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Editor’s Note What does Cannabis culture mean as we head into 2021?

As a high school honors student in 2004, I made fun of stoners without mercy.

They were stinky, grungy and certainly not in advanced classes! The messaging about Cannabis from my parents (who are still teachers today), the media and movies like “Dude Where’s My Car” made smoking pot akin to killing brain cells – which was not something I wanted to do yet. But by freshman year in college, our Creative Director Daniel Berman and I had our Journalism advisor ask, “Wes, do you always do your homework when you’re high?”

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My journey with Cannabis culture went from the DARE mindset, to embracing it as a fun party drug, to being arrested for possession – before ultimately realizing the medicinal values that led me to start Northwest Leaf in 2010. This massive change happened for me over a period of an influential year, and I feel like much of America is on a similar journey to what I went WE HAVE through as a teenager.

A THRIVING COMMUNITY, America is confused about Cannabis. We have the stereotyping of COMPLETE stoners in the media alongside the massive coverage of the mediciWITH nal and ‘safer-than-alcohol’ recreational benefits, all mixed in with a CULTURE Bible Belt mentality and DARE’s ongoing stigmas, and now even have AND VALUES Oregon decriminalizing all drugs entirely. Simply put, most Americans couldn’t define Cannabis culture, let alone imagine that we have a thriving community, complete with culture and values that lead many of our venerated pastimes like sports, music, arts and celebrity culture. More on that with Ricker’s “Death of Celebrity Culture” piece – a great read with good reasons as to why Cannabis doesn’t need a Kardashian to share the marquee with.

The point is, we know that we have an amazing culture, but the rest of the country is still in the dark. And we have to break out of the past and embrace the future – blending patients with stoners, grunge with rasta, wooks with suits and everyone in between. Because Cannabis touches all walks of life, can help everyone as a medicine or recreational substance, and is going to change the world and how we view it. This I know beyond a doubt, the same way I did when my mom asked if I wanted to live my life behind bars for choosing to smoke pot. My answer? It shouldn’t have ever been illegal … and a few months later the Leaf was born.

Thank you for reading and being a part of our community and culture – let’s remember to let it shine! After all, it feels good to be high and smile, so make sure to spread the cheer this holiday season. Our world will thank you for it.

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wo Oregon wine grape growers failed to convince a state judge that their grapes would be ruined by odors coming from a nearby Cannabis operation, reports the Insurance Journal.

Smeara Vineyard and Maysara Winery didn’t meet the burden of proof to justify blocking the Wagner family from growing and processing THE COMPANIES DIDN’T MEET marijuana, Yamhill County Circuit Court Judge Cynthia Easterday ruled in THE BURDEN OF PROOF TO October, reports The Capital Press.

JUSTIFY BLOCKING THE WAGNER The judge said she deliberated for nearly eight months since the February FAMILY FROM GROWING AND PROCESSING MARIJUANA. trial and had re-listened to expert testimony several different times.

“This was a very difficult and close decision,” Judge Easterday said. While the potential for the smell of Cannabis to taint wine grapes raises “a threat, a risk, and concerns, there is insufficient proof at this time by a preponderance of the evidence that it will damage plaintiffs’ current or future agricultural products.” northwest

TASK FORCE CREATES PATHWAY FOR MORE BLACKOWNED CANNABIS BUSINESSES IN WASHINGTON STATE

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o-chaired by two Black women, a new task force will help develop diversity criteria for the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board to use when awarding future licenses to Cannabis businesses, reports KING 5 News.

The task force came from the passage of House Bill 2870, which allows for more Cannabis business licenses to be handed out for social equity purposes. It’s part of a larger effort by the state to be more inclusive in its “WE AS AFRICAN AMERICANS WANT TO ENSURE THAT WE ARE Cannabis industry.

BEING MADE WHOLE IN THIS The Social Equity in Cannabis Task Force has state Rep. Melanie Morgan INDUSTRY, AS WE HAVE IN of Parkland as its co-chair. “The state of Washington is moving along in that THE PAST BEEN PENALIZED FOR THIS VERY THING,” SAID progressive place … we have to be radical and make some deep changes,” STATE REP. MELANIE MORGAN. Morgan said. “We as African Americans want to ensure that we are being made whole in this industry, as we have in the past been penalized for this very thing.”

The task force, co-chaired by Paula Sardinas of the African American Commission, features community members and state lawmakers who will create criteria for 35 Cannabis licenses currently unclaimed.

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KANSAS LAWMAKER CALLS FOR ‘SERIOUS DEBATE’ ON LEGALIZATION It’s taken a long time to build up the familiarity, education, and inform the public about it,” said Kansas state Rep. Gail Finney of Wichita, who first introduced a bill which would have legalized medical Cannabis in the state back in 2009.

That bill died in committee, but Rep. Finney is one of the few Kansas lawmakers who actively pushes for legalization in Kansas. “They would joke with me and like, ‘Oh, Representative Finney just wants to eat some chips.

Smoke weed and eat some chips,’” she said.

ACCORDING TO FINNEY, ONE According to Finney, one of her main opponents when it comes to legalization is law HER MAIN enforcement. Her efforts have received pushback from Kansas officials who have tried to link it OF OPPONENTS WHEN to more people being “chemically impaired.” But a poll recently conducted by Fort Hays State IT COMES TO LEGALIZATION University showed more than 60 percent of Kansans support legalization. Rep. Finney said IS LAW she’ll be making another solid push for it in the 2021 session of the legislature.

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states — Arizona, Montana, Mississippi (medical only), New Jersey and South Dakota, all voted big to legalize.

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new bills have been introduced to loosen Cannabis penalties in Texas.

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states plus D.C. have now legalized recreational or adult-use laws allowing for the consumption of Cannabis.

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signatories signed a letter calling on President Trump to free pot prisoners.

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funny thing happened in Mississippi on November 3.

Politicians didn’t want medical marijuana in the Magnolia State. Public leaders in medicine, law enforcement and religion all warned voters against it. Conservative talk radio hosts darkly warned of its grave consequences.

The Legislature, after years of sitting on their hands, offered a weak, watered down “alternative.”

And Mississippi’s voters roundly ignored all of that nonsense, and passed their robust medical Cannabis law anyway. The people easily passed Initiative 65 on Election Day, amending the Mississippi Constitution and legalizing medicinal marijuana.

THE PEOPLE EASILY A program supervised by the State PASSED INITIATIVE Department of Health – which opposed 65 ON ELECTION DAY, AMENDING the measure – will allow Mississippians with one of at least 22 medical conditions THE MISSISSIPPI CONSTITUTION to buy medical Cannabis as soon as AND LEGALIZING August 2021.

MEDICINAL MARIJUANA. Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves showed himself to be something of a pot alarmist during the run-up to the vote, tweeting that “it would mean the most liberal weed rules in the US! Pot shops everywhere – no local authority.”

Voters didn’t agree. Nearly 70 percent of Mississippi voters supported legalizing medical Cannabis, and an even greater share rejected the Legislature’s weak alternative.

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rgentina in November authorized patients to grow Cannabis at home for medicinal use, after a years-long struggle by supporters to make it widely available to those suffering from a broad range of ailments, reports The New York Times. A decree issued

by President Alberto Fernandez also allows pharmacies to sell Cannabisbased oils, creams and other products, and orders public and private insurance systems to allow patient access to Cannabis products.

The decree places special emphasis on families who are currently forced to resort to illegal cultivation for medicine. It acknowledges that the role of the government is “to adequately regulate access to the controlled cultivation of the Cannabis plant, as well as its derivatives, for purposes of medicinal, therapeutic and/or palliative treatment of pain.”

The new regulations also note that restrictions on access to Cannabis and its derivatives are far too stringent for patients, and how high costs make the products financially prohibitive for patients as well.

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E L E CT I O N 2020 with Prop 205 but the initiative failed, receiving only 48.7 percent of the vote.

This year, Arizona succeeded in legalizing Cannabis for adults 21 and older when an incredible 60 percent of voters approved Prop 207.

The new law takes effect once the election results are made official on November 30, 2020 and allows possession of up to an ounce of marijuana, “of which five grams can be concentrate.”

The measure also permits home cultivation of up to six plants or up to 12 plants in homes with two or more adults, and allows for expungement of past Cannabis crimes.

Under the law, Arizona’s Department of Health Services is responsible for establishing the rules for retail sales and issuing licenses. Adult-use sales could begin as early as the spring of 2021. >> M O N TA N A << Fifty-seven percent of voters in Montana approved Initiative 190, which legalizes the possession, cultivation and sale of Cannabis. Beginning January 1, 2021 adults 21 and older can possess up to an ounce of flower or eight grams of concentrate. Home cultivation of up to four plants will also be permitted.

Montana’s new marijuana law tasks the Department of Revenue with establishing the state’s retail program. Yet while possession will be legal this coming January, Montanans will have to wait a bit for the debut of adult-use sales. The Department of Revenue will start accepting applications for dispensaries and providers by January 2022.

When retail sales begin, the state will impose a 20 percent tax on pot products.

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ast month, a divided country waited four days to learn who won the presidency, as Election Day turned into election week.

On Saturday, November 7 the race was called and Joe Biden declared the winner. But by then it was clear that the biggest winner of the 2020 election was unquestionably Cannabis, which enjoyed a clean sweep at the ballots.

The country appears uncharacteristically united when it comes to marijuana, as voters in four states decisively approved measures to legalize, tax and regulate pot. Those four states – Arizona, Montana, New Jersey and South Dakota(!) – join the 11 states that already legalized Cannabis, bringing the total number of legal pot states in the country to 15 (along with the District of Columbia).

While recreational legalization stole the headlines on Election Day, medical marijuana also deserves a mention as voters in Mississippi and South Dakota legalized Cannabis for medicinal use (it was a big day for pot policy in South Dakota, as residents approved both adult-use and medicinal marijuana measures). Medical Cannabis is now legal in 35 states and Washington, D.C. No two state’s pot laws are the same.

So let’s take a closer look at what was passed on Election Day and see what residents of the latest legal states have to look forward to.

>> N E W J E R S E Y << New Jersey voters were given the opportunity to do what state lawmakers had been unable to accomplish when the question of Cannabis legalization was placed on the

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ballot. Leading up to the election, polling indicated that legal marijuana had strong support in the Garden State and campaign finance records showed that pot proponents outraised opponents 130:1.

So it was no surprise that voters easily passed the constitutional amendment legalizing recreational Cannabis. Still, the 2-to-1 margin is impressive, as the measure passed with 67 percent of the vote.

It’s near impossible to get 67 percent of people to agree on anything.

Now that adult-use Cannabis has been approved, lawmakers in New Jersey must create (and, importantly, agree on) the corresponding legislation. Just about all aspects of the program, like the number of cultivation and retail licenses that will be allowed, the rules for regulating and testing marijuana and even possession limits, have to be decided.

So while Cannabis will officially become legal for adults 21 and older on January 1, 2021, the state is likely about a year away from beginning retail sales as it works through the process of crafting the program.

Recreational Cannabis will be subject to New Jersey’s sales tax (6.625 percent) and local governments can decide to add additional taxes on sales in their jurisdictions.

>> S O U T H D A K O TA << Voters in South Dakota passed a constitutional amendment to legalize Cannabis for adults. The amendment allows possession of up to an ounce of Cannabis and establishes retail sales.

The state’s Department of Revenue will be responsible for issuing licenses for the retail program. Once sales are implemented, the new law imposes a 15 percent tax on marijuana products. The law also allows local governments to ban Cannabis sales in their jurisdictions.

Those who live in an area without a licensed retail shop are permitted to grow up to three plants at home, or as many as six plants in a single household.

South Dakota’s recreational Cannabis amendment passed with 54.2 percent of the vote – easily the lowest percentage of the four states that approved adult-use pot laws.

Only an election boasting such resounding victories for marijuana-law reform could trivialize the fact that recreational Cannabis got over 54 percent of the vote in South Dakota.

CANNABIS WAS THE BIG WINNER OF THE 2020 ELECTION.

>> A R I Z O N A << Support for marijuana policy reform was on the rise over the last decade in Arizona, culminating in a resounding victory for recreational Cannabis this November.

