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EDITOR’S NOTE NATIONAL NEWS HEMP INDUSTRY BUDTENDER Q&A SHOP REVIEW HIGHLY LIKELY STRAIN OF THE MONTH ANDY ROTH MIA SHEA DARBY HOLM EMILY MARIE SAKIBOMB HACKYSACK DWRECK DANIELLE GUTHRIE JOE PETERS VALUABLE GLASS GLASS EVENT ROUND UP NORTHSTAR GLASSWORKS EDIBLES CONCENTRATES CARTRIDGES CANNTHROPOLOGY STONEY BALONEY

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A B O U T T H E C OV E R Choosing a single artist to grace one of our staff’s favorite annual issues was no easy task, and picking out the photo for the honor was an even greater challenge.

Ultimately, we went with this serene piece from the Seattle-based glass artist Mia Shea, who has become well-known for creating stunningly beautiful pieces of glass art inspired by the feminine figure.

The dramatic close-up was captured by Wind Home Photography out of Eugene.

“To me,” Wind says, “it is an honor to get to spend short intimate moments alone with gorgeous art pieces I may otherwise never get to touch or even be around.”

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Editor’s Note Thanks for picking up the Glass Issue of the Leaf!

GLASS HOLDS a special place within Cannabis culture, as it both defines our movement through artistic expression and provides the tools necessary to consume our plant. Without glass pipes, bongs and dab rigs, we’d be stuck smoking joints and out of apples in a return to college shenanigans. Today, glass pieces regularly sell for five to six figures and a rig can define a stoner’s personality – the same way a cool car or pair of shoes do. It’s through the beautiful combination of fire and borosilicate that an artist shapes both how we smoke and how we perceive that act of inhalation, and this annual Glass Issue of the Leaf is dedicated to celebrating the artists and art that shape the visual arm of our industry.

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While I generally keep my editor’s note focused on the theme of our issue, I want to dedicate the remainder of this space to sharing a message of hope and world peace. Last month we saw humanity edge closer to world war and nuclear proliferation than ever before, something that simply cannot happen if our species and planet are to survive. My heart breaks for the millions of displaced Ukranians, the Russian soldiers sent to kill or die at the hands of their neighbors, and the whole of Europe waiting to see if war will spill across their “MAYBE THE borders. There is no justification for the aggression we are seeing in Ukraine, and HIPPIES OF I’m sure that the victims of other recent wars of aggression like Afghanistan and THE ‘60S WHO Iraq are having their own “Me Too” moment of grief as the global war machine THOUGHT PEACE, LOVE AND DRUGS shifts attention from the Middle East to Eastern Europe.

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WORLD WEREN’T As much as global politics and media propaganda have bled into the societal JUST HIGH ON views of war and justice, it seems clear now that the powerful deciders of GREAT LSD, BUT humanity are bent on destruction. Whether it’s traditional war for power or WERE ACTUALLY resources, the genocides of religious divides, or the exploitation of the planet and ONTO SOMETHING.” the poorest humans, our species is rushing angrily into a century that many had high hopes for. Information technology has the potential to bring equality and awareness to all corners of the globe (no flat earth pun intended), but we continue to see those with the power using it for manipulation and profit.

This brings me to Cannabis and the role it might play in changing our collective trajectory.

Almost every industry in the world is built on profit at the expense of the people and the planet, but the Cannabis and hemp industries are breaking that mold. Not only is our industry shedding the old ways of one-percent wealth building and breaking the vestiges of the drug war, it’s also bringing enlightenment and peace with every gram and joint sold … and smoked.

I honestly believe that if Putin would smoke some weed, we wouldn’t be in this situation. Who gets baked and decides to invade anything other than the refrigerator? The same can be said for conflict around the planet, where one side profits at the expense of the other – not exactly your typical stoner behavior. Maybe the hippies of the ‘60s who thought peace, love and drugs could save the world weren’t just high on great LSD, but were actually onto something. It’s only once they swallowed the capitalist success that the boomer generation went from “we” to “me” – but it’s not too late for the coming of age millennials and Gen Zs to embrace the idea of world peace, one puff at a time.

Perhaps that’s just my high hopes for our future, but I’d like to think that Cannabis has the potential to save the world.

-Wes Abney APR. 2022

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Under current NCAA policy, one failed marijuana test gets a six-month suspension. The NCAA will raise the threshold for THC from 35 to 150 nanograms per milliliter. This change brings them in line with new World Anti-Doping Agency standards. There is no punishment or loss of eligibility for the first positive test, if the school “provides a management plan and education” for the athlete. For the second positive test, there could still be no punishment if they are compliant with the management plan. If they are not, an athlete would miss 25% of their games. Should a third positive test happen, there could still be no punishment if the athlete still complies with the management plan. If not, they will miss 50% of the games.

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That’s the 1997 bout against Evander Holyfield where the infamous incident took place. Tyson’s weed brand announced the news via Twitter on March 15. According to Tyson 2.0, the gummies will soon go on sale at dispensaries in Massachusetts, California and Nevada. The retired boxer and current weed dealer even put his stamp of approval on the marijuana-infused edibles, writing, “These ears actually taste good!” central america

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Almost everyone in the industry, especially hemp farmers, think of industrial hemp as a CBD factory: Grow it, extract it. Want to know why the hemp industry is struggling, the price of hemp biomass is so low, and hemp farmers are scaling back their future plans? The singleminded fixation on CBD extraction has put blinders on the industry and its future. My dark fear is that the industry will wither or at least flounder and never reach its full potential.

