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Welcome to the Renaissance

Artist Rube Zilla is on a mission to show us hope in the ashes of the pandemic.

DEPARTMENTS

17 EDITOR’S NOTE 31 LOCAL Regional writer Will Brendza outlines the 20 THE BUZZ whos, wheres, and News, tips, and tidbits

whens of Colorado. EXPLORE Eat, drink, and rock on! EXPERIENCE Van Gogh and the Tiger King MEET Educators, paintCANNABIS’ COOL KIDS ers, and warriors Pay attention to these SHOP Dab tabs and brands on the rise. hemp guitars SENSIBILITIES Our editor TASTE Cannabis ice shares her thoughts and—surprise, surprise— cream and chocolate bong carts are high on her list. THE SCENE HIGH 5 A fistful of stuff Have you heard? The bong you need to have. cart is the new bar cart— ON THE COVER but better. Here’s why you Rube Zilla Spirit of the Zodiac, 2021 have to have one.

to keep you in the loop PRETTY AND HAPPY Edie Parker is the first brand to fully merge the worlds of fashion and flower.

50 THE END A yoga teacher tells how her tattoos helped her feel right in her body.

Original artwork for Sensi magazine 24" x 36" Acrylic on canvas PHOTO BY MARIO MASITTI

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Stephanie Wilson Co-Founder + Editor in Chief stephanie.wilson@sensimag.com Doug Schnitzspahn Executive Editor Tracy Ross Managing Editor, Michigan Emilie-Noelle Provost Managing Editor, New England Debbie Hall Managing Editor, Nevada Jenny Willden Managing Editor, California Robyn Griggs Lawrence Editor at Large Will Brendza Contributor, Colorado Radha Marcum Copy Editor Bevin Wallace Copy Editor DESIGN

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you, but perhaps none more than me. I am a total magazine zealot; I subscribe to close to two dozen monthly titles, and one of the first projects I tackled when everything shut down in the spring of 2020 was organizing my massive mag collection—alphabetically and chronologically, thank you very much. It was how I exerted a sense of control over a world gone off kilter. At Sensi, we had 15(!) different editions ready to ship to print for April 2020, including our inaugural Metro Maryland edition, when we decided to hit pause on production. We did so because the future was uncertain. We didn’t want to burden our advertisers with continuing monthly bills when facing a shut down. Given that our main point of distribution tends to be dispensaries (because laws surrounding cannabis advertisements require that we guarantee the majority of our readers are over the age of 21) and dispensaries were no longer accepting stacks of magazines for their customers in their (then shuttered) waiting rooms, halting production seemed like the best idea at the time. Then cannabis was deemed essential. Getting Sensi back to print became essential to us, too. It took a little while, but here we are. Seventeen months after we printed our last magazines, Sensi is back in print in four markets—Colorado (our flagship and homebase), California, Michigan, and New England. Plus, we will continue to cover Nevada, Florida, and Pennsylvania in the monthly digital edition of Sensi Spark, which also expands our reach into Oklahoma. In the edition you’re holding in your hands (OMG, yess!), you’ll see some of the same departments and articles as you did before we took our digital-only hiatus. But we couldn’t come back the same way we went out. The world has changed and so have we, which is why we launched a whole new Sensi Local section, unique to each regional issue, designed to give you actionable information to help you see, do, meet, taste, shop, and explore more—the topics and insight sourced not just from the minds of our local editors and contributors but also from the minds of our community. To honor the milestone, we asked Rube Zilla, an artist whose distinct style has become synonymous with the cannabis community, to create the cover art for this special edition. I felt our first magazine back in print deserves to be a work of art, and I can’t thank Rube enough for making that dream come true. It’s as if I wished upon a star and Rube’s zodiac-themed artwork came true and brought us back. I hope you enjoy this magazine. We’ve got a whole lot more on the way.

I felt our first magazine back in print deserves to be a work of art, and I can’t thank Rube enough for making that dream come true. It’s as if I wished upon a star and Rube’s zodiacthemed artwork came true and brought us back.

