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I get so hypnotized when I’m drawing or painting. everything around me can disappear in a deep State of Trance that can really place you inside of the moment. Creating for me is trying to capture a vision that’s popped into my head and attempting to translate it into a physical form. like a still photograph from a dream that blooms and unfolds in so many ways.

Some images are formed in the smallest of moments While others grow over a longer time. Of time before they make it to the physical world. That’s where it all starts for me. all the while designing and redesigning and illustrating them in my head before finally taking it to the SketchBook to get the idea pushed further.

Some pieces have deep meaning and symbolism While others are more fun and free-flowing. like taking a hike through the forest or looking at the deciphering clouds. Then there are the pieces that are just for fun. What would a deer with weed plants as antlers look like?

Cannabis has been very close to my artwork for a long time. It has a way of quieting down the hustle and bustle of the world and allows me to focus and encourage the Deep Thoughts of creativity.

Can I create art without cannabis? Absolutely! It just doesn’t sound like very much fun to me.

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by Jessi Lane, Patient Advocate Tessy Copeland-Dukes, EA is a trusted, kind-hearted woman with a take-no-bull disposition. She understands that you can catch more flies with sugar than you can vinegar. She strives to end generational patterns, traumas, and stigmas with herself, so that her children can live lives bigger than she had.

She is warm, caring, and wise beyond her years. Tessy is one smart cookie. When she has something to say she is clear and concise and holds a captive audience. If she were running for District Rep, you would cast your vote for Tessy. Her passion for the cause is contagious. Tessy Copeland-Dukes embodies the Divine Feminine.

Tessy comes from a long line of strong, independent, empowering women. Tessy’s late grandmother Dorothea Copeland was a standout female plumber in the 1960s, who went on to work till age of ninety-three. She owned a plumbing shop and once earned top saleswoman for Kohler. Her Aunt, Mary Jo Copeland, was the first female Mayor of Tecumseh, Oklahoma – a quaint city comprised of fifteen square miles total, where Tessy’s family still resides.

The late Mary Jo Copeland was the mother of Mary Copeland Fallin, who served as Oklahoma’s first female and 27th Governor from 2011 to 2019. While Tessy has so much admiration for these women before her, she also respects their differences in views. She has set out to create her own journey.

Tessy herself is a well-educated analytical person.

Having graduated from East Central University with a master’s degree in Accounting, Tessy spent 11 years overseeing large corporate banks and multi state corporations as a Senior Tax Accountant. She poured her life into her tax job, working seventy to eighty hours per week in a male-dominated industry while raising her children. “Within that male dominated upper management environment came a lot of expectations without recognition,” she says. “No, I don’t expect to be patted on the back, but when you’re relied upon to deal with duties above your pay grade because ‘you’re the best one for it’ or ‘the staff respects you more,’ you would think that would be enough to prove your worth.”

Having personally cared for her father for 16 years battling by his side through addiction, mental health, liver failure and transplant, his PTSD, Cancer, and suicide of their loved ones, Tessy continued to pour into others, including her mother who at that time lived with alcoholism. Tessy was determined to create a healthy life for herself. During her time in college, Tessy befriended her now business partner Melinda while doing odd jobs including a position in Melinda’s custom drapery shop.

Years later, in producing quality foods for Oklahoma farmer’s markets and co-ops across the state, Mittie’s roots budded with the 2012 opening of Mittie’s Kitchen - when Melinda started a commercial kitchen with the support of Tessy from a tax accounting standpoint. Mittie’s Kitchen was named for Mittie, Melinda’s grandmother. With the 2018 passing of State Question 788, Tessy and Melinda felt their calling. It was time to merge their shared passion of providing small batch, high quality goods with their life-long enthusiasm for cannabis as medicine - and in April 2019 they did just that.

Mitties Medicinals is a family owned, female owned, small batch cannabis processor. A locally renowned mom and pop brand, Mittie’s Medicinals’ boutique full spectrum product line

includes nano emulsified drink mixes, tea bags, suckers, and Cannagars. Combined with their gummy and hard candy selection, Mittie’s provides a plethora of reliable patient consumption possibilities. Mittie’s products are made with love from the Mittie’s family including her spouse, Mikie, who comes from a human resource and finance background and is a valuable business resource. “[Mikie] handles a lot of the Cannagar production. He packs, I wrap them,” Tessy says. Currently he is still juggling his primary job to provide health insurance. Tessy notes their business has given them a platform to do something they both love together and strengthen their marriage in many ways.

With Mittie’s power-packed line of wellness products, and the life changes folks – including Tessy’s own mother – are accruing because of it, comes a new-found level of respect and admiration from her peers Tessy never felt in accounting. “I don’t want to work in corporate America,” she told High Hopes podcast (Spotify, 2022), “I don’t want to run my business like corporate America. I don’t want to run my business like big pharma.” While Tessy fully believes in what she is now doing and her pure intentions to help patients, she says she “has spent many years being sat in the corner, quietly counseled for advice that was portrayed to the masses as theirs. I was never given the deserved respect for my successes but quick to be reminded for my failures.” Tessy often finds herself inundated with Imposter Syndrome and gets uneasy with praise and recognition but says that Mittie’s has given her a new sense of being.