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ADD VALUE BEFORE CASHING OUT. You’ve grown and harvested 100 acres of hemp. So? A lot of other folks have, too. Average crop, average prices. Instead of selling bales like everyone else, do something that adds value before you sell it. Decorticate and separate the hurd from the bast. They’re destined for different markets, so take that first step and raise your prices. Chip and bag your stems and seek out hempcrete buyers. Chip and press hurd into wood stove pellets, either 100% hemp or a hemp/wood blend.

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HEMP ISN’T MAGIC. It should be part of one’s crop rotation. It shouldn’t be an all-or-nothing exercise.

Only plant what you can afford to lose. Treat it like your other crops: line up buyers before you start. It won’t save your farm with its magical powers.

ORGANIC MATTERS. The hemp industry was founded

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THERE ARE MANY WAYS TO EAT HEMP. Dehulled hemp seeds (hemp hearts) and hemp milk are common items in stores across the country. Hemp is an ingredient in bread and cereal. Don’t stop now. There’s cellulose in hemp stems and edible mushrooms (including oyster mushrooms) consume cellulose. Plant-based foods are hot. Trust me when I say, mushrooms are going to be front and center in people’s diet. (Full disclosure: I’m growing oyster mushrooms at home and have started growing them on hemp fiber.

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HEMPCRETE ISN’T THE ONLY GAME IN TOWN. Biofabrication builds things using biomass. Mycofabrication uses mushroom mycelium to bind fibers together. Oyster mushrooms grow quickly on cellulose rich biomass like hemp stems. Instead of growing a full cycle and picking the mushrooms, growing just the mycelium results in a solid mass that can be molded into different shapes. Packaging, coffins, insulation, art and a host of other uses come to mind.

HEMP FIBER HAS NO EXPIRATION DATE. Whether it’s paper, textiles or hempcrete, we can all agree by hemp activists. Many of WHETHER IT’S PAPER, that hemp fiber is an industry us see hemp as part of our TEXTILES OR HEMPCRETE, that has barely gotten off the lifestyle. We eat and live WE CAN ALL AGREE THAT ground. But it’s coming, in a organically, and we spend a HEMP FIBER IS AN INDUSTRY big way. Grow hemp fiber, little more to do so. Organic cut and dry it, and set it aside can be less expensive to grow and THAT HAS BARELY GOTTEN until the market catches up fetches higher prices in the market.

OFF THE GROUND. with you. Keep it dry. Be smart Pesticides aren’t welcome. about it. Seek serious buyers, because the first question they’re going to ask is if THERE’S MEDICINE IN THE ROOTS, TOO. CBD, you can provide a steady supply moving CBG, other cannabinoids, terpenes, etc. aren’t forward. “I have two years experience the only medicinal compounds in hemp. Hemp growing hemp under my belt. If you need roots were used by the Romans and Chinese as a bulk, I can bulk up.” poultice. Instead of plowing them under, farmers should be harvesting them like carrots. I’ve made THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX. Daydream long topical products with hemp roots for 10 years term, and start pushing hemp into the future we – it’s LeBlanc CNE’s secret sauce. They can be all want to live. No one’s going to do it for us, dried and stored for future use, so stop tilling but we can do it for ourselves … together. them under.

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When he’s not making music, you’ll catch him on the video game controller playing Fall Guys and Call of Duty. He loves to play with cool people and talk to fans when streaming on Twitch. Also, look for his upcoming music video filmed in Hawaii and stream his music everywhere! Follow him on Instagram @langstondoobs HOW DO YOU DESCRIBE YOUR HIP HOP STYLE?

I’m more of a pop/hip hop artist, sort of a mesh of the two.

SOMETHING LIKE POST MALONE? Yeah, somewhere between Posty and Kid Cudi.

DO YOU TAKE THOSE RHYTHMIC SKILLS WITH YOU BEHIND THE COUNTER AT THE SHOP? Definitely. I feel like weed inspires my

music, my life and my work. Sometimes I’ll have a rhyme in my head when I’m helping a customer find the right strain and that can be an influence on what I recommend.

Weed influences everything for me even up to the food I eat. Like Cannabis, different terpenes are found all over the world of food and your body can react accordingly to what you eat, so sometimes I’ll try to match food terps with a strain I happen to be smoking to see what delightful mood and attitude I can create.

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IF YOU HAD TO WRITE A RHYME ABOUT BUDTENDING HOW WOULD THAT GO?

I’m just grateful every day I see the sunshine I wake up, roll up, then I kiss the sky Go through life riding up on cloud nine I ain’t never, I ain’t never too high Local Amsterdam with the Dutch Trees Super geeked up where you’ll find me In a solar cluster where my mind be LIT. IF YOU COULD HANG AND SMOKE WITH ANY HIP HOP ARTIST, WHO WOULD IT BE AND WHAT WOULD YOU ASK THEM? It would be

Kid Cudi and I would ask him what music means to him and where he found that Maui Wowie, because I’m going back to Honolulu to find it!

