Block Inc., formerly Square, is an online payments and financial services company. It develops hardware and software to aid businesses operations, including point-of-sale hardware, payments processing and analytics software, a business debit card called Square Card, and a peer-to-peer payment service called Cash App.
The top Block shareholders are Jack Dorsey, Vanguard Group, FMR, LLC, and Blackrock Inc. Block’s trailing 12-month (TTM) revenue is $17.5 billion, with TTM net income of -$353.4 million and a market cap of $34.7 billion as of May 2023. (1)
Dorsey, formerly the owner of Twitter, essentially has the power to provide Payment Processing to any company, meaning they have the power to take it away.
On October 3rd, 2019 Square had announced that they would be offering Payment Processing to CBD vendors, a rather high risk offer but a blessing to those of us that follow the law. (2)
We were not surprised but incredibly grateful to receive one of the first CBD selling accounts with Square. However, like most businesses who have used Square will report, after you make about three grand they will shut you down without question for no reason.
Why even offer the CBD account at all if you actually cannot handle the processing? Or is something else going on?
During our investigations, which we do regularly to protect this industry and its customers from tainted products, we found a few websites doing their best to simply clone our website. As we looked deeper into it we saw there may be a Nu Era and back end connection there. We noticed that the website in particular has payment processing. (Read Story Here) So we thought to ourselves, how can people that can't access our products and have no permission or licensing have access to Payment Processing for our company, yet we are not allowed?
We tried to contact Square customer service in regards to this, but they seem to not exist.
So we did a little digging and we found out that one clone website, CBDTeas, illegally acquired by Mr Bell and Vincent Edwards, was using Mile High Risk processing. We learned about Mr. Bell during our investigation into Parallel and Nicki Fried, which you can read here.
This is peculiar, so we started digging. One of our business contacts for Star Citizen, Rick Martinez, had recommended Mile High in the past. In fact, according to our emails, we had already applied for Mile High processing in 2018 and we're still to this day waiting for underwriting to complete.
Seems it's easier to copy and paste someone's company and intellectual property and then delete them from speaking about it on twitter, then it is to do your underwriting job at a bank apparently.
According to a list of on-boarding bank fraud that we've collected this year, (which we will be publishing) that actually seems true.
However, according to the Bill of Rights and almost every US Trade law known to man, it is federally illegal to steal a company and their intellectual private property and then prevent them from success. In most cases we would be charging for damages and we are still looking into our legal options.
The Fifth Amendment to the Constitution provides that private property shall not be taken for public use without just compensation.(3)
This is why we are very adamant on freedom of speech being important. When we have people who are in charge of speech, they overstep their power and steal from the citizens that are following the law in this country. They ruin lives by silencing them, allowing them to suffer in silence without anybody to scream to while they rob your country blind. This is our biggest fear when it comes to a group controlling free speech and the truth because you can rewrite the truth in your own favor by silencing it.
It seems lately people have been treating our company like it's monopoly, preventing us from getting an income until we stop the machine entirely to let them know that we do not work for free.
So unfortunately, well we're being financially abused, most likely by those like Jim Orsini of Mile High Labs, or Ryan Campbell who's also working at Mile High and asked us for access to our property, or even Jaden Hanson is connected.
Now here lies your problem with the Campbell's family, they don't know how to not touch other people's property. Working directly with gaming leagues such as OTK, which contains members such as Asmond Gold, Miskif, Cyr, and Soda Poppin who work with streamers such as QT Cinderella and Ludwig (who work with Aeropay) … whom I'm more than familiar with. The Campbell's 10 unit is looking terrible right now. OTK founder Rich Campbell is currently going through a lawsuit with Azalea Lexi which paints a terrible picture of sexual accusations and abuse. (4)
Rich Campbell has stepped away and kept silent in regard to OTK, but has decided to file a defamation lawsuit in response. (5)
Not only were they reported during a security breach for releasing problematic material into the system, but they also blatantly made an attempt to steal from us, by name!
This is a common and happening from the Morris family. Here you can see April Morris as she lies about her education and where she got her information on a website names similar to mine, also hosted with a separate sex offender.
(Read about April Morris and her attempt to disparage our company here.)
So with all of these things connecting it does kind of look like an intentional attempt on my life and company. So much so that my concern is Morris' connection to Robert Severino, who has a connection to my doctor's office, and Taylor Brands by Brandt who work with Xcom in the front end of our hosting company, which is being thoroughly investigated. This is the company who Brenda Hawkins (as mentioned in this article) is employed. So it seems that Taylor Made his booting people from their own processing, another investigation entirely that's currently on going. That brings into question doctors who might be manipulating people to get into the marijuana industry.
Now it looks like people are playing with the Matchmaker system which prevents people from getting payment processing in the first place and ruins lives in their entirety and I will not be a life that they chose to ruin. I will not be quiet.
So, now you have Mile High Labs not only holding an exact clone replica of our property, illegally holding stolen property, but holding us financially hostage from making payments and accepting payments, essentially attempting to destroy our careers or company. Ironically, the Campbell's employees were easy to follow to both Brandt and to a group they named OTK, which stands for one true king, but their property was ironically stolen from a queen.
Initially I wouldn't have put our losing our Twitter account, Jack and Lane Dorsey, and the Campbell's family together… But then I received an email from align.
So now Dorsey is holding stolen property and they can't do anything about it because half of the companies have gone out of business and they don't know how to update the program… and I will not do it for free.
Turns out this company is part of the blockchain that tries to block people from their own private property, block incorporated, which is a very good way of just stealing people's property and then silencing them about it and lying to everyone. Much like Bit-connect. They use people like PayPal developers and Freshbooks developers and influence to commit fraud that they think nobody will catch up to.
Unfortunately due to the amount of government officials and doctors involved in this industry that isn't going to work out for the rest of us. It's essentially blatantly stealing companies from other people and preventing them from success and then emailing that company manufacturing account and asking them to join you against yourself. It seems like everybody gets caught up this way… with conspiracy. The malls, the maps, eventually all of the clones find their way back to my manufacturing account and asking me to turn my back on myself.
If we are going to let billionaires simply prevent people from success in the future, what is preventing all of the Patriots that outnumber them from no longer following the laws themselves and ending other people's lives? Where does it stop? If they can just take your business from you and tell you you don't deserve to earn an income. You don't deserve to survive.
Regardless of the amount of laws that this is breaking and the amounts of rights that are being stolen from me personally, how can we expect the Cannabis industry to continue without government intrusion when you people clearly can't behave themselves?
We felt like we were being attacked and we did tons of research, eventually finding out about Stephen Mueller, who may or may not be related to the arrest of Trump, the man who tried to protect us from this deep state fraud.
So you're telling us that The Man Behind having Trump arrested for exposing the Deep state, is related to the Deep State?
Interesting. While investigations are still ongoing and most of them involve fintech and payment gateways.
One thing you can trust is that the truth will come out. We have faith in our political partners to take this information and use it to help us save not only this movement but the freedoms in our country. We try not to stand on any political spectrum, but uphold the values of America and stand by the patriots standing firm with us.
It's not some conspiracy theory anymore. According to Rand Paul, this has been happening throughout the entirety of COVID.
On January 5, 2023, President Biden signed the Protecting American Intellectual Property Act into law. This law seeks to deter the theft of US intellectual property by non-US actors by threatening to impose economic sanctions on those engaged in trade secrets theft. This law adds to existing measures available under US law, such as criminal prosecution, civil lawsuits, and/or designation to a US restricted parties list such as the Entity List (maintained by the US Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security). (6)
That’s a step in the right direction for America’s future.
Thank you for your patience in this trying matter we're doing the best we can.
If you too have been affected by IP theft or bank fraud you're not alone.
You can directly report if your intellectual property has been stolen here:
https://www.iprcenter.gov/referral/report-ip-theft-form
Sources:
In an article posted Tallahassee Reports by Steve Stewart on March 3, 2021, it was said, “While Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried was taking steps to influence Florida cannabis policy and implement rules that regulate the cultivation of hemp, her fiancee’, Jake Bergmann, created a web of companies with people and organizations that have a professional interest in the cannabis and the hemp industry.”
While we appreciate the report we would have put the word created in quotes, or possibly replace it with a more appropriate word such as stole, copied, or cloned from the very people we act like we’re helping.
Even if Fried’s husband was the sole creator of said hemp and cannabis group, some questions in regards to Fried’s other motives are also raised by her own constituents in Tallahassee.
“Several of the people involved with the businesses have connections to Nikki Fried, including Fried’s father, Ronald Fried. Also, one of the companies is registered at Fried’s personal residence.” The Tallahassee Reports continued. “Another company is registered at the address of The Rubin Group. The Rubin Group donated $5,000 to Fried’s PAC in 2018 and is the registered legislative lobbyist for the medical marijuana company originally founded by Bergmann.”
So what we have is a commissioner of agriculture, only concerned about marijuana… and not in her jurisdiction?
“Publicly available records show that Jake Bergmann has teamed up to form a cannabis related business venture with Ronald Fried and Hali Utstein, the wife of David Silvers – a Florida state representative.
Bergmann is also registered as an officer of a business along with Zachary Kobrin, a cannabis attorney with the law firm of Akerman LLP.”
David Silvers is a name that has come up before indeed. This seemingly happened directly as our Square Processing was shut down and we were seemingly blacklisted from multiple payment processors and Muelleer had Trump arrested, ironically as Aeropay (an Xcom Shogun Company) committed a deep state coup for marijuana payment processing.
Essentially, they shut down the legitimate company to steal the finances for their own while arresting the only candidate to speak about it. This caused a supply chain lock they have yet to figure out as we argue, those businesses and names are our work and our collected business partners. Not Fried or Bergmann.
“The corporations were created after Fried was elected to statewide office in 2018 and after Bergmann stepped down as CEO of Suterra, the medical marijuana company he founded and is now named Parallel.”
Parallel to what?
Terra corps are one of the most notably intrusive and hard to deal with companies in the industry. Supposed to go to bleed for their inability to accept the word no and their Invasion into medical practices. Other companies of the same name have been known to terrorize, harass, steal from, and even commit crime against legal businesses, even lying about their doctors and falsifying NASA information.
In her elected position, Fried has publicly advocated for the legalization of marijuana. In addition, Fried has taken steps to influence public policy related to the cannabis and the hemp industry, but is this Nicki’s hard work we’re witnessing?
In February 2019, Fried announced her appointment of Holly Bell as the Director of Cannabis. A press release stated that Bell’s role would be to “oversee the development of rules, work directly with scientific experts, and ensure Commissioner Fried’s vision for cannabis in Florida continues moving forward.”
The statement also indicated that Bell would “work closely with the Department’s Division of Plant Industry on developing Florida’s hemp industry, including the production, processing, inspecting, and manufacturing of industrial hemp, and will assist in implementing the new Farm Bill as it relates to industrial hemp.”
In June 2019, Fried announced a newly-created Medical Marijuana Advisory Committee. The press release noted that the purpose of the committee was to “collaborate with the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to help improve the state’s medical marijuana policies.”
“I’m proud to establish the medical marijuana advisory committee to help expand patient access, and to advance and modernize policies to move Florida into the future of medical marijuana,” stated Commissioner Nikki Fried.
But investigations find this fishy in regards to actual companies that have already paved the road for cannabis in other states that Nikki Fried single handedly robbed and prevented from success, pursuit of happiness, and freedom to run their business costing the marijuana industry millions of dollars.
Who is Nikki Fried helping?
Like Sam Bankman Fried and JJ Fried, No one but themselves.
Holly Bell is the CEO and owner of Maxx Models. According to her Zoom info, she works directly with Tom Bell.
And we're very familiar with Tom Bell.
According to his LinkedIn, Tom Bell is the proud CEO and owner of Bell Industries DBA Budda Teas. This is a company we've gone back and forth with who fails to acknowledge the CEOs and people that they steal from until those CEOs refuse to do work for free.
In fact, not only has Tom Bell run parallel to us but he's still in every chance that we have at success, every chance our customers have that success, every chance our business partners have at success, placing an incredible amount of very important cultivators, doctors, dispensaries, and government officials in very grave Danger.
You can read about it here.
Now that company is a direct clone and copy and paste of our company but Twitter is silencing us and providing them Payment Processing through their block Incorporated with Mile High Payments. A company we've been contacting since 2018 that still can't manage to figure out how to underwrite for the legal company that manufactures those products that they stole and then silenced so we couldn't tell anybody about it.
Isn't that the way to kill the American dream? To steal from the citizens and prevent them from their success when you don't know what you're doing?
In our above spilling the tea article, you can see with the Wayback machine and business records that all of this happened in 2018 when Miss Fried gained office, and attempted to abuse her power against the citizens.
Nikki fried and her husband did not create a cannabis table, they did not create a group of people in the industry, I did. What they did was they stole, paralleled, and silenced the people that were working this industry and prevented them from earning an income treating them like slaves without any care as to how this would affect their futures, their income, their self-esteem, or the industry as a whole.
While an international company, we like to remind everybody that we are based in Chicago, which is not in Florida.
Tallahassee Reports has reached out to Fried’s office for comment on Bergmann’s business relationships and possible conflicts of interest. We have yet to receive a response.
From L-R: Hali Utstein, David Silvers, Dr. Esty Golan, Jake Bergmann
The Iconoclast Companies
According to state records, Bergmann is associated with three businesses registered in the state of Florida using some variation of the name Iconoclast. But before the Iconoclast cluster of businesses were registered, Bergmann registered a company in Nevada.
On January 24, 2019, two months after Nikki Fried was elected, Bergmann registereda corporation named Tatooine, LTD in Nevada. Bergmann is listed as the President, Secretary, Treasurer, and Director.
Why Nevada? One reason maybe the noted advantages to forming an LLC in Nevada. These advantages include ease of registration, relatively low corporate taxes and lack of state taxes. Nevada also offers strong privacy protections to business owners and a business-friendly environment.
This would be needed when having to claim the victim after getting caught stealing property. We assume they wanted the privacy because it would help them launder the money and information longer than they already have, making it hard to find who's behind it.
Iconoclast Ventures
Two months after Tatooine LTD was created in Nevada, on March 8, 2019,Iconoclast Ventures was registered in Florida. The “MGR” of the company was listed as Tatooine, LTD with an address of 450 E Las Olas Blvd, #1250, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301.
The address is the same address used by The Rubin Group.
The Iconoclast Ventures website list the founding partners as Bergmann, Ronald Fried, and Hali Utstein. Bergmann is listed as the CEO, Ron Fried as the Chief Operations Officer (COO), and Utstein as the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO).
The website indicates that Mr. Fried holds a Florida real estate sales associate license and has provided Broker Price Opinions (BPOs) and has listed and sold Florida properties on behalf of Freddie Mac and numerous national private Real Estate Owned (REO) management and real estate firms. Fried most recently was engaged as an operational and compliance consultant for a Florida licensed mortgage lender.
According to the website, Utstein is responsible for managing the company’s brand, facilitating investor relationships and collaborating with partners to drive revenue.
Utstein is also identified as a key investor across multiple industries, including CB Collective and One Hemp Brands and serves on the board of directors of One Hemp.
The registration of Iconoclast Ventures came during the 2019 session when a bill to related hemp was being considered by the Florida Legislature.
When the Florida Legislature passed the bill in May 2019, Fried said, “Today’s historic vote is eighty years in the making — Florida is now on the verge of establishing a state hemp program and creating a multi-billion dollar industry.”
Which is great for them. Not so great for the states doing it well before they had that they stole it from, like Illinois.
Ultimately, the hemp bill was signed into law by Governor DeSantis in 2019 when he pledged his allegiance to protect our environment but not our natural surroundings. However at this time, The Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (2018 Farm Bill) authorized the production of hemp and removed hemp and hemp seeds from the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) schedule of Controlled Substances.
Meaning it doesn't really matter what Nikki Fried signed into office because federally, which Trump's the state, CBD and hemp were legal all across the country already. Meaning once again Nikki Fried did something that was already accomplished and then took credit for it. Most of these things being used to benefit her personally and financially.
Shortly after registering Iconoclast Ventures in May 2019, it appears that Bergmann met up with his business partner, Utstein and her fiance at the time, Florida state representative David Silvers, in Israel. This is took place during the same time that the Florida Cabinet – including Nikki Fried – held a meeting in Israel.
Nikki Fried needed to hatch a plan to take control of an industry that was already budding and that the country had already depended on.
It was reported that Utstein, Silvers, and Bergmann held meetings with Dr. Igal Louria-Hayon, Director of the Medical Cannabis Research and Innovation Center at the Rambam Health Care Campus.
Ironically, All our medical advisory team can think of is the cardiac arrest reporting guidelines.
Iconoclast Inc.
On January 9, 2020 Iconoclast Inc. was registered in Florida as a not-for-profit corporation. The directors listed were Robert J. Bergmann, Elizabeth A. Bergmann, and Zachary Kobrin.
The business is listed as a non-profit with a principle address of 5307 Pimlico Drive Tallahassee, FL 32309. The principle address is the home Bergmann shares with Fried.
Six months earlier, it was announced on June 10, 2019, that Kobrin was one of Fried’s appointments to the Medical Marijuana Advisory Committee that Fried created to “collaborate with the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to help improve the state’s medical marijuana policies.”
According to the Akerman website, Kobrin has served as General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer for a multinational cannabis company and currently advises cannabis and hemp industry clients on legal, regulatory and business development issues.
He is also listed as a team member of the Akerman Cannabis Practice that boasts the practice is ranked nationally as one of the top firms in Cannabis Law by Chambers USA.
According to their website, Akerman’s cannabis related clients include cannabis investment funds, cultivators, processors, dispensers and distributors, and suppliers of ancillary products and services… Just like our company!
When contacted by TR, Kobrin said he was Mr. Bergmann’s lawyer and declined to discuss their business relationship. This revelation means that Fried appointed her fiance’s lawyer to the medical marijuana advisory committee she created.
Iconoclast One
Less than three months after registering Iconoclast Inc.,Iconclast One was registered in Florida on March 27, 2020 with R. Jacob Bergmann and Hali Utstein listed as Managers.
Repeated attempts to contact Utstein failed.
We will continue to reach out to individuals related to the businesses associated with Mr. Bergmann.
WE HAVE THE ANSWERS!
Read the article we wrote in regards to spilling the tea HERE!
Once caught up on the clone companies and their being counterfeit, this brings you to an address located on the bottom of the website.
7043 Remo Way Sacramento, CA 95822
Upon looking at this address I get multiple names.
Brenda Hawkins - A Brandt Employee
Paula and JJ McCracken - Moderators for twitch, Adult swim connections
Vincent and Keith Edwards - I’m simply not sure who these people are.
Vincent Edwards has his name associated with both the address and the NOW CANCELED business license for CBD Teas, owned by Tom Bell.
Now a simple search for Keith Edwards reveals he's Fried's new communication director… and he's holding stolen property and preventing the owners of the property from having that blatantly against the Bill of Rights.
In fact it is Twitter profile you can see him mocking the fact that he was not available for comment for Fox News. It's almost like the news anchors are wondering where all the money is going.
Knowing who Sam Bankman Fried is and that there might be a little connection there also makes people nervous.
If Desantes allows this in his state, who's going to vote for him for president?
So at the end of the day can you really trust your government to do what's right for you and uphold your rights to private property that shall not be taken for the use of the citizens without just compensation? Or are your rights and your laws gone since the Democrats came in office?
It's really up to the Patriot push back. We will continue to prevent access to our supply chain and continuation of our work until we are granted credit and profit for it regardless of who is attempting to abuse their power at the moment to take control of our private company.
