Sensi Magazine - New England - November 2020

TRIPPY HEALING

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Trippy Healing

Psychedelics are the new medical marijuana.

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9 EDITOR’S NOTE 38 THE SCENE Hot happenings and hip hangouts around town 10 THE BUZZ FRESH SNOW, FRESH FRUIT News, tips, and tidbits to keep you in the loop STREET ART DISPLAY Basquiat and his cohorts’ work at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston

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TURKEY IN THE STRAW

Enjoy a 19th century Thanksgiving on a farm.

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Many people have

told me lately how glad

they are that 2020 is almost over, and I have to admit I agree with them. Few of us have managed to avoid some sort of misfortune, illness, or major disappointment this year. Numerous people, including myself, have had to deal with several negative experiences, sometimes all at once.

In March, my daughter’s senior year of college was abruptly cut short, her graduation was cancelled, and most of my paid work seemed to disappear overnight. In spite of taking all the precautions we could, my husband, daughter, and I came down with COVID-19 in June. My mom, who had been battling cancer for a couple of years, passed away in September. The worst part about it was that the social distancing measures we needed to follow for much of the year prevented me from seeing her for most of the last six months of her life.

When I found out that the theme for this issue was “hope” all I could think was: really? I’m usually an optimistic person, but even to me this idea seemed a bit far-fetched, at least until I actually started working on it.

While working on the Vox Populi section of The Buzz, I asked several people what they were thankful for this year. Nearly all of them told me they were grateful for their health, and to have their families and friends in their lives. Some said the pandemic had helped them understand what was really important, and that it had prompted them to make major changes. All of them seemed hopeful about the future.

I also came across a quote by Anne Frank, the young Jewish girl whose diary detailing her family’s experience hiding from the Nazis during the Holocaust has helped generations of people comprehend the horror of that time: “I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”

I think it’s a good place for all of us to make a fresh start.

Some said the pandemic had helped them understand what was really important, and that it had prompted them to make major changes. All of them seemed hopeful about the future.

With hope,

Emilie-Noelle Provost @Emilie_Noelle

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Basquiat Is Back Experience the artist who inspired America’s hip-hop revolution at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

Originally scheduled to open in April, Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation opened on Oct. 18 at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston after COVID-19 forced the museum to close its doors for six months. The exhibit, which will run until May 16, 2021, celebrates the transformation of street art from what was once seen as a throwaway form of artistic expression into something that has a rightful place on gallery walls. On

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display are examples of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s paintings, drawings, videos, sculptures, and music.

Works by Basquiat’s contemporaries, including Fab 5 Freddy, Keith Haring, Lady Pink, Rammellzee, A-One, ERO, and Toxic, are also on view.

The exhibition also includes the creation of a mural in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood painted

by MFA artists-in-residence Rob “Problak” Gibbs and Rob Stull.

The piece is a tribute to Basquiat and his contemporaries.

In order to limit the number of people in the museum, all tickets are timed and must be purchased online in advance. mfa.org.

PHOTOS COURTESY MFA

PAINTINGS ABOVE: Six Crimee, Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1982 RIGHT: Hollywood Africans, Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1983

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Emilie-Noelle Provost, Stephanie Wilson

BY THE NUMBERS

46 MILLION The estimated number of turkeys killed for Thanksgiving each year in the US SOURCE: US Poultry and Egg Association

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2,500 TO 4,500 The number of calories the average American consumes at Thanksgiving dinner SOURCE: New York Times

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ONCE YOU CHOOSE HOPE, ANYTHING’S POSSIBLE.” —Christopher Reeve, 20th century American actor

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THE BUZZ

BILITIES

BY STEPHANIE WILSON, EDITOR IN CHIEF

HOPE. In a world in turmoil, I have hope.

PHOTOS COURTESY BILLINGS FARM

A “good time” for a deadly worldwide contagion doesn’t exist, but an election year is the best time as any—because it makes it so much more evident that our elected leaders impact our lives, that our votes have impact, that our choices matter.

By the time you read this, election day almost certainly has passed. We may still be waiting for the results, those results may be being contested, or the foundation of our democracy may be in peril if the occupant of the White House as of this writing is refusing to accept defeat and unwilling to leave.

Still, I have hope. In the face of difficulty, of uncertainty, I have the audacity of hope, to use Barack Obama’s phrase. As our former president once said, “In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.”

“I’m not talking about blind optimism,” he said, “the kind of hope that just ignores the enormity of the tasks ahead or the road blocks that stand in our path. I’m not talking about the wishful idealism that allows us to just sit on the sidelines or shrink from a fight. I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting.”

“When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.

Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.”

Thanksgiving on the Farm Enjoy the holiday 19th century–style.

Visit the Billings Farm & Museum in Woodstock, VT, on Thanksgiving weekend, Nov. 27–29, to learn how rural New Englanders celebrated the holiday in the late 19th century. You’ll get to see how a farmhouse Thanksgiving table was set, learn the history of traditional New England Thanksgiving foods, watch cooking demonstrations, and take a ride in a horse-drawn wagon. While you’re there, pay a visit to the on-site Farm Life museum or take a relaxing stroll along the farm’s mile-long walking trail and enjoy the views of the scenic Ottauquechee River. billingsfarm.org

—Tecumseh, Shawnee warrior chief and leader of a 19th century Native American confederacy

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VOX POPULI

Question: What are you thankful for this Thanksgiving?