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Sarandon famously This sort of Sarandon’s star on the talked about smoking responsibleHollywood Walk of Fame with David Bowie but-reasonable during their three-year approach to relationship in the ‘80s with Andy the consumption of Cannabis is Cohen on “Watch What Happens: what will ultimately set us on the Live,” and she hasn’t been shy about mainstream path. Once the taboo sharing that she smoked herb before is removed, we’ll all enjoy better almost every one of her award access and less of a stigma attached show acceptance speeches. While to what we all know is a beneficial speaking in support of Cannabis plant for humanity. Slowly but surely, legalization in Colorado in 2013, people in the public eye like Susan she went as far as to tell the Sarandon are helping to turn the tide Huffington Post: “I would like to see – and for that, we can all be grateful everyone be able to smoke pot.” that we live in the year 2022.

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If you’re familiar with the work of Andy Roth, then you’re already aware of the stunning, simple elegance and flawless symmetry of his art. His unique vision translated and brought to life through the glass medium results in expertly crafted artwork with intense aesthetic appeal and fantastic function.

WHERE ARE YOU FROM, AND WHERE ARE YOU CURRENTLY BLOWING GLASS NOW? I was born in

Pennsylvania, but grew up in California.

I have spent some time living in Washington state, but have landed back in California near family. “ I D R AW A LOT O F I N S P I R AT I O N F R O M ARCHITECTURE, WHETHER IT BE FROM A BUILDING, S KYS C R A P E R O R ANY INTERESTING S T R U C T U R E .”

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WHO OR WHAT INSPIRED YOU TO GET ON THE TORCH? I would see beautiful

glass pipe art on the internet, and knew nothing about how they were made.

After finding out the glass was melted with a torch, I couldn’t not try my hand at blowing glass. The process of controlling the flow of molten glass has held my attention ever since.

HOW DID YOU HONE IN ON YOUR SIGNATURE STYLE – WHAT MAKES AN ANDY ROTH PIECE AN ANDY ROTH PIECE? Architecture and simplicity. I draw

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IF YOU COULD COLLAB WITH ANY ARTIST OUT THERE, WHO WOULD IT BE AND WHY? There are too many

great artists I would love to collaborate with. Both inside the glass world and of other mediums.

WHAT IS THE MOST DIFFICULT ASPECT OF BEING A FULL TIME GLASS ARTIST? I would say the most difficult

part would be the ups and downs of productivity. Which I think can be said for any path in life. Being inspired or having motivation isn’t always going to be there, so it is important to remain disciplined and keep moving forward. And eventually the inspiration or motivation will flow back.

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MIA SHEA @​​M I A S H E AG L A S S @ T H E A R TO F M I A S H E A

If art is a reflection of who a person is, Mia Shea is a muse of the goddess – alchemizing glass into exquisite Venusian statues, vases, candle and incense holders, pendants, pipes and chillums.

Based in Seattle, Mia has a studio in the Old Rainier Brewery where there are three rooms dedicated to making glass art.

She’s the only female glassblower amidst the 20 or so men in the building, but she’s used to the male energy; the glass industry is overwhelmingly male-dominated (as most industries are).

“I don’t think women’s bodies are meant to be machining over torches all day long,” says Mia, who gained her experience at Zen Glass in St. Petersburg, Florida in 2011. “But when glass is flowing and melting and blending, it’s all very therapeutic and feminine in nature.”

Shea regards the artistic “IT’S ABOUT COMING medium of glassblowing as I N TO A H E A LT H Y a practice of healing the O R I E N TAT I O N O F mother – as in the earth, the THE MASCULINE womb, the feminine.

AND FEMININE, “Almost all of the women RECONNECTING in the glass industry are TO O U R B O D I E S sculpting the female body,” AND THE EARTH, she says. “I get it … we’re A N D R E S TO R I N G all healing our connection to B A L A N C E F O R A L L .” the feminine.”

Shea isn’t solely focused on channeling the divine feminine into her art, though – the juice behind her primal, psychedelic glass work requires tapping into the divine masculine as well. Channeling the power of both the yin and yang energies allows her to plant seeds for healing and change through the medium of glass, to cultivate love and trust, and to breathe life back into our bones.

For her, blowing glass is an expression of her spirituality and revolves around a deep integrity for what’s natural. Every piece she makes is infused with these noble intentions.

“It’s about coming into a healthy orientation of the masculine and feminine, reconnecting to our bodies and the earth, and restoring balance for all,” Shea attests.

No doubt the world needs more of that right now.

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creativity is boundless, Darby is perhaps best known for two trademark design elements – the first one being the cactus, which he uses in a majority of his pieces.

“It’s actually kind of funny because most people assume I’m from Arizona,” he chuckles, “but what brought those out is my traveling. I’ve spent a lot of time driving through Arizona, and when I’m out in the middle of nowhere, I like to stop and hang out for a while … eat a sandwich, burn a bowl, or whatever. So one day, I was staring at this big old gnarly cactus, and I was like, ‘Whoa, that looks like a Sherlock pipe!’ So when I got home, I tried to make one – that’s how it all got started.”

The other concept he returns to time and time again is the ray gun.

“The ray guns, they definitely come from my childhood,” Darby reminisces. “Marvin the Martian, Buck Rogers, Star Trek, and all of that. I really like ray guns because I can “ I R E A L LY L I K E get futuristic and all R AY G U N S of that weird kind of B E C AU S E gadgetry just comes I CAN GET out of my head.”

