How Hora Skin Care is Bringing CBD Into Mainstream Beauty Products

Now thanks to the farm bill CBD is finding its way into everything from coffee to capsules that promise to improve your memory. It's also making an appearance in beauty products. Beyond just lotions and serums to combat inflammation, a number of companies are creating skin care products that bring CBD into your daily beauty routine. One of those companies is Hora Skin Care, a California company with a line of CBD skin care products that hydrate, protect, and regenerate skin.

"CBD is an anti-inflammatory. Eczema, pimples, and rosacea, they're all irritations. So it's going to help to calm all those while continuing to work," says Samantha Czubiak, founder of Hora Skin Care.

Czubiak started formulating the products when she was in her mid-20s. She had started to have breakouts, and tried every single product sold at her local CVS to no avail.


"Every night I was concocting little things in my hands and trying to see if my skin needed to be like a little bit brighter the next day or if I need some kind of pimple or had a breakout if I was dry… so it got a little overwhelming and my counter was a disaster. And I thought, 'Wouldn't it be so nice if all these were combined into one product?" Czubiak paired her knowledge of skin care products with what she knew about CBD, and Hora Beauty was formed.

She says that regularly using a CBD-based skin care product can have a number of benefits, including clear skin and a reduced number of breakouts.

"There's a ton of antioxidants as well. It's got more antioxidants than Vitamin C. So it's a good one to keep pumping in the skin," Czubiak says.

Starbucks Might Be The First Big Chain To Launch Cannabis-Infused Drinks, According to Analysts

Starbucks might potentially end up being the first big chain to launch a line of cannabis-infused drinks, or at least that's what analysts think.

Cowan released a 100-page document detailing its analysis of the CBD market on Monday. The group thinks that CBD will reach $16 billion in retail sales by 2025 and that we're likely to see cannabis, specifically, CBD, make its way into other products down the line well, Yahoo Finance reports.

"The dynamics are fluid, likely delaying adoption from major coffee players like Starbucks in the near term," Cowan analyst Andrew Charles wrote in the report. "Should the regulation of CBD oil as an additive to food/beverage change or craft/independent coffee shops find a way to comply with the existing regulation, we could envision Starbucks ultimately piloting the ingredient."



While it's certainly a possibility, that vision might not be in Starbucks' roadmap for the time being. Speaking with a reporter from CNBC last month, Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson said that while it's paying attention to the trend, right now adding cannabis to Starbucks' menu isn't currently in the company's plans.

Should the company decide to include cannabis in its drinks it would likely run into a number of roadblocks. Commercial CBD is still in its infant stages, with states and regulators still trying to understand how to appropriately regulate its use.

Troubling Trends Towards Artificial Intelligence Governance

This is an age of artificial intelligence (AI) driven automation and autonomous machines. The increasing ubiquity and rapidly expanding potential of self-improving, self-replicating, autonomous intelligent machines has spurred a massive automation driven transformation of human ecosystems in cyberspace, geospace and space (CGS). As seen across nations, there is already a growing trend towards increasingly entrusting complex decision processes to these rapidly evolving AI systems. From granting parole to diagnosing diseases, college admissions to job interviews, managing trades to granting credits, autonomous vehicles to autonomous weapons, the rapidly evolving AI systems are increasingly being adopted by individuals and entities across nations: its government, industries, organizations and academia (NGIOA).

Individually and collectively, the promise and perils of these evolving AI systems are raising serious concerns for the accuracy, fairness, transparency, trust, ethics, privacy and security of the future of humanity -- prompting calls for regulation of artificial intelligence design, development and deployment.

While the fear of any disruptive technology, technological transformation, and its associated changes giving rise to calls for the governments to regulate new technologies in a responsible manner are nothing new, regulating a technology like artificial intelligence is an entirely different kind of challenge. This is because while AI can be transparent, transformative, democratized,  and easily distributed, it also touches every sector of global economy and can even put the security of the entire future of humanity at risk. There is no doubt that artificial intelligence has the potential to be misused or that it can behave in unpredictable and harmful ways towards humanity—so much so that entire human civilization could be at risk.


While there has been some -- much-needed -- focus on the role of ethics, privacy and morals in this debate, security, which is equally significant, is often completely ignored. That brings us to an important question: Are ethics and privacy guidelines enough to regulate AI? We need to not only make AI transparent, accountable and fair, but we need to also create a focus on its security risks.