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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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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…

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 […]

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 […]

by Andrew Gurza Whenever I watch gay porn, I always feel left out. I’m usually watching muscular, white, able-bodied dudes go at it, and while I found that really hot for many years, I was always hyperaware that my disabled body had no place in those scenes. I never saw a wheelchair user like me […]

Jessica Jaymes has died. Adult film star Jessica Jaymes, who appeared on Showtime’s “Weeds” and the HBO docuseries “Vivid Valley,” has died. She was only 43 years old according to reports. Read more…

Mechanical Sex: The Relationship Between Intercourse And Intimacy As a society, we talk about sex more openly today than ever before. But so much still goes unsaid. This week on the Hidden Brain radio show, complicated stories of intimacy and attraction.