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OK, BOOMER

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The Road Less Traveled

A Humboldt surfer journeyed along the North Coast to remind himself what really matters.

The B-Word

Is “OK, boomer” a slur, a sign of generational conflict, or just a meme-able mic drop?

SPECIAL REPORT

Arrested Development

These six ridiculous cannabis restrictions are still in effect around the country.

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to keep you in the loop HATCHET HYPE Got an axe to grind? Throw it instead.

POTTED PLANTS An Instant Pot cookbook for vegans KOM-BREW-CHA Mother mushroom beer blends CANDIDATES ON CANNABIS

Presidential hopefuls share their thoughts on legalization.

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ON THE COVER Marc McClendon takes the journey of a lifetime.

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CALENDAR Skate, paint, and taste your way into 2020.

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The difference between resolutions and goals— and why goals are better

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EDITOR’S NOTE

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the start of a new decade, it’s easy to feel afraid of what lies ahead. Among the most alarming threats to our health and happiness is the government’s failure to execute radical policy that might prevent—or even reverse—global devastation due to climate change. Despite hesitation from Washington, many organizations, activists, and foreign nations are tasking the world’s brightest minds with saving our rapidly deteriorating environment. In Thailand and Vietnam, stores are packing produce in banana peels in lieu of plastic wrap and off the coast of Australia, Dutch scientists cast a 2,000-foot floating boom to clean plastic waste from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Innovation in sustainability is nothing new, but as we enter 2020, more voices are talking— we can only hope everyone is listening.

In the meantime, there is no shortage of community resilience projects to throw ourselves into here at home. The mythical region of the Emerald Triangle was born on the ethos of returning to the land and shunning the rat race of capitalism.

While its storyline is complex, the heart of the North Coast is still a place where community service and living in harmony with the natural world are the way of life.

In this inaugural issue of 2020, we follow several inspirational community leaders who are fearlessly creating their own realities: At Sol Spirit Farm in Trinity County, permaculture and responsible cultivation are on display next to the emerald-green waters of the Trinity River. Visitors who want to experience the real Emerald Triangle can book their stay in one of Sol Spirit’s glamping tents, where they’ll sleep under a starry sky and be lulled to sleep by the river at night. For those ready to eschew all creature comforts, get inspired by Marc McClendon’s epic journey last fall, when he spent 40 days crossing, land, sand, and sea from College Cove to Shelter Cove. Finally, learn how to help Redwood Roots Farm, an organic vegetable and flower farm that desperately needs a new irrigation system to keep feeding our community.

While its storyline is complex, the heart of the North Coast is still a place where community service and living in harmony with the natural world are the way of life.

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A Logger-Style Throwdown The Hatchet House Throwing Club in Arcata has brought the ancient sport of axe throwing to Humboldt County. It may sound dangerous but with a little coaching, anyone who can to throw a ball can throw an axe.

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first “urban axe-throwing experience” kicked off when a group of friends formed a backyard league in Toronto.

When you first visit Hatchet House Throwing Club, owners Michael and Lauren Fisher assign you a target and pair you with a coach to cover safety guidelines, tips, and games before stepping back (literally) to let you find your throwing style.

“Axe throwing can be social, recreational, or therapeutic,” says Lauren. “It brings people together and keeps you

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active.” All ages and abilities inner lumberjack, axes are an are welcome at the Hatchet unexpected tool that’s bringing House, for both stress relief the community together. and strength building. hatchethousethrowing.com @hatchethousethrowingclub Hatchet House offers accommodations for large groups and events, including bachelorette parties, birthdays, and team-building events. For the more competitive, they offer local tournaments, seasonal competitions, and the opportunity to participate in the World Axe Throwing League. With local beer and soda on tap and an environment that encourages your

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Arcata’s new Hatchet House Throwing Club offers a therapeutic way to unwind.

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Instant Potted Plants

This vegan cookbook proves that plants and pots go together.

Nisha Vora may be one of the most brilliant and flavor-forward, down-to-earth vegan chefs youʼll come across. She has devoted her life to finding delicious, nonboring ways to make plant-based eating the greatest thing since vegan sliced bread. Though she started out as a lawyer, her story isnʼt unlike most. She worked hard, joined a legal team, but after two years realized that she wasnʼt happy. So, she threw caution to the wind, quit her job, and she and her partner backpacked around the world for six months. In that time, she gained a totally new perspective on life, which included transitioning to veganism. Not only did Vora adjust her own lifestyle, she started blogging about it, learning the art of food photography, and launched a highly successful platform sharing her thoughts, her poems, her musings, and her recipes for living an intentional life.

The Vegan Instant Pot Cookbook features 90 recipes meant to be made in an Instant Pot pressure cooker and includes cooking tips and cooking guides. Between the YouTube tutorials, brand partnerships, and overall awareness raised around the joy of cooking, Vora is doing more than making plant-based eating appealing. Sheʼs making it downright gorgeous and practical.