FUTURISTIC Today, this lifelong AND ALL OF Oregonian works out T H AT W E I R D of a shop at his home KIND OF in Grants Pass, where G A D G E T RY he’s passing the JUST COMES torch (literally) to his OUT OF oldest son Caleb (@ M Y H E A D.” shurlockholm). And after a quarter-century in the glass game, he still appears to be as inspired as ever.

“I’m constantly blown away by all of these artists’ ability to keep upping their own game, and how the function keeps up with all of the amazing ideas brewing in their heads … ideas that are just waiting for the proper time to flow through their hands to bring another beautiful creation to life.”

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Unfortunately, she faced a major setback after being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. Struggling to battle through the heat exhaustion that comes with shaping molten glass into art, Emily Marie was uncertain what her future would hold. But even a debilitating chronic illness like MS couldn’t keep her down.

Once recovered from her first bout of sickness, she leaned even harder into her art.

“Having MS made me a lot braver because I realized how fragile life is. It gave me the courage to put myself out there,” she said.

Only one year removed from her diagnosis, Emily Marie performed a miracle by winning gold at her first live glassblowing competition at Champs. She would end up walking away with fourth place in the Masters’ Final.

“I think that may have been a sign that I should have started getting out there sooner,” added Emily Marie with a laugh.

Although she has since transitioned from pipe making into the world of artisanal dinnerware, her work is no less awe-inspiring.

Using playful colors and a complex sandblasting technique, she has once again left her stamp on the glassblowing world.

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In 2008, Emily Marie had the best date of her life – but it wasn’t the conversation that had her swooning. Instead, it was the heat of fiery glory holes and torches that piqued her interest. While her date had planned to woo her with his glassblowing prowess, Emily Marie discovered she had chops of her own and thus began her illustrious career in the artform. For the next seven years, she worked with legendary blower Kristian Merwin to perfect her craft.

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SAKIBOMB HACKYSACKY The glass artist known as Sakibomb Hackysacky is a quirky Japanese gal with a penchant for all things feline and feminine. Though she first started smoking weed when she was 17, Saki (as her friends call her) didn’t smoke out of glass until nearly eight years later and was immediately taken with the medium. “I started wondering how it’s made and thought it would be wonderful if I can make my own pipes and also be able to fix what I break.”

Sakibomb arrived in America in 2001 and five years later, at the age of 30, began her new career as a glassblower. She quickly picked up new techniques and approaches to the business by working alongside some of the top artists in the game – nearly all of which were men.

“The industry is growing very fast, but one thing that never really changes – and I wish it would – is that it’s still a male-dominated business,” she points out. “We need more ladies who actually make pipes!”

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Saki puts her unique brand of feminism on “ WO R D P L AY I S full display in her art: Among the most prominent A N OT H E R T H E M E themes expressed in her work are pussies – both the T H AT R U N S animals and the genitalia (think Hello Kitty meets THROUGHOUT Georgia O’Keefe).

H E R B O DY “I make popsicles with vaginas that I call O F WO R K .” ‘popussycles,’ she says. “And I make vagina rings, so they’re literally ‘fingering’ when you wear them.”

This kind of wordplay is another theme that runs throughout her body of work.

“I made a ‘six-foot’ bong, but instead of it being six feet tall, I put six human feet on it!” she giggles. “Or like my nose pipe … flower is ‘hana’ in Japanese, but hana is also nose, so my flower pipe is a nose.”

In addition to vaginas, Saki’s art also frequently incorporates animal prints, the color pink, and lots and lots of cats. In fact, the care and rescue of furry felines is one of the primary passions in her life.

“If everyone on this planet could adopt one cat each, we could make a world with no stray cats … and I would be so happy!”

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Once he graduated high school, he moved to the city of Ithaca in New York State to attend film school, where he met some of his closest friends who would all go on to become notable glass artists: Gasp, Ease and Slinger.

White spent the years that followed developing his skills, eventually participating in several glass competitions (including the Degenerate Flame Off and The Pipe Classic) and winning first place in the marble category at the 2nd annual Eugene Glass School Flame Off. But it wasn’t until he learned to sandblast from Slinger about a decade ago that Dwreck would develop his devilishly dark design style.

“I immediately began blasting skulls, pentagrams, nude women, etc., onto my pieces,” he explains. “I wanted my work to appeal to the heavy metal community. I love metal, and I love challenging social norms regarding spirituality and eroticism.”

The pentagrams aren’t just for shock value, though – instead, they reflect his genuine philosophical beliefs.

“I consider myself more of a Luciferian than a Satanist,” he explains. “Satanists exist in opposition to Christianity and believe in the pursuit of carnal experiences, while Luciferians are indifferent to Christianity and value enlightenment.”

Granted, his affinity for occult imagery isn’t for everyone … but he does have (pardon the pun) a “cult” following.

“My art may come across as low-brow to some, but I’m fine with that – I think of myself as the Pabst Blue Ribbon of marble makers,” he snickers. “My name will live in infamy because of my work. What else can I ask for?”

So to all those dark-side dope smokers out there who appreciate his artistry, Dwreck offers this sinister salutation: “Hail Satan … and may the force be with you.”

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If one were to regard glass artists as Jedis, Derek “Dwreck” White would unquestionably qualify as a Sith Lord. After smoking his first joint at a Metallica concert in 1989, Dwreck quickly became a pothead as well as a metalhead.

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“ E AC H P I E C E IS MORE OF A C O N V E R S AT I O N BETWEEN THE GLASS AND ME, R AT H E R T H A N M E TELLING THE GLASS W H AT TO D O.”

