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April 7, 2017
Jason Statham Says ‘Meg’ is ‘Jaws’ Meets ‘Jurassic Park’
After years of killer shark movies being relegated to the Syfy network, last year’s The Shallows seems to have burst open the floodgates. And I couldn’t be happier. Next summer will see the release of director Jon Turteltaub’s Meg, an adaptation of Steve Alten’s terrifying same-named novel. Jason Statham is the star, and he just spoke a bit about the film on the Jim & Sam Show.
Statham told hosts Jim Norton and Sam Roberts:
I just did a movie about a shark. It’s a cross between, I’d say, Jaws and Jurassic Park. It turned out really good. I mean, apparently. We don’t know until we see it. It’s called Meg, as in megalodon.
Interesting to note that Statham was asked if the film was in 3D and he responded “probably.” We previously heard that it would be released in 3D, but this suggests it wasn’t shot in 3D.
Statham, by the way, is not a fan of 3D. The glasses bother him. Me too, Jason. Me too.
Meg will swim into theaters on August 10, 2018.
Alten himself promises the film will be “edge-of-your-seat scary.”
In Meg…
A deep-sea submersible—part of an international undersea observation program—has been attacked by a massive creature, previously thought to be extinct, and now lies disabled at the bottom of the deepest trench in the Pacific…with its crew trapped inside. With time running out, expert deep sea rescue diver Jonas Taylor (Statham) is recruited by a visionary Chinese oceanographer (Winston Chao), against the wishes of his daughter Suyin (Li Bingbing), to save the crew—and the ocean itself—from this unstoppable threat: a pre-historic 75-foot-long shark known as the Megalodon. What no one could have imagined is that, years before, Taylor had encountered this same terrifying creature. Now, teamed with Suyin, he must confront his fears and risk his own life to save everyone trapped below…bringing him face to face once more with the greatest and largest predator of all time.
Rounding out the international main cast of Meg are New Zealander Cliff Curtis (The Dark Horse, Risen, TV’s Fear the Walking Dead), Rainn Wilson (TV’s The Office, Super), Ruby Rose (xXx: Return of Xander Cage, TV’s Orange is the New Black), Winston Chao (Skiptrace, Kabali), Page Kennedy (TV’s Rush Hour), Jessica McNamee (The Vow, TV’s Sirens), Ólafur Darri Ólafsson (The BFG, TV’s The Missing), Robert Taylor (Focus, TV’s Longmire), Sophia Shuya Cai (Somewhere Only We Know), and Masi Oka (TV’s Hawaii Five-0, Heroes).
Jon Turteltaub directed the film from a screenplay by Dean Georgaris and Jon Hoeber & Erich Hoeber, based on the New York Times best-selling book by Steve Alten. Lorenzo di Bonaventura (the Transformers films), Belle Avery (Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead) and Colin Wilson (Suicide Squad, Avatar) are producing the film, with Wayne Wei Jiang, Randy Greenberg, Barrie M. Osborne and Gerald R. Molen serving as executive producers.
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http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3431334/jason-statham-says-meg-jaws-meets-jurassic-park/
WonderCon: Warner Bros. Wows Crowd With ‘Wonder Woman’ Clips
Warner Bros. put the “wonder” in WonderCon this year as it presented thirsty fans with a look at the upcoming DC superhero flick Wonder Woman.
It’s the first time the superheroine, one of the comic book world’s most recognizable characters, is hitting the screen in her own film. And the studio, fresh off of a presentation at CinemaCon a few days ago, brought extended clips to show off the Gal Gadot-starring movie while also having director Patty Jenkins and DC Films’ Geoff Johns onstage.
Jenkins proved to be an impassioned ambassador for Diana Prince, Wonder Woman’s true identity, saying that superhero movies went beyond any so-called comic book movie craze.
“It’s so much bigger than that,” she said. “It’s a method of universal storytelling. … It’s a metaphor for telling all these states of being.” For her, these kinds of movies synthesize religious beliefs and ancient myths by finding common characters and by expressing stories from humankind’s sense of wanting to do good.
And very few heroes want to do good as much as Wonder Woman does. Said Jenkins: “Others are chosen and find themselves in situations where they fight for good. She’s one the few that believes in justice and in love and coming to our world to instill that into us. It’s such a unique perspective.”
