{"id":138009,"date":"2019-03-01T20:39:54","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T03:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=138009"},"modified":"2019-03-01T20:39:54","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T03:39:54","slug":"dude-its-a-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/01\/dude-its-a-good-thing.html","title":{"rendered":"Dude, it&#8217;s a GOOD thing!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Martha-Stewart-and-Snoop-Dogg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-138011\" title=\"Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Martha-Stewart-and-Snoop-Dogg-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Martha-Stewart-and-Snoop-Dogg-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Martha-Stewart-and-Snoop-Dogg-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Martha-Stewart-and-Snoop-Dogg.jpg 530w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Martha Stewart is getting into &#8230; the pot business?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lifestyle authority and television personality\u00a0Martha Stewart\u00a0has entered a business partnership with\u00a0Canopy Growth, one of the globe&#8217;s largest marijuana producers, to develop hemp-derived CBD products.\u00a0Stewart will play an advisory role at Canopy and will assist in developing a broad new line of animal health products, the company said Thursday. The partnership includes\u00a0Sequential Brands Group, a consumer brands company in the fashion, active and home categories that works with Stewart.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As marijuana and related products become more mainstream, a big part of that is &#8230; well, becoming a normal business. Celebrity sponsors. Known labels. Like &#8230; well, real businesses and products. Which, of course, the cannabis biz is, but still creates for some of us old-timers a degree of cognitive dissonance.<\/p>\n<p>Martha Stewart &#8230; and hemp. Who&#8217;d&#8217;a thunk?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/02\/28\/martha-stewart-to-join-marijuana-grower-canopy-growth.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martha Stewart is getting into &#8230; the pot business? Lifestyle authority and television personality\u00a0Martha Stewart\u00a0has entered a business partnership with\u00a0Canopy Growth, one of the globe&#8217;s largest marijuana producers, to develop hemp-derived CBD products.\u00a0Stewart will play an advisory role at Canopy and will assist in developing a broad new line of animal health products, the company &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/01\/dude-its-a-good-thing.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dude, it&#8217;s a GOOD thing!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35,75,371],"tags":[1757,1758,1759],"class_list":["post-138009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-business","category-media-performers","category-war-on-drugs","tag-itsagoodthing","tag-marthastewart","tag-pot"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Martha-Stewart-and-Snoop-Dogg.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1877,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/04\/13\/desperation_tim.html","url_meta":{"origin":138009,"position":0},"title":"Desperation time","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 13-Apr-02 1:22pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Kmart is in the tank at the moment, and desperate to claw back from bankruptcy. 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