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The 2021 Sensi Holiday Gift Guide
From classy, odor-blocking stash boxes to single malt scotch to lowdose edibles, our annual gift guide rounds up the best stuff to make the holidays a little happier.
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Hacking The Feast
Here’s how the hippies hijacked Thanksgiving.
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11 EDITOR’S NOTE What’ 42 THE SCENE s hot in the world of cannabis. 12 THE BUZZ HONEY, HONEY Get to News, tips, and tidbits to keep you in the loop TUNE IN Jon Hopkins’ new album puts the spiritual teachings of the late legend Ram Dass to music. COLOR ME IMPRESSED
The Creative Thinking Journal will help you tap into new ideas. SENSIBILITIES There’s a need for cannabis conviction expungement. THE MINCING MOCKINGBIRD Check out this
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29 LOCAL Regional editor Jenny Willden outlines the whos, wheres, and whens of California.
know Tanya Griffin, the groovy, sex-positive woman behind oOYes, a new line of “cannagasmic” products created by women who enjoy sex. WISH LIST Slade highlights some of the uplifting items he’s currently coveting. STYLE FILES A new campaign for Jay-Z’s Monogram cannabis brand reimagines iconic photos through a contemporary lens.
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Though I’ve been a Californian for over two
years, I still can’t adjust to kicking off November without a dusting of snow. Temperatures rarely dip below freezing in my part of the state, allowing nut trees and grapevines to thrive, but, personally, I need snow to survive—at least happily. I know most people dread scraping ice off their windshields and shoveling sidewalks, but I have missed these seasonal chores more than I expected. Luckily, I can cure my I-wish-it-felt-like-winter-blues with a two-hour drive to Lake Tahoe. There, freshly fallen snow transports me to a winter wonderland where my dusty down parka and winter boots finally get some use. For me,“visiting” the snow is the only way to make November in California feel like November at all. How do you welcome winter in the Golden State? Do you require a dose of fluffy powder like me? Or is a pumpkin spice latte or hot cup of cider enough to transition seasons? Whatever your pleasure, enjoy this final fall month before the holiday madness with cool events around California in our local section (page 29). Or use our gift guide (page 16) to wrap your holiday shopping early for the cannabis fans in your life. It’s one way to take the stress out of the season before the holidays start, allowing you to enjoy more time with the people you love most. Win-win. Here’s to a happy fall finale this November,
It’s one way to take the stress out of the season before the holidays start, allowing you to enjoy more time with the people you love most.
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Jon Hopkins’ new album is a meditative experience that puts the spiritual teachings of the late legend Ram Dass to music. In light of the recent psychedelic resurgence (a COVID-19 silver lining: free time many among us used to expand our minds), techno auteur Jon Hopkins hopes his new album Music for Psychedelic Therapy, set to release on November 12, will take listeners on a new kind of meditative musical journey. It’s the English artist and producer’s first full-length release since 2018’s Singularity, an album Pitchfork.com said was “pitched between heat-seeking acid 12
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house and ambient bliss” and a “beat-music odyssey that thrums with spiritual resonance.” More ambient bliss thrumming with spiritual resonance than heat-seaking acid house, Hopkins’s new album grew from the artist’s expedition to Tayos Caves in Ecuador. “Music for Psychdelic Therapy is not ambient, classical, or drone but has elements of all three,” he says. “For me, it’s a place as much as it is a sound. It works for the sober mind but takes on a new
dimension entirely when brought into a psychedelic therapy.” To make the album, Hopkins began working with researchers in the Department of Brain Sciences at Imperial College London who were exploring experiential therapy using psychedelic drugs. The department was investigating the importance of music in positive therapeutic outcomes, and Hopkins began suggesting tracks for the accompanying playlists. But Hopkins soon noticed an
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incongruity: The playlists used in the Imperial research were made up of pieces of music written by many different musicians—“disparate pieces of music for what really are quite long, coherent experiences,” he explains. “And that will take the patient somewhere very different, suddenly. There aren’t cohesive single bodies of work.” And with that, Music for Psychedelic Therapy was born. “Sit Around The Fire,” the album’s closing track, is one that will make spiritual seekers “om” so hard, a collab between Hopkins, producer and ceremony guide East Forest, and legendary spiritual teacher the late Ram Dass, whose iconic book Be Here Now celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. “‘Sit Around The Fire’ exists from one of the deep synchronicities that ushered this thing—Music For Psychedelic Therapy—into being. I was contacted by East Forest, who had spent some time in Hawaii with Ram Dass. He was given access to several [of Dass’s] lesser-heard talks from the ’70s and asked to set them to music.” Hopkins took East Forest’s vocals, added his own, and began to play Ram Dass’s talk in the studio. Its place at the end of the album, Hopkins believes, brings a sense of release. “If you’ve had a very intense experience listening to this album, when Ram Dass’s voice comes in, it’s such a relief because his voice is embedded with all that knowledge, and all that spiritual experience, and where he’s been, and what he’s been through. It’s all in the peace in his voice.”
