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The 2021 Sensi Lit List
It’s hot outside. But we see that as an opportunity to sit back and enjoy everything that’s creating some serious heat on the Sensi wire. Welcome to the Lit List. We have carefully curated the stuff that sparked our interest and expanded our horizons—and we want to share. So, dig in and enjoy.
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15 EDITOR’S NOTE 22 THE LIFE Contributing to your health and happiness 18 THE BUZZ (DREAM) MACHINE New News, tips, and tidbits to keep you in the loop HEXAGON BONG This minimalist tool exudes style and class. SHOTS SHOTS SHOTS Chill out with a CBD shot. MUSICAL VINES Classical performances come to Napa vineyards.
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Sustainability hits to the joint. DAY SIPPER Enjoy this CBD-infused Arnold Palmer. FULLY LEGAL Sen. Chuck Schumer works for national cannabis legislation.
apps take you on a trip— with or without drugs. HOROSCOPES What do the stars hold for you?
44 THE SCENE Hot happenings and hip hangouts around town DIY CANNAB-ICE CREAM
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transitioning the regional Sensi NorCal and Sensi SoCal magazines into a supersized, single publication covering the Golden State from tip to tail. With a renewed focus on cannabis culture, local happenings, cannabis movers and shakers, and top-notch product picks, we think you’ll love this new vibe and look for Sensi California. But for this month, we’re celebrating our new combined issue with a refreshing CBD cocktail (pg. 21) made by local purveyors Hanson of Sonoma Organic Vodka and Recess, a hemp sparkling water maker. After this stressful year, this cocktail is designed to mellow you out and make you feel less anxious. If shots are more your speed, you will be sitting pretty with a chill shot from Bawi Mana (page 18). Made of broad-spectrum CBD mixed with natural blood orange extract, this juicy treat reduces inflammation and stress. No matter what you’re sipping, get your digital thumbs flipping through this all-online issue before our return to print in September. Cheers to the end of summer sun & fun,
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Celebrate this holiday with a calming CBD-infused Arnold Palmer. National CBD Day was August 9, and we celebrated with this recipe from two Northern California companies: Hanson of Sonoma Organic Vodka and Recess, a hemp sparkling water maker. Designed to mellow you out, this hemp-infused cocktail aids in relaxation and lessens anxiety.
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INGREDIENTS
1.5 oz Hanson of Sonoma Organic Meyer Lemon Vodka 1 oz Recess Peach Ginger 1 oz fresh-squeezed organic Meyer lemon juice 0.5 oz organic agave Garnish with candied ginger
“I am the first majority leader to say it's time to end the federal prohibition on marijuana. As majority leader, I'm going to push this issue forward and make it a priority for the Senate,” Chuck Schumer, the Senate majority leader, told Congress on July 12. If Schumer’s draft bill, the Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act, is accepted, policies would begin to unwind the decades-old war on drugs and offer more opportunity to businesses and individuals in states that have legalized cannabis to sell and consume without the risk of federal punishment. The bill would also try to make up for years of of restrictive federal drug policies that disproportionally affect communities of color and the poor. It calls for immediately expunging nonviolent marijuana-related arrests and convictions from federal records and would earmark new tax revenue for restorative justice programs intended to lift up communities affected by “the failed federal prohibition of cannabis.” “The suggestion that the Senate’s top leader would sponsor major decriminalization legislation would have been fantastical in the not-too-distant past,” concluded The New York Times.
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INSTRUCTIONS
• Combine Hanson of Sonoma Organic Meyer Lemon vodka, lemon juice, and agave in a cocktail shaker. • Add ice and shake for 10 seconds. • Pour into a Collins glass with fresh ice. • Top with Recess Peach Ginger and garnish with candied ginger. Hanson and Recces’ collaboration cocktail is available at Hanson of Sonoma’s distillery, or it can be purchased online as a Hanson DIY Cocktail Kit. (Available for shipping in California.)
