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WES ABNEY
from July 2023 - NE Leaf
by Northwest Leaf / Oregon Leaf / Alaska Leaf / Maryland Leaf / California Leaf / Northeast Leaf
Editor’s Note
Thanks for picking up The Concentrates Issue of the Leaf!
Our Concentrates Issue is my favorite of the year for one simple reason: I love dabs!
My first dab was around 2011 – in the century-old boiler room below the now closed Northern Cross Collective Gardens – and I remember feeling the oil touch the red hot nail as the vapor burst into my lungs with the force of a thousand bong hits. The world closed in around me and I felt the reverberation of raw THC as it pulsed through my blood and into my mind, sending me away for the next few hours, humming with a high that was unlike anything else.
ADHDDEAD, REVIEWS
MARK ARCHER, PHOTOS
BOBBY BLACK, DESIGN + FEATURES
JOSHUA BOULET, ILLUSTRATION
TOM BOWERS, FEATURES
AMANDA DAY, FEATURES
JENN DOE, SALES
EARLY, PRODUCTION
STEVE ELLIOTT, NATIONAL NEWS
GASROOTS, PHOTOS
GILBERT GJERSVIK, FEATURES
MATT JACKSON, FEATURES
BAILEY JONSON, REVIEWS + PHOTOS
DESTINI KINSEY, PHOTOS
MAINE CANNABIS MEDIA, PHOTOS
SARA MILLS-GAINES, SALES
BOBBY NUGGZ, REVIEWS + PHOTOS
LEXI PADUSSIS, SALES + FEATURES
BAXSEN PAINE, FEATURES + PHOTOS
MIKE RICKER, FEATURES
JAKE ROBINSON, SALES + FEATURES
BRIAN SANNER, REVIEWS + PHOTOS
JAMIE VICTOR, DESIGN
DAN VINKOVETSKY, FEATURES
Over the last decade of publishing and working in Cannabis, I have personally seen the concentrate world evolve from homemade Rick Simpson Oil and open-blasted butane hash oil, to highly medicinal mono-cannabinoid extracts and vaporizable concentrates of all kinds, to being the precursor to a new world of edibles, topicals, capsules and more. For our Concentrates Issue we sought out the best examples of the different types of extractions, to share how they affect the body and the science behind the scenes.
“FOR OUR CONCENTRATES ISSUE WE SOUGHT OUT THE BEST EXAMPLES OF THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF EXTRACTIONS.”