In 2010, voters narrowly approved the use of medical marijuana, passing Prop 203 with just over 50 percent of the vote. In 2016, Arizona had its first chance to tax and regulate recreational Cannabis

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silocybin has officially been declared legal in Oregon after over 1.8 million voters cast their ballot in favor of Measure 109 during the November elections. The ballot text highlights a two-year timeline to “develop a longterm strategic plan for ensuring that psilocybin services will become and remain a safe, accessible, and affordable therapeutic option for all persons 21 years of age and older in this state for whom psilocybin may be appropriate.” The Oregon Health Authority (OHA) will be responsible for determining producer and facilitator eligibility, packaging rules and dosage standards. A new board will come together to assist in their research and development. The Oregon Psilocybin Advisory Board will help the OHA through recommendations and be composed of the following types of members: the Public Health Director (or a designee), the State Health Officer (or a designated physician), an Oregon Health Policy Board designee, and 14-16 members appointed by the governor that range from specialized health experts to mycologists.This law will officially allow the manufacturing, delivery and administration of psilocybin at licensed facilities, and while some US cities have decriminalized in the past, it will make Oregon the first state to legalize.

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THE UNITED STATES T he OLCC has announced that Oregon will be among 19 states to join forces in a new, national regulatory association. The Cannabis Regulators Association (CANNRA) aims to “share institutional knowledge and regulatory best practices” at the federal, state and local levels. The association will provide access to a national registry of information and resources like conferences, legislative analysis, data and news.

According to the OLCC’s press release, other states involved include: Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New York,

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ovember brought elections and with them, The measure reclassifies personal, non-commercial changes to Oregon’s stance on the War drug possessions of on Drugs. Measure 110 (which accrued Schedule I-IV substances over 1.3 million statewide votes) passed, like heroin, cocaine, marking a significant shift in the country methamphetamine, as the first state in the US to decriminalize hard drugs.

MDMA, LSD, psilocybin, The measure reclassifies personal, non-commercial drug Methadone, Oxycodone possessions of Schedule I-IV substances like heroin, cocaine, and more. methamphetamine, MDMA, LSD, psilocybin, Methadone, Oxycodone and more. Substances formally cause for Class A misdemeanors will now result in Class E violations that require a “$100 fine or a completed health assessment.” Additionally, this measure establishes a timeline for the establishment and funding of addiction recovery centers throughout each coordinated care area. The deadline is October 1, 2021 and while the centers will provide the mandated assessments, they will also offer treatment options and statistics on Oregon’s substance abuse issues. The manufacturing and distribution of Schedule I-IV substances are still prohibited, but when it comes to personal possession, the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission estimates that convictions will decrease by 90.7%. The money saved from the decrease in incarcerations will be distributed to the Drug Treatment and Recovery Services Fund, alongside any “marijuana revenue above $11.25 million per quarter.”

According to the text of the Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act, Oregon ranks “nearly last out of the 50 states in access to treatment.”

OF CANNABIS... “...the association will be open to any states “that have approved or are weighing the legalization of Cannabis.

North Dakota, Rhode Island, Utah and Washington, but the association will be open to any states “that have approved or are weighing the legalization of Cannabis.” The organization’s website highlights clear mission values like the exchanging of practices, building uniform standards and safeguarding public health. “The Cannabis Regulators Association will provide a much-needed forum for regulators to engage with each other to identify and develop best practices, create model policies that safeguard public health and safety, and promote regulatory certainty for industry participants,” said CANNRA President Norman Birenbaum.

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If you can’t treat the people coming through your dispensary door with a little compassion and understanding, then this may be the wrong work for you.

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o you remember the days of medical Cannabis? It wasn’t long ago that you needed a special card to walk into a dispensary – one acquired with a surprisingly quick (and sometimes seemingly seedy) trip to the Cannabis clinic.

Years later, there’s a dispensary on every corner, leaving longtime leaders like Starbucks and McDonalds behind when it comes to mass retail. You no longer need a card to shop for Cannabis and selections have skyrocketed. But was there something lost from Cannabis culture when a community founded in care and medicinal value revealed itself to recreational riches?

Speaking as someone that suffered a stroke at the rise of legalization may pepper this perspective with a bit of bitterness, but please, stick around for a little more.

The issues in the following sentences are far from isolated feelings.

Friends with IBDs, hearing loss, seizures and an array of other ailments have expressed frustrations when it comes to the occasionally daunting task of dispensary visits.

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Sure, delivery is available and location options are plentiful, but delivery isn’t accessible or affordable for everyone yet. And while there may be numerous dispensaries to choose from, few are catering to the needs of someone that considers themself disabled.

Ableism is all around us, and although most dealing with a disability would prefer nothing more than understanding, it’s clearly a skill acquired through experience. Those lucky enough to walk through life without physical or mental challenges may have a hard time understanding what that burden is like – the extra obstacles throughout each ordinary day. But let’s hold space for some issues that affect a large portion of this community: dealing with dispensary environments. It’s where most of us get our Cannabis products these days, but more than that, it’s where many migrate for the medication they’ve come to rely on.

We all know the long list of ailments that this plant can work wonders on, ranging from mental health matters to severe physical pain.

But what’s less discussed are the challenges faced when dealing with dispensaries. Some budtenders and shops serve up fabulous,

factual and kind customer service, with patience and effectiveness rarely found from your local health care practitioner. Some, however, seem to forget that many (if not the majority of) consumers are using Cannabis for a medical reason, no matter the severity.

According to a 2017 analysis penned by Dr. Hongying Dai of the Nebraska Medical Center, 35.1% of Cannabis consumers reported that they used Cannabis only for medical reasons, 45.6% reported that they used Cannabis only for recreational purposes, and 19.3% reported using it for both. If these statistics are even close to correct, it’s safe to estimate that even in the recreational era, one out of every two customers is visiting the dispensary in search of relief from some sort of medical condition. Do those conditions make it difficult for them to enter your business? Sometimes they do.

From a lack of bathroom access to loud music to uncooperative staff, dispensaries often don’t offer standards for atmosphere or best practices. That’s an entirely acceptable fact of the free market, except if you’re in an industry where half of the consumers may require accommodation for a medical condition.

So, make room for accessibility: Install that new wheelchair ramp, offer alternative communication methods like physical menus for the hard-of-hearing, stay away from flashy signs that could promote seizures, ask the customer clearly struggling with social anxiety how you can make their experience easier.

If you can’t treat the people coming through your dispensary door with a little compassion and understanding, then this may be the wrong work for you. Please don’t forget that you truly never know what others are going through. Cannabis may be all fun and flowers for some, but it’s a life-changing medical tool for many.

Amanda Day is a multimedia artist and journalist based in Eugene, who has worked for Oregon Leaf since 2019.

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Highly Likely highlights Cannabis pioneers who paved the way to greater herbal acceptance.

Swami is one of the most recognizable Cannabis experts on the West Coast, with his long beard, white robes and ever-present smile.

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Cannabis and spirituality have a long history.

So long in fact, that much of the historical record we have of the plant only relates to ancient religious text or writings (Egyptian, Babylonian, Greek), or from archeological discoveries where Cannabis was found near religious temples or burial sites.

It’s only post-prohibition that our relationship to the plant as humans has become more secular and separated from the spiritual realm.

This does not mean that all modern Cannabis use is devoid of sacred or spiritual application – in fact, it could be argued that what we’re really seeking when connecting with the feelings that Cannabis gives us is some closer connection with something divine outside (and inside) ourselves. And that’s why this month’s subject is so special and pertinent to the times we’re currently living through.

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WAMI CHAITANYA (BORN WILLIAM ALLEN WINANS) is a

self-described “original hippie” having come up inside the San Francisco scene in the late ‘60s. He even worked on the cult-classic film “Sunseed” which was a documentary of sorts of the many gurus and spiritual leaders who were drawn to the West in the ‘60s and ‘70s in response to the transformation of consciousness that was taking place at Chaitanya the time. For Chaitanya, though, it wasn’t connects a until the late ‘90s that he left his old identity practice to behind through a sacred initiation on the the process banks of the Ganges River. Now he is one of consuming of the most recognizable Cannabis experts Cannabis on the West Coast, with his long beard, at every white robes and ever-present smile. chance.

While some could (and do) write off his appearance and spiritual philosophy as a gimmick to sell his Cannabis brand Swami Select, it’s according to Chaitanya that the brand only exists as a means to fund his sanctuary in Mendocino County.

The Cannabis they grow is hand-trimmed, prayed over and cured all inside the temple.

“Nobody thinks about the farmer,” he told the LA Times in 2016. “Most people want to get high, or they want to get their medicine. When you go to the grocery store for peas and carrots, you are not thinking about the farmer who grew them, right? We are trying to change that.”

Chaitanya connects spiritual practice to the process of consuming Cannabis at every chance.

He’s a proponent of a technique that connoisseurs of all kinds like to practice: the dry hit. “It’s almost like a mindfulness meditation,” he told Rolling Stone in 2010, “like eating an apple and tasting every bite.”

While watching any of the numerous videos online that he’s produced over the past five years – one gets the sense that he’s truly trying to do for Cannabis consumers what any guru or holy man does: get people in their everyday lives to be aware of their ability to be better than they currently are.

At the end of the day, this plant has always brought with it hope for humanity, if we’d only slow down and listen to what it’s trying to tell us.

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What brought you to Oregon? I’m originally from Boston, Mass. but I

moved to Eugene, Ore. two years ago to be with my girlfriend who struggles with the same disease. We bonded over our love of Cannabis and how it ameliorates our Crohn’s symptoms. I absolutely love everything about Oregon – from the decriminalization of growing to (some) doctors being open to discussing it as a treatment option. Oregon has such beauty and I am honored to live so close to the ocean and the mountains.

Can you tell me about your official diagnosis? I was diagnosed with ​ Crohn’s Disease at age six. It’s a form of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), which is a digestive, autoimmune disease. Crohn’s is caused by an overactive immune system response that attacks the intestines and other parts of the body.

What do you use Cannabis for specifically? I utilize Cannabis to treat

symptoms caused by my Crohn’s. Cannabis helps control my nausea and very severe abdominal pain. I’ve always had a hard time maintaining weight or holding food down. Cannabis allows me to have a positive relationship with food and maintain my weight, which can fluctuate significantly. For me, Cannabis assists in treating the negative side effects caused by pharmaceutical medications. Crohn’s also causes arthritis, leading to severe joint pain. I’m pleased that Cannabis allows me to not be on narcotic pain medication. Since I started using Cannabis regularly, I haven’t had any inpatient hospital stays! I spent the majority of my childhood in the hospital – I know Cannabis is the difference in my health.

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Can you tell me a little bit about your Advanced Grow semester at the New England Grass Roots Institute? In Quincy,

Mass. I attended the New England Grass Roots Institute. The Grass Roots Institute provided students an environment to thrive and safely learn how to grow Cannabis.

The curriculum included everything from the basics to more advanced concepts such as ventilation, proper lighting/understanding spectrum, discreet indoor growing practices and perpetual harvesting planning. Students also learned how to put these concepts to use through execution, such as seed starts and cloning, to learning how to veg plants successfully through to flower. We were immersed in a curriculum that showed us how to make edibles, RSO and topicals. I give credit to my teachers for my comprehensive Cannabis knowledge.

What kind of cultivars are you growing and why? Currently, I’m

growing Garlic Butter and Mule Fuel by Thug Pug Genetics. I utilize Thug Pug since a lot of his genetics relieve pain and provide superior structure and terpene profiles. I also enjoy growing genetics from Archive Seeds, Dynasty Genetics and Exotic Genetix.

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drilled home the importance of growing organic when you’re immunocompromised.

They taught us mostly organic growing practices and I then took it upon myself to start growing no-till, utilizing compost teas, and adding different species of fungi and bacteria to the soil.

I know you’re a fan of edibles and quite the home chef yourself! What types of Cannabis products do you like to cook with and what recipes are you excited about right now? I’ve

always enjoyed cooking for others. When I originally took classes at the New England Grass Roots Institute, I learned how to infuse Cannabis into a variety of foods (sweet and savory) and that sparked my love for edible making. My Crohn’s significantly benefits from Cannabis edibles, as their effects are longer lasting. I enjoy infusing everything from medicated Thanksgiving dinner to infused caramels and chocolate bars. Currently, I’m enjoying making infused chocolate truffles with caramel or fruit filling. Cannabis edibles have been a complete game-changer in treating my Crohn’s Disease and controlling my constant chronic pain!

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“SINCE I STARTED USING CANNABIS REGULARLY, I HAVEN’T HAD ANY INPATIENT HOSPITAL STAYS! I SPENT THE MAJORITY OF MY CHILDHOOD IN THE HOSPITAL – I KNOW CANNABIS IS THE DIFFERENCE IN MY HEALTH.”

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Forged in the crucible that is life, Nina Parks is an inspiring, motivated and medicated pioneer in San Francisco’s Cannabis scene –– particularly within the realm of social equity. Born and raised in SF’s Mission and Excelsior districts, Parks’ experience growing up was similar to many from the area during that time.

While San Francisco’s gentrification has ramped up and become the subject of national attention in recent years, it’s been slowly occurring for decades and has affected every single resident of the area, regardless of whether they’re impoverished, affluent or somewhere in between.