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Pretty Things to Make You Happy

The first brand to fully merge the worlds of fashion and flower, Flower by Edie Parker is the line of cannabis and smoking accessories that portray the same clever, fashion-forward wit as its namesake, Edie Parker—the accessories brand known for its signature acrylic clutch handbags. (We’re partial to a pink one emblazoned with a cursive “weed” in big, bold letters—subtlety is overrated.) “Edie Parker is all about surprising and delighting and displaying your accessories— showing them off, whether it’s a handbag or an ashtray,” says the brand’s founder Brett Heyman. Under her direction, Edie Parker launched Flower by Edie Parker in early 2019, not just as a cannabis-adjacent accessories line but as an actual cannabis line with Edie Parker Flower THC products available in California and Colorado (Michigan and Massachusetts on the way). The progression into cannabis came naturally for the Edie Parker team. Riding the high of the successful launch of its home collection in 2016, the small, all-female group knew there was still so much more they could do. The fashionable women with refined-yet-playful sensibilities began talking about “the lack of considered—and frankly pretty—cannabis accessories,” Heyman shares. “Everything in our experience has been either something you buy in a 20

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headshop or something extremely masculine, or something that felt very medicinal or like things you hide away in your drawer.” The line is cheeky in the best of ways, with nary a fan leaf marring any of the offerings. “We’re accessory designers,” Heyman laughs. “We would never do something that obvious. We are used to marketing products that can infer something. You know what it’s for—you know it’s end use— but it doesn’t have to be hitting you over the head.” (The limited-edition “This is How I Roll” t-shirt collection that dropped earlier this year exemplifies this sentiment. See the one picturing two fried eggs and the phrase “these are your boobs on drugs” for proof.) Elsewhere in the very giftable Flower by Edie Parker line are stash jars, hard-edge lighters, grinders, rolling trays, joint clips, doob tubes (“supHerb storage containers”), “Weedie Parker” smell-proof stash bags, and a bunch of other colorful covetables. But what we covet the most is the tabletop lighters, which start at $450 and come nestled inside their own ashtrays—because that’s how they roll.

BY THE NUMBERS Sup reWork Sweet Nature Crewneck ($120), Superette & 4ye Vintage garments made modern with handdrawn illustrations depicting cannabis culture make every item in the Superette + 4ye collab a win.

MARKETS The number of markets across the U.S. about to publish print issues of Sensi in April 2020. Then COVID-19 hit

∞ LOVE For everyone who kept the faith and kept us going—yes, you included. We couldn’t have done it without you: our team, our clients, our friends, our families, our readers, our cannabis community.

MAGAZINES The number of digital-only Sensi magazines we’ve made since April 2020. No, really! You can read them all at sensimag.com. So. Much. Good. Content.

[HIGH] FASHIONFORWARD While we were away, we kept our eyes on these brands—the coolest kids in cannabis right now. Except for the grannies. They’re the hippest grannies in the game. Fleur Marché is the one-stop-shop for rigorously vetted, top-tier CBD products and brands. Tokyo Smoke, the hip Canadian shop for the sophisticated and curious cannabis explorer, is for “those who embrace high design and alternative states of mind.” Mister Green is a lifestyle brand and retailer that distinguishes itself through “a minimalist design sensibility and dedication to a new cultural perspective.” Miss Grass is a brand on a mission to make the world good at weed. (We’re obsessed with the “Good at Weed” sweatpants.) Designer Adam Lippes is a partner in the LGBTQ-owned and led Farnsworth Fine Cannabis in the Berkshires, where the luxury dispensary is stocked with vintage accessories, including an old lighter of Jack Kerouac. Sundae School is where cannabis meets casual streetwear collections. House of Puff makes luxury smoking accessories for the modern woman and was founded by a former art mag editor—and we're obsessed. Superette is a retail brand dedicated to “creating moments of delight” and making buying cannabis and accessories as enjoyable as consuming it. S E P T E M B E R 2021