This country is looking more and more like a bunch of fools grabbing for Monopoly pieces that they cannot obtain, liquidating things that they do not own. Stand up for yourself, stand up for your neighbors, and you just might make it through.
If you've never shared anything from us please if anything share this document so at the very least people know exactly who they're voting in office, and possibly who they're voting in for president, as we would never want this mistake to ever happen again.
We aren’t a DEEP FRIED industry, and you WILL give pay and credit to those who make the industry, or we will block you from it.
Always Remember:
The Fifth Amendment to the Constitution provides that private property shall not be taken for public use without just compensation. An implied contract to make payment therefor has been held to arise from such a taking.
This includes governors of agriculture racketeering our income and freedoms. It needs to stop. We are not slaves, you didn't "create or develop us." Our licenses are valid, unlike yours, and you cannot take private property for your government just because you want to make money. It wouldn't surprise me if they began looking into her income now more so than they have in the past. I sure hope they do.
REOPEN THE ETHICS CASE! THIS IS A DISABILITY COMPANY. THAT'S REALLY MESSED UP.
PLEASE SHARE THIS ARTICLE TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS YOU CAN.
Source:
https://thecapitolist.com/keith-edwards-tapped-as-fried-campaigns-new-communication-director
]]>We went behind the scenes and we observed the most heinous of crimes and people that think that they're going to get away with things they are not going to get away with. We are not against I heart, never were, it is not us following Ben Green around the internet, it is the other way around. The way back machine does document our existence before many of your current Statewide services. Yet we still can't make a sale why? It's almost like the banks own the ability to dictate your future.
We can only say so many times that when we're not actively selling we are on a mission to fix something in the industry, to protect somebody, to be involved in a legal investigation Etc
We are not going to constantly repeat ourselves to criminals who are using ignorance of the law as an excuse, which they cannot do anymore.
Knowledge is Power. So here are the 10 biggest laws being broken in the marijuana industry with a couple of hints and nods to those that might be doing it, so you can protect yourself and your business in the future as well.
Antitrust refers to the regulation of the concentration of economic power, particularly in regard to monopolies and other anticompetitive practices. Antitrust laws exist as both federal statutes and state statutes. The three key federal statutes in Antitrust Law are;
Many states have adopted antitrust statutes that parallel the Sherman Antitrust Act to prevent anticompetitive behavior within individual states. For example, California’s Cartwright Act is very similar to the Sherman Act.
Violating antitrust laws carry both criminal and civil penalties though in practice civil penalties are more common. When they occur, criminal prosecutions are limited to intentional and clear violations. Criminal penalties can include up to 10 years in prison and fines of up to $100,000,000 for corporations and $1,000,000 for individuals. In practice, combined with civil penalties, actual fines for violating antitrust laws can be far higher and occasionally reach into the billions. [1&91;
Antitrust violations occur when an antitrust law is broken; laws protecting trade and commerce from abusive practices such as price-fixing, restraints, price discrimination, and monopolization.
One of the strongest arguments for some degree of trade protectionism is the tendency for unfair competition to emerge, particularly in developing markets without the infrastructure to monitor their businesses and enforce penalties. This is called the unfair competition argument.
This is the argument found most often in the medical marijuana industry as we watched our government destroy our pharmaceutical industry. This is why additional government interference in our self-medicating industry that's built upon the citizens that need it, most of them victims of the pharmaceutical industry, is one that is met with utmost hesitation if not fear. Those of us put between the two get torn in multiple directions for billionaires and pharmaceutical Industries to run amok on everyone's lives and then send them the bill for it. Fact is, the rich will get richer if there is no middle man and they won't follow a single law to do so even when you are expected to follow every single one. They don't trust you, you don't trust them. It's only a Fair competition when everybody has to follow the same group of laws.
This is the governance that is being argued over. Can we expect the government to defend us when our rights are taken from us in this industry if we don't allow them to regulate it in the first place?
In this instance Antitrust is related to the legislation of preventing or controlling trusts or other monopolies, with the intention of promoting competition in business.
The law of unfair competition is primarily comprised of torts that cause economic injury to a business through a deceptive or wrongful business practice. Unusually this effects a smaller business.
Unfair competition can be broken down into two broad categories:
Unfair competition does not refer to the economic harms involving monopolies and antitrust legislation. What constitutes an "unfair" act varies with the context of the business, the action being examined, and the facts of the individual case.
Two common examples of unfair competition are trademark infringement and misappropriation. The Right of Publicity is often invoked in misappropriation issues.
Other practices that fall into the area of unfair competition include:
- False Advertising
- "Bait and switch" selling tactics or advertising one thing but providing another
- Unauthorized substitution of one brand of goods for another
- Use of confidential information by former employee to solicit customers (Corporate Espionage)
- Theft of trade secrets and intellectual property
- Breach of a restrictive covenant (such as a host or banking institution)
- Trade libel ( or lies and slander against your trade)
- False representation of products or services.
The law of unfair competition is mainly governed by state common law. Federal law may apply in the areas of trademarks, copyrights, and false advertising. [See 1125 of the Lanham Act.&91;
Congress established The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in part to protect consumers from deceptive trade practices. The FTC indirectly protects competitors because some deceptive trade practices (e.g. "bait and switch tactics") that injure consumers also injure competing businesses. The FTC regulations concerning unfair competition are found in various parts of Title 16 of the Code of Federal Regulations. If there is a conflict between federal and state law, the federal law will often triumph because of the doctrine of preemption.
The several courts vested with jurisdiction of civil actions arising under this chapter shall have power to grant injunctions, according to the principles of equity and upon such terms as the court may deem reasonable, to prevent the violation of any right of the registrant of amark registered in the Patent and Trademark Office or to prevent a violation under subsection (a), (c), or (d) of section 1125 of this title. A plaintiff seeking any such injunction shall be entitled to a rebuttable presumption of irreparable harm upon a finding of a violation identified in this subsection in the case of a motion for a permanent injunction or upon a finding of likelihood of success on the merits for a violation identified in this subsection in the case of a motion for a preliminary injunction or temporary restraining order.
Code 1125 is very long and detailed in regards to marks, fame, and domain. To read the law in its entirety click here. For the purpose of this document we will be picking out specific parts of this law.
In the case of a civil action arising under section 1114(1)(a) of this title orsection 220506 of title 36 with respect to a violation that consists of using a counterfeit mark in connection with the sale, offering for sale, or distribution of goods or services, the court may, upon ex parte application, grant an order under subsection (a) of this section pursuant to this subsection providing for the seizure of goods and counterfeit marks involved in such violation and the means of making such marks, and records documenting the manufacture, sale, or receipt of things involved in such violation.
As used in this subsection the term “counterfeit mark” means—
(i)
a counterfeit of a mark that is registered on the principal register in the United States Patent and Trademark Office for such goods or services sold, offered for sale, or distributed and that is in use, whether or not the person against whom relief is sought knew such mark was so registered; or
(ii)
a spurious designation that is identical with, or substantially indistinguishable from, a designation as to which the remedies of this chapter are made available by reason of section 220506 of title 36;
but such term does not include any mark or designation used on or in connection with goods or services of which the manufacture [1&91; or producer was, at the time of the manufacture or production in question authorized to use the mark or designation for the type of goods or services so manufactured or produced, by the holder of the right to use such mark or designation.
1125 also states, A person who suffers damage by reason of a wrongful seizure under this subsection has a cause of action against the applicant for the order under which such seizure was made, and shall be entitled to recover such relief as may be appropriate, including damages for lost profits, cost of materials, loss of good will, and punitive damages in instances where the seizure was sought in bad faith, and, unless the court finds extenuating circumstances, to recover a reasonable attorney’s fee. The court in its discretion may award prejudgment interest on relief recovered under this paragraph, at an annual interest rate established under section 6621(a)(2) of title 26, commencing on the date of service of the claimant’s pleading setting forth the claim under this paragraph and ending on the date such recovery is granted, or for such shorter time as the court deems appropriate. [3&91;
Which in this case is about 7 years. So in case it doesn't ring a bell nature did come before an environment did and you shouldn't put your name on her, not without consent.
This one hits hard as it affects the influencers and employees in the limelight.
What Is Right of Publicity? The right of publicity is an intellectual property right that protects against the misappropriation of a person's name, likeness, or other indicia of personal identity—such as nickname, pseudonym, voice, signature, likeness, or photograph—for commercial benefit.
This is akin to the “TV Movie Rights” of yesteryear.
This protects your story, your likeness, your property, your voice, and your name… which some of us have spent our whole lives attempting to make for ourselves.
In the United States, no federal statute or case law recognizes the private or personal right of publicity, although federal unfair competition law recognizes a related statutory right to protection against false endorsement, association, or affiliation. A majority of states do, however, recognize the right of publicity by statute and/or case law. [4&91;
This is the legal stance we provide our business partners. We do not sell full shops with names included, so if you see that, it’s not us. Reporting fraud to us is very important. This assists us in removing bootleg copies and knock offs harming our partnered brands reputations and the safety of our possibly confused clientele. All brands we sell are personal to us, came to us, and authorized us to sell their property. This is why we have dummy brands and trademarking. In a world of influence, pharmaceuticals, and drug markets there’s always a monster attempting to gain a function of it in it’s entirety. Our job is to prevent that from happening, even if we need to include the government.
Right of publicity comes to play when concerning ourselves with silencing business competition and ID fraud as well. We’ve caught 6 women in the past year falsifying their connections to our CEO, some even claiming to be her as if to “dub” her story without consent. We make it very clear that we will protect what belongs to us, including the safety of our CEO.
The lives and liberties of Americans are protected by the Patriot Act.
Along with the right to life, the right to liberty is one of the most fundamental human rights. The right to liberty is the right of all persons to freedom of their person – freedom of movement and freedom from arbitrary detention by others. Historically, the protection of individual liberty was one of the crowning achievements of the common law. The writ of habeas corpus is an ancient common law remedy designed to allow a person who is detained to challenge the lawfulness of their detention. Habeas corpus does not secure the release of a person held pursuant to a valid law.
Detention on mental health grounds is authorized by law, and so is detention to prevent the transmission of infectious disease. If you recall the past few years of your life, you’ll notice how this was misused as a way to dominate the citizens. If your pharmaceutical companies want to monopolize the marijuana industry, what prevents doctors from lying to institutionalize their business competition?
We do… because we see it, they tried it, and failed to gain a function. This will come up again, keep that in mind. People often forget there’s reasons as to how people get into industries, involving hard work, loss, pain and suffering. Adding laundering, racketeering, and MEDICAL FRAUD doesn’t help.
As a medical advisor for her district, our Ceo, Kimber Mc, has had to report the most heinous of medical fraud and malpractice over the past few years to where she doesn’t trust medical personnel at all. She’s had to save lives destroyed by medical professionals and their greed. It’s her personal goal to continue the end of the Opiate crisis and if she's a threat to your medical facility owned dispensary, she’s doing something right.
Racketeering is the act of acquiring a business through illegal activity, operating a business with illegally-derived income, or using a business to commit illegal acts. The U.S. government introduced the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act in October 1970 to contain racketeering. (RICO)
Racketeering would include the misappropriation of funds and information to another source.
For example, if a doctor had a dispensary and a patient also owned a dispensary, and then the doctor tried to data mine and racketeer the money out of the patient to gain a function of her business, they might look at that as a racketeering Scandal, among other things.
Money taken specifically from one location to be given to another, misappropriated in the back ends, might also be considered racketeering.
“To the moon” isn't always a good thing.
Federal agents are currently looking into fintech development and its involvement in racketeering scandals as it seems certain people are trying to monopolize others illegally by using blacklisting, match making, and stolen property.
They’re currently looking into stripe, square, and the few controlling the backrooms by only allowing certain people to make payments, essentially illegally cuffing the legal original business with hosts and others in the industry. Mile High Payments is currently holding us financially hostage with a copy and paste of our website, but due to it being owned by block inc and square by Lane Dorsey, they silenced our company on twitter costing us hundreds of thousands. However, her streamers and even the Campbells that work for her are begging us for access to our supply chain. So they are silencing people under protected speech, while stealing their property and harassing the actual companies.
This is a free speech concern. No one should be silenced, because it could just be rich and selfish social media owners attempting to harm and steal small businesses and prevent them from reporting about it. You cannot purchase the rights of citizens, and their freedom isn't dependent on your rich people temper tantrums. You cannot be the hero of a story in which you are already the problem. Blackrock isn't helping here.
In law, misappropriation may be defined as "[t&91;he unauthorized, improper, or unlawful use of funds or other property for purposes other than that for which intended."
Taking property from the developer, manufacturing and brain of the organization to replace the actual CEO with a fraud so you may steal the funds, is Misappropriation of funds. We are concerned here for both EPIC, our host, and a COO who may be laundering funds from us as well. Luckily, our CEO knows them all personally now and has no fears in turning them all in, one by one. You cannot steal someone’s property who pays for your hosting service, just because your daughter sells weed or you’d prefer the company in your name.
That’s a felony.
Corporate espionage is stealing proprietary information, trade secrets, or intellectual property from a business and giving or selling it to another. The primary intent behind corporate espionage is to use the acquired information to gain a competitive advantage.
We currently see this with frauds such as Vincent and Keith Edwards, Brenda Hawkins (who works at Brandt/ Taylor Made, a story for another day) and Paula and JJ McCracken laundering information and money through the use of twitch and Youtube donations on our personal property. We’re working closely with law enforcement and Google to handle this. We ask that you distance yourself from them to avoid investigating and charges they are absolutely going to acquire. We are aware of the fraud attempted by Stone and Hyphonix and are handling it internally. For more information on this case, visit our article on Spilling the Tea HERE.
We’ve watched Matching, Blacklisting, and popping up of new processors all last year to where we have a list of 67 onboarders who denied us banking… while providing it to someone holding stolen property or a clone site. It's to the point where we can connect them to Medical professionals, clone websites, the rich attempting to monopolize, the tobacco corporations keeping you down, even to dispensaries. Yes dispensaries selling THC were able to make a profit and succeed on their products and ours prior to those without THC? How does that make any sense? Because the sellers of THC were misappropriating and racketeering the whole time through their dispensaries and subsequent medical facilities.
A detailed report will be released upon finalizing and closing government investigation.
Predators that attempted choke out small businesses illegally just to pick up the bones left behind, don't deserve this industry. This industry was based on paying suffering and necessity and you're not going to take it from us because you didn't build it in the first place.
However when you have a fintech developer working at a dispensary with ill intent, this is what happens. When you attempt to eclipse the words and honest investigation of those actually working for the industry for someone else like Sam Bankman Fried this is why we end up with major scams causing the government's need to control your industry.
Many times somebody's such as Chris wheeler from the Pitney Wheeler Bowes Corporation will Place himself in a position of power for absolutely no reason, sign an agreement with Mr Beast, and all the sudden the Thundercats are chasing you around the internet acting like you don't own anything. We assume this to be the case with Ludwig and QT Cinderella and they're pushing of Aeropay the states THC Payment Processing system that came well after we already existed.
The benefit of working with not only to the medical industry but the government and the influencer basis put us in a special spot in this industry that we are blessed to have. We are a family and we won't just disappear lying down because somebody from NASA wants to believe in a dental assistant today or because Elon Musk is the owner of PayPal and we're concerned about how he might follow Dorsey’s criminal fraud.
The CEO of our hosting company, Bellm doesn't seem to care at all. We had reported security breach from Shogun and XCOM years prior to it actually being able to process payments. We were ignored even though his contract of employment states that he has 10 days to clear up a security breach or he loses his employment. The reason we put two and two together is because Eugene Bellm is a big name in the medical blob Society. This means we are aware that the host that we pay money to to host our multimillion dollar Business website is not only connected to the new owner of Twitter, but he is part owner of PayPal, for whom Bellm develops.
So while we feel that Elon really does have a goal to fix the Fault in Our Stars and change the way that we treat our children and our future, that triangulation is very powerful and we do see it. We will not be turned into dust in monopolized by rich men that don't even know what they're doing because they don't even fact check GPS base coordinated systems and the education of the people writing the documentation of NASA. So while I will not say outright that Elon will copy Dorsey with square and block and attempt to steal and misappropriate businesses, silence the business owner so it can't be spoken about, and then steal their property and prevent them from banking, but we did just get banned from Twitter for no reason so… we're simply saying we know it's possible and we're keeping a very dedicated eye on it.
The position we're in is being attacked from every angle at all times because people keep trying to take this business from us. And they're failing thanks to the internet watchdogs and our influencer friends seeing the actual pain and suffering being caused to our CEO and our employees and not being silent about it. We've had people from musicians, to Adult Swim cartoonist, to famous actors and authors all come and ask us why what is happening is happening. This is the best answer we can give you. Keep one hand on your origin, and don't shit on your fan base. Use your voice as a power for those who don't have the power of using their voice anymore or never did. Those are the influencers that I work with, and if you want to be one you are more than welcome as long as your goal in this industry is to leave the world a better place than we came into it. Not to destroy somebody else's build and build back better when we can't build it all, but to fix the wrongs, protect the innocence, and save our souls. Influence the masses to become better people.
That is the power, we just haven't shown it off yet.
This is the biggest and most unfortunate problem in our industry as of late. Due to the current state of our laws in regards to freedom and liberty, the one way to be able to take away somebody's freedom in Liberty is to dictate that they are mentally unfit to decide what their freedom in Liberty is and the only people with the ability to do that are doctors and we know exactly which ones are trying.
We know Epic Apple and Google are all fighting for control over this industry and we know they're all fighting for doing what's right but some of them aren't doing anything right at all and they need to realize that if they're going to be in our back end they can't be committing so much fraud that we're ashamed of them and have to leave.
Ever since the creation of happy corp and BetterHelp we've been suspect about this type of of intervention so we've watched it closely as the medical advisors to our district and we've noticed a lot of things. Like happy a corp, selling telecommunication making it normal to have to visit your doctor on the phone or online. This is convenient don't get me wrong, but it's also easily manipulated.
I had a discussion with a friend of Tim Pool once, a doctor, John McMillan. He's a psychologist. I've never met this man physically, he was a doctor recommended to me by a doctor who I probably shouldn't listen to the recommendations of and the way that he treated me and other victims of his service that have come forward is despicable, disgusting, and needs to be punished.
Mind you my mental health was under control prior to meeting this man and I did not have any problems that I couldn't overcome myself. In fact I'm simply being treated for ADHD because there's so much going on it is so hard to focus. Adhd. The inability to concentrate and focus. That is not a reason to take away somebody's ability to make decisions and freedom but McMillan sure did try, didn't he? I noticed that it said epic at the top of his telecommunication application and due to being in business with all of these developers I was curious as to why it said EPIC at the top. So I simply asked why does it say EPIC on our telecommunication app?
McMillan panicked refusing to answer the question. He dictated that he was going to take away all of my medications I've been on since I was 15. My ADHD medication, medication for mood swings, medication that regulates my nervous system from seizures, antidepressants, all of it even though there is no problem at the moment other than him not wanting to answer why epic is at the top of my medical chart?
“Why would you take away all my medication?” I asked him.
“You're manic and you need to go to the hospital!” he screamed. “ I'm not giving you your medication if you crash if there's a problem you go to the ER.”
So, because I asked why epic was at the top of a telecommunication service, an alleged psychologist with the patient's safety in mind then decided that was a manic question so he was going to take away the manic patient's medication… all of it. Due to the side effects of these medications sometimes causing mental Clarity problems I'm assuming he assumed that the patient would be locked up and no longer a problem because that's the only way they could remove her free ability and rights as an American citizen to own a business.