HANK AUSTIN

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LIAM DONAHER

Student Cambridge, MA

Medical technologist Londonderry, NH

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Landscape designer Westford, MA

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I’m thankful to be me.

I’m happy to have the simple daily pleasures of studying, playing basketball, living independently, and exploring a new city.

I’m thankful for not having gotten sick with COVID-19, and still being gainfully employed throughout the whole pandemic. I’m grateful for being healthy enough to hike big peaks too.

I’m thankful that I’m part of a big wonderful family, and that we are safe and getting by relatively well through the pandemic.

This Thanksgiving I am especially thankful for my friends and family.

This year has put what’s important in sharp relief, and their love has been sustaining.

I feel thankful for all the people who work without recognition, those who perform behind the scenes. Life was harder this year, but I’m thankful for the people who made it worth it.

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Flour, Sugar, and the Flow

My favorite life moments are when I completely lose track of me. I’m chopping toasted walnuts, simmering Jonathan apples with vanilla bean, and working butter, salt, and flour to a consistency only my fingertips can recognize.

Playing with the dough like a kid, I layer the filling over the bottom crust and mess with the upper, my open artist’s canvas. When the kitchen is perfumed and the finished product emerges from the oven tasting like a party and looking like a wrapped gift, a certain kind of bliss envelopes me. When I bake, my noisy brain shuts up for a little while.

According to Kathy Hawkins of Denver’s

Kathy Hawkins Counseling, I am engaged in one of the best wellness-enhancing rituals. In her counseling practice, Hawkins often recommends mindful meditation. “There are many kinds of mindful meditation besides sitting. Walking and doing art can be meditations and baking can be also,” she says. Hawkins knows food psychology firsthand, having owned and managed restaurants in addition to being a waitress and sommelier.

“Baking is a serious way to show people you love them, and there is a lot of reward for both the baker and the recipient,” Hawkins says. You can have your cake and heal with it, too.

How mindful baking heals the baker and spreads buttery bliss.

TEXT JOHN LEHNDORFF

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This is Your Brain on Baking Research has shown that mindful meditation can be good for heart health, and reduces blood pressure and anxiety.

“Baking creates a flow state where you are enveloped in the moment.

You are not worrying about the past or the future. People who are healthier mentally and emotionally tend to live in the flow state more of the time,” Hawkins says.

Baking can also change brain chemistry. “When you create something tasty, the immediate payoff is a hit of the brain chemicals dopamine and serotonin which improves your mood,” Hawkins says.

Besides butterfat satisfaction, there is the

“Baking creates a flow state where you are enveloped in the moment.

You are not worrying about the past or the future.

People who are healthier mentally and emotionally tend to live in the flow state more of the time.”

—Kathy Hawkins, Counselor

lure of the sweet. “When you eat the baked goods, you get a dose of sugar, which lights up the same area of the brain as cocaine,” she says.

That may partially explain why we celebrate the major occasions of our lives with cakes, pies, and cookies, not salads and nachos. Big festive desserts are designed to be shared—no matter how many guests are on hand—at birthdays, quinceañeras, weddings, and funerals in almost every culture.

The Power of Positive Cooking According to local bakers and pastry chefs, the biggest payoff of baking is feeding the soul. “They say that you cook for yourself but you always

bake for others,” says Jennifer Bush, cofounder of Lucky’s Bakehouse and Creamery in Boulder.

After toiling in basements as a restaurant pastry chef, Bush designed her bakery with an open kitchen. “When people come in, I get to see those eyes light up as they taste something. With cakes, I’m a part of so many people’s lives—their joy, their grief. It never gets old,” Bush says.

It’s almost like a super power, says John Hinman, producer of artisan bread, bun, pastries, and pies at Denver’s Hinman’s Bakery. “When I’m working our booth at the farmers market and I see a sad kid walking by, I always have to give them a chocolate chip cookie. To see that grin makes me know I’ve N OV E M B E R 2020

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Gluten-Free Chocolate Cake Makes one 9-inch cake ABOUT THE BAKER

Jen Bush, pastry chef and founder of Lucky’s Bakehouse and Creamery in Boulder, shares this gluten-free cake recipe.

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INGREDIENTS For the Cake

6 oz unsalted butter, room temperature ¼ cup granulated sugar 1 cup almond paste 4 eggs ½ cup high-quality unsweetened cocoa powder (I used Black Onyx cocoa powder) Slivered almonds, garnish

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For the Glaze

½ cup heavy cream 2 tbsp honey 1 tsp instant coffee 8 oz semi-sweet or bittersweet chocolate INSTRUCTIONS For the Cake

• Cream the almond paste in a stand mixer until all the clumps are broken up.

• Stream in the sugar.

Continue mixing for one minute until sand-textured.

• Slowly add butter, then add eggs one by one until mixture is smooth.

• Sift cocoa to remove lumps and add to mixture. Mix until combined. Remember to scrape sides of bowl.

• Line a 9-inch cake pan with parchment paper or use nonstick spray. Scrape

mixture into pan and bake at 325º F for 20 to 25 minutes, until cake is firm to the touch. Let cool completely before inverting on a plate.

