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QUEER Longtime indie rock icons take their positive identity messaging from the stage to the page and, soon, television screens across the world

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I always wanted to have a twin, but after talking to Tegan and Sara Quin about the realities of such a life… I want one more than ever. The iconic Albertan indie pop duo have splashed the last few decades with musical hits like “Feel It in My Bones”, “Closer”, and “Walking With A Ghost.” This year, they plan to add more favourites to your playlist with the release of their tenth

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studio album, and fresh new content for you to binge with their Amazon Freevee series High School (based off their 2019 book by the same title). The universe blessed me with a Zoom call with my gals Tegan and Sara to talk about their epic career evolution, their coming-of-agequeerness show and my personal favourite topic—drugs.

Sara: Right, like Fight Club. But no, we were in the womb together, but have spent at least half of our lives in separate cities. Tegan: Nice to meet you, Brooke. I actually looked you up.

BB: Don’t believe everything you read! Tegan: I’m still here!

BB: I’m a longtime fan of your music. I saw you in 2013, so many moons ago at Coachella on a cornucopia of substances, and yours was the absolute best set of my entire experience. Tegan: Best to see us intoxicated.

BB: You have a helluva lot going on besides relocating to Calgary—a new single, new music video, a NY Times bestselling book, and soon an Amazon TV show. How does it feel, over the decades, to continue evolving while making a cultural splash? Sara: Gratitude.

BB: We love that.

Sara: When we started with the memoir, it was definitely more like what am I OK with sharing publicly and what can I reveal about my friends and family that won’t feel like exploitation? I wanted consent and this wasn’t a tell-all. We weren’t going to burn all our relationships to the ground in pursuit of truth. But one big takeaway was that, outside of being moved by the ambient queer moments on screen, I’ve also never seen twins before like this. I remember the first time I saw a queer movie— my head exploded, but now with this, the first time I saw twins on camera, I cried. Tegan: I think we’re making something unique that you’ve never seen before. In the struggle between the Tegan and Sara characters, there’s a lot of raw emotion and intensity between us. When we see women, we don’t see that. We see boys fight, boys argue. Siblings like brothers beat the shit out of each other, but there’s an assumption that girls are clean and sweet and smart and stay out of trouble… but we were little dirtbags doing drugs and stealing and sneaking out.

“If the show gives people hope then that makes me happy—and is worth every dollar that Amazon is spending.”

Sara: After 20 years of making music, it’s nice to try different things. And we consider ourselves storytellers, so whether it’s graphic novels or TV, I feel like we have strength and BB: The centre of the show is your experience, plus it’s nice to feel busy again after coming of age story—about queerness two years stuck at home. and finding your sexuality. Do you feel like if a show like this had existed when you were younger, or if you had more role BB: Right now y’all are working on a models in the public eye, things would’ve TV show based on your memoir, High been different for you growing up? School—firstly, a huge congratulations! What’s that emotional experience been Sara: It’s not like when we grew up the culture like, laying your vulnerabilities out there? was a desert and nothing existed, there was Was anything too cringe-y to be shared? But I’m a Cheeleader and Show Me Love, and My

So Called Life had a queer character, so we exist because of trailblazers making film and television in the late 90s and early aughts. But what I find striking is that 24 years after we graduated high school, making a show about queerness still creates a space in the world that we haven’t seen before. And we have some of the worst anti-LGBTQ legislation being passed in the United States, and we still have rates of suicide among LGBTQ youth that far surpasses their straight peers, so I don’t know that our world today is so different than it was with hate crimes, homophobia and misogyny. Today, we have different access and understanding, but if the show is a lifeline for as many people as the culture we brought into our world in the 90s, if that gives people hope or a window to view life in a different way, then that makes me happy—and is worth every dollar that Amazon is spending.

BB: Thank you daddy Bezos. Now let’s talk MUSIC! For your new record, you’re also dropping on a new label. Can you talk about that shift, especially after you spent so many years with your previous label? Tegan: With our previous management, it was a great 18 years and we’re all still friends—that was the foundation—but it feels fresh and exciting going down our own path. What matters most is that we’re still making stuff we love and are inspired by. Sara: Plus, the new label brings us back into the indie world. Warner always let us behave like indie artists, and we’ve been lucky to get to do what we want, but we feel good about where we’re at and think we made a record that’s cool and weird and interesting and different from what we did for the last ten years. We can’t wait to get it out and tour.

BB: OOO yummy! You said your new record is weird, and that’s appealing to me. Tell me more. Sara: There’s things we can’t get away from:

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revisiting my relationship to alcohol in high school. The things that happened to my friends and I around alcohol were terrifying, but hanging out with Tegan on acid and listening to music was not.

BB: That sounds like bliss, honestly. Sara: If we spent more time decriminalizing and thinking about how medicinally drugs could work in society, I think we’d all be healthier. And I refuse to demonize smoking pot when we have cultures like sports culture, military culture and drinking culture that I think are far more toxic, yet accepted and tolerated in our society.

BB: I appreciate those words so much, so I guess that means you guys support legalization? our voices are distinct, and our phrasing, our syncopation. It’s like, no matter how we try and change them, they shine through, and it’s a blessing and a curse, but it’s allowed us to genre hop and collaborate with people from Tiesto to Against Me!, but I think that this record feels different. We’ve captured the kind of frenetic energy and spirit that some of our pop work didn’t. That was a little more disciplined and engineered, while this record feels more like you could bust it out in a club.

BB: Are you going to the club? Sara: I was thinking like a rock club or a punk club, but you know what? I’ll go to the club.

BB: Hell, yeah. Sara: I’m curious to see what our fans think of the album, but all we can do is play the shit out of it and hopefully some of the songs become fan favourites.

BB: Speaking of the club… kind of. I read that your show will feature your time spent in the rave scene when you were

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younger, as well as experimenting with LSD. What’s been your takeaway from that medicine (and yeah, I call it a medicine)? Sara: Especially in the beginning, I was taking a substance or using a substance daily for all of grade 10 and parts of grade 11 until I swapped my drug obsession for music.

BB: What did you use drugs for? Sara: Parts of drug use that were problematic, and part of what was attractive to me about taking drugs, was that it helped me for brief periods of time (if you think 11 hours on acid is brief). For me, LSD helped me disengage from the stuff causing me so much pain and stress and agony—stuff around my body and sexuality, depression—it was really a disaster and those times, especially in the early parts of using LSD, were joyful to me. I was able to disconnect from what felt like a cage—my body was this cage I was stuck inside of—and LSD allowed me to re-engage with the childlike part of myself that had been comfortable in the world. I want to be mindful. I’m not saying I think we should give LSD to 15-years-olds, but I also don’t think it has to be a scary, negative, toxic thing. That wasn’t the experience for me. I was far more disturbed

Tegan: A thousand percent—and psychedelic medicine should be legal. Sara: One of the most significant things I read while working on the memoir is How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan. Anyone struggling to understand why the medicinal use of psychedelic substances is important, and how long psychedelics have been used therapeutically, should check out this book.