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Welcome to the (Dream) Machine A new wave of apps will take you on a trip—with or without drugs. TEXT ROBYN GRIGGS LAWRENCE
could mimic an LSD trip without the LSD. Their DREAMACHINE consisted of a slotted metal cylinder surrounding a suspended lightbulb that sat on a record turntable and rotated at seventy-eight revolutions per
minute, projecting light at the frequency of alpha brain waves during wakeful relaxation. Gysin was enthralled by his invention, absolutely certain it would become more popular than television, which was still a black-andwhite medium that aired
shows for squares like Gunsmoke and The Beverly Hillbillies. Gysin’s friend, Beat writer William Burroughs, predicted the DREAMACHINE would cause people to
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In the early 1960s, just as the avant garde were starting to play with psychedelics, Beat surrealist artist Brion Gysin and Cambridge scientist Ian Sommerville created a machine that
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“storm the citadels of enlightenment.” Obviously, that never happened. We made friends with Ross and Phoebe and turned Netflix into a verb. The only citadels stormed were hardly enlightened ones, and Gysin is best remembered as the guy who slipped a hash fudge recipe into Alice
B. Toklas’s cookbook, launching it into infamy. The DREAMACHINE became an artifact, referenced occasionally in academia and art exhibits. Wouldn’t it be great, though? Imagine simply plugging in a machine and experiencing the blastoff you get from LSD or psilocybin without having to spend gobs of money or do anything AU G U S T 2021
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happened (and keeps happening), Lumenate and BrainTap Pro use guided meditation and audio tracks synchronized with stroboscopic flashes from our phones’ flashlights to create a psychedelic experience, altering states of consciousness to provide relief for everything from anxiety to insomnia. Psychedelic therapy is the hottest new thing in mental health treatments, predicted to grow into a $6.9 billion industry by 2027, according
to Data Bridge Market Research. But right now psychedelic therapy is only legally available in a handful of places, such as Jamaica and Oregon, and it’s prohibitively expensive for most people. Apps like Lumenate and BrainTap aim to bring psychedelics’ healing power to the masses. A Kaleidoscope for the Subconscious Based on two years of research into the effects of stroboscopic light, months of EEG brain scans, and on-theground interviews at Burning Man, UK-based
Lumenate is on a mission to “make impactful subconscious exploration more accessible than ever before.” Lumenate’s creative director, actress Rosamund Pike, gushes on Instagram that since she started using the Lumenate app, she has experienced “deep inner awareness through the totally incredible kaleidoscope of colours created by my subconscious.” To use Lumenate, you choose a “mood” (from “achieving your goals” to “sleep reflection”), sit in a dark room, put on headphones, hold your phone at arm’s length and eye level with the camera light toward you, close your eyes, and breathe as the app guides you through your meditation, from intention setting to integration, accompanied by strobo-
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illegal. Think how much safer you would feel going on a trip if you knew you could switch it off should you get an emergency work call or your mother-in-law stops by. Turns out, we have such a machine—and like so many other IRL machines rendered irrelevant by cell phones, it can now be downloaded as an app. Launched last spring, when everyone was taking a good, hard look at their mental health after what just
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Get Appy The pandemic prompted a huge increase in downloads of mindfulness apps such as Calm and Headspace, prompting predictions they will become a $4 billion industry by the end of this century. In addition to replicating and enhancing psychedelic experiences, apps that provide trip sitting and integration support are starting to come online. WavePaths offers adaptive music to accompany psychedelic therapy. It’s in beta, but you can sign up to be part of the testing. Wavepaths.com Trip from Field Trip Psychedelics lets you access tools that support self-exploration and consciousness expansion, including preparation, exploration, reflection, and integration. The app is based on protocols at Field Trip Health Centers, designed to help people process and integrate what they experience in their consciousness-expansion efforts. Fieldtriphealth.com PsycheDev is developing an app that will provide guided trips and tools to help users better understand them. It’s not ready yet, but the company will email you as soon as it is. PsycheDev.com/guidedtrips
