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ISSUE 2 // VOLUME 3 // 2.2019

FEATURES 30 Cannabis in the Bedroom:

A Love Story?

Cannasexuals. Weed viagra. Body response variations. Proceed this way for all things cannabis and sex.

SP EC IAL R EP OR T

38 A Cannabis Plant by

Any Other Name

Hemp and “marijuana” come from the same plant. So, if hemp is now legal, shouldn’t “marijuana” be, too?

EAT YOUR GREENS For health’s sake

every issue 09 Editor’s Note 10 The Buzz 16 NewsFeed

LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES

22 TasteBuds

LIFE IN THE FAST LANE Hemp hits the road

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OF FOOD My editorial career

editor’s

NOTE

began at a dining magazine—

one of those dream-job roles that involved a lot of research/eating at top-rated restaurants manned by some of the world’s best chefs. So I learned early on that the stories of a community, of a culture, of a time and place—those stories can be told through the stories of food, through tales of dining experiences and tradi-

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ipatory glee. Magazine-making tradition says that February is-

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Truth time: I look forward to this edition each year with anticsues should be dedicated to romance and love affairs and pul-

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sate with sexual innuendos, and at first glance, it may seem like

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having an all-things-edible issue flies in the face of that tradition.

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MMJ & HEMP WASTE MANAGEMENT

Lux Leaf // EDUCATION

But it’s quite the opposite. This issue is dedicated to our universal love for food. (Just please don’t call yourself a foodie. We all like food, we’re humans, we’re all “foodies.” Using that descriptor is redundant.)

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The lineup ranges from stories of first-time encounters with

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of humans eating hemp. And because it is February, and we do

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live in the birthplace of legal adult-use cannabis, elsewhere in

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He’s one of a team of local editors Sensi has manning the editorial side of our now eight monthly publications, published in cities from coast to coast. Look for us in Massachusetts, Colorado, Nevada, and California. This month, we welcome Sensi Emerald Triangle to the lineup—the most O of the OG markets and one we are particularly proud to serve. The area’s long complicated history as the epicenter of the country’s cannabis industry is detailed in the new Murder Mountain series on Netflix, and if you haven’t yet streamed it, queue it up. It’s a binge-worthy, enlightening, and emotional showcase of some passionate people who laid it all on the line for this plant that we love. And that’s what February is all about: love. And we love eating. So let’s get to it. Bon appétit.

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A Porsche Race Car After Your Own Heart Hemp + Super-Performance Street-Illegal Porsche = This Sexy Beast

bile and thought, “Some day”?

hemp-enhanced Porsche is gorgeous, ridiculously unnecessary (but when has owning a super race car been

Have you ever looked at a high-performance race

anything else, really?), and totally awesome even if it’s

car made by Porsche, maybe something with monster

just a pipe dream. If it’s not so much pipe dream and a

wheels, an 80-liter fuel cell, handheld ﬁre extinguishers,

doable reality with some details, observe the following:

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“The power of the engine has increased considerably”

withstand the hard breaking of the 380mm discs, and

in the new hemp built Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 Club-

said, “I can actually buy that”?

sport, Fritz Enzinger, Porsche’s head of motorsport, told

Finally, have you ever been through both of those options? Have you thought, “You know, if Porsche would just

car-enthusiast blog VWVortex, and he says this guy has “more racing genes than its successful predecessor.”

get off its ass and create the 718 Cayman GT4 with panels

Swell. If you got the cash, the want to fuse your love

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for high-performance supercars with your love of hemp

or ﬂax—making the material weaker than carbon ﬁber but

and what it’s doing for the planet—and don’t mind a car

in the end creating a super insane race car that will bring

that isn’t even road legal—then hey, they begin shipping

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in February.

Well, that car would be so badass—made from the glorious gift to the world that multi-use hemp should be, is slowly becoming, or in some cases now is the best choice for a climate-change wary car culture, as much as a thing exists”? Then damn, just sit back and check out the combination of all three of those things. Because this new 10 FEBRUARY 2019 Southern Colorado

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The tired-yet-ubiquitous message that “February is for lovers” can cause anyone in a newly-single-but-not-by-choice state an added layer of post-relationship anguish. If that’s you, chin up. Or not—you do you, keep crying it out if you need to. This time of year is full of romantic triggers, adding a notso-sweet layer of pain to fresh wounds. Breakups are tough, they hurt, and your anguish can last way longer than your friends are willing to listen to you analyze the GIF choices in your ex-lover’s Instagram Stories. Good news: you don’t have to put the emotional brunt of your post-breakup breakdowns solely on your besties. There’s an app for your angst: Mend. The New York Times described Mend, founded by ex-Googler Ellen Huerta, as a personal trainer for heartbreak, designed to help users feel better, faster. Instead of helping you drop physical lbs, Mend’s trainers help you drop the emotional deadweight of your ex. It provides the essential self-care you need after a breakup through daily audio trainings, practical tips, and community support, tracking your progress over time. Topics covered: what to do if you see your ex on dating apps, how to stop social media stalking, and what to read/watch/do to keep yourself from contacting an old flame. Mend is free to download from the App Store, and you can start the healing process with a 7-day trial period. After that, it’s $9.99 a month, but your friends may be willing to chip in if it means they don’t have to look at another screen shot of your ex’s Insta. Talk to the app: maybe it’ll help. Maybe it won’t. But it will keep you busy, and when you’re busy, you aren’t stalking social feeds. Happy healing. –Stephanie Wilson

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Feast Your Eyes

A collection of our favorite notable quotes and phrases about our ongoing love affair with devour-able sustenance.

“Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.” —Anthony Bourdain

“My doctor told me I had to stop throwing intimate dinners for four unless there are three other people.” —Orson Welles

“There is no sincerer love than the love of food.” —George Bernard Shaw “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” —Virginia Wolfe

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“Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.” —Harriet van Horne

“Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate.” —Alan D. Wolfelt

“Barbecue sauce is like a beautiful woman. If it’s too sweet, it’s bound to be hiding something.” —Lyle Lovett

“People who love to eat are the best people.” —Julia Child

“Great food is like great sex. The more you have the more you want.” —Gael Green

“I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.” —Nora Ephron

“My weaknesses have always been food & men.” —Dolly Parton

“Sharing food with another human is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.” —MFK Fisher

“Don’t wreck a sublime chocolate experience by feeling guilty. Chocolate isn’t like premaritial sex. It will not make you pregnant. And it always feels good.” —Lora Brody

“If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with him… The people who give you their food give you their heart.” —Cesar Chavez

High-Society Baubles

Walking through Zeppelin Station in Denver’s RiNo neighborhood last

month heading out the door, I spied from the corner of my little eye a table display full of gold jewelry that seemed to be a wink-wink, nod-nod to the cannabis plant. A deconstructed starburst that when seen through the right mindset was a deconstructed fan leaf hung upside down. I made it almost to the exit of the it-should-be-up-and-coming-but-it’s-not-quite-there-yet food collective before spinning on my heels and heading back to the display to inquire about the jewelry line. Turns out, the earrings that caught my eye were one of the few pieces in the entire line that don’t double as a roach clip. The high-minded jewelry line is by a company called High Society Collection out of the Paciﬁc Northwest. The line is centered around smoker-friendly pieces that serve dual purpose: compliment-garnering statement accessories (I’ve gotten more comments and praise for my starburst pair than any other pair of dangling statement-makers in my growing collection of earrings) and eye-catching tools with a purpose. Like these Mary Jane’s Stoned Earrings ($45 without abalone accent; $68 with), which incorporate glides along the pinchers with serrated tips, making it easy to grasp that joint and puff with style. Along with the earrings, the multifaceted collection includes necklaces, straight luxe roach clips, fancy joint holders and tampers, and more—plus a whole line of non-smoking accessories. Like an abalone ring holder and whatnot. You can check out the line at Zeppelin Station, or head to the website for the whole delicious lineup.

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LEGISLATIVE Changes to cannabis laws are afoot.

The Colorado General Assembly began its four-month

rewritten, that they reflect what the term “open and pub-

term January 4. With both the state House and Senate

lic” really means. There’s a lot of confusion over the termi-

now held by Democrats and a governor who has been a

nology, and without that distinction, he says, it’s going to

champion for sensible legislation all the way back to the

be difficult to move forward.

beginning, cannabis issues are expected to play a role.

And it’s important because public consumption/social

At this writing, two bills have already been introduced,

use still needs to be dealt with. Adults can buy cannabis

and they are expected to pass this time without any snags.

legally but have virtually nowhere to go to use like they

Both are medical applications similar to bills passed in the

have with alcohol. The city of Colorado Springs banned

legislature by wide margins last year but vetoed by former

all social use clubs but is allowing existing businesses to

Governor John Hickenlooper. One would add the autism

phase out their operations. Some private clubs exist in

spectrum to the list of conditions physicians would be al-

the Denver shadows, and private parties can allow limit-

lowed to recommend cannabis as medicine, the other will

ed consumption. But after Denver voters passed a bill to

add acute pain and opioid addiction to the list, which would

allow licenses for public consumption, only one has been

give doctors more treatment options for those conditions.

approved, with a second expected to open early this year.

Probably the most important thing legislators face is

“We’re grown-ass adults, and we still have to hide,” says

that the codes that govern how cannabis is grown, pro-

longtime lobbyist Cindy Sovine, whose request to turn a his-

cessed, and sold are, after five years, sunsetting in Sep-

toric mansion near downtown Denver into a cannabis spa was

tember. The Colorado Office of Policy, Research, and Reg-

rejected last year because of zoning restrictions. “Denver has

ulatory Reform has been looking at the Colorado Medical

had the chance to take the lead in social consumption, but it

Marijuana Code and the Colorado Retail Marijuana Code,

hasn’t. We need to start thinking about how we do this right.”

and legislators will see its suggestions and have the

A proposal last year to allow “tasting rooms” inside

chance to evaluate what has worked, what hasn’t, and

dispensaries was a tentative first step vetoed by the for-

what changes need to be made.

mer governor. There is talk of submitting one similar to

A group of entrepreneurs, lobbyists, and advocates call-

the one Hickenlooper rejected, along with a way to permit

ing themselves the Social Use Avengers are giving a voice

independent venues and music halls to allow consump-

to consumer groups and seeking workable social-use reg-

tion and limited sales. The general idea is to build off the

ulations. The first step, says Michael Eymer of Colorado

tasting rooms bill, says Peter Marcus of Terrapin Station,

Cannabis Tours, is to make sure that when the codes are

which backed last year’s limited measure. “It was an in-

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“You would be able to consume on sight what you purchase. Just exactly like a bar or tavern.” —Cindy Sovine

cremental approach at the time. We’re also looking at the

Cannabis Consumer Coalition, says she originally was con-

new legislative landscape.”

cerned about allowing bars and restaurants to sell canna-

A plan by the Social Use Avengers will create different

bis. But, she says, people are going to do it, anyway. “Most

license options. One would be for businesses that want to

people are responsible. This gives us the chance to educate

allow consumption onsite but not to sell cannabis prod-

people we otherwise can’t reach, which could make it safer,”

ucts, like hotels, coffee shops, yoga studios, and wellness

she says. “We have to look out for the consumer.”

centers. The second license would allow micro sales at the

Expect a battle again over delivery. A bill last year pro-

venue. “You would be able to consume on sight what you

posed by Rep. Jonathan Singer would have created a two-

purchase,” says Sovine. “Just exactly like a bar or tavern.”

year pilot program for marijuana delivery for recreational

The group is also asking to allow the alcohol industry

and medical cannabis in willing cities. Republicans killed

to participate. Licenses could be temporary or permanent.

it on a party-line Senate committee vote after criticism

And, of course, local jurisdictions could opt in or out of the

from law enforcement, which fears that couriers might

program. The decision to ban the alcohol industry was

become targets for thieves. This is in spite of the fact that

done by the Department of Revenue, not voters, Sovine

Canada has been using the postal service to deliver med-

says, and forced the industry to oppose cannabis. But al-

ical cannabis for years, it helps keep possibly intoxicated

cohol businesses have expertise in handling intoxication,

drivers off the road, and allows those in rural areas better

which could be a benefit for everbody. “Bring them back

access to medicine.

to the table, and allow everyone to participate,” Sovine ar-

It’s still early, but Eymer says that 2019 is a great op-

gues. “It makes it a more equitable playing field. It creates

portunity for the industry to finally get some things right.

licenses but leaves it up to local control.”