While industry professionals trust and respect Tessy and patients rely on her brand for consistent, quality cannabis as medicine, there are unavoidable peaks and valleys along her entrepreneurial journey. “Such a struggle feeling like you’re doing everything for [the] right reasons but then you hit so many roadblocks that make you want to just turn around.” She says some days that is how she feels about every part of her life. “[The industry] started to get more corporate,” she told High Hopes. She went on to say, “I started feeling discouraged in the last few years.

It was like more regulation, more regulation and it felt so much more like big pharma - like companies were taking these more corporate styles the way they were putting their products out there and I didn’t want that.” Tessy and Melinda wanted it to be like their roots, like the farmer’s market. “I wanted it be more like that atmosphere - like we got to really help patients,” said Tessy.

It is common knowledge that Oklahoma’s market was so outlined to inevitably result in oversaturation across the board. The Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority June 13, 2022 licensing report shows 2,266 licensed retailers and 1,449 licensed processors. Recently, commercial processors have experienced varying burdens with the state-wide transition to the contracted METRC seed to sale tracking system. “METRC is not really developed for small manufacturing which presents a lot of challenges in the way we manufacture edibles,” Tessy says.

“Testing, quality, and compliance is very important to us but so is efficient manufacturing.” She explains that METRC is set up for mass production. Only after mass production does it allow you to test products, which she finds is a very inefficient way to produce goods at their scale.

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Tessy considers the first few years to be continued beta mode and through research and development and life experience believes they are ready to continue steps to expand their patient reach. “METRC implementation and economy has impacted sales more than anything,” she says. “We see that cannabis sales really reflects the economy - when it’s back to school, holidays, times patients have other financial obligations like rising gas and food prices they use less disposable income on cannabis.” She goes on to say, “I think that might surprise a lot of people with the stigmas around cannabis.” In her observations, Tessy has found cannabis incomparable to addictive drugs or even tobacco in this way – when patients do not have that disposable income, she finds they do not purchase. “It’s ok, things are incredibly slow in the market [currently] but on the other hand I’m super low on inventory.” With family emergencies, deaths, and the team spread thin, Tessy is feeling that roadblock, however she remains hopeful, empowered, and ever patient. “Even on the darkest days,” Tessy says, “I know with time the light will shine again.”

After winning the 2021 Herbage Magazine People’s Choice Award for Best Blunt with their Cannagar as well as several edible wins and connecting with the people of Sherweed Forrest, Tessy finally felt like she identified with this community of people that have the same like-minded vision.

“It’s about having small batch, high quality products at affordable prices,” she told High Hopes. “I know that I’m not going to get rich in this and that’s okay to me because I am providing for my family, and I am so rich in the community that I have built.” She continues to show out for her brand industry event after industry event, which helps fill her cup, but Tessy understands when it is time to pause for family. The delicate balance of fulfilling both business and personal obligations is not for the weak. You must remain steadfast and steady.

“I’ve lived a lot of life in my 38 years,” says Tessy. “My life is never dull and sometimes feels like more adventure than I signed up for but it’s beautiful - all the good, the struggles, the ups and downs have made me a better human being.”

She never looks at adversity with defeat but instead chooses to sit back and look at it from an all-encompassing view.

“I accept the reality that it will work, or it will not, but the journey has purpose no matter how hard it is to see - and I do my best to choose grace.” She goes on to say, “I hope that I raise my kids to be better human beings than me. I hope that I build a legacy whether big or small that they can be proud of.” Everything produced by Tessy, Melinda, and the Mittie’s family has a purpose, a passion, and a story. It is about time you join Mittie’s in your own story of healing and happiness.

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At what point have we given up our rights to cultivate? The Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 (and even before that 29 states had already criminalized cannabis) essentially criminalized all uses and forms of the plant, including hemp. Though we’ve come a long way, in nearly a hundred years of prohibition, we are still allowing Uncle Sam to regulate the use of a plant and more importantly tax us for said use. Why? Have we fought so hard to regain our rights only for Uncle to squeeze citizens of their own hard work and dollars?

Has the Green Wave become both a replacement of the mammoth pharmaceutical industry’s consumption and tax?

Sure, we’re overcoming the real drug pushers in big Pharma but at what point do we overtake the right to tax medicinal cannabis (which is all cannabis no matter how you categorize it to me)?

So many activists have pushed and pulled and fought for the right to medicate as we please and while it’s been an amazing set of victories, we still have laws that govern how many plants we can grow on our own property as well as how much can be purchased and consumed. Why do we allow ourselves to bow with thanks to a machine that keeps our rights at bay while imposing a tax?

Essentially, we live in collective of states that have brainwashed us for hundreds of years that we are “free”. Yet, we are consistently wrangled into laws of man and no laws of the land before man. From an illegal taxation entity of the IRS to it’s illegal counterpart and elite money printing bonanza of The Federal Reserve (which is not a part of the US Treasury), we’ve been blinding accepting our “freedom” as an almighty gift from the corporation of the United States of America (it’s a dead entity). What happened to common law and our true freedom? Where did the true constitutional republic go?

