Herbage Magazine July 2021 Issue 34

Sarah Lee

Gossett Parrish Excellence. Efficiency. Integrity.

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Owner and Publisher Advertising & Design James Bridges james@herbagemag.com Staff Writer Cannabanana & Staff Writer Anna Ervin anna@herbagemag.com Media Producer Assistant Jasmine Harvey jasmine@herbagemag.com

PG 5

WATCH WHAT YOU SAY

By James Bridges

PG 6-7 YOU TWITCHY WITCH

By James Bridges PG 8-9 STAR 46 FARMS

By Anna Ervin

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A BETTER BLOOM

By Anna Ervin

PG 11

I LOVE HER - Strain of the Month

By James Bridges

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WRITE THAT ISH DOWN

By Anna Ervin

PG 30

BRAVO JUSTICE THOMAS

By Sarah Lee Gossett Parrish Cannabis Lawyer

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SOWING THE SEED

By Chet Tucker

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LOTUS LETTER What did you call me?

By Kathy Long-Barker

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HEY SICK PERSON

By Tab Moura

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WHO’S JUSTICE

By Brittiany Ralls

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CANNABANANA & MOM No Bake (but will get you baked) Cookies

PG 19 CHOCOLATE FEVER

By Anna Ervin

Legal Guide & Wisdom Sarah Lee Gossett Parrish

art by Catie Hubbert @TwitchyWitchCreative

PG 22-23 THE DUKE

By Anna Ervin

PG 24 BEAUTIFUL DISASTER

Local Leaf Cultivation

By James Bridges

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Watch What You Say

by James Bridges HERBAGE MAGAZINE

According to the Domestic Violence Homicide in Oklahoma 2020 annual report by County from 1998 to 2019, 1,881 victims lost their lives to domestic violence in Oklahoma.

The World Health Organization estimates that roughly 55% of domestic abuse perpetrators were drinking alcohol prior to assault.

There were three of these events in 2019 that also involved the death of children. These three events resulted in the death of five children.

Every month in the U.S., 50 women are shot and killed by intimate partners.

According to a new study, cannabis has drastically reduced the number of...

This is the terminology that people who are uneducated yet interested in the positive outcomes of cannabis like to see and read.

It has very little to do with the overall picture. Many standards, including mine, would indicate that this could be one of the most ignorant ways of describing a medicinal plant to a group of people who just want to be ok with it.

This is our opportunity. Our chance. We are at the forefront of an industry and a lifestyle in which we, us, not the man behind the curtain, can capitolize. We truly have the opportunity to properly educate ourselves.

The overall effects of cannabis are not defined by explosive actions of those who may or may not be directly under the influence of said cannabis. It’s proposterous to think that you could accurately depict or even guage how abusive someone would be if they just simply made a switch.

Though it is quite remarkable to witness those that switch from alcohol stop seeing that “red” violent light.

The medicinal value of cannibis is devalued so greatly when it’s put into a sample jar such as this. Though, I can find satisfaction knowing that in the end the plant will always win. I’m just not certain that “by any means” is actually necssary to make a point when it’s blatenly staring you in the face.

There is a time and place to make noise. That time is usually when those that you want to listen cram more mud

into their ears.

If you wait long enough, continue the mission, believe in what you are trying to accomplish, and most of all be empeccable with your words, (specially those words which fall into the ears of those whom believe themselves to be of a higher educational level than most), Good will prevail. Good will prevail. Good will prevail.

You Twitchy Witch

by James Bridges HERBAGE MAGAZINE Pencils are very cheap. You could probably find a few under your stash box right now. Paper’s not so bad either. So when you put the two together and you tell someone they can draw and they scribble something down, that doesn’t make them the next Keith Haring.

It’s the same with every art form. The cream rises and it’s better damnit. It’s just better...

Catie Hubbert was enrolled at Oklahoma State University with the full intention of becoming something that society had told her she would probably need in order to make it. By happenstance she enrolled into her first “formal” art instruction. That’s when she found love in the form of art.

She walked away from that Aggie school with a bonafide BFA and now it’s time to do Catie the way Catie wants to do Catie.

“It’s a really wonderful and fulfilling place to be. It’s hard to make it in the art world and make a name for yourself to the point where people recognize your work or come to you requesting a piece. It’s a really cool thing to experience.” Catie’s eyes were wide open.

I called Catie a few days before meeting with her. I noticed something inside of her artwork that made me stop. I wanted to know more about the person that created this brilliant combination of color and design. I noticed a touch of magic and design that not many have the talent to match. I asked her what she attributed to her beginning success.

“I think a lot of it is forcing myself to be uncomfortable. I put myself out there consistently now. I’m naturally a very shy person. I’m very awkward. I kind of made a pact with myself a couple years ago to do all of the things that I’m afraid of doing, all of the things that make me uncomfortable. So one of those things is music. Putting that out there for the world to see..

That’s been a huge milestone every time I post a video or something like that. It works the same with my art.

I just consistently put my work out there without tearing myself down or telling myself that this isn’t good enough. I try not to worry if others are better. Just getting past that and sitting in that discomfort for a little while..It’s really paid off because people see my work now and it gets recognized.”

Living and working around artists myself, I recognize when they go under the influence of wondering whether people like them as people, or they really enjoy their work. It’s a hard spot. I asked Catie if she had had her turn with that emotion.

“I like creating work for strangers and I am to the point now, like I said, where I will have strangers come to me and ask for art. When it’s people that you know it’s kind of difficult and there is a little voice in my head that always says they’re just doing me a favor or they’re just doing this because they want to support me. Without having people other than friends and family coming to you requesting work, it’s really easy to let that voice win. You just have to continue with your craft without listening to that voice.

You must consistently do the best you can. And people either take it or leave it.” Catie reassured me that she is on the correct path, which is her path.

to buy the proper equipment. I’d like to get heavily into animation once I can buy all the software. I want to transition over and see what happens.”

“I have a lot of health issues. I have had some neurological issues. You’ll notice I twitch. I’ve had that since I was little.

It’s because I have a severe OCD. I get overwhelmed and it comes out in twitches. In college I got very sick and was hospitalized. I was diagnosed with lupus and I was on all the medicines for all the years and just felt miserable. I felt like there was no room to be me because all of my energy was consumed by just being sick.”

An artist can feel the fire of other people actually liking their work. They of course get a little bit of a boost. A personal boost that says I can do this. I most certainly can and that, my friends, is a wonderful feeling. To accomplish this as an artist without it actually being a popularity contest is rare and it is something that Catie is forever grateful for.

“Then I found cannabis and replaced all my medicines. I started microdosing and building my way up and it was just like the whole world opened up to me because I didn’t have to worry about all that other stuff. I could just be Catie. It’s just been so life-changing and my journey into self-discovery owes so much to cannabis. It played a major part in me learning to love myself and having space to finally become my best self. There’s no way I would be where “It’s hard to build a name for yourself in the art world. It I am without it. I would still be miserable and missing out is very, very intimidating especially for someone who’s re- on life. I would be watching it go by feeling like I can’t do ally bashful. Oh gosh I’ve been doing this full time for so all those things I want to do. So I feel like it would be a long. For about nine years. I’m just now to the point where mistake if I did not thank cannabis itself.” people are starting to recognize my work. So it takes a lot of bad art to get to the good. But art is about finding out “It’s because of cannabis I was able to see all the shit in my who you are as a person and letting that shine through on life that doesn’t matter and toss it away. I learned that life the canvas. People are going to recognize you and they see is about connection and love and seeing the beauty in all your voice and your personality in each piece. So they can the things. All the stuff that I was worried about and all go hand-in-hand. Figuring out who you are or what your the things that continuously made me miserable..I learned style is, what your taste is, what is your signature thing. that at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter. All of the anxiSelf-discovery. I think it’s all a very big important part of ety, all of the fear. It was just stopping me from showing all success. I really do think they go hand-in-hand.” the colors that are inside of me.”.