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Each brew combines the healthy tonic with organic hops and fruit flavors like ginger, peach, and elderberry to create a concoction thatʼs easy to sip. Just be prepared: it packs a whopping 8 to 9.1 percent ABV. The bourbon peach is the beer snobʼs favorite, and the raspberry is a crowd pleaser.

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“Whether we like it or not, Humboldt County has built its economy on the backs of the cannabis industry. It would be insane now that [it’s legal] to turn our back on that.”

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THE BUZZ

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The strength to have more patience. To be more present and show more gratitude in the stillness of what I have already manifested.

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To be more mindful of surroundings and self by releasing from the clutches of social media, resulting in fewer distractions and more creativity.

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there might be an alternative... policies around this are not based on science or reason, theyʼre based on habit and in some cases prejudice, and we have an opportunity to change that.”

Bernie Sanders: “Weʼre going to legalize marijuana and end the horrifically destructive war on drugs....

It has disproportionately targeted people of color and ruined the lives of millions of Americans.”

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Candidates on Cannabis

These soundbites from speeches and interviews give you an idea where these Democratic presidential hopefuls stand.

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Joe Biden: “The truth of the matter is, thereʼs not nearly been enough evidence that has been acquired as to whether or not it is a gateway drug.

Itʼs a debate, and I want a lot more before I legalize it nationally.” (In a press call to the Nevada Independent.)

Pete Buttigieg: We also see a lot of chronic pain conditions that are being medicated with opioids where

Elizabeth Warren: “If we talk about criminal justice reform, we need to start with the things we make illegal. One of the best places we could start with is the legalization of marijuana.”

Andrew Yang: “We need to resolve the ambiguity and legalize marijuana at the federal level. This would improve safety, social equity, and generate tens of billions of dollars in new revenue based on legal cannabis businesses.”

THE BUZZ

“We’re going to change the world. One day, they’ll write about us.

You’ll see.”

—Viola Liuzzo, activist

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1 GOALS ARE THE NEW RESOLUTIONS. And since we’re in a new decade, let’s

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______ 4 SEE ALSO: posts about my apartment/urban jungle. ______ 5 PUTTING IT OUT THERE NOW. I’m setting my first intention for 2020: I will get my place featured on Apartment Therapy as a home tour this year. Boom.

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We’ll call it…The Book Club. Let’s do this.

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“The eyes of

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—Greta Thunberg, activist, TIME Person of the Year

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A Humboldt County surfer hiked, paddled, and survived a 100-mile journey across the rugged North Coast and found a new perspective on life.

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PHOTO COURTESY MARC MCCLENDON

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he sky is just beginning to brighten as dawn rises above the horizon; Marc McClendon has already been battling the ocean for almost an hour. It’s his second trip around the point south of Guthrie Beach—he has too much stuff to take in one go. A set of waves crashes over him, thrashing him against the moss-covered sandstone boulders, tearing open a bag. McClendon’s surfboard, still leashed to his ankle, pins him against a rock as he makes once last attempt to police his wayward gear. As the waves keep crashing, he has no choice but to unleash his board and swim it down later.

Shins bloody, pack filling with water, McClendon catches his board, hoists himself upon it, and starts paddling again—his comfort zone. A surfer for the past 40 years and a former Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer, McClendon didn’t end up making this

treacherous ocean crossing by accident—this is where he wants to be. But today, the current is pushing north, and he’s getting nowhere but exhausted.

Panic starts to creep up his body as wave after wave mash him against the rocks.

“My board’s getting fucked up more, my headspace is getting fucked up even more,” says McClendon. “I’m exhausted and I’m thinkin’, ‘Mc-

on a nearly hundred-mile coastline trek south to Shelter Cove on the Lost Coast. The “Cove to Cove” journey had been in the works for two years by then. With his 50th birthday just around the bend, McClendon knew it was time to rally.

With strawberry-blond hair sun-bleached by years of surfing, McClendon has the salty wiriness of a lifelong surfer. Recounting his excursion, he frequently incorporates his inner monologue in the memories, always referring to himself in the third Clendon, if you take a hit person. Marc this, McClendon that. His story to the head, you’re done, is peppered with self-nedude,’” he remembers. gotiations, derisions, and “It’s decision time: Keep fighting the mighty Pacific boosts of confidence. On the 100-mile solo journey, or chance navigating the it often seemed that his boulders.” In the heat of the moment, McClendon greatest obstacle was himself. The latter half of his chose the land route and trip followed along one of made it safely to camp the most remote areas in that night.

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“You don’t take a trip like this.

The trip takes you.”

—Marc McClendon

It took McClendon 40 days to hike, swim, and scramble those hundred miles, unaccompanied but for his Great Dane, Sweety, and occasional check-ins from friends and family. He carried a backcountry pack stuffed to the gills, his surfboard tucked under one arm, and a gallon jug of water in the other hand. Before the trip, he cached stores of food and water at key locales along the route, rationing supplies between drop zones.

