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Feb 12
Gaming Adult Scores Again, Maintains Momentum into 2020

GeneZorkinYnot.com 2019 was another banner year for Gaming Adult, the adult video gaming company that steadily rose in both size and prominence over its first 10 years – then exploded with growth following the company’s decision to begin making its own games, back in 2016. Along the way, the company has won back-to-back YNOT Awards […]

Feb 12
Want to Be the King of Your Next Tailgate or Party? Bring One of These Mini Kegs

Spy.comWhile a chilled can or bottle is a great way to drink beer, there’s something about draft that can’t be topped. Whether it’s purely in your head or you follow the scientific reasoning behind it, enjoying your beer from a keg feels like the right way to do it. However, where kegs and taps are easily […]

Feb 11
Vermont Turns to Home-Grown Blockchain Company to Track Hemp With Ethereum

Danny NelsonCoindeskVermont regulators will track hemp production on the ethereum mainnet in partnership with cannabis supply chain blockchain startup Trace.  The five-year deal, announced Monday by Vermont’s Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets (VAAFM), is a production-ready solution for every level of the hemp trade, said Trace CEO Josh Decatur. Beginning in March, farmers and processors will […]

Feb 11
Aurora Cannabis earnings: Here comes a billion-dollar loss

MarketWatchWhen Aurora Cannabis Inc. announced last week that co-founder and Chief Executive Terry Booth would retire, it also revealed another loss to come: A quarterly deficit of roughly a billion dollars. Aurora ACB, -1.28% ACB, -1.44%  is scheduled to report fiscal second-quarter results Thursday morning, and it is expected to reveal a loss of about C$1 billion ($750 million) thanks […]

Feb 08
Cannabis Jobs Report

Leafly.comHow many jobs are there in the legal marijuana industry? Leafly’s annual Cannabis Jobs Report found 243,700 full-time-equivalent (FTE) jobs supported by legal cannabis as of January 2020. That’s a 15% year-over-year increase. Over the past 12 months the expanding industry has created 33,700 new jobs nationwide, making legal marijuana the fastest-growing industry in America. […]

Feb 05
Riley Reid Promotes ReidMyLips Relaunch With L.A. Billboards

LOS ANGELES—Porn superstar Riley Reid now peers down at Los Angelenos from a bright yellow billboard near the corner of Hillhurst Avenue and Los Feliz Boulevard just east of Hollywood, in a clever, high-concept advert promoting her newly relaunched official website ReidMyLips.com.  “Reid Everyday” the billboard proclaims beside a picture of a bespectacled Reid looking […]

Jan 10
CBD store owner accused of scamming hemp farmers pleads not guilty

VTDIGGERProsecutors are mulling an appeal to the state’s top court after a judge downgraded the most serious charge against a Waterbury CBD businessman accused of ripping off hemp farmers. Douglas Bell, owner of CBD-Vermont in Waterbury, is accused of contracting with farms and then not paying for their services. At an arraignment Thursday, Bell was […]

Jan 10
Sex work decriminalization bill introduced

State NewsA group of lawmakers has introduced a bill for the 2020 session that would decriminalize sex work in the state of Vermont. The bill, only four pages long, would simply repeal current sex work statutes prohibiting the act. Human trafficking and the sale of sex that is coerced in any form would still be […]

Jan 08
Ex-strip club hostess who inspired Jennifer Lopez’s character in ‘Hustlers’ sues for $40m

STXfilms Samantha Barbash — the real-life inspiration for Jennifer Lopez’s character in Hustlers— is suing the makers of the film for defamation. The defendants include STX Films, Lopez’s Nuyorican Productions, Gloria Sanchez Productions and Pole Sisters LLC. Hustlers tells the story of a struggling dancer, Destiny (Constance Wu), who befriends a top dancer, Ramona (Lopez), who later enlists her […]

Dec 28
Industry Leaders Are Out to Change the World One Pleasure Product at a Time

Xbiz.comAfter the near-ubiquitous haute appropriation of the rainbow for every mainstream marketing campaign in the month of June, it certainly feels like conviction in formerly incendiary statements is all but disappeared. But full disclosure — true activism is not a trend. And it’s not a marketing gimmick; although the proof of concept is certainly there. Read more…

Dec 23
XtraSexyReality Offers Hybrid VR Video, Gaming App

XBIZ.comLOS ANGELES — XtraSexyReality has released its innovative, interactive virtual reality porn game, featuring actual models rather than computer-generated characters. Recently banned from Steam’s adult content store, the app is a “choose your own adventure”-style game that works with both VR headsets and gaming computers, with user choices made via an on-screen “horny meter” and […]

Dec 23
Pioneering Gay Adult Filmmaker William Higgins Passes

XBIZ.comAMSTERDAM — According to reports, pioneering filmmaker William Higgins passed Saturday from a sudden heart attack. The legendary gay adult director and producer, whose career stretched back to the early ’70s, maintained a prolific work ethic; as recently as Friday, Higgins had updated his long-running video blog. Higgins had recently turned 77 years old; it […]