“I did hyper-realistic portraits. Paintings that look just like the person. I did that for the longest time. Not really because I ever advertised it or wanted to do it. Someone just asked me once because a loved one had passed away and they wanted a commemorative piece. It turns out I was really good at it. More people started asking so I did that for a long time. Finally I got to a financial place where I felt like I could do what I wanted and paint in my own style rather than, you know, commissions and specialty pieces that people wanted. So I started painting this show called Oklahome-Sweet-Home. It’s kind of a mix of mysticism and Oklahoma landscapes and whimsical things. It’s the world that I live in. I see it in Technicolor and there are so many beautiful things that we miss every day right here in Oklahoma.

When I say things similar to Catie or I listen to others say them, I imagine angry, foolish, bad people that once had control now crumbling because they are pissed off that it doesn’t matter any longer. A smile rises every time. The green wave is real and will never subside. At least I hope it doesn’t while I’m still around. It’s people with vision and the ability to step away from the norm that will keep it flowing.

“It’s a full out of body thing you need to experience in order to heal. I think you have to look at it as ‘everything is connected’ and you can’t just heal the physical and get better. You need to heal your emotions. You need to heal your soul, your mind, your body, all of it. And cannabis can reach all of those components. It’s like it reaches across barriers and can pull out what you need to see and show The collection has gotten a lot of attention. I’ve had peo- you the areas where you need to do some work” ple reach out and put my buffalo paintings on t-shirts. I sold a lot of those. I’ve had people reach out and ask me to recreate some of my pieces. I have a few of those. So it’s Herbage Magazine July 2021 Cover Artist. been really great and like I said I’m to the point now where business is coming to me. It’s been a whole lot of fun just to Catie Hubbert and her mixture of music, art, and whimsido me. It feels really, really good.” cal imagination can be found online at: Facebook @Catie Hubbert - Instagram @TwitchyWitch“I know it seems totally different...but I’d actually like to get Creative - TikTok @TwitchyWitchCreative into animation. The reason why I started hitting it really 7 hard with my art and my daytime job is that I’m saving up

ing to get her life back. Aside from a boot on her left foot from a recent broken bone, Hilary would appear to have led a fairly simple and healthy life, however her journey with health has been far from easy.

After her accident in 2006, a doctor in Austin managed to save her leg, but her journey to recovery had only just begun. “It took me nine months to be able to walk again,” Hilary told me. I could see that telling this part of her story was difficult for her, but she continued anyway, “I developed a nerve disease in my leg which is called RSD: Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome, also referred to as Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. That led to a lot of problems.”

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“In a very small set of people,” she continued, “RSD can spread. Since I had other health issues at the time, I was just the perfect specimen for everything to go wrong, and everything did. I just spiraled downhill from there. It moved into the whole right side of my body.”

After over twenty surgeries, three spinal cord stimulator implants, and years of her life spent bedridden, Hilary began When Hilary Campbell suffered a freak accident in 2006 to feel like a test subject as her doctor fumbled through prowhich left her with a rare nerve disorder, she knew she cedures he had little to no experience with. “Eventually I got would face a daunting road to recovery. Confronted with sick of it,” she recalled. “I realized that they were just killing numerous surgeries and medical procedures, alongside a me, slowly, one surgery at a time.” cocktail of pharmaceuticals prescribed to treat symptoms rather than the root of the issue, Hilary spent nearly two “I knew enough about my body to know that they were not years bedridden. Fast forward to years later, when Campbell treating the illness. They were treating the side effects. Befinally discovers and begins exploring the benefits of medic- cause of my history in the medical industry, I knew enough inal cannabis, and the healing that takes place is powerful about the medications I was given to know that they were not the answer.” enough to drive her entire family into the industry.

I drove out to Norman, Oklahoma this month to meet with Hilary, Head of Sales, and her husband Mike Campbell, Co-Owner of Star 46 Farms. Newlyweds of just 6 months, Mike and Hilary have built this indoor and outdoor operation from the ground up, with patient advocacy and education at the forefront of their mission. “We saw the benefits it provided for me and my family,” Hilary told me. “We just felt so strongly about helping other people and saw so many people that were going down the road that I was on.”

After investing years into research over her health issues, Hilary was beginning to understand that the medications she had been prescribed were just masking the side effects of other medications in a seemingly never-ending cycle.

Quickly losing faith in her physicians, she knew that she needed to get off the slew of pharmaceuticals her doctors had placed her on.

“Obviously there is a place for medication,” she stated carefully, ensuring that she wasn’t sending the wrong message.

“When we started this,” Hilary began as she welcomed me “We all need medication and pharmaceuticals, but I think into their facility, “this was an arena for horses. Last year that the doctors have used it as a crutch for so long that they my boys and I came down to visit for spring break. In the stop seeing the person that is standing in front of them.” middle of their break, Covid happened, and we ended up staying for four months. It just happened to be the exact “My ex-husband was a pharmacist,” she explained. “My dad is also a pharmacist. I had knowledgeable people around time that we need to do this.” me, and they helped me get off of the medication. I do not “I was in medical sales at the time,” Hilary explained. “Un- recommend anyone one to do what I did. It needs to happen fortunately, my department was shut down in January due under medical supervision because you can die from withto Covid and we needed someone to create a sales force and drawal, but I felt that I had nothing left to lose. So, I did it establish the sales team within our company, so I decided to one medication at a time.” step in and take on that role.”

“I didn’t make the immediate transition into cannabis unUpon first meeting Hilary, I instantly knew we were going til later in recovery,” Hilary recalled. “Once I was off of the to get along. Though quiet and somewhat reserved, she is medication, I could face the problem head on because I likely one of the most headstrong individuals I’ve ever had could identify what the illness really was. That is when I bethe privilege of meeting. After a quick glance, you probably gan researching alternative therapy. I understood integrated wouldn’t guess that this woman spent nearly 10 years fight- medicine, but finding an integrative provider is very hard to do. I just decided I had learned enough that I felt that I

could do it on my own. Mike is actually the one that intro- gether.” duced me to cannabis.”

I loved the holistic perspective Hilary and Mike seemed to I found this interesting, considering that Mike himself in- adopt when it came to their medicine, and I noticed that formed me that he was not a cannabis user. “I watched sev- their operation seemed to reflect that sentiment as well. Star eral family members and friends really benefited from can- 46 works with an Aquaponics system, utilizing the symbinabis,” he explained before allowing Hilary to continue her otic relationship between plants and fish. This sustainable story. My heart couldn’t help but flutter a little as I realized process means that the crew uses 85-95% less water than the just how precious this couple’s story is. This man opened his average grower. mind and heart to a medicine that is so often shunned by society, when he saw that someone dear to him was running The system Mike has created for their indoor facility relies out of options for relief. on a combination of nature and technology to sustain itself.