scopic light sequences and intentional music. Thrust into a pluridimensional kaleidoscope of saturated color, you lose track of your physical body. Your brain’s default mode network slows down, flattening your ego and heightening your sense of being here now. As your brain’s neurons adjust their natural rhythm in response to sound and light input, you can learn to guide your brain toward whatever state you desire. If the psychedelia gets to be too much, you can move the phone farther away
from your eyes or turn it away altogether. Stepping into the Quantum Gap BrainTap Pro, which is based on ancient traditions like shamanistic drum circles and ritual use of psychedelic plant medicines, uses your cell phone in a similar manner for more than 1,000 guided meditations and creative visualizations led by Patrick Porter, PhD, who created the app as well as headsets that can be used to maximize the experience. Porter’s mission in creating BrainTap is to better a billion brains. A twenty-minute BrainTap session floods you with fresh blood, AU G U S T 2021
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serotonin, and other beta-endorphins that make you feel calm, focused, and alert while down-regulating the stress hormone cortisol. There are ten-minute “digital coffee” sessions and longer sessions to induce deep sleep. BrainTap is developing gamma sessions that mimic psilocybin experiences for PTSD patients, Porter says, and the Brazilian government is paying for studies to test them. Porter’s father overcame chronic alcohol abuse through the Silva Method, a meditation technique designed to push brainwave frequencies to states of enhanced awareness, and he taught Porter the
method when has was 12 years old. Eager to share it with the world, Porter began recording his own meditation sessions on cassette tapes and then, in the late 1980s, he wrote the programs BrainTap is based on as a means of stealthily walking second-time DUI offenders in Arizona through the Alcoholics Anonymous 12 steps. According to Porter, BrainTap replicates the experience of ingesting psychedelic plant medi-
cines, which slow down and strip away the reality that was predefined for us by parents, preachers, teachers, and the rest of society. “We take these ancient traditions and transform them into technology,” Porter says. “As a culture, we used to do this all the time. We’d be out hunting and gathering all day, all stressed out, then we would go back to the tribal village and get out of ourselves. We have a natural propensity for this.”
Plant medicines expand the scope of the human brain, which processes only about 5 percent of the reality that exists in the world around us, Porter says. He considers this “stepping into the quantum gap between the tick and tock of the clock.” Going on an LSD or DMT trip offers glimpses into the whole of reality—the other 95 percent, Porter says. “And they’re just as real,” he adds. “They are real because it’s all based on our sensory-based experience. But the problem is, how do we reconcile that with what we learned from our mothers, brothers, teachers, and preachers? We have to unlearn all this bad learning.” In addition to mimicking the effect of psychedelics, BrainTap can also amplify and extend them by stimulating mirror neurons. Studies have found that people who eat magic mushrooms while doing a BrainTap session can get psilocybin-like effects without psilocybin during their next four or five sessions. “We’re finding out that when technology and ancient traditions work together, it’s very powerful,” Porter says, “but it doesn’t have to be one or the other.” AU G U S T 2021
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mona Van Joseph is a professionally licensed intuitive reader in Las Vegas since 2002. Author, radio host, and columnist, she created the Dice Wisdom app and is available for phone and in-person sessions. mona.vegas
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AUGUST HOROSCOPE What do the stars hold for you? TEXT MONA VAN JOSEPH
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LEO
ier for you to call yourself an artist. It’s your creative endeavor or the magic you present at work. Relax into your true identity.
