Nicotine is not your Enemy: Interview with Prof. Bernd Mayer
Nicotine is not your Enemy: Interview with Prof. Bernd Mayer. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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Urban Exploring in Detroit
Stopping by the old, abandoned Packard Automotive Plant in Detroit, Michigan. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Amendes cannabis au Manitoba: « Cruelles et punitives »
Notre directeur-adjoint Yaël Ossowski en ondes avec à Radio-Canada Ici Manitoba avec Martine Bordeleau pour parler de l’interdiction de la culture du cannabis au Manitoba et pourquoi les amendes (plus de 2500$) sont cruelles, punitives et inutiles. https://ici.radio-canada.ca/premiere/emissions/l-actuel http://consumerchoicecenter.org
The Innocents Abroad: DO U EVEN READ, BRO?
Next up on this episode of The Innocents Abroad: How We Read. How We Memorize. How We Internalize. Living in a different country means one often looks to books to keep up perspective about your home or the world outside. In this episode, we look at book recommendations, how best to read, whether Kindle is…
‘Pot Banks’: The Answer for a Budding Industry?
By Yaël Ossowski | MG Retailer When California voters approved Proposition 64 in November 2016, the Golden State became effectively the largest jurisdiction in the world to legalize recreational sale and use of cannabis. On January 1 of this year, when recreational sales were legalized, politicians, tax collectors, and business owners already were seeing green….
Anthony Bourdain’s 14 Rules For Life
Anthony Bourdain’s 14 Rules For Life* (or being a chef, more precisely, but they work just as well): 1. Be fully committed. 2. Learn Spanish! 3. Don’t steal 4. Always be on time. 5. Never make excuses or blame others. 6. Never call in sick. 7. Lazy, sloppy and slow are bad 8. Be prepared…
How the Carolinas could suffer from Trump’s tariffs
In the last election and on the global stage, President Donald Trump talked tough on trade. It’s us versus them and we’re losing, he says. Put simply, he views the current trade deficit, when we import more from a country than we export to it, as detrimental to American jobs. Since January, that trade deficit…
Who is today’s Beat Generation?
Who is today’s ‘Beat Generation’? Looking at some of the great figures of the literary and cultural movement, we compare with today’s reality. Bringing in Jack Kerouac, Allen, Ginsberg, Hunter S. Thompson, and even some Anthony Bourdain along the way. Take a road trip with the Innocents Abroad podcast. www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/10…1/drive-he-wrotewww.youtube.com/watch?v=BYgv7ur8ipg theinnocentsabroad.com
Freedom of marketing and brands remains vital in the 21st century
When consumers make decisions in the marketplace, they are voting with their wallets, writes Yaël Ossowski. Ossowski is the deputy director for the Consumer Choice Center. He wrote this op-ed ahead of the Brand Freedom Day conference on 6 June in Brussels. In a system of voluntary exchange, only consumers can decide if a company…
Republicans could redeem themselves by legalizing CBD, industrial hemp
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is seeing green. He wants to legalize industrial hemp, a highly versatile derivative of the cannabis plant, and that’s great news for consumers and entrepreneurs. He’s been joined in the fight by his fellow Kentuckian Sen. Rand Paul and top Democratic leaders Sen. Mark Warner and Sen. Tim Kaine, both…