For Parks, this meant her parents worked over 60 hours a week to keep the lights on and food in the refrigerator. When the lack of adult oversight and structure was coupled with the elimination of educational resources like afterschool programs, arts, music and sports opportunities from her school, as well as witnessing a lot of stress induced violence in her family and community, Parks began getting into trouble with the law and other authority figures.

As a result of her rebellion and an early indulgence in hard drugs she was using to quell her pain and deal with the trauma she’d been witness to, she spent her sophomore to junior years of high school at a ranch school in New Mexico before returning to San Francisco –– where she would take her California High School Proficiency Test, pass, and effectively wrap up her high school experience.

Afterwards, she began taking Criminal Justice and Sociology classes at City College of San Francisco and eventually switched to San Jose State, ultimately becoming educated on a higher level beyond her real world experience about the the strategies being used to uphold oppressive systems that target people of color in America, including drug laws. This would effectively lay the foundations upon which she would develop a passion for social justice and equality, and when a close family member became incarcerated for working with the plant, her career in Cannabis would begin to take shape.

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“I JUST KEPT GOING TO MEETINGS AND BRINGING UP THE SAME CONVERSATIONS. THOSE CONVERSATIONS EVENTUALLY TURNED INTO THE EQUITY PROGRAM.” A B U D D I N G PA S S I O N

This year, Parks created and launched her own Cannabis brand called Gift of Doja, which features premium flowers curated from select legacy cultivators like Sanctuary Farms.

Fast forward to 2014 and Parks’ brother would be arrested for felony possession with intent to sell while participating in interstate commerce on a trip from California to New York –– while only a matter of months later, New York would vote to legalize medical Cannabis. Her brother’s arrest would turn out to be the impetus for Parks’ entrance to the Cannabis industry as her newfound profession.

Previously, she’d copped a few ounces on occasion when she needed to make some extra money and would break them down and sell them in dimes, dubs, eighths, quarters –– whatever the customer wanted. Thus, she knew it could be profitable, but had never thought it would be her career.

Her brother, on the other hand, was deep in the scene and had been steadily building out a brand and retail business, with the intention of bringing it to life when California legalized Cannabis recreationally. He could see that this was imminent and by the time he was arrested in 2014, he had his Mirage Medicinals brand and business fully dialed. But when he was arrested, his entire future in Cannabis was put into jeopardy as the initial regulations drafted for Prop 64 barred convicted felons from obtaining a license and excluded language to support delivery-based businesses. Parks knew her brother’s passion for the plant was deep, and that him being disallowed from participating in legal Cannabis for being a participant in illegal Cannabis was unjust.

She went to work ensuring her brother wouldn’t miss out on the chance to build his business in the newly legal adult-use market. She began operating Mirage

Medicinals, bringing the brand and business to life and set out to figure out how to ensure her brother had a chance to come back home and continue his career with the plant.

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social equity in San Francisco’s legalized Cannabis scene, she became co-founder of the Original Equity Group –– a facet within the San Francisco Cannabis Equity Working Group –– whose goal was to create a way of lowering the barrier of entry for those wanting to apply for an equity Cannabis license, providing education for a “quick and dirty” crash course on navigating regulation and running a business.

Parks knew that the only real way to affect change would be on a group level. She began attending as many meetings in the Bay Area regarding Cannabis as she possibly could. She A RELENTLESS ENTREPRENEUR witnessed firsthand and was impressed by the efforts of people like Amber This year, Parks created and launched Senter and Lanese Martin, who helped her own Cannabis brand called Gift of develop Oakland’s Cannabis social Doja, which features premium flowers equity program –– the country’s first. curated from select legacy cultivators She would then connect with Sentlike Sanctuary Farms. er and together, along with Sunshine Not satisfied with only a couple irons Lencho and Andrea Unin the fire, Parks is the sworth, they would found Chair of San Francisco’s Our new monthly Equity Entrepreneur feature Supernova Women –– an Cannabis Oversight Comhighlights business organization dedicated mittee, a founding member operators and thought to empowering women of the Cannabis Regulaleaders who seek to build of color and giving them tors of Color Coalition, this industry in a way that the tools they need to be a member of the Equity sheds the prejudices of the successful and stake their Trade Certification and past while reflecting on the claim in the burgeoning co-founder of Locals Equity rich diversity of the plant legal industry.

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Parks then took what she Today, Parks remains Know someone who would be a great interview? Email had learned and turned an active participant in nate@californiealeaf.com. her focus to her home city. the San Francisco CannaShe began going to San bis scene and continues Francisco’s public Cannabis meetings to work towards positive change by and would continually prompt legislahelping bring the industry much needed tors as to what the city had planned in diversity. Armed with a deep passion for terms of a social equity program. people and for the plant, we are excited “I just kept going to meetings and to see what Parks brings to the industry bringing up the same conversations. in 2021.

Those conversations eventually turned into the equity program,” explained Parks.

As Parks became more and more F O L LO W H E R @ N I N A _ PA R KS integrated in the conversations around

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Two of the three flavors: Jason DuBois and Cameron Quintero.

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DEC. 2020

Say hello to Three Flavors Farms, three homies from three completely different cultural backgrounds with a common bond of loving to get stoned and put in work.

This unlikely trio joined forces to build a business from scratch with the intention of breeding their own strains in-house and providing the community with missing genetics that were desperately needed – including first of their kind strains like Maximum OG, Starboy and Gas Sicle – to name a few originals. This is the type of farm we should all want to support, where no outside influence or investment is found, and independently sourced and cultivated craft flower is at its best.

Handbuilding their own facility after a transition from construction to Cannabis is a huge testament to the core value found at Three Flavors: absolute dedication to the plant.

Let’s tap in to gain some perspective from Stoner Owners Jason DuBois, Cameron Quintero and James Strom.

HOW DID CANNABIS FIND ITS WAY INTO YOUR LIVES AND HOW HAS IT HELPED YOU OUTSIDE OF BUSINESS? By having family members who suffer from epilepsy, chronic illness, PTSD and back injuries from working years of construction. It has helped outside of business personally too, by getting us off pharmaceutical medications and just relying on Cannabis products.

WHAT INSPIRED THE NAME THREE FLAVORS? Well, one of the owners is Mexican and one is Korean and one is white … a group of friends who each bring their unique flavor to the farm.

“Oregon needs to support small craft growers – craft farms that sell out every harvest should be able to expand and not be restricted by canopy limits.”

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OTHER THAN HAVING SUCH A DIVERSE LINEUP OF OWNERS, WHAT ELSE IS UNIQUE ABOUT THREE FLAVORS FARMS? We breed our own inhouse genetics and like to provide strains that have strong medical benefits for the Cannabis community.

HOW HAS YOUR TEAM MANAGED TO ADAPT AND MAINTAIN THROUGH SUCH A CRAZY YEAR? Having great relationships with dispensaries like INHALE, Americanna RX and Oregon Cannabis Co has really helped us a lot this year – if it wasn’t for them and really taking a shot with a small farm, this pandemic would be a lot harder. And of course, who could forget the glue that holds all this together: Cannabis! We tend to smoke or dab all day long to keep the head right.

WHAT DO YOU WISH THE AVERAGE CONSUMER WOULD UNDERSTAND ABOUT CANNABIS? We wish the average consumer was more educated on Cannabis; it’s not always about the highest THC score – for instance, another strain may not test as high, but has better medical benefits.

WHAT ARE SOME KEYS TO KEEPING OREGON’S CANNABIS INDUSTRY HEALTHY AND THRIVING? Where can we improve? The key to keeping Oregon’s Cannabis industry healthy and thriving are by having more CRAFT Cannabis producers like ourselves, more education for the consumer and more in-house genetics. Oregon could improve by allowing craft indoor growers to expand their canopy sizes; we have way too many ‘corporate Cannabis’ producers in Oregon that produce midgrade flower. Oregon needs to support small craft growers – craft farms that sell out every harvest should be able to expand and not be restricted by canopy limits.

WHAT CAN THE MARKET EXPECT TO SEE FROM THREE FLAVORS FARMS IN 2021? You can expect new in-house strains hitting the shelves in the spring.

We’re also going to be building a new facility – hoping to move in around June of 2021 depending on the construction schedule – and have our first harvest around September. This will allow us to have our flowers and pre-rolls all over the state of Oregon.

A Stoner Owner is a Cannabis business owner who has a relationship with the plant. We want to buy and smoke Cannabis from companies that care about their products, employees and the plant. You wouldn’t buy food from a restaurant where the cooks don’t eat in the kitchen, so why buy corporate weed grown by a company only concerned with profits? Stoner Owner approval means a company cares, and we love weed grown with care. Look for the Stoner Owner stamp when purchasing fine Cannabis, and let’s retake our culture and reshape a stigma by honoring those who grow, process and sell the best Cannabis possible.

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“I speak for the Wise Woman Tradition,” she said, “which nourishes the wholeness of the unique individual. My aim is to restore herbal medicine to its rightful place as people’s medicine.” Her physical school, the Wise Woman Center — just outside of Woodstock, NY — and her online school - wisewomanschool.com - offer a wide variety of courses designed to help you learn herbal medicine your way. Susun has graduated more than a thousand live-in and live-out shamanic herbal apprentices, including 15 this year. Many elect to be initiated as green witches.

It’`s not often you get to meet a witch. And Susun Weed is no ordinary witch, but a High Priestess of the Dianic Wicca tradition. She is also a teacher, mentor, author, speaker and most importantly, a Wise Woman.

DEC. 2020

It was a mild, drizzly day in early November and Susun was supposed to be in Katmandu, but due to the pandemic all of her travel plans had been cancelled.

“Thank you COVID, I am not off to Nepal!” she said. “Or damn you COVID! Whichever it is, hard to say.” This year all of her invitations to speak or teach have been through virtual conferences. The first time I saw her was at an online seminar series in October on psychedelics and sacred medicines. There she recalled her experiences in the ‘60s with psychedelics –– seminal meetings with people like Richard Alpert aka Ram Dass in Westchester, NY –– and spoke about plants and her relationship with them.

Patch Adams, a physician and social activist whose life story was portrayed by Robin Williams in the film that bears his name, wrote the introduction to Susun’s latest book, “Abundantly Well: Seven Medicines. The Complementary Integrated Medicine Revolution.”

“An important thing about Susun,” he wrote, “is that she invites you to a wholeworld utopia where your health may be a political act. If we are to find solutions to all the horrors in the world, they (the solutions) will sprout from Wise Women.”

And for many states, including New York, Connecticut and New Hampshire, the consumption of Cannabis can still be perceived as an act of political defiance.

“Cannabis has been demonized,” said Susun. “And it’s only in the past five to 10 years that it’s actually coming into its own as an herbal medicine. Especially for someone at my age, in my mid-70s, there is that overhang –– ‘they’re going to take your house away, they’re going to throw you in jail, they’re going to take your kids away from you’ –– if you have anything to do with Cannabis. And that is certainly disappearing. I am a legal card-carrying Cannabis user in New York State. It’s weird,” she laughed. “Nice weird. To go into a store and say, ‘I’ll have some of that and some of that.’”

Her last name Weed is not an intentional Cannabis branding effort, but does involve a long story of divorce, a mountain, a shared mailbox, and dropping a letter or two for a last name she could claim as her own and get her mail. “Since I am the champion of the weeds, it fit,” she said. “And how wonderful that ‘the weed’ –– Cannabis –– is resuming, along with herbal medicine, its rightful place.”

When we met, Susun suggested a walk into the woods surrounding her home near Woodstock. No, she did not lead me to a gingerbread house, but there was some storytelling and magic. Her first story began with a plant, but it wasn’t Cannabis. “According to Grandmother Twylah Nitsch, who adopted me into the Wolf Clan of the Seneca Nation, First Woman

was working in her garden one day and pulled up a plant by mistake,” said Susun. “The plant she pulled up was the Tree of Life, and it created a big hole that she fell through. At that time the Earth was all water. The beings of the water were concerned that First Woman was falling and had no where to land. Turtle, after all others failed, managed to dive deep enough to bring up earth for First Woman (and the rest of us) to settle on. “So we live on Turtle Island,” said Susun.

“This sedimentary rock, bluestone, that we stand on, was created by that first ocean. You are walking on ancient, ancient history.”

Mythology and reality continued to converge as we reached a small clearing and stopped. “Here we are at a crossroads,” said Susun, pointing to three different paths ahead of us.

“There’s a lot of magic that happens at a crossroads, both symbolically and literally in our lives. The goddess of the crossroads is Trivia, and Trivia is also another name for Hecate, the goddess of the coming of the dark.” Of the three paths, one was not an option.