For the Glaze • Gently heat cream, coffee and honey. Pour over chocolate and whisk until combined.

• Pour over cake; decorate with slivered almonds.

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changed the course of their day,” he says.

It’s all about the power of memory. “A muffin or pie or cake can take you back to a happier place and time,” Hinman says.

Desserts—especially those involving chocolate—have a strong association with love. “It can be a real pick-me-up and make the world seem like a good place,” says Genny McGregor, “Cocoa Coordinator” of Piece, Love & Chocolate. The Boulder-based chocolatier offers artisan truffles, candies, pastries, and drinking chocolate.

Sometimes visitors to the shop become visibly, physically moved by tasting a particular confection. “This look comes over people’s faces. They close their eyes. It almost looks like they are…well, they look happy,” McGregor says with a smile.

Salted Caramel on the Right Side of the Brain Bakers are different from other culinary creatives. “There is a balance between science and creativity. I like all the numbers involved, the exact measuring and setting out the ingredients and tools for an amazing dish before you start,” says Jennifer Akina, a celebrated cake artist at Denver’s Azucar Bakery. Akina studied

chemistry and biology in college, a common background among bakers (not to mention brewers and distillers).

Akina is preparing to open Melted at The Source with restaurateur Bryan Drayton (of Acorn, Oak, and Corrida), featuring artisan cookies and Thai ice cream sandwiches on freshly baked French rolls. “I’m doing recipe testing now so I get to play with the millions of flavors in my head,” she says.

Part of what she calls her “therapy” is following defined steps of pouring, proofing yeast, sifting, stirring, and plating. “Working with my hands gets the stress out for me. I have to focus and forget about everything else,” Akina says.

Pastry creation is fundamentally tactile, not unlike massage therapy. “When I am training somebody, I have to show how to do techniques with my hands. I can’t tell them,” she says. “I am the worst with words.

But I can show someone I care without saying anything by baking something for them. They know what I’m feeling.”

Become a Mindful Baker Escaping into baking can help you learn to relax and gain confidence, and it’s a safe way to try

“Working with my hands gets the stress out for me.…I am the worst with words. But I can show someone I care without saying anything by baking something for them. They know what I’m feeling.”

—Jennifer Akina, Cake Artist

something new, according to Hawkins of Kathy Hawkins Counseling. “It also is such a thoughtful expression of affection because you took the time. You didn’t just pick something up at a store,” she says.

Many home cooks are intimidated by baking to the point of being “pastry-phobic” because they don’t bake often enough to feel good at it.

The answer is to begin a mindful baking practice and intentionally create treats for others on a regular basis. First, relax, breathe, and forget about being “gourmet” or making elaborate edible sculptures, Hawkins says. “I think back to my mother. Every weekend she would make Pillsbury Cinnamon Rolls with icing from the can. It was her way of showing me that she loved me.”

Don’t bite off more than you can bake.

“Make sure you have a solid, simple recipe.

Start with granola or cookies, not apple pie.

See how happy it makes you feel and then get more complicated,” says Bush of Lucky’s Bakehouse and Creamery.

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about what others need and enjoy the feeling of altruism.” Hawkins says.

If you are a perfectionist, baking could be a source of anxiety. Serious bakers will regale you with self-deprecating tales of burned crusts, sunken souffles, and banana bread baked with salt mistaken for sugar. “You can’t be afraid. It’s not life or death. It’s just cake. We say: ‘No blame, no shame.’

You learn and move on,” says McGregor of Piece, Love & Chocolate.

Consider embracing the Japanese concept of wabi sabi, seeing the beauty in imperfection.

Besides, you can always add more frosting. Encourage family and friends to join you by scheduling a holiday cookie exchange this season. Honor an elder by asking them to teach you how to make a comforting family favorite.

All You Knead is Love Bakers serve as pastry therapists for the rest of us, but those who create sweets need love, too.

Hinman and others in the Denver hospitality industry have formed an organization called Chow, which offers support services to deal with addiction, suicide, and mental illness among cooks, bakers, bartenders, and waiters. The idea

A B O U T T H E AU T H O R

John Lehndorff was the former executive director of the American Pie Council, chief judge at the National Pie Championships, and spokesperson for National Pie Day (Jan. 23). He enjoys making and receiving double-crusted wild blueberry pies.

is to promote work/life balance in kitchens where the prevailing culture has often been quite brutal.

Hinman says he rarely has leftover pies at his bakery, but on a recent Saturday found himself with a dozen or so. “I decided to bring them to

Azucar Bakery because I knew they were working really hard,” he says.

You would think that the last thing a baker wants to eat would be additional baked goods.

“When John [Hinman] brought us pies at the bakery, the whole staff

lit up. Who brings a baker a pie? It was so wonderful,” Akina says.

Ultimately, making the attempt and investing the thought and time is the sweetest part for folks when we show up at the front door with home-baked goodies.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mona Van Joseph has been an intuitive since 2002. She is an author, columnist, and host of Psychic View Radio. She created dicewisdom.com, which also has a smartphone app. mona.vegas

HOROSCOPE

NOVEMBER HOROSCOPE What do the stars hold for you?