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Highly Creative
You like art, you like thoughts, you like pot: buy this book. Creative thinking is a competitive edge that separates the good from the great in all aspects of life, so light up a joint and think about thinking. This guided journal is designed to engage your imagination to help uncover new ideas, build more productive habits, and inspire creative thoughts. Bonus: you’re supposed to use it while you’re high. It’s not your basic coloring book, although there are pages for coloring plus a set of colored pencils for you to use on them. Nor is it a puzzle book for stereotypical “stoners” too blazed to think thoughts at all. Refreshingly free of clichés, the Original Creative Thinking Journal by Pilgrim Soul is packed with more than 50 engaging prompts that are neither incredibly boring or stupidly zany. The book asks you to make up and define new words and to complete abstract analogies (“Being in a relationship is like cleaning the bathroom. How So?”), write a Tinder bio for Oprah, and fill out the famed Proust Questionnaire. (What is your most marked characteristic? What do you regard as the lowest depth of mystery? Which words or phrases do you overuse most?) One exercise instructs you to go to a public place and invent a narrative for two strangers you encounter. The people at Pilgrim Soul say the goal of the journal is to “get people to look at problems in entirely new ways, get out of their comfort zones, and tap into what makes them uniquely creative.” Get the book, get high, and spend a few hours losing yourself in the mental playground. You’ve already seen everything on Netflix anyway. $30 / pilgrimsoul.com
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THE BUZZ
THE MINCING MOCKINGBIRD The Mincing Mockingbird is artist/writer/designer duo Kim Bagwill and Matt Adrian, the married couple responsible for the products on themincingmockingbird.com. Among them is the amazing postcard featured here. If you read it and find yourself wondering, Who is “she?”, she is you and you totally need this postcard. Possibly the magnet version, too. Bagwill and Adrian are “she” too. “Since 2008 we’ve been having an almost criminal amount of fun creating things that delight us,” Bagwill writes on the company’s site, “and the recent relocation of our studio to the wilds of Joshua Tree has upped the inspiration level by an order of magnitude.” Want to see even more of their criminally delightful creations? Check out their respective websites: mattadrian.com and kimbagwill.com. Saint “Troubled Birds” Card, $4
BILITIES BY STEPHANIE WILSON, EDITOR IN CHIEF
What’s on our editor in chief Steph’s mind this month: the importance of cannabis conviction expungement. Things you can’t do* if you’ve got a felony conviction on your record—even if that felony is for the possession of a plant that’s now legal in all sorts of states:
1 VOTE. 2 HOLD PUBLIC OFFICE or be a candidate for office. 3 SECURE HOUSING. 4 BECOME AN ELECTOR (someone who votes in the Electoral College—which you probably weren’t going to ever do anyway but now that you can’t, don’t you want to just a bit?) 5 OWN A FIREARM. 6 SERVE ON A JURY. 7 TRAVEL INTERNATIONALLY, depending on where you’re going. (Canada makes it difficult for anyone with even a DUI conviction on their record to cross their border.)
8 GET CERTAIN JOBS with a felony conviction on your record.
9 GET A PROFESSIONAL LICENSE or permit from state boards that require applicants be of “sound moral character,” never convicted of a “crime of moral turpitude.” Those licenses and permits apply to doctors, lawyers, architects, private detectives, guards, acupuncturists, massage therapists, barbers and hairdressers, midwives, major contractors, public accountants, pawnbrokers, interior designers, real estate agents, and so many more professions. 10 RECEIVE SNAP (food stamps) and TANF (cash) assistance. 11 GET FEDERAL ASSISTANCE for higher education. *Laws vary by state.
