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Breezy vs. Windy: What’s the difference?
Read full article: Breezy vs. Windy: What’s the difference?Some days the wind can play a big role in your outdoor plans. From a day at the beach to a picnic in the park, the winds can really make or break your day out. Even more so when winds become dangerous and destructive.
Pretty much perfect! Breezy, but pleasant Sunday
Read full article: Pretty much perfect! Breezy, but pleasant SundayWe are gradually warming things back to where we should be for this time of the year. Sunshine will be out to start, but gradually clouds will build through the day, especially along the coast. Rain chances also return Monday, but not until later in the afternoon as another cold front moves through Central Florida. Dangerous beach weekend continuesAdBeach hazards SundayThe rip current threat will remain elevated for the rest of the weekend along the east coast beaches of Florida. It will be windy and cool at the beach with highs in the upper 60s.
Jamaica faces marijuana shortage as farmers struggle
Read full article: Jamaica faces marijuana shortage as farmers struggleHeavy rains followed by an extended drought, an increase in local consumption and a drop in the number of marijuana farmers have caused a shortage in the island’s famed but largely illegal market that experts say is the worst they’ve seen. “It’s a cultural embarrassment,” said Triston Thompson, chief opportunity explorer for Tacaya, a consulting and brokerage firm for the country's nascent legal cannabis industry. Jamaica, which foreigners have long associated with pot, reggae and Rastafarians, authorized a regulated medical marijuana industry and decriminalized small amounts of weed in 2015. “It destroyed everything,” said Daneyel Bozra, who grows marijuana in the southwest part of Jamaica, in a historical village called Accompong founded by escaped 18th-century slaves known as Maroons. But farmers and activists say weed sold via legal dispensaries known as herb houses is out of reach for many given that it still costs five to 10 times more than pot on the street.