That's a crazy statement isn't it? Why would a doctor care about my company?
I don't know why would WISE cannabis dispensary be owned by a doctor’s family in the first place? [5&91; Why would 3C be connected? [6&91; Why is the financial advisor of the hosting company I pay way to much money to sleeping with an EPIC employee I used to go to high school with and laundering my money to his daughter at Hatch dispensary? Why is that happening?
Covid was a test. Covid was a test to see how much control the doctors could have over Society. Doctors were a test to see how far you would let them take your rights away from you. We wouldn't let them do that we fought back because we know the truth and we will not stop.
Since the beginning of this investigation we have had nine divorces, four doctors sanctioned and having their license removed, the prevention of Licensing of two doctors with ill intent, and the closure of an entire medical facility.
Currently, we even have business partners that think that they can steal our property because they're listed with us but that is not the case.
Any business partner that is caught attempting to monopolize or dominate or Over Control any other business partner in our industry will be swiftly removed and documented. Stay tuned as we will be releasing those documents of every bank crime, every Rich guy's attempt to monopolize, every doctor's attempt to remove freedoms and liberties from patients so their kids can deal weed, any Fortuna ESPN sports deal that wants to launder through pool, any onboarding banking system selling stolen property but not allowing the actual manufacturers to profit and any social media developer abusing their power to prevent the success of others.
The truth will set us free.
We're arming you with knowledge and Power.
Act Natural.
Sources:
[1&91;https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/antitrust
[2&91;https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/unfair_competition
[3&91;https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/1116
[4&91;https://www.inta.org/topics/right-of-publicity/
[5&91;https://www.linkedin.com/in/parks-mcmillan-191008b6
[6&91;https://wiseguysfarms.com/
]]>First, I noticed in there about section in this April Morris. Now I'm fully aware of the Morris family and their tobacco corporation and I'm very aware of the games they like to play with other people's property online, which was the first red flag. Knowing the Morris family has stalked me for years even to where they harassed me while during a domestic violence situation and throw themselves into my medical health treatment to control me like my ex-boyfriend, and abuser, that they won't let me get away from. Kyndel Morris harassed multiple psychiatrists, multiple health professionals, and even threatened people out of testifying for my custody case against that abuser, so I'm very familiar with this family and their intrusion on people's happy lives. Their power comes from the ability to illegally dig into anybody's medical records and use trauma and torture against them. When they publicized my rape and illegal false imprisonment they decided to have me repeat this trauma so they could benefit off of the agony and I refuse to do so.
Gaslighting tactics of this family are very easy to detect, especially when you have PTSD from this very situation, it sends you to a very dark place so it's easy to pick up on if you've had enough therapy when they drove you to Insanity, cost your child a happy life, put him in the arms of an abuser, using medical marijuana cards as it was all they had against you. That's why I started this business, I didn't want parents to suffer and victims to be punished for something that they're not even doing wrong. For this reason, it would be obvious for me to question the audacity of the Morris family Keeping people down and preventing them from being able to afford Justice for themselves and their children. I think it needs to be discussed considering the medical abuse and malpractice being used to torture innocent business competition that they can't keep up with.
After that little trauma dump was when I noticed and started looking into Dr Gregory Smith MD.It was brought to my attention that Dr Gregory Smith MD is a local doctor. At this time having my current doctor simply disappear off the face of the earth made his profession a little more interesting to me. I had experienced medical manipulation with the Morris family before and the feeling of being trapped, abused and manipulated, unable to trust your own medical providers, is a feeling you don't forget. The red flags and all the signs were there and even influencers that I worked with came forward to tell me something was wrong and even mentioned other doctors in my medical history to prove that my records had in fact been leaked. Now where this would have come from is obvious but I wanted to make sure I was 110% correct before I made any published accusations.
Luckily, I'm in a much better place now than I was the first time when the Morris family made me their victim. I was an utter wreck when they found me discussing domestic abuse, child custody cases, psychology, even imaginary friends, And a cry of an innocent child growing up without their mother because the Morris family doesn't know when they've gone to far but that didn't matter to this family. What mattered was control and power even if that meant fear and terrorizing the innocent.
Being the heirs to a major tobacco Corporation known as Philip Morris and with connections to Amazon and other influential development on the internet, access to Industries like music, movies, vaping, streaming, having siblings in law and psychiatry it's not that hard for them to literally get away with murder. Unless the time the victim was away they spent working for pharmaceutical boards, becoming a medical health advisor to judges, and being able to learn how to sanction a doctor's license, while maintaining and sanitizing the multi-million dollar company they thought they were going to just take without repercussion.
It was obvious to me that this family would do anything in their power to hold control over people and they were doing everything in their power to get control over me. I’ve been sent poison, calling my doctors attempting to force them to quit, releasing private therapy information to people they shouldn't release it to, manipulating me and gaslighting me with my own medical professionals and it's come to the point where I've had enough. This cannot go on in a fair and just society and system and I'm not going to be a part of it. It wasn't until I caught Aeropay and Daniel Mueller going behind my back to cut off my funds directly to provide FDIC banking to Hatch dispensary that I really started to dig as they then tried to sell me the same platform payments system after shutting mine down, via influencer Ludwig.
Finding SEO intended to take my clients, finding multiple cloned websites with my personal branding on them (See CBDTEAS) and all of them connected to streaming. In fact all of these doctors have influencers kids and loosely are connected to SilkRoad, an illegal dark-web market selling platform. I've heard rumors that one of the doctors they tried to pair me up with was selling heroin on it, the other one Adderall. These doctors had become prone to manipulating your medications forcing you into chemical imbalances to mess with your ability to succeed in the industry then claiming you a write off and manic.
It started with John McMillan, friends with Pool and TheRalphRetort (who recently married Mei Morris) who likes to sell his t-shirts and claim people are Manic and then take away all their medications - like that's medically accurate. Sheikh reacted the same way with the same gaslighting technique. He told me no one would be my doctor because he’s being investigated by DEA? So why not properly do your job? It had gotten to the point where I needed to bring a witness to my therapy sessions, because if I didn't, the doctor would decide not to be my doctor and abandon me, scream at me like I'm a goddamn criminal or an addict, attempt to make it look like I'm doctor shopping, preventing me from thinking and stealing all of my work so their little CBD brand can catch up and the crazy little patient with ADHD can stay at home and suffer. It has come to a point where I was working for no pay so my doctor's children on ScreenRant (See Terravoid- coming soon) can earn an income on whatever they learn from my medical record that week being harassed by no name individuals online even DDOSing my email. It became hard to function and focus on the task at hand when I'm unable to make an income and my doctors are treating me like a goddamn drug addict. I was being surrounded by government officials, medical professionals and celebrities all willing to point the finger but none willing to lift one.
To maintain some type of control, prove my work, and protect my clients, I shut down the shop temporarily. Meaning I didn't go look for other payment processors considering there were servers upon servers of people whose voices I recognize trying to scam me and get my personal information to sell me alleged banking. There were people trying to steal information and even in my back end and my host people were taking credit for my work. To protect my clients and my business partners I had to get to the bottom of this. I began documenting and noticing tons of fraud and even worked with the government to stop some of it, as I promised I would.
It was then I happened upon an investigation from the office of the Inspector General all about Mr Gregory Smith MD. This investigation detailed Mr Gregory Smith's government position within the oil and royalty gas reserves collection for the government aka RIK. Directions to the Poseidon pipe line, golf terra, and More. The investigation had been started because Mr Smith had been accused of foul play within business from poaching clients to using his government position to further his personal financial gain with the company Geomatrix ran by Tony Daus. It further went on to explain how Mr Gregory Smith had been accused of misappropriating funds, committing fraud, even forcing women Business professionals into sexual acts and telling them not to tell the investigator General about said Acts. It had detailed a pattern of Mr Gregory Smith's Behavior from manipulation, using a position to confuse and cause people into doing things for another cause, business tortes and even drug use and sexual assault, detailing an instance where he would often ask employees to find him cocaine and then force them into sexual acts they don't want to perform. I figured this investigation laid out a very firm platform for an investigation into somebody and thoroughly laid out a pattern of behavior to explain that this is a government employee (at the time) that used his position to get drugs, sex, information and money out of those who he employed. A good old fashioned power abuser. (See full report here.)
So I don't feel after explaining this that I need to explain that it would be dangerous to give personal information and credit card information to this man who is posing as somebody that is connected to my company with the use of his fraudulent website called Health Naturally. If you have fallen for this scam we suggest you report it to your local authorities or to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. If you feel you're too afraid to report crime you can always report it to us and we'll see what we can do however we cannot offer refunds based on a company attempting to scam us as well. We can simply warn you to stay away and to tell your friends about how difficult it is to keep this industry clean and safe when there's so many people running around abusing power within it.
Always remember, nature and what she provides our planet has always come before the medical professionals who come in attempt to gain a function of her creations and turn them into devastating and catastrophic events. Those protected by natural immunity weren't even touched by this situation and granted, it's difficult, I hope that those on our side in the industry and correlating industries in the area can see the truth and continue to fight to protect not only this industry and save not only the future of medical marijuana, but our rights to private property and this country and what we're allowing to happen to those who live within it and continue to make the world go round.
Natural Healthy CBD has not and will never partner with out telling you and keeping everyone informed. We have no connection to Health Naturally other than being the sponsor who carried musicians, government officials, and influencers and prevented them from being mined for data while the greedy attempt to cut out the sponsor AND THEIR MAIN SOURCE, affecting everyone. This move of selfishness is met with people who don’t even want to actually do the work, or know what it entails. I worked my ass off for my position, like I’m sure he worked his ass off to be called MD, so we assure you… if his attempt to take our spot moves any further we will be calling in the American Medical Association and the DEA to take away his license by sanctioning him out of medical with a medical malpractice case he won’t win, deliberately making others sick for his own benefit.
More investigations coming soon involving deeper dives and more information to the public.
]]>One benefit Natural Healthy provides our brand Partners is consistent monitoring of the market to shut down scams on their brands, and that their customers may fall victim to. We do this not only to prevent our clients from falling into harm but also to prevent major crime as we take the “war on drugs” and make it into a thriving asset to human health. Sadly we must do this to protect our new laws and industry or we’ll lose the ability to regulate it without government interference. However, unable to see the bigger picture through their greed, we still have people attempting to destroy all of our hard work. This brings us to the topic of today, CBDteas.
Let's begin with their website which is entirely cloned word for word from our website. They never even made an attempt to remove our link from some of their web pages.
While sure, many websites may sell multiple brands, our company is different in the fact that we lab test our brand samples and provide that information to the public. Most tests are around $125 to $200 per product and they simply decided to take this information as well, without paying for a single lab themselves. It's gotten to the point where we are being called by clients who are not receiving products they purchased but unfortunately they didn’t purchase through us and there's nothing we can do about refunds in regards to a scam website. All we can do is inform you about this happening and hope that nobody falls prey to this scam in the future and warn our business partners about this because if they are doing it to us, they are doing it to you too.
So we went ahead and did a full investigation into CBDTeas, so you don’t have to in an effort to prevent more people from being scammed, lied to, and sold stolen property.
We have always had a large celebrity following, either their brands or the studies we do, it’s almost like we’re part of the Hollywood crowd, even though based in Chicago. It is not the first nor last time somebody will want to hack into our company to take this information. This is a large movement, with people coming from the government and from the streets to rip us apart. We feel very privileged in having the trust of our celebrity partnerships and we try and keep as safe as we can in respecting their privacy and so far nobody has yet to get through. From Candid type companies to back door bad doers, simply stating facts that luckily we've done our job well enough to prevent that full security breach from happening. It’s cost us a lot and we know that it’s not all on account of CBDteas, but we feel this is a good place to start.
First came rumors that, between espionage and people trying to poach our employees and even an attempt to involve themselves in our medical care, that frauds have attempted to sell clones or copies of our website to banks for loans for businesses that then expect us to pay them back. It is not our responsibility to pay back a bank that has fallen for a fraud without doing their due diligence to investigate said companies. We have had up to 59 payment on borders and gateways specifically selling our property allegedly, while denying us a service which is a different story in itself entirely that we will probably publish at a later date.
I data wrangle for a living, it’s our job to keep cultivators, growers, dispensaries, CBD developers, and the influencers behind it updated on new and dangerous alerts and where we need improvement before the government gets involved. So if it’s out there, we’ll find it.
Onto CBDTeas…
First and foremost, there’s no real accountability.
When contacting CBDTeas social media accounts, we were met with Budda Teas informing us that the CBDteas website has stolen their logos and designs and they were currently involved in legal proceedings. Great.
Social media is tricky though, with multiple accounts and multiple clones out there, I wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt and decided to keep looking into it myself. Social media couldn't come up with the name of anybody to be held accountable and when I reach out to their personal emails and contact preferences they remain unresponsive.
This is where CBDteas that splits in two. As social media would have it, cbdtea.net llc allegedly belongs to some guy named Cameron who works at a different company entirely and hasn't added anything to his resume in the past 10 years. We assume it's this domain in legal proceedings with Buddha Tea's due to their very similar look appeal and logo.
No, our battle was with cbdteas on shopify, an e-commerce platform that at one time we were looking into as a solution for our current webhost. Once again this website was literally cloned word for word, product for product, brand for brand, and then they attempted to use forms of espionage and poaching our employees to control not only the market but us as humans and a business. I simply won't stand for that. So we stopped supply.
First, I went to the source - or should I say, the clone of the source. Even though, on their very own homepage my products are displayed for all to view without my permission, they very kindly left their address at the bottom of every single page of CBDteas website. How convenient for me.
So upon looking at this address I was able to determine one that it was a home in a small location recently sold by Trimax Bread Breakers. I find this to be interesting because a lot of the influencers that got wrapped up in this to begin with ended up leaving live streaming to become Realtors, not necessarily for this company but it's something I noted. A Google search revealed that this home was the residence of Vincent Edwards, a Keith Edwards, a Brenda Hawkins, and a Paula McCracken.
If I began to explain the connections every single one of these people had with a streamer or a dispensary in my life it would seem crazy so I'm going to keep it straight to the facts. I'm not going to mention anyone who may or may not be using a certain streaming platform to launder money in somebody else's name illegally because I'm hoping this article alone will shed enough light to the situation to where something will change or at least it will be known that I am aware of a lot more than I am willing to document on paper currently. However while researching CBDTeas LLC, It has come to our attention that Vincent Edwards no longer has a valid business license.
My concern is the constant loss of income and pain and suffering being brought on to not only myself but my business partners and my clients falling into this trap. However, I did notice that after they tried to repetitively shut us down and take the clone, no new brands have been going through lab testing and it has been brought to my attention a lot of people have been getting sick off of CBD products showing symptoms from unsanitary infection to losing their hair.
While an attempt to scam or cut out the CEO or a middleman from their own property, this disruption and subsequent infection has proven exactly why we're needed in the first place. Since then, we've been reaching out to the labs and others to provide laboratory services to better our mission.
Although we have to keep our legal proceedings behind closed doors what I am at Liberty to say is that at the very minimum this is disparagement and intellectual property fraud/theft not only against us but against at least 150 other business partners. In this sensitive industry, many of our products are gridlocked or have legal barriers we must abide by and as a manufacturer of many naturally sourced brands, we need to be aware of where our products go. Not just for safety, but supply, demand, and shelf life of each plant-based product. Trust us when we say, we know which brands our company manufacturers for and if it’s listed without permission, it can cause confusion, regardless of true motives. Simply misappropriating the identity of this business can be dangerous, but regardless we have laws to follow in business and we must all follow them.
You simply can’t shut down the manufacturer of a product and them claim to sell said product. Therefore, we know that any website developed after ours, with our words and brands, but without permission, is a nefarious attempt to steal at the minimum.
So please if you are being recommended to purchase from this company or to purchase the company as an investor, we ask that you seek out the proper owner of the business you wish to support, be it ours or another brand housed here.
We promise our business partners that we are constantly growing as a unit to better service not only our customers but the brands that we feature to prevent them from being used in ways they would not appreciate by people who do not have their permission. We will continue to investigate and report all the facts from the front lines of the CBD industry and protect our journey as a unit into natural health that's fair and safe for all involved.
To report a tip or submit your brand, lab, shop, or location for lab tests and approval feel free to contact us directly at support@naturalhealthycbd.com.
Stay Balanced. Act Natural.
Kimber Mc is the sole founder and CEO behind Natural Healthy CBD, TheExtraSpoon LLC, Hemperpedic and numerous other manufactured celebrity and off-label brands.
]]>The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) has teamed with Professor Michael Geist from the University of Ottawa, an expert in broadcasting and online regulations, to produce “Bill C-11: A Fatally Flawed Gateway to Government Censorship.”
The use of the word Gateway is important because Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his ministers will tell you the bill has nothing to do with censoring the Internet. Rather, the express purpose is to modernize broadcasting regulations in Canada to bring them up to speed with online streaming and social media. However, the legislation is also a gateway to online censorship.
It does this by giving the Canadian radio-television and Telecommunications commission has the power to regulate what they called “user-generated content.” This means that what Canadians post to places like YouTube and Tik-Tok would fall under government control.
As The Insider report explains, “No other Democratic Nation regulates user-generated content for broadcasting rules in this manner. Canada would be unique among allies in doing so, and not in a good way.”
The government swears that they're not planning on using these powers to censor Canadian voices, but then why do we need the bill? Allegedly, the goal of the bill is to more broadly promote and amplify Canadian content and culture. We do not see that happening if this bill is only able to be put into action in Canada. This would actually significantly lower the chance of the Canadian content creator being viewed at all.
“What happens if the government starts to view content that's inconvenient for the government and as a Canadian?” Asks Geist in his report.
For this reason Canadian and American influencers and their management and multiple platforms correspondents have been standing up, sharing their opinions and lobbying to get to the bottom of this bill. it's a good question and a key reason why the user-generated content Provisions must be removed. The problem is the government is hostile to improving on its bill and isn’t really up for suggestions.
They rammed the bill through committee without leaving time for amendments early last week. It's now expected to be passed in the House of Commons with NDP leader Jagmeet Singh’s blessing. It will then proceed to the Senate where it will hopefully be toned down or rejected completely.
“Why the rush?" Asks Geist in his report notes. “Why not take the time to hear from both advocates and critics? The government's process with this bill is almost as concerning as its content.”
And he's right.
In a meeting earlier today between Lobbyists, Free Speech activists, platform representatives, influencer management teams, FCC and FTC agents discussed the bill at length over concerns that the legislation would spill into US territory causing severe problems for our already fragile DMCA and copyright systems.
So what is the C-11 Bill? The bill is also known as the Copyright Modernization Act. it's described as an act to amend the Copyright Act and was introduced in the House of Commons Canada on September 29th, 2011 by the industry Minister Christian Paradis. it was virtually identical to the government's previous attempt to amend Copyright Act, Bill C–32.
Bill C-11 ammends the broadcasting Act (the Act). The Act sets out the broadcasting policy for Canada, the role and powers of the Canadian radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (the commission) in regulating and supervising the broadcasting system, and the Mandate for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. This bill and act seeks to amend the broadcasting act to account for the increase prominence of internet video and digital media, and to prioritize the “needs an interests” of Canadians, and the inclusion and involvement of Canadians of diverse background in broadcasting programming.
However, what this really means is they wish to expand the broadcasting act that grants the CRTC regulatory powers over radio and television to cover all audiovisual content on the internet, including content on platforms like Tik-Tok, YouTube, Spotify, and podcast clients. The Liberal government’s online-streaming Bill, which has been the subject of fierce debate among members of parliament, is now headed to the Senate. The CRTC wants to ensure “each element of the Canadian Broadcasting System shall contribute in an appropriate manner to the creation and presentation of Canadian programming."