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HACKING THE FEAST How the hippies hijacked Thanksgiving and hosted a celebration that can’t be beat. TEXT JOHN LEHNDORFF
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ack before football and the Black Friday frenzy came to dominate the day, Thanksgiving was the stodgiest of the big American holidays. The national feast day was mostly a quiet family home meal with the same turkey, boxed stuffing, and green bean casserole. It was traditional, but not necessarily that much fun. I come from Massachusetts where Thanksgiving was always a big deal. The Pilgrims and Wampanoag Indians got together for a three-day harvest feast in 1621 about 50 miles from where I grew up. More importantly, I was just down the turnpike from Stockbridge, the town where folk singer-songwriter Arlo Guthrie and a friend dumped trash over a cliff in 1965. That seminal moment sparked a folk song that would change Thanksgiving history.
Polish relatives who contributed ethnic side dishes. The bird was always filled with mashed potato and Italian sausage stuffing. However, the title track of Guthrie’s Alice’s Restaurant album describes a holiday with friends that sounded much more like a party than the sometimes nerve-racking family feasts we knew at home. Because of the epic, 16-minute talking blues track by the son of folk icon Woody Guthrie—the singer-songwriter behind classics such as “This Land Is Your Land”—nondenominational Thanksgiving Day soon became the hippies’ unofficial national holiday.
“Now it all started two Thanksgivings ago.”
I was an American student at McGill University in Montreal in the early 1970s when our household decided to host the hippest “This song is called ‘Alice’s Thanksgiving ever. We recorded a Restaurant’ and it’s about Alice and soundtrack on a reel-to-reel tape the restaurant, but Alice’s Restaurant deck of our favorite songs—some is not the name of the restaurant.” early Springsteen like “RosaliWhen Guthrie’s “Alice’s Restauta,” lots of country rock includrant Massacree” debuted in 1967, ing Emmylou Harris’s “Bluebird the song immediately became Wine,” and, of course, “Alice’s an underground hit. For young Restaurant.” The tunes were supmales like me approaching the posed to fit the various stages of age when we could be drafted the festivities, including digestive into the military to fight in Viettunes for the aftermath. Some of nam, the song about questioning the memories are a tad foggy, but authority was a call to action as it was a great time. well as a cautionary tale. It was also about the communal nature “Had a Thanksgiving dinner that couldn’t be beat.” of Thanksgiving. We were antiestablishment, so we “My friend and I went up to visit kept the parts of Thanksgiving we Alice at the restaurant.” liked—the wine and the pies—and I grew up loving Thanksgiving got rid of the parts we couldn’t with our large, overextended stand, such as the need to dress family of Austrian, Sicilian, and up. Long before it caught on with N OV E M B E R 2021
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Long before it caught up with the mainstream, the counterculture hosted vegetarian Thanksgivings that welcomed dishes of all denominations. What mattered was gathering like-minded members of your tribe. mainstream, the counterculture hosted vegetarian Thanksgivings with a big-tent approach that welcomed side dishes of all denominations. What mattered was gathering like-minded members of your tribe. Besides, Thanksgiving with friends was also the one holiday bash other than New Year’s Eve when we could enjoy highly illegal cannabis along with beer and wine.
“You may know somebody in a similar situation, or you may be in a similar situation.” It is a fairy-tale feast complete with unreasonable expectations, because stuff always happens. No wonder folks end up making reservations at a restaurant instead of hosting an elaborate meal. I feel their pain.
“I walked in, sat down, I was hung down, brung down, hung up, and all kinds o’ mean nasty ugly things.”