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ed is telling you to indulge in MAR. 21–APR. 19 ARIES a pricey, high-quality thing You can’t control the world’s you want. You naturally seek Imagine you are surroundevents. However, you can ed by magic. Spirit has held value and have earned the control how you respond to right to that desire. things back from you in rethem. Encouraging people to cent months; that all changes share their stories of prob- JAN. 20–FEB. 18 now. Be delighted about what lem-solving will go a long will be presented. You’ve AQUARIUS way to ease your mind. earned these opportunities.

Loving partnerships and awareness of the people who NOV. 22–DEC. 21 truly care about you are the APR. 20–MAY 20 SAGITTARIUS focus of this month. Inspired TAURUS You’ve taken on burdens Reconnect with those who reenergy flows through you. that shouldn’t be yours. Be- When undecided, ask your- ally care about you. The peoing a team player is one self: “What’s the most loving ple around you are baffled thing; being taken advanby your mood and self-isothing I can do today?” tage of is quite another. lation. You’ve been resistant Speak up about what is fair; FEB. 19–MAR. 20 and assumptive—that’s what if you don’t, the situation is working against you.

PISCES will continue.

Work the political environment around you as though MAY 21–JUNE 20 DEC. 22–JAN. 19 all the energies are support- GEMINI CAPRICORN Plot twist! Delays by othing your goals and dreams.

You’ve been stingy with Ignore anything that would ers have actually done you yourself. The energy present- cause you emotional distress. a cosmic favor. Though you OCT. 23–NOV. 21

SCORPIO

SCORPIO, ENCOURAGING PEOPLE TO SHARE THEIR STORIES OF PROBLEMSOLVING WILL GO A LONG WAY TO EASE YOUR MIND.

may have had to regroup, in with the people you really the long run it will be better like. Eat your favorite tacos. for you to move forward and AUG. 23–SEPT. 22 create your own dream.

VIRGO

Keep telling spirit what you CANCER want. Keep karmic awareThere are so many people ness in your heart and act as around you who love and though all the puzzle pieccare about you. Stop waiting es are falling in the right for them to call you. Initiate places. Keep the faith. Love a gathering or two. Decide will find you and success is to host Thanksgiving this working though you. year—for all your people.

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SEPT. 23–OCT. 22 JULY 23–AUG. 22

LIBRA

You have no choice but to follow your heart now. Give yourself permission to do what you really want to do.

No procrastinating. Write that screenplay. Connect

Do what relaxes you and brings you a sense of harmony. Pragmatic and thoughtful wins the day. Discover what allows you to lose track of time and gives you a sense of awareness of the moment.

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TRIPPY HEALING Psychedelics are the new medical marijuana.

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keep a photo of myself from the bad year, when I left the job I thought defined me and broke up with the man I’d planned to marry. I’m wearing a sleeveless dress no adult who weighs 93 pounds should be wearing, with my undernourished limbs and oversized head. I make myself look at it once in a while because I don’t want to forget.

My life once felt so bleak that I didn’t want to be here. I couldn’t kill myself because I love my children, but I thought about it all the time. I starved myself and told people my new retirement plan was to die young.

Around that time, private ayahuasca ceremonies were becoming a thing from Laurel Canyon to Park Slope, so I went to one in a multimillion-dollar house with a Jewish shaman who played New Age music on a boom box. I had read everything I could get my hands on about this ancient medicine made from sacred Amazonian plants—not all that much at the time, and a lot of it pretty terrifying—and I waited with more than a little trepidation for the big bang that would fix me.

When the mood wasn’t right and nothing happened, I was disappointed and then bored, listening to the guy next to me groan and sob and watching the guy across from me paint pictures in the air with his hands. I snuck into the garage to vape.

I took that experience as another sign of what a hopeless, crusty loser I had become. Not even drinking this legendary brew could bring back my appetite for food, for life. I figured this ayahuasca thing was just

more bullshit, a hallucinogenic Landmark Forum for entitled people who have exhausted their therapists’ patience.

I was wrong, of course, as Cosmic Sister founder Zoe Helene, a seasoned journeyer who drinks ayahuasca only in Peru (where it’s legal and revered) would prove.

Helene awarded me one of the first Cosmic Sister Plant Spirit grants so I could travel to the Nihue Rao healing center outside of Iquitos and experience traditional ayahuasca ceremonies with shamans where Mama Aya lives.

I spent four hellish nights in the rainforest, wrestling with anger and despair about my father dying before I was born—deep, pre-language demons I thought I’d dealt with in the Landmark Forum, with God knows how many therapists.

My journeys were desolate and brutal, total annihilation of the universe and terrifying solo rocket launches into empty orbits. I felt

my father’s heart attack, and his crushing angst about who would take care of me was the sword that finally cut through the dark energy I’d been born with. I forgave him for dying and myself for thinking he didn’t care enough to stick around and meet me. I told him he could let go, I would take care of myself now. Free for the first time in my life, I spent the last night juggling exclamation points, tossing them up to pop pink balloons that rained down sparkles of love on everyone around me.

The pink glow lasted. I went home and started rebuilding my skeletal self and reinventing my career—as a cannabis cookbook author and chef, no less. I met a nice guy who feeds me when I’m in work mode. I never considered suicide again.