Now this raises red flags for many of us that work with influencers in America due to our valuing our free speech above most of our rights as humans and the opinion that taking away our ability to speak freely is kind of like taking away our rights and we fear Canada's overreach might become a problem. It's come to our attention that even the minister of Canadian Heritage Pablo Rodriguez has caused some problems for Americans in similar positions as he as well as Jeanette P Taylor being in the back end of many major American website hosting services and businesses, We Fear this may be a grab at total power or at least to change and manipulate the narrative. The two aforementioned having outrageous online behavior alone when they think nobody is looking has caused us to lose a significant amount of trust in their ability to make decisions when it comes to the safety of their citizens. Due to Canada's proximity and business relation with the United States we're already seeing some concern where this might be used to silence others and rival businesses or who have opposing opinions, all to benefit mostly Canada's rulers and not necessarily their citizens.
We see things happening in places like China where citizens are silenced and unable to have an opinion and we fear that for ourselves, which is why free speech is so important in America. However China has invested $82 billion dollars into Canada since 2001, more than $51 billion dollars of which was funneled into oil and gas, according to data from the China Institute.(national post) We personally have had significant problems when it comes to the leaders in Canada attempting to take credit for or money from American businesses and claim them as their own. This is incredibly dangerous when it comes to the marijuana Market where its specifically subsidized into Medical Districts for medical patients with medical cards. Should we stop talking about those districts and those patients and just walk our weed across the border to Canada, all of the medical patients would go without their medicine that they literally had to struggle with their own government to get in the first place.
For example, we see this with MaRS solution lab Advisory Board, where Graham Flack also serves as a deputy minister of Canadian Heritage to the federal government of Canada, also is the co-chair of the Deputy Minister committee on policy innovation. He has a long career in government from 2013 he was deputy secretary to the cabinet at the privy Council office, before he was associate Deputy Minister, then acting Deputy minister of Public Safety Canada, associate assistant Deputy minister of energy policy and assistant Deputy minister of international trade and finance. Following 9/11 he became director of operations responsible for developing and implementing the Canadian-US SMART borders declaration and action plan and for helping Canada's first national security policy, Securing an Open Society. Graham is now Deputy minister Champion for the federal youth Network and the Dalhousie University.
You also have Gina Wilson Deputy Minister, diversity and inclusion and youth and Senior Advocate Deputy Minister, Canadian Heritage minister and the deputy Minister Champion for indigenous federal employees.
Some of these titles just don't seem to add up even though all the names do. And we had to deal with these names when trying to work on a fair method to legalize marijuana all across our country as well. However it's come to our attention that the way that Canada regulates is simply by shutting down anything that is not Canadian, preventing them from earning an income with Fintech, and then giving all of their credit for their work to their French territories. like when providing the award for CBDC payments to their French founders, Going so far as to work with American judge and jewelry store owner Ellie Torres and the Vader system to blatantly rip off American companies, silence them, prevent them from earning income with fintech AKA payment processing systems that are needed for a business to survive, and then claiming them as their own.
Now imagine if Canada obtains the right to silence all of our manufacturers and our business owners, prevent them from earning an income, and claiming their work as their own and then silencing them according to their new law.
This is already being seen happening all across the country and we fear giving them more power to do so in their own country will simply lead to them spilling out onto American rights and brutally taking away the rights our countries veterans have died to protect.
Among very obvious copyright claim and dmca system problems, this will cause a significant delay and any type of revolution in regards to this industry and it's putting all of our influencers involved in this as a whole at risk for not only losing their ability to speak the truth and speak publicly but to be seen or paid or heard from at all.
Canadian creators are at risk of having their content and visibility diminished by the passing of the online streaming act, says YouTuber J. J. McCullough, who recently opposed Bill C-11 in Parliament. After speaking at a parliamentary hearing earlier this month to oppose the Online Streaming Act and its introduction into Canadian law he shares his thoughts on the experience and potential impact of the bill:
“The hearing was revealing. I've never been a part of a parliamentary committee before, so I put a lot of effort into trying to come up with a powerful opening statement and people responded quite favorably to it. I took the process seriously. I had worked in television for a few years and as a TV political pundit and so I had gotten comfortable being on camera. I worked for Sun News in its final years and when it shut down in 2015, I was abruptly out of a job. That is when I started my YouTube channel and I've been doing it for over six years now – only professional for the last month or two, in terms of it being my primary source of income.”
Income - a topic legislation seems to not understand in regards to online content creation and those that orbit around it.
McCullough continues, ”It can be exhausting. You write the script, film the videos, edit them and add all of the sound effects and graphics and all of those things. But I like creative projects. It's very rewarding to see the reactions that my content gets, especially from young people. As I get older, I feel like there's a paternalistic side of me that's coming out more and so I like to know I'm helping and that's very rewarding and very validating to me because that's what I got into this business to do. I'm grateful to have the chance to do this full time, but my career now seems at risk with Bill C-11; it's crushing that so hard and the passion might disappear because of it.”
Which is true.
While all creators love their jobs and got involved as a hobby, money plays a factor. Most creators entire day revolves around that content, there’s no time to do anything else. To get well made content, takes time… time someone with a full time job because they can’t earn and income from their art, doesn’t have. They aren’t being greedy, it’s being realistic. If everything in life was free, youtubers wouldn’t care about their incomes… but life isn’t free and they still have to support their families.
“The way that YouTube works at present is that the content audiences discover is determined by a controlled algorithm that recommends videos based on what Youtube perceives the user to be interested in. For example, if my YouTube habits suggests that I'm interested in cooking videos, then YouTube will naturally recommend a lot of cooking videos.” McCullough adds. “We know from the text of the bill that the CRTC is going to be given a mandate to promote the discoverability of Canadian content, specifically, and that website under the CRTC jurisdiction, such as YouTube, will be obligated to comply with this discoverability mandate. What this means is that CRTC is going to have to come up with some sort of criteria for what is good Canadian content and then YouTube is going to have to live up to its legal obligations to promote and recommend that content.”
Have you ever tried to make Youtube do anything? Have you?
The site is mostly ran by in influencer ranking system, highest to the top runs to the top, along with influencer management that reaches out to platform staff and sponsors to discuss problems arising from situations like this on a daily basis. Part of the problem is simply put, these large platforms assuming that all of us are dumb and have no idea what they do or what is going on behind the doors in the backrooms. They assume we cannot communicate with each other and we don't know anything at all that's going on, which is very unfortunately incredibly untrue. As it stands creators and partner managers have been attempting to fix things like the DMCA report system, copyright Claims System, abuse of said systems, and communication for years.
Between that, payment processing, and greed of said payment processors along with demonetizing channels that you then take upon yourself to advertise on - simply so you don't pay those creators there's a lot going on at YouTube right now. If this deal goes through it will not be implemented instantly and probably not correctly for years which will cause a lot of chaos for those of us that work in that in that Influencer Market. Not to mention you already have ill-will between creators and this will just add more fuel to that fire. YouTube is an international platform that would have to change its coding specifically for Canada to make an algorithm to pick out Canada Safe programming and I have no idea how they would do so and I don't think Canada knows either.
“The thing that really struck me from the parliamentary hearings - and this is just a personal insight - was that when witnesses are testifying, you would think that they are the center of attention. But when you're there in-person, almost none of the politicians seem to be listening at all. Everybody is just on their phone. It was incredibly upsetting and disrespectful.
It felt like whistling in the Wind.”
Watch J.J. McCullough's video on the topic in it's entirety:
As it stands, both influencers and American businesses are seeing through this wondering if Canada’s huge reliance on communist China coming into play. Americans are unanimously against this bill, but don’t have a say or even know how it will effect them yet. Maybe Canada should have taken it more seriously when Trudeau said he, “admired China’s dictatorship.” (source: MaineWire)
Time will tell if the bill goes through, yet another way to silence voices that don’t say EXACTLY what their government allows them to say. Another push for controlling the worlds narrative.
We stand with our influencers and creators against Bill C-11 and we hope anyone of our partners who truely values freedom for all, will vote the same in Canada.
References
Geist, Michael - “The Unrecognizable Bill C-11: The Online Streaming Act Comes to the Heritage Committee” - MichaelGeist.ca - https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2022/05/the-unrecognizable-bill-c-11-the-online-streaming-act-comes-to-the-heritage-committee/
Miltmore, John - “Justin Trudeau said he admired China’s dictatorship. Canadians should have believed him” - MaineWire - https://www.themainewire.com/2022/02/justin-trudeau-said-he-admired-chinas-dictatorship-canadians-should-have-believed-him/
Seles, Nicholas - “Why Bill C-11—the Online Streaming Act—is bad news for Canadian YouTubers like myself” - Macleans - https://www.macleans.ca/politics/why-youtubers-like-me-oppose-bill-c-11
]]>We at Natural Healthy CBD connect to a lot of people throughout the industry to ensure the right information and safest products get to the public. Oftentimes we are asked what we’re looking for in our third party labs that others don’t find? What have we found that makes a product inadmissible to our approved catalog? Have we discovered anything deadly?
Due to legalities and to remain a neutral party, we can’t release any names of the brands involved. However, we can assure that all tainted samples have been safely destroyed at the labs once they are tested positive.
Whether by accident or maliciously, without testing an industry as oddly regulated and often changing such as the cannabis industry leaves tons of loopholes and blindspots that even teams like ours can’t always catch.
In no particular order, here’s Natural Healthy's ten of the top most dangerous contaminants we’ve prevented being released to the public.
Dermatophytes are fungi that require keratin for growth. These fungi can cause superficial infections of the skin, hair, and nails. Dermatophytes are spread by direct contact from other people (anthropophilic organisms), animals (zoophilic organisms), and soil (geophilic organisms), as well as indirectly from fomites.
Dermatophytes are a common label for a group of fungus of Arthrodermataceae that commonly causes skin disease in animals and humans. Traditionally, these anamorphic (asexual or imperfect fungi) mold genera are: Microsporum, Epidermophyton and Trichophyton. There are about 40 species in these three genera. Species capable of reproducing sexually belong in the teleomorphic genus Arthroderma, of the Ascomycota (see Teleomorph, anamorph and holomorph for more information on this type of fungal life cycle). As of 2019 a total of nine genera are identified and new phylogenetic taxonomy has been proposed.
Some of these skin infections are known as ringworm or tinea (which is the Latin word for "worm"), though infections are not caused by worms. It is thought that the word tinea (worm) is used to describe the snake-like appearance of the dermatophyte on skin.. Toenail and fingernail infections are referred to as onychomycosis. Dermatophytes usually do not invade living tissues, but colonize the outer layer of the skin. Occasionally the organisms do invade subcutaneous tissues, resulting in kerion development.
Treatment of tinea capitis requires an oral antifungal agent; griseofulvin is the most commonly used drug, but other newer antimycotic drugs, such as terbinafine, itraconazole, and fluconazole have started to gain acceptance.
There are a few reasons why smoking moldy weed can cause negative health effects for just about anyone. Mold spores can survive in surprisingly harsh environmental conditions, including being burned, only to take up residence inside the warm and damp environment inside the human body. If your immune system isn’t up for the match, this can cause lung infections.
Moldy weed or hemp products can also make you sick thanks to compounds called mycotoxins and endotoxins. Mycotoxins are compounds that sit on the outside of mold spores and in small fragments of mold. They’re referred to as toxins because they are harmful to the human body, and can trigger irritation and illness. Endotoxins are molecules released by bacteria as they die. Typically, molds and endotoxins go hand-in-hand, making exposure especially agitating. Endotoxins by themselves are known to worsen symptoms of asthma and contribute to lung irritation.
Inhaling a batch of mycotoxins and endotoxins together can cause inflammation. Chronic exposure to pro-inflammatory molds and mildews can aggravate autoimmune conditions and increase your chances of developing an infection.
There are three main types of fungi often found in our sample testing.
Aspergillus
Aspergillus is a fungus that produces mycotoxins, including some that are thought to becarcinogenic. This mold can cause lung infections, which can be quite serious for those with compromised immune systems.
Back in 2011, there weretwo case studies of medical cannabis consumers who developed a condition called chronic pulmonary aspergillosis (CPA) after suspected exposure to cannabis that was infected with Aspergillus.
The condition caused symptoms of emphysema and improved after patients were treated for Aspergillus infection and refrained from cannabis consumption.
Aspergillus infections often mirror piedra infections (see #3.)
Botrytis
Botrytis is the fancy name for gray mold, and it’s one of the most common cannabis pathogens. When inhaled, this fungus can cause an allergic reaction and acute respiratory problems.
Botrytis is a genus of anamorphic fungi belonging to the Sclerotiniaceae family. Considered by many to be archetypical examples of necrotrophic fungi, they are primarily known for the damage they cause to hundreds of plant species, notably grapes, raspberries and strawberries.
The most common species of Botrytis, B.cinerea, is commonly referred to as gray mold. It first attacks a plant in the form of a white growth which over time develops into a gray mass with a velvety appearance. The gray colour originates from asexual spores (conidiospores) which can be spread by water or wind.
Cladosporium
Cladosporium is a common plant fungus that often grows on porous materials like wood and paper. It causes symptoms of hay fever and can trigger asthma attacks, though this type of mold does not produce mycotoxins. With chronic exposure, inhaling Cladosporium increases your chances of developing pneumonia.
In the worst case scenario, any mold infection can contribute to pneumonia and possibly spread to other parts of the body. Signs of acute fungal, mold and mildew exposure include:
Contact your doctor for more information if you feel you’ve been in contact with any fungi and are experiencing the above symptoms.Throw all molded products away immediately.
Piedraia hortae is a superficial fungus that exists in the soils of tropical and subtropical
environments and affects both sexes of all ages. The fungus grows very slowly, forming dark hyphae, which contain chlamydoconidia cells and black colonies when grown on agar.
Piedra, which means "stone" in Spanish, is an asymptomatic superficial fungal infection of the hair shaft. In 1865, Beigel first described piedra in The Human Hair: Its Structure, Growth, Diseases, and Their Treatment; although, he may have been describing Aspergillus infection.
Black piedra is sometimes cultivated for cosmetic purposes due to social factors that favour a specific hair colour, which makes them more attractive in their society. Several Indian tribes located from Panama have been known to use several methods in order to darken the hair of albino individuals within their community. One of these methods is the cultivation of black piedra for an extensive period of time in the individual's hair.In Malaysia the nodules of black piedra are very attractive and women are encouraged to sleep with their hair buried in the soil to encourage growth of the black nodules.
In fairer skinned individuals this can cause inflammation, pain, and hair loss.
“All these microorganisms can be dangerous to people, especially children, the elderly, and immunocompromised individuals,” says Conor Jenkins, lab manager at California- and Maryland-based Think20 Labs.
To make matters worse, they have no shortage of opportunities to get into your CBD product. “Contamination,” says Jenkins, “can come from the farms themselves, the processing plants, the raw materials, the packaging process, and several other places.” Many people have joked about the incongruence of selling health-boosting CBD at dingy gas stations and bodegas, but in reality contaminants are more likely to get into your product several steps earlier in the supply chain.
As Jenkins explains, “E. coli and salmonella are typically results of unclean growing/processing practices,” while “mold and yeast can come from moist [or&91; damp environments wherever the plant [or&91; other raw materials are stored.”
Microbials are Single-cell microorganisms, or microbes, found in plants that can cause intestinal distress and damage to the immune system if not kept under control. Most cannabis regulations require producers to test for total microbials and severely limit the amount available in the final form. The most commonly tested microorganisms include, but are not limited to, Escherichia coli (E. coli), salmonella, aspergillus, and any fungus.
Cannabis that has been contaminated with microbials are potentially harmful.
E. Coli and salmonella are microbials.
E. coli and salmonella are both bacteria that can cause food poisoning. You can potentially catch pathogenic E. coli from infected animals or people whereas salmonella occurs in raw poultry, eggs, beef, and occasionally unwashed fruits and vegetables.
Listeria is a genus of bacteria that acts as an intracellular parasite in mammals. It is a facultative anaerobic bacterium, capable of surviving in the presence or absence of oxygen.
Symptoms may appear as late as 2 months after you have eaten something with Listeria. Listeriosis is a rare type of food poisoning caused by the bacteria Listeria monocytogenes. It is almost never found in healthy children and adults, but can affect newborns, the elderly, those who are immunocompromised and pregnant women. In some cases, it can result in meningitis.
Listeriosis can cause mild, flu-like symptoms such as fever, chills, muscle aches, and diarrhea or upset stomach. You also may have a stiff neck, headache, confusion, or loss of balance.
To extract and process CBD from hemp or marijuana plants, many companies use industrial chemicals to help separate the cannabinoid from the plant material. Some of the most common ones include butane, propane, and ethanol — which all sound like things that belong in your grill or gas tank, not your CBD oil.
However, Jenkins believes that the fears over these particular solvents may be somewhat overblown. In the case of butane or propane, the solvent evaporates so rapidly that it tends to have disappeared by the time a product reaches its user. And while neither Jenkins — nor any medical expert — would recommend guzzling a gallon of ethanol, at the end of the day it’s still just alcohol, and a tiny amount of it is unlikely to cause serious problems.
That’s not the case for another solvent, though: Benzene. According to Jenkins, this is the most dangerous solvent found in CBD oil, because it can cause rapid cellular death. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has found significant levels of the substance at 1,000 of the nation’s 1,684 most contaminated hazardous waste sites, and the World Health Organization (WHO) states that, “Human exposure to benzene has been associated with a range of acute and long-term adverse health effects and diseases, including cancer and aplastic anaemia.” (Source: Cannabismd.com)
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are a class of chemicals that occur naturally in coal, crude oil, and gasoline. They also are produced when coal, oil, gas, wood, garbage, and tobacco are burned. PAHs generated from these sources can bind to or form small particles in the air.
Regulators and pesticides often aren’t thought of when considering the whole process. Plant growth regulators such as Daminozide and Paclobutraxol considered human carcinogens and are often times disrupt neurotransmitter levels in mammals are applied during plant growth and due to the terpine process are not washed off.
Washing plants is a big problem in the industry for new cultivators. Washing your plants prior to cultivation and manufacturing, you’re washing off the terpenes that are produced by the buds to give it effect. We often try to get cultivators to stay away from using them.
“Everyone’s heard of lead poisoning, right?,” says Jenkins — but many states have taken a curiously hands-off approach to regulating them. According to Jenkins, “There are states like Oregon that do not even require [heavy&91; metal testing of cannabis.” Since many labs rely on these same standards for testing CBD, this is a worrisome state of affairs — especially considering the health risks that heavy metals can pose.
Lead poisoning has become a national issue due to the ongoing tragedy in Flint, Michigan, where 100,000 people were exposed to elevated levels of lead after the city switched its water supply. Researchers found that “[fertility&91; rates dropped by 12 percent while fetal deaths rose by 58 percent,” as reported by PBS.
Other heavy metals can be equally harmful —as Jenkins explains, arsenic is a common ingredient in rat poison, while mercury is rapidly absorbed into the skin and lungs, where it wreaks havoc on the bloodstream.
Arsenic can be found in apples if concentrated in mass and is used in rat poisons to this day in the US. Even metals such as gold and silver can cause a shock to your system, two metals we’ve found in two separate brands this year!