“And everything was fine, we were smoking cigarettes and all kinds of Turkeys have been overcooked things, until the sergeant came over.” and undercooked when I’ve hostOver the years, I’ve hosted Thanksgiving or helped stage the feast dozens of times, but not without combating the prevailing paradigm. Magazine covers and TV shows show perfect birds, oh-so-easy side dishes, and 126 things you can do to decorate your home for the happy feast day. You must remain the relaxed and gracious hostess or host. 26
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ed. I’ve burned dishes that only needed to be warmed. Once the fridge was packed, and I was tired on Thanksgiving night so I left the turkey carcass on the back porch on a near-freezing night. I awoke to a brutally attacked turkey scattered across the porch and back yard after an alley gang of obnoxious raccoons broke in. I mourned the lost meat and soup.
Another year, I knew that slicing the turkey in the aluminum pan was a really bad idea, but I went ahead anyway. I sliced through the pan, and the hot, fatty, delicious collected juices started pouring out on the cutting board, counter, and floor. The thing is: we all get anxiety over hosting Thanksgiving. I’m getting nervous even as I write this, because this year everybody’s coming to eat at my house. I figure it’ll be worth it for the leftovers.
“Kid, have you rehabilitated yourself?” In a 2017 feature on feast dishes for 50 states in the New York Times, cannabis got special attention. “It’s difficult to assess exactly how much legalization… may have changed the Thanksgiving menu. But it has indubitably increased the snacking that goes on afterward,” the esteemed publication noted.
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We would remind the Times that cannabis and Turkey Day have been intersecting for many decades in many places. And If I’m going to bust my buns pulling off Thanksgiving, then I want enough goodies so I can relax and enjoy the meal in the days that follow.
cubes that I bag for later use in sauces, soups, and such. A month (or three) from now, I’ll dig into the freezer and smile when I find carefully packaged gravy, cranberry sauce, turkey, and side dishes for a comforting, easy dinner.
in the song, that they lived through in the late 1960s to the early ’70s. It wasn’t all peace and love, either.
“If you want to end war and stuff you got to sing loud.”
Is hosting a Thanksgiving feast really worth the hours of prep, the “You can get anything you want at cleaning, the shopping, the cookAlice’s Restaurant, excepting Alice.” ing, and commotion of inviting “Had another Thanksgiving dinner that couldn’t be beat.” Ironically, our antiestablishment others into your home for a dining I look forward to turkey breast counterculture ended up creating experience fraught with so many BLT’s, dark-meat turkey in French rituals that are followed annually. possible disasters? dip sandwiches with gravy replac- Many radio stations have made it My answer is still yes. What I reing the au jus, and turkey tacos traditional to play the 16-minute member best about Thanksgiving in chocolate-chile mole sauce. I protest song on Thanksgiving Day, dinners is not food or faux pas, polove making waffles out of leftover sometimes several times. litical tiffs or football games. I am bread stuffing, and serving latkes If Grandpa and Grandma get a thankful for the funny, argumentamade from Italian sausage and po- silly gleam in their eye when they tive, and heartwarming moments tato stuffing topped with eggs. hear “Alice’s Restaurant” playing, shared among the folks who filled I turn that precious turkey into a they may have been hippies. There the circle around the table on evehearty broth that becomes frozen were challenging times, chronicled nings in November.
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Shopping for cannabis in San Diego? There’s a new game in town. Dr. Greenthumb’s, a dispensary founded by legendary Cypress Hill rapper and cannabis activist B-Real in 2018, just opened its sixth dispensary last month. The company is known for its extensive menu of top-shelf cannabis brands, including Insane, Alien Labs, CAM, Cannabiotix, and Wonderbrett. The La Mesa, California, shop hosted its grand opening on Saturday, October 2. For B-Real, bringing Dr. Greenthunmb’s to San Diego was personal. “The community here loves high-quality cannabis,” he says. “And I feel honored not only to be able to deliver top-shelf product, but to celebrate the community that has shaped who I am as an artist, entrepreneur, activist, and person.” dgtworldwide.com
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Sex, Drugs, and Rock-n-Roll: oOYes
Get to know the groovy, sex-positive woman behind this new line of “cannagasmic” products created by women—for anyone who enjoys a good f*cking. Founded in 2018, oOYes isn’t just another lube company—it’s a whole sex-positive lifestyle. “The focus is on creating sex-forward experiences that open communication and remind people that sex is fun and good for 42
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you,” says Tanya Griffin, whose love affair with sex runs deep. A badass businesswoman based in Denver, Griffin spent the last 30 years opening retail stores, restaurants, and dispensaries, creating products
focused on women’s and family health while she hopped continents and industries, working in everything from cannabis to financial services to software development— all while raising four kids. With the launch of her
latest venture, oOYes, she can add an “ecstatic sex, experience-driven lifestyle brand” to her list of entrepreneurial ventures. “I like to say that I’ve gone from colostrum to cannabis to cum,” Griffin says with an easy laugh.
