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Legalized Cannabis May
Be a Windfall for
McDonald's and Taco Bell
The munchies are driving up fast-food sales in states where marijuana is legal.
Cannabis has been shown to increase users’ appetite, sending many customers of legalized dis- pensaries to fast- food chains, according to a new study by Green Market Report and
Consumer Research Around Cannabis.
Forty-three per- cent of legal-mar- ijuana users ate at a McDonald’s restaurant in the past four weeks, the survey found. Eighteen percent ate at Taco Bell, while 17.8 per- cent went to Wendy’s. Those results were sig- nificantly higher than among
respon- dents who hadn’t visit- ed a dis- pensary.
Some 27,500 peo- ple responded to the online sur- vey. Other restaurant chains that saw higher consump- tion from cannabis users included Burger King, KFC, Jack in the Box
and Carl’s Jr., according to the study.
Consumer Research Around Cannabis is a Houston-based research firm that tracks the demo- graphics of the marijuana indus- try. The Green Market Report, meanwhile, focuses on cannabis finan- cial and econom- ic information.
Dear Doubters, B.o.B Wants To Prove The Earth Is Flat Once And For All
By Cassandra Santiago and AJ Willingham, CNN
(CNN)Last year, rapper
B.o.B. used Twitter to jump on the 'flat Earth' bandwagon, and it looks like he's been riding it ever since.
The "Nothin' on You" star has started a GoFundMe cam- paign to find Earth's curve and see if our planet is actually round (and not a flat disc hanging in space as flat Earthers typically believe).
Earth's curve is a big contention for flat Earthers, who argue that if the earth was round,
the "curve" would be more visible to the earthbound human eye.
B.o.B.'s cam- paign says the plan is to "launch multiple satellites into space" in order to observe, and try to dis- prove, what cen- turies of science and technology have already con- firmed. All he needs is a small investment of $200,000 dollars (and launch approval, of course).
He's titled his mission "Show BoB The Curve." By Monday after- noon it had racked up $255 and 105 shares on Facebook.
Over the last few years, the works of Aristotle and Galileo have come up against armchair astronomers who believe,
like really believe, the Earth is flat.
And endorse- ments by big- name celebrities like Kyrie
Irving, Tila Tequila and Sam my Watkins keep nudging flat Earthers out of the shadows.
Between their Facebook and Twitter accounts, the Flat Earth Society has over 100,000 followers -- though a good portion of them appear to be there to poke fun at the whole thing
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