You were born with many gifts in this lifetime, but you are only concentrating on one. It’s time to revive the joys and activities you experi- OCT. 23-NOV. 21 enced when you were young- SCORPIO er (and more optimistic). There’s finally a reason to celebrate. It may be because AUG. 23-SEPT. 22 you have achieved a certain VIRGO goal, or that a job you wantYou are in a much better ed finally sent you an offer place than you were just a letter. Either way, enjoy the few months ago. Your intu- new level you’ve earned. ition is guiding you to recognize the people that are on NOV. 22-DEC. 21 your team, who truly care SAGITTARIUS about you. Do not allow your emotions to make your decisions this SEPT. 23-OCT. 22 month. Treat all personal LIBRA and professional issues as You have become so talent- though you are negotiating a ed at your craft that it’s eas- business deal. Surrender and
heal, within yourself, what you cannot control. DEC. 22-JAN. 19
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There are only a few people in this world with whom you choose to spend your private time. You are happiest when your brain is engaged in learning something new, which is even more satisfying when that includes other people. JAN. 20-FEB. 18
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Slow and steady wins the race. There’s nothing more to prove; you’ve done the work, and the rewards present themselves. Now is the time to break the habit of being driven. Enjoy the success you’ve earned.
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LEO, IT’S TIME TO REVIVE THE JOYS AND ACTIVITIES YOU EXPERIENCED WHEN YOU WERE YOUNGER (AND MORE OPTIMISTIC).
own contentment and sense of harmony. There are some people that you can just ignore when they call.
Your angels are guiding you toward the contentment that you want. Your task is to decide what it is that you MAY 21-JUNE 20 want. Stay aware, live in the GEMINI moment, and then acknowl- The political environment edge your source of light. is working to your benefit, paving the way for your perMAR. 21-APR. 19 sonal new beginning. Align ARIES yourself with people who Concentrate and take invento- will help you be focused, ry of all the things you do well motivated, and successful. this month. There’s a project worth bringing back into fo- JUNE 21-JULY 22 cus. Something from the past CANCER has renewed purpose. We rarely get opportunities (or the courage) to folAPR. 20-MAY 20 low our hearts. This is your TAURUS month to do exactly that It has been the hard way re- without fanfare. It’s time for cently. This month, realize you to move on and particiwhat contributes to your pate in the life you want. AU G U S T 2021
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Damn, it’s hot outside.
But we see that as an opportunity to sit back and enjoy everything that’s creating some serious heat on the Sensi wire. Welcome to the Lit List. We have carefully curated the stuff that sparked our interest and expanded our horizons—and we want to share. So, dig in and enjoy. TEXT STEPHANIE WILSON AND JENNY WILLDEN
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Now available in the US for the first time, Tepozán is one of the few estate-grown tequilas that is fully cultivated, processed, and hand-bottled at the source.
Superette Bong Bucket Hat. $39
Vibes organic hemp papers are crafted for longer sessions. $2.50
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Summerland organic hemp wick is far better than inhaling the stuff that comes out when you flick your Bic. $3.33
PHOTOS (CLOCKWISE FROM TOP) COURTESY OF SCARLET FIRE, TEPOZAN, SUMMERLAND, SUPERETTE, VIBES
Dispensary design as an art form has arrived. Scarlet Fire, a Grateful Dead-inspired shop in Toronto, is meant to “embody the psychedelic experience of attending a Dead show, elevating the consumer to an altered plane of consciousness.”
PHOTOS (CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT) COURTESY OF HIGHER STANDARDS, TASCHEN, SPARC; BY ELSA OLOFSSON/UNSPLASH, COURTESY OF MARLEY ONE, HER HIGHNESS, MELLO
Aerospaced by Higher Standards gold grinder. $22
Legendary tattoo artist and historian Henk Schiffmacher takes us on a personal journey through the history of tattooing from the 1730s to the 1970s in Tattoo, an oversized 13 lb tome from Taschen. $175
Mello sea-salted caramels are a delicious way to get your daily dose of moodboosting, anxietyreducing CBD.
Her Highness “Highly Orgasmic” THC Pleasure Oil is only available in California, but the CBD version is a powerful sex topical that can come to you wherever you are. $60
The new Marley One functional mushroom brand—a collab between Silo Wellness and the family of the legendary Bob Marley—intends to launch a psychedelic mushroom product line later this year. Experience it on one of Silo Wellness’s psychedelic retreats in Jamaica, or try one of the functional mushroom tinctures now. One Flow is a peppermint-flavored blend of cordyceps and ginseng designed to enhance physical endurance and mental function. $20
Cannabis industry pioneer Maggie Connors’s Besito brand—known for its stylish pre-rolls and hexagonal vaporizers—was just scooped up by Sparc, one of San Francisco’s oldest and largest vertically integrated cannabis companies.