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Colostrum is a type of breastmilk, and Griffin was a lactation specialist early in her career. She transitioned into cannabis in 2014, joining The Green Solution to help build the first vertically integrated cultivation, manufacturing, and retail national franchise opportunity in the industry—a highly successful effort. The multistate dispensary chain was bought by Columbia Care in 2019 for $140 million. Which brings us to the third C in that triple alliteration: cum. The oOYes line of sex products is created to help you do just that; and they’re formulated with cannabis-derived terpenes and cannabinoids, so oOYes combines two of the Cs into a brand that exudes a 1960s mod-hippie sex-drugsand-rock-n-roll vibe. It’s a whole mood—and it’s a good one, if not a little bit forward. There’s a sex quiz featured frontand-center on the oOYes homepage that calculates your kink score by asking whether you’d be down to try sex acts that range from the basic (oral sex, sensual massage) to the extreme (foot jobs, swinging, anal fisting, so much more). Have your partner take the quiz as well, and find out where your kinks align, perhaps
opening both your eyes (and other orifices) to experiences you hadn’t realized were on the proverbial table. The whole thing is very sex positive, as are the products, all of which feature a rock-nroll theme and a groovy 1970s-inspired branding. Created and formulated by women, oOYes sex lubricants and wellness products have a subtle orange blossom flavor and feature plant-based botanicals, active terpenes, and minor and major cannabinoids including cannabigerol (CBG), cannabidiol (CBD), as well as patented BeeFused Superhoney. While cannabis sexual product lines grow in popularity, the brands behind them tend to play it safe, with vibes that are clinical, possibly sensual. But fun? Heavens, no! That’s not how they roll baby roll at oOYes, as evidenced by the products themselves: Roll Baby Roll is a sex oil with BeeFused Honey and CBD. It’s oral friendly, vegan, gluten free, and safe to ingest. “The bottle has a roller ball that you roll right onto your clitoris—and it feels so good,” Griffin says (she’s not lying). Going Down is an oral sex elixer that combines sunflower oil, BeeFused honey, and orange blossom with CBD that tastes
delightful. Love Me Too, a sensual moisturizer “for your other lips,” features CBG and cannabinoid-rich honey. Start Me Up is a lickable glide that, according to the product description, is “crafted to rock your world while your partner gets to taste a subtle yet sweet orange blossom flavor. Made to encourage licking, sucking, and f*cking.” Many of the products feature the brand’s Bee Wild tantric honey, which uses BeeFused patented technology where freerange bees organically feed on nectar made from hemp-derived cannabinoids, cannabis strains, and superfoods to create highly bioavailable, cannabinoid-rich raw honey. “Bees do all the work!” Griffin says. “Nothing is added, nothing is made in a lab. This is nature doing what it does best.” Griffin says, “oOYes is sex forward and by no means shy.” And if it’s not clear yet, neither is she. The Denver-based entrepreneur loves sex, and she loves talking about sex—not in a sterile, clinical way, but not in an omg-TMI-please-stop way either. She just enjoys it, and she’s passionate about helping others enjoy it too. For her, it’s about creating experiences for people. “That’s why all the products are travel sized,
that’s why everything is tied to rock-n-roll. It’s all designed around how you feel, it’s about getting your mind in the right place, and—yes—using drugs to do it. Having fun with it in a nice way.” And it all comes down to basic biology: sex is fun, and having more of it is good for you. Science backs this up: There are a ton of emotional and psychological benefits of getting busy, and sex is strongly linked to a better quality of life, offering both mental and physical benefits ranging from better self-image and higher rates of happiness to enhanced brain function. “I freaking love sex,” Griffin continues. “I think it’s like eating and sleeping and everything else. oOYes founder Tanya I think everybody should Griffin is having fun in be having lots of it.” the sex space.