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“[ P S YC H E D E L I C S ] C A N C R E AT E EXPERIENCES O F WO N D E R A N D AW E A N D A CONNECTION TO A ‘D I V I N E R E A L M’ T H AT L E A D S TO SIGNIFICANT B E H AV I O R A L C H A N G E S .”

—Kenneth Tupper, British Columbia Centre on Substance Use

ical marijuana, offering a world of therapeutic possibilities for so many things that ail us, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), debilitating grief, opiate addiction, depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)—and Americans are more interested in them than they’ve been since the 1960s. In a recent YouGov survey, 53 percent of Americans said they support medical research into psychedelic medicines, and 63 percent said they would be open to having medical treatment with psilocybin, ketamine, or MDMA if the substances were proven safe.

In December 2016, the Journal of Psychoparmacology dedicated its entire issue to psychedelics. Michael Pollen’s 2018 book about psychedelic therapy, How to Change Your Mind, which he said took him to “places I’ve never been—indeed, places I didn’t know existed,” was an immediate bestseller. In 2017, in the widely acclaimed book A Really Good Day, Ayelet Waldman wrote that microdosing, or taking about onetenth of a normal dose of LSD on a regular basis, helped her deal with severe mood swings. Silicon Valley executives microdose LSD for a gentle blast of focus and creativity.

Psilocybin from “magic mushrooms” is emerging as a treatment for smoking cessation, alcoholism, and cocaine dependence, and terminal-cancer anxiety, while MDMA, aka Ecstasy or Molly, is showing great promise for treating PTSD and autistic adults with social anxiety because it lets them safely reprocess traumatic experiences that normally leave them N OV E M B E R 2020

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KNOW YOUR PSYCHEDELICS AYA H UA S C A Made in the Amazon from the ayahuasca vine and the chacruna leaf containing the psychoactive substance DMT

COULD TREAT: Depression, suicidal thoughts

P E YOT E

Vision-inducing woolly cactus used by indigenous people containing mescaLSD line, a psychedelic Synthetic psychedelic phenethylamine made from lysergic EFFECTS: SevenEFFECTS: Helps jouracid in the fungus teenth-century ethneyers come to terms that grows on rye nobotanists reported with deep trauma EFFECTS: Producthat eating the plant’s COULD TREAT: PTSD, es visuals, intentop “causes those depression, eating sified sensory devouring it to be disorders, suicidal perception, synesable to foresee and to thoughts thesia, sense of deep predict things” interconnectedness COULD TREAT: Alcoholism and addiction IBOGAINE COULD TREAT: PTSD, A compound in the alcoholism, anxiety, bark and roots of depression P S I LO C Y B I N taberanthi, a small Entheogenic (meanAfrican bush tree ing “to generate god MDMA (AKA ECSTASY, MOLLY.)

within”) found in over Enactogen developed 75 mushroom species

by German scientists EFFECTS: Disturbs during WWI with normal nerve cell properties similar to interaction and seamphetamine and rotonin functioning, mescaline creating heightened sensory experiences, EFFECTS: Soaks the COULD TREAT: Alcohol- brain with serotonin, perceptual distortions, hallucinations, oxytocin, dopamine ism and addiction and synesthesia and prolactin to inCOULD TREAT: Depresvoke what psycholK E TA M I N E sion, end-of-life anxiogist Ralph Metzner A disassociative anes- described as “a natu- ety, trauma, addiction, thetic discovered in ral state of innocence, couples therapy 1961 and used during before guilt and unthe Vietnam War worthiness arose” EFFECTS: Induces COULD TREAT: Couples deep relaxation, out- therapy, PTSD of-body experiences

EFFECTS: As activist Dana Beal described, “your entire life and those spooky archetypes you see distantly in your dreams are projected on the back of your eyelids”

overwhelmed. MDMA, which emerged in the late 1970s as a tool for psychotherapists and made its way into the hands of ravers and yuppies, was “the drug that LSD was supposed to be, coming 20 years too late to change the world,” Newsweek wrote in 1985, the year the DEA made it a Schedule I substance. In 2017, the FDA gave MDMA breakthrough therapy status based on its effectiveness in PTSD studies, and it could be approved for legal therapeutic use by 2021.

As for ayahuasca, scores of medical journal articles are now exploring how journeying changes the very brain chemistry to beat back the anxiety and depression. Every weekend across North America, thousands of seekers gather for not-so-underground ceremonies like the one that didn’t work for me. For $11,000, San Francisco-area startup professionals can travel to the Amazon with Entrepreneurs Awakening for the real deal—but they don’t have to go to all that effort. In San Francisco, self-help guru Tim Ferriss told the New Yorker in 2016, drinking ayahuasca is “like having a cup of coffee.”

LSD, Past Lives, and Outer Space Psychedelics affect the brain by binding to the same receptors as the feel-good neurotransmitter serotonin and facilitating communication between disparate regions that normally don’t talk to each other. Kenneth Tupper, director of implementation and partnerships at the British Columbia Centre on Substance Use, told NBC News that under carefully controlled conditions, psycheN OV E M B E R 2020

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delics “can create experiences of wonder and awe and a connection to a ‘divine realm’ that leads to significant behavioral changes.”

At a recent international conference on the science of psychedelics in London, psychiatrist Ben Sessa explained that psychedelic therapy “offers an opportunity to dig down and get to the heart of the problems that drive long-term mental illness in a much more effective way than our current model, which is take daily medications to mask systems.”