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Blazy Susan's spinning rolling tray features a custom-ordered design. Blank trays start at $79.99.
“Rhythm is an expression of culture,” says Beatriz Milhazes. “The compositions I create lead you to places in history, music you have listened to, memories from your own experiences in life.” Learn more about the vibrant Brazilian artist in this new monograph from Taschen. $80
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PHOTOS (FROM TOP) COURTESY OF BLAZY SUSAN, TASTEBUDZ, TASCHEN
Handcrafted from scratch in small batches, the strain-specific TasteBudz gummies pack all the terpenes and cannabinoids from the cannabis plant into yummy colorful nuggets of fun.
PHOTOS (CLOCKWISE FROM TOP) COURTESY OF TASCHEN, GESTALTEN, DENALI, PLANET 13 (X2)
Trace the hidden history of the tarot in the first volume from Taschen’s Library of Esoterica, a series documenting the creative ways we strive to connect to the divine. $40
When Planet 13 Orange County opened its first California outpost in July, the Los Angeles Times described it as a “pot-superstoremeets-theme-park” and it wasn't wrong. The large, immersive, and Instagram-worthy shop is outfitted with beachy elements like a digital waterfall and beach, a VW party bus that fills with fake smoke with the press of a button, and a 16-foot-tall sculptural installation of a bright red octopus in the center of the retail sales floor.
The New Beauty, takes a modern look at beauty, culture, and fashion. Edited by gestalten & Kari Molvar. $60
Bella Box, is a premium, cannabisinspired box curated by Denali of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 13 fame. $60
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Moodz are a whole mood and the period panties and swimwear stylishly change the rules.
Taschen’s Rock Covers: 750+ album covers that made rock history. You’re welcome. $70
Out now, Netflix’s Cocaine Cowboys: The Kings of Miami docuseries follows a pair of high school dropout friends who allegedly have become two of South Florida’s biggest cocaine kingpins in this true story of a crime saga that spanned decades. Warning: it’s addictive. 38
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Candy Relics' Honey Bear Bubbler. $160
PHOTOS (CLOCKWISE FROM TOP) COURTESY OF MOODZ, HARING GLASS, TASHCEN, HONEY RELICS, NEFLIX
K.Haring Dog Bat Catchall. $60
PHOTOS (CLOCKWISE FROM TOP): COURTESY OF MOUNTAIN SMOKES, LEVO, JUSHI HOLDINGS INC./ANDREAS NEUMANN, MYSTER
If you’re thinking that these ladies are gonna have to wash their hair again when they’re done feeding their nicotine addictions lest they absolutely reek of cigarettes, don’t let the filter tip fool you. These are Mountain Smokes Hemp CBD Smokes, and they’re designed to help cigarette smokers kick the habit while keeping the smoking ritual intact. Made with organic hemp, sage, and mullein (and without tobacco, nicotine, or THC), these smokes feature high-flow filters and come in a foiltopped pack so they look like cigarettes and drag like cigarettes but they help addicted smokers move beyond the butts.
Do cannabis-infused coconut oil or cinnamoninfused maple syrup sound yummy? Lēvo II elevates herbal infusion for oils, butters, honeys and more by fully automating the process of drying, activating, and infusing all the goodness with just the touch of a button or two. Bonus: all the component are washing machine friendly, making it as easy as eating pie when you’re stoned to keep whipping up magical concoction after custom-edible-ingredient concoction. $330 (and worth every penny)
If Tom Hanks is America’s dad, then his son Colin is basically our brother, right? Did you know our brother has a handkerchief line called Hanks Kerchiefs? Do you think our dad helped him come up with the name? It’s kinda got a dad-joke vibe but in a really good, giggleinducing way—especially now that Colin’s got an exclusive collab with cannabis company Jushi Holdings that brings the namesake line to Beyond / Hello dispensaries and online at shop.jushico.com.