“As long as people can play together, this will work,” he

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EDIBLES COMPLEX Edibles users tell tales— hilarious, healing, and horrifying— of their first time.

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Ask folks about their experiences with cannabis edibles

became legal. Despite these experiences, most say they

and somehow the stories always involve the inability to

continue to use edibles in a comfortable way. Because of

stand up. Others remember calls to 911, near-death feel-

sensitive employment situations or simple embarrass-

ings, and bouts of uproarious laughter.

ment, the writers are not identified. The stories are all real

There’s something about consuming edibles that sparks

… or, at least as real as remembered.

wild experiences among a cross section of people including some veteran, longtime cannabis smokers who are not unacquainted with the effects of THC. In the annals of edibles, one name stands out in boldfaced letters: Maureen Dowd. Shortly after recreational cannabis was launched in Colorado, the New York Times columnist flew into Denver, bought some chocolate edibles, asked few questions, and tried them alone in her hotel room. “I barely made it from the desk to the bed, where I lay curled up in a hallucinatory state for the next eight hours. … I strained to remember where I was or even what I was wearing, touching my green corduroy jeans and staring at the exposed-brick wall. As my paranoia deepened, I became convinced that I had died and no one was telling me,” Dowd wrote in 2014. One Denver psychologist was not surprised when he heard Dowd’s story. “On the whole, edibles are a very different beast from smoking bud or a vape pen. It’s THC, but it’s a different quality of high. Because of the way it is absorbed, it affects people very differently,” says Dr. Bill Costas, a clinical psychologist who has worked in the metro area for more than 30 years. His experience with edibles took place in the early years after cannabis was legalized. “It was both a body and a

“So, I took 20 mg more to get in the groove.” A reader who had stopped smoking cannabis years earlier decided to give edibles a try when she had a chance to see Furthur, a reformation of the Grateful Dead (sans Jerry Garcia). “I bought a 100 milligram edible. Everyone I talked to said try 10 milligrams at first and see how you feel. Well, I took it at the beginning of the show and by “Black Throated Wind,” I felt almost nothing. So, I took 20 milligrams more, wanting to get in the groove for the second set. Move the clock forward about 30 minutes, I could barely stand up. By “China Doll,” I thought someone had slipped me a dose of LSD 25. It took everything for me to stand up, let alone dance. With about four songs to go, I asked my husband if we could go home. He looked at me like I asked him to commit murder. He told me to sit down, and we could leave prior to the encore. Well, the “Help on the Way”/”Slipknot”/“Franklin’s Tower” trifecta was barely over, and I had my coat on. I couldn’t stand up without help, and I almost dragged my husband into the bathroom to help me. The end result? No one was injured or hospitalized and a lesson was learned: edibles take longer to show effects, so be patient.”

head high, and I was really messed up on both levels to the point of feeling very uncomfortable. I couldn’t manage to stand up and go outside. I couldn’t do it 30 or 45 minutes later. You are along for the ride, and it’s a much longer ride than you expect,” he shares. Part of the problem is what Costas calls the “hysteria” surrounding edibles (and cannabis in general), including a lot of alarmist headlines that prime novice users of edibles to be anxious. Sensi recently asked readers to share their memories, and they responded with tales of edibles experiences that are funny, scary, healing, and hilarious. Some had come of age during the age of pot brownies, others when edibles sensimag.com FEBRUARY 2019 23

“The cops came, the paramedics came”

A reader related a story about a friend who visited Col-

orado soon after legalization: “She hadn’t smoked in four decades but picked up some chocolate. We split like 10 milligrams, she freaked out and thought she was having a heart attack, and called 911. The cops came, the paramedics came. I had the giggles while the officer explained to her that she was going to be fine, and that she wasn’t the first person this happened to. In fact, she wasn’t even the first person that week. The officer noted that the worst case he had seen was a woman who ate some edibles and was picked up running down the side of the road ‘butt naked.’”

“I became that year’s ‘brownie casualty’”

“When I was about 13 I was just learning about pot and

had never smoked. I heard you could eat it, too. My friend passed me a bag of pot under the stall in the bathroom and I took a handful and tried to eat it. Yuck! “My first real experience was pot brownies at a Mall Crawl

“The only thing that got my brain to shut off”

Halloween party in Boulder. I became that year’s ‘brownie

Edibles came to the rescue in the case of a Denver mother.

casualty.’ I couldn’t walk or talk, and my friends put me to bed

“I got pregnant after fertility treatments. It ended up be-

before heading out. When legal edibles were finally available,

ing ectopic, I nearly died and had emergency surgery. Af-

a friend and I each took a quarter of a brownie-like thing

terwards, I had a lot of grief and anxiety. I always thought if

while we were staying at Indian Hot Springs. We laughed so

something really bad happened to me, I’d sleep and never

hard into the night we were afraid we’d get kicked out. We

eat but it was just the opposite. I couldn’t get my anxiety

decided the edibles were too intense and gave the rest to

to calm down so it was about eight months trying every-

the poolside bartender as a tip the next night.”

thing to sleep. So I finally decided to try a small amount of

Recipe: “Two Pieces Are Quite Sufficient” In The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook published in 1954, the iconoclastic, pioneering writer shared the most famous cannabis edibles recipe in history, Hashish Fudge. She once told a reporter that her Hashish Fudge “might provide an entertaining refreshment for a Ladies’ Bridge Club or a chapter meeting of the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution).” “Take one teaspoon black peppercorns, one whole nutmeg, four average sticks of cinnamon, one teaspoon coriander. These should all be pulverized in a mortar. About a handful each of stoned dates, dried figs, shelled almonds, and peanuts: chop these and mix them together. A bunch of Cannabis sativa can be pulverized. This along with the spices should be dusted over the mixed fruit and nuts, kneaded together. About a cup of sugar dissolved in a big pat of butter. Rolled into a cake and cut into pieces or made into balls about the size of a walnut, it should be eaten with care. Two pieces are quite sufficient.”

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edible gummies. It worked immediately, and it was the only thing that got my brain to shut off so I could sleep. I rarely use them now, only once in a while in very small doses. It takes a while to metabolize, so it allows me to fall asleep as well as stay asleep. I have been very grateful for this medicinal aspect of it.”

“‘Beware the demons within.’”