Certain other metals found this year are Cadmium which causes Periodontal Disease, Pancreatic Cancer, Diabetes, Itai-Itai Disease, Lead which leads to Neurotoxic, Peripheral Neuropathy, Loss of Appetite and Weight, Chronic Fatigue and Mercury which leads to Forgetfulness, Irritability, Restricted Visual Fields, Tremors, Paranoia.
Metal poisoning can cause breathing problems and hair loss as well as neurological and mood changes. If you feel you’ve been exposed to heavy metals please contact your local center for disease control immediately.
If you have been exposed to metal or factory settings and have symptoms you can’t explain visit:https://rarediseases.org/rare-diseases/heavy-metal-poisoning/for more information on heavy metal toxicity.
Currently I am concerned about the use of glyphosates in products, especially with all of the press that is revolving around the Roundup issue. If the impact is as large as it is being reported, much more scientific testing should begin on the negative impacts on human health and regulations should change accordingly.
Glyphosate is widely regarded as a dangerous carcinogen. Bayer AG, the maker of Roundup, has been the subject of a flurry of lawsuits in recent years, with many users alleging that using the popular pesticide caused them to develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Recently, a California couple was awarded $2 billion in damages after a judge ruled that the pesticide was responsible for giving them bone and brain cancer.
The use of pesticides like glyphosate on hemp crops, from which most CBD is derived, is troubling because the plant is a bioaccumulator — meaning that it absorbs whatever materials are present in the soil in which it’s grown.
Abamectin, a pesticide, causes Disruption of Synaptic Processes where as fungicides like Imazalil or Myclobutanil can cause Abnormal Hormone Production.
This gets interesting.
The colorless, odorless, and tasteless thallium is often reported to be used nefariously and illegally, because of its slow-acting presence and its ability to induce a wide range of symptoms. Early signs of poisoning usually begin with pain without any obvious causes, which can be easily misleading to other illnesses and conditions. Thallium poisoning is rarely encountered in emergency departments. Excessive exposure to thallium may occur in many ways, such as the maintenance and cleaning of the ducts and flues by smelters and overdosing on drugs such as cocaine and heroin. Criminal and unintentional thallium poisoning cases have also been reported, some of which have led to death. From 1995 to 2005, the American Association of Poison Control Centers reported 830 cases of human exposures to thallium, and one death from 1995 to 2009 was included. Because of the low incidence rate and nonspecific clinical manifestation of thallium poisoning, in diagnosing practice, the disease was hardly considered by physicians. In this study, a 53-year-old man with thallium poisoning was misdiagnosed on several occasions before being successfully treated. In the following 6 months of follow-up, there was no repetitive poisoning present or sequela. Finally, this case demonstrates the entire process of hair loss following thallium poisoning.
In clinical practice, thallium poisoning is very hard to diagnose, because it is a very uncommon disease and its clinical manifestations are extremely complicated. In the present study, we investigated a case of a 53-year-old man who was hospitalized for persistent stabbing pain in the abdomen and lower extremities for 20 days. Physical examination revealed diffuse alopecia of the scalp. The final diagnosis of thallium poisoning was confirmed based on high blood and urine thallium levels. The patient was cured by an oral administration of Prussian blue combined with hemoperfusion and continuous veno-venous hemofiltration or cleaning of his blood similar to dialysis. For more on this story visit: https://www.hindawi.com/journals/criem/2018/13130...
And yes… people have tried to poison us on multiple occasions. We’ve come across thallium contaminants at least 3 times this year. Odds are if thallium is involved, it was put there maliciously as it's not readily available in the states.
Zhu Ling was a sophomore majoring in physical chemistry at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, when she mysteriously began losing hair, with accompanying stomach pain and muscle paralysis, sinking into a coma four months later. Doctors were initially baffled, but friends posted her symptoms to a Usenet group, drawing attention to Zhu Ling's plight—likely the first telemedicine trial. Physicians around the world agreed the likely cause was thallium poisoning (a toxic heavy metal sometimes used in rat poison), and her doctors treated her with the commercial dye Prussian blue, the most common antidote. (Source: https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/12/new-study...
In the past, thallium was used as a therapeutic agent to treat syphilis, gonorrhea, tuberculosis, and ringworm, and it was also used as a depilatory for excess hair. The mortality of the acute thallium poisoning is about 6% to 15%. The main cause of death is respiratory failure. Meanwhile, about 33% to 50% patients of survivors have sequelae such as nervous system diseases and visual impairment. You’ll be happy to know, your hair will grow back.
For more on this story visit: https://www.hindawi.com/journals/criem/2018/1313096/
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/12/new-study-...
For more on cannabis contaminants visit limiting cannabis from becoming a pharmaceutical commodity: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7516211/
Short Answer:
No, we don't carry Delta-8 because its THC and illegal for us to sell.
We list unedited lab results and try to be one of the pillars of the CBD industry proving we can do this right, within the law, and everyone can get their income legally. Many follow our lead and depend on us financially and for information and product trade. It’s not a risk for us to take.
Long Answer:
"We won't even touch it," says CEO Kimber McIntyre. "We don't want it, we're not interested, I don't want to sample it, I don't care how to clean you think it is. We don't want anything to do with synthetics here. Nature knows better."
What does that even mean?
Well, there's no need for tinfoil hats just yet.
We have actually found that most payment gateways in Federal Banking institutions (FDIC Regulated) do not accept Delta 8 in their sales rosters as well, which would mean our entire store could be shut down or we’d have to sell it under the radar.
Until the law and science catches up, we do not wish to take the risk.
What is even the difference?! Cbd is cbd!
Yes, technically, but nature is also relatively scientific. All of us are different codes of genes, atoms, and DNA. So a plant's code or their chemical structure, it describes its species, it's look, it's family, and its genetic code just like it would with a human. That's why in nature she knows how many plants would have to die to create that kind of bloom in a market, and it just wouldn't be possible without it being aided with synthetics.
It's not just a Nature thing though, there's actual scientific facts backing this decision. Not to mention, the process of synthetically creating cannabinoids is expressly forbidden by law as per the DEA final ruling, the question of synthetically derived forms of THC is no longer a question as that explicitly addresses the issue in the statement:
"The (2018 Farm Bill) does not impact the control of status of synthetically derives tetrahydrocannabinoids (for Controlled Substance code number 7370) because the statutory definition of temp is limited to materials that are derived from the plant Cannabis sativa L for synthetic leader arrives tetrahydrocannabinol, the concentration of D 9 - THC is not a determining factor in whether the material is a controlled substance. All synthetically derived tetrahydrocannabinoids remain schedule 1 controlled substances.''
It would seem that delta-8 as a market has taken over for CBD, however that that could not be more wrong.
In a recent interview, Josh Swider from infiniteCAL shared his insight into this novel new product rapidly gaining popularity. After testing nearly 2,000 samples in 2020 he can attest that the number of products increases, so the number of producers increases as well. With a PhD in analytical chemistry, this is deeply concerning for Swider as he understands the challenges of producing Delta 8 THC.
Additionally, he explained in no uncertain terms; there's no gray area with Delta 8, "synthetically producing any tetra-hydro cannabinoids is absolutely federally illegal and creates a schedule 1 controlled substance."
Creating delta 8 THC is a federal crime.
In the natural world, hemp and the cannabis plant only produce tiny amounts of Delta 8 THC. The amount is so minuscule that there could never be enough to create the bloom in this market, therefore producers are synthetically creating the compound in a lab, Swider suggests.
Swider explained the process in detail stating, “companies are selling Delta 9 distillate and vape carts, synthetically creating Delta 8 by converting cannabinol AKA CBD isolate into delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, or converting into Delta 8 Tetra Hydro cannabinol so the material and the vape cart that claims to be 90% Delta 8 TetraHydrocannabinol was not extracted from a plant; somebody in a lab has created it."
"We literally made our name on the market by providing the public with lab tests, updated results, COA, and verification promising them our products are safe to use for every occasion. We have people that are allergic to THC itself. We have truck drivers in pain that are drug tested every other week. We have people that are trusting us to give them exactly what we say that we're going to give them so whether it shows up as a synthetic, as THC, or as a contaminant, we simply can't put it on our Market space, " Natural Healthy CBD CEO, Kimber states. "We are not our brands but more like a family. In fact some of us are blood related. Some of us hate each other. I can not speak for others and their websites. I can state what I sell responsibly here because I verify it myself and with so many 3rd parties you'd think me insane. I do it because I made a promise to do it and my customers need to be guaranteed they won't fail a drug test. Within the market labeling a product as THC free helps to ensure customers that it's legal, non-psychoactive, and they won't have a reaction or dirty drug test with it, but seeing multiple Delta 8 products online labeled "THC-free" or "hemp-derived" is both false and misleading. Much like spice or K2 it's misleading to customers not to identify these products have been made in a lab instead of extracted from a plant. Tinfoil conspiracy theories or not, it's even more misleading to claim that the product is THC free when tetrahydrocannabinol is the actual name of the compound in question being sold."
Swider Agrees, "Delta-8 tetrahydrocannabinol from cannabinol isolate is extremely difficult; it's nearly impossible to completely separate the Delta 8 tetrahydrocannabinol from delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol through distillation. The only companies would seem to have success with this conversion take additional chromosome tography steps after distillation to renovate the delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol from the batch of the product. "
Purity and Safety is a Priority.
< 1% of the 2, 000 samples tested last year came back as pure Delta 8 THC, and most contained more delta-9 THC then reported.
In fact of 1,500 concentrate samples tested cross tested by infiniteCAL and Natural Healthy, a mere six samples tested compliant with the 2018 Farm Bill.
Results came back "looking like a rainforest," Swider quotes about the numerous Peaks on the Chromatographic Spectrum representing a larger arrangement of unknown compounds.
"It doesn't even show up as THC in a lab test. It doesn't show up as CBD either. This shows up as an unnatural contaminant and that's how we will treat it." Kimber concurs.
"The vape crisis was caused be people doing dirty chemistry in their garage and no one checking to see if it's safe [except for Natural Healthy CBD&91;. There's a reason drug manufacturers don't hand out non-tested products to Consumers and stay here, try this out and get back to us in the morning," Swider questioned. "The process of synthesizing delta-8 from CBD is done using hazardous chemicals without the proper manufacturing procedures and clean up, consumers would be inhaling more than they know. We don't even know what's in there. It's a mess of chromatography and it would take half a million dollars and testing to uncover and Natural Healthy CBD doesn't have the means to do that again."
Which is true.
While we're known for the original 150 we're continuing to grow and provide a platform for every avenue of the Cannabis Revolution to flourish fairly for every side of it. We aren't anti THC at all in fact if we could we would sell THC. We keep a lot of smaller economies afloat with our services as apparent by our most recent shutdown. We provide the ability for even those who sell THC from the dispensaries to provide a CBD product that they can legally sell all across the country getting their name out and income in as well as the influencers that they sponsor and the employees that they have. We have a very tight relationship with THC.
The problem is the synthetics and the inability to trace the contaminants that come along with them when they do affect a patient in a negative way. It's not just one patient who is affected by one contaminant, it's in case a contaminant from that garage ends up in our shop and then our wholesalers spreads all across the nation and eventually the world and our ability to cure that ailment without knowing what it is or the customer knowing about it to tell doctors.
“If I can't guarantee my customers safety, if I put a dirty product next to a hardworking new verified brand, I lose a huge part of what sets us apart from everyone else. I'd lose that trust factor that put me on the map in the first place. My conscience and my soul isn't for sale so I simply can't take a risk on something like that because it's not just my risk. It's my customers risks and the risk of the customers of every single store we distribute to. It's a risk to the brands that are shown on a shelf right next to that product that got everybody sick. It's a risk to my Brands being put on a shelf at all next to a product that is subpar to the extreme work and dedication they put into this industry. It's a risk to the health workers as they have to try and figure out what could possibly be wrong or causing the situation happening within their patient and it's the patient's problem for not even having a clue where it came from because they wouldn't even think about it. They would be so used to getting clean and verified products that they wouldn't even consider the products that they're so used to using having a contaminant in it. It's the risk of the people whose jobs require drug tests. It's a risk to the people who have dogs that are sick that they give CBD to and might figure a gummy or something easy like a human pill would be fine for their dog and then find out there's THC in it. It's everybody that uses this site and their risk to and it's not my place to make a decision for every single one of those people that could put them in danger. That's not my decision to make so I simply can't risk it.” Kimber states for Natural Healthy.
Natural Healthy CBD is going to remain Natural, and nothing is natural about synthetically creating a product in a lab to mimic something that nature has already safely provided for us without the added risk.
So why sell D8?
To top cbd or whatever big thing came before it. Greed. We're witnessing what happens when man attempts to replace nature with a synthetic version of itself. Humans begin to die. Those with no souls don't care how many die. It's not the bodies that matter to them. It's the money and power.
"I've never seen someone damage themselves so much in an effort to save those who don't respect her. That's how you can tell who the real one is. She's science in our brain, she's music in our ears, she's making sure we only put safe things in our mouth and we're killing her at an alarming rate... Like we are the animals, plants and weather in the real nature.
That's not a dream, that's a survival instinct. Nature is fighting back."
A lot of people like to tell me my position or my job or what I do and don't do on a daily basis because they don't understand the amount of mental energy that goes behind a revolution and changing the minds of millions. Even influencers and streamers to this day think that they can just skip the sponsor and everything will go fine. That she's not a source when she in fact is a source of many, many things as we learned this year.
Federal legalization for cannabis is likely just around the corner. With delta 9 THC being the most abundant cannabinoid found in cannabis, we need to create other THC isomers, but it should be left to professional chemists. Delta 8’s reduced psychoactive effect certainly does have a place as an alternative to Delta 9, but emphasis should really be made to fully understand the natural compounds before we start creating and consuming synthetic ones. Customers should always be cautious. That's the point.
We stand with infiniteCAL and think Josh Swider deserves a raise. His first alerting the industry to swindlers and scrupulous producers that shop around for the most beneficial lab report so they can send out their product for testing to three to four different places and keep the results that portrayed them in the most positive wayl as their main lab source. Most of the time it's just some guy in his garage that's easily paid off to say that something passed which is why we've now begun to form relationships with the labs themselves. We work off of every single one of our business partners and when they call out a problem in the industry we see it as our responsibility to attempt to assist them in fixing it or preventing it from causing harm.
Qualifying testing and transparency are critical for consumable products, especially those we inhale. As we've seen last year by the deaths all across the country with the vape crisis, business closures, break ins, bloom of the influencer market, and infection of the scam markets. Yes, your lab test can come back as 90% Delta 8, but who's going to test if that other 10% is something that could literally kill you? Unfortunately, due to the nature of the government, until someone actually gets sick and discovers exactly where the sickness came from, it's unlikely there will be much of a crackdown on a flourishing market by anybody other than the original people who were protecting it in the first place that doesn’t involve total chaos and federal shutdowns.
That's the scary thing.
Who's going to create the product to cause the extreme reverse sweep in the market forcing marijuana to become entirely illegal or government owned for good and how many people's lives will be ruined by that decision? We don't want to find out, so we apologize to the one percent of you that actually have the analytical chemistry education or PhD behind the discovery and development of those products, but we simply aren't able to risk it.
As a trainer of disability and mental stability service animals, Delta 8 is like an untrained service dog. Bringing it into the public might theoretically be safe and go well, but there's a chance that somebody could get hurt and that you could ruin your own reputation all because it's not quite ready yet.
If you still can't understand why the answer is no or "what we benefit" by not supporting delta 8 or certain parties; with the amount of people attempting to profit off us, attempting to go behind backs, those not realizing who's doing what and why before they open up their shady businesses or kicking someone stopped because they're leading you and were just confronted with a threat affects the industry as a whole. Aligning is important, your influence is important, but so is your product and if you're killing the customers, you failed business.
The rest of us actually care about the people that we work with and that work with us and give us the privilege of being their provider. If that doesn't mean anything to you then feel free to sell Delta 8, but to us, there's too many people whose lives would be affected by a decision to take on a risk that great. Therefore, we don't feel it's our decision to make alone and until the lab test on a sample product come back completely clean or the law on selling THC changes, the answer simply has to be no, for now, until we can guarantee the organic origin and the safety and consistency of the product being sold.
]]>Cannabis is now legal in Illinois for recreational use but even since it's medicinal start, the dispensary owners and growers have made their mark on cannabis and they're making sure you don't forget it. Like the pharmaceutical corruption era of big pharma, we now face the government coming in and forcing businesses out, taking their rights to earn an income simply so they can take the business out from under them. Luckily, our business saw this coming and even with the gas lighting and attempt to rob us, we've lost a lot due to the greed of certain people. However, we stand firm and ensure our name is known too and certain dispensaries will recognize and attempt to help you succeed. You'd be surprised at what the founders of the Cannabis industry have had to endure this year alone. We sent in 5 different people to the top five dispensaries and had them cycle through them for a year and you'd be shocked by what we found!
Here are the top ten rated dispensaries and what we actually found there and we're rating them on a scale of 1 being the lowest and 10 being the highest.
10. Mindful Dispensaries
This is surprisingly rated one of the top dispensaries but we're positive it's them rating themselves. This dispensary is run by a bunch of liars, thieves, voice actors, and folks that are NOT in cannabis for the health and healing side of things. On multiple occasions we've caught their staff on live streams, crossing state line with products meant for medical patients in Illinois. The staff have influential connections and they're wealthy, and they want to be more wealthy. This dispensary not only lied to an gaslit their patient, but then chased them online to undercut and steal their CBD sales, even though legally they can't sell CBD products in their dispensary. The products they DO choose to sell, hempbombs, has consistently failed labs and tested under mg limit or contained contaminants. As if that wasn't enough they also suck off their patients, share their personal information to mock them online, steal their sales and destroy their businesses. The icing on the cake was them having lose dogs out that run at working service animals... and them then kicking the patients, which is against federal law. (ada.gov) We even have the FAQ for service dogs listed here as we work closely with the ADA and our CEO herself had a seizure alert dog.
However this dispensary is wealthy and knows everything about you. They will gaslight and break you in an effort to ensure no one will believe you. Luckily, with people like us out here, we are able to catch it early and show everyone exactly how badly they use and abuse their patients. Here's a video by the talented ServiceDogPaws about them admitting in writing to breaking federal law and then banning a patient from medication.
This is by far one of the WORST dispensaries in Illinois that needs to be overhauled. The ascetic is the only thing going for it which means they make too much money for absolutely no work. It's easy to succeed when you think you're above federal law. I wonder what else they're doing against federal law?
Our Rating: 1
9. Greenhouse
Greenhouse is one of those companies we worked with early on that suddenly stopped answering their phone and now own a dispensary. Take that for what you will but De La Cruz now acts as if they never spoke with us before and that alone was a red flag. Their dispensary was not open at the time of testing even though it claimed to be online therefore we were unable to visit.
Our Rating: N/A
8. Midway
Midway dispensary was a breath of fresh air, even though the parking was atrocious (as Chicago normally is) but they don't tow and allow hazard parking. The staff is cool and when one of our guys came with 5 minutes to closing, they helped them without making it feel like an inconvenience. The building is a very city like but they certainly make up for it with their staff and how they handle customers. With better space and some few additions, this dispensary group could really take off!
Our Rating: 7
7. Verilife
This company has always been ahead of the curve with licensing medical patients and online availability. Much like following business rise, they are geared towards mostly medical in one location and both in another.
Other than their online prowess, this company was a hit or miss and nothing was reported one way or another.
Our Rating: 5
6. Rise
Much like Verilife, there wasn't much to report about RISE. They started mostly medical but they provide a significantly smaller menu for rec. While you can walk in directly with your medical card, the wait is long and outside for recreational. Other than that there was not much to report. The menu wasn't as big as Verilife but we expect their growth to go positively in the upcoming year.