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Lift Off A custom modular bong with out-of-this-world form and function? That’s a piece dreams are made of. And Stone’s dreams are built on a classic beaker base, a large honeycomb percolator for increased filtration and diffusion, and a UFO mouthpiece—a distinguished percolator topped by an hourglass ice catcher for the coolest of hits. Vitae Glass Voyager Bong, $330, vitaeglass.com
Stone Slade, the host of the upcoming docuseries Hittin’ the High Road, highlights some of the uplifting items he’s currently coveting. TEXT STEPHANIE WILSON
’Tis almost the season for cheer—and finding the perfect gifts to give and to get. So we asked TV personality Stone Slade—you may know him from the A&E series Modern Dads; you will know him from the upcoming Hittin’ the High Road series Sensi is producing (don’t mind our shameless self-promotion)—to help us set the tone for the upcoming holiday season. Here are his top choices for products that can transform your smoking ritual into a private retreat. Hold Tight and Statement Piece Never lose another lighter with Chen and Kai’s Serpent holder, designed to wrap snugly around a Mini Bic, keeping it tethered to your keychain. Serpent Lighter Keychain, $38, shop-tetra.com Designed in 1924 by the late Bauhaus design icon Marianne Brandt, the classic ashtray was recently reissued by Alessi to mark the famed design school’s 100th anniversary. It stands on small feet, has a removable lid for cleaning, and has a small stand on top to hold rolled smokes. Marianne Brandt Ashtray by Alessi, $215, shop-tetra.com
Box, Set Strong, durable, odor resistant, and beautiful, this sophisticated stash box holds a full herb organizational system complete with glass jars and humidity-control lids for your flower, dab containers for your concentrates, a removable rolling tray, a topnotch grinder, a padded interior to keep your glassware safe, and other high-end accoutrements a modern smoker demands. Original Apothecarry Case, $275, theapothecarrycase.com
Give It a Spin With compartments for all smoking accessories, plus rolling areas and a silicone slap for concentrates, this highly functional centerpiece is something all smokers should give a spin. Blazy Susan Rolling Tray, from $90, blazysusan.com Flower Power Leave it to Jonathan Adler to bring on a surge of color when we need it most. His new Sinsemilla line includes includes this stash box with real gold accents, a hand-beaded pillow (price: $248!), and a rolling tray— all perfect presents for any rich hippie host. Sinsemilla Stash Box, $68, jonathanadler.com To Have and To Hold Crafted in silvertone brass and covered in croc-embossed Delaunay Lapis leather, this luxe pocket ashtray doubles as an on-the-go stashtray. House of Puff Poche Pocket Ashtray, $79, houseofpuff.com
Freakin’ Laser Bong Part smoking device, part magic trick, and a total crowd pleaser, this first-of-its-kind laser-powered luxe bong is sleek, opulent, and guaranteed to spark some conversations. The Trident by Hitoki, $500, hitoki.com
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A new campaign for Jay-Z’s Monogram cannabis brand reimagines the iconic photos of mid-20th-century American photographer Slim Aarons through a contemporary lens. This is a scene from the Life and Times of Shawn Carter, Volume Two. (Volume One, if you missed it, was that hard-knock life you heard Jay-Z —Carter’s public persona—rap about in a track that samples the famous line from the 1982 Annie movie.) It’s a good life, a high life, and the people depicted living it are good and high on cannabis. The image is the first installment of a threepart campaign for Jay Z’s (also known as HOV) new Monogram cannabis line, which launched this spring in California. The campaign is a modern take
on the legendary work of Slim Aarons, a midcentury photographer who built his fame by photographing “attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places,” as he famously described it. The photographs Aarons captured during the Rat Pack era have become synonymous with midcentury luxury, beauty, and leisure. Carter’s Monogram tapped legendary hip-hop photographer/ director Hype Williams to reimagine a series of Aarons’s most notable vignettes. Shot at the stunning Frank Sinatra House
in Palm Springs, the series has been cast with a diverse group of creative talents like Grammy nominee Chika, Ghetto Gastro, Curren$y, designer Aleali May, and model Slick Woods—all styled by High Snobiety fashion director Corey T. Stokes. The creatives are seen lounging on floats with Monogram product in hand, basking in outdoor opulence. The resulting imagery illustrates the dynamic, expanding landscape of modern luxury, and how it intersects with a new chapter in cannabis culture. “The percep-
tion around cannabis has shifted a lot since the 20th century. If you were to ask me and my peers how we’d define the good life today, weed would definitely be a part of it. Whether we’re smoking to inspire creativity or to celebrate an achievement, cannabis has a rightful place in modern-day culture,” says Williams. “HOV has a vision for the industry that he’s bringing to life through Monogram. His focus for this campaign was to showcase how beautifully cannabis fits into the good life today, and I am honored to be a part of it.” N OV E M B E R 2021
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the ethos of most cannabis consumers. For example, bioplastics are still plastics—even if they are plant-based rather than petroleum. MM Green believes it is not necessarily how a package begins but how it ends. Will it degrade naturally without harming marine life? Or will it leave toxic microplastics behind? MM Green’s values drive the company to offer truly sustainable and earth-friendly packaging options, helping companies avoid contributing to the global, toxic single-use plastic problem.