In the name of “what’s best” for us, the US Government and all it’s supporting “corporations” and elitists, we’ve been governed and indoctrinated since birth to believe that our amazing freedoms are so far beyond the rest of the world that the swelling pride has overrode our logic and true understanding of what it is to be free. Taxation is theft. Think on it and if you do the basic math on the amount of payroll taxes, based on the number of people in the US and the median tax rate, you end up with an astronomical figure that could feed the world two times over.

For “fun”, just use $35,000 times a conservative 20% tax rate and you get $7,000 annually ... multiply it by the number of working Americans (about 150 million) and your apple phone will give you 1.05e12 which it’s way to abbreviate because there’s not enough room to display, $1,050,000,000,000 ... a TRILLION dollars on the backs of hard working Americans in payroll taxes alone. This doesn’t count any tax you pay for every transaction you make. Add in those taxes, plus property taxes, and there is no way that a government can’t run on a fraction of that amount.

So, let’s consider what we’re doing when we’re pushing these petitions and programs. Why should the government earn a percentage of taxes ON TOP of the compensation they’re paid for licensing fees, OBNDD fees, city and county “certificates of occupancy” etc? Yes, we need some policing and regulation to ensure consumers are getting clean products and that people are treating workers fairly. But where’s all the money going? Who’s really winning? Our applauding citizens because we have a right to a medicinal/recreational plant or the governing bodies that we somehow allow to “award” us while stuffing millions. It’s time for a change. It’s time for Big Brother/Uncle Sam to take a seat to the people that demand true freedoms without taxation ... or at minimum the exploitive taxation that we can and should reject.

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Can cannabis help with anxiety?

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by Dr. Pepper Hernandez Board Certified Cannabis Therapy Consultant When talking about the effects that cannabis can have on the neurological system, it is important first to understand how the nervous system functions. Neurons in the brain first communicate with each other through electrical impulses and neurotransmitters. The nervous system is a sophisticated network of nerves and specialized cells called neurons that transmit and receive signals all across the body. The central nervous system is made up of the spinal cord, cranial nerves, and the brain.

In-depth research has demonstrated the protective effects of cannabis.

Cannabis has been known to help with anxiety. When using cannabis it is important to choose cultivars or strains that also have relaxing terpenes such as linalool and cannabinoids such as CBD & CBN. These are well known to help relax the nervous system. Unlike other cannabinoids & terpenes that could cause the opposite reaction such as THC & limonene. These can actually trigger anxiety in some people. So always micro dose if you are unsure about the effects of a specific flower.

Always choose organic, full sun flowers. This can help limit or completely avoid the chemicals that may be used to process or grow the plant. Those chemicals could possibly have a negative reaction to your experience.

A central nervous system issue may be brought on by trauma, intense stress, and anxiety, among other things. In addition to cannabis, many other nutrients, diets, practices, and meditations can help balance the nervous system and help with controlling anxiety and release stress.

If people do not wish to use cannabis to relieve anxiety, there are several alternative methods to help with symptoms. These include: engaging in regular exercise reducing alcohol consumption reducing caffeine consumption eating a healthy diet adding magnesium-rich foods counselling or cognitive behavioral therapy To find out what options you have available, please ask your doctor, naturopath, or cannabis therapy professional.

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By Kathleen Barker

The heart breaks in slow motion when the beings we love have to let go of life, and cross the veil where we can not yet follow. I could tell you that it is only temporary…that death itself isn’t real. The definition is but a measurement of understanding. A construct. A limiting belief. In truth there is no separation, just as there is no time, not really.

It is but a difference in existential frequency. However in the midst of grief, it does little to provide comfort. Even for those who understand terms of vibration and frequency and how it shows up as life, the only thing we want is to hold them again in the here and now. In the physicality we’re attuned to. To see their loving features and to know they are happy. To share our love with them, and feel thiers coming back to us.

I’m here to remind you that you can.

Now, there’s going to need to be some surrender on your part. Primarily surrender of expectations and limitations.

Birds - Cardinals are thought to be masculine spirits coming to visit, Blue Jays more femenin. You might see dragonflies, or butterflies.

Trust your gut, if it feels like it’s your loved one, it is.

I saw a cardinal recently and when I tapped into it, a voice and an image came through. My late teacher Tommy Hodgkins. He meant a great deal to me and I know that he was my father in another life.

He started talking to me. But just like in conversations between two living people, there are pauses. My brain doesn’t know what to make of these pauses, and tried to make him say something to prove that this was a real encounter.

For example: if you call out to the wind expecting to hear a voice in return as the only valid proof of an encounter, you’re going to be sorely disappointed.

The expectation in this example = hearing a voice The limitation in this example = its a voice or it’s not a real connection Making contact doesn’t have to be hard, in truth a lot of people overthink it.

Remember in StarWars when Luke was Teaching Rey how to use the force? He told her to reach out and he meant with her heart. If you want to speak out loud you can, and for those who’ve recently passed, some believe it’s more helpful if you do.

Here nor there, as soon as you think of them, you’ve established a connection. Now at this point don’t expect anything specific, or you may miss what’s coming through. Keep your mind open. Communication between dimensions isn’t the same as when you’re on the same one together. It’s like a Radio, you’re on one frequency, and now they’re on another.