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THE RENAISSANCE Even if you haven’t heard of him, Rube Zilla is already watching you through his ubiquitous art in the cannabis space and beyond. And the Scorpio is on a mission to show us hope in the ashes of the pandemic. TEXT STEPHANIE WILSON PHOTOS MARIO MASITTI

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even notice them in New York at a Buffalo Bills game, in Miami at Art Basel, in Los Angeles at the LA Art Show, in a still-in-development-andso-cool immersive space planned for Las Vegas. You’ll see the eyes on public artworks commissioned by the city of Denver and even on the walls of a Colorado middle school. You’ll see the cannabis artist’s unmistakable style everywhere...but you won’t see a fan leaf in any of it. “I don’t have cannabis motifs in any of my work,” Rube explains when asked what makes him a cannabis artist. “But I feel like at this point in my career, I’ve made my faces synonymous with cannabis culture.” And what lies within that association of art and cannabis is the power to propel the societal rebirth Rube believes art can drive. A former marine with Puerto Rican roots and a Buffalo, New York, upbringing, Rube is a bit of a dichotomy—but he’s not a Gemini. He’s a Scorpio, which means according IT’S ALL IN THE EYES Look around, and you’ll notice Rube to astrology.com that he travels in a world that is black and white with litZilla eyes staring at you from all tle use for gray. The black and white sorts of places—from large-scale that covers most surfaces in Rube’s murals in cities across the country, world represents the illusion that we from Timbuk2 bags, from custom-commissioned shoes. They look are individuals separate from others. The straight lines and the compleout from the Zilla Charter tour bus in Denver, in which top street artists menting curves stand for a necessary balance in structure and creativity, like Dinkc lead cannabis-friendly male-female energy, and emotion. tours to discuss their works around “Since the beginning, black and the city. You’ll find those eyes on a white has always represented the tin of full-spectrum rosin gummies duality and polarity of reality,” by Dialed In, in his coloring book he says as he sketches the first by High Times, and on carb caps, faces on what becomes the zodibangers, rolling trays, and pipes. Rube’s illustrations cover dispen- ac-themed canvas. It’s late July sary waiting rooms across Colorado 2021, and we’re at his friend Jereand adorn the Buddy Buddy Indoor my’s place in downtown Denver. Jerm, as he’s known, was the first Natural in San Francisco (the Calperson to ever buy one of Rube’s ifornia cannabis producer has even pieces, cementing a friendship and created a Rube.Zilla Kush). You’ll ccording to astrology, rebirth and revival are written in the stars. According to Ruben Del Cabrera (Rube for short), they are also written in the Zodiac-themed artwork Sensi created for the cover of this magazine. The piece invites viewers to get lost in a solar system of faces while trying to discover and interpret the 12 signs of the zodiac illustrated among the astral elements—subtle details depict the completion of a cycle, a return to our societal roots. Hidden amid a black-and-white maze of emotions depicted in Rube Zilla’s signature style are symbols representing a restart. A slogan of hope is becoming popular as so many try to make it through COVID-19: After the plague came the Renaissance. Looking at the world with Rube's vision, you see a modern renaissance has already begun.

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kicking off a collaboration/representation relationship between the two. Rube’s son, Remy, watches his father work intently. “There’s always someone watching,” says Rube, who laughs as he draws another face. The eyes specifically are inspired by a recurring scene in Scooby Doo, one of his favorite cartoons growing up, when the only things seen on an otherwise dark screen were sets of glowing eyes peering out from the dark. “It was the creepiest thing in the world!” Rube laughs. “Just knowing that people in the dark are watching.” WHAT DO YOU SEE WHEN YOU REALLY LOOK? It’s fun to watch Rube work. He doesn’t plan out his pieces; he just picks up the pen (or marker or can of spray paint, depending on the project) and gets started. He’s a