BB: Oh my goddess I love that book. Michael Pollan is the most perfect lens, particularly for the older generations, for a better understanding of the benefits of psychedelics. But let’s get real, when was the last time you tripped, Tegan? Sara: The last time I took mushrooms I was at Tegan’s house, recently, last summer? Has it already been a year? That’s shocking to me. I’m newly very interested in mushrooms. Tegan: That question was asked to me! Sara: I just know you don’t have a good trip story. Tegan: I smoked weed on my fortieth birthday.

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time—I don’t want to wreck that. BB: What about weed? Sara: Sometimes I smoke it and love it, sometimes I smoke—or take edibles. I literally had to wake my partner up after taking edibles a couple of years ago and said, ‘I’m halfway high to where I know I’m going so no matter what happens, don’t let me call 911.’ Tegan: These are the stories she tells and then she’s like, ‘I don’t know why Tegan doesn’t do it anymore.’

BB: We’ve all been there on eating too many milligrams of cannabis but, as an American, can I just say that I’m so motherfucking jealous of the It was the first time I smoked weed in a decade. industry you’ve created in Canada? I bought some and I was like, this will be so fun! We were writing a graphic novel for Sara: I can’t imagine why anyone would give tweens, but then I spent the whole time feeling two shits about weed. Americans need to paranoid, like: what’s wrong with me? Why did legalize. Their prisons are filled with people I do this? I don’t think I’m much of a weed smoker, of colour who have been arrested for crimes but the last time I actually tripped was 2009. of poverty and minor crimes of drug use, and lives have been destroyed over a fucking joint! Sara: I started doing drugs before Tegan and I But in Canada, we just take for granted that it’s peer pressured her. Positive peer pressure is a not criminal behavior. thing and she needs to be peer pressured to do drugs. If you’re someone who feels in control of your body and your mind there’s sometimes a fear of anything that will alter that.

BB: Sara, do you not need positive peer pressure to trip? Sara: I was an aggressive drug user in high school and then as an adult I spent years being terrified to try them again. What if I returned to that place? Did I even know how to use drugs anymore? I’m happy to report that mushrooms, for me, have always been a positive experience and as an adult I have an absolute blast—and I’m not microdosing either. I’m taking a shitload of mushrooms and it feels fun and joyful and I laugh my ass off. And in the last couple of years, I feel a surge of creativity in the days following a trip. Something happens and I’m more open in my work, which is why I’m not tripping all the

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“LSD helped me disengage from the stuff causing me so much pain and stress and agony—stuff around my body and sexuality, depression.”

Tegan: I live in Vancouver on the Downtown Eastside and I see how harmful not having a safe drug supply can be. I see the intersection of mental health, drugs, houselessness, and I’m glad Canada is moving in the right direction about regulating substances. There’s so many

other things like climate change or housing that I think if a small percentage of the population wants to microdose mushrooms, I don’t think that’s the problem to focus on.

BB: Move over Trudeau, Tegan for Prime Minister!! Let me know if you need a campaign manager. So as we conclude, your new single “F***ing Up What Matters” is out, the album and tour are on the horizon, your new show is in production… with all of these projects in mind, what is it that you hope your audience will glean? Tegan: All these things are products of thoughtfulness about life and experiences and love and relationships and anxiety and what comes next, and I hope people get that. There’s also this assumption, especially with women, that you hit an age and slow down and family build and come off the road, but we have a different ambition. We’re building and we’re not slowing down. We’re putting in everything we have. Sara: We’re not working just to work. We’re doing this because we love it. I don’t have to do this like when I was 18, to put food on the table. To pay rent. My circumstances have changed and now we want our audience to support us because we’re making everything from our heart.

For Tegan and Sara tour dates and updates on their show, see teganandsara.com. Brooke Burgstahler is an actress, comedian and cannabis creator. Brooke is also the founder of Budding Mind, a plant-medicine wellness platform + podcast. Her mission in life is to help others expand their minds, hearts and souls through health-oriented “edutainment.” You can find Brooke at @BrookeStellar and @BuddingMind on Instagram.

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RUSSELL PETERS L ETS DOW N HIS HAIR The Canadian comic takes time out from his world tour to invite KIND into his home in LA and model his favourite summertime wares P H O T O G R A P H Y S T Y L I N G

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Russell Peters: “…about fifteen pounds.”

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“Summertime romances are great when you’re a teenager. If you met a girl and fell in love, it was a great summer. It’s how you defined your summer.”

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“If I could take anyone out on a boat at sunset it would be my wife, Ali. After she took a Dramamine, we would sail no further than half a kilometre from shore. It doesn’t matter where we’d go—the important thing is that we’d be fresh off the boat when we hit the shore.”

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“On my perfect summertime day, I get up around noon. Have breakfast, then a dip in the pool (shallow end, I can’t swim). Then a nice cigar in the backyard… or a nice Backwoods in the backyard.”

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“Going up north to my uncle’s cottage with my family is my favourite summer memory and having all of my cousins there—fishing, hanging out, going out on their bass boat. It really was the best. #CottageLife”

Russell starts his Canadian tour in Victoria on June 22. For complete Canadian tour dates, see russellpeters.com.

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FOOD COOKED AND STYLED BY CHEF ERICA AND JOSH KARBELNIK @BRINGONTHEKARBS | @CHEFERICAK PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOSH TENN-YUK

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L E M O N TA R T INGREDIENTS Tart Crust: 1 ½ AP flour (plus more if needed) 6 tbs unsalted butter cut into 12 pieces and chilled ½ cup sugar 3 large egg yolks ½ tsp salt Lemon Filling: ¼ cup lemon zest 1 ½ cups lemon juice 2 large eggs 7 large egg yolks ½ cup sugar pinch of salt 4 tbs unsalted chilled butter cut into cubes 2 tbs infused butter, chilled 2 tbs heavy cream To Assemble: 1 9-inch baked tart crust berries to garnish (optional)

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In a mixer, using the paddle attachment: add your flour, sugar and salt and give a quick stir to mix. Then add the cubes of butter and your egg yolks and, on slow speed, incorporate all the ingredients. Knead the dough until smooth. (If too wet, add more flour.) Once the dough has mainly come together, tilt out onto a clean work surface and knead with your hands then create a smooth ball. Wrap tightly in plastic wrap. Flatten into a disk and chill for at least 30 minutes. Butter and flour your tart shell and line with parchment. Once chilled, on a lightly floured work surface, roll your dough out to a slightly larger size then your tart shell. Gently form the dough into the shell and cut away any excess ends. Using a fork, poke some holes onto the round surface area of your tart shell. Bake this at 375° F for about 10 minutes until your edges start to brown. Remove from oven and let cool. Remove baking beans. While that’s cooling, make your lemon filling.

