cannahiba

INthe famous words of Pink Floyd, but rewritten for a modern application, we implore – “Come here dear reader, and have a Cannagar” – from local Cannabis enthusiast and Leaf Bowl Judge, Peter Vars.

Known for his beautiful apparel infused with bouquets of Cannabis, Vars was wearing a brimmed hat laced with fresh-cut Cannabis flowers – creating a weed-halo that was both beautiful and intoxicating.

As a Cannabis artist, he’s also been developing his cannagar skills, which he calls Cannahibas, and presented this ceremonial ‘gar at the 2023 Alaska Leaf Bowl. Made from 22.3 grams of flower and infused with hash oil, the entire Cannahiba came sealed in a glass jar with wax – ready for a special moment to be sparked.

In honor of his craft and to share the knowledge of what goes into making a cannagar, we decided to make this unique roll our honorary Strain of the Month for The Psychedelic Issue of Alaska Leaf!

Cannagars are like the unicorns of the weed world. Often talked about but rarely seen, they are a whole plant product that smokes like nothing else on a dispensary shelf. What makes them unique is the rolling material, as well as the rolling and curing process. A cannagar is rolled in dried fan leaves from a Cannabis plant, so the quality of the grow is very important. You want as organic of methodology as possible, so that the leaf smokes clean and smooth. The fan leaves are layered and spread out, while a mixture of flower and hash are rolled into an incredibly dense and tight cylinder, often using a separate tool to create the shape.

Once the weed and hash has been rolled into the aforementioned tube (think of the weed inside a blunt or pre-roll, but not inside the paper yet), it’s ready to make its home in the fan leaves. This is a very delicate process requiring skill and attention to detail. Once rolled and sealed using either concentrate or a smoke-friendly, organic adhesive, the cannagar must be cured so that the leaves are dry enough to smoke.

Lighting this Cannahiba required the use of a torch, with gentle application of flame to get the whole tip burning. Once lit, small repeated puffs are the ticket – releasing a thick cloud of smoke that tastes like a rainbow of terpenes and flavors. This Cannahiba was made using multiple strains of flower and oil, so the effects were mentally and physically powerful – verging on overwhelming. The smoking experience was also exceptional, reminiscent of a cigar, but much healthier and natural.

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Many people believe that when we consume psychedelic entheogenic medicines, we tap into both an inner space as well as an interdimensional, shapeless plane of existence too vast and complex for us to describe or define with our limited human capabilities. Through his art, Chris Dyer attempts to give a physical, visual form to concepts, beings and feelings conjured to his mind in part from his many experiences as a spiritual psychonaut. We had the chance to tap in with the Canadian-Peruvian skateboarder and psychedelic visionary to learn more about his life, his artistic process, and what he’s seen and felt during his many experiences with various journey-inducing substances all over the world.

ON THE INFLUENCE HIS PERUVIAN UPBRINGING HAD ON WHO HE’S BECOME:

Peru’s tricky. When people think of Peru, it's like, ‘Oh, it's so beautiful with the llamas running around the mountains and the ruins and the Incas, and then you go to the jungle and you drink ayahuasca – la la la.’ But no, for me, growing up in the ‘80s and the ‘90s in Lima, Peru was terrorism and blackouts and getting mugged four times a year for being white. I went to an all-boys school, so it's just like hyper-masculine scenarios where everyone's fighting over power, and me being a sensitive artist, I had to build a bunch of armors to protect myself from getting too energetically robbed. It gave me a lot of challenges that I've had to work through in my life. I'm better now, but I recognize where the wounds started.

On The Interconnected Experiences And Visions Reflected

IN TRIBAL ART THROUGHOUT

GLOBAL HISTORY: from ancient times, they were all tapping to the same place. And I'm tapping to the same place. Yes, I am Peruvian and I grew with a certain influence, but I've also traveled to 45 different countries around the world and observed the similarities. Then I go into that place of oneness and try to understand what these interdimensional consciousness beings are and what they're trying to tell us, and how they're trying to help humanity throughout time. They're in a place past time, so they're just waiting for us there. In that other dimension, they exist. If I were to go into an Ayahuasca ceremony today, I’d tap into that place. It's the same exact time and place –since it's timeless – that the pre-Inca cultures tapped into, and many other cultures around the world.

“What is this fractal consciousnessreality thatfeelslikemany soulsinone,that wantstohelpmeand wantstohelpus?It's almost like the elders arecheeringusfrom theplacebefore and after life.”

Cultures around the world somehow had access to the portals that take you to … the same center of creation, and it comes out and it manifests as a head in Mexico, or a carving in Nepal, or some motifs on textiles in Peru. This tribal artwork

ON THE EXPERIENCE OF AYAHUASCA:

When I'm there, I'm like, ‘What the fuck's going on here? What is this place? Is it alien? Is it collective consciousness? Is this an aspect of God? Is this God itself?’

A couple weeks ago, I did my 45th ceremony in Willow Creek – I was sitting in the other dimension for a few hours just observing it and letting it teach me how to fix my own corrupt coding so that I can shine more and help empower others to shine more. And thus, together we shine together and create a flame of humanity that is so strong that we'll break through the darkness that's trying to hold us down as a humanity. … What is this fractal consciousness reality that feels like many souls in one, that wants to help me and wants to help us? It's almost like the elders are cheering us from the place before and after life. That's where I go with Aya.

ON THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN AYAHUASCA AND OTHER ENTHEOGENIC MEDICINES:

When I did Bufo, I went somewhere else. Bufo took me to a white place where I wasn't even there anymore. And thus, I don't have many memories of it. There wasn't even a ‘Chris’ left to observe because I had dissolved into everything-slash-nothingness, and there's a subconscious part of me that remembers that place of expansion in my positivecreations.ca | @chris_dyer dreams. With mushrooms, you can get to that place that Aya takes you, but you gotta take like, a lot, of mushrooms. … I think all of these medicines open different portals, and really, once the portal's open, those places are so big it makes the physical plane that we live in – with our planet, our solar system, our galaxy, the universe – look small compared to the astral plane where there's no up and down and it just goes on into infinity or eternity. Once you're there, it seems like that's the real place and this is the fake little video game that we play to kind of like experience physical reality, and all this array of human emotions and pain and joy. In the end, we're from beyond, and these places that we go through these medicines are closer to our real self. I would say our true, pure, real self is what we understand to be God –that oneness, the absolute energy of love and expansion. But that's just my personal belief.