INTRODUCTION

The use of weed in witchcraft is increasing in popularity because it works. Cannabis empowers the practitioner, allows for a greater focus, provides additional avenues of energy, and enables a powerful connection to spirit. Whether you are an experienced cannabis user or new to the herb, we will guide you along the way to incorporate cannabis into your current conjuring and spiritual practices.

No matter what your tradition or pathway is, cannabis can be incorporated to enhance your spirituality and empower your practice. For rituals and spellwork where an altar is used, set your altar up the way you normally would. The items we tell you to include will be in addition to what you already work with. My main altar always contains representations of the four elements in their corresponding direction, along with representations of the deities I will be working with. Altar clothes, candleholders, bottles, or other containers can all be changed out for different holidays or themes. If I am working an abundance spell, green candleholders may replace my regular clear ones. Specialize everything you do to fit your practice.

With each ritual or spellwork, open and close your working in the way you wish according to your practice. Customize as much as you want. Use your creativity as much as you want. Your altar, spells, and rituals may be simple or elaborate. Build your practice to fit your needs and personality. The more comfortable you are with your magic, the more positive your results will be. If your tradition requires you snuff candles, you may do so where I suggest blowing them out. I am of the mind it releases the energy into the universe to send it to where it needs to go, but as always, if your practice is different, do what works for you.

When we get to our workings, I will use the term clean (or a form of clean) to refer to the removal of physical dirt. This includes ash and resin. The term cleanse (and its different forms) refers to the metaphysical removal of negativities.

Short and sweet is a stoner’s friend; therefore, brevity is used in workings where it is called for. Trying to force your way through a long, dictated ritual while high rather defeats the purpose of the mind-opening journey cannabis provides.

For decades, cannabis was looked down upon as a mind-altering substance instead of the mind-opening plant we now know it to be. Cannabis is designed to work with the body through the endocannabinoid system to produce healing in the body, mind, and spirit.

If you haven’t already, please read my book Wake, Bake & Meditate to help build your practice. It is the first of my books regarding the spiritual use of cannabis and teaches in depth how to achieve a peak experience. While you will not always need a peak experience for your magic and other workings, there are times when it will be a necessity. Wake, Bake & Meditate also guides you along a path of meditations. As a weed witch, meditation and visualizations are some of the most important skills we use in our work.

Tyler is here to lend a hand, especially when it comes to our Herbcraft chapter. Tyler has been researching, developing, and perfecting growing practices for several years. His knowledge has paid off with repeatedly successful harvests. As my assistant at The Gathering Grove, he helps with writing, preparing, and conducting spells and rituals. In his spare time, he enjoys partaking of his favorite muse before writing short scripts he films for YouTube under the name Blue Milk Drinker. We both use cannabis to help get creative juices flowing and to allow for easier channeling while writing.

Krystle joined me in writing Spells for Good Times and came back to assist with some rituals and spells. She also writes, preps, and conducts workings with The Grove.

I am an eclectic Pagan witch. As of this writing in 2022, I have been walking a Pagan path for thirty-six years. The more I studied and learned, the more I realized no one pathway was right for me. I felt pulled in different directions, and so my journey took twists and turns with stops along the way. At times, I worried and felt lost because nothing seemed to fit completely. Eventually, I learned that each of the paths I had taken, I had travelled before in previous incarnations. While I didn’t remember, my spirit did. Workings I have done with cannabis have reaffirmed this conclusion.

I have spent my writing career focusing on two different topics: weed and witchcraft, and in this book, I get to write about using them together. I love using cannabis with my Craft and have found it to be absolutely, 110 percent beneficial—benefits that you will learn more about as we guide you through this journey together.