At the Johns Hopkins University’s Psilocybin Research Project, studies found that people had a more “open” personality, greater appreciation for new experiences, and enhanced curiosity and imagination—effects that persisted for 14 months—after a single psilocybin session. And in 2018, a study published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology found that people feel more connected to nature and less supportive of authoritarian views after a psychedelic trip.

That anti-authority effect is, of course, the reason psychedelics— which encouraged an entire generation to drop out and make love when the government desperately needed them to join up and make war—are illegal. In the 1950s, LSD was sold under the name Delvsid and used in conjunction with psychotherapy to treat anxiety and obsessive neuroses. A good number of researchers and therapists were studying the effects of drugs like LSD, which Canadian psychiatrist Humphrey Osmond called “psychedelics” from the Greek word for “mind manifesting.” Hollywood stars including Esther Williams and Cary Grant were outspoken

about its effectiveness, Anais Nin wrote about experimenting with it, Alcoholics Anonymous founder Bill Wilson tried it as a means to sobriety, and the CIA slipped it to unsuspecting victims to see how they would respond.

“THESE INCREDIBLE COMPOUNDS… CAN BE USED TO HAVE INCREDIBLY POSITIVE RESULTS. AND WHAT DO WE DO? WE CRIMINALIZE THEM.”

A Threat to Police States Timothy Leary, the ex-Harvard professor who told people to “turn on, tune in, and drop out,” probably did more than anyone else to antagonize the government into making psychedelics illegal.

President Richard Nixon called Leary “the most dangerous man in America” for his proselytizing about LSD. Leary told Playboy in 1966 that it was “the most powerful aphrodisiac ever discovered by man,” kicking up those age-old fears about young people’s virtue and predicted it would “enable each person to realize that he is not a game-playing robot put on this planet to be given a social security number and to be spun on the assembly line of school, college, career, insurance, funeral, goodbye. … Instead of relying on canned, static, dead knowledge passed on from other symbol producers, he will be using his span of 80 or so years on this planet to live out every possibility of the human, prehuman, and even subhuman adventure.”

Or, as Hunter S. Thompson would explain in Playboy eight years later, “If acid helps people see through conditioned hallucinations, then acid’s a threat to such police states as now exist in America and in Russia.”

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sion was banned. Two years later, nearly every psychedelic known, including LSD, psilocybin, mescaline, peyote, and cannabis, was declared a Schedule I drug with no medical value. The message–drugs are bad–would be impossible to ignore for the next several decades.

That message is antiquated. As we wrestle with so many seemingly intractable issues—opioid abuse, mental illness, mass shoot-

ings and violence, PTSD, and skyrocketing suicide rates—we can no longer afford to ignore tools that psychiatrist Stanislav Grof wrote, in the foreword to Albert Hoffman’s 2005 book, LSD: My Problem Child, “make it possible to study undercurrents that govern our experiences and behaviors to a depth that is not by any other method and tool available in modern mainstream psychiatry.”

Perhaps Amanda Fielding, founder of the think tank Beckley Foundation, summed it up best in a recent Wired interview. “There are these incredible compounds that synergize amazingly well with the human body and can be used to have incredibly positive results,” Fielding said. “And what do we do?

We criminalize them. I mean, they are more carefully controlled than nuclear weapons. It is mad.”

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PHOTO COURTESY OF BOSTON PUBLIC MARKET

Comforts in the Cold New England’s winter farmers markets can help bring a bit of summer to the coldest months of the year.

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Once held mainly during the warmer months, many New England farmers markets now have a dedicated winter clientele. If you’re looking to shop local for your Thanksgiving table this year, these cold-weather markets offer a wide variety of produce, meats, and prepared foods that will make your holiday special.

Connecticut—Coventry Winter Farmer’s Market Located at the Coventry Community Center on Lake Street, the Coventry Winter Farmer’s Market is open on Sunday mornings through March 14. The market’s nearly 20 vendors sell a variety of local products including honey, organic produce, hot sauces and condiments, breads, pastries, raw milk cheeses, poultry, meats, and prepared foods. The market also hosts a small number of craft vendors offering wares such as handmade pottery, as well as guest vendors, which change from week to week. coventrywinterfarmersmarket.com

LEFT: Bumble Root Organic Farm and Maple Springs Farm, two shops at Portland Farmers’ Market

Today, the market hosts more than 40 vendors selling seasonal produce, mushrooms, organic dairy products, seafood, locally raised meats, flowers, honey, and herbs.

Vendor Maple Wind Farm is now accepting pre-orders for holiday turkeys. The market will begin operating at its winter location on Stevens Avenue on Dec. 5. portlandmainefarmersmarket.org

PHOTOS COURTESY OF COVENTRY WINTER FARMER’S MARKET

Maine—Portland Farmers’ Market Open year-round, the Portland Farmers’ Market will be held outdoors in the city’s Deering Oaks Park on Wednesday and Saturday mornings through Nov. 27.

One of New England’s oldest farmers markets, the Portland market traces its roots back to 1768, when city residents voted to establish a market to serve area families.