New from Myster, the HAMR is a handheld cold start rig for consuming concentrated cannabis. The all-in-one setup streamlines a formerly complicated process by combining everything you need to take a dab—glass pipe, finger banger, torch lighter, dabber, bubble cap—into one portable package that comes with a carrying case. $179
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PHOTOS (CLOCKWISE FROM TOP) COURTESY OF STEVE DEANGLEO; CALIFORNIA CANNABIS TALK; SAMUEL, ADOBE STOCK
Steve DeAngelo of Oakland, California calls himself the “The Father of the Cannabis Industry” on Instagram and has long been an advocate of legalizing cannabis in the United States. He also is Co-founder of Harborside, a dispensary chain based in Oakland, California, which was one of the first companies to make a legal sale when marijuana was legalized. He also founded Last Prisoner Project and is the voice of Radio Free Cannabix. His creative projects include a book, The Cannabis Manifesto, and a Discovery Channel mini-series, Weed Wars.
California Cannabis Talk Learn about historic cannabis history The California Legislature is offering up $100 million in marijuana moments on the Los Angelesmoney to boost the state’s legal marijuana industry, which still struggles based podcast, Great Moments in to compete with the illegal pot market. Los Angeles will get the lion’s Weed History. It stretches back share of the funds, which will be provided as grants to cities and counin time nearly 10,000 years to ties to help cannabis businesses transition from provisional to regular prehistoric weed pursuits and licenses. This will aid the 83 percent of growers and retailers still opcovers more recent stories such as erating on provisional licenses and looking to get permanent ones that the night Willie Nelson sparked renew on an annual basis. up on the White House roof. Or focus in on today with Royal Grown Radio, a Humboldt Countybased podcast covering cannabis cultivation, brand qadvocates, and industry professionals.
No cannabis for prisoners says the California Supreme Court after overturning a ruling by a lower court that allowed inmates to possess the plant—as long as they didn’t consume it. This ruling confirms that cannabis cannot be possessed or consumed by California prisoners, but the enforcement laws and punishments remain murky. AU G U S T 2021
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 5TH • SANTA ROSA, CALIFORNIA This full-day B2B conference will explore the latest information surrounding the impact of legalized recreational cannabis on California’s wine industry. The symposium will feature leaders from both the wine and cannabis sectors who will share their expertise on how cannabis can successfully coexist alongside wine, for the betterment of both industries. In addition to the conference sessions, attendees can enjoy a beautiful outdoor lunch, participate in a special end-of-day social event featuring local wines, and have the opportunity to network with exhibiting wine and cannabis companies. For event information or to register, visit: wine-weed.com EVENT SPONSORS
PHOTOS (CLOCKWISE FROM TOP) COURTESY OF LUMEN, CALIFORNIA STREET CANNABIS CO., JESSICA CUEBAS, EMERALD FARMS
Lumen is a platform on cannabis website Leafly dedicated to highlighting Black voices in the industry. Featuring stories from across the US, and with a strong focus on social justice, it keeps you up-to-date on important issues, players, and developments in the cannabis space. And reminds us how our favorite leaf can promote positive change.
Los Angeles-based Jessica Cuebas is an Instagram influencer who began using cannabis to break her pain pill popping habit. Today she calls herself the “Pothead Princess” on Instagram and uses her channel to teach people about cannabis and cannabis-related products.
Learn more about NorCal’s cannabis scene with a trip to sample California wine and sun-grown cannabis on an Emerald Farms’ San Francisco Wine & Weed Tasting Tour, which includes locally sourced cheese and munchies. Or focus in on the industry with a Seed-to-Sale Cannabis Farm & Industry Tour. See a working cannabis farm, tour a retail lounge and sample flower, and get hands-on experience in a cannabis lab.