“We cannot go straight ahead because that is the fairy path and this land has a place devoted to the fairies, who are the agents of chaos. And so anything that is at ease with chaos can go there, and that exempts human beings. We are not at ease with chaos.”

Of the remaining two paths, one was steep and slippery; the other, to the right, was the flat fairy bypass. She asked me to choose. I chose the fairy bypass, mainly out of concern for her safety. And I wanted her thoughts on Cannabis, the pandemic and what we should do for the future.

“I find that Cannabis wisely used can help us open our eyes and look at ourselves, and look at each other,” said Susun. “I think that’s the big Rx that we’re going to need. I often say Cannabis is a magnifier –– it’s not a changer. If you give Bob Dylan Cannabis he’s not going to become a bum.

And if you give a bum Cannabis he’s not going to write incredible music. So whoever you are, Cannabis can magnify that for you. If you don’t like you, well then, now you’re on your own shamanic journey, aren’t you! So how can you widen and strengthen your social connections while isolating? It’s quite the Koan, the Zen riddle.

Cannabis can be a wonderful ally, a green ally, in doing that.

It’s not a drug. It’s a plant.”

“I find that Cannabis wisely used can help us open our eyes and look at ourselves, and look at each other,” said Susun. “I think that’s the big Rx that we’re going to need.”

Susun’s website offers a free course, “Healthy Immune Systems: Corona Virus Help,” as well as a variety of other offerings. Susun’s YouTube channel “WiseWomanTradition” has over 40k subscribers and 300+ videos; and her latest book, “Abundantly Well: Seven Medicines.

The Complementary Integrated Medicine Revolution,” is available on Amazon.

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culture In 2013, when two rival gang members put their differences aside, they probably didn’t know that they’d be trading in blues and reds for a whole lot of green. We caught up with West Coast legends Mikey Vegaz and Terrance ‘Cool Nutz’ Scott of Trap Kitchen to talk about humble home beginnings, cultivating Cannabis, entering the entertainment realm and the secret sauce behind the brand’s big success.

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rap Kitchen began in Compton, Calif. when Malachi ‘Chef Spank’ Jenkins (a Crip), decided to pursue business with his friend Roberto ‘Chef News’ Smith (a Piru Blood).

Jenkins had attended Le Cordon Bleu in Las Vegas, but left at the age of 22 after a tragic personal loss. Upon his return to Compton, he took to social media with his friend and started whipping up recipes in Smith’s home kitchen.

The meat-piled pineapple bowls that brought them their first taste of fame are still being served up today, and remain a fan favorite. But Vegaz says that the shrimp garlic noodles and TK Rich Boy sandwiches need not be forgotten. At least that’s what the people of Portland have been gobbling up ever since Jenkins and Smith opened their Oregon food truck for business in 2018.

Vegaz is Jenkins’ older brother, and since the two had already been operating out of their grandma’s home on 11th and Ainsworth, a Portland expansion only seemed pertinent. The home hub had secured the situation with locals and the support of PDX legends – like hip-hop artist Cool Nutz – meant that they had a connected and capable team ready to tackle business outside of LA. Their hustle, undeniably delicious food and

explosion into the public view have drawn praise from the likes of Snoop Dogg, Kobe Bryant, Kendrick Lamar, Amine and many more famous patrons. But all the prosperity and progress hasn’t pushed aside their mission. The crew continues to cater to community needs – through outreach like free meals for the homeless – and emphasizes the opportunities of a life outside of violence.

There’s something infinitely inspiring about a hustle so hard that hate can’t keep up.

But these entrepreneurs are eons from maxing out their potential, so what’s the brand’s latest business move? Cannabis! Trap Private Reserve is a team effort with Oregon Genetics Cannabis to bring buds like Biscuits and Gravy, Pink Propane and Big Frank to dispensary shelves across the state. “We always considered ourselves connoisseurs of top-flight propane. [A lot of] customers that would come to the [Trap Kitchen] truck were either growers or somehow involved in the Cannabis culture,” explains Vegaz.

So what’s next for the ever-expanding Trap Kitchen empire?

Entertainment! Trap Kitchen Ent. has already released its first EP with Vegaz (“Rose City GOAT”) and Terrance ‘Cool Nutz’ Scott tells us that they’re setting their 2021 sights on a compilation piece produced by Jenkins.

There’s something infinitely inspiring about a hustle so hard that hate can’t keep up.

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Scott says that music is just the beginning and that the brand would like to expand into TV or film. “I think that the Trap Kitchen story is yet to be fully told … the story of how they came from an environment that typically would have them at odds and turned it into something that brought people together,” he says. “They created opportunities for people; it’s an inspiration to people that come from the same type of background. To say that, you know, that you can do something positive whether it’s cooking, music or being an entrepreneur.”

As for Vegaz, he says that their secret sauce is definitely their story. “I think for so long, gang culture across America never really saw different sides interacting with each other. When the rest of the country saw two gang members from Los Angeles – the mecca of gangs – coming together, I think it showed everyone that it’s not red versus blue. It’s okay to co-exist.”

STORY by AMANDA DAY @TERPODACTYL_MEDIA for OREGON LEAF | PHOTOS by ALEX WORKMAN @WORKDUBS

How the Portland food truck Trap Kitchen is helping unite their community and expanding into the world of Cannabis.

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SHOP REVIEW

ARCHIVE PORTLAND GM Chris Flores, Owner & CEO Mac Laws, and Budtender Annie Nguyen

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ARCHIVE PORTLAND 10645 SE HENRY ST B, PORTLAND (503) 719-4229 ARCHIVEDISPENSARY.COM @ARCHIVE.PORTLAND

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ENVIRONMENT Upon pulling into the parking lot, you are met with a captivating Archive Portland mural, letting you know that you are in the right place. There are quite a few parking spaces available, making this dispensary an easy stop without any headaches. Walking in, you are welcomed with a lovely waiting room offering a comfy seating area. Here you can find various glass display cases with offerings from glass artist Max Polin @mnpglass, as well as a few Quave Club bangers and Toro quartz nails. Walking down the hall into the product room displays an exceptional wall of flower, a plethora of their in-house clones and just about any Cannabis product you can think of! I personally love the modern yet industrial look this shop embodies, tying into the Southeast Portland scene. The U-shaped counter in the product room displays edibles, pre-rolls, FECO, smoking accessories and cartridges. They also utilize two fridges to keep their concentrates and extracts in, ensuring their products remain as fresh as possible until the point of purchase.

HISTORY & VALUES Opening the doors in 2015 as a medical shop, Owner Mac Laws set out on his mission to offer Oregon some of the highest quality cultivars and Cannabis products in the industry. Archive Portland helps separate themselves from other cultivators and dispensaries by consistently carrying a rainbow of top-shelf quality Cannabis and genetics. Their company thrives on longlasting relationships with not only vendors but other industry leaders. Their genetics support a large portion of our market here in Oregon, as well as many other states nationwide, including California and Maryland. People drive from all over to purchase products exclusively available at this destination store.

Big ups to their garden, @archive_oregon_, for cultivating and extracting that fire!

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PRODUCT SELECTION This is unquestionably a category where this shop thrives.

While asking about a few brands that you can always find at their dispensary, I received an overwhelming yet enthusiastic response: Resin Ranchers, Deep Creek Farms, Urban Canna, The Heights, Evans Creek Farms, Happy Cabbage, White Label Extracts, Dirty Arm Farms, Echo Electuary, 7 Points, Elbe’s, Wyld and Lunchbox Alchemy. And when it came to jaw-dropping cultivars from the aforementioned companies, Animals Mints

by Evans Creek Farms, Runtz by Resin Ranchers, Moonbow #112 by Archive, Donny Burger #8 by Eugreen Farms, and Ice Queen by Deep Creek Farms were just a few of the standouts.

Additionally, Archive Portland is home to all of their in-house clones, seeds, flower and extremely sought after hash rosin.

If you are interested in growing your own Cannabis, come on down and grab some of their prized genetics, including their latest offering: Gelato #25 x Dosidos! Looking for the latest innovations in torches and dabbing? Archive Portland offers a wide range of products such as upgraded blazer torches and futuristic electronic nails from Oregon-based company Scope and Stack @scopeandstack. Make sure to scoop some of their killer apparel as well, featuring collabs with renowned artist Trevy Metal @trevymetal.

BUDTENDERS & SPECIALS The knowledgeable and welcoming staff here make you feel right at home, as they happily and passionately answered any questions I had. Each employee contributes a different viewpoint and perspective, making this shop very well-rounded. 15% discounts can be found daily throughout the week, with Mondays featuring apparel, Tuesdays edibles, Wednesdays concentrates and extracts, Thursdays tinctures and topicals, and Saturdays concentrates, extracts, pre-rolls and edibles. They switch it up for Fridays and Sundays, where a 20% discount is offered on a rotating product.

Another excellent option Archive features daily is their rotating ounce of the day – where you have the choice of two strains for a discounted price. Veterans, seniors and industry members save 10% daily as well!

WALKING DOWN THE HALL INTO THE PRODUCT ROOM DISPLAYS AN EXCEPTIONAL WALL OF FLOWER, A PLETHORA OF THEIR IN-HOUSE CLONES, AND JUST ABOUT ANY CANNABIS PRODUCT YOU CAN THINK OF! A RC H IV E PO RT L AN D

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Wilson!Zero 90-149u HashRosin

Moonbow#112

TALK ABOUT a palatable terpene profile! This cross of Banana OG/Papaya #3 x Tropicanna Cookie F1

by Oni Seed Co. is absolutely something special.

While cracking open an elegant matte black jar, I experienced a very creamy, sweet and delightful smell, reminiscent of banana Runts candy. A handful of dabs stained my mouth with a flavor similar to a tropical Jamba Juice smoothie, as the papaya lineage really shined through. The team at Archive did an incredible job of capturing all the unique characteristics that Wilson! Zero has to offer. 75% THC, 0.232% CBD, $60/g +tax | Hash Processed by @dammit__bobby_ | Genetics by @oni_seed_co.

MOVE OVER and make room for arguably one of the best strains to emerge in 2020. We would love to give a shoutout to Archive Seed Bank for creating this exceptional cultivar! Moonbow #112 is a cross of Zkittlez and one of Archive’s staple strains, Dosidos. This particular phenotype leans on the Dosidos side without a doubt, as the smoke is creamy, gassy and smooth, all the while providing some zesty and grapefruit-like terpenes from the Zkittlez lineage. This cultivar can really go either way effect-wise, as I highly enjoyed starting my day with it, as well as ending my night with a few bowls. Be sure to try the Moonbow #25, #75 and #99 to experience the vastly different terpene profiles! 23.9% THC, $13/g | @archive_oregon_

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BEND

This recreational wonderland rests closely on the side of a key traffic artery in the region, US-20 – a spot many pass by coming in and out of the north side of town. When arriving, keep an eye out for a pot leaf sign in the distance, then find a convenient parking spot right by the entrance and step inside a lobby full of artist-inspired Cannabend clothing, heady glass and all the blunts and papers (this is one of the only places in Bend that sells Elements). Head upstairs into a wide open layout with a massive wraparound glass countertop, where the open floor plan allows for guests and employees to comfortably distance without bottlenecking the flow of traffic. Complete with a UV air filter, germ resistant countertops and translucent plexiglass service barriers, customers are met with a clinical level of cleanliness and germ safety – a testament to the levels of professionalism and customer care Cannabend is known for.

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Lyle and Lizette Coppinger met two decades ago and began their partnership, ultimately leading to a beautiful family with three children. In 2014 they teamed up with their best friend Ron Koch to open Cannabend as an independent, friend and family owned business – which they triumphantly accomplished together as a team. Sadly and unthinkably in 2018, Ron passed away from heart failure while shoveling snow. His memory lives on in the essence of their business and on a prolific portrait painting commemorating this lost legend who helped to make this family’s dream a reality. In the wake of the traumatic loss, Ron’s wife Cindy has stepped up to assume the responsibilities of ownership left behind by her husband and has since forged an even stronger bond of friendship with Lizette and Lyle.

The business lives on and continues to thrive in Ron’s light.

Cannabend’s humble beginnings were forged by managing healthy long term relationships with farms, being presently involved with the community, and attention to all the most important details. Sticking to a proven formula has allowed them to plot and plan an evolutionary expansion in the near future, which we are excited to keep an eye on and hope to be reporting on soon.

