Inside the ‘Apple Store of Weed’

The cannabis dispensary has a lot to prove before it becomes the biggest marijuana company in America. If you have trouble reading this message, view it in a browser.       MedMen Is Already Praised as the 'Apple Store of Weed'—But Its Rapid Trajectory Is Getting Sticky   MedMen wants to make one thing clear: It is not your dad's Cheech and Chong dealer. Its goal is take all those tired notions about marijuana—the laziness and the sketchiness and the criminality—and revamp them. Its dispensaries are cleaner than most grocery stores. The walls, bright red and white, come to life as halo-lighting bounces off their glossy sheens. But while product perception gets a face lift, MedMen is coming up against its first big setbacks. Read More           Pornhub's 2019 Insights Show That When the Going Gets Tough, People Watch Porn   Pornhub released statistics on site traffic during both the polar vortex and a week of no government, and it turns out that people really enjoy filling that extra time with pornography. For the government shutdown, Pornhub surveyed American porn use during the week of January 7 through 10. The results are very telling. Read More           They All Know How Bad It Is. They Do Nothing.   In a better world, all of these nature's noblemen presently coming out of the woodwork to explain how they knew El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago was a danger to democracy before anyone else did would be doing so without having a book to pitch. But, what the hell, you defend democracy with the democracy you have, right? Anyway, now it's defrocked FBI guy Andrew McCabe's turn in the spotlight, and he's making the most of it. He told 60 Minutes that he had opened investigations into the president* because he genuinely suspected that the president* at least might be an unwitting Russian asset. On Tuesday, he dropped by the TODAY show and raised his bet. Read More           Sexist Trolls Are Already Waging War Against Captain Marvel With Negative Reviews   Scrolling through the six pages of reviews on Rotten Tomatoes shows this to be a common theme: misogynist men angry to see a female superhero with her own movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Of course, this is nothing new for high-profile movies that boast a lead actor who is not a white male. Read More           The 13 Best Messenger Bags for Carrying All Your Stuff   When it comes to day-to-day stuff-carrying, a select few shapes will always make sense. Messenger bags are one of the classics, especially if you have to commute on public transit, on foot, or even on a bike. The style comes from a place of practicality—it fits your laptop and important paperwork without risk of bending—but the outside can vary from casual to very (very) luxe. Whatever your style, there's a messenger fit that'll feel right on brand. Here are 13 of the best. Read More           The Trailer for Netflix's Mötley Crüe Biopic Leaves Out None of the Sex or Drugs   In a time when musical stories are the hot thing in Hollywood (see A Star Is Born and Bohemian Rhapsody both earning Best Picture nominations at the Oscars), it is the perfect moment for a Mötley Crüe biopic that leaves none of the debauchery out. Based off the excellent memoir The Dirt comes a Netflix biopic of the same name. And, by the looks of this first trailer, it is an unflinching look at Mötley Crüe—drugs, crimes, sex, and all. That's more than can be said about the sanitized depiction of Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody. Read More         Read More on Esquire.com       Follow Us     Unsubscribe  Privacy Notice   esquire.com ©2019 Hearst Communications Inc. All Rights Reserved. Hearst Email Privacy, 300 W 57th St., Fl. 19 (sta 1-1), New York, NY 10019