Three clips were shown, among them a scene where Diana fends off attackers in an alley, saving romantic lead Steve Trevor (played by Chris Pine). The scene was an homage to the alley-mugging scene from 1978’s classic Superman movie where Clark Kent “saves” Lois Lane. The homage was intentional, as Jenkins cited the Richard Donner movie as one of her influences. “I was 7 years old when Superman came out,” she said. “I was Superman. I was Superman who ripped his shirt open. I was that character.” And Johns, who worked on the screenplay for Wonder Woman, got his industry start interning for director Donner, a childhood idol.
Another clip featured was set in a warfront (World War I is the film’s time period), with Diana jumping into a building and taking out a nest of German soldiers. While she doesn’t kill them, she does bang them up quite a bit.
For Jenkins and Johns, the movie’s action sequences weren’t done for action’s sake, but instead had, at their heart, character expression.
“What I care about is this as a character piece,” said Jenkins. “It clarifies what it is because it’s from the point of view of Diana and how it affects her journey.” Once that decision was made, “It gave us a strong understanding on how to go about it.”
Johns and Jenkins both stressed that the original comics were heavily relied upon and that the canon was weighed in equal measure as were “invisible immutables,” such as the emotional essence of the character. Johns also cited works from comics writers and artists such as George Perez, Greg Rucka and Phil Jimenez. “You’re panning for gold,” Johns said of going back to the source, “and finding gold every time.”
Wonder Woman opens June 2.
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YouTube will no longer allow creators to make money until they reach 10,000 views
Five years ago, YouTube opened their partner program to everyone. This was a really big deal: it meant anyone could sign up for the service, start uploading videos, and immediately begin making money. This model helped YouTube grow into the web’s biggest video platform, but it has also led to some problems. People were creating accounts that uploaded content owned by other people, sometimes big record labels or movie studios, sometimes other popular YouTube creators.
In an effort to combat these bad actors, YouTube has announced a change to its partner program today. From now on, creators won’t be able to turn on monetization until they hit 10,000 lifetime views on their channel. YouTube believes that this threshold will give them a chance to gather enough information on a channel to know if it’s legit. And it won’t be so high as to discourage new independent creators from signing up for the service.
“In a few weeks, we’ll also be adding a review process for new creators who apply to be in the YouTube Partner Program. After a creator hits 10k lifetime views on their channel, we’ll review their activity against our policies,” wrote Ariel Bardin, YouTube’s VP of product management, in a blog post published today. “If everything looks good, we’ll bring this channel into YPP and begin serving ads against their content. Together these new thresholds will help ensure revenue only flows to creators who are playing by the rules.”
Of course, along with protecting the creators on its service whose videos are being re-uploaded by scam artists, these new rules may help YouTube keep offensive videos away from the brands that spend money marketing on their platform. This has been a big problem for YouTube in recent weeks. “This new threshold gives us enough information to determine the validity of a channel,” wrote Bardin. “It also allows us to confirm if a channel is following our community guidelines and advertiser policies.”
As it moves ever closer to parity with the world of prime-time television, YouTube is sensibly taking steps to police how business is done on its service. Time will tell how a rising generation of creators respond to these new limitations.
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Airbnb Bans Host Who Dumped Guest Because She’s Asian
This ski trip went downhill and took a racist turn fast. Airbnb says it has permanently banned a host from the platform after she canceled a guest’s reservation minutes before her arrival because the guest was Asian. And we know that was the host’s reason, because she said so.
“One word says it all,” the host wrote in a text message to the would-be guest. “Asian.”
Airbnb told The Huffington Post the incident happened in February near Big Bear, California. It has gained traction now after a video taken of the tearful guest the night of the racist exchange has gone viral. Airbnb declined to identify either the guest or the host to HuffPost, citing company privacy policy.
“The four of us made a reservation on Airbnb about a month ago,” the denied guest says in the video as snow falls around her, “and I asked the woman who is the host if two more friends would be OK … she said that’s fine, we just have to pay more money.
I wouldn’t rent to u if u were the last person on earth.
“So we’re driving up, we think everything is fine, we’re ready for this ski trip in Big Bear … there were flash flood warnings all day, [and] I asked the woman again, is it OK if my two friends come, like, should we give you cash, or how much did you say it was again?
“And she says, ‘Absolutely not…. You must be high if you think that that would be OK in the busiest weekend in Big Bear.’ Then she said, ‘No, we’re done,’ and she canceled the trip.”