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PRODUCT SELECTION “Every Shelf is Top Shelf” is not just a marketing slogan – it is a key component to their business formula. Their system rotates the freshest selections of top shelf choices from top to bottom, so each begins its shelf life on top and works its way down as newer selections are stocked. To keep things extra fresh, Cannabend sources in small quantities – rarely ever more than a pound at a time and also vacuum seals pre-rolls in small bundles. Flower is currently available from companies such as Tao Gardens, Gnome Grown, 7 Points, Lucky Lion, Evan’s Creek and Gadsden Gardens. You can also find many of the most sought-after extracts here as well, including Bo’s Nose Knows, Happy Cabbage, Echo Electuary and local favorites, Highland Provisions.

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BUDTENDERS & SPECIALS In an industry where turnover is common, Cannabend has remained home to many of their team for four or more years – including August’s fabulous Budtender of the Month, Jayda Smith. Inquire with Jayda or any of their ultra-experienced staff and you’ll be led in the right direction. Remember to ask what the daily deal is for discounts on flower, cartridges, pre-rolls, concentrates or CBD products, depending on what day it is.

Your wallet will thank you! OLCC cardholders and veterans also qualify for additional discounts.

CANNABEND 3312 N HWY 97, BEND, OR CANNABEND.COM | @CANNABENDOFFICIAL (541) 617-0420

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WITH AN “EVERY SHELF IS TOP SHELF” APPROACH, our Culture Issue brings us to a place held dear to the heart of Central Oregon’s Cannabis community – one that acts as the backbone for industry locals and connoisseurs alike. The ones who stay smoking the best buds available. If you hang around Bend long enough you’re sure to come to know of Cannabend, as the dispensary proudly touting our city (the second fastest growing in America) is a name that rings bells in the subconscious.

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7 POI N TS

strawberries and cream STRAWBERRY crossed with Cookies and Cream F2 bred by Exotic Genetix has brought us a strain that smells identical to its name and tastes even better. Tasting bitter sweet and juicy balanced with a wholesome creamy undertone. Strawberries and cream is a sweet uplifting strain that can elevate the vibe of any situation at any time of day with none of the anxiety that can come from certain other sativa leaning strains. @7pointsoregon

TAO G A R D E N S

DEADHEAD OG A LEGENDARY cross of Chemdawg ‘91 and SFV OG Kush, grown and cured to perfection by Tao Gardens, was a delightful smoke – cerebral and buzzy with no loss of energy. Notes of earth, pine and gas tasted just how they smelled. No burning throat and no coughs. Deadhead OG is a great strain for those who like to be productive and focused, while high as a bird. @taogardens

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Lumpy spacepr

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REVIEW by ALEX WORKMAN @WORKDUBS | PHOTO by DANIEL BERMAN @BERMANPHOTOS

If you’re getting stir crazy and looking for a nostalgic adventure to get you through the lockdown, Lumpy Space Princess brings that carefree yet spicy take on a familiar experience.

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SHARP CHEESE SLICES THROUGH CITRUSY BERRY, LEAVING CONSUMERS WITH THE MOUTHWATERING TASTE OF A CHARCUTERIE BOARD ON A COOL SUMMER AFTERNOON.

CULTIVATED by ROSEBUD GROWERS | GENETICS b y SOLFIRE GARDENS

Rosebud Growers hunted and selected this intoxicating combination of sweet berries and funky cheese from Solfire Gardens – a company founded in 2015 by a University of Washington biology student.

Solfire Gardens mixes their Black Banana Cookies, a popular cross of Blackberry Kush and Banana Fire Cookies, to Annunaki Genetics’ Pink Lemonade, a delectable blend of Lemon Cheesecake and Huckleberry Hound.

Based in Portland, Rosebud Growers is comprised of a close-knit team that refers to themselves only as the Rosebud Bandits, preferring to keep their personal lives low-key in favor of the brand’s unified identity. The company seeks only the best genetics, keeping a close eye on exotic and exclusive lineages from respected breeders in the industry.

Their indoor facilities use rock wool cubes as a controlled medium, making themselves able to maximize the flow of nutrients to the plants, ensuring the best results – with the consistency and yield to match. Keeping this ever-evolving theme in mind, Rosebud provides patients with high quality products like LSP while striving to better themselves with each day that passes.

Rosebud cultivated and cured this flower to perfection with a classic chunky structure that easily breaks apart without being too dry or sticky. Though the strain is a natural light green, a purple and silver sheen immediately catches the eye with its colorful hues and beautiful frost, even throwing out pink pistils when it’s still growing. The LSP’s dense, trichome-rich composition pays homage to its Bubba Kush and Banana lineage, with a nose reminding the consumer of the Pink Lemonade’s spicy candy and sweet berry profile. Like freshly ground pepper atop a gooey lemon berry cheesecake, this unique terpene profile features mainly myrcene, limonene and farnesene, giving notes of hops, spice, berries and funk – all packed with perfection into one exclusive strain.

The LSP’s nose initially translates into the taste, but stronger notes of deep earthy cheese end up overpowering the sweet flavors on the final exhale. Sharp cheese slices through citrusy berry, leaving consumers with the mouthwatering taste of a charcuterie board on a cool summer afternoon. That familiar skunky funk is something rarely found in crosses these days, and this new twist on an old school profile

by Rosebud Growers and Solfire Gardens will please the old heads while still captivating the new explorers.

Right in line with its quality looks and taste, the high provided by this cross is something adventurous in and of itself. There’s something to be said for a skunky-sweet profile and the physical effects are just as masterful.

A classic head high that partners with body relaxation makes this strain perfect for alleviating anxiety or melting away daily tension.

But take note: This adventurous princess may swoop you off your feet a little faster than you’d expect with her sweet charm but spicy personality.

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the CULTURE issue

STORY by TOM BOWERS @PROPAGATECONSULTANTS + MIKE RICKER @RICKERDJ

CANNABIS CULTURE. Together, those two words encapsulate an encouraging phenomenon – the idea that a plant can inform identity, binding individuals to one another. But that’s what Cannabis does. It inspires the mind and spirit of those who invite its synergistic qualities into their bodies, and by doing so, sows the seeds of lifestyle. Within the evolution of modern human history, Cannabis influence has woven into the fabric of our shared existence in a myriad of ways: The saxophonist improvising rich, sultry notes in sweaty underground jazz clubs. Rasta mystics channeling a higher level of spirituality. The Beat poet hammering out the essence of America on the keys of an Underwood typewriter.

Tie-dyed miracle seekers smiling brightly outside of a show with a finger held high.

Good parents slyly sipping on a vape pen.

Entrepreneurs evaluating a pitch to fund their startup over a pre-roll.

Grandma slathering medicated lotion on arthritic joints, savoring an infused chocolate.

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Cannabis is the touchstone, the common thread that stitches the tapestry together. It’s the flag.

So, then, how do you define Cannabis culture?

Perhaps it’s not typical of any one type of person or distinct aesthetic. Its mystery is not delineated by socioeconomic status, skin color or geographical region. We all know what it is not.

It’s what it is that stretches the barriers of our imaginations and escapes the dogma of definition.

Cannabis culture is defined by the tribe who prescribe and imbibe. It’s a community of seekers reaching for an unconventional connection that swirls in the ether outside the periphery of conformity. They are not easily fooled, are wise to propaganda and weary of carpetbagging capitalists with steely smiles.

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We are on the precipice of an overwhelming shift and the momentum is palpable. Cannabis is essential and so are the people who apply it to their lives and improve their precious time on this planet.

We are at the epicenter of a movement, blasting through the atmosphere like a rocket to the sun, staring down the inevitable collision of rainbow supernova proportions into a massive collective spiritual awakening. All around this plant.

It’s a community of seekers reaching for an unconventional connection that swirls in the ether outside the periphery of conformity.

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We all inherently understand where we are and what we are, but Cannabis allows us to better understand and express who we are. It helps all of us seekers on our quest for deeper meaning and stronger connection.

In this issue, the Leaf staff have humbly extracted the indispensable intricacies of Cannabis culture into a sticky concentrate for your consumption. Please enjoy.

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HUNTER S. THOMPSON “I have always loved marijuana. It has been a source of joy and comfort to me for many years. And I still think of it as a basic staple of life, along with beer and ice and grapefruits – and millions of Americans agree with me.”

BROWNIE MARY “I’m not a criminal.

I did nothing wrong. I was helping my kids. We desperately need medical marijuana in this country.”

B-REAL “Like Louis Armstrong played the trumpet, I’ll hit that bong and break you off somethin’ soon.”

DAVE CHAPPELLE “I don’t do drugs, though.

Just weed.”

ZACK GALIFIANAKIS “I don’t know what my assistant would do besides get me pot.”

JOE ROGAN “If you lock someone up for smoking a plant that makes them happy, you’re the fucking criminal.”

DOUG BENSON “A message to parents who think legalizing weed will make their kids want to try it: They will anyway.”

WHOOPI GOLDBERG “The vape pen has changed my life. No, I’m not exaggerating.

In fact, her name is Sippy.

Yes, she’s a she. And yes, I named her Sippy because I take tiny, little sips – sassy sips, even – from her. And with each sip comes relief – from pressure, pain, stress, discomfort.”

SNOOP DOGG “Can we get a muthafuckin’ moment of silence for this small chronic break?”

BILL MURRAY “I find it quite ironic that the most dangerous thing about weed is getting caught with it.”

CARLOS SANTANA “Legalize marijuana and take all that money and invest it in teachers and in education. You will see a transformation in America.”

MARTHA STEWART “Of course I know how to roll a joint.”

SARAH SILVERMAN “I’d have to be honest: I have contempt for pretty much every drug other than pot.

I find drunk people gross. Most people with more than one drink in them aren’t giggly, goofy and happy the way people are with a puff of pot smoke in them.

At a party, I have so much fun stoned, flitting about -– but once I sniff that first wave of drunkenness on someone, I’m out of there.”

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53 SETH ROGEN “Yes, I have a medical marijuana prescription, personally. I went in, and they said, ‘What do you need it for?’ And I said, ‘I have a very specific ailment – it’s called, I ain’t got no weed on me right now.’”

IN THEIR OWN WORDS

CARL SAGAN “The illegality of Cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world.”

MORGAN FREEMAN “I have fibromyalgia pain ... and the only thing that offers any relief is marijuana.”

JACK KEROUAC “I smoked more grass than anyone you ever knew in your life.”

LOUIS ARMSTRONG “We always looked at pot as a sort of medicine, a cheap drunk and with much better thoughts than one that’s full of liquor.”

LIL WAYNE “I love weed so much I tried to marry Juana.”

BOB MARLEY “I feel so high, I even touch the sky / Above the falling rain ... I got to have kaya now.”

JIMI HENDRIX “Please pass me the peace weed, and take some heed.

Throw away all that mixed up speed.”

TOMMY CHONG “You can smoke marijuana, you can eat it, you can wear it, it’s a perfect plant!”

WILLIE NELSON “The biggest killer on the planet is stress, and I still think the best medicine is and always has been Cannabis.”

SHAGGY (SCOOBY DOO) “Like wow, my favorite!

A double triple decker sardine and marshmallow fudge sandwich.”

WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS “Unquestionably, this drug is very useful to the artist, activating trains of association that would otherwise be inaccessible, and I owe many of the scenes in Naked Lunch directly to the use of Cannabis.”

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MUSIC

From Then ‘Til Now: Music and Marijuana

As long as music has existed, so has the relationship between its creators and their preference of muse-inspiring consumption.

We can start way back with Louis Armstrong – one of Jazz’s most influential artists, Armstrong was a household name for his genius on the trumpet spanning five decades from the 1920s to 1960s. He also used those huge lungs to inhale Cannabis between blowing out notes.

Arrested outside the Los Angeles Cotton Club in 1930 for smoking a joint – reportedly laughing the night in jail away – Armstrong had no clue “what a wonderful world” was yet to come for Cannabis.

As Armstrong’s last notes trilled into the ether, Jamaica was about to introduce the world to another Cannabis legend - Bob Marley. A true icon in the culture of Cannabis, Marley smoked partly due to his deep religious Rastafarian beliefs. ‘Ganja’ is a Rastafarian word taken from the Sanskrit language for marijuana, and on the song “Ganja Gun,” the lyrics lay out his deep love and respect for the medicine. Marley’s likeness continues to grace grinders, bongs, pipes and the Marley Natural brand, with his timeless music ringing throughout every storefront.

Another artist you’re likely to hear banging from your dispensary’s speakers is the mighty Black Sabbath. Formed in 1968, Black Sabbath are pioneers of metal and stoner rock. Infamous for both their sound and reputation, Sabbath cemented fear in the hearts of parents around the world when they released their third studio album “Master of Reality” with the ode to Cannabis “Sweet Leaf,” starting with a rhythmic loop of Ozzy and guitarist Tony Iommi coughing from a joint, continued by a Cannabis love letter in musical form.