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Whisk lemon juice, zest, egg, egg yolks, sugar and salt in a medium saucepan until smooth, gradually whisk in your cold butter and cook on low heat stirring constantly with a rubber spatula until mixture thickens—or registers to 170° F (about 8 minutes). Immediately pour mixture through a fine mesh strainer into a bowl and whisk in your cream. Pour warm lemon curd into cooled 9 inch tart crust. Set tart on a baking sheet and bake until the filling is shiny and opaque and the centre jiggles slightly when shaken (about 10—15 minutes), rotating the pan halfway through. Transfer tart with baking sheet to a wire rack and let cool completely before slicing (about 2 hours). Garnish and enjoy a full bite of sunshine!

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FIKA embraces an identity that is sophisticated, stylish and shameless. In Swedish, fika is often translated as “a coffee and treat break,” but it is much more than that. It is a culture, a state of mind and a powerful concept—one that encourages you to pause and enjoy the everyday beauty in life. Fika is personified in every element of the experience, creating a welcoming space that encourages guests to “take a breather”—a mindset that is the ethos of the brand and an inspiration for what cannabis can be.

Walking through FIKA’s flagship location in Toronto’s Distillery District on a summer Friday afternoon, Christopher Kane, FIKA’s Chief Operating Officer, spent some time with KIND describing the brand. We were awed. “We didn’t want to be like any other shop out there” says Kane, a retail veteran with years of experience at large Canadian retailers. “At FIKA, rather than confusing digital screens, endless tent cards and unattractive product packaging, guests can effortlessly shop all things cannabis with our easy-to-navigate merchandising. Everything at FIKA is designed to make cannabis shopping intuitive for newcomers and experienced guests alike.”

their shops as portals into a cannabis universe that welcomes everyone of legal age. “Our FIKA Ambassadors have been trained and educated to the highest degree of cannabis knowledge and customer service. With the right curated menu in our shops, our Ambassadors are here to help guide and educate our guests to choose the right products,” says Kane, whose shops are neatly organized by category—from pre-rolls, vapes and flower to edibles and beverages—with easy to follow wayfinding such as The Tuck Shop and Sweet Bar. “It’s important to us that the

We want to build a trusted retail brand that customers will be coming to for years.

shopping experience is enjoyable for our guests and that they understand and can see what they are purchasing. We went to great lengths to design custom millwork for every category to optimally display each product outside of its packaging. It sounds so simple, but is a huge challenge in this industry that few of our competitors have attempted to overcome. We saw it as an opportunity.”

Touring the location in the Distillery District and later the shop around the corner in the Canary neighbourhood gave KIND the opportunity to speak with several members of the FIKA team. Kane explains that the people are the heart of the brand. “What I like about working at FIKA is the potential for growth—I was recently promoted within six months of my last position,” one team member told me, and mentioned the training she receives on new products helps her best serve guests, ensuring they make the best choice for their unique cannabis journey. “I can’t express how thankful I am to be working in an inclusive environment that makes you feel good. It sounds cheesy, but we do all feel like family.” The FIKA team were unaware that we were coming to visit the store, and after years on the job, it certainly seemed the answers weren’t rehearsed. The Ambassadors spoke of the company’s commitment to education, and you could truly feel the team’s passion to FIKA’s goal of reinventing cannabis retail. Kane says everything FIKA does is designed to stand the test of time. “We want to build something that’s sustainable for the longterm, a trusted retail brand that customers will be coming to for years.” FIKA is currently doing something that no one else in cannabis retail has done: they’re building a brand the right way, treating employees like family, and customers as friends.

For more information on FIKA, see fikasupply.com.

The FIKA shops, currently numbering sixteen with two opening their doors by early September (including a flagship location at Toronto’s historic Union Station), are reimagining the cannabis experience for the largest possible crowd. FIKA’s shop in the Distillery District located in downtown Toronto serves as an introduction of cannabis to many tourists entering Canada from all over the world. Kane says the FIKA brand is dismantling the cannabis stigma and sees

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Tattoo culture is expressive, pervasive and not going anywhere—especially in the summertime when more skin equals more time to shine.

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Summertime is about letting our hair down, taking a pause, showing some flesh. All across the country, and all across the world, tattoo culture has been making our bodies more enticing, with exquisite work from talented artists allowing a new form of self-expression to represent freedom, love, family, culture and anything else under the (please wear lotion) sun. “My father has a small traditional tattoo with my mother’s name in a heart. Since I was a toddler, I have always been fascinated by that tattoo,” says Jordan D. Roy, an inked up male model popular in the scene. “When I was younger and sitting in the chair I would

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feel adrenaline, I would be trying to be tough and show no pain. You know, all the “tough guy” shit. As time went on and I got to know my local shop more I learned how tattoo culture works, but also, I made friends and being in the chair became a time to joke around and talk shit. I still have fun with it all, but it hurts.” In these following pages, Lane Dorsey, himself heavily inked, captures some of the beautiful work on some of our closest friends and gets into the stories behind the artistry, the messages unifying us all this summer: images of understanding, compassion, devotion, faith—and fun.

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>>> KYLEE AGE: 29 PROFESSION: SERVER HOMETOWN: TORONTO I G : @ K Y L E E U N L I K E LY_ “I hate getting tattooed. I think about how much it hurts, but eventually I’m able to Zen out by counting my breath. I usually listen to the same song for an hour or so as a type of meditation. The older I get, the worse I sit. My tattoos don’t have any meaning. I have one of my dog, Kona. I like that one a lot because he’s my favourite dog. My biggest turn off is people trying to pick me up by asking about my tattoos. Turn ons are gratitude, confidence and compassion. I guess these can be applied to any season and not just summer, but in the summer my ideal night is a quiet walk with someone I love and my pups, smoking a joint and drinking a sparkling water, making a little fire by the lake and eating snacks—quiet and sentimental.”

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>>> MICHAEL AGE: 29 P R O F E S S I O N : TA L E N T R E C R U I T E R AT A TAT T O O S T U D I O HOMETOWN: TORONTO, O N TA R I O IG: @HII.MIIKEY “I first got into tattoo culture back in high school when I came across an artist named Jun Cha. His portfolio was all this amazing renaissance work, statues, sculptures and faces, and I was hooked. My first tattoo was a nautical star with “Dream Big” on a banner on my arm. When I’m under the needle, I feel pain and excitement because the thing that gets me through these grueling sessions is the thought of the finished product. When I started collecting tattoos, I would look at physical portfolio books at the front desks of certain shops. Nowadays you can find any artist online through social media, getting access to artists is easier than ever. That means more people are collecting tattoos, which I think is great. It shows that a once taboo thing is now being accepted in most places and that’s a positive thing. I think the culture has become more progressive, more educated, more competitive. In the summer, I don’t do anything to my tattoos. I don’t really use sunscreen or even put lotion on. I just leave them as is. Lastly, I think palm trees in California is what summer is all about. I hate how Toronto summers are really short and it’s only really summer for June and July. But tell you what, put me on any beach in the world, with a joint and I will just vibe out.