California Street Cannabis Company is the newest dispensary in San Francisco and supports local Northern California farmers and producers by stocking products made within a few hundred miles and stretching out into the famed Emerald Triangle growing region. Located in the hip Nob Hill neighborhood, the shop is owned by locals and the cannabis is grown by locals. Shop for flower options, vaporizers, infused edibles, tinctures, and much more. It offers discounts for seniors, vets, and medical patients. AU G U S T 2021
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Planning a grown-up Labor Day barbecue? Surprise your cannabis-loving guests with infused ice cream sandwiches featuring CBD/ THC flowers combined with an array of flavors. Chef Joe Sasto create this homemade infused ice cream with Autumn Brands’ clean, pesticide-free cannabis, but you can substitute with your favorite flower if it isn’t available in your home state. While tasty, this dosed dessert can also help alleviate stress, anxiety, and sleeplessness.
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• Once infused milk is fully 2 cups heavy cream, chilled, fold together with chilled whipped cream and any 1 can (14oz) sweetened additional flavorings or condensed milk add-ins you would like. Decarboxylated cannabis (See examples below.) flower • Place in a parchment1 teaspoon vanilla extract lined freezer-safe dish or 2 tablespoons honey container. ½ teaspoon salt • Freeze for 8–12 hours. Your favorite cookies • Optional: Punch into rounds (optional) and make sandwiches with your favorite cookies. INSTRUCTIONS Gently over low heat, FLAVOR IDEAS approximately 180F, infuse Cheesecake condensed milk with Add 8 ounces softened decarboxylated cannabis cream cheese to the heavy flower for 15–30 minutes. cream and use a stand (A longer infusion yields mixer or hand mixer to more cannabis flavor and whisk to stiff peaks. potency.) Mint Chocolate Chip Strain the flower and Add 1 teaspoon peppermint let the condensed milk extract and 1 cup chocolate cool completely in the chips. refrigerator. Peanut Butter/ Nutella / In a large bowl, season Cookie Butter the heavy cream with Stir 1/2 cup–1 cup spread vanilla, salt, and honey. into the mixture. Whip to stiff peaks.
Caramel Drizzle 1/2–1 cup of caramel over the almost-frozen mixture, stir to break up the ribbon a bit. Chocolate Add ½ cup cocoa powder (sifted to prevent lumps) and/or 6 ounces melted, cooled chocolate. Rocky Road Stir in ¾ cup chocolate syrup + 1 cup marshmallows + 1 cup toasted almonds. Cookies & Cream Mix in 15 Oreo cookies, coarsely chopped (about 1/2 cup). Strawberry Swirl Cook 2 cups strawberries with 4 tablespoons sugar and 1 tablespoon lemon juice in a small saucepan over medium-high heat until syrupy. Chill completely before swirling into ice cream.
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Tufa Towers Cap off the summer with a road trip to check out the salty waters and geological wonders of Mono Lake. Wrap up your summer with a classic California road trip to one of the state’s quirkier natural formations: Mono Lake. This ancient saline lake is found on the eastern edge of the Sierra Nevada—not far from Tioga Pass entrance to Yosemite National Park. While Mono Lake is one massive body of water, covering almost 70 square miles, it’s a terrible place to go fishing. No sought-after species can survive in its super salty waters—all you will find is brine shrimp and birds soaring overhead. Instead, people visit to see Mono Lake’s world-famous tufa 48
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towers up close. These soaring citadels form when calcium-rich underwater springs mix with carbonate-rich lake water and make limestone. After a months-long closure last year due to fires, the South Tufa area and Navy Beach have reopened to visitation. These locations showcase the tallest, most dramatic tufa formations, or you can schedule a kayak or canoe tour to see them from the water. As you walk the trails at South Tufa, listen to a free self-guided tour at monolakemobile.org. Stay on trails and use caution as fire hazards remain.
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