Taken aback, the guest responded by informing the woman her actions would be reported to Airbnb, to which she replied in a text: “Go ahead. I wouldn’t rent to u if u were the last person on earth.” Then she texted, “One word says it all. Asian.”
One word says it all. Asian.
In additional screenshots of the conversation, provided by the guest as proof, the host wrote, “And I will not allow this country to be told what to do by foreigners. It’s why we have trump.”
In the video, the distraught guest says she’s an American citizen. Not that that mattered to the host, who apparently deemed her a foreigner based only on her profile picture.
“What they see is that I’m Asian. What they see is my race,” she said, sobbing, “and this is how we get treated. It stings.”
In a statement to The Huffington Post, Airbnb spokesman Christopher Nulty called the host’s behavior “abhorrent and unacceptable.” Nulty added the company reached out to the guest as soon as it learned of the incident and offered to rebook her somewhere else, but she’d already made other plans.
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Things to Do at This Flower Park in Japan This Wisteria Blooming Season
Booking a flight to Japan can be challenging for those who want to witness the beauty of the cherry blossoms during springtime. Some might be lucky enough to get a flight in early to mid-April, just in time for sakura, but there are those who settle for late April to early May. But don’t worry if you miss sakura season, there are still other flowers to see in Japan!
One of the best places to see some of the most beautiful flowers in the country is Ashikaga Flower Park (あしかがフラワーパーク), which is located in Ashikaga City (足利市), Tochigi Prefecture (栃木県). It’s home to a variety of flowers, with wisteria, or fuji (藤) in Japanese, being its main attraction. The park is beautiful and worth visiting either day or night. Here are three things to do there during the bloom of wisteria!
From mid-April to mid-May, you can witness four varieties of wisteria in full bloom — the famous 1,000-square-meter great wisteria trellis, the cherry blossom-colored pale red wisteria, the 80-meter long white wisteria tunnel, and the 80-meter long Kibana wisteria tunnel (which is the only one in Japan).
Apart from those, Ashikaga Flower Park has many other flowers for you to appreciate like petunia, rose, and azalea. All you need to do is to look around and discover them for yourself!
The oldest wisteria tree around the world is located in Ashikaga Flower Park. It’s not difficult to find since it’s the center of the great wisteria trellis. However, there’s a fence around it so you can’t go near it, but the distance is enough to see its beauty.
If you’ve brought a bento (packed lunch) with you, there are chairs and tables nearby for you to enjoy a meal with this beautiful scenery.
Take the JR Shonan-Shinjuku Line (湘南新宿線), the JR Utsunomiya Line (宇都宮線), or the JR Tohoku Shinkansen line (東北新幹線) from Tokyo Station (東京駅) to Oyama Station (小山駅). Get off and transfer to the JR Ryomo Line (両毛線) where you should alight at Tomita Station (富田駅), the station before Ashikaga Station (足利駅). From there, you need to walk for about 13 minutes.
Don’t worry about getting lost because, during the full bloom of wisterias, you’ll see many people going there as well. Follow the crowd and you’ll get there soon. Moreover, there are signs and street officers around the area to help you.
If you get hungry, there are stalls near the station that sell food and other items. Along the way, you’ll also encounter people selling hats so you won’t feel too hot while walking.
If you’re visiting Japan, let me assure you that a trip to Ashikaga Flower Park is something you shouldn’t miss regardless of the season! It’s a great experience to appreciate nature, especially different flowers in their full bloom.
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Amazon Is Hiring 5,000 Work-From-Home Jobs
Amazon plans to hire 30,000 part-time workers in the U.S. over the next year, the company announced in a press release on Thursday.
The hires include 5,000 work-from-home positions, which will be part of the retailer’s virtual customer service department.
Virtually-located employees who work 20 hours per week are eligible for the company’s benefits program and its innovative Career Choice program that pre-pays 95 percent of tuition for courses related to skills relevant to their position at the company.
The company currently employs more than 10,000 military veterans and pledged to hire an additional 25,000 over the next five years.
It’s pledged to create more than 100,000 full-time, full-benefit jobs in the U.S. over the next 18 months.