MM Green is also excited to launch the domestically produced, Certified child-resistant Backyard Compostable Pre-Roll Tube made from a starchGreen Packaging Solutions was formed based proprietary material that will in 2016 in response to the absurd naturally degrade into usable compost, amount of single-use plastic and mylar leaving no trace of packaging behind. bags in the cannabis and hemp marketWith the care, investment, and place. Because MM Green is located commitment required to produce on the beautiful Monterey Bay in Santa high-quality cannabis and hemp, it Cruz, California, this mission was uncan be disheartening to see products derscored by observing the harm that packaged in petroleum-based plastic single-use plastic was causing local manufactured overseas. Additionally, marine life and popular beaches. many packaging products are touted Now, MM Green is proud to be as compostable—but only if they find the first-ever Emerald Cup winner for their way to sparsely located industrial most eco-conscious package with the facilities under highly controlled condiCertified Child Resistant MM Green tions. Otherwise, they go into landfills Cannaster, utilized mainly for flower and add to pollution. and edibles. Made domestically from MM Green also believes education recyclable materials, the product is necessary when it comes to “green MM GREEN naturally degrades without harming washing” and feel-good claims that Sustainable Packaging Solutions the environment. ultimately fail the environment and mmgreenpackagingsolutions.com
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Shining a Light A trained pharmacist and chemist, Dr. Lola Ohonba understands the challenges that people with disabilities face and the relief cannabis can provide.
Growing up in the crowded, vibrant metropolis of Lagos, Nigeria, Dr. Lola Ohonba suffered from a disability that limited the movement in her leg. She found relief in traditional plant medicine, and even though she headed to the U.S. to study Western medicine and chemistry—and then launch an über-successful career in pharmacy—she never forgot what she had learned at home. Her knowledge of both traditional healing and science spurred her to forge off on her own and found WCI Health with the mission of teaching dispensaries, practitioners, and other interested parties how to safely and effectively use canSHARE YOUR STORY nabis, psychedelics, and other plants as medicine. “I Has cannabis helped you am very passionate about decriminalizing this plant, heal? Show us, tell us, and tag us on Instagram. and I use my platform to talk about that,” she says. “I am a practicing clinical pharmacist. A lot of my @sensimagazine colleagues think I’m crazy, risking my license, talking publicly about cannabis. Well, I’m proud of what I’m doing. This is necessary. When clinicians like me come out and put a face to this plant, it helps move the work a little bit forward.” To that end, Dr. O, as she is known, has become a prominent voice in the effort to de-stigmatize plant medicine as a public speaker as well as the author of the bestselling book A Pharmacist’s Guide to Cannabis: Perspectives of a Non-conformist Clinician and the host of the podcast Let’s Talk Plant Medicine: Cannabis, Psychedelics, and Pharmaceutics. Through it all she draws on her experience living with a disability to find compassion and solutions for others who face physical challenges and seek relief.
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“I have a physical disability,” she says. “I know what we go through, the stress that we go through to get medicine, to get things done. So I want to shine a light on that aspect of what I do and what we can get done.” wci-health.com
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