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Rosie O'Donnell Sells Star Island Ganja House For $12.675M

Rosie O’Donnell has sold her Star Island hacienda - the house that used to be the HQ of the Ganja fueled Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church, the house with the gorgeous banyan tree in the front yard, the house next door to all that crazy Real Housewife/boob god/preservationist drama - for $12,675,000, significantly under the original ask of almost $20 mill.

Random Pixels: The way we were….The Zion Coptic Mansion on Star Island

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Robert Platshorn's Pot Infomercial Pulled by Orlando Station as Weed Debate Heats Up

Robert Platshorn in Square Grouper

via Broward/Palm Beach New Times:

Last month, we told you about New Times regular Robert Platshorn’s latest effort to spread the word on medical marijuana.

Since late 2012, the former drug smuggler turned activist has been buying up TV time on local stations for an infomercial. Provocatively titled “Should Grandma Smoke Pot?,” the spot aims to educate the elderly on the pros of medicinal legalization, an extension of Platshorn’s popular “Silver Tour.”

So far, Bobby Tuna has bought airtime in the Tampa area and here in South Florida. His eye has always been on exporting the message to other markets in the Sunshine State.

In the past week or so, it seemed that he’d crack the Orlando market on WKCF, a Hearst Television-owned CW affiliate. But at the last minute, the deal fell apart.

“When I first started running this, the stations looked at it and said, ‘Yes, this is a legitimate issues show.’ It doesn’t encourage illegal activity, and it doesn’t encourage a specific political activity. So it’s not politically biased,” he explains. “Stations have refused to carry it due to subject matter, and unfortunately the law does allow you to do so.”