Massachusetts—Boston Public Market One of the Bay State’s largest farmers markets, the Boston Public Market, or BPM as it’s known to locals, is open Wednesday through Saturday from 8 to 6 at its permanent location on Hanover Street.

Featuring producers from across Massachusetts,

BELOW: Products from the Coventry Winter Farmers Market: (left to right) macarons, produce from 18th Century Purity Farms, sauces from Dragon’s Blood Elixir, and honey from Stonewall Apiary

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ABOVE: A cooking demonstration and giant pumpkins at Boston Public Market

Roasted Feta Spread

with Smoked Mango Pineapple Preserves Courtesy Coventry Winter Farmer’s Market and Woodstock Hill Preserves

Makes 4 to 8 servings

PHOTOS (FROM LEFT) COURTESY: WOODSTOCK HILL / BOSTON PUBLIC MARKET

INGREDIENTS

• Set broiler on high and place dish on rack 10 to 12 inches below heat source for 3 to 5 minutes until glaze has begun to caramelize and char lightly. Be sure to keep an eye on it to prevent burning.

• Remove from broiler and serve immediately. Pairs INSTRUCTIONS • Place feta in an oven-proof well with vegetables, charcuterie platters, dried dish. Glaze generously fruit, and olives. with preserves.

One jar Woodstock Hill Smoked Mango Pineapple Preserves 8–16 ounces feta cheese or any semi-hard local cheese Grilled baguette or crusty bread, sliced for serving

BPM hosts vendors selling a wide variety of locally prepared foods including soups, bagels, Moroccan cuisine, noodles, roasted nuts, locally roasted coffee, and vegan pastries. Other products for sale include organic dairy products and cheeses, local seafood, eggs, poultry, produce, honey, craft beer, and apples. bostonpublicmarket.org

New Hampshire—Salem Farmers Market Open Sunday mornings all year long at the Salem Marketplace Plaza on Route 28, the Salem Farmers Market attracts shoppers from across southern New Hampshire and northeastern Massachusetts.

The market’s organizers aim to offer only products grown or made locally. Vendors change seasonally and offer organic cheeses and dairy products, a variety of produce, locally made sausages and bacon, eggs, breads, maple syrup, herbs, micro greens, jams, jellies, poultry, and chocolates. Craft vendors include artisans who make pottery and alpaca products.

There’s even a vendor who will sharpen your knives. salemnhfarmersmarket.org BELOW: Local products at Salem Farmers Market

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Maple-Glazed Root Vegetables Courtesy Stillman’s Farm, Boston Public Market Makes 6 to 8 servings

INGREDIENTS

INSTRUCTIONS

• Toss all ingredients in a 3 pounds root vegetables (carrots, potatoes, parsnips, large bowl so that they are well mixed. beets, etc.) peeled and cut • Spread vegetables on into 1⁄2-inch pieces. a greased baking sheet 1⁄2 cup olive oil and roast in 400 degree oven until tender, about 1⁄3 cup maple syrup one hour. Serve warm.

2 garlic cloves, chopped Salt and pepper to taste

Rhode Island—Farm Fresh Winter Market ABOVE: Produce from Farm Fresh Winter The 2020–2021 winter season will be this market’s Market first at its new custom-built 60,000-square-foot building on Sims Avenue in Providence. Founded in 2004 by students at Brown University, the market is open Saturday mornings through April 24. Farm Fresh Winter Market offers dozens of vendors selling a dizzying array of products ranging from homemade biscotti and doughnuts to locally made charcuterie. A wide selection of local produce, locally roasted coffee, herbs, pastries, apples, organic dairy products, seafood, and meats are also for sale. The market offers call-ahead ordering, delivery, and curbside pickup. farmfreshri.org

Vermont—Burlington Farmers Market A community institution since 1980, the Burlington Farmers Market will operate holiday markets on Nov. 21 and Dec. 19 at its downtown location on Pine Street. Market vendors will offer organic produce, maple syrup, handmade cheeses, pies, cakes, eggs, grass-fed beef, wild mushrooms, prepared foods, and cider, among many other local goodies.

The holiday markets will also host several craft vendors selling items such as artisan soaps, handmade jewelry, pottery, and hand-blown glass. burlingtonfarmersmarket.org

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Cultural Calendar

November in New England means crisp frostcovered mornings, the smell of pumpkin pies baking, and finally being able to hit the ski slopes again.

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From Veterans Day events to cider tastings and shopping for your Thanksgiving table, these virtual and socially distant live events will bring joy to brisk November days.

Mohegan Sun Vets Rock 2020 Nov. 6 Uncasville, CT mohegansun.com

Franklin County CiderDays Cider Trail 2020 Nov. 6–8 Various locations ciderdays.org

The 2020 CiderDays Cider Trail is an occasion to travel in your private car to orchards and cideries from West Brookfield to North

Adams, MA. Visit all 16 stops to enjoy tastings and purchase your favorites to take home.

Fall Family Day: Fairies in the Foliage at the Eustis Estate Nov. 7 Milton, MA historicnewengland.org

Table & Vine Vodka Tasting Nov. 10 West Springfield, MA tableandvine.com

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Old Sturbridge Village Veterans Day Celebration

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Nov. 11 Sturbridge, MA osv.org

Nov. 10–12 Virtual cannabisbusinesssummit.com

To celebrate Veterans Day, Old Sturbridge Village will present special activities celebrating the nation’s military history.