thinker, a dreamer, as well as a makeshit-happen doer. It’s easy to like him; it’s easier still to see why people like to be around him. He’s got the best interests of his communities in mind. He has been envisioning a more utopian future for quite a while now, and he’s doing what he can to make it happen. Make no mistake: Rube is a badass on his way to being the badass, the guy who doodled his way into the zeitgeist and then sketched out the defining spirit and mood from within. He’s expressing himself through a defined visual identity that’s a relatively recent development. (Scroll back to the start of his @rube.zilla Instagram page for the visual proof.) What’s surprising is that he’s relatively new to the whole art thing. After spending 10 years in the military, he settled in Denver and began working in finance. He was bored

out of his mind. He had been doodling since he was a child, and he made the risky decision to pursue art full time rather than stay miserable in a more stable career. He took a job at a hotel in downtown Denver, “just working overnight security, hours to burn,” he says, “and I would doodle, I would draw.” The position afforded him the opportunity to just create, to see where his mind took his markers on the paper. Rube Zilla's now-signature style soon began showing up—the faces—in his drawings. The motifs struck him as “hauntingly beautiful,” so he began working on their structure and form. He had only been at it for a few days when one night as he was arriving for work, he had the traumatic experience of witnessing a man jumping to his death. “A moment like that will change you,” Rube says.

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“I relived that moment every day for a year,” Rube says, feeling trapped in the trauma—and it was through drawing mazes of augural faces depicted by the stark black lines and curves of a Sharpie that he mapped his way out. The night of the incident, he stayed at the hotel. “I just grabbed a stack of computer paper and a box of Sharpies and I just kept drawing faces over and over,” he says. “In a way it was to just process emotion—just to find a way to move through it. It’s funny how if you follow these patterns—follow grooves and stay the course—it’s like seeking a new plan, finding your weed and holy shit you talk to god, you go paint on walls. Now they call flow. And it ends up creating these it hieroglyphics—cave dwellings once-in-a-lifetime moments.” and whatnot.” Rube feels that we are at the start of a second renaisBRINGING EVERYTHING TOGETHER sance. “Real talk though: ‘After the Cannabis has been a part of the healing process as well. The night of plague came the Renaissance.’ It was the artists who gave life back to the incident, Rube smoked a joint the world. People came out to see with “the valet kid,” a young guy named Jerm (see above). Jerm now the murals, they couldn’t wait until Michelangelo was done with the runs Enigma Projects, representSistine Chapel.” ing a community of artists, includRube is a walking, talking art hising Rube Zilla. “We went from this tory lesson, focusing on the Medici thing that happened—the birth of these emotions—and we were able family, which first attained wealth and political power in Florence in to ride that energetic transition to the 13th century. It was the family’s the light in a sense.” support of the arts and humanities Jerm commissioned a custom in the 1400s that made Florence the piece by Rube, asking him to deck cradle of the Renaissance, accordout a Timbuk2 bag with his illusing to History Channel editors. trations. While in San Francisco a Rube’s lesson is a little less forshort time later, Rube wore the bag to an event attended by the brand’s mal: “There was a family that was CEO, and it caught her eye. “Shout- like, ‘Yo, we got all the gold and jewels on this side of the world. out Patti Cazzato!” Rube says. We got money. So, we control now. “That night, she said to me, ‘I’m We want to control then and the going to change your life tonight, future.’ So how do you control hisyoung man.’ And she didn’t lie.” tory? You tell the story. The Medici Rube seeks a communal relationship between art and cannabis. family understood that they needed to tell the story, so they asked “Cannabis and art have always had themselves, ‘How do we support a connection,” Rube says. “Smoke

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the people who will carry on for the next generation?’ So they supported the artists.” In the renaissance we are entering now, Rube suggests that the arts can be supported not by a single family but by an entire industry that’s already focused on changing the world. “The cannabis industry can be the Medici family,” Rube says. What if we’re able to support and uplift the people who are telling the story about why cannabis is important? Then we control the history of it.” A successful cannabis industry “can’t be why we have more space billionaires,” he says. “It needs to be why we have more community sustainability. It’s all about passing the joint, passing the kinetic energy, the success, and bringing it back to our circles at the end of the day.” We’re collectively hungry for art, culture, and connection. Rube cites Crush Walls’ urban art event that took place September 2020 amid COVID-19. “What did people do? They pulled up to the streets, smoked weed, and looked at art. That didn’t stop. That happened in the renaissance.” S E P T E M B E R 2021