From utilizing lady bugs to prevent pests, to Koi fish feeding Hilary began researching the benefits of cannabis and what the soil, and electronic irrigation systems to monitor water the different terpenes could do for each of her illnesses. levels, seeing the way this grow had the capability to nurOnce she was legally able to medicate, she went all in. “I ture and care for itself (under the watchful eye of its master, had searched for years to find pharmaceutical relief to no of course) felt familiar. I thought about Hilary finally being avail,” Hilary stated, “but with cannabis my life changed in able to recover once she had created the right environment an instant, and my symptoms began to diminish one by one. and regimen to support her body in healing itself naturally, I started understanding what it was doing to my body and but only after medical procedures and pharmaceuticals had how it was affecting each of my symptoms in a positive way.” served their purposes as well.

“As patients we have to understand what the full spectrum of the flower can bring to us,” Hilary said when I asked if she Sometimes it’s easy to end up on one end of the spectrum had advice for anyone experiencing chronic pain or illness or the other. Either shunning all pharmaceuticals or considwho might benefit from cannabis. “In my opinion, in order ering natural remedies to be “hocus pocus.” Hating doctors to get the most complete medical benefit, you need to try or hating naturopaths. Allowing nature to take it’s course vs. different variations of the product. Entourage effect, under- fighting mother earth every step of the way. Meeting Hilary standing your pain, researching terpenes, and understand- and hearing her story made me realize the need for balance ing which products carry the terpenes for the effect that you between the extremes. Allowing both the good and bad, are looking for are essential.” the natural or the man-made, the yin and the yang to flow equally, supporting and nurturing and strengthening one “Go slow. Really know your body. You have to understand another. A symbiotic relationship, if you will. where the pain is coming from and why.”

“To this day,” Mike added, “we are still learning this and that about every little aspect of how everything blends together to create an entourage effect. On some of the online forums people will just ask how much THC it has. Well, for medical purposes it is not all about that. It is everything involved in the plant.”

“As the sales director of our company,” Hilary explained, “educating the budtenders is very important to us. It is very important for us to provide not only test results, but also additional product information that describe the terpenes in the flowers that we provide. We want them to educate their patients not just on the THC content, but also on how different terpenes can treat different ailments, and how they can benefit from those.”

“I wish that we could get further along with our education as a state,” Hilary continued, “so that we understand the full benefits of marijuana. It is not just about THC. Too many people do not understand that. It’s frustrating that so many people think it is just about getting high.”

“During harvest last October,” Mike chimed in, “we had a couple of strains that were at least 28% THC, and around 3% terpenes. We were also fortunate to have a strain that was 1:1 THC/CBD. That was my first real experience with flower that was high in CBD, and that really allowed us to dive into the benefits of consuming both cannabinoids to-

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by James Bridges HERBAGE MAGAZINE When I was very young I would travel a lot with my grandparents.

To this day I can still smell the morning dew on the ground as I head to the showers. I loved it.

We did a ton of connecting with nature and learning about things. I never really knew I wanted to learn about them. I was twelve. Let’s face it. I had no idea…

I was never really afraid of snakes during those travels. Spiders were another thing. I was and am still frightened by the mere thought of a spider on me. So much so that as a child I was convinced that if I joined the “National Spider Sniffing Club” and vowed to never kill a spider they would leave me alone. Hold on a sec. I see a spider in my peripheral vision as I write this. There… Squashed.

Anywho… Where was I? Oh yes. Snakes.

I may have never really been afraid of snakes, but I never even dreamed of laying down next to one.

As of late I have found myself in too much of a rush to smell the flowers on the way. We can all get there at times. It’s called “autopilot” mode. I needed to slow down. So naturally I visited one of my local favorite spots to discuss this very significant matter, Local Leaf RX in Tecumseh, OK. Leah, look for the badass chick in charge, down at Local Leaf RX suggested I try the Black Mamba. “You wanna slow down baby?

Take this home.” I can’t resist a smile like that. Especially when it has weed with it.

So I did what she said. That is if my home were the riverside that is roughly less than a stone’s throw away from the purchase. Zip, zip…

It has been a long weekend of fun in the rain and a ton of deadlines have been broken. I was contacted by people I didn’t need in my life any longer. I had a bill collector mistake me for someone else and then argue with me that I am in fact the person he is looking for. I was beginning to have some issues with my car. Life shit.

Fake life shit. The screw was turning and turning. Here we go.

As I greeted the snake into my realm I forgot about those things which bothered me. I noticed a hug. Was it my imagination? The scales were shiny and looked hardened. Surprisingly they felt like pillows. The sweet scent of her tongue was too powerful to resist as she looked me in the eyes. I asked her if she had been dipped in grapes as I tasted the strong purple pouring into my lungs. She was beautiful and I was in love.

I’ve been in this situation before. This time I’m not looking away.

I’m not going to find something to pick me back up. I’m going to lay here with this wonderful black snake as long as I possibly can and drift...off...to...sleep.

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Write that ish down.

by Anna Ervin HERBAGE MAGAZINE

I have not managed to live in one place for over a year.

I have moved from apartment to apartment, sometimes from state-to-state, every year in the last decade. I get tired of frequently packing up my life, but I think the constant change in environment actually excites and motivates me to keep working towards new lessons and experiences in life, abundance, and love.

I am moving again this summer, and as I have been going through my belongings, I found an old journal where I jotted down a few of my goals and dreams. When I read through the list, I realized I could check off nearly everything I had written down just years before. I have always believed that words are powerful, but something about seeing my own writing on paper gave me chills.

I still remember how silly I felt as I scribbled the words “move to Denver,” and “host a wellness retreat” into my notebook. Back then, those goals were so far from manifesting that I couldn’t imagine what it would feel like to achieve them. That didn’t stop me from trying. I used to spend hours daydreaming about being surrounded by mountains or sharing divinatory practices with a tribe of likeminded women.

I knew at that time that I was not yet prepared for these goals to come to fruition, but I also knew that if I told myself they would happen, I would eventually trick my brain into believing it. This reminds me of a quote by the late president of Bi-Lo supermarkets, Frank Outlaw: “Watch your thoughts, they become words; watch your words, they become actions; watch your actions, they become habits; watch your habits, they become character; watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.”

Our thoughts are powerful, but our words carry even more weight, further influencing our actions, character, and sometimes even our fate. So what happens when we apply those words to paper? Or when we practice visualizing the process of our dreams becoming reality?

Practicing mindfulness with my thoughts, and speaking with intention I can alter the way I perceive and even experience reality. To me, this is the essence of manifestation. Abundance, success, love, or whatever you’re trying to manifest won’t just magically poof into your life (although if you’re not paying attention, it can sometimes feel this way). They slowly creep in through your thoughts, words, and actions as you shift your habits to match their frequency.

If I’m trying to manifest love, I’m going to focus on love – write about it, envision what it feels like, act the way someone in love would act, then let it go and trust that

the universe will deliver. Eventually, the universe is going to become aware of my intentions and efforts to attract love into my life, and therefore love will work its way into my world.

I know this is easier said than done, and I do feel that it’s important to be mindful of intention when working with words. To close, I wanted to share three helpful exercises that I tend to lean into when I’m ready to start manifesting healthy changes in my own life: Start a Vision Journal I like to write about my biggest dreams, the goals I’ve always wanted to work towards, the cities I want to live in, and the type of home I hope to keep. Sometimes I can be very descriptive, other times I’m a little more vague, focusing more on manifesting things that are simply in my best interest, rather than specific things with many expectations. I write about them as if they have already come to fruition: “I live in the house of my dreams,” or “My career is fulfilling and rewarding.”

Write the Universe a Love Letter In my opinion, the best way to manifest the things I want is to practice gratitude for all that I’ve already been blessed with, and the universe gives me an insane amount to be thankful for.