“I was the sun’s anvil on this trip, dude,” says McClendon. Water was in especially short supply

McClendon hiking the last leg with his friend Corey.

during the August-October journey with him racing the bottom of each jug before the next stash. To hear him tell it, he never won.

On day two of the trip, McClendon stumbled upon “some kind of

rope net thing” wrapped between a group of trees above Moonstone Beach.

He sheltered there for a night, but spilled his pack as he was getting situated.

“I started kind of freaking out, like, ‘I can’t lose this; I can’t drop this,’ and

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swing, but the Guthrie crossing cost him his phone and headlamp.

In the wilderness, gear is your lifeline. When divorced from central

heating, clean water, and the everyday amenities we take for granted, the concept of need takes on new meaning. Yet, McClendon claims that he

didn’t take his trip out of a Christopher McCandless desire to connect with nature or to escape the materialism of the “good American life,”

but… it happened anyway.

“You don’t take a trip like this; the trip takes you,” says McClendon.

Once McClendon hit Cape Mendocino—the westernmost point in California—it was easy going. He’d been largely on his own for over a month and successfully avoided backwoods growers and bears, braved the elements, and wrestled the Pacific Ocean. He headed south thinking it was all downhill from there. Of course, nature had other plans.

The last two days of McClendon’s trip were accompanied by driving, frigid rain. He had planned to camp at Dead Man’s Beach in Shelter Cove as a coda, but freezing, exhausted, and without food, he marshaled up his gear for the last time and pressed on to the end.

Just as he hiked out, the sun broke through the clouds. The rain stopped, the wind died, and all that was left was a gorgeous set of waves. He was alone on the beach just as he had been for the last 40 days. McClendon suited up and paddled out for one last meeting with the ocean that had been his soundtrack, his tempo, and his foe on this epic voyage.

“I was holding onto all this material bullshit, and then it hit me to just let it go.”

—Marc McClendon

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Is “OK, BOOMER” a slur, a sign of increasing generational conflict, or just a meme-able mic drop?

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aitlin Fisher, an Ohio writer who describes herself as “queer as hell, autistic, prone to sudden outbursts of encouragement” and a lover of avocados, cats, plants, and soy chai lattes, released a new book this year, The Gaslighting of the Millennial Generation, based on a blog post by the same name that caught Twitter’s fancy and went viral in 2016. “The millennial generation has been tasked with fixing the broken system we inherited and chastised for not doing it right or daring to suggest improvements,” she wrote in the original post. “If you think we’re doing a bad job, ask yourself how it got this way in the first place.”

For Fisher, “OK, boomer”—the catch phrase that has surfaced as a way to dismiss stubborn, intolerant older folks—is nothing new. “We live in a meme culture, and this is a viral punchline,” she says. “It’s the new ‘whatever,’ a mic drop of, ‘I’m not dealing with this anymore.’”

Most boomers were blissfully unaware of the phrase “OK, boomer” until this fall, when a 25-year-old member of the New Zealand Parliament let it fly during a speech about climate change and the New York Times ran a “Style” section piece on it. Nearly every mainstream media outlet followed suit. Establishment boomers, publicly butt-hurt, declared intergenerational war, culminating in 60-year-old radio host Bob Lonsberry calling the phrase “the n-word of ageism” in a tweet he later deleted. Reaction was swift, fierce, JANUARY 2020

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TALKING ’BOUT MY GENERATION Pundits break US generations into generally accepted categories, though thereʼs hardly universal agreement about when one ends and the next begins. Age can be a powerful predictor of attitudes and behaviors because it denotes where someone was in their lifecycle during specific time periods and historical events. “Boomers” born after 1960 were toddlers during Woodstock and Vietnam and are more likely to identify with The Breakfast Club, not The Big Chill. And the lines between millennials and Gen Z are as fluid as its members. They share a lot of characteristics and have quite a bit in common with their great-grandparentsʼ generation as well.

GREATEST GENERATION: 1901–1925 Conservative, security-oriented, grew up in Depression and came of age during WWII SILENT GENERATION: 1925–1945 Thrifty, moral, conformist, patriotic, came of age as America became a superpower BABY BOOMERS: 1946–1964 Indulged, self-centered, iconoclastic, goal-centric, competitive, came of age during post-WWII boom

GENERATION X: 1965–1980 Freedom-loving, family-oriented, multicultural, jaded, grew up as latch key kids after Watergate and Vietnam MILLENNIALS (A.K.A. GEN Y): 1981–1996 Technological, independent, image-driven, open-minded, ethnically diverse, grew up during peaceful times but lost innocence to 9/11, Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, and the Great Recession GENERATION Z: 1997–2012 Traditional, family- and security-oriented, image-driven, open-minded, collaborative, most diverse (52% non-Hispanic whites), grew up with global terrorism, school shootings, smartphones, and social media

and often hilarious. “You can’t say that, #boomer is our word,” @JazzHendrix tweeted. “But you can say booma.”

Though new to the mainstream media, #OKBoomer has been around awhile. Its first recorded use is in 2015 on 4chan, and it made its way to Reddit by 2017, according to Know Your Meme. In 2018, it erupted in a flurry of tweets responding to politicians criticizing millennials and their successors, Gen Zs, and it’s now a Twitter and Reddit standby.