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>>> BELLA AGE: AGELESS PROFESSION: MARKETING, C O M M U N I C AT I O N S & C R E AT I V E S T R AT E G I S T HOMETOWN: AJAX IG: @MISSYINKBELLA “Turn Ons: Heat. Patios. Beach. Skin. Turn Offs: The male gaze. Air Conditioning. The initial appeal for me with tattoos was that they just made people standout and my initial tattoo is still visible: a claddagh— which was totally influenced by Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I had a claddagh ring from a very young age and the meaning of them to this day sticks with me. Love, loyalty and friendship. To me, tattoo culture is a world of decoration and expression that I always knew I needed to partake in. And advice to a novice? 100 SPF, enough said. If I could smoke a joint with anyone? If I don’t say Keanu Reeves, anyone who knows me will know I am lying.”

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>>> JOHN AGE: 28 PROFESSION: MUSICIAN HOMETOWN: TORONTO I G : @ J U S TJ O H N F O R R E A L TIKTOK: @ J U S TJ O H N F O R R E A L “My ideal summer night is live music, and leaving the party early to smoke with the homies. I got my first tattoo at 18. It was a Kanye West lyric: 'Your attitude determines your latitude.' I wanted to leave a trail of mantras to help guide me through life. I feel like my tattoos sort of gradually happened and it became a way of archiving my legacy and remembering mantras that help me through life. My favourite piece is my “for - give” tattoo on my neck. I look at life as for giving and not for getting. And it’s my strongest reminder of love.”

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>>> ASHLEY AGE: 39 PROFESSION: H A I R S T Y L I S T/ SALON OWNER HOMETOWN: TORONTO IG: @ASHLEYHAIRSMITH “My dad has lots of American traditional pieces that I always admired as a child, then I saw photos of the tattooed ladies of Victorian times and that was it for me. I took my first tax return a month after my 18th birthday and spent it on a pixie tattoo on my shoulder. From there, I made the jump pretty quick. It was always the plan to be covered. My second tattoo was the next step in turning that pixie into part of a larger back piece, but my favourite piece is a matching one my husband and I have—matching hip tattoos that display our motto: ‘Love, Trust, Dirty Stuff.’

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Health Canada regulations. In the unregulated illicit market, where there are no potency limits and no restrictions on branding, unintended youth poisonings have increased since cannabis legalization. The illicit market still sells two-thirds of all edibles in Canada and Marotta says you can draw a direct parallel between children having ill effects from illegal edibles to the potency limits on the legal market: if the legal, licensed

producers were able to create products that competed with the potency of the illegal stuff, that illegal market would cease to exist. “The current cap on edibles is driving people back to the illicit market for unsafe products with pesticide, wrapped in non-child resistant packaging that looks like candy so kids are getting into it—the edibles potency issue is an issue of public safety,” Marotta told KIND magazine during an interview at the Benzinga

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will not have to boost their cost to increase the amount of cannabis used in each product. Marotta says that, while his company enjoyed 40% Q4 market share, the legal market is still hamstrung by faulty reasoning. Adults should be treated like adults, says Marotta, and Jack Daniel’s doesn’t come in a childproof case. All the 10mg THC limit does to the legal market is pave the way for bad products to be unleashed in Canadian homes.

Health Canada is listening to the legal industry and the Cannabis Act, which defined the terms of ending cannabis prohibition, is currently under review. Recently, the limits on cannabis beverages were altered, allowing consumers to purchase more drinks at a time to make a better value proposition for legal consumers. In the edible market, Marotta hopes the same will happen soon—“we needed this yesterday, but I’ll tolerate it within the next twelve months”—because it will benefit retailers with increased sales, benefit the provinces with increased taxes, benefit the consumer with superior product and, most importantly, benefit parents with a safer, trustworthy Health Canada– approved edible.

“We need to increase dosage limits in the legal market to at least 100mg of THC and then people will stop buying unsafe “You can draw a straight line from the potency products and stop having bad results where limits to the lack of category size and the unfortunate things happen,” says Marotta. edible category not reaching its potential, and “No one wants to see kids end up what’s the unintended consequence? When in the ER, three years into cannabis people go back to the illicit2022-05-17 market they’re legalization.” 2:51 PM buying candy sprayed with distillate and sold 100mg, 500mg or 1,000mg at a time,” Marotta says. “ It’s those products that find a way into To read more about the fight to increase the homes and kids get their hands on it because dosage limit of the legal medical market, it looks like candy. Poisonings have gone up— please see kindmagazine.ca. but not because of legal edibles.”

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Read on for the HIGHTEA.life kinda way to roll one up.

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Create the Gate I’m a filter kinda girl, and always start with this, the most tedious step. The mouthpiece, or crutch of the joint, it’s the foundation of a good joint’s integrity. Beyond simply rolling up your cardboard filter, it’s a good idea to create a “gate”which allows smoke (but no crumbs) to travel through. A 3-step accordion fold will create a classic W shape—or inject a bit more love into it and try the HIGHTEA.life way by making a heart. Create a tear-drop shaped loop with one end of your filter. Using your nail (a toothpick will also do), press down along the centre of that loop and you’ll see a heart shape emerge. Anchor the shape of the heart with another sharp fold at its pointed base, and then begin your roll up.

Our immersive, hands-on HIGHTEA Rolling Parlour events taught women the art of the most elegant roll in a setting designed to inspire conversation, community and dismantling of cannabis stigma for (and amongst) women. Play, practice, beautiful accessories and special tips from this stoner were shared amongst a group of thirty other curiosos. In fact, rolling up can be considered as art: we’ve taken a mood, energy, feeling, an intent—and made something with it. Creating something with our hands, becoming one with the plant that’s about to take us on a journey. It’s a beautiful thing. Today, let’s do a more nontraditional KIND of tutorial. We may all know the basics, but what of the special magic in the in between?

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Treat Yo’self to a Queen Size It may seem counterintuitive to be playing with 1/14” or King-sized papers, but you may find the extra space can help to handle the joint with more ease. Don’t feel pressure to fill the whole thing (you can always nip off the end), but instead use that extra surface area to allow your roll to find some presence. Some elegance. Experiment. Perhaps for you it may be more pleasurable to have a longer, elegant smoke than a short and stubby one. This is a personal preference, of course.

Flat Bottoms, Girl One of my most loved little tricks is something I call the flat-bottom taco: a simple two-part fold that sets up the most perfect conical sandbox for you to play in. STEP 1: Pull the paper down to the bottom of the glue-line and create a fold all the way across lengthwise. STEP 2: Tip one side of your paper down toward the bottom of your fold. (See diagram.) The view you are left with: a flat-bottom taco.