Our Rating: 4
5. Earth Med
Walking in here you'll feel like you're going to a pawnshop. They have tons of options but you'll be ushered into a tight rope line and have to fight for availability. The staff is very polite and they do what they can, but their selection of dabs and iso were so low our shopper went twice without being able to find anything they could benefit from. That's such a loss for the industry. Sadly, if you're recognized like our second shopper was, you'll be stalked online by this group as well. We were also offered to be in an "adult video" by one of the staff members on break, which was awkward. However, their online antics are very unfortunate.
Our Rating: 4
4. Windy City
This is a company we want you to watch. They come from a place of family and street smarts. Windy city started in the heart of Chicago and is connected to many underground artists and influencers that help the revolution continue through them. They look out for one another, they don't let each other fall, and they have unity unmatched to any other dispensary we've been to. They could use more space at their south location but you get the feeling you're included with this group. They're not coworkers, they are a family of people that think similar and can have fun with one another and it shows. Even with our company, it seems to be the Windy City picking us up when we have fallen. Their choice in influencers can't be matched and they pick artists that are on their way up but need the boost, something important to us here at NHC. We fully expect to break through the weed war on the right side and it will be with Windy City by our side. Even when you can't see the company in brand, it's always a staff member helping out the fallen which NO OTHER DISPENSARY WILL DO. TRUST US.
They have 3 locations and you can choose a favorite but they all give off the same family vibe. When we leave the Windy City for business, they'll have an eye out on new brands, companies, influencers and they deserve their spot on top. We've been specifically working with a few of their guys who've moved into cbd, running them up the ranks. If there's going to be a movement or revolution, it will happen underground and no one knows underground like Windy City.
While looked at as not one of the big guys, they're actually quite big and we're hoping with their help to put the Windy City on the map in 2021. They have people in every facet from strain cultivation, to strain growth, to media, to having one of the biggest selections in the state. They're a natural group with a duality to them that really balances them out well, helping the people out that have been framed or buried, like we were at one point. They are the most fun to work with and they know how to right a wrong.
The staff has the most extensive concentrate menu and friendly faces willing to explain them to you. I wish they were closer so I could make them MY dispensary of choice. You won't find a bigger menu in Illinois guaranteed. Some things here and there need improvement like a few of their online staff members, but they fix it really quickly. Just don't get between them and their rivals because they will not be able to see you there and they don't take the shit from big boy government weed and will break a block aid, a HUGE plus to us.
Our Rating: 8
3. The Herbal Care Center (THC center)
This is a nice, big facility. It's always clean and inviting. They could really use some assistance in parking, but it's not as bad as midway. The staff is chill, super easy to get along with, and they recognize you when you come back even if you've been gone a while. Directly after the service dog incident earlier, my dog went through a situation where he would bark at any dog (thinking he was going to be attacked again) and they handled the situation like pros, giving me a place to move him away from the other dog to stop the barking for their customers. They're all friendly, many of them are incredibly talented as well. They have private medical and easy access. I do wish they had a bigger concentrate menu.
Our Rating: 7
2. Consume
We literally love everything about this place except the difficulty with actually getting in the lot. They always have a great selection that you can order online through Iheartjane.com and they actually will have it ready for you, something most dispensaries are still having trouble with. On top of that the staff is always super happy and peppy. They're really sweet and helpful as well. The best part is you don't even have to get out of the car! They'll walk it right out for you! That's a benefit to our lazy and on the go moods!
Our Rating: 8
1. Zen Leaf
I actually regularly go here. Their staff is sweet as heck and they're pretty in the know with the online and offline perils of the business. They have a huge collection and while the lines are long but medical can skip it. The inside gets a little packed on the weekends which isn't the best situation for covid but we all work with what we have. They're getting into gaming and influencing themselves which helps us all out. They ARE super expensive in comparison to other dispensaries, even for medical, which is a downside but they make up for it with their speed and their late hours. They're open 9-8 and that helps our schedule tremendously better than the other places that close at 6pm. They have a great staff, huge selection, and a lot of their staff is going to glow in the upcoming 2021. We can tell.
Our Rating: 8
Finally we'd like to mention Medmen. They're a great group of men working together to better the movement. As we have relatives that work there and we know they recently had a break in, we thought putting them in the list wouldn't be fair due to bias we may or may not have. However their dispensaries are great as is their products and as a group of people with terrible luck who always seem to get the shit end of the stick, what they built from it is incredibly impressive and worthy of mention. I honestly hope the Medmen are seen for their position in this movement and not just based on assumptions people make about them. We have them behind us too, always pushing and making sure we're safe and we do our best to return the favor. To prevent bias, we simply cannot rate them, but we love them and think you'll love them too.
So, what do you think of our ratings of the top 10 dispensaries in Illinois? Do you agree? Disagree? Find us on social media and let us know!
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Project #GREENSCREEN is an effort to help assist those who can't assist themselves in need of healing and help. Why? Because the #GREENSCREEN helped us. If you see someone suffering or acting out of character online, use #GREENSCREEN anywhere that hashtags are allowed. This push is here because now is a time where the media is lying to you, the war on drugs is being fought while actual dangerous drugs are running the streets with the pharmaceutical industry, we're experiencing an opioid crisis, a corona crisis, mass job loss, bankruptcy, evictions, and everyone is broke and are you feeling the anxiety yet? The celebrity to the governor is home, online, watching us. The revolution will be live and televised.
Medical marijuana has saved the lives of so many with mental health conditions and it's being used to arrest them, gaslight them, discredit them and remove kids from families while pedophiles run your churches and make the legislation. The CHAZ is killing daily and they're not able to handle their own legality which is terrible for the revolution. While this is happening the world is being hit by a plague that is killing us in the hundreds of thousands and riots are hitting the streets to rewrite your history but where are the 800,000 kids called in missing in this year alone and where is the 123 children that have gone missing from DCFS custody?
This isn't new and now some of those kids of abuse, abandonment, and being lost are now adults and they're fighting to heal the mistakes of the past and prevent them from happening in the future.
#GREENSCREEN is the diversion or prevention of manipulation over the internet and along with it comes the end of the drug war, self medication, truth about the pharmaceutical industry and it's affect on our generation. In this crazy time, we keep forgetting there are children online caught in the cross hairs of all of it and 800,000 of them at one point went missing, 123 of them still are. We not only wish to guide children away from dangers online but to safety by pulling them aside or diverting attention as a get away tactic. We know it's spread as a meme to call on the bots, which is fine, because it's also a call to some of us that we ARE grown now and need to behave, are getting heated, are in visible distress or just need to smoke a blunt. Due to this being a call on the green lives around us, it's also a call to protect or witness a situation. We're international, all races, all colors because we're all green. Eventually the bot will change in the Algorithm with the help of continued support from Godzilla, or our zilla family and their online networking as well. You can view them here. More on that later.
We are aside the vindicators that are attempting to fix and heal those affected by an entire decade of wrong decisions. Many argue that removing hemp from the diet of our meat is leading to deteriorating mental health. Somethings just can't me explained but what we can explain is that most of our staff has the ability to morph and travel, we protect animals, we love hogs, we follow the music and protect the artists. Look to the stars, the moon can guide your way, pray for aliens to be one with humans and stand up for those who can't. Be humble, noble, and stand up to injustice. If you see or hear a cry for help, #greenscreen. Remember that the mocking of mental health is never done by anyone trying to heal it.
The goal is to speed up the reaction and see how big the global support for #greenscreen and legalization and freedom to self medicate and maybe we can use that to show the world how much power is held by the people.
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night I was watching one of my favorite streamers, Hyphonix, when it suddenly
became clear that he was one of the owners of the businesses stuck in the cross-hairs of the media wars attempting to contact me
and he was upset with me for being upset with him, understandable. However, he didn't dox me
and he didn't dox my dad. He just didn't. I've tested it. People tried
to convince me he was poison and stealing from me.That he was a
"literal Hitler."
He's not though. At least, I've not seen it.
He's a dick, sure, but most of us are dicks too. I think he's funny. Next to another streamer whom I found humorous outside of gamer gate for his delivery was, Jim "Metokur," whom we've mentioned before here. I like the kid. He didn't dox me.
So when I apologized for wrongfully judging him, it was then his chat gave me the name I needed.
The real person who've been behind digging into my personal information, doxing me, doxing my biological and adoptive family and even stole their identity so they can't be held accountable for their actions. This person, PPP, Pepe, AP, Adonis Paul or whatever name he give himself today, decided to claim a gang affiliation with the hells angels (whom he's never met in real life or even spoken to) in an effort to threaten people into or out of working with select sponsors and other streamers. However, I DO know a few angels and they don't take kindly to this behavior and blamed me directly for it putting me in quite a bit of danger I had worked 2 years to get out of. However when I came to ask Adonis Paul to stop, he began to poorly gaslight me. I tried to tell him I could hear a girl by the name of Riley, roleplaying as my uncle Irish (by the same name even) in GTA. For years, my life story has been Riley's online persona and it began to catch up to me, but I had no idea what the hell was going on or why everyone was claiming I was crazy and gaslighting me with "schizophrenia" which wouldn't be the correct diagnosis anyways. It's been terrifying and cost me a lot of money just to feel safe. You see, Adonis Paul drove me away from sponsoring youtubers and twitch streamers due to the threats, alleged theft, sponsored parties pulling and haven't even made a streamlabs donation since 2019 because someone named "FT WORTH, TX HENDERSON" frauded our card for $400. Since
my dad was doxed and my child threatened which, as a victim on
protection order with a missing child, no youtube channel or stream herself, no public non-business socials it was a very real perceived threat. I went to police. I NEVER go to police, for obvious reasons. This person terrified me that "he and leaf had kidnapped my son to raise themselves" and not having seen him in a year, I was forced to go to police.
Since this began, at least once a day, I've been followed into chats mocked for being raped
in jail when wrongfully arrested and laughed at for my kid going missing and then mocked for going to the police for it.
Ironically the same guys were still there playing GTA, which you can only watch really if you want to get in on pixel. They suddenly knew I was there. Obviously. They'd been role playing with the online version of my identity, according to someone else, for YEARS. Before you ask, no, I have no idea who this person is. I know who they are now, but I've never met or spoken to this person and many don't even refer to them as Riley but as Lucy or Lara.
You know what was happening today? Live?
We had just lost George Floyd, the entire country is in protest and getting looted after being shut down for months from Covid-19. The internet socialites were pulling everyone in all types of ways. From God, to Godzilla, Satan, to political parties. Everyone is hurting everyone and I've been watching it get worse and worse for months.
The gamers were investigating in game after a year of my crying out to no one hearing me. By now, the Youngsliving organization was doing "movie reviews" in regards to... me? The lion tribe had copied and stolen my website. Aiden of Hemp City literally copied my site word for word. It was an attack. So I stopped and I let them start to get the back up and overwhelming stress that comes with my job and... because I would be at a halt, they get no more free work while they harass me.
The pixel server was already familiar with who I was because it's where the identity was being used most and how everyone kept hearing my info to report me. The GTA cops were investigating for me. Like legitimately talking to real characters that also appeared in real life, because this was real crime being done... in game. It's the wildest thing I've seen. With the zoo, the review channels, the political channels, I honestly was surprised again, not by identity but to see police in a video game behaving better than the real police outside my home during the riots. They were investigating. Who took her? How did they know her? What's she look like? They speculated as much as I had. This was an insane situation and suddenly I realized all of us were placed into this by someone else like a chain reaction online. Hurt people, hurting people. I was taken back and many people told me they had no idea this was happening or they thought it was all in game. They forgot people were watching.
That's when I heard the
chatter over the radio.
You can read chat. We can hear her now. Today's nature's law! It came from Metokur.
He said it's Nature's birthday!
I heard a two game cops say and that's when I believed it was kind of over.
That brings me back to the level guys, on the floor. They could hear me and you know. I was so hurt by these people that I didn't for one second think "why are they doing this to me?" I automatically assumed they did it to cause me harm, so I was hurting others in conversation with the ways I lashed out against it.
Hurt people, hurt people.
Everyone has shat on my favorite streamer. Everyone said things so vile against him, I wouldn't have looked twice at his stream if that came first. He was being hurt... right now. Today, in this moment, he was being hurt by not being given a fair shot at business like I had not gotten a fair shot before. I KNOW that feeling.
So I've decided to be the one to stop the cycle. I know, I know. I'm such a lame, loser, boomer. Thing is when you act out as a real life identity you effect their life and the lives around them. You take more than sales you take away the persons security, safety in their own home, freedom to exist. You hurt everyone around you and if it's bad enough you'll do it to someone like me who will hunt you down and track you like the best GTA cop pixel.
This is what happened with Pewdiepie. His fair chance was taken from him while people like Jake and Adonis Paul literally threaten SPONSORS, friends, family, jobs and eventually, the papers until they get what they want and all they want is submission and like Pewdiepie, I'm a stubborn Scandinavian who won't apologize if she doesn't mean it and won't say sorry if I'm not. These types of manipulators don't like that, so they attempt to control the narrative on your name. It should be illegal. Look at what the media does RIGHT NOW. Turn on the news and just listen for a few minutes. Isn't that insane?! The reason I bring up Pewdiepie is that he's in this game I'm somehow dragged into as well. You can catch it with the right bot or knowing what to look for with the out of context statements and the random, repetitive words. It's those words that trigger the mind (or A.I.) into the game. Point is, I had it done to me and I was about to turn around and do it AGAIN to Pewdiepie, the very man I quit the ad program for in the first place. The very one they threw under the bus. This woke me up.
I'm not going to say the words or things Pewdiepie says is okay or stand by his thoughts and ideas, that's not why I'm here. I'm here to make fair what was made wrong in the first place. It's the whole reason I went private sponsorship and here I am, angry that he's involved, blaming him and even Markiplier of doxing and threatening me simply because they're using the same words in the same game at the same time unbeknownst to one another. I was online, threatening the Wallstreet Journal to Pewdiepie and that is the most disgusted I've been with myself all year. I was hurt. I was going to hurt someone else because of it.
So, all of these thoughts in my mind, I've been awaken. I've been humbled. I saw myself in the mirror becoming the very same monster I was hunting and collectively, in a way, the "game" these youtubers were playing actually made me a better person. It woke me up. I honestly feel if Adonis Paul had not doxxed me, my biological father, the man who took me in, my fathers motorcycle enthusiast group whom I finally had gotten away from and was now literally handed back to, threatening me, my youtubers and my son, I think the game would have ended much sooner. I had to come to the end myself though or I wouldn't learn.
No, what happened to me wasn't fair and no, it probably will never be made okay but in time maybe it will. All I know is I will NOT become one of them and I will NOT become the monster I hunted to hurt the people I protect.
I've decided to let the streamer and his business in. I've decided to stop the cycle. I like the streamer and watched as a fan but right now, men are being censored and taken down, presented as nazis and literal Fuhrers. If I let him him sit and watch his friends and accomplices be accepted and moved out of the city it wouldn't be fair as he would have been first. It wouldn't be fair because as long as his labs are legit and not stolen, he deserves to go up like the rest of us or it will feel like he's singled out, attacked, and he will take it personally. It will hurt, he will hurt others, the cycle continues.
I believe in checking for thorns in the paw before condemning the beast. I honestly see good in these streamers the media has labeled and thus, cost their jobs and finances. I've watched them struggle, yell out for help, have families in need, and now go through a pandemic with not so much as a squeak from the big dogs at Youtube. I almost missed an important video myself clearing a lot of this up by my dog/pig, or youtube friend in the game that guided me a bit, knowingly or not. That pig knows who he is and I don't want to risk his current position in the game by exposing him. I'm not the media, but thank you for exposing the bootlegging in the gulf of our brand lines as they think we own all 150. If you're reading this, you helped all the way to Pewdiepie. That's an impressive reach we can have, guys.
So, I hope you all understand my stand on this. The cycle needs to stop. We can't leave people behind. This is a movement for all of us. Whether you believe in freedom or you believe in karma, green or light, our future will be grim if people are left behind. We can't build on cracked foundation.
Please stop a cycle.
We'll keep everyone updated as we reopen and upload products for our customers, our sponsored creators, our friends and families and as promised, are looking forward to working with unexpected our new friend and partner soon!
Not everyone is literal Hitler. Some are hurting from the thorns of the past. Pull them out and you tame the beast.
]]>"This might come as a surprise, but I'm actually a scientific oriented skeptic myself.
For years I've been fighting against so-called 'alternative medicine charlatans' who claim that their ailments can cure all kinds of diseases and illnesses. And with good reason, too. Many of these scoundrels actually urge people to not go see their doctor and avoid everything that has to do with 'Big Pharma'.
It's truly a despicable and disgusting practice that I personally hope will come to an end sooner than later.
There is nothing wrong with selling a product or service to people who genuinely want to buy what you have. But to make claims that aren't rooted in science or logic and that cannot even be proven, is not just a faulty way of marketing. It's also outright criminal and downright disgusting.
Hence why I long took pleasure in mocking these swindlers.
However, as much as I loved to ridicule them, there was something that bothered me about the whole thing. Something about the skeptic community that I disagreed profoundly with. No matter how much I argued my case, I wasn't heard. And if I were, I was scolded for my opinion.
The disagreement was that the skeptical community found it wrong to sell medications that hadn't been proven to cure any illness or disease to people, who, despite fully knowing that there wasn't any proof of said medications working.
I, on the other hand, didn't.
What's wrong with selling something to people, who want to buy your products, even if it on paper doesn't help them?
Nothing.
As long as no health claims are made.
And this is where I differ from most of the scientifically oriented skeptics.
If I sell you some CBD oil and you consume and it makes you feel better, then I've done you a service. I may not have cured, healed or prevented any disease or condition you had. But I've given you the opportunity to make yourself feel better. In exchange for money.
What's wrong with that?
'Nothing', I say.
'Everything', the skeptic community argues.
Something else for you to chew on;
I don’t know if this may vary from country to country or from region to region, but I know of several skeptic groups online that aim to ‘expose’ and ‘lift the curtain’ on so-called alternative medicine.
I’m writing ‘so-called’ in the context of alternative medicine because there haven’t been enough studies carried out yet to fully describe CBD oil as a total and utter alternative medicine, like for example homeopathy.
Let’s hope I didn’t anger any homeopathic users.
Whatever.
I don’t really care.
Now, first of all I’m going to ensure that no lawyers or legal entities can sue me or this brand by simply stating that if you’ve come here to look for a cure for your pains and you think that ABC CBD oil can help you, there is absolutely no evidence for that.
Zero.
Nada.
There!
Now I’ve officially declared that the product I’m marketing cannot heal, cure or prevent any disease or condition.
But that doesn’t mean that other people find it useful.
Hence why many CBD oil businesses have user testimonials on their website, praising how they’ve gotten a new life thanks to CBD oil.
Attorneys, solicitors and lawyers are thus prevented from taking this matter to the court. There is nothing wrong with marketing using testimonials, as long as you have an agreement from the users.
This isn’t the CBD oil company making a claim, these are USERS making claims how a certain product has improved their lives.
And here’s another thing that I think.
I don’t think the masses of skeptics are ready to use ABC CBD oil. I think their skeptical nature will make them do anything they can to excuse any improvement they may experience when they’re consuming ABC CBD oil.
Which means that even if they would have gotten rid of a back pain issue or maybe having had their
Irrespective whether they had tried other things or not. Such as changing their diet, their lifestyle, shedding some weight, and so on.