“R,” a longtime Colorado radio personality, has been encountering edibles

since the pot brownies he ate at Berkeley in 1971 “that felt almost like I was tripping,” he says. “In 1977, my wife and I got married. As a wedding gift, we got a recipe booklet for majoun, a Moroccan cannabis candy. We really had no way of judging the dosage so we threw some weed in and hoped for the best. I remember the booklet saying that if you ate too much then ‘beware the demons within.’ We ate some, and went to see a band in Denver and got seats in the front row. The opening act was just horrendous, and my wife started laughing hysterically, so we had to leave. We sat in the lobby for a long time, and then we went outside. When the show was over, we were invited up to the band’s hotel room. I remember pinning my wife against the wall with one arm while I used the other to punch the button for the elevator. I guess she eventually came down but it was a long time before she ever ate any weed again.”

“How edibles education happens” A Colorado Sensi reader wonders if we ever really learn, especially when it comes to edibles. “When it’s the late 1960s, and you’re a good girl who doesn’t believe in smoking anything, all you get is a contact high from sitting in a room with

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friends getting stoned. Then someone says: ‘Did you know

ter start off slow.’ So I had a nibble of the most delicious

you can eat pot?’

mint chocolate and felt great. It was fun, like “having-a-

“I ate some brownies and went to a rock concert at the

second-glass-of-wine” fun. Fast forward a month and I

Colorado College chapel and ended up walking on the backs

found my nibbled-on chocolate sample and an extra piece.

of the church pews with style and grace. That should have

I ate one and it tasted so good I munched down the next.

been a lesson about me and edibles.

What could it hurt? That’s how I discovered the difference

“Flash forward 40 years and a friend said, ‘Hey, do you want some chocolate?’ A big discussion about dosage ensued. My potophile friend said, ‘Eat the whole thing, I always do.’ My occasional-user friend said, ‘Nah, she bet-

Down the Rabbit Hole

(Or, tips from a psychologist on coping with an edibles misadventure) Drinking coffee, walking outside, lying down, and drinking Gatorade may seem to help, but when you’ve overdone the edibles, time is the best prescription for the unpleasant effects of consuming too much THC in edibles. Eating a bunch of food just slows down the absorption of the THC that is still in your stomach. Taking a dose of non-psychoactive CBD can help some users regain a sense of calm. That doesn’t mean that you can’t do anything to alleviate the anxiety, according to Dr. Bill Costas, a Denver-based clinical psychologist. “First, you have to remind yourself that you are along for the ride however long it lasts. If you are focusing your attention on time, you will spiral down the rabbit hole,” he said. “Next, remember that you can’t overdose on THC. It has never happened. Nobody has ever died simply from a high dose of THC.”

Accentuate the Positive

If you take edibles and experience that anxious, uncomfortable, out-ofcontrol feeling, there are effective mental strategies to deal with it.

between a fun dose and a ‘now I can only crawl from my bed to the bathroom’ dose. Live and learn.” JOHN LEHNDORFF writes the Nibbles column for the Boulder Weekly and hosts Radio Nibbles on KGNU.

“The best way to manage it is to detour your thinking from fear, anxiety, paranoia. Any time your thoughts go to a negative place, intentionally redirect them,” Costas says. “It sounds too simple, but turn the experience into having a good time. Think of something fun—the music, something you’re looking at or tasting. Keep it in a place that’s comfy. Get lost in a pleasant dreamy moment instead of, ‘When will this end?’” he says, noting that his suggestions come from firsthand experience. “I know that if I can direct my thoughts, I can affect my emotional state. It changes my awareness, my breathing, and my brain chemistry. It means that I do have control. I may not be able to become less stoned, but I can make myself less anxious.”

Practical Precautions

To have a better experience, consider some practical precautions before you swallow the THC-infused goodies. These include starting with a small, 1 to 5 milligram piece and working your way up, especially if you are a novice, Costas says. Just be aware that everyone is different and some users consume 40 milligrams or more before feeling any effects. Next, choose your set, setting, and company carefully, he suggests. Where you will you be when the full effect of the edibles happens? Who will be with

you? What sort of sensory environment will you be in? Make sure you have scheduled enough time, given the slow onset and lingering effects of edibles. Be sure to eat edibles before the big meal, not after, or the effects will linger much longer. “For me, I’m not going to have an edibles experience at Denny’s with strangers. I might go into the mountains. It’s good to have the right music. If you watch TV, you may not want to turn on Criminal Minds,” Costas suggests. Cannabis edibles taste much better. There are advances in microdosing, rapid absorption and targeted cannabinoids for specific therapeutic effects. Better dose control, packaging, and instructions make it more likely that the first time is a good time for edibles novices. However, in the end they are still edibles and subject to the variables that make eating different from smoking and vaping. It will still be up to each users’ self-awareness and learning over time.

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In the first decade OF THE 20TH

CENTURY, WHEN PSYCHOANALYSIS WAS BRISTLING WITH LIFE AND BIRTHING GREAT THINKERS OF THE AGE, A BRILLIANT FRIENDSHIP STRUCK UP WITH TWO CONTEMPORARIES FOND OF EXPLORING THE HUMAN PSYCHE AND ALL THE ROT FOUND WITHIN: CARL JUNG AND SIGMUND FREUD. It’s a famed friendship and was a true-blue bromance

while it lasted. The two once travelled to the United States to lecture on psychoanalysis at Clark University, and during the long boat ride, they regularly analyzed each other’s intimate dreams (naturally). Freud, savant of “it’s all sex, baby” thinking, was reportedly seeking an acolyte of his theories who would accept his views sans argument; a perennial father figure to whomever resided under his authority. That wasn’t Jung’s cup, and soon a chasm grew between them. Among other deviations from accepted theory on the human condition, Jung didn’t believe it was all about sex. Freud, in Jung’s eyes, had stretched his theory that all psychic life from birth to maturity is driven by sex drive too far to explain and account for too much. For Jung, the prince of the psychoanalytic community by 1909, it was about looking at the wider picture of the human mind, beyond his old pal’s thoughts on sexuality, and he aimed to redefine psychoanalysis along the way. Whether he did or not is of no concern here, because if you’re reading this, your brain, loins, and thoughts are likely oiled up and fully engorged. Because we’re here to talk about sex, cannabis, and how the two are coming together today. Cannabis is often championed as the cure to all bedroom ailments. At the same time, it’s often misunderstood, or simply (if cautiously) introduced as an acceptable commonplace component to one’s love tacklebox, much like a bottle of wine and 1970s R+B is for some or a Tinder match on a Tuesday night and fistful of Viagra is for others.