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The visible passion of this young prodigy wasn’t lost on Witschger at that initial interaction, who began mentoring her on spoon pipes, melting and other important elementary blowing techniques.

With the ambition to learn more, she approached 7 Point Studios in Seattle and offered to trade work for classes, which evolved into a bench space and the right kind of exposure.

Now, the drive that pushes Danielle to produce more quality work is the satisfaction of creating something beautiful with her own hands and the challenge of manipulating the element of glass into something from liquid form into solid form. “Each piece is more of a conversation between the glass and me, rather than me telling the glass what to do,” she explains. “The finished product is a response from the glass informing me of what it needs.”

This respect for the medium shines in her pieces – a relationship that we look forward to seeing evolve in the coming years.

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The glassblowing world had a special way of capturing Joe’s attention unlike his other dabblings in painting and pottery. This artform gave Joe a sense of urgency to get things done and finish pieces, placing them in the kiln before they had time to break. He was also intrigued by the fact that with glass, you can’t directly touch the art you’re making.

While a longtime lover of weed and passionate about pipe-making, the mid-2000s weren’t exactly the best years to be blowing glass for weed-centric purposes. Rather than risk getting busted making pipes in his parents’ garage, Joe honed his craft and made a name for himself and his glass sculptures in the art show and craft fair scene – even doing an installation in a children’s hospital that he describes to this day as some of the most meaningful work of his career.

In 2010, Joe couldn’t ignore his dream of pipe-making any longer and

decided to take his glassblowing skills to the Cannabis world. The honeycombs and honey drips on his pieces drew countless admirers out of the gate, and he took the time to perfect these elements while blowing glass alongside some of the world’s most respected artists.

This all led Joe to the realization that sculpting was his speciality, and both the functional and non-functional glass worlds could benefit from his skillset.

“It’s finding out what your strengths are and what you enjoy doing, and going from there,” said Joe. “I’m just a human being. I like to make cool stuff. I want to make the best work that I can. I want to survive and make a good living – and that’s it. The best is just an opinion.”

These days, you can expect to see glass art from Joe in the form of aquatics, robots, dragons, spaceships, aliens, bees and honey (of course) and much more, all coming to life in vibrant and masterfully-sculpted fashion – for both your smoking and non-smoking pleasures.

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Joe Peters was immersed in an artistic environment for the entirety of his youth, but it wasn’t until he found the flame at age 19 that his passions found the perfect outlet. “Oh hell yeah, I get to play with fire,” he reminisced. “It was the easiest decision I ever had in my life.”

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The rarity of glass art being produced today is perhaps the most significant aspect that increases its value. As opposed to a mass-production bong company with dozens of glassblowers producing pieces, many high-end glass artists operate completely on their own. In the same time a production company could make 100 bongs, an individual artist will make one completely unique piece comprised of endless collective hours of work. Because of these time constraints, glass blowers are only able to produce a limited amount of pieces per year – and with the same amount of fans as production companies or even more, that creates a very high demand for a small amount of art.

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#2 HIGHLY SPECIALIZED

There are dozens of techniques that glassblowers employ when making a piece. These can include sculpting, disk flips, dot implosions, wig wags, cold-working (faceted glass surfaces) and many more. What makes a certain artist’s work sought after is usually a mastery of one or more of these – whether they make the most clean and well-functioning Klein seal, or they have specialized sculpting techniques – all of the skills are extremely difficult and executing them properly is seen as a highly valuable attribute in the eyes of collectors.

#3 COST OF COLLABORATION

In the process of collaborating with other artists, geography is a significant factor that greatly contributes to the cost.

Some of the world’s best glass artists live in Japan and other countries outside the United States, and travel is not always easy. In order for those artists to collaborate with a U.S.-based artist, sections of glass need to be shipped back and forth – which is not only expensive, but risky. Imagine an artist completed their section of a piece and sent it out, only to arrive broken at the other artist’s studio. That sends both glassblowers directly back to square one, with time and materials wasted in the process.

#4 EXCLUSIVE ACQUISITION

Hands down, acquiring one of these pieces is not as easy as one may think. When buying a high-end painting or any other medium of art, would you simply order it online and wait for it to arrive in the mail? No … you would go to that gallery in New York City. You would hit up that artist’s exhibition, no matter where you were in the country or world.

With such a diehard group of glass collectors out there, this is your best bet for acquiring glass art that is as exclusive as we see today.

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The materials used in making high-end glass art can be finicky and expensive. When experimenting with new colors, an artist will order a large amount of colored glass rods without knowing if they will react similarly to other colors when put under the flame. For example, a certain color may bubble or be more difficult to work with than others. The rarity of specific glass colors like “rozay” and “lemon drop” also increases as the hype for them grows, and many artists do custom pulls to achieve a desired color unique to their fans like “Deppes Darkness.” When buying a mass-produced piece with coloration, you don’t know if they used materials safe for inhalation, or just a very thin layer of paint (which has happened in the past with these pieces).

IN TODAY’S DAY AND AGE, we are constantly seeing glassblowers push the boundaries of their craft to never-before-seen heights.

And alongside these mind-boggling innovations and intricacies, typically comes an eye-popping price tag. But should a single piece command five to six figures? Why does high-end glass art come at such a high cost? The answer is yes. And the reasons are many.