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Time to pack up—not too much, not too little, experiment and you’ll find the just right tension. Pinch the paper together—just above the flower—and start to roll the joint back and forth between your fingers. Gently now, try and flow instead of force as you slowly coax the joint into that familiar shape. I tend to keep one hand somewhere near the place where the filter meets the flower. A well-packed connection at this key point will yield a strong, consistent-burning smoke.

the excess paper at the end of the joint (the flames will stop burning as it hits the filter). If you’re canoeing: lick your pinky finger and wet the edge of the joint that’s burning excessively, to slow that creep down. Continue to smoke the joint with the canoe-side down— since heat rises, the ash should start to even out.

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You’ve arrived at the summit, your goal lays before you. This is your moment of truth, it’s now or never, stoner friends. The paper tuck is where all your hard work is either realized or your efforts all a waste.

whole thing down—you can make the joint a little less stank when you slip it back into your doob tube by popping out the burning cherry

An almost foolproof trick to ensure that your paper is tucked nice and tight is to use a business card (or the top flap of your filter pack) to make a nice, clean cut along the length of your flower, using the edge of the card to tuck the paper in behind the weed, guaranteeing a good, snug roll.

when you stop the burn. Somehow removing that chunky cherry miraculously makes things smell just a little bit less. You’re welcome to you and your neighbours.

Lick and stick slowly, glueing the paper at the centre first, then allowing a slowdrag of your fingers, first toward the tip, then tighter down toward the filter in order to finally seal the deal.

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Pack it Right, Not Too Tight Your last Goldilocks moment is now: a joint packed too tight won’t burn, packed too loosely and you’re likely to canoe. Once you’ve packed the weed down into your paper and sealed her up with a spin, your best bet is to pinch the tip and give your girl a little shake and shimmy back and forth. This will settle the flower into the roll a bit tighter, ensuring you a smoother smoke.

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in the next phase of consumer appetites for hash. “Hash is a bigger market than people thought,” Robertson concludes. “Across the country, we’re seeing a rapid rise of interest towards this time-honoured tradition of hash.” As the hash category is growing, Nick says that applying the Tremblant brands’ specific processes into the streamlined Organigram distribution system—and ability to scale—will elevate the category for the whole industry.

Tremblant Cannabis has been a licensed hashish producer in the Laurentian Mountains of Quebec since 2013 and has supplied hash across the country as part of Canada’s original medical cannabis program. A year after cannabis legalization, October 17, 2019, concentrates like hashish and live rosin were made legally available on the market. Early on, Tremblant proved to be the recreational market’s favourite hashish brand, gaining #1 hash position in Quebec, and has recently started rapidly expanding share across Ontario and other provinces.

The success of Tremblant hash is largely due to its commitment to honouring the artisanal, craft tradition of hashish by artfully blending ancient hash recipes with modern techniques to perfect the final product. “We want to protect the Tremblant brand as much as possible and leverage their culture as we educate consumers and look to earn the leadership position in this growing market,” says Nick. “Preserving the culture of craftsmanship and filling a product pipeline with authentic premium craft hash formulations is really where we see the future of Tremblant. It’s a renaissance of hash and it’s time for us to take this artisan, handcrafted product that started in Quebec and bring it to the rest of Canada.”

“It’s a renaissance of hash.” “What’s cool is that the Laurentian facility is built is on the same family property where they’ve made hash for over a decade,” says Nick Robertson, senior manager of new product development and innovation at Moncton-based Organigram, which acquired Tremblant Cannabis late last year. Tremblant hash is made from the genetics of their cannabis flower. The flower is harvested, selected for aroma and resin production, and then dry sifted to separate the trichomes from the flower, making kief. Lastly, the hash is pressed and hand-rolled, until proper texture and consistency is achieved, producing a delicious and smooth ball of hash. Tremblant’s hashish is a versatile product, which can be consumed as an addition to a joint, vaped via vaporizers and hookahs or added to a bong. Under Organigram’s leadership, the next step in the evolution of Tremblant is to usher

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It was said that if you smoked a hash joint in San Francisco in 1973 that the source of your stash was Rochdale College in downtown Toronto. Running the show was Rosie Rowbotham, a small-town kid from Belleville, Ontario who fell in love with LSD at 14, dropped out of school in grade ten and heard his calling to the psychedelic chords of Neil Young and the Rolling Stones. Rowbotham started small dealing hashish and acid—he never sold heroin or coke—and he always gave customers an honest score.

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“No guns, no muscles, and if it was supposed to be 28 grams, it was,” says Rowbotham, who realized early on that, during the Sexual Revolution and the rise of women’s lib, he liked selling weed and the lifestyle that it afforded him. “I was a small-town kid—almost virginal—I’m not a dealer…but if you stay in the game long enough, you learn how to play.” One day, Rowbotham was selling weed on Yonge Street outside of a record shop when he was approached by a stranger. His reputation

preceded him and he was invited to help Lebanese importers move serious weight. He was requested to pick up a car with a tonne of hash in the trunk. “I’m thinking, that’s a million, two million dollars of drugs he’s going to give me on consignment? Somebody pinch me,” explains Rowbotham of the score that would change his life, both for better and worse. “I wasn’t that kind of game player yet but, believe me, the next year I was.”

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Rowbotham is relaying this story to KIND from his home in northern Toronto where he’s smoking joints between chemotherapy rounds. Suffering from stage four pancreatic cancer, Rosie, as he’s universally known, says, “I’m hurting all over. The fucking cancer is deteriorating my bones.” It’s Rosie, as much as anyone who's responsible for Canada’s cannabis legalization today, for when the police finally caught up with the hippie, he was moving more than 10,000 pounds of hash and had connections from Mexico to the Middle East and supplied dealers from Chicago to LA. Defending Rosie in 1985 was Alan Young, who couldn’t believe that a nonviolent offender would be sentenced for more time than murderers defended by his firm. “This was my friend and a fucking moral outrage—of course I smoked weed, we all did, and the hypocrisy, the absurdity, was mind-blowing,” says Young, who would go on to defend the major Canadian cannabis activists throughout the 80s, 90s and 2000s. In addition, Young would not only work with Health Canada designing their original medical marijuana regulations in 2001, but also help the first licensed producers get their paperwork, and grow ops, to code. Young said, “I think the entire industry owes Rosie his due.” Rosie Rowbotham served twenty years in prison for conspiracy to import, distribute and sell weed and he never regretted his lifestyle choices. He never ratted out his network and he always believed pot should be free. “It’s cannabis, not heroin or cocaine, and you mean to tell me this stuff is legal

while you blow your brains out with booze?” asks Rosie with dismay, waving his spliff. “The whole legal system disgusts me, and the government still hasn’t made its reparations, which is no surprise.” In the United States, the situation is equally grim. Rosie Rowbotham's was the longest Canadian sentence ever for a nonviolent cannabis crime, and his American counterpart is Rich DeLisi, who served 32 years for selling weed. DeLisi, who would smuggle in boatloads of pot from Jamaica and was introduced to the legal system by Berner, says cannabis appealed to him from his very first joint. “I knew that I would see the day of legalization, but I thought it would be 25 years ago,” says DeLisi. Released from prison in December 2020 with the help of The Last Prisoner Project, he now runs DeLisioso, a licensed cannabis producer distributed by the American retail chain Trulieve, and advocates for the other non-violent pot offenders still locked behind bars. “Pot is so available to everybody that it just stuns me that we have over 40,000 people in the state jails for non-violent marijuana charges when there are people—right now— still in there next to the most dangerous people in the world.” Rosie has drawings by his grandchildren on the wall of his home and he’s working on a podcast with Greg Thomas so his story doesn’t get lost in the new world of corporate

