Mike Bayer is the Founder and CEO of CAST Centers, which works with people who are suffering from addiction and mental illness. He sits down with Alyssa Julya Smith to talk about his partnership with popstar Demi Lovato and a new initiative the two are working on around her upcoming world tour.
Mike is a renowned wellness expert with over a decade of experience in mental health and addiction recovery, and played a critical role in Demi Lovato’s treatment and continues to support her in active recovery. Mike says he has continued to work with the superstar and Demi is now part-owner of the addiction recovery centers.
He also discusses the recent announcement that CAST Centers will be joining Demi Lovato for her 20-city concert tour with a pre-concert experience for concert ticketholders, featuring special guests and speakers who will discuss change and inspiration around mental health and wellness in an intimate session.
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Cannabis may have just been made legal in Canada, but Canopy Growth has been getting ready for this moment for years. Cheddar's Baker Machado went to the company's headquarters in eastern Ontario to talk to the company's execs about the budding cannabis market.
Recreational pot went legal across Canada at midnight on Wednesday, but that doesn't mean everyone was able to get their hands on bud right away. Baker Machado takes a province-by-province look at what it'll take to smoke up and how Canada's journey could inform the U.S.
Discord, initially a popular app for in-game messaging, is launching a store with hundreds of games users can access for a monthly fee. Jason Citron, co-founder and CEO of Discord, said the company's growth is a "side effect" of gaming becoming more social.
MedMen, which just completed the largest pot-related acquisition to date in America, is preparing for the day when American drug laws catch up, said spokesman Daniel Yi.
Jodie Emery, editor-in-chief of Cannabis Culture, said activists are celebrating Canada's legalization of cannabis but they aren't done fighting. The next battle in Canada will be granting amnesty to people convicted of non-violent marijuana charges, Emery said.
Comedians Anthony Atamanuik and Adam Pally are the faces of the new Comedy Central 'mockumentary' special, "The President Show." They discuss their method of observing President Trump.
Canada legalized recreational marijuana use on Wednesday, making it the second country to do so. Netflix stock is surging after the streaming giant added a record number of subscribers in the third quarter. Plus, Anthony Atamanuik and Adam Pally from Comedy Central's 'The President Show' join Cheddar to talk about their new special 'The Fall Of Donald Trump.'
Auction house Christie's will put up its first-ever painting created entirely by artificial intelligence. Lindsay Griffith, a specialist at Christie's, said the painting is likely to fetch as much as $10,000.
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