Some things you may receive as far as responses go are as follows: energy vortex in the heart chakra center, you may have split seconds where you see them in familiar places, but the mind quickly convinces you it was your imagination. Flashes of imagery, you may hear their voice, if it’s a pet, their specific noises. You might get strong scents that waft past or in front of you.

A song may come on that seems like it’s meant for you the moment you’re hearing it. Or you might hear something as your changing stations, or channels on the tv.

More vague signs could look like ‘angel numbers’, or

Tommy laughed and smiled at me and said : “ don’t think so hard about it you’re gonna hurt yourself. This is real even if it’s in your mind. Look at it like this: when you’re talking to someone on your side of the veil in a regular conversation there are pauses aren’t there? If you tried to make the person that you were talking to say what you thought they would say it wouldn’t work, right? they’d giggle at you too.

So just relax, and let things flow. Write that down in your little ol’ notes” It made me smile.

Keep this in mind when you want to reach out.

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I think I can lend some background and perspective. A little “behind the scenes” if you will. I can only tell this from my perspective, so I will give you an “eye-witness” rather than a “hearsay” account.

In 2015 when we wrote SQ788, it lived on my computer. There are many people who have thoughts and ideas in 788. #wethepeople authored it. That being said, someone had to fight for the big ideas, someone had to defend it all, and someone had to lead it all. That fell to myself through Oklahomans for Health from 2014 until the primary election of 2018 where we passed 788. We had A LOT of new leaders when we made the ballot. Everyone wanted to be the hero and many many people who had little to nothing to do with the efforts that made marijuana legal in Oklahoma stepped into what they thought were opportunities to take credit. Marijuana seems to foster “opportunists”.

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When we were working with the legislature to build the infrastructure under SQ788, we made some “deals”. Who made these “deals”?

Those that were fighting for you with lawmakers and that group included myself, Jed Green, Bud Scott, Ron Durbin, Lawrence Paternack, Chris Moe, Norma Sapp, and many others. The biggest “deal” we made was that we, as activists, would give the legislature a chance to get this right, and we would not petition the state again. In return for that, lawmakers agreed to not mess with our three core principles which were: no medical conditions, any Oklahoma should be able to get a commercial license (free market), and every patient has the right to homegrow.

We did pretty good until the 2021 legislative session. In 2021 several bills advanced that broke the above promise.

Basically when that happened the OG’s spun up an effort to better protect the freedoms and liberties we had won under SQ788. Meetings were called to pull together those that had helped craft legislation in the past. Meetings were put together with all of the major stakeholders in cannabis including cannabis patients, business owners, activists, physicians, the OMMA, the OBN, the Lt.Gov Office, the Governor’s office, lawmakers on both sides of the isle, lawmakers from both houses, State Ag, lots of nonprofits including the Oklahoma State Medical Association, Farming and Ranching nonprofits, and many other groups which cannabis impacts.

Input was asked for and obtained from all of these stakeholders. That input was factored into what is now circulating as State Question 818.

The ORCA group then added adult use or recreational cannabis as a separate offering called SQ819. So SQ818 and SQ819 are home grown, socialized through YOU or as close to YOU as we could get, they respect what we won under 788, and they include things we need. Everyone gathering signatures for 818 and 819 is doing so with no pay and also doing so because they believe our industry needs these reforms.

SQ820, which just turned in their signatures, exists for another reason.

Several things have happened with SQ820 that as activists we just do not do to each other. SQ820 is being pushed from out of State.

SQ820 is funded with money from out of state. Why? To influence the November ballot. They may well make it. The group pushing it has spent well over $2,000,000 to pay signature gathers. Many facebook trolls exist to help make this look like a homegrown effort which we are all supporting. Yes, it is adult use, but the devil is always in the details.

This one does more harm than good in my opinion.

Prediction: If SQ820 does NOT make the November 2022 ballot, it will be dropped. Let’s see what happens...

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Survive To Educate An inside look at a cannabis educator household

By James Bridges I pulled around the corner of the large empty parking lot. It was mid-afternoon. I could barely stand the sweltering heat radiating from that giant gas globe in the sky. I needed something cold.

Something with some sort of quench at the end of it. There was a coffee lounge and an interview waiting just over the next curb.

I had landed. The place was called Aces of 8’s. I knew I was about to get lucky.

Alan Matthew Taylor, AKA the Dab Father, seemed to be setting up shop in the corner of this dark and surprisingly inviting coffee house, which I found even more inviting after grabbing the coldest bottle of liquid I could find.

“Yes. I’d love a dab from the Dab Father,” I announced after the invite was given by Alan. He immediately began serenading me with his open arms and inviting tone of voice.

“The funny part about that name is that it didn’t even kick in until about three years ago,” Alan chuckled. I was, of course, intrigued. I bit.

“Yep. I was not known as the dab father until 3 or 4 years ago. Way back when weed was still illegal in Oklahoma,” Alan grinned. “ Of course, I was still dabbing.”

“So my next door neighbor decided he wanted to come over and start learning how to dab. The first couple of times, he nearly killed himself trying to hit it. He never really damaged anything. He just coughed until he would pee.” We both giggled. Of course. That’s what grown men do when they hear the word “pee”.