On the subReddit r/BoomerTears, 17,400 members post “any sour or garbage logic from boomers explaining why they’re special or complaining.” #BoomerAdvice, blasting out-oftouch words of wisdom from you know who, trends pretty regularly on Twitter. And of course, there’s a viral TikTok of a white-haired boomer ranting while a teenager scribbles “OK, Boomer” (flanked with hearts) on his notebook as well as an “OK, booomer” song that has spawned 4,000 TikToks.

Hoodies, t-shirts, phone cases, and stickers emblazoned with the phrase are available on Redbubble and Spreadshirt.

This is not your father’s generation gap; memes

like “OK, boomer” spread exponentially faster in 4G. “We can talk to people across the world, and we have the power to create whole new movements and share information really fast,” Fisher says. “Teenagers are no longer rolling their eyes at the dinner table. Now, teenagers are joining the revolution.”

WHAT IS THIS REVOLUTION? Millennials—along with their predecessors, Gen X, and successors, BEFORE IT WAS OK Gen Z—are angry. And The term baby boomer was first used in a 1963 whether they deserve it Salt Lake City Tribune or not, boomers are takarticle about the spike ing the blame for social of births that occurred and historical factors that during the decade following World War II. haven’t been kind to the generations that followed them. Boomers got college degrees “for the price of a McChicken,” according to one Redditor, while millennials are strapped with record student loan debt. The climate crisis and the rising tide of nationalism, inequality, and economic uncertainty all happened under the boomers’ watch. They elected Donald Trump.

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decades have seen and known what is coming but have decided that it is more politically expedient to keep it behind closed doors? My generation and the generations after me do not have that luxury,” Chlöe Swarbrick told the New Zealand Parliament in her climate speech just before she dropped the OK bomb.

Even more maddening, boomers won’t acknowledge that younger generations are being forced to operate in a completely different economy, without the equity and safeguards boomers had and with huge fear about the future. “The world is just different,” says 30-yearold Lindsey Turnbull, who owns an empowerment company for teen and tween girls, MissHeard Media. “We need the adults to acknowledge that and not brush kids’ very real worries off as hormones.”

These millennials are quick to point out that not every boomer is a “boomer” (thank God!).

And furthermore, anyone who is intolerant to new ideas and unwilling to unlearn their biases can be “OK, boomered.”

It’s more about attitude than ageism.

“I know how exhausting it can be to debate with people, especially online, who are really adamant

about not seeing another point of view,” says Turnbull. “‘OK, boomer’ just says you’re not wasting all that time and emotional energy trying to come up with a well-thought-out response when the person on the other side doesn’t listen.”

hoarded all the wealth and polluted the planet in the process; they haven’t had to witness—or deal with the ramifications of—old age and precarity for millions of working people in that generational cohort,” he writes in the Guardian. “Instead they get to revel without self-reflection in oedipal TRENDING ON angst about their elders— WHITE TWITTER many of whom were kind One of the biggest issues many people see with this enough to pass them their ill-gotten privileges.” meme-inspired revoluFisher doesn’t distion is that its guerrillas agree. “It’s important to tend to be of a type—upacknowledge that ‘OK, per-middle-class white youth—and they’re com- boomer’ is about priviplaining about issues like leged older people, baby boomers in Congress who lack of economic opporkeep voting to give themtunity and silencing that people of color have been selves pay raises but don’t dealing with for centuries. want poor older people to have affordable health Black Twitter sees #Okcare,” she says. “While Boomer as nothing more than disrespect for elders. we’re fighting against the “White Brogressives never ‘royal boomer’ we can’t cared about income ineq- ignore the needs of older uity when it was just black people in our communities. Ageism is really serior brown folks on the ous. There’s elder abuse, wrong end of it,” @Wonderbitch82 posted. and medical debt is bankBhaskar Sunkara, found- rupting older Americans. er of Jacobin magazine and We can’t point to all older author of The Socialist Mani- people and say they are the problem the way they festo: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme point to our generation and say we are the probInequality, believes white lem. We have to open up upper middle-class youth the conversation.” who find themselves shut The conversation opens out of the housing market up for Turnbull, who lives and exploited by the gig economy should aim their angst at investment bankers, not boomers. “These young people are surrounded by baby boomers who’ve

in Washington, DC, when she mingles with people of all ages during political marches and protests.

But in many places in the US, opportunities for cross-generational conversation are becoming rare as children are shunted into age-based sports and activities while the elderly are sent to care facilities, says Timiko Tanka, an associate professor of sociology at James Madison University. “As is said in an African proverb, ‘It takes a village to raise a child,’” she says. “But today, many children are growing up without such a community.”