“There are lots of people who want or need a flexible job—whether they’re a military spouse, a college student, or a parent—and we’re happy to empower these talented people no matter where they happen to live,” said Tom Weiland, Amazon Vice President for Worldwide Customer Service. “We’re finding that roles with Virtual Customer Service are particularly attractive to military spouses who want to continue working and parenting, even if their spouse is deployed or the family is relocated, as often happens with military families. Wounded, injured or ill military veterans and others with mobility challenges are also enjoying these opportunities to work from home with Amazon. Both active duty and retired service men and women support our country and we are happy to support them.”
Amazon Virtual Customer Service employee Sabrina Tierce relocated six years ago from central California to Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington State where her husband is stationed as an Army medic. “It’s amazing to have a job that offers me the flexibility to care for my child when needed and even to move around the country if we are relocated,” said Tierce. “My commute is about 15 paces. The worst part of my day is if there’s a Lego on the stairway, because that’s a rough commute to work.”
April 6, 2017
One in five Facebook videos is Live as it seizes the verb
While most people still aren’t sure what to broadcast, and some have misused the format for unsavory or criminal purposes, Facebook now says one-fifth of the videos share on its network are now Live videos. It’s also seen Live broadcasting daily watch time grow 4X in the past year, according to Facebook’s head of video Fidji Simo.
This shows Facebook’s efforts to own the verb “Live” are paying off.
Livestreaming didn’t blow up like it seemed it would in 2015, when Meerkat rekindled the market, Twitter dove in with Periscope, and Facebook began testing Live. Now after middling usage, $100 million in payments to broadcasters, a massive physical advertising campaign, and problems with livestreamed violence, some are questioning Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to put the company on lockdown to rapidly launch the feature.
But it wasn’t worth the risk for Facebook to wait and see. If livestreaming became popular, Facebook needed to own the verb “Live” — to be the first tool people thought of when they saw something worth broadcasting.
Social apps live and die by network effect. The first one to do a feature the right way can roll up a snowball of user traction.
Facebook sat back and watched Snapchat turn into a juggernaut with its Stories feature. Failing to acquire it with what would look like a low-ball offer, Facebook is now late to the Stories game and desperately trying to play catch up.
After the press pounced on Meerkat in February 2015, Twitter launched its acquisition Periscope. Facebook saw the potential nightmare of the world “Periscoping” weddings, parties, sporting events, and breaking-news moments. After largely vanquishing Twitter in terms of scale, it didn’t want it making a comeback on mobile video. Nor did Facebook want Snapchat to swoop in with a “cool” take on livestreaming.
So after some rapid development, Facebook launched the first tests of Live with celebrities in August 2015, and expanded it to all US iPhone users in January. Soon, it had discovered a critical stat, according to The Wall Street Journal. 75 percent of users were high school or college kids. Live was a chance to attract the youth demographic and original content sharing Facebook was losing to Snapchat.
Mark Zuckerberg decided to reallocate resources to Live and put over 100 employees on “lockdown” building it for all Facebook users. It would go on to buy an international blitz of billboards, bus stops, and commercials to teach people how and when to go Live — an attempt to cement its grip on the verb.
The company knew there might be objectionable content troubles, but underestimated their scope. There have been dozens of instances of violence and suicides on Live since that should have been censored. Meanwhile, Facebook has mistakenly censored some graphic but newsworthy videos like the aftermath of the police shooting of Philando Castile.
But if Facebook can entrench itself as the place for Live broadcasts, it seems to believe it can solve the rest of the content quality and safety issues over time. Move fast and break things is still Facebook’s philosophy, even if it’s tried to distance itself from the phrase.
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One in five Facebook videos is Live as it seizes the verb
Three Keys To Crafting Successful Videos On Social Media
Five years ago, companies would come to our agency with a fairly simple demand: “I need a social media video.”
To fulfill this request, we’d identify the customer’s target demographic, develop appealing creative for that group, and deliver a single video for the brand to publish on Facebook and potentially Instagram.
Due to the emergence of Snapchat, Instagram Stories, and a revamped ad platform on Facebook, creating one piece of content for video campaigns is no longer an effective strategy. Modern consumers have become masterful ad-skippers. According to a Mirriad study, 90% of consumers regularly click the “skip” button when marketing videos invade their browsing experience. Unfortunately for marketers, outlets like Snapchat and Instagram Stories only make ad-skipping easier.