“Okay. So, all right now,” Alan continued, “I came to find out that he didn’t really smoke dabs before. So we came to the conclusion that it’s time to teach him. At that time there were about four, five of us friends starting to catch onto this whole

dab thing. I myself have been partaking in the art of dabbing for about 10 years.” So, the name Dab Father was just a joke at first. You know, like the godfather of dabs. So, slowly but surely, I started teaching people.”

I was curious how one goes about teaching another to “dab” properly. First of all, let’s talk about what dabbing is for people new to the game. Dabbing is consuming very potent and concentrated forms of cannabis. You use something called a dab rig in order to consume said magical products. This can and does, at times, resemble something straight out of a chemist closet. Yet, let me tell you from experience, it works and it works very well. But still. How does one teach this?

“What I try to do is look at extremes then dial things down in order to create the best results.” Alan dove right in, “So we don’t let you pass out, but we get you right to that edge where you wanna pass out, but you’re still able to function. Eventually, we’re getting you used to your moderation types. It’s at that point when you’re able to understand there is a medicinal value and you simply need to find that value number and dial it in. This is one of the biggest challenges when teaching people how to medicate themselves. It’s not about trying to over do it.”

When I enter situations such as this interview, I tend to reflect.

I remember what the thought process was like just a few short years ago. To have to hide in the dark to gain access to such medication and pleasure feels like an eternity at times. Others, not so much. Other times it feels as if we have immediately stepped into a time warp. Here we are. Sitting in a coffee house in the middle of a summer afternoon while ripping dabs from a dab rig that looks as if it were made by nasa. Damn, I love this moment.

“Now it’s a process of teaching them about terpenes and which ones are going to benefit them the best.” Alan was getting to the next part too quickly for my taste.

Jennifer Taylor & Alan Taylor DabMother & DabFather

I wanted to have more depth. Why is this person that is sitting in front of me qualified to educate me on cannabis? The “little red dude on the shoulder” advocate was put to rest.

“I was running gorilla grows in California for, I don’t know, let’s call it three and a half years.”

I leaned forward.

They didn’t care.” We both laughed at the thought. “They just chopped it all down, cause they knew the cops would never show up. They had the mowing on a schedule. Eventually, we actually had to get in ‘good’ with the field workers. They would let us know when we needed to move out.” Alan grinned, again.

“I ended up going up the trees and I started planting up in the trees.”

Instantly, I pictured cannabis plants all over tiny tree houses. I wondered how many times people have actually walked under a barrel full of this beautiful plant and never knew it.

“Never, not even once, did we get caught. Right. Sheriffs would come looking. They would fly the helicopters over. You could see it from over top. Right? But, you could be standing directly under it. The police would come and look and it would never be there. We built these little platforms across the tops. We had irrigation hoses running up and everything.”

Something happened in the room that is rare when two people like us are present. A very long pause. I had to calculate some things in my head.

“On the outskirts of vineyards in Stockton, California. We were right on the edges, just on the edges of where the police couldn’t get us and the sheriff wouldn’t mess with us.” I could tell Alan was traveling back in time.

“The biggest problem we had to worry about were produce farmers. They would just go through and mow it all down.

“Yeah. Haha.” Alan was laughing. “I eventually discovered that the trees wouldn’t be sufficient. We were right next to a river. So we ran the water right out of the river and straight up. I mean it. Talk about a gorilla growing. Honestly it was just trying to be sneaky. I knew cops usually never looked up. Right? I have run from the police in the past. I hid under cars. They always found me. Right? If I hid up on top of things, they never looked up.

So this became a cat and mouse game. The mouse is up there and the cat is down there looking around. They’re looking down at the ground. Does it make sense?” I nodded and confirmed.

“Mm-hmm.” Alan smiled. “Put the weed in the trees, put the weed in the trees. Yeah. Put the weed in the trees…”

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Long before I ever talked with the Dab Father I worked with the Dab Mother on a few projects. It seems that communication is not only an issue in the medicinal cannabis side of the coin, but with actual communication companies as well. Herbage, until inspired to be remedied, was one of them. So I thought I would ask a little about the better half of Alan. You know, just to make sure. I was pleasantly surprised with new information about already known acquaintances.

“20-years-ago I had a cervical issue that came back Atypical.”

Jennifer unexpectedly began telling her journey. It was apparent that there were no regrets. “I went through some procedures and they did a cryosurgery. Everything’s been fine since, but my daughter’s pregnancy was a hardcore weird. It just ran the mill with me. At that time, I just hadn’t felt the same since.

I finally got in touch with a really good OBGYN and they found atypical endo cells. So they scheduled an ultrasound. It came back fine. There was still that question of why.”

“So we went ahead and did a cervical and an endometrial biopsy yesterday.”

Wait, did she just say yesterday? As in, the day before we had this interview? She started this out with “20-years-ago.” Anyone else catch that?

“So hopefully, um, it’ll be, it will be good news. Um, but, uh, yeah.” She smiled and carried on as if this was normal. For her, it was.

I wanted to know more about how she became an actual cannabis educator.

“I’ve always been intrigued by how the body works. As a kid in science class I felt at home. I loved it when it came to biology and we had to dissect everything.