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Seth Prosterman, a San Fransisco-based certiﬁed sex therapist, told Vice in 2017 that weed isn’t a one-way ticket to pleasure town, but it can help you get there.

or engaging with either on any platform in the modern, phone-slave epoch we are living in. Sure, a lot of it can be a bunch of ﬂuffy prose or some-

“While pot can help bring out our most sexy selves, dis-

times blatantly obvious diatribes on how consuming 200

inhibit us, or relax us during sex, I would highly recom-

milligrams of a cannabis edible, in fact, doesn’t do much

mend that people learn to be in the moment and deeply feel

for one’s ability to pleasure another (doesn’t help when

and connect with their partners without using enhancing

you fall asleep in your romantic couple’s dinner, either).

drugs,” Prosterman said. “Pot can give us a glimpse of our

But the fact remains that with very little searching, it’s

sexual potential. Working towards our sexual potential,

becoming easier to locate the mavens, mavericks, and

with our partners, is part of developing a higher capacity

manufactured goods, experiences, and bold claims or-

for intimacy, passion, and deep connection.”

biting the star Stoned Sex. A good example of that is the

Depending on what social media feeds you’re at-

sex coach, relationship educator, and proud “cannasex-

tuned to, it’s not hard these days to get at least one story

ual” (those concerned with mindfully combining weed

fanned your way in a month about something to do with

and sex for desired positive results) Ashley Manta.

weed and sex. Particularly if you’re looking for it, at it,

Speaking to the men’s culture digital publication MEL

“The idea of being cannasexual isn’t limited to one specific sex act, or even just partnered sex. I speak of it in terms of one’s overall relationship with their body.” —Ashley Manta

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Magazine in 2017, Manta made it clear she’s not a blanket proselytizer out to turn every client into a cannabis-forward sex enthusiast. “I’m not out to convert people,” she said. “If people are happy not having cannabis in their sex lives, I’m not going to tell them they’re wrong for not wanting to consider including it. My approach is more like, if you already consume cannabis or you’re open to the idea of it, here are the best practices for mixing it with sex. The idea of being cannasexual isn’t limited to one specific sex act either, or even just partnered sex. I speak of it in terms of one’s overall relationship with their body, sexuality, and self-care.” If you want to see her theory in action, her Instagram (@ASHLEYMANTA ) is rife with content to back it up. Additionally, Manta is known for her cannabinoid-enhanced “play parties” which, if you’re imagining a swinging group of couples gathering under the banner of self-exploration, relationship tonic, or just consenting group sex-fests with weed lube, that sounds about right. On her website, she posted feedback from a satisfied customer, presumably still reeling in coital bliss given the tenor of what could be called one hell of a Yelp review: “Throughout the evening I had the opportunity to witness my friend in an element that was so clearly her own. Over the course of the night I watched from my spot at the vape bar as Ashley shifted seamlessly from teacher, to participant, to confidant, to chaperone. She was a listener, a cheerleader, a connoisseur, a lover, and a comfort. Even when the beautiful debauchery had built in momentum, it was kept from a state of complete entropy by her drifting gentle presence as she made her way around the crowd. Nobody and no body was neglected by her. She guided the under informed on the mindful marriage of cannabis and sex. She allowed the calming rituals of medicating with cannabis to bring those who indulged in it to that place of body-peace which only the right combination of carefully selected strains can induce.” It’s clear someone got plenty of bang for their buck (sorry), and that’s great. But there’s often a lot of anecdotal crisscrossing and conflicting messages about that last part, the use of specific strains as particular keys for unlocking sexytime happiness in a universal sense. Alcohol, on the other hand, has no shortage of both anecdote and hard facts about the good, bad, and ugly regarding drunk sex. Depending on body factors, two or more alcoholic beverages will depress the central nervous system. You know where that goes when bad–limp noodles for men, reduced clitoral sensitivity in women, and often both people don’t have the prefect romp in the rickshaw. (It’s also not all bad, either, but facts are facts). 34 FEBRUARY 2019 Southern Colorado

Oh, and now speaking of weed lube, there are loads of companies out there doing versions of that, too. California- and Colorado-based Foria Pleasure (FORIAPLEASURE.COM ) manufactures a range of cannabis-infused THC arousal lube and even THC/CBD Explore rectal suppositories.

There are plenty of positive studies coming out about

its weight in dildos. (Tishler was once asked to advise

general ﬁndings on cannabis and sex interacting. In Au-

for a company trying to invent a dildo that squirted out

gust 2018, Psychology Today ran a column discussing

weed lube during use.)

recent academic work exploring the topic:

“I could make jokes, but I believe it’s a good thing,” he

“Stanford researchers conducted the largest study to

says. “That we are comfortable even mentioning sex with

date. They extracted information about sex and marijua-

cannabis is part of the breakdown of generational stigma.”

na from three installments of the large, ongoing National

Unlike Manta, Tishler thinks strain speciﬁcs regarding

Survey of Family Growth—data from 2002, 2006–10, and

bedroom activities isn’t really an issue. Additionally, sex-

2011–15. Their total data set included 28,176 women and 22,943 men, average age 30, who formed a reasonably representative sample of the US population. Compared with cannabis abstainers, men who used it weekly reported 22 percent more sex, women 34 percent more. Among those

“I could make jokes, but I believe it’s a good thing.That we are comfortable even mentioning sex with cannabis is part of the breakdown of generational stigma.”

who used marijuana more than weekly, sexual frequency increased even more. This study did not ask if participants found cannabis sex-enhancing, but to an extent, that can be inferred.” No study exists to conﬁrm that cannabis can totally impair sexual function the way alcohol can, but that doesn’t mean all green is all go when combining weed and sex. All too familiar with this is Dr. Jordan Tishler, founder of the Cambridge-based Inhale MD, which specializes in cannabis therapeutics, including the intersection of cannabis and human sexuality. A Harvard Medical School graduate and practicing emergency physician, Tishler says people read things

—Dr. Jordan Tishler

on the internet or dive into discussions about different strains and cannabis topicals (see: weed lube) or cooking romantic-dosed dinners for loved ones, and that’s ﬁne. “Those things certainly play a factor,” he says, “but generally it’s not my recommended approach regarding cannabis altering sexuality.” It comes down to a lack of a standard of research and understanding. If you were to ask 20 casual (or, nay, nu-expert) CBD preachers about its positive effect during sex, you’ll get 20 answers. To those who claim it’s

ual lubricants, toys, and so on are fun, but its about body

the golden ticket to humping happiness, Tishler says

type, effect, and all interested parties being in synch with

“keep it in your pants.”

each other. Or, if on a solo mission, in synch with one’s self.