Consumers have turned to social media platforms because they want to receive news, entertainment and information that is specifically tailored to their interests. Along the way, they’ve learned to completely ignore pieces of content and messages that don’t immediately grab their attention.
Dozens of social platforms exist and each one features a unique group of people with unique desires. It’s foolish to believe that posting the same video everywhere will drive results. If agencies and brands want their content to be seen, they need to make it fit into this highly selective climate.
The Bite-Sized Approach
Rather than distribute a single video throughout every social media platform, modern agencies should instead embrace a fractionalized approach in which the “big idea” (or the backbone) of a campaign is custom-tailored to each site.
This means strategically creating several videos instead of one big video — something my agency recently did for Red Bull. To promote the upcoming Red Bull Air Race in San Diego, we filmed stunt pilot Kirby Chambliss zipping around the sky while skydivers in wingsuits performed aerobatics around him. After shooting with over a dozen cameras, we cut the video into seven unique deliverables that would each fit seamlessly into a social outlet: Facebook, Instagram, Instagram Stories, YouTube and Red Bull’s website.
Video marketing has evolved into an entirely different beast and we have to constantly adapt to stay relevant. Here are three principles that help our agency create successful campaigns in this new climate:
1. Urgency. TIME Magazine declared that goldfish now have longer attention spans than humans. Keep this top of mind when creating videos for social media, as you’ll have between half a second and five seconds to capture users’ attention.
Work hard to hook viewers with stunning imagery within the first few frames of the video, but no matter how tempting it is, don’t lure them in by flashing something irrelevant on the screen. Instead, try having the first few seconds of an ad provide a visual teaser of the best, most relevant part of the video.
For example, if you’re promoting a direct-to-consumer fashion line, starting your spot with a time-lapse unboxing segment will be much more engaging than simple product shots. After you’ve hooked the audience, you can cut away to the explanation of how your product or service works.
Movie studios, in particular, have taken note of the way digital audiences view content. Many promotional trailers — like this one for Jason Bourne — now broadcast brief ads for themselves before the actual trailer begins.
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8 COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT INDUSTRIAL HEMP
Hemp has gotten a bad rap over the years. It wasn’t that long ago that this plant was widely used in our society for making fabric, building supplies, and paper. As a matter of fact, the original Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
Of course, this was all before industrial hemp growth and cultivation became illegal. What many people do not know is that hemp is different from recreational or medicinal marijuana. The hemp plant is non-psychoactive, meaning it will not get you high, which begs the question: Why is it even illegal in the first place?
It’s crazy that there is there was a plant available to us today that could be grown in pretty much any soil, requires no pesticides and it takes very little maintenance to grow, and this magical plant could be used for a very large number of necessities and goods we use today yet we don’t use it.
These plants are and have been illegal for quite some time, and the only people who are allowed to grow it have to do so under very tight regulations.
Recently, College Humor went ahead and made a pretty comical video that neatly summed up exactly how Hemp and Marijuana both became illegal. You can view that here.
1. Hemp and Recreational/Medicinal Marijuana DO Come From the Same Plant
While all derived from the same plant, Cannabis Sativa L, hemp, and recreational marijuana are still vastly different products. Marijuana contains high levels of THC, the active component that gets you high, while hemp is cultivated to contain little-to-no THC. The marijuana plants grown to produce the flowering buds we find on the street or in dispensaries contain, on average, around 12% THC. By comparison, hemp plants contains less than 1%. Currently in the United States, the cannabis plant is considered to be industrial hemp if it contains less than 0.3% THC.
2. It Is Legal to Transport Hemp in the U.S.
Within the U.S. it is only legal to bring hemp across state lines in its processed form. Included in this are products containing hemp like skin lotions, granola bars, etc. Hemp is also used to make a number of popular CBD products, and you can find these in most states. CBD is the non-psychoactive active component of the hemp plant, and it has a number of potentially healing properties. This makes hemp products ideal for those who can’t access medicinal marijuana or for those who want the health benefits without the high, such as children.
3. Researching Hemp Is a Waste of Time
Just because we have already researched the properties of this plant doesn’t mean that we should stop there. There is always more to be discovered, and when something has the potential to be life-changing, to drastically improve someone’s quality of life, it definitely deserves to be given a second, third, and even fourth look.