“Dear God, Angels, Spirit Guides, Universe, Thank you for nurturing and providing me with everything I need to be healthy and happy. I am so in love with your sunshine, and the way it breathes life and energy into me. I’m thankful for the soil that keeps me grounded and provides nutrients to sustain my body…”

Switching my mindset into one of immense gratitude and love, as well as recognizing the divine forces of nature that always have my back, helps me draw more of that energy into my reality.

Draw Out a Plan When I first thought about hosting a wellness retreat, I never imagined it would actually happen, but I made a list of the menu items I would provide regardless. I even went as far writing out an entire meal prep schedule to feed 10 people just to show myself I could. When I actually did host the retreat years later, my menu looked a lot different, but I already knew exactly how to work out all of the little details.

Even though I had simply written my plans down for fun, I think the exercise shifted my thought process from “I wish I could do something like this,” to “I am absolutely capable of pulling this off.”

You have so much magic that lives inside of you. I hope you can see it.

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Sowing The Seed

by Chet Tucker

Now that you’ve completed your wet/dry trim, we’re down to the final stage of the growing process. Before your flower heads to market, the goal is to properly cure your flower. It’s important that the cannabis not dry or cure too quickly as the plant is still producing The THC should continue to catalyze during the process for peak results. On the flip side of the coin, you don’t want your flower to cure too slowly and increase chances for fungal germination. Properly cured cannabis can last for several years so let’s take a peek at some common best practices.

We’re at the stage of retaining as much of the terpenes as possible by properly caring for your flower. Keeping a room temperature at 60 degrees is common and allows the plant to remain below temperatures that can sway the volatile of the curing process.

Next, you want your relative humidity (RH) to remain consistent at around 50%. You don’t want it too dry because we want to optimize the accumulation of THC during the post-harvest timeline. Most will dry cure for a week to 10 days but it’s ideal to stretch a bit longer if you can manage the monetary turn times necessary to keep your productivity rolling.

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You’ll know that it’s fully cured when the stems snap and the bud has a bit of a “crunch” to it and many master growers won’t cure less than 6-8 weeks.

Whether you use steel, glass, or plastic tubs, your buds will need to be “burped”. In the early stages, you’ll want to burp a few times a day, giving them enough oxygen to aid in the sugar metabolization. After the first several days, moving to every 24-28 hours during the curing timeline is adequate. You want to give them some oxygen by opening the container fully and gently moving/shaking the buds around. Once you’ve reached the desirable results, it’s time to pack and label your flower for market!

There are many different bags that you can use but ensure that you’re not going on the cheap with bags that won’t stay properly sealed during the time frame that you’re shopping your flower for sale. Note: It’s critical that the flower is tested and passes all required labs before it’s taken to market.

Finally, some good practices for moving your flower is to ensure you are being transparent with your retail dispensaries.

Have your full labs on hand and share what process you used to grow, trim, and cure your flower. A website and social media will strengthen your validity and confidence in the marketplace.

Dispensaries and consumers like to know where their flower is coming from and having transparent methods for communicating your flower is ideal. If you are new to the marketplace, start local and expand from there. If you prefer to stick tot he growing and let someone else peddle your end product, you have a few options. You can look to hire someone for a fee or percentage per pound or find a wholesale broker/processor to partner with to either display at a fixed market location for incoming dispensary buyers and/or they’ll work their existing buyer base and expand beyond them to get your flower to market.

Be proud of your results but never too proud to outpace the end quality. Get a few professional opinions and flow with the season of the market. Keep your patience and consistent growing process in line and strive to keep strong genetics and a trustworthy brand/name. Next month we’ll dive into other methods of processing your flower and conclude the Sowing the Seed series. We’ll catch you next month!

Chocolate Fever

4 Medicated Chocolates for Every Type of Consumer

by Anna Ervin Anyone who knows me can tell you how much I love edibles.

They might also tell you how much of a lightweight I am when it comes to cannabis. Let me just paint a picture for you: a 2mg gummy is a good starting point for me, 5 is typically a comfortable dose, 10 will give me the giggles and a strong urge to procrastinate, while anything beyond 20 might just put me to sleep.

I’m sure you can imagine how daunting of a task it was to write this article, however, I’m a foodie. So anytime I’m presented with the opportunity to eat a bunch of medicated chocolate and call that “work,” I’m not about to back down from the challenge.

I know there are many different types of cannabis consumers out there, so I tried to include a variety of different types of infused chocolates. Whether you’re looking for flavor, dosage, or quality ingredients there’s something for everyone on this list…

Unless you don’t like chocolate, an atrocity that I may or may not judge you for.

Because I chose such a broad variety of products, I decided to organize them into five categories: best overall flavor, full-spectrum product, high dosage, and low dosage. Supporting local businesses is important to me, so each of the brands I selected are 100% Oklahoma-owned operations, aside from Dabba, a Denver company that moved into Oklahoma’s markets with a product I simply could not overlook (it’s that good).

I might have been hesitant to try them. However, Oklahoma Medicine consistently delivers top notch products and these sweet, savory peanut butter cups are no exception.

Not only is this Oklahoma born company providing products using the purest ingredients, but they also offer a variety of dosage options for each type of consumer, including those looking for strictly CBD-infused products. www.oklahomamedicineinc.com Sleep Aid – Dabba Raspberry Chocolate Bar with Melatonin 110 mg per bar I had never taken melatonin before trying this chocolate because I’ve never really felt like I needed it. I typically have no issues falling asleep, but sometimes staying asleep can be more difficult. I felt weary of taking something that might make me feel drowsy the next day, and I wasn’t really sure what to expect.

Infused with both THC and CBN, a 10 mg serving of Dabba’s Raspberry Chocolate bar gave me the absolute best sleep of my life, and I will absolutely be keeping a constant stash of these in my bedside table.

This Denver-based company also offers options without melatonin in an array of different flavors. www.dabbachocolate.com

Best Overall Flavor – Dandy Lion’s Salted Caramel Butterscotch Bar 25 mg - 250 mg per bar This category was tough to fill because every product on this list tastes amazing, but one brand went above and beyond when it comes to flavor. Dandy Lion’s Salted Caramel Butterscotch bars taste like something you would pick up in a gourmet chocolate shop, and they look the part too. Infused with distillate and hand painted with an abstract design, this is one of those edibles I would almost prefer to have not infused, simply so I could eat as much as I want without overmedicating.

Dandy Lion offers a number of different flavored chocolate bars.

If milk chocolate isn’t your thing, check out their Strawberry Shortcake or Mint Dark Chocolate bars. You won’t be disappointed. www.instagram.com/dandylionedibles Full Spectrum – Bison Extracts’ Infused Milk Chocolate Bar 200 mg per bar With so many products on the market, it can sometimes prove difficult to find edibles that provide the entourage effect that our endocannabinoid systems crave. Bison Extracts uses full-spectrum, CO2 extracted cannabis oil with native terpenes to infuse their products, making these rich-flavored chocolates strain specific. This makes it easy for consumers to find a product that works for their specific needs, by paying attention to the terpene and cannabinoid profiles unique to each strain.

Bison also offers micro-dosed Chocolate Espresso Beans that are 5mg per serving for those of us looking for a richer flavor, smaller dose, and hint of caffeine. www.bisonextracts.com High & Low Dosage – Oklahoma Medicine’s Peanut Butter Cups 50 mg – 150 mg per package | offers 500 mg CBD option Have you ever experienced the disappointment that comes with trying an edible that reminds you of your favorite candy, only to find that the familiar flavor you hoped for is completely missing? Had these peanut butter cups come from any other brand,

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The Duke

and I can tell she is having a good time. It was that moment when I realized this is what I want to do.”