Listen to fife and drum music, watch musket and cannon demonstrations, and see how American military uniforms have changed over the past 200 years.

Mystic Half Marathon & 10K Nov. 13–15 Virtual hartfordmarathon.com

Dinner & A Show: Comedian Lenny Clark Live Nov. 14 Amherst, NH labellewineryevents.com

10th Annual Holiday Market Nov. 15 Old Lyme, CT highhopes.org

CannaVest USA Virtual Expo Nov. 17–18 Virtual cannaone.com

The premier expo for cannabis investment resources, CannaVest USA is designed for everyone from beginners to advanced investors.

The North Shore Holiday Light Show is the only drivethrough holiday light experience on the North Shore, featuring dozens of largerthan-life holiday displays. Visitors are welcome to bundle up in their cars, pack a favorite snack or beverage, and tune their radios to the synchronized musical performance as they travel along the 1-mile route.

Mountain Ski Area Opening Day Nov. 25 Stratton Mountain, VT stratton.com

Feaster Five Thanksgiving Day Road Race Nov. 26 Virtual feasterfive.com

Gobble Gobble Wobble 5K Nov. 26 Stratton Mountain, VT stratton.com

Black Friday Hike Nov. 27 Kent, CT kentlandtrust.org

Work off your turkey dinner and join in a hike to admire the view from the top of Bull Mountain as Nov. 21 part of this 2-mile Montpelier, VT loop. Reservations capitalcityfarmersmarket.com required.

Capital City Farmers Market Annual Thanksgiving Market

Veterans Car Parade

Fifth Annual Harvest Craft Show

Rockland Festival of Lights

Nov. 11 Lexington, MA lexingtonma.gov

Nov. 21 Owls Head, ME camdenrockland.com

Nov. 27-29 Rockland, ME rocklandmainstreet.org

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Practically everyone knows about the joys of cannabis gummies. And their growing popularity is understandable when you consider just some of the reasons for their use. Cannabis gummies can be a healthier option. Because they’re consumed through the digestive system, they don’t adversely affect the lungs like smoking and vaping. Plus, many cannabis gummies are low-calorie, vegan, kosher, and even gluten-free.

Cannabis gummies are easy to consume. Because of their small size, they can be carried practically anywhere and used discreetly, something that can’t be said for smoking and vaping. And each gummie is dose-specific, making it easier for consumers to know precisely the amount of cannabis they’re using.

Cannabis gummies are enjoyable to consume. Of course, we have always insisted that, for something so important when it comes to enhancing our lives, it is only appropriate for cannabis gummies to be enjoyed as a ur industry has changed perception that consumption came in treat. That’s especially easy today with dramatically in the past really just one form—smoking. That old- all the new fruity flavors and gummie decade since cannabis school inhalation method remains solidly varieties—traditional or new fastwas first legalized in popular, but it’s far from the only one acting—coming on the market today. a handful of states. Today, adult-use enjoyed by consumers. These days, both If you have not tried cannabis gumcannabis is legal in 11 states, while recreational and medical cannabis users mies, now is the a perfect time: Wana medical cannabis programs exist in 33. have an array of consumption choices, Brands and Three Wells, an online And this doesn’t count the legality in ranging from smoking and vaping flower cannabis information platform for older U.S. territories or D.C. to using concentrates, topicals, or subAmericans, are uniting to present the While public opinion on cannabis has lingual oils. One of the most prominent first-ever National Cannabis Gummie evolved, so, too, have consumers and choices is cannabis-infused products.

Day on Nov. 19. You might even want to their preferences. And for the first time, Infused products are so popular today ask your local dispensary if it’s running legalization efforts have advanced as that a recent Forbes article, citing New special pricing for gummies that day. far as Congress, as evidenced by the Frontier Data, called the product segment The new holiday will finally put cannaMarijuana Opportunity, Reinvestment “explosive” and forecast legal retail sales bis gummies on the calendar and remind and Expungement (MORE) Act, which of THC-infused products to exceed $21.5 everyone about the multifaceted use the House already has approved, and billion between 2020 and 2025. cannabis can have in our lives today. with the proposed SAFE Banking Act, Of infused products, the most popular which would create legal pathways so is edibles, which come in a lot of that state-licensed marijuana businesses different forms, from baked goods to new The Sensi Advisory Board comprises select industry leaders in a variety of fields, from can engage in legal relationships with beverage products. But no edible form education to cultivation. They are invited to financial services, including banks. has the reputation or allure—or even the share specialized insight in this dedicated section.

In the beginning, it was a common versatility—of today’s cannabis gummies. For a full list of board members, see page 8.

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City of Peace In the late 18th century, 100 religious Shakers established a 3,000acre communal farm in Pittsfield, MA, which they named the “City of Peace.�

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century their number had increased to nearly 300.

Largely self-sufficient, the Shakers were able to purchase items they could not make or grow with income earned by selling herbal medicines, crafts,

and furniture. They also operated a sizable dairy business out of their iconic round barn.

Today, Hancock Shaker Village (hancockshakervillage.org) is a living history muse-

um, open to the public. The buildings are as strong and true as the day they were built, and the farm looks much as it did when the community closed due to dwindling membership in 1959.

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