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Yahoo
30-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
‘It should not be up to the government': Tyler smoke shop urges people to veto THC ban bill
TYLER, Texas (KETK)– The ban on THC in Texas has local businesses and East Texans concerned. Senate Bill 3 will ban all THC products and now waits for Abbott's signature. Co-owner of Dragon's Breath in North Tyler said a full THC ban will do more harm than good. 'We were disgusted' Civil Rights activists call for Tyler Police resignations When the House and Senate passed the bill, co-owner, Lauren Gilmore made all THC products 25 percent off and she believes SB-3 becoming law would be harmful to Texans. 'Honestly, just putting people's lives at risk and making ordinarily law-abiding citizens into criminals,' Dragon's Breath co-owner, Lauren Gilmore said. The bill was spearheaded by Lieutenant Governor, Dan Patrick. AG Commissioner, Sid Miller, has supported the bill and said taking away THC will protect kids. 'You have seventh grader to walk in a convenience store buy a bag of gummies. You know Delta-9 gummies which is full strength marijuana and take those back to junior high and pass them around. That wasn't illegal. We never intended for that to happen,' AG Commissioner Sid Miller said. 'The GOP is split on it. There's a lot of them would like to keep it the status as is, or at least legalize some form of legal use of THC outside of medicinal use. There's a portion of the Republican Party that is dead set against it. He's kind of between a rock and a hard place.' 'I think people should be able to be trusted with what they're putting into their body. It's all up to them. It should not be up to the government. This should not be a nanny state,' Gilmore said. Dragon's Breath strictly follows the 21 or older law when selling in Gilmore's store. THC sales is 30% of their business at Dragon's Breath. Nearly 6000 shops around the state will be affected by the bill. 'It's unfortunate that they're going to be affected negatively economically, but that was a risk they took and they knew that going in doesn't make it any better,' Miller said. If SB-3 becomes law, Gilmore is worried for the wellbeing of her customers. 'Some people are using it, you know, just for aches and pains from joint muscles, arthritis, lots of anxiety and depression,' Gilmore said. She believes people will find cannabis on the streets and their lives may be in danger. 'I had a friend who actually OD'd from laced fentanyl cannabis on the streets, which is to me is way more dangerous getting it on the street than inside a shop where all of these products have been tested by a lab,' Gilmore said. Dragon's Breath will remain open and Gilmore will try to keep all of her staff. If signed by Abbott, the law will take effect in September and stores in Texas will have until January to be in full compliance with the law. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
08-05-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
Mysterious smoke ring in Kansas was likely man-made
Frankie Roman Camren was riding his motorcycle on Monday evening in Bonner Springs, Kansas, when he saw something unexpected in the sky: a dark ring of smoke. He took out his phone to record it, uploaded a video to Facebook and asked "What the [heck] is this?" "Let me start off by saying, it's been a little crazy," Camren said in a video message to AccuWeather on Facebook. "It's a smoke ring. I don't know what caused it. I've heard all sorts of stuff, from portals to aliens invading." Camren said that a friend of his sent the video to KAKE news in Wichita, which they uploaded to Facebook, and the rest is history. That video now has 1.2 million views. A rare, but typically man-made event While no one has a definitive answer for this particular event yet, most smoke rings have turned out to be man-made. Causes of similar rings range from a pyrotechnic effect called "Dragon's Breath" to a firework test in England. A video from Burning Man in 2008 showed a homemade "trash can smoke ring" machine that created the effect. In 2012, an electrical transformer blew in Chicago, creating a smoke ring. Nature can make smoke rings as well, but most commonly these form due to volcanoes emitting gases, forming rising, white smoke rings. Most recently, multiple volcanic smoke rings were seen over Mt. Etna in Italy on April 5, 2024.
CBC
10-03-2025
- Business
- CBC
Remembering 'That Dutchman': N.S. cheesemaking legend was a fixture at Halifax market
The stall at the Halifax Seaport Farmers' Market where Willem van den Hoek stood for decades to hawk his family's artisanal cheese was conspicuously empty Sunday. The shelves, normally filled with Gouda, Dragon's Breath blue cheese and other products made at his family farm in Economy, N.S., were barren. All that remained were two bouquets of flowers laid by mourners, a printout of a Facebook post announcing his death, and a sympathy card with the message: "The 'Cheeseman' will live on in our hearts." Van den Hoek, also known as That Dutchman, died last week after a long illness. He was 76. At the market, he was a fixture who enjoyed sparring with his customers and his neighbours, playing devil's advocate in discussions, and talking through every angle of any given situation. "He just loved going through that process of considering other sides … he really got a kick out of that," said his son, Cees van den Hoek, on Sunday. "He wasn't scared to rock the boat, or ruffle the feathers, or contest the status quo, that was definitely him. I think the cheese and the farmers' market, it gave him an opportunity to do that." Moved to Canada in 1970 With his wife Maja, van den Hoek started That Dutchman's Cheese Farm in 1980. The couple moved to Canada from the Netherlands in 1970 to start a new life abroad, before eventually settling in Economy, a community near Truro on the North Shore of Cobequid Bay. When they started making their authentic Dutch Gouda, they were ahead of the curve, shocking many Nova Scotians whose idea of a good cheese still didn't go much further than a sharp cheddar. As the business grew over the years — along with the appetite for artisanal-style cheese — the couple expanded their operations, opening an animal farm and nature park that visitors could tour, while selling their products in grocery stores and farmers' markets across the province. But his father was never in it for the money, said Cees van den Hoek. Above all else, he was a dreamer, always keen to start new projects, even if he didn't always finish them. "My father gave me the optimism that you could make anything work," he said. "He always said, like in the movie [Field of Dreams], 'If you build it, they will come' and that's true." In his absence, the business will live on. It's been managed for some time now by van den Hoek's daughter, Margaretha, and son-in-law and the stall at the market is expected to reopen. On Friday, a memorial for van den Hoek will take place at the Peg in Masstown at 1:30 p.m. A reception — with cheese — will follow.