4. Hemp Can Save the World
Being such a bold statement, most consider this claim false. However, hemp can be used to make food, clothing, shelter, fuel, and medicine, and considering how scarce such resources are becoming, and how unsustainably they are being produced, we should be exploring every avenue possible. The hemp plant can help accommodate many of our basic needs, and for this reason alone we should be utilizing it much more than we are right now.
5. Hemp Can Only Be Used to Make Textiles
Believe it or not, hemp has been being cultivated for nearly 10,000 years. Many believe this plant to be the first agricultural crop, as many ancient civilizations used the plant to make clothing, rope, and boat sails. Although textiles are a wonderful use for the hemp plant, this only scratches the surface of what this plant is capable of. The hemp plant contains protein- and magnesium-rich seeds that are a great addition to any diet. The plant can also be used to make fuel, biodegradable plastics, building blocks for construction, and cosmetic products. This list goes on.
6. Consuming Hemp Will Cause a Positive Drug Test
If you are concerned about a drug test at work, you do not have to worry that hemp seeds or CBD will show up. These tests look specifically for THC, and if you are consuming government approved products — those containing less than 0.3% THC — then you will be fine. Unless you are going out of your way to have an all-hemp diet, and consuming tons of it, you have nothing to worry about.
7. The Hemp Plant Is Male, Marijuana Female
Because these two products come from the same species of plant, as mentioned above, they have the potential to be either male or female. THC content is determined, not by gender, but by how the plant has been bred and engineered over time. Hemp is not given the opportunity to mature; it grows quickly and is cut down much earlier than its cousin marijuana, which is allowed to fully mature.
8. Cultivation of Industrial Hemp Is Legal
Surprisingly, this is incorrect. The growth and cultivation of industrial hemp is only legal in accordance with agricultural pilot programs allowed to study the growth, cultivation, and marketing of industrial hemp, and in certain states only.
Collective Evolution has a very large collection of articles relating to the medicinal properties, nutritional benefits, and various other uses of the hemp plant. To access these articles.
Are there some other common misconceptions that you can think of about the hemp plant? Let us know.
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http://www.collective-evolution.com/2017/04/05/8-common-misconceptions-about-industrial-hemp/
A ‘Catch-22’ of medical marijuana and organ transplants
A rise in the use of medical marijuana has spurred a debate about organ transplantation, and it’s changing some laws across the nation.
Garry Godfrey found out in 2010 that he was removed from an organ transplant waiting list in Maine due to a health risk associated with his use of medical marijuana, CNN affiliate WGME reported. Now Godfrey is speaking out in support of a bill in Maine that would prohibit hospitals from determining a patient’s suitability for transplantation solely on the basis of medical marijuana use (PDF).
That bill is in committee, and similar legislation has been passed in other states, including California, Washington, Illinois, Arizona, Delaware and New Hampshire (PDF).
Godfrey, 32, uses marijuana to relieve pain and other symptoms he suffers due to Alport syndrome, a genetic condition that can cause renal failure — and he needs a new kidney, WGME reported.
“I’ve tried so many pharmaceuticals and none of them worked, but the medical cannabis does,” Godfrey told WGME. “It helps me function. It helps me take care of my kids.”
But if a transplant candidate already has a compromised immune system and is taking prescribed or recreational marijuana, that can increase their risk of a deadly fungal infection known as Aspergillosis during the transplantation process, according to a press statement released this week by the Maine Transplant Program. Once off marijuana, patients can be put back on the waiting list.
Meanwhile, researchers are desperately trying to better understand the potential health risk that may be associated with marijuana use and organ transplantation.
‘When we turn someone down, it’s a personal failure’
“The thing that comes up with marijuana is the risk of pulmonary infections, (specifically) fungal infections with Aspergillosis,” said Dr. David Klassen, chief medical officer at the United Network for Organ Sharing.
Such infections “can be an absolutely devastating complication but, you know, how often does that really happen? How likely is it? Those questions are less well understood,” Klassen said. “It’s a question of how much risk does that really impose versus the benefit that the patient potentially gets from getting the transplant.”
The Maine Transplant Program has a policy in place around marijuana because two people who had transplants died as a result of the fungal infection, Maine Medical Center spokesman Clay Holtzman said. Both patients had smoked marijuana, which suggests it might have been the cause of the infections. It’s not clear what the risks are around edible medical marijuana, he said.
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http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/31/health/medical-marijuana-organ-transplants-explainer/