Tanka says intergenerational care centers, which are starting to crop up across the country, have been proven to be useful in reducing age-based prejudice and stereotyping. In her Social Gerontology course, students spend at least 20 hours interacting and becoming comfortable with elderly people—so comfortable that by the end of the semester, they’re playing cards together. Schools, care facilities, and municipal governments need to create more opportunities for people to share different perspectives, she says. “‘OK, boomer’ is a warning that we need to find a bridge, not a wall, and have meaningful conversation,” says Tanka.

Generationalism: the systematic appeal to the concept of generation in narrating the social and political as a way of explaining political and social shifts.

SOURCE: Baby Boomers and Generational Conflict by Jenny Bristow (2015)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Robyn Griggs Lawrence is the author of the bestselling Cannabis Kitchen Cookbook and the recently released Pot in Pans: A History of Eating Cannabis.

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SPECIAL REPORT

ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT While legalization is on a roll, these six ridiculous cannabis laws and regulations made it onto the books across the country.

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annabis prohibition is falling like an old empire across the United States. Yet not all new laws and regulations surrounding cannabis are winners. There are many laws in legal marijuana markets, both medical and adult-use, that are not based on data but are in fact quite arbitrary. At best, these regulations are off-base. At worst, they are curtailing access for medical patients who desperately need to access their medication. Laws have forced patients, adult consumers, and cannabis companies alike to jump through unnecessary hoops in order to get weed. But why?

Lawmakers have predisposed notions of what would happen if weed became legal. Unfortunately, many of the laws you see today were written by people coming from the perspective of a deeply ingrained “Reefer Madness” culture. Those in charge fear repercussions that are simply not backed by the data. When laws are developed through that lens, they are not likely to make a lot of sense.

It will take time to iron out these regulations, but someday they will be history. Fingers crossed. Here are six ridiculous, arbitrary, and damaging cannabis laws across the country.

NO RESTROOMS ALLOWED In West Hollywood, a lot of attention has been given to the country’s first open cannabis consumption lounge licensee. The Original Cannabis Cafe (previously known as Lowell Farms) has one bizarre quirk in its regulations forced by zoning. The restroom, formerly a part of the building located within the walls of the restaurant, had to be built out with a separate entrance.

The café owners told Sensi they were asked to disconnect the bathroom from the main building space.

This forces customers to exit the front door and walk around the exterior of the building to use the restroom. Before opening its doors in October 2019, the restaurant scrambled to comply with this seemingly arbitrary building requirement.

As far as zoning is concerned, cannabis consumption needs to happen in a closed space. It is all very confusing. But the first cannabis consumption licenses to get off the ground will undoubtedly have some kinks.

LIMITED LINEUP Yes, there is a medical marijuana program in New York.

No, it is not making a dent in the demand in the unlicensed market. This can be attributed to the state’s strict regulations, which make it so the only available products are items that aren’t as popular with medical patients.

Products in New York are limited to edible cannabis concentrate oil, capsules, or topicals. You can’t smoke it. Keep in mind, the allowable cannabis concentrate oil is not the same as the popular oils you’d dab with or put in a vape pen. You also can’t buy edibles that are already made with cannabis. Just capsules. New York consumers and patients do not have the option of regular ol’ flower.

This tight restriction on the products available for sale has deterred many cannabis patients, store owners, and cultivators from participating. While its medical program was enacted in 2014 by the Compassionate Care Act, the state has fewer than 30 medical dispensaries five years later.

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ENVIRONMENTALLY UNFRIENDLY All the largest markets have one unfortunate regulation in common: You cannot recycle or reuse any cannabis packaging. In Oregon, plastic childproof containers are required, but once the container is used to store cannabis, it is not allowed to be recycled, meaning all this plastic packaging ends up in landfills. The Bureau of Cannabis Control in California and Washington State laws make recycling products difficult.

Colorado does not have any language in place for the recycling of cannabis containers.

It will become a Goliath issue if these laws are not amended to make practical recycling a part of the cannabis industry. Companies want to recycle, and they want a safe and effective way to reuse the old vape cartridges that are brought back into the store. Bad news is, because of these strict state regulations, they can’t. One solution companies are finding is to begin with recycled and reclaimed plastic, like products made by Sana. An innovative company called TerraCycle offers another solution in melting down and cleaning cannabis packaging waste. But like all other industries grappling with the plastic problem, the most impactful changes will be made top-down, not at the consumer level.

NOT FIT TO PRINT Marketing regulations for the cannabis industry are a patchwork of chaos. There remain a limited number of ways that companies can advertise, and those laws vary state-by-state. Facebook and Instagram have gone out of their way to shadow ban cannabis companies, sometimes deleting the accounts of licensed, legal businesses. Google AdWords doesn’t play nicely with cannabis companies either, offering payment ad options to very few exceptions. In Colorado, you can’t advertise on billboards, on mobile, in banners, or in handout leaflets. California allows cannabis companies to advertise on billboards, but there is currently a lawsuit attempting to ban that method.

As a result of this mess, the industry has gotten creative with advertising. This very magazine is one avenue that exists without restriction, paving the way for marketing in the cannabis world.