Then there’s Willie Nelson, a man who truly adores our beloved plant and has written numerous classics on the topic. Nelson’s blend of authentic country sound and an outlaw’s attitude earned him worldwide fame.

He smuggled his sound across the borders of genre, and continues to light up a style of music that usually doesn’t see much cultural crossover. Willie cashed the cigarettes and booze in 1978, when four fights with pneumonia - and a self-awareness of not being a kind drunk - turned Cannabis into his one true love. These days, his Willie’s Reserve brand of Cannabis is available across the country.

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We can see that Cannabis has shifted from underground whispers and innuendo to mainstream acceptability in the arts.

Next we pass the pipe to Snoop Dogg – perhaps the only man to claim to have smoked 81 blunts in a day and be believed. An artist, advocate and entrepreneur, Snoop helped pave the way for other celebrities to come forth with their own Cannabis use.

From his albums, to his Snoop Dogg Pounds glass line, to the Cannabis company Leafs by Snoop,this titan of toking shows no signs of slowing down.

Much thanks to Snoop, we find the evolution of open lyricism about Cannabis in the music of Wiz Khalifa. Hailing from North Dakota, Wiz has been burning through charts and Cannabis. Releasing records with infused titles like “Kush and Orange Juice” and “Rolling Papers,” Wiz squashes the stigma of lighting up. Another entrepreneur in both industries, Wiz has launched Khalifa Kush and his own rolling paper collab with RAW. Over the years, Cannabis representation in the arts has shifted from underground whispers and

innuendo to mainstream acceptability. A modern-day example of this crossover is Margo Price. Born in Illinois and based in Nashville, Price is currently one of country’s biggest rising stars. Grammy nominated in 2019, Margo came out as a Cannabis user stating that “some musicians want to sell clothes on the Home Shopping Network, but I want to sell weed.” Price would do just that with her All American Made line supported by Willie’s Reserve. Price’s alignment with Nelson not only brought extra attention to her music, but also bolstered her counterculture image as a pioneer in the Cannabis field.

With each generation of artists, the public’s embrace of Cannabis progresses like the notes in a scale. Today, we have the legends of yesterday collaborating on music and Cannabusiness with the next class of hitmakers.

There’s no telling what the green muse will inspire in the generations to come.

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Mark Whalen’s “Ok Okay” vinyls

High Art

Drew Degen | Q Q& &A Mile High Gallery

From vinyl toys to canvas paintings, high-end glass art to recycled tables crafted out of skateboards, Mile High Gallery has it all. We were lucky enough to pick owner Drew Degen’s brain a bit for our December Culture Issue, gaining insight into the underground art scene world and how Cannabis has influenced these rebellious pioneers. With art curators like himself, we hope that both street art and Cannabis will become more widely appreciated and accepted. Visit Mile High Gallery’s Instagram page, where Drew steadily adds art on the daily.

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WHAT PARALLELS DO YOU SEE IN CANNABIS AND THE UNDERGROUND STREET ART CULTURE? Both Cannabis

and street art are still illegal in most places worldwide, but are still a positive part of the daily lives of millions of people. Growing up, both of these subjects were frowned upon, but the overall public opinion on both of these subjects over the past two decades has changed dramatically in a positive direction. Colorado played a big part in doing this because it was one of the first states to legalize recreational back in 2012 – and we also have one of the largest underground art scenes currently. Only two years before legalization, the first Crush Walls event occurred.

Crush Walls is a counterculture graffiti-based event which takes place annually in Denver.

Crush Walls focuses on creative expression and has hosted iconic artists like Shepard Fairey, Cryptik, Hoxxoh, Elmac and many more.

HOW DO YOU FIND THAT CANNABIS INFLUENCES ARTISTS TO PUSH THEIR BOUNDARIES AND THINK OUTSIDE OF THE BOX? Cannabis

has incentivized creativity in humans and artists for thousands of years. From cave art to the emergence of graffiti as a counterculture art form in the 1960s, it’s common to find Cannabis as a collaborating partner. It’s scientifically proven that Cannabis can make you more creative – it increases cerebral blood flow to the brain’s frontal lobe – which is directly linked to creativity.

Cannabis companies using art directly on their products and packaging to look more attractive and to pertain to the common Cannabis user, who most likely appreciates art too. This is a direct correlation between artists and the Cannabis community. I’ve been noticing that more muralists are getting hired to paint public spaces, including the walls on the exterior and interior of Cannabis dispensaries and headshops.

HOW ARE ARTISTS INFLUENCING THE CANNABIS INDUSTRY? Cannabis and art go hand

in hand. Some of the most notable artists in the world have shaped their careers off using Cannabis, whether it’s musical artists from Willie Nelson and Bob Marley portraying their lyrics about how Cannabis helps them, to painters like Alex Grey directly depicting the plant. Not only does Cannabis influence artists, but artists also influence the Cannabis community greatly. I often see

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TORO GLASS For glass aficionados, Toro has been a name that has been familiar for years, and that is certainly not changing anytime soon. Toro Glass was one of the first brands to truly make a name for themselves, becoming an internationally renowned company and innovating the way we all consume Cannabis. From Y2K on, collectors have been flocking to their local headshops for their shot at JP Toro’s bongs and dab rigs – and Toro’s latest creation, the Terp Slurper, has become one of the most sought after glass-related items this year. Here we find what gets JP’s gears turning and what it takes to keep a machine like Toro Glass finely tuned and running clean.

Through many different trials and errors, and R&D with a couple o f m y c l o s e b o y s , t h e Te r p S l u r p e r w a s c re at e d . I t l i t e ra l l y t o o k almost three years for people to catch on, but today there is a super craze for the Slurpers and their function.

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WENDY, CAN YOU PLEASE GIVE US AN IDEA AS TO WHAT IT TAKES TO KEEP A COMPANY LIKE TORO HIGHLY FUNCTIONING FOR THE PAST 15+ YEARS?

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It wasn’t until 2015 that I started to fuck with quartz, but I immediately became obsessed.

A lot of hard work, customer service, great employees and adaptability!

We are a family-run business of 12 employees. Everyone who works here we hired through word of mouth and through a friend of a friend. There are a couple of married couples, along with some of their close relatives and family friends. We are so blessed to have the crew we have. Our families and children all grew up with each other, and we often even celebrate holidays together. Our bonds and respect for one another run deep. Luckily too, JP designed Toro as a ‘classic.’ As the industry ebbs and flows from flowers to hash, from titanium to domes to quartz, we are adaptable and luckily JP is always at the forefront.

JP, WHAT INSPIRES YOU TO CREATE? For function, the

desire to make the ultimate hitting piece. For art,

are industry standards and the building block behind so many pieces. Back at the beginning of this industry, there were tubes and hand and water pipes. When I first made ‘micro’ and ‘macro’ pieces, people were not sure what to think of these smaller styles of glass ‘rigs’ – and then when titanium was introduced onto them with glass domes in late 2006-2007, it was a serious issue and most stores thought I was nuts! They were scared to sell any sort of dabbing accessories – but time went on, people adapted to the change, and it all became industry standard. Mad props to Quave for bringing the quartz banger to the scene and increasing the dabbing experience by allowing for larger surface areas and cleaner dabbing all around.

It wasn’t until 2015 that I started to fuck with quartz, but I immediately became obsessed. In 2017, I remembered Bubble Man did some sort of burping terps for flavor, which got me thinking about how I could create a piece of quartz that caused terps to percolate. I closed my eyes and imagined percolation holes, and the hash bubbling and popping and creating flavor. It reminded me of slurping fine wine.

Through many different trials and errors, and R&D with a couple of my close boys, the Terp Slurper was created. It literally took almost three years for people to catch on, but today there is a super craze for the Slurpers and their function.

Other innovations, such as the TempTech in 2018, which allowed people to dial in their dabbing temperatures, also helped the movement by not making it seem so intimidating to dial the Slurper’s temperature in.

CAN YOU GIVE US SOME INSIGHT ON YOUR RIGOROUS PROCESS OF MILLIE WORK? My new favorite art form at the to keep trying to make a masterpiece that makes me happy. I am always trying to outdo myself. Definitely, I am my own worst critic and never satisfied, which keeps me going on and staying behind the torch every day – even after blowing glass for 22 years.

WHERE DO YOUR INNOVATIVE IDEAS COME FROM WHEN DESIGNING NEW PRODUCTS? Living life … it’s random.

I can be driving down the road and see a tractortrailer with a certain color pattern on the side of the truck, which I may then incorporate into my next piece. I spent a lot of my younger years in downtown Philadelphia, where a crew of us designed and worked on comic books. I found that it allowed me to stretch my imagination because it is not the real world and anything is possible/ doable. This world/realm taught me that there are no boundaries, even when it comes to glass.

At first, when I started to create, people wondered what I was doing. Now today, a lot of the designs

moment is Millie work. I did a bunch years ago, but then got so busy with Toro and life, that I had to put some of my own passions on the backburner.

But pulling from my Philly years and animation experience, I have been creating a lot of original images and characters and incorporating them into my art in multiforms, from glass millefiore to fashion, to producing music.

There is a story behind it all, but as with everything I have done thus far, it may take a minute for it all to make sense and come together.

Hopefully, in this lifetime I am able to accomplish it, but ultimately, I am having a blast doing me for a change! It is hard to shake the ‘production’ stigma of Toro, but exciting to get to introduce myself in a different light that most people have not seen yet. Most importantly, experimenting, creating and designing for this newer body of work is what keeps me sane during these crazy times!

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SPORTS Athletes are the new rock stars. Players from the four major American sports (well, three of them anyway) increasingly become major celebrities with massive social media followings, recognizable brands and, whether you realize it or not, a great deal of cultural influence.

Cannabis has long played a role in sports.

Pitcher “Spaceman” Bill Lee was a loud and proud pothead in the ‘70s and old school NBA centers Robert Parish and Bill Walton were certainly known to partake. But as it’s become increasingly socially acceptable to consume, athletes have played a major role in bringing marijuana into the mainstream.

Likewise, the culture around Cannabis in professional sports is finally beginning to change as pot policies are relaxed. Of course, this shift coincides with changes in the legal landscape.

There are 123 teams across the four major American sports (football, basketball, baseball and hockey) and 101 of them play in a state that has legalized recreational and/or medical marijuana (that’s over 80 percent).

Still, for a long time, the NFL was content to keep its pot policy in the dark ages, subjecting players to random tests and punishing them with suspensions.

Ricky Williams is probably the best-known example of an athlete embracing Cannabis –– and paying the price. The former running back used marijuana to cope with social anxiety disorder and to recover from workouts. But after failing a drug test, Williams found it difficult to navigate the NFL’s draconian pot policy. Testing became more frequent, so frequent that Williams says he was drug tested at least 500 times during his football career. He was also suspended for an entire season. Williams opted to retire rather than be governed by the league’s pot rules.

He got away from the NFL, traveled to India, studied Ayurveda and grew as a person before returning to football.

Williams ultimately had to toe the line in the NFL, but he never let the league’s ridiculous take on Cannabis change him. In fact, it’s pretty clear he changed the culture of the NFL, as players view marijuana in a different light thanks to Ricky.

Now, it’s commonplace for players to use Cannabis to recover from the wear and tear of the sport. Estimates indicate that anywhere between 50 and 89 percent of the league partakes.

In fact, many players advocate for using marijuana in place of harmful opioids when dealing with

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pain. Ricky definitely has something Previously, players were randomly tested As it’s become to do with that. He was a pioneer. four times over the season and positive increasingly socially pot tests were met with escalating punishUnfortunately, as the saying goes, pioneers usually end up with arrows in ments, including suspensions. Under the acceptable to their backs. new rules, players are screened for PEDs consume, athletes After years of forcing pot prohibibut not recreational drugs. tion on players, the NFL has at last Additionally, the NHL and more recently have played a major changed course: The new collective MLB don’t ban Cannabis and treat its use role in bringing bargaining agreement does away with as a health issue. MLB also did away with marijuana into the suspensions for pot use, limits the testsuspensions for minor leaguers who test ing window to the first two weeks of positive. mainstream. training camp and significantly raises Competitors in extreme sports and the threshold for a positive test. e-sports have largely embraced Cannabis.

Pot is also prevalent in the NBA. Despite estiYet as e-sports have grown to rival some traditional mates that as much as 85 percent of the league sports in viewership and ad dollars, drug testing is consumes Cannabis, the Association had banned becoming more commonplace. Still, Cannabis and pot since 1983. Change finally came this summer gaming are undeniably linked and testing in these when the NBA and the players union agreed on a leagues is certainly on the liberal side. But if you new drug policy prior to resuming play in Orlando prefer to watch stoned gaming, remember, some following the coronavirus outbreak. e-sports leagues make marijuana mandatory.