I just wanted to know what’s in there. How does it work? You know, what’s going on? Um, then I kind of lost track. My career changed. I ended up in the military, did some stuff there, but then after I picked up and went to school to be a medical assistant and continued on and got my associates in sports medicine.”

Jennifer let me know she discovered that Western medicine “ticks her off.”

She was very adamant that the practitioners and decision makers are constantly pushing medications that seem to be the most profit driven rather than what is best for the patient.

Surprisingly, I was able to get somewhat of an insight to the amount of judgment that goes on behind the scenes in a doctor’s office. According to Jennifer there were many personal and moral judgment calls being made by those that have the power to possibly change the quality of life of others. “It was too much.” Jennifer spoke as if she found a lump of clay in her pudding.

Now that she is “free from that world”, Jennifer educated others in regards to cannabis use and benefits. Jennifer herself has gone through quite the personal transformation.

“I got sick with pneumonia back in 2019. That’s when I got really serious with cannabis. I started to notice changes. I started realizing that different strains were affecting my appetite and other health benefits that were specific to something. I just needed to figure it out. So, I started digging into terpenes and the cannabinoids that are in those certain strains. Everything started relating. I knew then and there that I could figure out a terpene that could help with certain ailments. So I did a lot of research.

Sometimes it would help, sometimes I just needed to mix that plus something else and it would be near perfect. That would then unlock something else.”

With exercise, diet, and cannabis, Jennifer drove her weight

down over time and in a healthy way. No pills. When she began she weighed 250 lbs heavier than she did that day.

“I got on a scale this morning and I weighed 135 lbs.” We both laughed.

“I fought and fought and fought my weight for years before cannabis. I was in the gym every day, making sure my diet was on point, but I couldn’t lose weight. I was constantly gaining and I didn’t understand that stress is a huge factor. So digging into, you know, the spiritual side of things and learning how to try not let things affect me that used to drive me out of my mind. Things just started falling into place and, and I’ve just kind of noticed lots of different changes.” Jennifer seemed to sigh a little out of relief.

I could sense a bit of comfort in the air. Jennifer was comfortable with exactly where she was on her path. Awareness is abundant in society yet genuine awareness of oneself is still rare to find. I believe that Jennifer has found it and she wants to share.

“I love my church, but I’ve been judged a lot for what I stand behind. I am judged pretty hardcore at my job, and it’s really, it’s been tough. It’s amazing to me because I want to shout at them and say I’m still the same Jennifer that you guys knew beforehand! I’m just in a better place.”

“My husband was the big driver.” Jennifer sounded thankful.

“He introduced me to the whole thing. He hot boxed me the first time. It was great!”

Laughter, as you could imagine, ensued. If you know then you know.

“I’m just a patient that didn’t understand at first.” She sounded as if she were admitting guilt. I was holding onto the thought that she had to understand that her simplicity to this education is probably the most beneficial style of training to any patient wanting to make the cannabis choice. “I didn’t know what was going on. I just started digging in and researching and finding scholarly articles.

I recommend this. However, I am here to translate and simplify if people ask.”

“Open communication between the patient, the patient’s doctor, and cannabis experts is key.” Jennifer reminds us. “Unfortunately, those conversations aren’t open. Doctors are making radical assumptions before seeing patients as well. I witnessed a conversation between the doctor and the patient. The doctor hardly had time to look over his clipboard before demanding that the patient not ask for pain medicine, ‘because you’re not gonna get it.’ The patient was very upset at the accusation. Medical professionals need to understand that there are alternative ways and there are healthy alternative ways, and it’s not just a drug.

Jennifer has a 23-year-old son, Devin. Okay. He was diagnosed at the age of four with severe ADHD and possible borderline personality disorder. He uses cannabis. Jennifer gave a simple opinion.

“I don’t think he medicates the way he needs to. It’s tough. I’m educating and training others. I want him to pick it up and really use cannabis for his advantage. I believe that if he would concentrate on the correct strains and terpenes then it would really help him.”

Her other child is a young girl named Sophia. Jennifer describes Sophia as her “mini me” as she has mocked the process when it comes to diet and a healthy lifestyle.

“That girl will reach for a bowl of salad before candy or whatnot. Now don’t get me wrong. She’s a little sneaker. I’ve caught her, but yeah, for the most part, she’s really good.

“I was 39 when I met Alan. I’m 45 now, but my forties have been my best years.” A calm sense was lingering. Jennifer was in a good spot. “Yeah. Um, I finally just figured out how to say, screw it, I don’t care. You know? If you don’t like me, whatever, it’s not my place to care what you think, you know? I’m more concerned about my family and loved ones. I’m healthy, they’re healthy. I can walk out of this life with a smile on my face, you know?

Alan commented about Jennifer as if he were talking about himself. I could see the love he had for another human being. I noticed a slight twitch on his lips from a “near tear” situation. “She dove nose first into this and it was. Just full on. It is amazing. Six years ago. She did not smoke weed at all. She was a heavy drinker. Jennifer and her family didn’t smoke cannabis at all.