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CASH OR… CASH States that legalize cannabis want cannabis tax money. But they don’t allow companies to have a safe way to pay their bills, pay their employees, and to store revenue. Until the SAFE Banking Act makes its way through the Senate and eventually to the desk of President Trump, there is a massive regulatory issue.

Dispensaries across the country are forced to operate as cash-only businesses—in a cash-only billion-dollar industry.

Stripe, Square, and other payment apps are cracking down not only on cannabis businesses, including CBD businesses, but on ancillary companies as well.

Hopefully a solution will be found in the SAFE Banking Act. Cannabis businesses need to be able to lean on legitimate financial institutions.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Lindsey Bartlett has been writing about cannabis since 2012. An advocate and 10-year medical cannabis patient, her work has been featured in Yahoo Finance, Benzinga, and The Cannabist.

MANDATORY MONOPOLY Some cannabis regulations go so far as to defy capitalism at its core. In Vermont’s medical cannabis program, for example, a registered patient must choose one—and only one—dispensary to buy from.

Patients can change their designated dispensary, but only once every 30 days, and only for a $50 fee. The cost is an access issue for many medical patients.

Another peculiar move for Vermont: while any 21plus adult can legally grow two mature and four immature plants for personal use outside in the sunshine (fenced yard, screened from public view), medical cannabis patients must grow indoors if they want to take advantage of the higher plant count available to them (seven immature).

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An Opportunity to Grow Do you know where your food comes from?

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Redwood Roots Farm is a beautiful organic vegetable and flower farm nestled in Bayside. In the peak of summer, the farm is bursting with an explosion of beauty and color—you can’t help but feel good being there. Visiting to pick up our weekly CSA (community supported agriculture) has become a ritual of nature therapy for my family.

My kids help load up our veggies before we head into the field to pick flowers, greens, and herbs.

We always make sure to say hello to the chickens and Daisy, the farm dog.

I first joined Redwood

Roots’s CSA for the fresh food; it encourages me to eat more veggies and try new foods. But it turns out, the experience of visiting the farm’s abundant flower garden has become my favorite part.

A Call for Help As the farm wrapped up its 21st season last summer, Redwood Roots owner and founder, Janet Czarnecki, was told that their water lease would not be renewed. Before the start of the 2020 season, the farm needs to develop an off-grid agricultural water system, which includes getting

“Our weekly visits [to the farm] are special, and my children take pride in weighing their veggies, cutting their own kale, and picking flowers.”

–Juliana Goldstein, CSA member

electricity and storage tanks and drilling a well.

Redwood Roots has set a goal of raising $80,000 to cover the prohibitively high costs.

What is a CSA? CSA stands for “community supported agriculture,” a business model where a farm offers “shares” to the public. In exchange for a seasonal membership, the farm gives each family, couple, or individual a weekly allotment of seasonal produce. Extras, such as herbs, flowers, and greens, are often included at Redwood Roots.

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PHOTO OF FARMER JANET BY JULIANA GOLDSTEIN

Redwood Roots Farm 45 Fellowship Way, Bayside redwoodrootsfarm.com @redwoodrootsfarm

The Benefits of Joining a CSA Nutrition: Eating seasonal, local, and organic fruit and veggies. Food has its highest nutritional value when it is picked and eaten at its peak.

Environmental Impact: CSAs substantially reduce oneʼs carbon footprint—no need to have your food transported in a semitruck!

Education: Learn where your food is coming from, and in some cases, pick it yourself. Most greens, herbs, and flowers are U-pick at Redwood Roots.

Creativity: Expose your family to new foods and learn new recipes.

Budget-Friendly: CSAs are extremely affordable. At Redwood Roots, a share during the main season is just under $28 a week. (Contact the farm about payment plans using CalFresh/EBT.) Wellness: Be with nature on the farm.

Being outside in a beautiful place can do wonders for your mind and mood.

How to Help Redwood Roots Buy seasonal shares early to keep the farm running. Seasonal memberships help pay for equipment maintenance and everything that goes into running the farm—this year it will be more important than ever.

Donate! All donations will go toward funding the new water system.

• Donate directly to the farm with a check payable to Redwood Roots Farm and mailed to PO Box 793, Arcata, CA 95518 • For tax deductible donations, mail a check payable to the Jacoby Creek Land Trust (write “RRF Well” in memo) to PO Box 33, Bayside, CA 95524 • Donate (today!) to the farmʼs GoFundMe campaign at gf.me/u/w4asb9.

Farmer Janet

History In 1979, Janet Czarnecki quit college in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and leased a plot from a local community garden. “I would strap my fork and shovel on the back of my bike,” Czarnecki says. “I learned that I really loved it.” The following year, she moved to California for an apprenticeship and started Redwood Roots in 1999.

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GO THERE

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Glamping Out A cannabis retreat offers the opportunity to unwind and connect in the wilds of Trinity County.