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GLASS EVENT ROUND UP

Historically, the functional glass industry has never been huge on mainstream publicity and the spotlight that comes with it. Perhaps this residual apprehension is the result of the feds turning the industry upside down during the Operation Pipe Dreams era, or maybe it’s the continued treatment of functional glass artists as fringe and of lower class – but whatever it is, it means that most glassfocused events today happen in small circles, where private studios will open up to host invite-only shindigs for limited numbers of friends and family.

There are, however, a number of highly respected glass events that are well worth attending should you get the opportunity…

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DEGENERATE FLAME OFF Founded by Abe Fleishman and Libby Goettelman of Northstar Glass in 2009, DFO is an annual celebration of glass, live glassblowing competition, and boro-derby event held each year in Oregon. It is family friendly and feels more like a festival than anything else, with the headiest of the heady showing out to witness an incredible lineup of artists do their thing live and in-person. Celebrated for many years in Eugene, the event relocated to Portland in 2018 where it has been held annually (with exception of 2020 and 2021) ever since. dfoportland.com @dfofamilyreunion

GLASS VEGAS Glass Vegas appeared on the scene in 2016 when Jack Long built a platform to expose up-and-coming artists, helping them get established in the industry and gain more recognition for their craft. This B2B-focused event brings out heady glass artists, smoke shop owners and dispensary owners each year for a unique networking opportunity and competition in a variety of categories. glass.vegas @glassvegasexpo

CHAMPS Founded by the legendary Jeff Herschfield, CHAMPS is one of the largest trade show-style events serving the glass and smokeware industries.

It holds multiple events each year in markets all over the country including Las Vegas, Chicago, Atlantic City, Denver and Tampa. These huge shows often clock over 1,000 vendors, making it one of the largest annual alternative culture events the industry has access to. While the event itself is an impressive production, the afterparties are renowned for being equally grand in scale and presentation. champstradeshows.com @champstradeshows

THE AMERICAN GLASS EXPO This massive festival of glass is currently on hiatus, with their most recent show being 2019 in Las Vegas. Founded in 2007, it was quite possibly the longest running glass-focused event in the country until the pandemic hit in 2020. AGE has historically drawn out some of the best in the game, with some of the biggest names in the functional glass art world representing with a booth space, selling their work directly to collectors, shop owners and other artists. ageshowusa.com @ageshow

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FINDING YOUR NORTHSTAR The Degenerate Flame Off started in 2010 with an advocacy of collaboration and encouragement of creativity, but most importantly, it built a community of functional glass artists often confined to the fringe. On the surface, it’s a competition – but DFO also allows artists to transcend the constraints of their normal work and actualize another level in their personal artistic journey. Put on by the team at Northstar Glassworks, not only do they have the most diverse color spectrum in the industry matched with top-tier quality, they’re a fierce ally of the artists who use their glass.

And there’s more good news: After two long years, functional glass art from the underground is back in the PNW! Check out the return of DFO on May 20-22, where you’ll have the opportunity to watch these wizards twist beams of molten light in a delicate dance between states of order and chaos. Leaf Nation caught up with Northstar’s president Abe Fleishman for his thoughts on the glassblowing world and what to expect from the event after the two-year hiatus.

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What have been some of the highlights of your career in the functional glass art community?

The most exciting part of being the world’s premier colored glass manufacturer is seeing the works of art that artists make with our glass.

It takes a large team to produce the quality and volume of colored glass … I am always excited to see new colors that we develop for artists to use.

I have been in the game for more than 25 years, so watching the industry become a community has been so heartwarming. When I started out, we had a very limited palette of colors and now we produce almost 220 different and unique colors for the lamp-working community to use. It’s like we are collaborating with each artist that uses our color glass.

Watching the color rods turn into works of art is the most rewarding part.

Glass pieces are becoming more and more valuable, fetching prices well into the six-figure range. Where do you think this will all lead?

Will functional glass art merge with the mainstream art world? Since I have

been in the industry for so long, I have had the chance to watch the price threshold change over the years. Seeing pipes sell into the six figures is one of the most exciting parts. The artists and collectors have a symbiotic relationship that helps drive the prices higher. For

example, one of my good friends Buck Glass has pushed the boundaries of size, scale and details.

His works of art have been sought after by big influencers and as his work gets better and better, the eye of the collector changes. Collectors pretty much control the prices, so that relationship is key with the artists. I would envision pieces going for close to a million dollars in the right setting.

But that’s going to be very select people selling that. I don’t really see a need for functional art pieces needing to go mainstream because they are already there. The artists have created a collector base that is supporting the movement. Most galleries that try and sell functional art don’t really offer the artists a new clientele – they usually just fall back on what the artists have already built.

What are the three most important pieces of advice you’d give a novice glass blower? For the

novice glass blower, I would recommend perfecting the fundamentals of how glass works first – this will allow you to put what’s in your head into the piece you decide to work on. Try and create pieces of work that are unique to you and your personality. Build a strong network of

stores or collectors that follow your work and demand pieces to sell or hold in their collection.

The novice artist really needs to work hard to get their name out there. Make sure your Instagram, Facebook, and any other social media platforms are always full with new content. Go to trade shows to meet the other artists and store owners – this will help you get to see and understand how the community works. But my true advice is find something that resonates with you to show the client base! Try not to copy other artists’ styles – this can ruin your career before you start.