“So THCV also helps the Thyroid. Not to mention a little bit of psilocybin.” Alan supports the use of all plant medicine in order to help the body, mind, and spirit. “Those combined together help unlock your brain and reset the chemical makeup, but it has to be done in very gradual motions. You can’t just jump in and expect to be healed. Right? It does not happen.”

Both Jennifer and Alan’s story is straight out of a script made to root for the underdog. This time the underdog is still paddling upstream. However, the destination is clearly in mind for the both of them. The most important part to them is being able to educate others. They want to help others to stay off off the bench of an underdog team, and possibly win once in a while.

“Yeah. I didn’t realize I’d be more of an underdog story actually.” Alan was completely serious.

Alan was recently named the Cultivation Director for Platinum Farms in Oklahoma. “I’m spending thousands and thousands of dollars to help get a very large farm. I’m looking back, wow. I mean, this, this is coming from a kid that grew up on the streets.”

“I’m 4-years-old. We moved from Oklahoma to California.” He was reminiscing.

“We lived in a small apartment for a long time and it was just me, my mother and my little brother until my stepdad came along. My stepdad was great for the first few years. Like he was always great. And then my mom got sick and it was like, as soon as my mom got sick, he got violent and just belligerent and his number one punching bag was me.” I noticed a spark in his eye.

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“When I was 7 until about 14-years-old, I was abused regularly.

As soon as he came home from work, I either made myself completely scarce and disappeared, or I was guaranteed to get my ass whooped for something. It didn’t really matter what. So he put me to work at his rental yard, which helped give me the skills that I have today. I was driving tractors and hooking up trailers and filling propane. By the time I was 14 or so I was already working my way to being a full-time drug dealer. My step dad actually turned me into a drug dealer. We were picking up methamphetamine on an every two week basis.”

This got my head spinning. This person in front of me seemed nothing like the DARE posters that float around to warn children of dangerous people with evil drugs in hand. This was a very intelligent, well groomed, hyper focused individual. I asked him about the drug use.

“I was. Um, so about 12 years old was my first experience with methamphetamine. I didn’t really key in on it right then. So a couple months later my buddy brought it up again and then it was on from there. So at the age of 13, I was hooked on meth and I was running 24 hours a day for up to 21 days in a row. At this point I was mentally unstable. I was pulling guns on bushes.

There was a video of me chasing ‘nothing’ down the street and shooting at it. I couldn’t believe it. I didn’t believe it. Told everybody they were lying. That’s not me. That video looks like me, but it can’t be me.”

“So, I just completely played denial for a long time. I went back to doing exactly what I did best, and that was selling methamphetamine and marijuana. I mean, I was sitting there with long hair and a don’t care attitude for the longest time.

From the ages of 14 to the ages of 24 Alan was homeless. “I had my home base. It was a water tank on the corner. This thing is now a train station. I used to dig a hole under the side of the building and tunnel under it, so that I had a place that was warm during the winter. My mom was diagnosed with fibromyalgia. She couldn’t get outta bed. They couldn’t figure out how to get her pain under control. She had a bag about the size of this backpack full of pill bottles. It was not good. If she had a sniffle, it was right to the pain pills. I watched my mom go from this beautiful creature to this person that I didn’t know anymore.

She would never come out of the room. She would just be hibernating 24 hours a day.”

“When she did come out,” he recalled. She was on meth and she let my stepdad do whatever he wanted to do because he supplied everything. It was a situation where me and my little brother were just kind of left out to defend ourselves.”

“My little brother was taken care of a little bit better than me. I was the older one and I still remembered my real dad. My step dad even told me that because I know my real dad, he shouldn’t have to care. I was 16. That moment was the first real fist fight that we got into. He kicked my ass. Hardcore.” I believed Alan as he was speaking. The sincerity in his voice was non negotiable.

“I came back one day. I beat him down. I made it a point to do it in front of everybody.

It took me almost three years to do that. I actually learned how to fight in prison. I’m not proud of that. It was something I could have avoided.”

“I wouldn’t call it a success story,” Alan pointed out. “I survived.

I conquered a ton of challenges that you think would knock someone out when they are at the bottom. All of this has been a learning experience. It wouldn’t be anything without my wife by my side.

I revealed before that Alan is now the director of cultivation for Platinum Farms. I asked him about his qualifications once more. This is a rather large task and I was curious as to who

would be accomplishing it.

“My dad was a cultivator before I was born. So, I guess I’m a second generation cultivator. On August 22nd, 1986, a 400 watt high pressure sodium light that was ordered out of high times magazine. He had it delivered the same day that I was born. It was installed the same day. I was put in that room. I have been in a cultivation situation since the day I was born. I took over cultivation operations at the age of 16. I was running around when I was telling you we were doing those gorilla grows and stuff in Stockton, California. They slowly got bigger. We needed more products. It was cheaper to produce it ourselves and then take it to the street. At that time, cultivation was a life sentence.

So manufacturing was a life sentence. We were doing all of this.”

“We were open blasting in California. BHO open blasting in the middle of vineyards, so that we could see if cops were headed our direction. I mean, we would all jump on dirt bikes and take off, no joke. I finally started perfecting my open blast BHO. I wanted to be one of the first people that had the dragon balls, the 3000 gram hash balls. I never made it to that point, but I was one of the first people to have the sheets.”