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Sunlight fell through towering trees and onto South Fork Road as I made my way to Sol Spirit Farm, east of Willow Creek in Trinity County. I wasn’t exactly sure what to expect from a weekend of “glamping,” but I had done a little research: a millennial mashup of “glamorous” and “camping,” glamping appeared to be lavish tents illuminated by white lights and adorned with hip furniture, perched amid breathtaking views. However, none of the glamping resorts advertised online were situated on a working cannabis farm deep in the Emerald Triangle.

As I pulled into Sol Spirit, farm owner Judi Nelson bounded down the dirt road to meet me on her golf cart with her cat, Nazmira, in tow. After helping my friend and me with our bags, Nelson showed us to one of three bell tents situated near a field of clover, backed up

“I love it here so much. This area is so magical and beautiful, I want to share it because it makes me happy.” against the forest’s edge.

Inside the tent, two twin beds held a gift basket filled with three Sol Spirit Farms pre-rolled joints, a T-shirt, and a water bottle. After showing us the bathroom facility—three private composting toilets and showers—Nelson left us to get settled and get ready for a tour.

The Sol Spirit property has been a farm since the 1940s, but when Nelson and her husband, Walter Wood, purchased the farm

in 2002, they redesigned the property with permaculture principles in mind.

“Everything we take out of the land, we try to give back or make better,” Wood said. “Many people are under the impression that indoor growing produces a better product, but I want people to know we can create the same quality by going with the earth instead of going against it.”

After the garden tour, the guests, family, and farm employees all

gathered together under a large tent for a homegrown meal of veggies and locally raised pork. I felt like a family friend instead of a guest staying on someone’s property. After dinner, we socialized at the dab bar with the other guests, including Humboldt Cannabis Tours owner, Matt Kurth, who was also checking out Sol Spirit for the first time.

“The setting is spectacular,” Kurth said.

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—Judi Nelson, Co-Owner

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along a wild river, but with easy access from a paved road…Sol Spirit is a great example of how we grow cannabis in the Emerald Triangle.”

Eventually, we made our way back to our tent and crawled into bed, which beat the heck out of sleeping on the cold, hard ground, especially when accented by the soft burbling of the river.

After a bountiful farm breakfast the next morning, the group set off for a day of rafting along the South Fork Trinity River. While the itinerary promised “a float down the river,” in reality there were a few precarious rapids, but no one fell out of the boat. We did get stuck several times, and it quickly became apparent who had limited rafting experience (including

me!). Despite the rough waters, it was a beautiful day on the Trinity and an excellent way to get to know new people.

Later that evening, I sat around the fire with Nelson and Wood as we looked at the stars and talked about the origins of their farm. Nelson told me how they were both Deadheads in their youth, which is how they landed in the Emerald Triangle. After enjoying the experience of growing cannabis for personal use, they decided to buy property in Trinity County and live the farming lifestyle full-time.

“We jumped at the chance to go compliant because we wanted to have retreats and visitors at our property,” explained Nelson. “I love it here so much. This area is so magical and beautiful, I want to

share it because it makes me happy. When you add cannabis into the mix, it really adds something to the experience and helps people to relax.” Eventually, the couple hopes to build another house and to open a bed and breakfast on their property.

The following morning, I sat in a swinging chair hanging from a tree near our tent. I looked across the field of clover, framed by the Trinity Alps, and listened to the river murmur and the chickens cluck in their coop. I felt at peace. I didn’t want to return home to pending deadlines, rent checks, traffic lights, and the other mundane stresses of reality. I embarked on this glamping adventure expecting a fancy tent but left feeling like I’d found a new family for the weekend.

“Everything we take out of the land, we try to give back or make better.”

—Walter Wood, Co-owner

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On the Calendar

Chill out this January with ice skating, art walks, and 10-day-long crab festival.

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After the relatives have gone home and the decorations are packed up, it’s quite refreshing to settle into a clean house and simple meals. While the social calendar often goes into a mini hibernation come January, it’s a great time to try something new (ice skating, anyone?) or challenge yourself to get after those resolutions. From Mendocino to Weaverville, there’s something for the entire family to enjoy during the peace and solace of January.

Ukiah on Ice

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Nov. 30–Jan. 5 Downtown Ukiah cityofukiah.com

Jan. 1, 11 a.m. –3p.m.

Pennyroyal Farm, Boonville pennyroyalfarm.com

Each year, the streets of historic downtown Ukiah are transformed into a winter wonderland, complete with ice rink. Don your favorite winter sweater, round up the family, and head to School Street for the sweet treat of a date with the ice. It’s $10 per session (including skates) for unlimited skating.

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Resolution 5K Fun Run Jan. 1, 10 a.m.

Eureka Waterfront Trail, Eureka 6rrc.com

Arts Alive!

Jan. 4, 6–9 p.m.

Historic Old Town Eureka eurekamainstreet.org

Arts! Arcata Jan. 10, 6–9 p.m.

Downtown Arcata arcatamainstreet.com

Superstars of the Blues Harmonica Jan. 14, 7 p.m.

Arkley Center for the Performing Arts, Eureka centerarts.humboldt.edu

49th Patrick’s Point Run Jan. 18, 10 a.m.

