data collection.

Floatingsheep gathered user generated data from from the Price of Weed Web site and teased out a visualization of who’s paying what across the United States. 

The map above appears in the September issue of Wired under the headline, “Infoporn: O Say, Can You THC?”

Via Floatingsheep:

The map featured in WIRED is taken from a much more detailed research paper focused on the potential for user-generated data to shed light on underground economies such as marijuana use. The map relies upon thousands of user reports on marijuana purchases referenced to city locations from the Priceofweed website (see our earlier posting). After cleaning the data to get rid of the outliers, we created a continuous surface using a statistical interpolation technique known as kriging to identify the average variance among price differences through a spherical semivariogram model. To obtain a price for each location show in the map above, an interpolated value was estimated as a weighted average of prices from its twelve neighboring points…

…We’re in the process of finalizing a paper analyzing this data including a state and city-level multivariate analysis of price. Key explanatory variables in the models include the legality of medical marijuana, level of production and an intriguing distance decay effect as one moves away from Northern California. 

Prices are per ounce.

trichween:

Strawberry Cough X G-Spot #6

Trich, one day you and I have to smoke some of your babes. I will gladly pay for this. Christ they look gorgeous.

You never cease to amaze me with your gorgeous ladies. Keep these coming, I love it :D

trichween:

5 of the flowering ladies say ‘Good morning!’ :)

Oh good morning ladies :D

villagevoicemedia:

Study: Marijuana Growers Kids’ In Better Health

A new study from Canada flies in the face of stereotypes regarding the offspring of marijuana-growing parents. Children from homes where cannabis is grown were healthy and drug-free, according to the study — in fact,healthier than other children — leading to questions about why such kids are often removed from their homes.

Interesting lol.

trichween:

Flowering ladies. Taller ones are three weeks old today, smaller one’s are two.

1 Kali Mist, 2 Random’s [we think they’re Green Crack that’s what the bag said, we just don’t remember where the fuck they came from], and 8 Strawberry Cough X G-Spot [a strain a guy that ran a collective in town bred, then gave us]

They’re beautiful :D