“CBD for sexuality is a non-starter,” he says. “It doesn’t

It’s about how cannabis introduced into sexual set-

provoke libido. … It may help with anxiety or pain if that’s

tings or relationships is a means to stimulate the big

an issue, but what we’re really looking at in treatment

sexy organ everyone has on their shoulders, and that,

of sexual dysfunction or enhancement with cannabis is

of course, is where the Inﬁnity Stone of getting it on

how it’s used to create healthier relationships.”

rests for everyone.

Which isn’t to say the new canna-sex experts popping

“Cannabis can help facilitate situations and discus-

up, creating new businesses and products or hawking

sions and different levels of honesty and intimacy in

themselves as self-described anything-experts is nec-

relationships that need it,” he says. “But what we know

essarily a bad thing in these early days of legal weed.

about humans is that over 90 percent of what’s going on

That there are people doing this, and ﬁnding an audi-

[to enhance/improve] sex is going on between your ears.”

ence, suggests bringing such topics and experimentation to light is meaningful to people. And that is worth

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SPEC IAL REPORT

A CANNABIS PLANT BY ANY OTHER NAME

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Industrial hemp and psychoactive “marijuana” are the same plant, Cannabis sativa, bred and cultivated in very different ways. So, if hemp is now legal, shouldn’t “marijuana” be, too? by R O BY N G R I G G S L AW R E N C E

Perhaps the most remarkable thing ABOUT THE US CONGRESS LEGALIZING HEMP LATE LAST YEAR WAS HOW UNREMARKABLE IT WAS. LEGALIZATION OF HEMP AND ITS NON-PSYCHOACTIVE CANNABINOID CBD SAILED THROUGH THE HOUSE AND SENATE WITH RARE BIPARTISAN SUPPORT AS PART OF THE 2018 FARM BILL, WHICH PRESIDENT TRUMP SIGNED INTO LAW WHILE COMPLAINING ABOUT THE BORDER WALL. (TRUMP TURNED DOWN SENATE MAJORITY LEADER MITCH MCCONNELL’S OFFER TO LOAN HIM HIS HEMP PEN FOR THE OCCASION.) For hemp farmers and entrepreneurs in the Unit-

hemp foods and demand for CBD surged, more and more

ed States, it was a watershed moment. Already, 77,000

states established hemp programs, and production

acres of hemp are being cultivated under state protec-

soared in the United States.

tions (half of them in Colorado, which legalized hemp

For all that, the Farm Bill opened up a tangled and con-

in 2014), and 750 hemp-derived foods and supplements

fusing conversation when it put the US Agriculture De-

have ﬂooded the $2 billion CBD market. Now, this na-

partment in charge of industrial hemp, which it deﬁned

scent industry can operate under the full protection of

as cannabis with less than 0.3 percent THC; removed the

federal law, with access to critical infrastructure such

non-psychoactive cannabinoid CBD from inclusion in

as insurance, banking, and tax write-offs it had been de-

the Controlled Substances Act; and continued the Food

nied under prohibition.

and Drug Administration’s oversight of products con-

“It’s time to ﬁgure it out and see where this market will

taining cannabis and cannabis-derived compounds.

take us,” McConnell, a Republican who hopes hemp will

Hemp cultivation had been illegal largely because au-

replace tobacco as a revenue source in his home state of

thorities in the United States couldn’t tell it apart from

Kentucky, told CNBC. “I think it’s an important new devel-

psychoactive “marijuana.” Before the bill passed, all

opment in American agriculture. There’s plenty of hemp

cannabis plants—even those that could not get anybody

around; it’s just coming from other countries. Why in the

high—had effectively been outlawed by the 1937 Marijua-

world would we want a lot of it to not come from here?”

na Tax Act, which was rammed through the House Ways

In 1999, the United States began allowing imports of

and Means Committee before members understood

hemp products with less than 0.3 percent of the psycho-

what they were doing. Most had not been informed that

active cannabinoid THC, and in the 2010s it began al-

marijuana, the scary “new” drug they’d been fed so much

lowing limited domestic cultivation of industrial hemp,

propaganda about, was in fact hemp, which people all

which was used to make everything from food and body

over the world had used as food and ﬁber for centuries.

care products to insulation. As consumers embraced

“That knowledge,” Robert Deitch wrote in Hemp: Amersensimag.com FEBRUARY 2019 39

ican History Revisited, “would have killed the Marijuana Tax Act dead in its tracks.”

THE WORLD’S MOST MISUNDERSTOOD VEGETABLE “Surely no member of the vegetable kingdom has ever been more misunderstood than hemp,” David P. West wrote in a special report for the North American Industrial Hemp Council in 1998. “And nowhere have emotions run hotter than the debate over the distinction between industrial hemp and marijuana.” Though they serve vastly different functions, don’t look alike, and are often referred to as “cousins,” industrial hemp and psychoactive “marijuana” are actually the same plant, Cannabis sativa, bred and cultivated in very different ways. For centuries, cannabis farmers have understood that when cannabis plants grow close together, they get less sunlight and produce longer fiber-producing stems and no psychoactive resin. To produce plants full of sticky flowers, farmers sow seeds farther apart to give each plant more sunlight and force them to secrete more resin to protect themselves from drying out. When distinguishing between the two types of cannabis plants became important as stricter drug laws were enacted worldwide in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Canadian researcher Ernest Small somewhat randomly tossed out a formula—hemp has less than 0.3 percent THC—that, for no real reason other than his authority as a renowned ethnobotanist became the internationally accepted standard written into most legislation outlawing marijuana. Small was merely continuing a taxonomical conversation that dates back to Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus, who in 1753 introduced Cannabis sativa, a resilient, prolific plant species he named after the Greek word kannabis, meaning “hemp,” and sativa, meaning “cultivated.” When Linnaeus recorded the plant, he documented one species with five variants, launching a debate that rages to this day. Thirty years after Linnaeus recorded C. sativa, French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck introduced what he described as a second “very distinct” species, C. indica, based on plant samples from India. Unlike the tall, lanky