Patrickʼs Point State Park, Trinidad 6rrc.com

Sweet Honey in the Rock Jan. 19, 7 p.m.

Van Duzer Theatre, Arcata centerarts.humboldt.edu

Fun Home Jan. 23–Feb. 16 Ferndale Repertory Theatre, Ferndale visitferndale.com

Crab Feast Mendocino Jan. 24–Feb. 2 Various locations, Mendocino County visitmendocino.com

Shrug off those winter blues and indulge in fine seafood, wine, beer, and more at Crab

Feast Mendocino.

Enjoy family-style crab and cioppino feeds, gourmet crab-themed dinners, crab and wine pairings, whale watching, and crab fishing adventures.

Cirque Flip Fabrique’s Blizzard Jan. 28, 8 p.m.

Van Duzer Theatre, Arcata centerarts.humboldt.edu

Sensi Connect Jan. 31 Benbow Historic Inn elevatethemagic.com

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At a Private Gathering At the Merrymanʼs Beach House at Moonstone Beach, farmers and cannabis industry advocates from across the Emerald Triangle gathered to celebrate the bounty of Trinity County. With food, wine, beer, and cannabis from farm to sea, the night passed to a soundtrack of live jazz and the voices of the community.

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orn and raised in Honeydew, hours from civilization in the King Range of the Lost Coast, Sean Stamm grew up among the cannabis plants on his family’s homestead. He learned about best practices and resilience from his community, and by age 12, began tending his first plants. After leaving home to earn an engineering degree from Cal Poly, Stamm returned to Humboldt to continue supporting the family farm.

In the years since, Stamm has established his brand, Southern Humboldt Royal Cannabis (SHRC), as a producer of premium quality, sun-grown

cannabis with an emphasis on its medicinal value. In addition to flower, trim, and oil, SHRC also offers a full line of topicals, such as bath bombs, salves, lip balms, and massage oils.

The newest product from the SHRC line is a Rick Simpson Oil called the Royal Compound. Derived from a special strain that Stamm calls “Doctor’s Orders,” the Royal Compound comes in three different cannabinoid ratios with diverse terpene profiles. Because he believes that access to the strain is more important than profit, Stamm has licensed “Doctor’s Orders” to larger companies for propagation.

Today, Stamm is looking for

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In addition to breeding the most potent and terpene-rich strains, he is working to develop a treatment regimen that uses cannabis therapies for chronic conditions like Alzheimer’s and even cancer.

After developing a new combination of carrier oils and plant compounds to enhance the bioavailability of his Rick Simpson Oil, Stamm came up with a treatment plan to help patients maximize the benefits: by using a specific sequence of three different strains throughout the day, patients can achieve optimal exposure to a full range of cannabinoids, preventing the peaks and valleys that come with traditional concentrate use.

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unnabis is a small family-owned farm specializing in craft cannabis located on the banks of the South Fork of the Eel River in beautiful Southern Humboldt. Led by Wendy Kornberg and her husband, Doug, Sunnabis is recognized as “Humboldt’s Full Sun Farm” and based on two generations of experience. A passion to incorporate natural values into the cultivation process is what ensures the high quality of the farm’s sun-grown plants.

The Sunnabis natural farming methods that Kornberg’s family has used for generations are now receiving national attention: closed-loop growing techniques ensure that almost everything used on the Sunnabis farm comes directly from its land. Sunnabis is also committed to having supplemental lighting on the farm and aiming

for a zero-carbon footprint. Sustainable values and practices are extremely important to Kornberg and her family.

“Our regenerative farming practices create happy-healthy plants,” says Kornberg. “Consumers know they can trust our products because we would never compromise our farming techniques.”

Sunnabis is proud to be a woman-owned family farm. Kornberg’s passion extends far beyond the garden, and she loves sharing knowledge about regenerative farming. Recently, Kornberg has been busy spreading her joy through educational speaking engagements around the country as part of her family’s commitment to natural farming and sustaining the environment.

In Southern Humboldt, Sunnabis focuses on its profile of terpenes and cannabinoids, rather than trying to produce the most weight possible.

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The knowledge behind Sunnabis extends deeply into its genetics by offering a unique range of cultivars for people who truly care about healthy living. Count on Sunnabis to always be creating and growing for a full-service, handcrafted, cannabis experience.

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THE END

Goals, Not Resolutions Decide which frame of mind will make 2020 attainable.

Stats suggest that no one is really focused on setting resolutions at the beginning of the year anymore. Those who do, rarely follow through, lapsing around the 30-day mark.

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statistic; set goals instead of resolutions. The word goal just seems so much more attainable.

Goals are much more specific and the more specific, the easier they are to reach. A resolution

is a firm decision to start something or stop something but it doesn’t really lay out how. Goals set forth the path by which you plan, prepare, and take action. While this can all sound (and feel)

overwhelming by February, the great part about setting goals is that you can do so on a daily basis—hourly, even, when you get good at it. You can set as many goals as you can possibly attain.

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