Smoking a joint as the sun went down, Rosie—who, at 22, was known as The Kid while he moved six loads of Lebanese hash a year, packing two tonnes of hash per load— sat back on his easy chair and laughed often, sometimes losing his train of thought, but always taking it back to ensure that one point was made: legalization of cannabis is a global phenomenon, but the activists, hippies and dreamers knew that pot should be free all along. “I’m proud of the fact that I was there from the beginning and sometimes shake my head, as if I didn’t write the script of my life, but just played out some karmic unforeseen story that was written for me,” says Rosie, exhaling a hit. “I’m proud that I opened the doors for this to happen and look at me— after everything, I know how to love.”

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weed. At his home, Rosie spent an afternoon talking about the time Norman Mailer appeared in Canadian court as his character witness and how, eventually, he went from small-town hippie to big-time pusher, learning the sort of survival skills that helped him defend his turf. “I let everyone know I’m not an easy target and I can hold my head up high,” he says, mentioning several times in his stoned reverie that he knows his days left on earth might not be long.

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^^^ Crippling depression? Generalized anxiety? Sexual dysfunction? If you’re suffering from any modern malady, chances are, there’s a psychedelic for that. (Well… maybe.) Psychedelics, from psilocybin mushrooms to MDMA (and everything in between), are currently being taken and studied for a wide range of illnesses and used as amplifiers to boost creativity, mood and focus, and a whole lot more. The drugs—which are mostly still prohibited in Canada—seem to be the modern answer to a lot of problems.

But, perhaps most crucial to the equation: it’s becoming clearer by the day that what’s readily available and approved to combat mental health disorders—like anti-depressants, antianxiety meds and talk therapy—don’t really work that well after all. “The pandemic has sent mental illness into extreme numbers and resources are continuing to deplete. Psychiatrists are burning out at high levels, and they can’t keep up. Our traditional ways of healing aren’t working, and people are looking for alternatives,” said former Canadian Psychedelics Association (CPA) executive director and Dose Day founder, Cory Firth.

While regulators lag behind, science is attempting to keep pace with demand from people and practitioners looking for more efficacious, less harmful solutions to mental health disorders. The clinical trial route (the same one that’s undertaken in traditional pharma and biotech) has become the righteous path, it seems, to bring the drugs to market. The conditions being studied are wideranging, including depression, PTSD, alcohol use disorder, chronic pain and obsessivecompulsive disorder, and many others.

“ Analysts speculate MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD will be approved by the FDA in 2023.”

The demand and interest in legal access to psychedelic drugs is becoming quantified. But why are people turning to psychedelics in A 2022 study revealed that 65 per cent of droves in 2022, what are the current theories Americans with mental health disorders about how they can help us and are they really want access to psychedelics for treatment. as miraculous as all the hype and And a 2021 survey revealed 82 percent of headlines suggest? Canadians approve the use of psilocybinassisted therapy for people suffering from an A B R AV E N E W W O R L D end-of-life illness, and that 78 per cent would Thanks to the collision of a few serendipitous support a government that legalized psilocybinforces, psychedelics have now become a part assisted therapy to improve the quality of In September 2021, Vancouver-based of our collective peripheral view. A massive life for palliative and end-of-life patients. MINDCURE launched a first-of-its-kind study influx of capital into research, treatment and targeting female hypoactive sexual desire drug development; loud lobbying, political disorder using MDMA. debate and the easing of restrictions in regions R E S E A R C H TA K E S T H E L E A D around the globe; and mainstream media, film Despite public interest and prevalence of In January, Australian researchers and TV shoving psychedelics back into waking psychedelics in modern media, one might announced plans to study psilocybin as a consciousness, all have people—even those conclude that they’re already legal in Canada treatment for anorexia, though it isn’t the you wouldn’t expect—interested in tuning in, for the average person (they’re not yet—no, not first time psychedelics have been studied for turning on and dropping out. even microdosing). eating disorders.

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And in the same month, the FDA cleared biopharmaceutical company MindMed to proceed with a study in the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder, using an LSD-derivative drug it calls “MM-120”. The company is one of many seeking approval for proprietary, patentable drugs derived from common psychedelics. But which drug is best suited to combat which condition? It isn’t quite that simple. The applications for individual psychedelics are theorized to be a great many. Ketamine, for example, has been studied for over a dozen different conditions, and is the first psychedelic with full medical approval in Canada for treatment-resistant depression. The key to their wide-ranging applications may be due to how psychedelics interact with the human brain. Brain imaging shows psychedelics bind to and stimulate 5HT2A serotonin receptors, which are central to cognitive function. Studies show the drugs are impactful on the brain’s default mode network, the area that’s often overactive in people with mental health disorders. With the pace of current research, analysts speculate MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD will be approved by the FDA in 2023. Psilocybin for depression will likely be approved by 2025, and approvals for ibogaine, LSD, DMT and ketamine could follow shortly thereafter, analysts say.

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experience, and expertise of the psychedelic community in the academic understanding of psychedelics and associated public policy development.” For those considering psychedelics, Firth recommends they approach with cautious optimism, do their homework and read past the headlines. Psychedelics aren’t a panacea, and the key to using them as a tool for optimization—to become a better parent, co-worker, community member or friend—is largely found in intention and integration, regardless of which drug you’re taking.