C. sativa (hemp) common in Europe, Lamarck described C. indica as smaller and more densely branched, with consistently alternating leaves and a woodier stem that made the plant unsuitable for making ﬁber. Lamarck believed there were two separate species of cannabis,

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A Nutritional Powerhouse Through the Ages Traditionally eaten as a staple food by people in the lower classes, nutritious hemp seeds carried Chinese peasants through times of famine and were the foundation for a gritty peanut butter-type preparation that carried Europeans through long winters. Every Russian and Polish household kept a store of hemp seeds and hemp seed oil in the pantry. Russians commonly bruised and roasted the seeds, mixed them with salt, and spread them onto slabs of crusty bread. When major famines under the Soviets made beef and pork nearly impossible to come by, people survived on hemp seed oil as a major source of edible protein. In Poland, stewed hemp seed porridge was subsistence food in monasteries, military barracks, and among poor people. The soft, white kernels inside cannabis seeds’ hard shells produce high-protein oil high in essential fatty acids (EFAs), phosphorous, potassium, magnesium, sulfur, calcium, iron, zinc, carotene (a precursor to vitamin A), tocopherols (major antioxidants that include the vitamin E group), 30 thiamin (vitamin B1), riboflavin (vitamin B2), vitamin B6, chlorophyll, sulfur, phosphorus, phosphosolipids, and phytosterols. Cannabis is the only current natural food source of gamma-linolenic acid (GLA), which affects vital metabolic roles ranging from control of inflammation and vascular tone to hormone balancing. Cannabis seeds have extremely low THC content and taste creamy and nutty, without the bitterness of the plant material. They can be shelled and eaten like sunflower seeds or ground into a powder for snacking and cooking. They’re high in roughage and easily digestible edestin protein, which is likely why they became a staple for healing digestive issues in Traditional Chinese Medicine and other healing modalities. The seeds’ ideal 1:3 ratio of omega-3 and omega-6 EFAs provides more of these compounds—which are called “essential” because they must come from a source outside the body—than fish. Cannabis seeds are high in linoleic acid and alpha-linolenic acid, which are difficult to come by in Western diets and act as raw materials for cell structure and as biosynthesis precursors for many of the body’s regulatory biochemicals.

“The principal effect of this plant consists of going to the head, disrupting the brain, where it produces a sort of drunkenness that makes one forget one’s sorrows, and produces a strong gaiety,” Lamarck wrote, making him the ﬁrst to suggest a distinction between two separate cannabis species based on C. indica’s psychoactive effects. In a Cannabinoids 2014 article, Jacob L. Erkelens and Arno Hazenkamp explained that Lamarck’s purpose in classifying C. indica as a separate species was to provide a more generally acceptable description of cannabis. “Unfortunately, the long-term effects of his publication would turn out to do the exact opposite,” they wrote, “and well over two hundred years later we are still left in confusion.”

ONE SPECIES OR TWO? In 1893, the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission conducted one of the most thoroughly investigated, comprehensive studies of cannabis use and culture ever, and commissioners spent considerable time and energy investigating the long-burning question of whether the narcotic-yielding plant (later known as “marijuana”) was identical to the non-narcotic ﬁber-yielding plant (later known as “hemp’). They surmised, quite presciently, that inquiring into the longstanding argument about wheth-

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er C. indica and C. sativa were one species or two would

ernment has bestowed its blessings upon C. sativa and

be important in the future because of the possibility that

suggest that the plant is legal, regardless of how it grows

“the restriction of the production of the narcotic by lim-

and what it’s grown for? I’m pretty sure we could ﬁnd a

iting the cultivation may affect a product and an indus-

few botanists who would stand behind that.

try which are above suspicion.” The commission based its ﬁndings on studies by botanical researcher Dr. J.M. Watt, who concluded, “With

Cannabis indica differing in so marked a degree accord-

It’s time to revive this debate. ROBYN GRIGGS LAWRENCE’S new book, Pot in Pans: A History of Eating Cannabis, will be published by Rowman & Littlefield in May.

ing to the climate, soil, and mode of cultivation, it was rightly concluded that its separation from the hemp plant of Europe could not be maintained.” Watt compared the hemp plant to potatoes, tobacco, and poppies, all of which “seem to have the power of growing with equal luxuriance under almost any climatic condition, changing or modifying some important function as if to adapt themselves to the altered circumstances.” His opinions were replicated by Dr. D. Prain, who observed: “There are no botanical characters to separate the Indian plant from Cannabis sativa, and they do not differ as regard the structure of stem, leaves, ﬂowers, or fruit. … Hemp, therefore, as a ﬁbre-yielding plant in no way differs from hemp as a narcotic-producing one.” Well, hello. Couldn’t we—shouldn’t we—take this debate to its next logical conclusion now that the US gov-

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SHARP SOLUTIONS

Licensed Cannabis Transit Hits its Stride SHARP SOLUTIONS IS CREATING A SPOKE-AND-WHEEL DISTRIBUTION MODEL FOR MORE EFFICIENT CANNABIS DELIVERY.

Amy Sharp, entrepre-

Sharp was one of the ﬁrst to apply for and get a se-

neur-on-the-lookout, was

cure transportation license from the state. Her courier

introduced to the can-

business also operates as a wholesale and distribution

nabis business when her

channel, but it’s focused as a transit company, she says.

husband,

Devin

Sharp,

On the distribution avenue, the company is expand-

opened one of the ﬁrst

ing rapidly to other areas of Colorado. The license allows

cannabis dispensaries in

them to hold and soon store wholesale cannabis prod-

Colorado in 2009. She

uct as a third party for up to seven days. “We are creat-

continues as a strong ad-

ing a spoke-and-wheel model throughout the state—a

vocate for the industry today and is trying her hand at sort-

distribution wheel,” she says. Sharp Solutions will be ac-

ing out the development of a cannabis transit business.

tively rolling out that distribution model in 2019.