“I never really understood at the time,” he continued, “I was too young to grasp it, but that is where my interest in music came from – being stuck in a car, not having any Imagine spending your whole life moving from state to fucking friends, listening to Eminem, Kayne West, and state, exploring new cities, and picking up experiences Ray Charles. That is where it all started.” from all over the country. Most people would dream of that kind of upbringing, and for Oklahoma City rapper “I also played basketball my whole life, so I was this hipZach Rowland, AKA Hugh Glass, it was a reality. However, hop basketball fan. They are similar in the way that indiconstantly searching for that sense of home or foundation vidually you can express yourself. Every basketball player of friends and family can get tiresome. It wasn’t until Hugh wants to be a rapper, and every rapper wants to be a basentered Oklahoma City’s hip hop scene that he found that ketball player.” solidarity.

As Hugh got older, he began citing lyrics from some of his I first met Hugh at the Magnolia Room in Oklahoma City, favorite influences, like Tupac. “My mom had married, and OK. He performed some of his latest releases like “Big had a daughter with Edwin,” Hugh began, “I call him Emo. Checks” & “Socrates.” I had just written an article about I was writing Tupac lyrics at the time. I didn’t know what his producer and mentor, owner of the 88 Record label, I was doing, or why I was writing his lyrics, and I put the Josh Sallee, who had spoken highly of Hugh’s talent. His n-word in it because I didn’t know better. My mom found name was fresh on my mind, but he suddenly seemed to be them in my laundry, and showed them to Emo, who was popping up everywhere I turned. From cannabis industry like, ‘hey, I’m glad you are passionate about it, but you need events, to open mic nights at Hubbly Bubbly, this OKC art- to be socially aware of this.’” ist has been creating waves in the community.

“Being that young,” he continued, “and being able to hear Hugh’s team is currently working on releasing a new al- that from him was a good lesson to learn.” Hugh decided bum, so I invited him out for lunch to fill me in on his that if he couldn’t write other people’s raps that he liked, he should probably write his own. So, he quietly began learnjourney. ing about instrumentals: how to use beats, free-styling, We sat down at one of my favorite local spots, the Picasso and writing his own songs. As he got older, word spread Cafe, Hugh immediately began asking me questions about amongst friends that he could rap. my work. At first, I couldn’t tell if he was nervous about telling his own story, or just genuinely interested in the “About the time I started going out and partying and stuff, day-to-day of a cannabis lifestyle journalist. It was not long sixteen, seventeen years old, when you get drunk and high before I got the feeling that the person sitting across from in the backseat with your friends,” Hugh laughed as he me was as much of an empath, if not more, as I consider reminisced on the nights he spent entertaining his friends, myself to be. Realizing this, I felt like Hugh probably had “and we would all freestyle.” a story of his own that was worth hearing, so I asked him “At first it was like a joke, and I did not know what the fuck what inspired his interest in music.

I was doing. I was literally getting high and rapping to my Hugh’s father passed away when he was just five months friends in the backseat.” old, and his mother, a hairdresser, had the ability to find work no matter where they landed. “It was a lot of four- But as Hugh unknowingly built the foundation for his cateen-hour car rides,” Hugh explained. “We went from reer, life hurdled a new set of responsibilities his way, faOklahoma City to Woodward, to Dallas Texas, to Missis- therhood. “I had to figure out what this rap thing was,” he told me, “So I took a huge risk, and I did not do it the right sippi, to North Dakota, then back to Oklahoma.” way the first time. I fucked up the whole family thing. I He may not have realized it at the time, but those long have a great relationship with my son and his mom now, drives set the tone for Hugh’s career in music. His mother but it has been three hard years.” would play Led Zeppelin, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Ray Charles, along with many other influences from the 70’s. One day, on a long trip to North Dakota to visit family, Hugh discovered his love for rap music.

by Anna Ervin HERBAGE MAGAZINE

“When I was around twelve,” Hugh began telling me, “My mom had bought the Marshall Mathers LP. It was a 15hour trip, and we just played it on repeat. We picked up my cousins, and this song comes on. By that time, I have it all memorized. So, I am sitting there in the backseat with my 22 little cousin, and I start rapping to her. She starts laughing,

When Hugh’s son was born, he was going to the studio and writing songs while attempting to keep his career under wraps to prevent rocking the boat at home. “That is where Hugh Glass came from. I could not be Zach Rowland rapping, because my son’s mom would find out.” The truth eventually came to light, and the fallout resulted in Hugh spending the following two years sleeping on couches or in his car, trying to get his life back on track.

Though he stopped making music, he never stopped writing. “Ironically,” he explained, “Most of the stuff I was writing at that time is what is on this album. It worked out perfectly, in the weirdest way. I took that risk, and now we are here.”

“I feel like I am taking the same kind of risk today – taking the leap and doing this music thing, but now I have the support of my son and his mother. I have this team around me. People like Josh, and Nagy. It’s not just some leap of faith, now there is this goal, and I feel like everybody sees it.”

The title of Hugh’s upcoming album is after his late father, John Wayne Rowland, nicknamed the Duke.

“When we were going through all of that and I was writing,” Hugh elaborated, “I was also trying to figure out how to be a father, because I lost my dad.”

“So, there is Zach, then there’s Hugh Glass – that’s where I was running from Zach. The Duke is me figuring out what I needed to do to be a father. From sleeping on couches and not seeing my son once a week, to being the example for him that I want to be. When shit gets hard, how much sweeter is it going to be in five years when it works. I want that to be the story I tell him.”

“In a way I am looking for my dad in the album,” he pointed out. “Here I am risking it all when my own son needs that. That is the duke. The guy that goes and risks it all. That John Wayne type. It might not look pretty, or look the way that you want it, but it is going to get done and I am going to make sure that it is handled. At least to the best of my ability.”

I recently had the opportunity to visit the set of Hugh’s latest music video, and while I can’t say that Zach Rowland fits “The Duke” persona in the traditional sense of the title, Hugh’s creative stye and willingness to venture into the weird, or wild, or unknown, 100% fits the bill.

Regardless of the character he’s stepping into at any given moment, Hugh is the type of person you just want to see succeed. Now that someone who I consider to be both a friend and inspiration in my own life, I can see that Hugh’s story is only just beginning, and I cannot wait to watch the next chapter unfold.

Check out Mister Hugh Glass on Instagram and Spotify IG: @misterhughglass

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Beautiful Disaster

by James Bridges HERBAGE MAGAZINE

“I’ve been using cannabis as medicine since I was little. I had always been pretty good in high school baseball and sports. I noticed when I smoked cannabis I felt more relaxed. My mom was a pharmacist. So, you know, I was always aware of the pharmaceutical side of things. Cannabis made me feel more relaxed. I fell in love with it very young. So I would just get some and never tell anyone. Especially after sporting events.”

There’s a moment when you are talking to someone that is passionate about what they do and they get in this sort of trance-like state. It’s a mixture of excitement, preparedness, love, hyper-focus, and soul. When it takes over you know it.

That’s where Mike Langston, the grower for Local Leaf Cultivation, was when I caught up with him. He was on a wave and I jumped on for the ride.

“Then we moved to Wichita Kansas. I was nineteen years old.

After about five years of adjustments and being in Wichita I had a very close musician friend. We would jam together a lot. One time after a good jam my buddy Jake says, ‘You got to come to the basement dude. I’m dying to show you something.’