“ I don’t think I could have gone there if it weren’t for the LSD.” “We have a serious intention gap in our society when it comes to health and wellness treatments. We tend to ignore the power of thoughtful intention when it comes to the medicines we use or the health and wellness techniques that we practice. We often turn to them in desperation, hoping for relief, when we can find deeper meaning and longer lasting effects if we understand and thoughtfully consider why we practice and use these medicines.” For 37-year-old Jena Bower, her first acid trip wasn’t planned with a lot of intention—just fun with her ex on the beach in the summer of 2020—but she knew right away that the trip would have lasting impact.

potential of their psychedelic experiences” through peer support and education. The group runs a psychedelic peer support line and mobile app, where people can connect with other people to help process their trips. Peer support is a crucial piece of success with psychedelics, says Firth, whose Dose Day initiative prioritizes building community around microdosing and a safe space for people to discuss their experiences. A psychedelic trip can show you a lot, you can gather a tremendous amount of insight, but we have to take that insight and make it ordinary so that it can integrate into our lives and help us to regulate our nervous systems during moments of discomfort, expand our awareness and emotional capacities so that we can learn the patterns of behaviour that led us to the uncomfortable place we were before the trip,” he told KIND. Bower’s conversation with a person on the Fireside Project hotline led her to research papers and other psychedelic non-profits, where she found a list of counsellors that specialize in psychedelic therapy and integration. She found a counsellor who she now works with to support her through microdosing psilocybin for her mood. That first acid trip, she says, revealed some parts of her mental health she had been ignoring and likely would not have tackled otherwise.

“Working seriously on my mental health was a bit accidental, but I think it was meant to happen the way it did—I don’t think I could have gone there if it weren’t for the LSD,” she said. “I have learned a lot about taking psychedelics mindfully. There’s a lot more to “I missed out on doing a lot of drugs in high this than people might think. It’s not ‘take two school, when I just smoked, so LSD was a totally hits and call me in the morning’.” new thing for me. It was just for fun at first and was a really intense, hilarious experience. But I had some troubling thoughts that lingered with me in the days and weeks after, things I couldn’t make sense of, so I started researching,” she said. Victoria Dekker is an award-winning Canadian journalist, communications and public relations Her search brought her to the Fireside Project, strategist, who chronicles the ongoing history a California-based non-profit whose mission is of cannabis and psychedelic research, to help people “minimize the risks and fulfil the regulation and culture.

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feel it was important to reflect on that and that made its way into the song.” The artist, who is of Bajan and Jamaican descent, has used her music as a catalyst to explore aspects of her culture—this writer’s favourite track is “Obeah”—fused with how that intersects with various parts of her identity in a compelling way that feels honest and empowering, delivered in a tone that feels more like a chat with a

“The music that I make is inspired by conversations. I feel like I have an underdog energy in me and I’ve always spoken about the specificities of me being an underdog and being a young black female from Canada.”

friend. She says, “The music that I make is inspired by conversations. I feel like I have an underdog energy in me and I’ve always spoken about the specificities of me being an underdog and being a young black female from Canada. Those are [the] specific elements of my story that go into the music and then people can feel what needs to be felt from it. It’s a real part of my journey. I’ve just learned to tell the story in an audible way.” She says, “I know how to respect boundaries. There are certain things that allow me to access thoughts that I wouldn’t naturally gravitate towards in a normal space. Because of the boundaries that I set for myself, it allows me to not overthink certain things, and in enough

year’s JUNO awards, another first as the only woman to have received it to date. But this is just one stop of a very mighty journey. Haviah is hungry and ready to claim the next part of her destiny. Overwhelmed by the outpouring of support after her nabbing the award, she found herself back in the studio recording a freestyle over the Drakeassisted Jack Harlow record Churchill Downs. In it, you can feel the sense of urgency as her bravado-laced lyrics are contemplative yet a sharp indictment of the artist’s selfawareness of where she is and where she’d like to go. “In the song I referenced like, a journey taking longer than I hoped it would go because as much as I am humble and so grateful, there are moments where it’s like, wow, it really took twelve-plus years to even get to this point. I’m happy to be here, but also I know that I’ve worked to be here,” she says. “I see a lot of people talking about ‘Who is that?’ ‘I’ve never heard of her,’ or: ‘I think her voice sounds so good,’ ‘She’s great.’ A lot of people don’t know the origin story and I

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There’s no high Haviah Mighty cannot reach. For nearly twelve years, the artist has dedicated an incredible amount of her energy to sharpening her craft and this moment feels like a fever pitch. In 2019, she became the first Black woman and the first hip hop artist to win a Polaris Music Prize with her debut album 13th Floor. Her most recent accolades include winning Rap Album of the Year with Stock Exchange at this

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time, I can once the idea is there. I can extrapolate in that state, but sometimes, I think there’s a very spiritual energy of herbs.” As far as incorporating cannabis into

“I feel like I know myself better than when I did the last project. The music is better for it.”

her practice goes, the artist does have a limited edition collector’s line of signature rolling papers produced in partnership with Ziggi Papers. But she is balancing self-discipline, honouring the plant, while being aware of what its capabilities can be for her work. There’s a spiritual energy, but she also knows that the place she calls home has a wrought history to contend with, a conclusion that her—and many other people who have incorporated cannabis into their lives—have expressly pointed out in the four years since its legalization.

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For Haviah, who always speaks her truth, her next chapter involves connecting with fans in the way that she’s most familiar with: on the stage. Says the artist, “I’m looking forward to touring and also touring the new music that I’m starting to work on. [I’m] getting really excited and thinking about that setting where people can engage with it: call-and-response, instrumental breaks and bringing instruments on stage.” As the artist prepares to go on tour, she is continuing on her trajectory to share her gift with the world. With an uncompromising drive and a desire to use music as a catalyst to mobilize and storytell, Haviah is ready for higher heights. “I know you need to take a moment to smell the flowers but at the same time, I’m also in that state of being genuinely hungry, wanting to keep going and seeing it as an art form. This is my job and I feel like I have momentum. “I’m just so excited to actually be able to work on the next phase and feel so confident in what we’re doing, so confident in the theme and what I want to talk about this year. I feel like I know myself better than when I did the last project. The music is better for it. There’s so much vulnerability that can be tapped into when you know that it’s there and when you’re willing to confront it.”

To catch Haviah Mighty on tour across Canada, see haviahmighty.ca.

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Few accolades haven’t been bestowed on astronaut Chris Hadfield: the first Canadian to perform extravehicular activities in space. Hadfield—engineer, singer, fighter pilot, veteran of two Space Shuttle missions, optimist, dreamer, doer, Sarnia boy, icon—is working with BioHarvest, a company that, among other things, produces cannabinoids at scale. Hadfield says that when space tourism expands, tourists will want to get stoned.

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“People have been chewing on mushrooms and roots and berries for forever and there’s always a role in society for that,” Hadfield said. “Once the population gets large enough, once you get to a stable enough situation, people are gonna want a drink. People are gonna want pot.” KIND editor Ben Kaplan gets schooled by Hadfield on how to dream, and how to live.

Ben Kaplan: So honoured for your time today and thanks for talking to KIND. I kind of have you up on a pedestal. Chris Hadfield: Everybody is just people. We tend to forget that, we tend to onedimensionalize folks, but everyone is dealing with problems and their personal demons and all that. I’m no different than anyone else.

