Marijuana Dispensary Opening Soon 45 Minutes From Twin Falls

Marijuana Dispensary Opening Soon 45 Minutes From Twin Falls

Idaho is one of the few states on the west coast that does not have some form of marijuana use legalized. Jackpot, Nevada is only about 45 minutes away from Twin Falls and a marijuana dispensary is opening soon there. Again, no form of cannabis is legalized in Idaho.

The dispensary is called THRIVE cannabis. It will provide all sorts of different forms of cannabis from edibles to vape cartridges. THRIVE will also offer concentrates and accessories according to their website.

THRIVE has 5 locations as of right now in Las Vegas with 3 more opening soon including the one located in Jackpot.

Apparently, THRIVE offers delivery and curbside right now at some of it’s Las Vegas locations. There is no indication right now if that is going to be an option in Jackpot.

The location for the dispensary will be 1868 Royal Dr, Jackpot, Nevada, 89825. The goal is to serve all of Elko County.

As of right now I do not have an exact opening date but we do know that the goal is for them to be open some time in September. I am sure we will have more information in the coming weeks.

Again, there is absolutely no legalization of marijuana in Idaho. Not for medicinal use and definitely not for recreational use. It is legal in Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Utah for medicinal use, California and states across the country.

For more information you can get details at their website.

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Kim Jong Un reshuffled his leadership after blaming officials for creating a ‘great crisis’

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un appears to have dramatically reshuffled his senior leadership after expressing frustration with the negligence and irresponsible actions of some senior officials, offenses that have purportedly resulted in a “great crisis.”

Kim recently took a photo with top officials that confirmed suspicions a shake-up had taken place at the highest levels.

In the photo, Ri Pyong Chol, a top military official who held the rank of marshal and oversaw aspects of North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, is seen standing not in the front row but a few rows back and was dressed in civilian clothing, according to NK News.

It appears that Ri is no longer a member of the Politburo Presidium.

Pak Jong Chon, another top military official, seems to have been demoted from marshal to vice marshal, and another officer, Kim Jong Gwan, looked to have lost his vice marshal status.

Photos also suggest that Choe Sang Gon, a science and education official, has lost his standing within the politburo, Reuters reported, noting that two other officials appear to have been promoted.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks during a Report on Enlarged Meeting of the 2nd Political Bureau of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea in Pyongyang. (KCNA via Reuters)

The apparent reshuffling of senior leadership follows a meeting in late June in which Kim chastised top officials for unspecified failings apparently linked to the COVID-19 situation.

North Korean state media reported that Kim said “senior officials in charge of important state affairs neglected the implementation of important decisions of the [Worker’s Party of Korea] on taking organizational, institutional, material, scientific and technological measures as required by the prolonged state emergency epidemic prevention campaign associated with the worldwide health crisis.”

He said their “lack of ability and irresponsibility” created “a great crisis in ensuring the security of the state and safety of the people.”

What that crisis may be is unclear, but there are indications that North Korea is facing a food shortage, economic challenges, and possibly COVID-19 outbreaks domestically.

The Rodong Sinmun, the newspaper of the ruling worker’s party, wrote recently that while some mistakes are forgivable, “causing critical harm to our party, country and people due to irresponsibility and negligence of duty is never acceptable,” The Daily Beast reported.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks during WPK meeting in Pyongyang. (KCNA via Reuters)

North Korea has always been very hard to read, and expert opinions on the subject tend to vary from person to person.

Bruce Bechtol, a former Pentagon intelligence analyst and an expert on North Korea, told The Daily Beast recent developments indicate “the country is in big trouble right now,” with other experts suggesting that more purges may follow.

“Kim Jong Un is rewriting the internal dynamics of the regime,” Ken Gause, an expert at a think tank, told The Wall Street Journal as others suggested that maybe Kim was blaming senior officials for not doing their jobs as desired.

Some experts said Kim may be projecting his own leadership failings onto other officials.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks during WPK meeting in Pyongyang. (KCNA via Reuters)

Michael Madden, a 38 North expert, recently cautioned against jumping to conclusions in discussions with Reuters, saying that “demotions are very common things in North Korea politics.”

Madden further explained that “we need to keep in mind that things that look like demotions to us can in fact be something else.”

This article originally appeared on Business Insider. Follow @BusinessInsider on Twitter.

Feature image: KCNA via Reuters

Local Documentary on Rome NAACP Previews This Weekend

Veteran videographer Rick E. Lewis has spent the last year working on a documentary to tell the story of the Rome, NY chapter of the NAACP, and he’s not done.

Lewis told WIBX’s Keeler Show on Friday COVID slowed him down, but he’s gained so many additional contacts that he needs to complete those interviews before he’s done. So, this weekend he’ll show a 30 minute preview of the soon to come documentary. The documentary preview that will be featured at Cinema Capitol on Friday June 18 and Saturday at 7pm and also airing on the WKTV CBS affiliate on Saturday at 7pm (simulcast on WKTV.com).

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Lewis said his investigation into the NAACP chapter has taken him down many roads, and different highways as well, as he’s traveled around the country to complete in-person interviews. He says he’s not sure when the project will be completed, but he knows there has to be a deadline or else, the search for content will never end. He says this weekend’s preview will give people a great idea of what’s to come.

On Friday and Saturday, June 18th and 19th at 7:00 pm they will be screening the new documentary preview before the feature length documentary, “NATIONTIME” which tells the story of the 1972 Black Political Convention, a mirror to the national discussion of race and the era of the civil rights movement that our local NAACP branch was borne out of. NATIONTIME collects black voices from across the political spectrum, among them Jesse Jackson, Dick Gregory, Coretta Scott King, Richard Hatcher, Amiri Baraka, Charles Diggs, and H. Carl McCall. Narrated by Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte, the film was considered too militant for television broadcast at the time and has since circulated only in an edited 58-minute version. This new 4K restoration from IndieCollect, with funding from Jane Fonda and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, returns the film to its original 80-minute length and visual quality. The new extended version will be shown this weekend.

In celebration of Juneteenth, the NAACP Rome Branch and Cinema Capitol are offering free admission to both showtimes Friday June 18 at 7:00pm and Saturday, June 19th at 7pm.

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