In 2013, she decided to enter the cannabis industry as

One of the obstacles she has had to deal with in de-

a provider of digital signage and advertising, then even-

veloping her business is maintaining a solid sales team,

tually ventured into cannabis wholesaling by launch-

she says. “I want to operate independently with stra-

ing Equal Exchange Fair Trade Cannabis, essentially a

tegic partners rather than with internal partners,” she

cannabis courier and wholesale company. For that, the

says. The transit company currently employs ﬁve drivers

state of Colorado required her to have a third-party li-

and wholesale consultants, along with a dispatch man-

cense to move and transport the medical and recre-

ager, Georgia Forsee, and logistics manager, Nick Cox.

ational product from the client.

Sharp says that Sharp Solutions is focused on the

The Colorado General Assembly created a retail mari-

East Coast for expansion, with some new platforms. “I

juana transporter license and a medical marijuana trans-

am from Florida, so I got my eye on Florida, watching as

porter license in 2016 (HB16-1211). The license is valid

they develop more regulations there,” she says.

for two years. The state licensing authority began taking

Sharp would like to jump into other East Coast mar-

applications on January 1, 2017. According to the bill, a li-

kets early, such as Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. “I

censed marijuana transporter provides logistics, distribu-

like to go in and scope out the territory to see what is

tion, and storage of marijuana and marijuana products. A

going on,” she says. “So we want to stay on top of regu-

transporter may contract with multiple businesses.

lations as they develop.”

It gives the state licensing authority the ability to cre-

Sharp expects to be in eight or 10 states across the

ate rules for transporter licensed businesses, including

country by the end of 2019, as she continues to develop

requirements for drivers, and details about obtaining

the company’s technology platforms.

and maintaining a valid Colorado driver’s license; insurance requirements; acceptable time frames for transport, storage, and delivery; requirements for transport vehicles; and requirements for licensed premises. 46 FEBRUARY 2019 Southern Colorado

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BLAZY SUSAN

One Good Idea is All it Takes BLAZY SUSAN ANSWERS THE NEED TO HELP ORGANIZE THE CANNABIS CONSUMER. Sometimes an idea hits you, makes you sit up and

Breakell says that the business is still based in his

take notice, and you just know it could be a perfect

house, where he outsources the manufacturing. He

niche product for a growing industry.

wants to expand the business and do more custom

That’s what happened to Will Breakell, who moved

work soon. “How many bar carts are out there now?”

to Colorado in 2014 looking for a job in healthcare

he says. “We want to provide this equipment that is

while sharing a living space with four others. Sitting

a sort of cannabis bar cart, that you can also use for

on the coffee table was the usual mess of cannabis

business point of sale and display and other things.

consumption ingredients: pipes, papers, ﬂower, etc. “It

We just want to have a ﬁnger on the pulse of what

was one of those things where the name Blazy Susan

people want.”

came into my head as a device to clean up all these

He is working on another product, a sort of Blazy

messy cannabis consumption situations,” Breakell says.

Susan-style rectangular rolling tray made out of hemp

Three years later, in March, 2017, he was working

plastic—taking hemp waste from a farm and making a

with a startup company in healthcare technology

product from it. “It will be a sort of ﬁrst of its kind,” he

sales, when he began thinking about actually building

says. There is no official name for that new product yet,

his Blazy Susan. It would be a Lazy Susan turntable,

but he hopes to show it at the 2019 IndoExpo.

with small trays built in to hold papers, pipes, flower, concentrates and any other accessories used for cannabis consumption. “The Blazy Susan was just a fun concept that a lot of people responded to,” Breakell explains. “And that really pushed me to do it.” Interest for the product built in a crowdsourcing way, he says, and he saw that he needed to answer the challenge. Prototype development continued through the end of 2017 before his team finally came up with its first production piece. Good promotional things started happening naturally. At the end of 2017, CNN featured the product, and Jimmy Kimmel picked it up the next day for his show. “For one of my now business partners, I made a custom tray,” Breakell says. “He was on this cannabis tour bus, and he became the star of the night showing it off. They gave us over two minutes of air time, so it was crazy.” Breakell says that a lot of the design work for the Blazy Susan is his, working with engineers to “polish up” the idea. His dad works as a mechanical engineer, which he thinks helped inspire his work. “I was actually doing a lot of the machining myself, hand sanding and such,” he says. “That’s been a really interesting learning process for me.” 48 FEBRUARY 2019 Southern Colorado

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{HereWeGo } recipe by M I K E D e L AO

MAKE IT Recipe for Cannabis, Hempseed, and Coconut Oil. Mike DeLao adds nutty hempseed oil to his coconut oil extractions because it’s easily digestible, is full of essential amino acids and essential fatty acids, and has antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. Mike often eats a teaspoon of this oil straight or blends it into smoothies. Because hemp oil has a low smoke point, it could burn if left to simmer for hours. Mike stirs in the hemp oil after he’s infused the coconut oil with fresh cannabis flowers and sugar leaf trim in the crockpot for eight hours. (You could use one ounce of flowers for more potent oil or two ounces of trim for less potency.) Mike makes this infusion in a crockpot on low setting. Every crockpot is different, so watch the infusion carefully. You can use a candy thermometer to make sure it doesn’t get hotter than 200 degrees Fahrenheit. This recipe makes about 1 ³⁄₄ cups of oil.

INSTRUCTIONS STEP 1: Place coconut oil and cannabis in crockpot. As

coconut oil warms and melts, stir cannabis into oil with a wooden spoon. Set crockpot on low. STEP 2: Simmer for 8 hours, stirring occasionally. STEP 3: Place cheesecloth inside strainer and pour coco-

nut oil through while still warm to catch cannabis solids. INGREDIENTS

Squeeze every last bit of oil out of cheesecloth and com-

• ½ oz. cannabis flowers, finely ground

post cannabis solids.

• ½ oz. cannabis sugar leaf trim, finely ground

STEP 4: While coconut oil is still warm, pour in hemp oil

• 1cup coconut oil

and stir well with wooden spoon to combine.

• 6 oz. organic cold-pressed hempseed oil

STEP 5: Pour into labeled airtight jar and store in refriger-

UTENSILS

ator for up to six months.

• crockpot

• cheesecloth

• fine mesh strainer

• airtight jar

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Reprinted with permission from The Cannabis Kitchen Cookbook by Robyn Griggs Lawrence (CANNABISKITCHENCOOKBOOK.COM )