Now, as much as I like to ridicule those boring people who almost always look sad and depressed, they have a very valid point.
There is no reason to claim or believe that ABC CBD oil will work unless you actually put in a little bit of work yourself. You have to be willing to lose weight, change your diet around and perhaps go to the gym and start out lifting weights.
Simply consuming CBD oil while continuing to slouch on the couch, watching Netflix and consuming unhealthy foods, beverages and candy won’t do you any good.
But even if you make significant changes to your life, and you’re consistent, CBD oil may still not help you get rid of your pains or improve your health condition.
You see, we have something called bodies. Genes. DNA. Different people respond differently.
In fact, the possibility that you could consume ABC CBD oil, over a long time, say a year, and also changing your diet, improving your lifestyle and going to the gym, without seeing any improvements, exists.
Sometimes, not even the best CBD oil can help you.
In the case of our consumers, none have said that the oil didn’t help. But, we don’t know how many other changes they made to their lives, either.
So, in that regard, the skeptics are right.
However, the skeptics are also boring people in general. At least, that’s my impression. I’ve yet got to meet a funny person who’s also a skeptic.
Still, your mileage may vary.
CBD oil isn't for everyone.
Not everyone is ready."
-Aasmund Ryningen
Aasmund Ryningen is an e-copywriter and content creator behind the Ridiculing of CBD Oil Skeptics above. An engineer by trade, he has written ebooks about the secrets of CBD oil sales from a skeptic... and a skeptic of skeptic's point of view.
You do not sell enough CBD oil because you do not know all the SALES SECRETS!
Aasmund claims to have these secrets in his ebook located on his personal website.
Want sales but don't have time to read? Aasmund offers his sales services to serious, legitimate CBD oil companies for content creation, sales and marketing for new or previous emailing lists. His approach is forward, honest, straightforward. He won't lie or swindle your customers, he'll help them ... if they want help. He is blunt and in your face about testimonies and lack of medical research on CBD, lack of scientific studies with CBD, yet is intrigued by the personal stories he has seen and the lives he has changed at the same time. He tells it as it is, not what they want to hear nor gives promises that he can't keep. He is not interested in fake accounts from inaccurate sources, he is witnessing lives changing, and he wants to change yours and your business by getting you more sales, reaching more people and even former customers to bring them back. Having him relieve the stress when it comes to email marketing will ease the burden and perhaps impress future customers with another honest and future approach to CBD.
I want to specialize in writing emails that don’t make any claims, but that still persuade people to buy because of all the benefits, all the potential and all the success stories.
Aasmund forteller told Natural Healthy CBD. We had a long conversation as he considers real life accounts, "food for future emails," which gave us a chuckle, but his enthusiasm is unmatched.
Aasmund Ryningen is from Norway and has a passionate but scientific approach that may be just what your company needs to reach more people who need education and honest CBD companies to guide them to health!
For more on Aasmund, visit his website or you can reach Aasmond directly on Twitter @RealLastViking.
]]>"Dette kan komme som en overraskelse, men jeg er faktisk en vitenskapelig orientert skeptiker selv.
I flere år har jeg kjempet mot såkalte 'charlatans for alternativ medisin' som hevder at plagene deres kan kurere alle slags sykdommer og sykdommer. Og med god grunn, også. Mange av disse skurrene oppfordrer faktisk folk til ikke å gå til legen sin og unngå alt som har med 'Big Pharma' å gjøre.
Det er virkelig en avskyelig og motbydelig praksis som jeg personlig håper vil komme til en slutt før enn senere.
Det er ingenting galt i å selge et produkt eller en tjeneste til folk som virkelig ønsker å kjøpe det du har. Men å komme med påstander som ikke er forankret i vitenskap eller logikk og som ikke en gang kan bevises, er ikke bare en feil måte å markedsføre på. Det er også direkte kriminelt og direkte motbydelig.
Derfor lurte jeg lenge på å spotte disse svindlerne.
Imidlertid, så mye som jeg elsket å latterliggjøre dem, var det noe som plaget meg med det hele. Noe med det skeptiske samfunnet som jeg var dypt uenig i. Uansett hvor mye jeg argumenterte for saken min, ble jeg ikke hørt. Og hvis jeg var det, ble jeg kjeftet for min mening.
Uenigheten var at det skeptiske samfunnet fant det galt å selge medisiner som ikke hadde blitt bevist å kurere noen sykdom eller sykdom til mennesker, til tross for at de helt visste at det ikke var bevis på at medisinene fungerte.
Det gjorde jeg derimot ikke.
Hva er galt med å selge noe til folk som vil kjøpe produktene dine, selv om det på papir ikke hjelper dem?
Ingenting.
Så lenge ingen helsepåstander fremsettes.
Og det er her jeg skiller meg fra de fleste av de vitenskapelig orienterte skeptikerne.
Hvis jeg selger deg noe CBD-olje og du forbruker, og det får deg til å føle deg bedre, så har jeg gjort deg en tjeneste. Det kan hende at jeg ikke har kurert, helbredet eller forhindret noen sykdom eller tilstand du hadde. Men jeg har gitt deg muligheten til å få deg til å føle deg bedre. I bytte for penger.
Hva er galt med det?
"Ingenting", sier jeg.
'Alt', argumenterer det skeptiske samfunnet.
Noe annet du kan tygge på;
Jeg vet ikke om dette kan variere fra land til land eller fra region til region, men jeg kjenner til flere skeptiske grupper på nettet som har som mål å ‘eksponere’ og ‘løfte gardinen’ på såkalt alternativ medisin.
Jeg skriver ‘såkalt’ i sammenheng med alternativ medisin fordi det ikke har blitt utført nok studier ennå til å fullstendig beskrive CBD-olje som en total og fullstendig alternativ medisin, som for eksempel homeopati.
La oss håpe at jeg ikke har raset noen homeopatiske brukere.
Samme det.
Jeg bryr meg egentlig ikke.
Nå skal jeg først og fremst sørge for at ingen advokater eller juridiske personer kan saksøke meg eller dette merket ved ganske enkelt å si at hvis du har kommet hit for å lete etter en vondt og du tror at ABC CBD olje kan hjelpe du, det er absolutt ingen bevis for det.
Null.
Nada.
Der!
Nå har jeg offisielt erklært at produktet jeg markedsfører ikke kan helbrede, kurere eller forhindre sykdom eller tilstand.
Men det betyr ikke at andre mennesker synes det er nyttig.
Derfor har mange CBD-oljevirksomheter vitnesbyrd om brukere på nettstedet deres, og berømmer hvordan de har fått et nytt liv takket være CBD-olje.
Advokater, advokater og advokater blir dermed forhindret fra å ta denne saken for retten. Det er ingenting galt med markedsføring ved å bruke attester, så lenge du har en avtale fra brukerne.
Dette er ikke CBD-oljeselskapet som gjør krav, dette er BRUKERE som gjør krav på hvordan et bestemt produkt har forbedret livet.
Og her er en annen ting jeg tror.
Jeg tror ikke massene av skeptikere er klare til å bruke ABC CBD-olje. Jeg tror deres skeptiske natur vil få dem til å gjøre alt de kan for å unnskylde enhver forbedring de kan oppleve når de bruker ABC CBD-olje.
Noe som betyr at selv om de ville blitt kvitt problemer med ryggsmerter eller kanskje hadde fått betennelsen redusert etter inntak av ABC CBD-olje, ville de ha sett etter andre forklaringer.
Uansett om de hadde prøvd andre ting eller ikke. Slik som å endre kostholdet, livsstilen deres, kaste litt vekt, og så videre.
Nå, så mye som jeg liker å latterliggjøre de kjedelige menneskene som nesten alltid ser triste og deprimerte ut, har de et veldig gyldig poeng.
Det er ingen grunn til å påstå eller tro at ABC CBD-olje vil fungere med mindre du faktisk legger inn litt arbeid selv. Du må være villig til å gå ned i vekt, endre kostholdet ditt og kanskje gå på treningsstudioet og begynne å løfte vekter.
Bare å konsumere CBD-olje mens du fortsetter å slappe av i sofaen, se på Netflix og konsumere usunne matvarer, drikkevarer og godteri vil ikke gjøre deg noe.
Men selv om du gjør vesentlige endringer i livet ditt, og du er konsekvent, kan det hende at CBD-olje fortsatt ikke hjelper deg å bli kvitt smerter eller forbedre helsetilstanden din.
Du skjønner, vi har noe som heter kropper. Gener. DNA. Ulike mennesker reagerer forskjellig.
Faktisk eksisterer muligheten for at du kan konsumere ABC CBD-olje over lang tid, si ett år, og også endre kostholdet, forbedre livsstilen din og gå på treningsstudio, uten å se noen forbedringer.
Noen ganger kan ikke engang den beste CBD-oljen hjelpe deg.
For forbrukerne våre har ingen sagt at oljen ikke hjalp. Men vi vet heller ikke hvor mange andre endringer de gjorde i livet.
Så i den forbindelse har skeptikerne rett.
Skeptikerne er imidlertid også kjedelige mennesker generelt. Det er i hvert fall mitt inntrykk. Jeg har ennå møtt en morsom person som også er en skeptiker.
Likevel kan kjørelengden din variere.
CBD-olje er ikke for alle.
Ikke alle er klare."
-Aasmund Ryningen
Aasmund Ryningen er e-tekstforfatter og innholdsskapere bak latterliggjøring av CBD Oil Skeptics ovenfor. En ingeniør innen handel har han skrevet ebøker om hemmelighetene ved CBD-oljesalg fra en skeptiker og en skeptiker av skeptikere.
Du selger ikke nok CBD-olje fordi du ikke kjenner alle SALGSHEMLER
Aasmund hevder å ha disse hemmelighetene i sin ebok som ligger på hans personlige nettsted.
Vil du ha salg, men har ikke tid til å lese? Aasmund tilbyr salgstjenestene sine til seriøse, lovlige CBD-oljevirksomheter for innholdsoppretting, salg og markedsføring for nye eller tidligere e-postlister. Hans tilnærming er fremover, ærlig, konstruert. Han vil ikke lyve eller svindle kundene dine, han vil hjelpe dem ... hvis de vil ha hjelp. Han er sløv og i ansiktet ditt om vitnesbyrd og mangel på medisinsk forskning på CBD, mangel på vitenskapelige studier med CBD, og de personlige beretningene han har sett og livene han har forandret på samme tid. Han vil fortelle det som det er, ikke hva de vil høre eller gi løfter om at han ikke kan holde. Han er ikke interessert i falske kontoer fra unøyaktige kilder, han er vitne til beretninger om liv som endrer seg, og han ønsker å endre din og din virksomhet ved å få deg mer salg, og nå ut til flere mennesker og til og med tidligere kunder som henter inn gjentatte kunder. Å ha ham til å lette stresset når det kommer til markedsføring via e-post vil lette byrden og kanskje imponere fremtidige kunder med en annen ærlig og fremtidig tilnærming til CBD-salg.
Jeg vil spesialisere meg i å skrive e-postmeldinger som ikke gjør noen krav,
men det fremdeles overtaler folk til å kjøpe på grunn av alle fordelene,
alle potensialene og alle suksesshistoriene.
Aasmund forteller til Natural Healthy CBD.
Aasmund Ryningen fra Norges lidenskapelige, men vitenskapelige tilnærming kan være akkurat det selskapet trenger for å nå flere mennesker som trenger utdanning og ærlige CBD-selskaper for å veilede dem.
For mer om Aasmund, besøk hjemmesiden hans, eller du kan nå Aasmond direkte på Twitter @RealLastViking.
]]>The Department of Financial and Professional Regulation released a statement on Thursday regarding the prioritization of medical cannabis patients during a cannabis shortage as reported throughout the state.
Section 15-15(i) of the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act states, “If there is a shortage on cannabis or cannabis infused products, a dispensing organization holding both a dispensing organization license under the Compassionate Use of Medical Pilot Program Act and this act shall prioritize qualifying patients, caregivers provisional patients and Opioid Alternative Pilot Program before purchasers.”
This means any dispensary holding both medical and recreational sales licenses must adhere to the following to satisfy this requirement;
It would seem Illinois even made it possible for a medical user to switch dispensaries instantly online. This would appear to be a step in the right direction for Illinois. Finally patients over profit is taking root in Illinois Cannabis Legalization!
Time will tell if this sticks as the statement can, like any implementation, change any time.
As always you can follow corrupt cannabis at Vigilante.
]]>While no stranger to brand mocking, a practice used by thieves to attempt exit scams online by taking your money and never supplying the products, it's becoming more and more difficult to keep up with who's who and what's what in this industry. While helping brands like Hemp Hookahzz, Green Roads, Hempzilla and even their own Hemperpedic brand from having their names and logos copied and then rehosted across the internet, Natural Healthy CBD has had to remove websites and assist customers facing this fraud to get their money back and bring repercussions to the thieves. 3rd party verified and quality controlled, safely stored, and freshly made products are available by approved brands Natural Healthy CBD has dubbed as their BLUNT BRANDs.
However sometimes a thief will take the name of a BLUNT BRAND still in an effort to use our 3 tier quality control system to trick customers into a false sense of security while stealing their money and supplying fraudulent products that have nothing to do with the business itself. It's come to our attention that some dispensaries may even be cutting their products to make MORE MONEY than they already do. Not to mention the fact that there's THC and CBD companies with similar names in different states.
That's why when an article was released over the weekend by WKZO announcing a recall for the brand SAVAGE we had to put out an alert once it was verified that their cartridges were found to contain high vitamin e concentrated oils AFTER the government deemed it possibly lethal and the cause of the Vape Ban Crisis.
The article claimed the following:
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- The Marijuana Regulatory Agency (MRA) has issued a recall for certain vaping
cartridge products that have been found to have a high level of Vitamin E Acetate.
Investigators believe that Vitamin E Acetate may be the vaping additive that has resulted in several lung injuries in Michigan and across the country.
"All affected vape cartridges will have a label that indicates the license number of the marijuana facility and the METRC number assigned to the product in the statewide monitoring system," officials said in a statement.
This recall affects four vape cartridge brands sold by Plan B Wellness, which is located at 20101 8 Mile RD, Detroit, MI 48219 from October 3, 2019 through November 22, 2019 and on January 16, 2020.
We urge you to return any recalled item you may have received.
Savage CBD, our Blunt Brand, was affected as well and with Natural Healthy CBD they set out to investigate. It's come to our attention the brand was that of SAVAGE THC out of Seattle, Washington, NOT SAVAGE CBD. These are two entirely different companies.
After a secondary testing, SAVAGE CBD has returned SAFE and we do not carry any of the products involved in the recall. Due to this we're offering a sale all week long on SAVAGE CBD products using code SafeSavage10.
We thank Savage CBD in their efforts to help us with our investigation and to keep others safe.
Anyone who has purchased these products should return them to Plan B Wellness for proper disposal. Plan B Wellness is required to notify patients or caregivers that purchased these products of the recall.
Patients who have experienced symptoms after using these products should report their symptoms and product use to their physician.
All adverse product reactions should be reported to the MRA right away. The MRA can be reached via email at MRA-Enforcement@michigan.gov or via phone at 517-284-8599
]]>If you're at all familiar with Natural Healthy CBD you'll be familiar with the many helpful things they do for their local, national, and even international communities. From secret shopper missions, dispensary tours, data audits, disability advocacy and education, we don't shy away from a challenge. It's often hard to walk the line during this time of legalization because half of people will always think you're a rat, the other half won't quite know what the catch, if there is a catch. We feel our moral compass to guide us to the sick and the people who need a fair fight but aren't given even playing fields but still stand up to with a scream and try.
No one is on your side, my side, anyone's side because there are no sides. There are sick people and not sick people. We try to understand every side and have learned a lot over the years. We've always been patients, but we're not victims. We're a business but we're not greedy. We're in medicine, kinda, but not diagnosing and we're not paid a kickback every time we prescribe this over that. We're disabled with jobs. We love animals but not like that. We have service dogs that are still learning during laws and medical change, hell, world change. So when people decide they can't play nicely with one another it makes it hard for us to know who's in the right and who has more than enough playing field. That's why it's hard to step between business and patient when the government just give us these toys, and you broke them. You broke them Illinois. This is why we cant' have nice things, er laws, in illinois.
Illinois, specifically Chicago, is the criminal capital, illegal gun capital, drug capital, crime capital of the world.
I'm sure from out of state it sounds like the law is easy here to get away from, that's not it either. We have, or had in marijuana for as long as I'm willing to tell you I've been in the industry, self regulated crime. I know that's not a good start but just listen for a moment and understand the we're nearing the end of prohibition. The end. Have you met someone that hasn't tried marijuana? Not very many. Self regulation. We all did our own little thing in our own little areas and we share what we can and mellow out, man.
That's why I can tell you other than collecting the money and stamping the licenses there's no one checking these places. They heard we're pretty gangster over there in California and Colorado, so who's going to tell on the weed man? We will. Most of us with medical licenses were treated like druggies with a fix and still are in many instances. Just to give all that away would be against the point, no?
The first day marijuana was legalized, there were lines around the block, venders with felonies, and the weed magically grew, was cut, dried, packaged, and delivered overnight because there was a lot of it. A lot of it is now gone again, even with those legal limits.Unless you're a patient, then what weed? Ha ha, there was never any weed!
These dispensaries aren't used to patients fighting back, not in Illinois it seems. That or they must think all of us are fat, lazy, stupid people that can't work because even though I hold a position of CEO even the lowest level bud tenders have shown me disrespect, as a paying customer AND patient. They make sure that you know about the lines they have to cross to provide... for you. Aww!
Thing is, every time we've seen cresco or revolution buy a place the service AND product goes INSTANTLY downhill. Every time and I've witnessed them buy out 3 now. Maybe they should spend more money on their seeds or something. We know they can because they don't spend it on background checks. We'd say this was a law thing, but it's not. You still can't work in a dispensary having just walked out of prison but wouldn't you know it.
Now, all of you know that I come off a little harsh, especially when pushed into a corner by people who do it to intimidate me. Maybe it's because I work and industry from a city littered with criminals that have learned intimidation or maybe my relationship with my dad I don't know. What I do know is when online want to be celebs attempt to gaslight and stalk me, I gaslight and stalk back. Call it a defense mechanism, or maybe horrible trait but need when it comes to getting into the mind of real scumbags like the kind that buy no-tested product to sell as product from another place or those selling stuff illegally made because they didn't know there was more than one kind of oil or when they join a dispensary to set it up for a robbery, or when people start dying from bad vape carts and mold maybe the powers that control that kinda thing will take care of it.
Now, I'm not a journalist and I don't share identities, I just think they should invest in background checks in 2020 if they don't want to invest in lawsuits. Looking at you Mindful. Earthmed... you're next.
Lawsuits! There's already three of them! Ones even a class action!
Now, I've been in the industry a while and while I really, honestly tried to knock some sense into these people having worked with their parent companies for years now, or the industry, or patient advocacy and medical, or service dog law or literally any of the many hats I fill my time with (...thanks to CBD) or I've warned dispensaries I have to go to of what I do, they'll still do whatever they want because you don't have money. You're sick and you're a cripple, okay? You don't have real people money. At least it might as well sound that way with the way they've stacked up on the lawsuits. In fact, people started reporting to me thinking I knew to go about obtaining one.
Now, it wouldn't be fair transparency if we didn't mention one of them to be ours. Sadly, that's all I really can say because a lot of people have been coming forward and I think I'm going to stay quiet for a little bit. However, our friend Service Dog Paws doesn't have to stay quiet about the screencaps that were posted by Service Dog Headquarters posted from Mindful Dispensary to our Service Dog Training Log for Gotham and that is just the start of the bullshit I've gone through since people found out I was successful in CBD distribution and in fact, we've been informed they've been threatening our friends, but again... I'd like to stay quiet for a moment while I collect more information.