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cuisine CUISINE High Hospitality is the Culture We Deserve By far, the most common way to introduce an American to a new culture is through food.

Sharing food forms an instant connection, a long-standing way to bridge the divide between strangers. Coming together around a table to enjoy a meal initiates people into the etiquette, rituals and customs of different cultures, forming the basis of much human socialization in societies around the globe.

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Whether you’re eating THC or smoking it alongside meals, it’s important to know that for most of human history, Cannabis was food.

There were no arbitrary laws separating it from any other useful plant, and its effects were wellknown among ancient cultures.

Simmered with milk and spices, Cannabis infuses bhang lassi, an Indian beverage that dates back to 2000 B.C.E. Mixed with melted butter, sugar, spices, ground nuts and dates, Cannabis imbues mahjoun with potent psychedelic effects, and this recipe for the first-ever edible originated in the Middle East in the 11th century.

These days, you might find people hot-boxing their car in restaurant parking lots, firing up their appetites before they eat.

According to research conducted by Giovanni Marsicano of the University of Bordeaux, it’s been scientifically proven that “THC – the primary psychoactive ingredient in marijuana – fits into special receptors in the brain’s olfactory bulb, allowing users to smell and taste food far more acutely while high.”

Cannabis is one of the few plants on Earth proven to enhance appetite, which has medical applications for patients suffering from AIDS wasting syndrome, anorexia, or the side effects of chemotherapy. For the rest of us, weed elevates even a humble meal into a taste sensation.

Eating while high can help you notice more nuance in the taste and textures, conferring a newfound appreciation for even the simplest things, like sourdough toast slathered with butter.

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Chefs have long had an affinity for weed, as discussed by Anthony Bourdain in the 2010 New York Times article “Marijuana Fuels a New Kitchen Culture,” with the memorable quote “Everybody smokes dope after work … People

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uating various wines, “cannaphiles” rave about you would never imagine.” bud structure, trichome coverage, terpene profiles Outspoken Cannabis aficionados like Eddie and cannabinoid percentages, devising systems for Huang bridged the gap, bringing an appreciation pairing specific Cannabis cultivars with food and for how being high led to creative ideas for new wine. dishes at his acclaimed NYC bun shop Baohaus.

Someday, in a post-COVID world when the hosWhen I interviewed Huang for High Times in 2013, pitality industry revives, we’ll see the full flowering he said, “I do discover a lot of flavor combinations of the Cannabis culinary movement: a full-service, when I’m high that I normally wouldn’t.” infused fine dining experience.

Nothing epitomized this paradigm shift more Previously only available through than the VICE series “Bong Appétit,” underground supper clubs, the full inwhich transformed Cannabis cookery Cannabis is one of the tegration of Cannabis into a regulated methods from a mindset of scarcity few plants on Earth dining experience will be an evolving to abundance, revolutionizing how process, as evidenced by the OG CanCannabis is perceived as an ingrediproven to enhance nabis Cafe project in LA. ent. Introducing chefs to the plant and appetite, which has A fully-realized Cannabis restauteaching them how to integrate it into signature dishes, “Bong Appétit,” let the medical applications rant scene is the ultimate goal that all chefs continue to work world know that those inspired stoners for patients suffering weed-loving towards – where you can indulge in a were going way beyond brownies. from AIDS wasting joint on an outdoor patio before being Today, as the Cannabis culinary movement evolves, we see a level of syndrome, anorexia, seated, or pair vapes with each course before finishing off the meal with a connoisseurship comparable to wine. or the side effects of Cannabis-infused dessert. It’s a future Just as oenophiles have developed a worth looking forward to. lexicon of their own devoted to evalchemotherapy.

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ROCK AND ROLL IS DEAD. You can blame American Idol for that, but let’s not get into it.

Let’s do get into, however, why it doesn’t matter to Cannabis people whether you’re playing a stage or staging a play — if you are a stoner, you’re cool. And the fact that someone notorious draws eyes for their talent, or lack of, is neat, but kind of ends there. Because what you do for work does not validate you as a viable influencer in the Cannabis community.

There is no validation required to be a part of it.

You either get weed, or you don’t.

Since the Green Rush that began around five years ago, many companies have learned the chilly truth that having celebrity status in Cannabis can get you recognition, but it does not guarantee credibility. And in any known movement that values credence over crap, credibility is paramount.

Cannabis lovers have learned the inherent differences between deception and authenticity because they very simply can tell good from bad. A con from a sucker. Fire from mids.

People don’t like to be suckered and Cannabis people have been suckered for a hundred years. Whether it’s the fear mongering propaganda of Henry Anslinger, the failed war

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on drugs begun with the Nixon administration, or simply buying a bag of black-market brick weed, everyone has gotten burned at least once. And just because a new celebrity brand has insert retired professional athlete’s name here repping it, that don’t mean it ain’t bullshit junk CBD powder irrigated by some of the world’s gnarliest tertiary treated sewer water in China.

We do not give a shit who is promoting it, just make sure it works. Because the list goes on with the Willie Nelsons, Tommy Chongs, Jay Zs, Martha Stewarts, Seth Rogens, Mike Tysons, Jimmy Buffetts, etc. who have slutted themselves for a ticket on the passing bandwagon without first getting high on their own supply.

And just because people know your name does not make you any more of an authority on quality Cannabis than Aaron Rodgers on car insurance, or Post Malone on prescription glasses.

Anyway, Rock and Roll is dead (name one significant band in the last 20 years) because no one cares who is playing the guitar, they just want to hear the music.

Mercury is stuck in retrograde, and Kim Kardashian is off the air. And now she’s stuck in retrograde, too.

That’s show biz, Honey.

Here’s the deal. The celebrity is the flower. Get used to it. It is not the trendy artist with the most fuck you money and teardrop face tattoos. The celebrity is Blue Dream, Wedding Cake and Green Crack. Because people and their influence are only as important as you make them to be, while the plant will always endure. Its nature is pure and its identity true.

Cannabis prospers. No earthquake, famine, pandemic, or government will ever stop a weed from growing. It will journey through all periods, and for as long as people inhabit the earth, it will make itself available. It is the food of the gods, the essence to our senses.

So, here at the end of the most reality checking year of our lives, celebrity fatigue is real. But it is possible that our stargazing tendencies could again get the better of us.

Because if Kanye manages to pull off a Hail Mary in 2024, Kim Kardashian will indeed be your first lady. You scoff, but stranger things have happened.

After all, there is still that swearing in bit in January that has yet to take place.

Because people and their influence are only as important as you make them to be, while the plant will always endure.

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1. In the bowl of a mixer beat the butters and sugar until creamy.

Slowly add the flour and salt and mix until just combined. Roll into a log about seven inches in length and chill for at least one hour.

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2. Heat oven to 340.

1 ½ cups all-purpose flour

3. Place the sprinkles on a plate.

Roll the log in the sprinkles and cut into ½ inch slices. Bake for 12 minutes. Cool on a wire rack.

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Spiced Pecans Makes 4 cups

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4 tablespoons dark brown sugar

with parchment paper.

1 tablespoon smoked paprika

2. In a medium bowl, combine the sugar and spices and the infused oil.

In another bowl, combine the pecans with the egg white, which helps the

2 teaspoons ground cumin 1 teaspoon salt ½ teaspoon cayenne ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg 2 tablespoons canna-butter or oil

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3. Combine all the ingredients and spread on the sheet pan.

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1 cup dark chocolate chips 2 tablespoons infused oil or butter

2. Place the chips and infusion 16 marshmallows in a small bowl, and microwave 3 graham crackers, crushed on medium for one minute. Stir.

Continue to heat at 10-second intervals. Smooth.

3. Dip the marshmallows in the melted chocolate and cover about half.

Dip in the crushed graham crackers and place on the paper to set.

While many of us will not be doing much socializing this holiday season, we still want to share the love. And the Cannabis! Gifts of food are always welcome. Label correctly, and don’t leave the infused shortbread cookies out for Santa. He doesn’t indulge, though apparently the Mrs. loves infused hot chocolate. FYI, Blitzen is a stoner.

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We recommend starting with one to two gummies, as these space candies certainly pack a punch! If you plan on taking all five, we advise that you buckle your seatbelts and prepare for lift-off on an intergalactic trip across the Milky Way. Make sure to wave at your alien friends who have put their blood, sweat and tears (do aliens cry?) into these out of this world creations.

After ingesting a few gummies, we seemed to float off into a space-like state, feeling weightless and a huge amount of stress relief. While the flavor of extracts is positively present, the gummy flavors are highly enjoyable and each tasted unique and different from the next. Our personal favorite had to be the Cosmic Cherry, as it brings you back to that cherry Kool-Aid taste we all enjoy so much.

Keep a close eye out for Alien Food Edibles floating around on a mini UFO (as pictured) at a dispensary near you. Rumor has it that these busy aliens are currently in the process of creating a new round of offerings, so make sure to stay up-to-date on their Instagram page!

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VERDANT LEAF

This featured concentrate is crafted by the folks at Verdant Leaf. The Certified Kind Cannabis producers sit nestled in the Tualatin Valley of Oregon, where they share greenhouse and indoor-grown, singlesource products with a focus on living soils, sustainability and organic inputs.

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TALLY MAN LIVE SHO ROSIN

For our Culture Issue, we’ll walk you through the experience of a tasty strain called Tally Man, as we test out Verdant Leaf’s live SHO (also known as solventless hash oil) rosin.

Tally Man is a genetic cross of Papaya and a Banana OG x Dosido cultivar bred by the omnipotent Oni Seed Company, with a profile that lends itself to a hybrid plant structure which often finishes with deep contrasts of green and purple.

The final product clearly displays a continued commitment to Verdant Leaf’s value of sustainability. A partnership with Hemp Press and Sana Packaging means that each gram of Tally Man live SHO rosin comes wrapped in a hemp and recycled post-consumer waste box. A simple, easy-to-open, clear glass jar is waiting inside.

Pop open that jar and you’ll find a lightly fruity banana and papaya profile with a fine cheese finish. The flavor features fruits and delicate dairy – light and creamy, and well-represented by its nose. Once the sesh has begun, you’ll see that the smoke has a smooth start, an exhale with minimal harshness, and immediate stoniness that is truly potent.

A fuzzy-faced feeling is accompanied by notable forgetfulness – did I mention that it’s potent?

Take some time off for a dab of this one if you’re looking for a head high and heavy-bodied break from reality. It may pair well with napping, nudging away grumpiness, or any activity necessary for true relaxation.

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A lotion that screams self care.

ROSE LOTION Established in December of 2018 in Quincy, Mass., Mary Palmer has been winning awards nationally ever since with their infused edibles. Now this 50 percent veteran and 50 percent women-owned company is taking their turn at infused skin care with their new Rose line — with their full-spectrum CBD lotion bringing hydration and silky smoothness via the power of rose and hyaluronic acid.

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We used the product liberally for seven days straight to see the results. This is a lotion that screams self care and its compact size and packaging is convenient to bring on the go. It can be used on your face or anywhere on the body. No leaky pressure nozzle here –– instead you get a zipper-sealed bag that feels expensive. Inside, the lotion can be found tucked away in a small and pretty round metal tin, along with a bonus mini spray bottle of rose water.

The lotion goes on very wet and you can really feel the > > HYDRATING, LUXURY CANNALOVE hydration. Containing shea butter and organic rose extract, it feels natural and wholesome, with the rose smell both MILKED PREMIER VAPE SHOP pleasant and powerful. It even balances out skin tone and & GLASS GALLERY softens the outer layer.

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Lines were filled and plump acne was reduced and replaced by fresh soft skin. Overall, we saw a huge improvement after one short week and would highly recommend this lotion. The company also offers full-spectrum CBD tattoo balm, vitamin C serum and mint lip balm, along with a variety of pet products, merchandise and infused oils.

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PEPPERMINT MOCHA & CANDYLAND Coffee may be a year-round beverage, but fall and winter bring with them the seasonal flavors that we all know and love. These days there are creme brulee lattes and gingerbread spiced coffees, but the O.G. holiday-time flavor has got to be the peppermint mocha.

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omething about those candy cane crumbles seems to match the season even more than the corporate red and white decorations on the cafe walls. Mint and chocolate are just about as perfect a pair as you can find – maybe even more so than coffee and Cannabis.

When incorporated as a trio, though, they can achieve almost near perfection. As such, in dances Candyland to complement the peppermint mocha, elevating your holiday plans and combatting your end-of-year stresses.