“I was one of the first people in 2012 to enter canna-butter into a cannabis competition. I received 17th place out of about 1,700.”

“I’ve dabbled.”

I can see clearly that both Jennifer and Alan are in a much better place in life. They are now positioned as caregivers as well as patients themselves. Both are in a very unique position to help more people than they will ever know personally. The derivative effects from the knowledge and passing down of such knowledge will last for eternity. Or as long as those out there willing to make a choice for themselves will open their hearts and minds and listen to what is now simply put in front of them.

Many call this knowledge and education the answer. I tend to agree.

“I wouldn’t call it a success story,” Alan pointed out. “I survived. I conquered a ton of challenges that you think would knock someone out when they are at the bottom. All of this has been a learning experience. It wouldn’t be anything without my wife by my side.

I revealed before that Alan is now the director of cultivation for Platinum Farms. I asked him about his qualifications once more.

This is a rather large task and I was curious as to who would be accomplishing it.

“My dad was a cultivator before I was born. So, I guess I’m a second generation cultivator. On August 22nd, 1986, a 400 watt high pressure sodium light that was ordered out of high times magazine. He had it delivered the same day that I was born. It was installed the same day. I was put in that room. I have been in a cultivation situation since the day I was born. I took over cultivation operations at the age of 16. I was running around when I was telling you we were doing those gorilla grows and stuff in Stockton, California. They slowly got bigger. We needed more products. It was cheaper to produce it ourselves and then take it to the street.

At that time, cultivation was a life sentence. So manufacturing was a life sentence. We were doing all of this.”

“We were open blasting in California. BHO open blasting in the middle of vineyards, so that we could see if cops were headed our direction. I mean, we would all jump on dirt bikes and take off, no joke. I finally started perfecting my open blast BHO. I wanted to be one of the first people that had the dragon balls, the 3000 gram hash balls. I never made it to that point, but I was one of the first people to have the sheets.”

“I was one of the first people in 2012 to enter canna-butter into a cannabis competition. I received 17th place out of about 1,700.”

“I’ve dabbled.”

I can see clearly that both Jennifer and Alan are in a much better place in life. They are now positioned as caregivers as well as patients themselves. Both are in a very unique position to help more people than they will ever know personally. The derivative effects from the knowledge and passing down of such knowledge will last for eternity. Or as long as those out there willing to make a choice for themselves will open their hearts and minds and listen to what is now simply put in front of them. Many call this knowledge and education the answer. I tend to agree.

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By Charles “Uncle Chuck” Duncan

One June 24th the Supreme Court of The United States overturned Roe vs Wade and in doing so changed a woman’s ability to decide her own healthcare option.

But I thought this was an article about cannabis Uncle Chuck?

Here me out...

Cannabis reform is happening all over the country. In most cases the sudden switch from cannabis being the devil’s lettuce to a medical benefit is mainly driven by financial incentives. As soon as 788 passed and cannabis became legal in Oklahoma, I feared that some day the financial incentive would no longer be needed, and we would go right back to the fear mongering and the “War on Drugs” days that lead to so many incarcerations and destroyed lives. But now I fear that even a medical right can be taken away due to the ideology of special interests’ groups and courts of the highest level. This makes cannabis education even more important.

I typically have a problem with staying in my own lane and this will be a perfect example. I will never have to make a choice on getting an abortion. I do not envy any woman that has to go through that process. To me, the right or wrong question is for her to answer. Not me. But part of me wishes that there was more public education regarding abortion over the last 50 years. The jistory of what women really went through to make those decisions. How some women survived only because they had gone through the process. How others decided it wasn’t for them in their specific circumstances or beliefs. They are both right. Because it was their choice. Like COVID and a host of other challenges we go through as a nation, education seems to only appear in bits and skewed toward a certain bias. Real facts without agendas are usually hard to find. Sound bites on TV and memes on the internet become the “research” of the majority. If the Federal Government ever decriminalizes cannabis, remember Roe vs Wade and June 24th 2022. And know that cannabis can become illegal again if we don’t keep educating the public. With facts and data about the plant and not so much about the tax potential. Access to cannabis should be a right. A right that shouldn’t require a litmus test or outrageously high fees. For this reason, my fight for legal cannabis will never end. Even when it becomes legal on a federal level.

We need to continue to share stories on how some children on the spectrum thrive with a proper cannabis regiment. How people suffering from PTSD are enjoying days that some thought they would never see. How those wanting an alternative to opi-

oids are finding success with a proper cannabis dosage. People are eating complete meals and sleeping better because of cannabis. Everyone in need should have access to the same results.

Our fight must be to make it understood. That’s the key. Ignorance breeds fear and fear is a weapon used by some who control your legal rights. The struggle isn’t in trying to convince a few thousand politicians to make cannabis legal. It’s trying to educate millions so they advise their representatives that cannabis is beneficial, and the people of a free country should be able to grow, purchase and consume cannabis like any other plant.

I will keep educating and advocating for legal cannabis. Not just because it’s the right thing to do but because laws built on ignorance are misguided and dangerous. Our country is still a very young experiment when compared to the rest of the world and if we have any hope of succeeding we need to apply the “people” part of “We the People” more often.

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