CH: Onboard an orbiting space ship, you go blisteringly fast: 8K per second. It means you race around the world in 92 minutes, every 46 minutes the sun sets and rises. The most unbelievably beautiful thing is to fly around the curve of our earth coming out of the darkness and forcing the sunrise, the earth at night is a purplish ghost of a glow of the atmosphere—just sort of visually humming around the world in the darkness. To the north and the south is Aurora, but the rest is this purple haze over the world as you drive towards the sunrise and the suns’ rays catch the upper atmosphere, it happens super fast because of the speed—the colour just pours in as if someone was pouring a rainbow onto the horizon.

BK: I want to see that. CH: Out in space, you get sixteen of those a day.

this weekend, what should I eat, what skills must I learn if I want to walk on the moon? That night gave me a litmus test for all my decisions and that’s how I’ve conducted my whole life. It started the summer when I turned ten.

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BK: When you close your eyes and think about where you’ve been, what’s the most beautiful image you see?

BK: Do you remember when you knew your destiny would be out amongst the stars? BK: Summer is just the best time for experiencing the cosmos. What CH: The summer of ’69, when Neil and Buzz advice would you give KIND readers walked on the moon, July 20. who want to look up to the sky? CH: NASA has on its site SpottheStation, and it’s a great portal where you put in where you live and it tells you when to go outside and watch the International CH: I remember staying up late and watching Space Station. The ISS is a visual, needed them land, open the hatch and walk outside. reminder of what we can accomplish when I’d already been reading comic books, watching we do things together—fifteen countries Star Trek and I’d seen 2001: A Space Odyssey and of the world, including Russia, working all of that was underpinned by the reality of together, peacefully, exploring the universe those Apollo astronauts solving all of these as we’ve done for decades, despite the stupid problems and walking on the moon. decisions we make on earth’s surface. BK: You’re a kid and you’re thinking, wow, that’s the coolest job in the world?

BK: That sounds amazing. CH: It goes from blackness to the world enveloped in colour—the sun explodes in front of you and, because you’re by a spaceship window and there’s nothing between you and the sun except a couple of panes of glass, the heat and radiant power is an onslaught of the sun.

BK: What did that make you feel?

BK: That space station is mindblowing.

CH: That night I decided to start turning myself into the adult I wanted to be, to start making decisions so that someday, someone might trust me to fly a spaceship. It gave me a set of rules for my life—what should I do

CH: After the sun and the moon, it’s the third brightest thing in the sky. I think we should all make time to watch it and think about the souls inside and what we’re all part of.

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BK: That’s such a positive message, feeling connected to the global community. CH: I think another really positive feeling, especially in a place like Canada with strong seasons, is to get away from the things that fill up your life and drive you crazy, the noise of the day, and go for a long walk in nature— notice what’s around you, each blade of grass, and think about the rejuvenating nature of seasons and remind yourself how this planet actually works and how life works. There’s been life uninterrupted on Earth for 4 billion years and we can feel self-important, that we’ve ruined this planet, but Earth’s withstood much worse than us—huge cataclysmic events—and life is still here. We’re still here.

We’re approaching eight billion and, looking at the birth and death rate, we’ll probably peak around ten. So far, we’re feeding eight billion and, looking at quality of life, nutrition, infant mortality, we’ve never been this successful, but we’re doing it on 10,000-year-old agricultural practices. Think about that.

BK: It’s a little bit dated. CH: The oldest person in the world is 119 years old. She was born in 1903, the same year the Wright brothers first flew. In one life, we went from the Wright brothers to where we are now. The Industrial Revolution worked great, but it’s unsustainable. I want to feed people in a sustainable way and that’s BioHarvest. How can technology improve the quality of life of ten billion people in an efficient way?

BK: You journey to the stars to feel connected to the people on Earth. CH: I think this summer, once we look up, we should also look down, then look into the mirror and think about what’s important to you and turn those dreams to reality. How can I be doing the stuff to make the changes I want to see? How do you change yourself and be part of something noble, bigger than you, that serves as a citizen of the planet? This summer, take action. Life is not what you set out to do, it’s what you choose to do next.

BK: Amen. CH: Carl Sagan said, ‘We’re all stardust,’ and that’s the truth. We tend to think the cosmos and the world are separate, but I’ve been around the world 2,650 times and we are the cosmos—this is our Eden, love your home.

BK: You’re isolating the bits of the plants that are most beneficial and then growing them at scale? CH: It’s biotechnology extraction, and it uses less power, less land and less water than traditional farming, which of course I respect and certainly understand since I grew up on a farm.

CH: One of the biggest threats we face as a species is: how do you feed ten billion people?

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CH: It’s never been part of my life, but my kids, obviously…and lots of people around us. I think it’s fine, it’s legal, it’s just part of society. It’s like coming out of prohibition, like people thought alcohol is all bad—even though lots of people were drinking alcohol.

BK: What do you think, in your lifetime, is the holy grail for our next frontier in space? CH: The big question is: are we alone?

BK: Aliens. CH: Think about the sheer, overwhelming number of planets and the enormity of time. It would seem to indicate a high probability that there’s life somewhere else.

BK: There has to be. CH: But the reality is we’ve found zero evidence.

BK: But do you think there is? BK: At KIND, of course, we got excited when we heard you talking about weed. CH: All the potheads got excited, and it’s cool, it’s not illegal. I’m interested in the medicinal health application for the active ingredients in cannabis for things like pain reduction, anxiety reduction and PTSD treatments. I don’t know if you’ve ever grown pot, but it’s hard.

BK: Why, have you grown pot? BK: Part of loving our home is providing for its inhabitants. Not a bad transition to let you talk about your work at BioHarvest.

BK: So, no rolling blunts?

CH: I served in the military for 25 years and was an astronaut for 21 years and things that decrease your ability to function in highly technological environments? Not a good idea.

CH: It’s a big existential question. Discovering a new life form could add to our understanding of life itself, and think of it the other way: if we can’t find life anywhere else, that should redouble our efforts to support this rarity—this incredible improbability of events that happened. If we’re the only evidence of life, let alone intelligent life, that we can detect anywhere, then we have a huge responsibility not to squander it and not argue about the stupid things we tend to argue about.

BK: Be kind to each other, exactly. CH: The other thing I’m interested in is how,

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“DISCOVERING A NEW LIFE FORM COULD ADD TO OUR UNDERSTANDING OF LIFE ITSELF” when I was born, it was impossible to fly into space, but now we’ve successfully had people living on a space station since 2000. Having human life living in places other than Earth is the next logical step and the moon is obviously the next stepping stone.

BK: Human beings colonizing the moon. CH: We left Africa maybe 80,000 years ago. We got to the Americas maybe 18,000 years ago, New Zealand 1,000 years ago and got to space 60 years ago. People don’t equate that to the future, but we’re on the cusp of being able to live on a planet besides Earth—and the moon is only three days away.

BK: Something to dream about. CH: It’s what I dreamed about. We’re on the cusp of doing stuff we’ve been magining before history was even written, right now. This summer, look up at the sky and focus on how lucky we are to live where we live.

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