So I went to the basement and I’ll never forget it. Ever. We were 24 years old and I’m 47 now. Jake pulls back this hard plastic curtain. It was the first time in my life to ever see this. There it was. A giant high pressure sodium bulb with a big mega-heavy ballast. I got chills. This was amazing! I could now grow my own medicine. I wouldn’t have to go into these shady areas to find what I needed to function. It was an eye opening experience to say the least.” I felt Mike breathing easy.

In a connoisseur market, which I’m going to personally hold onto as long as possible, I look for quality cannabis. I could care less if you grow acre after acre of throw away head-change weed. I want the good. That’s why it’s so important to support.

“I have a couple of friends in the LA area that grow. Actually it’s my friend Scott from the band 311. Another friend of mine that was with 311 is Ryan. He got out of the music business to grow. So I’ve always had a connection with someone that I could collaborate with somewhat.” Mike went on.

“So after I got my license, I went after the Black Mamba strain.

I have a few other cuttings from some grower friends. So we’ve gone through a ton of selecting on the strains. We think we’ve found some winners. It takes a minute to find. About a yearand-a-half for us. Now we’re really hitting our stride.”

I’d say… Keeping it simple and interesting all at the same time.

Mike believes in touching and being with every plant from seed to harvest. This was definitely my kind of grower. With strains like Black Mamba, Eiffel Tower, a super sativa Sour Apple, Blue Cheese, a very gassy and stanky Blue Purple OG, and then there’s the Grape God. “On September 22nd 2013, I was getting ready to run a marathon in Wichita, KS. The police called me and said, ‘Mr Langston you need to come to the emergency room immediately. Your son’s been involved in a stabbing.’ My son was fatally attacked in downtown Wichita by this dude with a knife. He stabbed him 57 times. The knife was stuck in his brain. He actually lived dude! I snuck cannabis into the hospital for him.”

A tear was forming.

“I don’t drink alcohol and I haven’t for 15 years. So during this time, you know, it was a real struggle. Cannabis every single day is the only thing that helped me get through that trauma.

To see my son lay there for 11 days in a coma... When he came out of the coma, to make a long story short, he said directly to me that we are all spiritual beings of light and I love you. Those were the first words he said.”

“It was at that point when I started sneaking in cannabis oil for my son. I believed in it. I had made this for cancer patients and now I’m going to help heal my son. So I snuck it in the hospital. Man I don’t care… After he said those words to me there was no stopping.”

“In twenty two days he was out of rehab and back in my house.

Cannabis oil works. It is here for us to heal from the inside out. I call it the god flower.”

I eventually discovered that Mike was not riding on a wave.

Mike was the one that was creating a wave for many to see. He wants people to understand that happiness is obtainable. We have choices, fortunately. Most importantly, it’s about the patient. It’s still about the journey. But when you are at the helm and there are big waters ahead Mike is the perfect example of someone just like you and I. If we can continue to make a difference in other people’s lives for the better. Meanwhile he is simply working on himself.

We were able to sample every strain. Each one had its own journey to create inside of someone. This was craft cannabis.

But it was more. It was craft living.

Thanks Mike.

Local Leaf Cultivation 19680 S. Gordon Cooper Dr. Tecumseh, OK 74873 info@localleafrx.com

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A Better Bloom

by Anna Ervin HERBAGE MAGAZINE

advocating for themselves. Before she opened the flower shop, and later the clinic, she worked in childcare for nineteen years.

“I love kids,” she told me, “I have always loved kids, but I Edmond local Cindy Keeton remembers eagerly watching had to do something different because of my kidney. Kids the 788 movement unfold. She owned a flower shop for carry a lot of germs and diseases, and my immune system three years before launching a virtual and mobile doctor was compromised. I like to make sure that the kids are takrecommendation clinic, A Better Bloom Health and Well- en care of. My passion is to hopefully get an event going where we can do pediatric recommendations. I mean, we ness. do them now, but not in an event setting yet.”

“In my flower shop I would listen to podcasts about 788 and the movement,” Cindy recalled, “I told my employee “In the works right now is an event that will hopefully at the time, ‘I think that this is coming.’ Now here we are.” come to fruition in August,” Cindy continued, “there will It took years to really get to know Cindy. It was much clear- be pediatric and regular recommendations. We are worker once I began working alongside her at patient drives. I’m ing out the details. I have named the event, Love You to big on taking pride in my work, and I believe that founda- the Moon Pie and Back. Parents say, “love you to the moon tion is built upon the integrity and values of my employer. and back to their child.” The place we are going to be at is called Moon Pie, so I think that is a really fitting name for Cindy is one of those employers. this event.”

I fell in love with watching the way she would walk patients through the process of getting their recommendations with “I do not want to charge our vendors an arm and a leg. I patience and compassion. I asked Cindy what inspired her want to make sure that everyone is taken care of. I am not to open up her clinic, she claims she was tired of receiving doing it for the money, but I am doing it to give back.” first hand knowledge that some doctors were taking large sums of money from their patients without helping them I thought about how many patients Cindy assists on a weekly basis, and remembered my own experience helping through the entire application process. people of all kinds apply for their medical marijuana card.

“I volunteered for one of the first companies that started You are in a position to really listen to all kinds of stories medical marijuana patient clinics in Oklahoma,” she said. about people. So many have discovered the relief cannabis “The doctor was sending the patients out without finish- provides. In some cases they would talk of all of their fears ing any of their paperwork. They were paying ridiculous and expectations about trying cannabis. amounts of money to get this done, and they did not have a clue what their next step was. The patients would call the I asked Cindy what advice she had for anyone thinking doctors and the doctors either wouldn’t return their calls, about getting a medical recommendation for cannabis.

“I do know that there are a lot of mental health issues or they had no clue. It made me mad.” here in Oklahoma,” she began. “Oklahomans are really Cindy keeps a staff of “up-loaders” on hand at each clinic hard-working people. I have seen so many people with to help patients complete their application. If you’ve had arthritis and their fingers are wrinkled up. This medicine to navigate the OMMA’s lengthy and somewhat confusing really does help you with that. It helps you live better. I beapplication process, you’ll probably understand why going lieve that you should get your card. You should live better. the extra mile to help patients through this is so important. I have family members that are older, and they medicate with cannabis and they feel so much better when they do.

“I think that other companies are dropping the ball right in It helps them so much.” the middle,” Cindy said. “If their application gets rejected for some reason, then they are not willing to go the extra “My kidney problems stem from a hereditary disease, so mile and fix it. They do not have a live person on the other I did not even start using cannabis until after I had my end of the line. They do not have anybody for the patient transplant. Even then it was kind of an iffy thing with the transplant. One of my doctors told me if he would nevto talk to about it.” er have to give me another opioid again then he was just “I do think that those things are important,” she continued, fine with cannabis. I started using cannabis in 2018 to help “especially for the geriatric patients that we see. Computers with sleeping. I don’t really consume cannabis during the are too complicated for them. A lot of them still have flip day if it is not needed.” phones. They have no clue what Skype, or Zoom, or anything else is. That is where I think our specialty is, as far as “I really do think that eventually cannabis is going to be getting patients seen from the beginning to the end. We used, if not to replace opioids, but at least give opioids a run for their money. I hope it actually replaces opioids. I help them through that whole process.” really do.”

Over time it has become obvious to me that Cindy has a A Better Bloom Health and Wellness betterbloomclinic. big heart for those who cannot or who have a hard time com

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“Nothing on the planet can move water like the moon can” As the Moon influences the water in the plant, we see it as a prime time to harvest and flip our plants into flowers. Even though an indoor grow, it’s important to remember that we’re dealing with nature and respecting and understanding the cycles of nature is of the utmost importance to us.