Gee thanks, Dom!
Say, did I also mention how I work in media and know about the websites being used by these kinds of people? I didn't?! We'll you see, the owner of these sites has been having people harass me for months but because we're unsure if he still works for or owns one of the dispensaries under investigation we'll say that pretending to be people isn't nice and threatening that people better never come to Chicago, when they aren't afraid of you and live here, also not a good idea.
I know the look of a dispensary about to sell out. Everything goes away and becomes one brand for a little bit. That's how it happened with 3C and now Aurora with Mindful, IL in Addison and even our current site of investigation, EarthMED. We knew about the limit they've placed on their customers claiming it to be the cultivators who I've spoken to, all of them, there's no shortage. In fact, the only place with that two concentrate cap... is EarthMED.
That's why I find it so weird that they have products from October since our shortage started in Novemeber. Could it be to sell to recreational people at a higher price or maybe its because they're selling it illegally? I'll get back to you. I'm literally STILL taking in complaints.
Check out the public post about it. This is me, because I don't want you to threaten and intimidate sick people anymore courtesy of your family owned dispensary.
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It's not the cultivators, but we feel like it's odd how long the owners of EarthMED have been harboring medicine, most likely to sell to recreational patients, who spend on average $33 more than medical patients.
We'll be sure to keep you up to date on legal dispensaries, behaving well for the right reasons and doing the right thing with real labs and honest people and you concentrate on getting better. We can't fix all these problems ourselves. For now if you've been intimidated by remember how their intimidation of people not only is just words, and it's done happening.
Vincent Nicotra is a problem.
Grab your tinfoil hats for a moment with me because this one's a doozy. Over the past six months I've been on an audit to a case I detailed for the FTC regarding Google's wrongful ban of legal hemp ads. Much like the Hemp Industry Association did with their Timesquares ad to catch the attention of Facebook admins, it's much hard to grab their attention if their email and social media is guarded by their new hire, untrained pet dog owner, Vincent Nicotra.
It's bad enough he threatened and harassed me, but he used my own family. He got into my friends list, made fake
profiles, fake companies, fake profiles, all to set others up with friend, Angel "Janis." It wouldn't be a problem if I wasn't forced to listen to twitch, discord voice chats, youtube videos and livestreams. Furthermore, because he'd studied me and my friends list, I was forced to listen to them mock me with personalized insults about my weight, my seizures, being raped, having my children taken, past abuse, a trusted flagger admit to gaslighting and stalking, a dispensary worker admitting to finding and running someone's debit card without their permission, doxxing paypal users, harassing porn stars and how they were going to frame people for it.
I've seen people other than me suffer far worse. I've overheard it as a hunt for mental illness which, check. Others claim a legion, a group of people set to out people for making false allegations... unless the allegation of the allegation is false. I actually went to someone in this legion, someone I once held a lot of respect for. I sent him pictures of being threatened of being doxed and projecting... a lot. See Vincent likes to use the same couple insults like Lazy and if you show people he'll claim libel or slander. While Shane Gentry aka Spaceboy was playing character Norm, someone who suffers from a seizure disorder, Vincent was also playing in my information. Vincent got a job at a dispensary, my dispensary, Mindful dispensary where he continued to dig through my personal friends and attempt to sell them PLANTBASED or oneplant cbd, CBD products that never passed inspection and we do not sell due to failed labs in some weird MLM type of deal that I'm getting accused of but should ask Shane about.
So, Vincent was feeding all my information back to a bunch of strangers on the internet to use against me for god knows what but I wasn't alone. If you've applied for a business license in hemp or cannabis, or you've ever purchased it, he's got you too.
This man attempted to ruin careers like Petty Paige and Nick Schneider, in fact pitting us all against each other. He mass flags, scams, and lies then accuses others for it. I've been told that they'll use CBD Piggy to get in, whatever that means and not only told I've cost someone money and will never work in the industry again by Tommy C, but they threatened others as well in an effort to control the creative space. They're even threatening me using the name of my own father because they're to pathetic to use their own, but that is something for another time. I'm not sure what that has to do with medical or moral benefit. I've witnessed people become suicidal, relapse, I've lost friends, was mocked for my federal service dog rights, I was banned from my dispensary for having a service animal, threatened by to shut the fuck up, kept up countless nights, had my ex abuser contacted and then stalked by a legion I didn't know existed of people I respected. When I went to protect them and tell them what was happening, I was asked for proof of where some other dude asked to touch me 2 years ago because they don't associate with false allegations, of which there are none, because people who don't expect to accuse people of thing don't have every time they've rejected sex on video. This is worth two years of stalking from someone you sponsored. This sort of feels like you're going after sexual assault victims or women who speak up to force them to change their story. Classy.
That said, it concerns me that this lunatic has total access to the biotrak system with everyone's private information of which they're using to find, neigh set up pedophiles, for Chris Hansen.
I know, that's the crazy part. This man who mocked everything from my seizures to getting "throat fucked" is in charge of children that are victim of sexual predators. This man, has all your personal information and has been threatening and doxing celebrities and youtubers for god knows how long, the guy mocking and harassing sexual assault is in charge of the child victims on Hansen vs Predator.
Don't take my word for it, I'm just going to let trusted creators of the Youtube space and the city of Chicago explain it to you.
Not to mention he dug through my friends, their friends, your friends, we're friends at this point. We all said and did some stupid stuff in the name of protecting ourselves and for that, I take responsibility and am truly sorry for my part. I'm very protective of my business and the partnerships, I've made and this guy has come between that, I have half a mind to wonder if there's anything else illegal being done at Mindful since Vincent works there and they hire felons. I'll keep you updated on that, and the current investigation and dispensary secret shop mission, now that I know Vincent won't manipulate it. I leave you with this video by Baked Salmon once again about this criminal working for Mindful and Chris Hansen because it was his channel that first was wrongfully flagged and taken down during the audit. I'm sorry it took me so long to see what was going on.
Please support each other and if you stream, don't be an asshole. Maybe you're not getting sponsors because you think it's funny to talk about their rape and throatfucking them and how abusive that must be for them mentally because you don't know who really is listening on that audit.
If I can say one last thing out of court, I hope Nick and Paige wipe the fucking floor with you, because I'm going to.
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However both businesses and creators keep getting blocked by "the man," who's actually a middle aged leftist woman named Susan, we've come to find out. While she's at Youtube, a Google company, it hemorrhages money and users, yet still having $25 million for Vox, the company that lead to one of the bigger advertiser bailouts (adpocolypse) to date. Google has gone from anything goes blocking it's services such as Social Blade or audit bots, manipulating algorithms to favor certain creators, blocking small businesses from advertising, prohibiting hemp lest you risk losing your channel, pandering to the lgbt community while also banning all lgbt creators from earning an income... the list goes on and on.
Many people have tried to come forward for a while about Google, but were written off as conspiracy theorists. Now, it would seem, creators and youtubers have begun to see the patterns are the ones exposing youtube and in a really big way.
It was late night show, Afterhours with AugieRFC ft Bowblax where we had first heard of Youtube's newest scandal. #Checkyourpscore went viral shortly before on twitter and coincidentally the original name of the episode in which we first heard about this issue. Afterhours, a livestream podcast regarding online news and banter, exposed the pscores Youtube had attempted to hide from creators. The news was kept quiet for 24 hours before they went public, however Youtube had the P-Scores hidden and patched by the time the show had ended. It took 2 hours.
Normally this isn't something of concern and some might argue that there's a possibly Youtube is just on top of it's game. We assure you it's not. Youtube has written an article patting itself on the back for ATTEMPTING customer service, something we all do for our businesses daily. We also wish to bring your attention back to TOONE, the creator whose account was hacked (another occurrence becoming more common at Youtube) causing the creator to lose his only source of income for the past 8 years. It two WEEKS for Youtube to respond. He had big name creators making videos and tweeting the company, however the company is notorious for having you DM them then muting you and never responding again. This is something Sinatra Says, creator and friend to our site and Afterhours, knows all too well. He's been tweeting youtube and emailing them every day for 2 months. They've taken his income as well, in the form of a full demonetization on his channel without explanation and not a single response.
This in mind, Youtube's jumping to silently fix the leaked pscore concern within 2 hours showed they had something to hide. Google has come under fire for politically swaying their search results on Google search as well as Youtube. This was mentioned on Afterhours as well as asking, What's your P-score?
P-scores, Bowblax explains, is the algorithm Youtube uses for videos to organize them into categories for advertisers. This was accompanied by a thorough document entitled YouTube’s P-Scores, Video Throttling, and More: A Comprehensive Guide By: Bowblax, Nicholars DeOrio, Optimus, Pescatore
We urge not only creators but those whom work with us for advertising to read it as we could never do as thorough a job as these four creators have, but we wanted to pick out some key parts we think needs a closer look.
P-Scores refer to an internal rating given by Google to channels to rate them based on five metrics according to a video that they released on April 10th, 2019. These metrics are all combined to, “surface among the most popular channels on YouTube.”
The five metrics are popularity, platform, passion, protection, production.
Popularity: Heavily driven by watch time. The more minutes that your videos are being watched, the better that this metric will influence your overall P-Score. Channels that put out longer videos will most likely have better ‘popularity rankings’ than channels that put out extremely short videos.
Passion: Leans more on engagement with an audience, so channels that have more devoted fanbases who engage content more with likes, comments, and in other methods likely will have better rankings in ‘passion.’
Protection: Based on how suitable content is for advertisers. Family friendly channels obviously will do great. Edgy content will not.
Platform: Beneficial to content that is frequently watched on larger screens, primarily TV screens. Seems to target growing audiences.
Production: Focuses on content that uses high-quality editing, camera footage, and more. The better the production value, most likely, the better the score.
Ideally, if you make the following type of content:
This would make your P-Score higher than the average user.
Curious.
P-Scores appear to be more than just these five benchmarks being compared against your metrics, they appear to be more like overall scores of an account in general. When you look at a P-Score, it doesn’t give you insight on any strong suits for these five things. It only gives you the one unified number, which is your overall grade. The issue, however, is that creators have no way of determining or identifying the individual values for each of these benchmarks.
Creators who are doing great with popularity, platform and passion might never have the opportunity to fix their protection scores because they’d never know it’s an issue, for example. You can mix and match between these five to make problems for channels, but they could never fully reach their potential if they can’t identify an issue. Google knows that these are issues but does not alert creators or give them an opportunity to access this data without finding some sort of weird exploit to get to it.
Another major note for P-Scores is that they appear to be region-based. While obtaining scores for creators from the United States, we noticed that we were getting different scores for these same exact creators from Bowblax, a Canadian creator. He estimated that the average Canadian P-Score value for creators was ‘about 20 points less.’ To test our theory, we used a VPN from the United States to appear as a Canadian user, and we matched the numbers perfectly. P-Scores do appear to be region-based.
The document then goes in detail on how to locate a specific channels P-score, now invalid as it's been patched. They do however explain the guide to ratings that reminds us a lot of television, something we all know Youtube is attempting to become with their influx of comedy show clip channels hitting trending every day. They describe these ratings as Y, G, PG, Teen, Mature, and X. They explain these ratings in detail in the guide as well.
The team then brings to your attention throttling and what youtube has said and done to hide it from you. The team has an entire section on throttling code found as well. To throttle a function means to ensure that the function is called at most once in a specified time period (for instance, once every 10 seconds). This means throttling will prevent a function from running if it has run “recently”. Throttling also ensures a function is run regularly at a fixed rate.(bit.dev)
The team concludes; "At this point, we’re completely in the dark like usual with how YouTube has developed all of this and implemented this, and also on how they’ll react. We know that this information alone is extremely valuable to the YouTube community, and so figuring this out has been a potential revelation that can benefit creators for a long time to come.
YouTube will potentially fix these exploits to get your P-Score/other peoples’ P-Score very soon, possibly within hours or days. It’s best that you get your information now if you can in case there is no other way to get it. At this point, we’re unsure what this means specifically for the future. We just want this to help everyone else."
They were right. We were intrigued by the dedication these users put forth just to be patched two hours later. Still, the guide does hold some information within it that validates things we've said in the past as well as may help you as a creator or small business advertiser in the future. We highly suggest you read the full guide here.
For more details on their findings, they've included a spreadsheet of 200 channels they looked at while investigating P-scores including friends of ours or friends of Blunt Media such as Steven Crowder, Cognificent Thought, WillyMacShow, Lord Vega, Pewds, Markiplier, Jacksepticeye, to Kavos, Vox, Drama Alert, TV Network channels and even Susan herself. You can view the collected data in a spreadsheet here.
We urge everyone to read this and see it as the tip of the iceberg when it comes to problems we face and are trying to expose and change in the future of big tech control over the internet, social media, free speech, and fair business and advertising. As you witnessed from The Blacklist, we can't do it alone. We could pull out all the secrets of Google to expose them but without you sharing the information, no one will know of it. We walk the line, while we're writing an article we're not journalists. While we run a business, were not the big corrupt business behind the corruption of America keeping this industry back (but not down!) We're activists for marijuana legality and law reform, but we're not social justice warriors. We work with the disabled but only help those who are willing to help themselves. We create but we're not creators, advertise but aren't THOSE advertisers, we're in chat but not just viewers and we sponsor people but won't allow Youtube their cut because we feel they don't keep up their end to deserve it. We don't pay for no security or guarantee and no matter how much more they mess up the platform it won't bring back the hordes of advertisers that left the second they threw Pewdiepie under the bus. They'll blame advertisers which causes creators to shit on advertisers which leads to less advertisers wanting to pay the ungrateful youtubers and streamers who most brand dealers actively are attempting to make family friendly... but no one really cares about that. The advertisers aren't leaving because you curse, or because you're gay. They left because the company threw you under the bus, then blamed advertisers. They didn't stand by anyone. Their foundation is weak and many creators ate it up, shitting on the few people left to be able to sign a paycheck when youtube demonetized them. This is another way Youtube let down the very thing that runs it's service, video creators and their content.If they are willing to throw the very thing that makes them under the bus who's to say they won't throw a specific advertiser under the bus next time the going gets tough or the mute button breaks?
Your enemy is not the advertisers, but they do watch. CEO's are people like you, often attempting to fill the void of silence with some form of human connection and thus turning towards playing podcasts and streams in the background to keep themselves tuned in. Often times sponsorships are granted by a company asking for a channel by name that they watch themselves.They don't care that you're edgy like late night, they don't care that you play ads, they don't care about any of that. In fact, in the beginning youtube would let you pick out keywords and channels to NOT advertise with. What happened to that simple system?
Now imagine you working your butt off in an effort to build something to help creators out of your own time, money and free will only to overhear creators wrongfully judging, attacking, and shitting on them. It won't bring them back for Youtube ads and it won't bring them back to sponsor your channel privately. On that note, ads are often chosen via automatic aggregation, and private sponsorships requiring adreads and commercial fare have begun to work together on aggregating their ads without Youtube and Google, through brand dealers like our BluntBrands and Famebit. They have their own rating system and ability to warn other businesses from a creator with bad practices; such as theft, slander, bad behavior, breaking contracts etc. Together with Youtube's new P-score, if your listed as hard to work with on a popular aggregator where businesses come to talk about changing the way we advertise online, you could have all the influence in the world and be completely un-marketable.
Many managers in the livestream communities have taken this as a call for censorship and family friendly content completely unaware that it will do nothing for them due to the actions and behaviors displayed by that channel. Knowing the type of social scoring Google seems to be going for on youtube, this seems like it will soon jump into the finances of more than just youtubers and content creators, but the privacy of all of it's users while it attempts to monopolize the internet, Google known to often steal script from smaller app developers that cannot afford to sue them. This puts an emphasis on BBB, who holds Facebook and Google in high regard DESPITE THEIR HORRIBLE CUSTOMER SERVICE SCORE and endless reports of them simply refusing to contact and ignoring correspondence. This is the biggest example of unfair business practice on the net. Money, threats, and size get you a better business score, even if your business is terrible. Business Yellow Pages app Yelp got in trouble for doing similar a few years back, however being a dedicated contact and advertising platform, they are subject to FTC limitations the BBB is not, like antitrust and fair competition law. Oftentimes BBB is used as an effort to threaten businesses during this age of cancel culture and I'm here to tell you, BBB has no control over anything. You go, you complain, you feel better, our junk email collects the report we'll never respond to. This is common and probably easier for the BBB which is why they don't send letters, make calls, even contact business emails rather than report emails. The goal isn't really to fix your concern. It's to be a standard that no one checks anymore.
Good news is, millennials are coming to professional positions in an effort to change. They're journalists, creators, small businesses and some becoming big businesses. They're learning what we've learned a while back and why most of our clients hire us in the first place. The power of the internet is truly in it's users. Your influence is due to your user engagement. Livestreams would not be entertaining without it's chat, it's users. Your fans, your end user, should be how your scored on Youtube. It was. It worked. Your channel would grow and become promoted or trending based on the website's end users. They'd watch, subscribe, like or dislike your videos which would bring those with positive interaction to the top and worse to the bottom per day, per video and it worked. Now you have a P-score.
Creator Bowblax went into detail on his video "What Youtube is Hiding From You"
The internet will find it if it exists and this can be both a good and bad thing, however we understand this power and would rather be on the site of the internet users, the people. You can confuse and gaslight but you cannot tell them what to think. They find truth and they share it. They judge openly. They will tell you if you ask. This is why we don't "cancel" sponsorships to creators due to witch hunts but listen to the complaints and only end contracts if the user is posing harm to their or our community. This is why we urge interaction between businesses and why we partner with so many of them willing to work together for fair ads to help the creators we grew up watching and we know and love. So next time you get that offer for a small business working with your channel, see if you can work together on a deal for advertising for tomorrow they could own one of the biggest businesses or aggregators in the world and it would be amazing if we all could grow together, bigger than the biggest tech.
However, crawlers and aggregators use code to find video and Google is aware of this, often times intentionally scripting or patching code to intentionally prevent devs and aggregation to its content creators. Even though youtube won't pay them, you can't either. Google has blocked us on multiple occasions which is why we had our data pulled for a 3rd party audit, why we're botting in your chats, and why BOT7 from the sbai app... a Youtube account with regular watch hours (its to imitate a moderate to active user) with no video uploads was banned for breaking upload terms of service. Youtube has muted us over a year ago, they refuse to respond to email as well and we aren't given the option to appeal. This is one of 8 audit bots proving Google is manipulating this P-score for planted creators and favorites, like Juicewrld, whom published a video earlier this year of YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki allegedly promising him Artificial Growth covered below by our friend Memology101.
Without this video many may not have even begun to look into the artificial growth and manipulation Google is capable of and actively using, like the manual review process that we've come to find demonetizes all videos during prime views we suspect to not have to pay creators for the first few hours when they make the most on their videos. Under review, you won't get monetized until the views begin to slow down. Something we're also looking into but think should be known.
It's 2019 and big name tech has proven they cannot handle the great responsibility Google has taken upon itself.The same goes for those who witch hunt with some sense of power, businesses who want to control all the money flow, and pharma companies who put the lives and health of their customers second to their income. These, the main enemy in the battle of internet freedom and if you like your freedom of speech and don't believe in wrong think, MUST be exposed to the rest of the creators and the internet if we have any hope of stopping it for the future. We could lose it all to censorship without creators like these that go above and beyond to expose the truths on the internet.
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