Pre-dating even the pumpkin spice latte, the peppermint mocha just makes sense as a coffee beverage – but for whatever reason, seems to be forgotten for most of the year. Perhaps it is that peppermint just epitomizes the time between Thanksgiving and New Years so well. It is cool and bracing like the brisk breeze and mist that envelopes the Pacific Northwest this time of year. And peppermint is also a bit of the antithesis to winter glumness, with its invigorating zing of crisp flavor that brightens you from the inside out.

Let’s be clear though, it has to be peppermint.

Not spearmint, not wintergreen, not even apple mint.

Peppermint is the superior of the mints; something about the menthol quantity lends itself to more than just gum flavoring like the others. After all, you don’t see many spearmint patties or wintergreen bark on the holiday party table. When mixed with the chocolate of a mocha, peppermint makes for a coffee drink that is refreshing while still traditionally sweet.

Candyland, much like the ideal combo of mint and chocolate, is a hybrid cross between two Bay Area classics: Granddaddy Purple and Platinum Cookies.

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Candyland is a fun and distracting strain that won’t leave you too dazed when you wake from your midwinter pipe dreams.

prancing sugar plum fairies, Candyland is a fun and distracting strain that won’t leave you too dazed when you wake from your mid-winter pipe dreams. This Cannabis is absolutely gorgeous, with sparkling trichomes and deep hues of purple scattered throughout. The sweet, floral taste of Candyland heightens the mint that much further, making for a sensory experience that is totally counter to the usual cinnamons and chestnuts of short dreary days.

When working in tandem, Candyland and a pepper-

mint mocha are a great accompaniment to getting sucked down an online rabbit hole while shopping for gifts, making your new pre-sunrise morning routine more tolerable, or just escaping into daydreams and goal-planning for 2021 instead of listening to your uncle tell all his theories on voter fraud. So if you are looking for a bit of a palate-cleanser after this unpredictable year, consider a peppermint mocha and Candyland – it may just give you that fresh perspective you are looking for. @ F R E YA FA R M | 2 0 .5 % T H C

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T H E A RT OF PA I R I NG C A N N A BI S

SUPER DUPER NICE SOUR ALE

PAIRED WITH HAPY KITCHEN CHOCOLATE BROWNIE

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Tripping Animals Brewing Co. had humble beginnings as a Venezualan home brewery, but eventually made its way to Florida to pump out an impressive list of fun and fantastic beers. Today, two years after their official opening, the company remains independent and family-operated. While the Super Duper Nice Sour Ale is just one of their many fruited sours, it showcases a satisfying brew that’s extraordinarily easy to drink. As the strawberry strikes your nasal passage and that first sip slips through your lips, mandarin marches in to introduce a gentle touch of peach. Blackcurrant rounds out the body of the beer, with a bitterness leaving you salivating until the next sip. There’s a dangerously tasty tartness to this drink, but the bite that some sour profiles provide is not present. For a sour ale, it’s superbly smooth.

You may even find yourself letting it slip down a little too fast, but have no fear – there’s only 6% ABV in this beer. It truly is a Super Duper Nice sour for those looking to find fruity flavors and skip the overly sweet.

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TERPENES | HAPY KITCHEN CHOCOLATE BROWNIE

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Hapy Kitchen has popped up in dispensaries around Oregon at an alarming rate, and for a very good reason: These Portland people know their way around an edible. To top it off, they work with terpenes to offer a curated Cannabis experience.

The Hapy Kitchen Brownie boasts gooey goodness that’s (sometimes) rare in packaged sweets. The soft, fudgy confection comes in a tiny single tin or multi-packs for simplified dosing. Each is infused with a distillate (extract) and features 50mg of THC, although the flavor is nowhere to be found. Finicky edible eaters will want to try these tasty treats.

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While one writer may not speak for the masses, it does seem that alcohol attributes to the munchies for most, much like our friend Cannabis. For that reason, the brownie is a welcomed pairing and a satisfying post-buzz snack. But the preferences of this palate are most pleased by the contrast between sweet and sour. The fruits included in this ale aren’t exactly strangers to chocolate, so the combination isn’t as startling as it may seem.

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We strongly recommend conducting pairings in a safe and private space, in small quantities with friends. Always use a designated driver or have a plan to get home safely.

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WORLD OF CANNABIS PRESENTS

Throughout modern history, countless artists and musicians have used marijuana to help enhance their creativity … but far fewer have actually featured it as their subject matter. Many of those who did helped forge new genres of “degenerate” art—like jazz, comic books and concert posters—that

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One such artist is Pat Ryan.

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Celebrating the weed-infused work of underground art icon Pat Ryan

EARLY LIFE

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Raised in suburban Long Island, Paul Ryan heard his artistic calling early— beginning to paint and draw cartoons by the age of eight. A born rebel, Ryan became enamored with Mad magazine, whose irreverent satire was “exposing the shortcomings of the Leave it to Beaver generation of Americans becoming homogenized.” He spent his teenage years in the jazz clubs and coffeehouses of Greenwich Village—getting into Dylan, Kerouac and Ginsberg. Then in 1962, Ryan moved out to Hermosa Beach, where he discovered the SoCal surfer scene, weed and psychedelics. After working as an art director for an ad agency across the street from the Whiskey a Go-Go and taking lots of acid, he soon grew disillusioned by the phony LA scene and wanted out.

BEST BUDS

In 1971, Ryan moved up to Marin County, where he opened a tiny studio and jumped headfirst into the area’s art scene. Within months he met a kindred soul who would become his best friend and partner for the next decade—comic artist Dave Sheridan.

Ryan moved into Sheridan’s studio, and the two formed a company called C.O.D. (Consistently Over Drawn!) Grafix and began cranking out content.

Sheridan created the comic character Dealer McDope and collaborated with Gilbert Shelton and Paul Mavrides on the cult classic The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers; Ryan produced a series of Native American-themed paintings and a comic about hitchhiking called Hit the Road (1972), which Sheridan helped him get published.

In 1974, the doobious duo relocated into a large building in San Rafael that served as a collective studio space for local artists, including rock poster

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greats Alton Kelley, Stanley ‘Mouse’ Miller and Victor Moscoso. Officially named the Concrete Foundation of Fine Arts, the collective was better known by its nutty nickname: the Peanut Gallery. To raise money for rent each month, the Peanut Gallery threw huge parties dubbed the “Black Death Parties”—named after the Black Death beer Sheridan brewed.

THE CANNABIS HOMEGROWERS ASSOCIATION

During these salad days at the Gallery, the two partners came up with the idea for a series of marijuana brand label parodies they called the California Homegrowers Association.

“We’d sit around smoking joints and coming up with fictitious brand names,” Ryan recalls. “We made a whole list of them … that’s what became the California Homegrowers Association.”

Some of the iconic phony brands they created included Harvest Moon, Sticky Fingers, High Society and Space City—each of which was President Reagan illustrated with a humorous charm launched his notorious inspired by the well-known Califor“Just Say No” anti-drug nia agricultural labels of the day.

They planned to use the images campaign, leading to to market a line of merchandise to the closing of stoners all over America via head head shops across shops and ads they placed in High the country and Times magazine. Unfortunately, kneecapping their however, the products hit the market dream before it had a in 1982 just as President Reagan chance to take off. launched his notorious “Just Say No”

anti-drug campaign, leading to the closing of head shops across the country and kneecapping their dream before it had a chance to take off.

ARTISTA GANG

In 1979, the Peanut Gallery was evicted and reconstituted under a new name: the Artista Gang. Throughout the 1980s, “Gang” members designed album covers and concert posters for several classic rock performers, including Journey, Santana and the Grateful Dead, as well as Steve Miller’s Greatest Hits, for which Ryan did the lettering.

It was also during this time that Ryan created his famous “Indoor Bud” painting, which now resides in our World of Cannabis collection; prominently featured against a red background, it’s a dense, dark nug that sparkles with crystals—an effect he achieved by coating it with clear acrylic paint and then sprinkling glitter on it.

That nug image ended up gracing the cover of the Fall/ Winter 1985 issue of Sinsemilla Tips magazine. But that wasn’t the only reefer rag Ryan was featured in during this period: In 1983, High Times ran an article on the Homegrowers Association in their March issue and featured the t-shirts in their December gift guide, and the following year ran a few of Dr. McDope comics drawn by Ryan.

Like the Peanut Gallery, Artista Gang were notorious for their wild parties. One particular rager in 1983—held at a clubhouse in an upscale San Anselmo neighborhood called Sleepy Hollow— featured the group’s first-ever cannabis judging contest. Strain samples were brought from all over California, and according to Ryan, the winner was a clear standout.

“The winner was a guy from Santa Cruz named Dave Watson, a.k.a. Sam the Skunkman,” Ryan recalls. “He had something so sticky and outrageous, nobody had seen anything like it before.

He won hands-down.”

The Artista’s parties and cannabis contests continued to grow, as did their roster—eventually numbering over 700 members. Sadly though, Dave Sheridan would never get to see what Artista would evolve into; diagnosed with lymphatic cancer on March 3, 1982, he died suddenly of a brain hemorrhage less than a month later—just a week shy of his daughter’s birth. He was only 38-years-old.

HIGH IN HUMBOLDT

In 1992, Ryan moved from Marin County up to a log cabin in the Emerald Triangle, where he spent several years living pioneer-style and cranking out over 50 event posters, as well as a series of t-shirts featuring new characters and brands he created, such as Seaweed, Redeye and Hightops. Then in 1999, he moved back down to Sonoma County, where— with some assistance from his pals in Humboldt—he started growing his own “really wicked bud” for the first time in his garage. An avowed sativa man, Ryan grew mostly Orange Crush, but admits his current favorite strain is Blue Dream.

RECENT RESURGENCE

This past decade has been one of Ryan’s most prolific yet.

In 2011, Last Gasp Publishing released a 40-year anthology of his work entitled Sinsemilla Sinsations, as well as a set of greeting cards called “High Again” based on his Humboldt designs. In the past few years, Ryan has returned to his roots with a series of weed-themed comic books called Tales of the

In 1974, the doobious duo relocated to a large building in San Rafael that served as a collective studio space for local artists, including rock poster greats Alton Kelley, Stanley ‘Mouse’ Miller and Victor Moscoso.

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World Famous Drive Thru Bud (Golden Frog Press), based on the various characters he’s created over the years (including Humboldt Honey, Super Skunk and Budzilla), accompanied by a line of branded stoner swag which they sell online and at cannabis and comic events up and down the West Coast—bringing the merchandising dream he once shared with Sheridan full circle.

Most recently, he’s created a series of paintings based on popular strain names similar to the “Purple Haze” painting we have in our collection, including “Ice Cream Cake,” “Blueberry Kush,” and “White Widow.”

Sadly, in recent months, Ryan’s health has been in steep decline due to stage four liver cancer. His family has started a gofundme and is planning an art auction to help raise money for his medical costs. If you’d like to help please visit worldofcannabis.museum/ post/pat-ryan-fundraiser.

For more on Pat Ryan, listen to Episode #4 of our podcast at worldofcannabis.museum/ podcast

-Bobby Black, Pat Ryan, Vince Dugar of Golden Frog Press.

-Blueberry Kush and SuperSkunk art by Pat Ryan.

Published originally on worldofcannabis.museum and reprinted with permission.

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CAN WE PLEASE END CHRISTMAS? isten, I’m not trying to be a jerk here. I used to love Xmas just as much as any kid. Catching a glimpse of Santa nibbling on a cookie or hearing the patter of hooves on top of the apartment complex made sleeping unbearable. It’s just that I’m not sure I can bear grandma getting run over by a reindeer for the umpteenth time before even having a chance to banish my yard witch back to the shed and evaluate the leftover bowl of miniature Snickers and candy corn.

Out with the devil and in with the lord.

Because the problem with Christmas isn’t Christmas day — it’s the fact that we’re hyped for two months on the front end and then stuck with a stiff tab on the back end. Which equates to one sixth of your life forced into a whimsical play where everyone dresses like they’re from Norway in the 1600s.

And I know what you enthusiasts are thinking: I can simply choose to not take part. Which is about as easy as choosing to not take part in death and taxes.

“But it’s for the kids,” you say. Fair enough, but do you really want them learning that the plastic packaged gifts — which magically appear under the tree that was cut down to end up in the dumpster — came from a stranger with an addiction to spiked eggnog? Why not teach them real values, like patience leads to prosperity? And that violence in Walmart on black Friday is not how adults should behave.

I get it, there’s nothing wrong with spreading good cheer, but can we at least ease up on the carpet bombing of commercials for stuff we don’t need? Like shiny new cars with ridiculously large bows and another collared shirt with a snowman tie? And can we do it every leap year just to freshen things up? It’s becoming Groundhog Year.

By the way, you do realize that mom infuses Santa’s Christmas cookies, right? That’s because she secretly feels his pain.

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