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allowing the various summons to be issued. Subsequently, the U.S. Supreme Court denied Standing Akimbo’s petition for a writ of certiorari in Standing Akimbo, LLC, et al. v.

United States, No. 20-645 (decided June 28, 2021), 594 U.S. ___ (2021).

BRAVO JUSTICE THOMAS!

by Sarah Lee Gossett Parrish Cannabis Lawyer

If you are in the cannabis industry, you have a very powerful friend, a man who sits on the United States Supreme Court.

The dissenting Statement respecting the denial of certiorari handed down on Monday, June 28, 2021, by United States Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, one of the Court’s most conservative justices, proves he is a friend of the industry and even suggests that change may be in the air.

While numerous bills have been introduced in Congress to accomplish needed changes in federal marijuana policies (I previously have written about these), when a U.S. Supreme Court Justice basically opines that federal marijuana policies have become nonsensical, one must wonder whether the courts will implement change if Congress fails to muster the courage to do so.

Standing Akimbo, LLC, et al. v. United States The case in which Justice Thomas issued his Statement arrived at the Supreme Court on appeal from the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in Standing Akimbo, LLC, et al. v. United States, No. 19-1049 (10th Cir. 2020). Notably, Oklahoma is one of the states under the jurisdiction of the Tenth Circuit.

This particular Tenth Circuit appeal arose out of a lower federal court (trial court) opinion issued by the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, granting the government’s motion to dismiss a petition filed by Standing Akimbo, LLC, a Colorado medical marijuana dispensary, to quash certain summons the IRS had issued to the Colorado Department of Revenue’s Marijuana Enforcement Division to confirm the dispensary owners’ tax liabilities under a civil audit of their federal tax returns.

The IRS had issued several summons in an attempt to uncover evidence that Standing Akimbo had claimed business deductions prohibited by § 280E of the IRS Code, and the dispensary asked the Court to quash (prohibit) the issuance of those summons. The Tenth Circuit rejected Standing Akimbo’s position and affirmed the trial court’s opinion

Justice Thomas’s 5-page Statement respecting the denial of certiorari read it at https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/20-645_9p6b.pdf, provides “…federal policies [to prohibit the local cultivation and use of marijuana] of the past 16 years have greatly undermined its reasoning. Once comprehensive, the Federal Government’s current approach is a half-in, half-out regime that simultaneously tolerates and forbids local use of marijuana. This contradictory and unstable state of affairs strains basic principles of federalism and conceals traps for the unwary.”

Citing the Department of Justice’s infamous Cole Memorandum dated August 29, 2013 (read it at https://www. justice.gov/iso/opa/resources/3052013829132756857467. pdf), wherein U.S. Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole advised federal prosecutors to refrain from marijuana prosecutions in states where marijuana had been legalized (with eight exceptions), and a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals opinion prohibiting expenditures on the prosecution of persons in compliance with state law (United States v. McIntosh, 833 F.3d 1163, 1168, 1175-55 [9th Cir. 2016]), Justice Thomas opined that “one can certainly understand why an ordinary person might think that the Federal Government has retreated from its once-absolute ban on marijuana[.]” (Statement at p. 3), and that “[o]ne can also perhaps understand why business owners in Colorado, like petitioners, may think that their intrastate marijuana operations will be treated like any other enterprise that is legal under state law.” Id. However, as the petitioners learned, “legality under state law and the absence of federal criminal enforcement do not ensure equal treatment.” Id. Justice Thomas also noted that the “disjuncture between the Government’s recent laissez-faire policies on marijuana and the actual operation of specific laws is not limited to the tax context,” mentioning banking issues, among others, that state-legal marijuana businesses must face. Notably, Justice Thomas concluded that “[a] prohibition on intrastate use or cultivation of marijuana may no longer be necessary or proper to support the Federal Government’s piecemeal approach [to cannabis regulation and policies].”

Statement at p. 5.

NORML’s Executive Director, Erik Altieri, commented that “Justice Thomas’s comments reflect what has been obvious to the vast majority of Americans for some time now…

This intellectually dishonest position [of federal marijuana prohibition] … complicates the ability of states to successfully regulate and oversee state-legal marijuana businesses … It is time for Congress to end this untenable situation by removing cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act so that states can make their own decisions with regard to marijuana and marijuana commerce free from undue federal interference.”

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When we are presented with hurdles and challenges in life, a dismal outcome isn’t the result of us not being enough. It’s the result of fear, Feeling a little worn from the weight of societal egoic upkeep, you and our giving into it. “Fear is the mind killer” was an accurate stateslump into the nearest chair, wanting nothing more than to take some ment. It’s like an EMP for our system. Nothing is reading right, we tea and trudge off to bed. Sighing, you reach into your pocket and can’t function and everything begins to sputter and fail. find something a little crumpled. It has a string...and a stamp. Another You see it in game shows when two people are pitted against each othletter! er. Whoever hits the buzzer first with the right answer wins. They’re so Quickly unraveling the bow, you dive right in. Anything to escape the afraid of going home they hit the buzzer before they fully register the swirling thoughts of obligation… question and then their mind goes into static. That’s fear.

We see it again when we have a large obstacle like a vet visit. The outDearest Daring Divine, come is important to us.

What is the common mistake? The “what if game” which is one of How I wish we could be speaking under more optimistic and sunny fear’s favorite vehicles. dispositions, but the world is a little chaotic right now isn’t it? Yes yes, The Universe doesn’t respond to what you want. It responds to what with the fear mongering, and the lying, and the HYPOCRISY! I know. you send out. SO if you want your pet to be healthy, but all you do So many things hidden from us...so many secrets. It all feels so disem- is play the ‘what if she doesn’t make it’ game, or the ‘what if I can’t powering. pay the bill and get her that surgery’ game, the universe isn’t going to Sometimes looking back I wonder how any of us managed. But it’s respond with her health. It’s going to respond to your fear, and give really not all bad. After all, we have each other and we also have our- you something to be scared of. More and more spiraling until the very selves. The biggest challenge, it would seem, is the staggering lack of reason for your worries is brought to fruition. belief individuals have in themselves as of late. For Pete’s sake! Some people would be stopped by a wet paper bag if they were told it could If you would have trusted yourself in the first place the outcome may actually hold them! They think they’re that powerless. Now, let’s not have been different. I’m not saying you always get to keep your pets in misunderstand. Human beings as a whole have been doing much bet- that example, but if you knew you focused every amount of intention ter with that issue in comparison to other eras. Still, the quality of towards the outcome you wanted, you can know for sure you didn’t the conviction could use a tune up. Admittedly, you are reading these conjure the outcome you got if it wasn’t optimal. letters…. psh , you wrote them, FROM THE FUTURE OoOoOoO….

So i’m confident a paper bag would be no issue.

So, sticking with the pet example, the next time you have to take your fuzzy friend for a check up and get some not so exciting news, rememGetting down to brass tax here, SELF TRUST. I just want to review ber to breathe and visualize what life will be like once you get past this it with you in case you’ve forgotten. Earth realm tends to do that now challenge together. Imagine your pet happy, healthy, and healed in and again. So if you need a reminder, that’s ok. Here it is, you ready? your arms. Imagine them more energetic and playful. The challenge that you two faced is a distant memory that you overcame. - and then YOU. ARE. THE UNIVERSE. EXPERIENCING. ITSELF. AS. A. HU- open your eyes and do what you can to aid the situation. Pick up an MAN. extra shift, mow some lawns, do some research on home remedies.