With Degenerate Flame Off coming back after the Covid-19 restrictions, can you share with us a bit of the exciting things we might see at this event? Well this year you will see our new venue

that we are excited about! Plus, the layout will be different than years before. What I am excited about is seeing the community back together after a two-year break of no DFO. Which artists are you particularly stoked to see in action? I am always excited to see all the artists

at DFO. It’s like a family reunion, for real. I only have so much time, so it gives me a chance to finally say hello, give a hug or just a chat. I am overly excited to see everyone.

Do you have any tips you would like to share for those who want to have an amazing time at DFO?

The number one tip is to meet as many artists as you can. DFO has always been the event that starts lifelong friendships and collabs! Be respectful of the venue rules and others around you. Covid is still a thing, so also be respectful of others’ views about the matter. But last and foremost, have fun!

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KoKo Nuggz have been around for a few years and they’re a fun party favor that once got this writer kicked out of a coffee shop when the waitress exclaimed, “There’s no weed allowed in here!” When the concept of delicious, cocoa-covered cereal treats was explained, she still said either they go, or we go – just because they looked like nugs! While the novelty aspect makes for a fun story, it’s awesome to finally see these delicious treats infused with THC and available for sale in Washington’s recreational Cannabis market.

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Before the advent of the internet, there was only one place to find all of the stoner essentials: a headshop. From blacklight posters to bongs (excuse me …“water pipes”), records to roach clips, vibrators to vaporizers – the classic headshops were not only emporiums for all things sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll, they were also hubs where counterculture art, ideas, information and publications could be disseminated.

THE PSYCHEDELIC SHOP The very first headshop in America opened its doors to the public on January 3, 1966 – in precisely the location you’d likely expect: at the center of the drug-fueled hippie revolution in San Francisco. Called the Psychedelic Shop, it was founded by Army Vet Ron Thelin and his brother Jay, who used $500 of savings to lease a storefront at 1535 Haight Street, then plastered the walls with burlap, mandalas and hallucinogenic art, and stocked it with esoteric books, beaded jewelry, incense, pipes and other paraphernalia.

Almost immediately, the Psych Shop became a hub of the emerging hippie scene – selling tickets to concerts and other happenings, serving as a meeting place for the Diggers activist group and distributing underground literature. The Thelins even used some of the shop’s revenue to start their own counterculture newspaper, which later became the San Francisco Oracle.

Predictably though, their establishment drew unwanted attention from law enforcement; that November, the SFPD vice squad raided the shop and arrested one of their employees for selling a copy of “The Love Book” (a compilation of graphic sexual and religious poetry) to an undercover officer – charging him and Ron Thelin with distribution of obscenity.

Their subsequent court case became the longest-running criminal trial in San Francisco’s history and a nationwide cause célèbre for freedom of speech.

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Above: The archetypal headshop—Captain Ed’s Smoke Shoppe. Left: Jay and Ron Thelin in front of their Psychedelic Shop on Haight Street, 1966.

Despite this setback, the shop continued to thrive throughout the Summer of Love … but by the fall of 1967, the crowds and commercialization had become too much for the Thelins. Believing the hippie ideal had gotten lost in the circus sideshow of sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll, they decided to close the Psychedelic Shop. On October 4-6, Thelin and the Diggers organized a “Death of the Hippies” happening – giving away everything in the shop, placing the store’s sign in a casket and leading a symbolic funeral procession through The Haight. And just like that, after less than two years, America’s first headshop was history.

VILLAGE VANGUARDS While the Psychedelic Shop was the first ostensible headshop, it would be a similar store which opened four months later in New York City that would give the new industry its name.

In May 1966, an ex-architect from the Bronx named Jeff Glick and his wife Betsy opened an alternative smokeshop on East Ninth Street in the Lower East Side called simply the Head Shop. Though Glick never officially explained the reason behind the name, common wisdom assumed that the word “Head” referred to the colloquial term for a drug enthusiast, such as a “pothead” or “acid head.”

Though there are a few other urban Trippy promo for the legends about the Head Shop in NYC. origin of the name, Glick’s shop is, to my knowledge, the first official use of the term and therefore deserves the credit.

Psychedelic Shop’s first anniversary poster (1967).

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CAPTAIN ED’S In 1967, stoner buddies Edwin Marsh Adair III and Bob Silverman rode from Venice Beach up to a little underground headshop on Van Nuys Boulevard to score a “Captain Ed” Adair & his pack of rolling papers (which, smoke shop in Van Nuys. in those days, weren’t as easy to find). While there, Silverman inquired about what it might cost to open a similar shop, to which the owner reportedly replied: “Why do you have to open one? This one’s for sale.” Well, the two friends did just that – they bought the shop and renamed it Heads & Highs.

Thanks to Silverman’s business acumen and Adair’s welcoming personality, the store became such a success that by 1969 they’d opened a second location in Reseda. In fact, Adair was so adored by his patrons that they gave him the nickname “Captain Ed” (a reference to the Walt Whitman

In 2017, Captain Ed’s Smoke Shoppe celebrated its 50th anniversary and is now the oldest continuously operating headshop in America. poem “O Captain! My Captain!”). One such customer was a veteran around Adair’s age named Jack who had only recently gotten high for the first time, so Adair took him under his wing – encouraging him to seek out as much information on Psychedelicatessen Cannabis as he could. storefront (above) Jack embraced his menand one of their ads tor’s imperative, gradfor pipes (left). ually compiling all the historical information he collected into a definitive Cannabis reference book. That book was “The Emperor Wears No Clothes,” and that vet was Jack Herer.

Herer went on to become a headshop owner himself, opening High Country in Venice Beach in 1973. A decade later, he became the first proprietor in the Valley convicted under state law for selling drug paraphernalia. After a brief stint in jail, Herer moved up to Portland and opened another headshop called The Third Eye. Like Jack, Adair Jack & Ed: The faced his own legal worries Hemperor and with Heads & Highs. Under his Captain. the Reagan Administration’s hardline drug policies, the Feds targeted the shop over its name, which they insisted implied illicit drug use. Under legal pressure, they renamed the store Captain Ed’s Smoke Shoppe. Despite having to change its name, being busted and having its inventory seized multiple times, and the eventual death of its founders in the 1990s, this legendary shop has managed to survive. In 2017, Captain Ed’s celebrated its 50th anniversary and is now the oldest continuously operating headshop in America.

EAST-WEST Captain Ed’s might be the longest operating headshop on the West Coast, but back East that distinction falls to an eccentric little “rock ‘n’ roll superstore” in Union City, New Jersey called East-West Novelty.

After being turned on to weed by his Army sergeant in Vietnam, Cuban-American Veteran Alex Savino returned to New Jersey and began working at a headshop in the West Village called the Thieves Market. Tired of commuting,

he eventually decided to open his own shop closer to home.

“I opened it so that people like me didn’t have to travel into NYC,” he explains.

“There was no headTop: Alex Suvino behind the shop in New Jersey yet counter at East-West Novelty … the Village was rein 1974. Above: Suvino & son ally the only place that Luke circa 2015. had anything at all.”

With just $900 startup money, Savino opened the shop in 1971 and began selling posters, pranks, t-shirts, records and smokeware. He named it East-West, after his favorite album by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Initially, the shop was only pulling in less than $50 a day … but that changed drastically, Savino claims, once High Times hit the scene.

“When High Times came out in 1974-75, that was the explosion,” this colorful character recalls.

“To see that lifestyle and culture mass-distributed to America, it opened up the door to major things. We really flourished.”

Despite the paraphernalia crackdowns of the 1990s, East-West managed to endure by strictly enforcing the ban on words like “marijuana” and “bong” within the store and by bringing in new, non-drug-related products like skateboards —the suggestion of Alex’s son Luke, who has now expanded the family business. In 2019, Luke officially put the “West” in East-West when he moved out to Colorado to open a second location in Steamboat Springs.

“A headshop is more than just a store … it’s almost like a museum,” Luke observes. “There’s so much to look at, there’s always good music playing … people often come in and don’t even buy anything, but they always come back.”

Speaking for us old stoner outlaw types, I find it comforting to know that the magical, taboo places known as headshops still exist...and as long as they do, we’ll keep coming back.

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Glick’s initial $500 investment soon blossomed into a $3,000-per-week revenue stream, allowing him to open a second location in the West Village. Before long, more headshops began sprouting up all around – most notably on St. Marks Place, where smokeware artists and vendors began to line the street (and still do today), and on Avenue A, where another infamous institution also opened its doors in 1966: Psychedelicatessen.

Like the Psych Shop in San Francisco, Psychedelicatessen served as a hippie hub in NYC. Located just up the block from Tompkins Square Park, it became a hot spot for all things underground, controversial and cool – luring in counterculture icons like Allen Ginsberg and Timothy Leary and even getting written up in the February 24, 1967 issue of Time magazine. But alas, like its SF counterpart, it was gone in less than two years. It seems that owners Rick Southworth Swede and his wife Susan – who were also the leaders of a psychedelic drug cult (similar to the notorious Brotherhood of Eternal Love) called the Church of Mysterious Elation – were allegedly dealing drugs out of the shop. As a result, on June 22, 1968, Psychedelicatessen was raided by the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and permanently closed.

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IT SURE SEEMS like everyone has a trigger or 50 these days. Not to say that people haven’t always been fragile, but now we have classified the proper terminology that pinpoints that moment where something clicks like a slipped disc in your mind and propels you down a rabbit hole of displeasure.

Obviously, the term generates from the trigger of a gun – activating an emotional response that equates to a heightened reaction. The catalyst kind of hits you like a bullet, too, creating an abrupt shock to your mood. You may not be entirely aware that your reaction to the incident stems from something traumatic in your past that is affecting your attitude in the moment, but either way, your current state is altered and provoking an immediate reaction.

In this modern age of psychology, we’ve become very efficient at analyzing nuances in the human temperament and identifying how drastic changes can exacerbate symptoms. Like a hundred years ago, people just called it rattling the nerves. But once you place a validated medical term on it, people can clutch onto the diagnosis like a life preserver … a safe zone. But the problem with that is we’ve become accustomed to having a technical explanation for everything we feel, raising expectations that because it is well-defined, there must be a simple way to resolve it.

And it’s usually with a pill. Or a drink.

Or a fit of rage.

And the misunderstanding from which most people suffer is thinking that acting out negatively is the most effective way to resolve the situation. But as we all have learned from experience, these confrontational reactions only exacerbate the problem. And therefore, I would like to share my philosophy on settling an issue before reacting in a way that could prove irreparable.

My lighter is a trigger.

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