I will tell you again and again and again until it is known.

Set your intention, trust yourself and your manifestation abilities, and

then shift with the universe towards your highest goal. No fear. Just I wish making the difficulty of this dimension less harsh was as easy Trust. as giving you a specific crystal or a bundle of sage. Alas, it wouldn’t do a damned thing if the outcome to said problem were hinged entirely All my love to you Starseed. on the tools, while your own source energy was tossed to the wayside Until we meet again, - the YOUniverse. without acknowledgment.

If you think a rock is going to fix everything for you, you’re mistaken. You’re still searching for answers on the outside. The answers, the trust, the belief must come from within. You must know and under31 stand that YOU are the answer. Anything else is simply a tool of amplification that you are choosing to utilize. However it is not necessary.

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we all require a unique approach, what I came here to say today is that we’re stronger together.

One of the most interesting concepts that I’ve witnessed over the last year, is the ability for a crowd to work together to change something they’re passionate about. In some cases a single hashtag trending can spark change, on a massive level. The truth is, lingering autoimmune related conditions affect roughly 50% of the country. We call them by many names, so we don’t usually think of ourselves as a unit, but honestly, we’re one of the biggest majorities, outside of gender. What would happen if we all asked for the same thing? What would happen if we asked our medical community to focus on us. I’m uniquely qualified to be so direct, because I’m successfully recovering from being bed bound.

I’ve sat with countless specialists at this point and none of them had information for me to pursue wellness, it felt like I was given my options of palliative care— with 50 years to go. “Physical therapy, diet, medicines, surgeries… these will be wastes of money, the best thing we can do is make you more comfortable.” I wish I could say I’ve only heard this once. Maybe you have had a doctor prescribe a thing or two, or 10, but you know that the answer is never that simple. Patients always end up holding the most responsibility if they want a better quality of life.

Science is confident enough to believe we can inject protection and prevent a specific illness, but if you are already sick… we’re so sorry to hear that? And that’s when it hit me… we’re asking for the wrong things. How safe are we if there’s no plan for those who fall through the cracks? What if the number of those with chronic illness continues to increase?

Hey Sick Person

by Tab Moura

This goes out to the newest members of the chronic illness community.

I am a cannabis educator and wellness coach. Over the last year I’ve done a lot of listening. Do you know what people fear more than dying from Covid? They fear getting sick with Covid and never *fully* recovering. They fear something that many people are genuinely dealing with. While we know that conditions like Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME) have been around for a long time, often treated as a pseudo diagnosis, it’s suddenly become widely accepted as the crowd of those suffering from it is growing. People are getting sick, and some of them are still sick.

Maybe it’s mild, maybe it’s debilitating… but you are not where you were beforehand. I know what that’s like.

While I don’t give health advice online, because I believe

There I was, spending thousands of dollars trying to work within a health system that only knows how to keep us alive. First of all, what a valuable skill that is, right? If I am in an accident and need help, I’m thankful they exist.

But what does this mainstream narrative teach us about thriving? Where can we go to learn about recovering?

What the heck are micronutrients, how do I get proper sleep, how do I choose good brain foods, and yes, how do I support my immune system? We find one another. We look for the people who’ve already done it.

I was nervous about writing this article, because when you’re someone who cannot use pharmaceuticals, people assume you are anti-Pharma. They think you are biased.

The truth is, I have my biases. I’m happy to be transparent about mine, because acknowledging my biases helped me find healing. I wish we were all more honest about such things. I’ve never had a client who is Pharma and chemical free to the extent that I am. I haven’t even considered turning someone away due to their choice to use Pharma. Pharma keeps people alive. Pharma has helped me stay alive once as well. But Pharma didn’t help me thrive.

Perhaps it’s time we start asking for more. People are out here healing themselves, and the methods we use deserve recognition… not because natural medicine needs validation, but because people deserve to hear about it.

Who’s Justice?

by Brittiany Ralls

“What are you in for?” She asked. My cellmate’s name was Megan and she had spent a period of her life in and out of jail. I had never been to jail.

So this was very new territory for me.

“Possession of weed.” I replied. All she could do was laugh….

Being an advocate for cannabis I got her sentiment. “I don’t mean to laugh, but I haven’t been to jail for something that small in a long time,” she said.

It became a little bit of a joke to be honest amongst my cellmates.

My entire journey of being arrested to leaving the jail takes no more than sixteen hours. 16 hours of confusion, loss of privacy, biased treatment, nothing short of trauma…

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Allow yourself to splurge a little this month, not necessarily through spending money, but also spending time on yourself and the things you love. Continue to count your blessings and thank the universe, yourself, and whatever higher power you believe in.

Gratitude, always.

Practice: gratitude journals, laughing meditations, noticing the little things

Reason given on the paperwork… Interest of Justice. I find this so interesting since I’m not sure which and who’s justice we are speaking of.

I was arrested for felony possession of an illegal substance. Most cases like this are brought upon someone who was caught with a substance like methamphetamines or I don’t know….heroin? But, since I was caught with a cannabis concentrate they tried to charge me with a felony, in particular because my arresting officer wasn’t convinced it was ONLY THC. So he charged me with a felony stating that, and I quote, “the labs will run better tests, so we will find out what this actually is!”

You may be wondering how they found my cannabis to begin with. By searching my vehicle, without my permission.

Since I had no trouble with the law they were able to release me after booking me in through a pretrial process. Within the next week I met with my lawyer to discuss my case and options. He informed me that since this is a first case for me that I might be able to get my case dismissed or at the very least be put on what’s called a deferred adjudication, basically probation.

He told me we would meet again when he was able to obtain the evidence involved with my case.

Due to so many factors within the court system being backed up, we never saw any evidence before my first court date. This meant my new court date was rescheduled for six weeks away. “To give everyone time to review all aspects of my case including the evidence.”

June 4th, 2020 I received a text message from my lawyer, who informed me that my case had now been dismissed!

Ecstatic yet curious. Within minutes I was able to print out copies of my documents showing the dismissal of my case. To my surprise I see that the reason my case is dismissed is stated as: “INTEREST OF JUSTICE” Peculiar choice of words for me.... Was this justice on my behalf or theirs…. Was this another cannabis case that someone shouldn’t have gone to jail for, or was this a way for them to sweep under the rug the division within even their own system as to what is to be convicted when it’s a discussion of cannabis.

Was it justice on my behalf because I was illegally searched? Was it justice on their behalf so that another case of wrong doing from a police officer wouldn’t be known to the public?

I’m glad to be done with it. It’s just sad to say that I’m not sure who was actually being protected, me or them.

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No-Bake Cookies

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If you are not keeping the necessary ingredients for no-baked cookies in your pantry at any given time, chances are you’re doing the whole munchies at 2 a.m. thing wrong. I love nothing more than a recipe that I can throw together in one pan to avoid a pile of dishes later. Even better, it only takes about 10-15 minutes to whip up this sweet treat.

The traditional no-bake cookie recipe is loaded with acidic dairy products and high-cholesterol fats, so I’ve decided to share an infused version that’s a little easier on the stomach.

The cookies I made are infused with 200mg of canna-coconut oil in place of butter. I swapped the dairy milk for an oat-based option, but cashew, almond, coconut, and soy would all work well here. For the sugar, I decided to go with raw because if I’m going to eat sweets – the less they’re processed, the better.

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Add canna-coconut oil, peanut butter, milk, sugar, cocoa and salt to a large sauce pan, stirring frequently over medium heat.

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