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LoDo, Denver, CO / denver.org With over 30 food vendors from around the state, live music at three stages, on-site urban art, and a bustling marketplace, this three-day ﬂavor-fest is a September highlight in the Mile High City. Food selections span cultures and feature American favorites like Billy’s Gourmet Hot Dogs, old-world comforts like Bavarian and Italian foods, Latin specials like Su Taco, and a lot more. Held in the heart of downtown Denver on 16th Street, Taste of Colorado celebrates the bright diversity that deﬁnes this state. SEPT. 9-11

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Manitou Springs, CO / 420yogaretreats.com Build trust, connection, and intimacy with your partner through the power of couples yoga and massage — all of it enhanced by cannabis! Hosted in a beautiful private mansion overlooking Manitou Springs and Pikes Peak, this three-day retreat is all-inclusive, and packed with romantic couples yoga and massage classes, individual yoga, meditation sequences, and a lot of healthy intimacy. 32

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Telluride, CO / tellurideblues.com There are a lot of very good reasons why this is among the premier blues festivals in the country — not least among them is the insanely beautiful box canyon and high-mountain views of Telluride. Add a mind-bending sea of craft brewery tents and a foot-stomping, hard-rocking lineup and you can’t go wrong. Enjoy delicious foods, afterparty juke joint concerts, and even yoga sessions in the mornings to help you detox (before the re-tox). This year, Nathaniel Rateliff and the Nightsweats, Buddy Guy, and Lucas Nelson and Promise of the Real are headlining the festival with a stacked lineup of other talented musicians scheduled throughout the weekend.

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Saturdays / Denver, CO / @tokesandbrushstrokes on IG You don’t have to be Basquiat or Picasso to feel like an empowered artist at Tokes and Brush Strokes, the cannabis friendly painting event hosted by Creatively Cannabis. Every Saturday from 3-6 p.m., the group welcomes artists of all skill levels to join them at the Coffee Joint, one of Denver’s most celebrated cannabis lounges, for an evening of… well, tokes and brush strokes. Coffee and tea are provided, snacks are available for purchase and cannabis is BYO — it’s a fun, entertaining and safe space to indulge, to experiment, and to get creative on the canvas. (Get $7 off your ticket with promo code SensiSept.)

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Steamboat Springs, CO Grab your lederhosen and a cowboy hat for this unique Colorado conﬂuence of tradition and Western culture. The 11th annual Oktoberwest celebrates the end of summer with beer, music, and (of course) Steamboat’s much-celebrated “I Love Beef” cookoff, where the town’s ﬁnest restaurants grill off for your tasting (and judging) pleasure. Sample from over 30 local Rocky Mountain breweries slinging their suds to music by Walker. THROUGH SEPT 26

Van Gogh Alive

Stanley Marketplace, Denver, CO This is anything but your typical art show. Van Gogh Alive is an immersive, multi-sensory exhibition of works by one of the most iconic artists in history. Visitors are invited to venture into the strange and beautiful world of Van Gogh and interact with his art—for example, standing under and inside his famous Starry Night, instead of just ogling it. Multiple screens project the artwork as you wander around it.

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Paonia, CO / mountainharvestfestival.com Looking for a good excuse to make the beautiful drive down to Paonia? Plan a trip to the annual Mountain Harvest Festival. It’s small-town Americana at its best with farm and winery bike tours; farmers markets; three nights of live music, arts, craft beer and local spirits; farm-to-table dinners; and pub crawls. S E P T E M B E R 2021

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OTHERWORLDLY one-man MASTERPIECE watchtower The San Luis Valley is one of the oddest landscapes in Colorado for many reasons—one of which is its rumored UFO hotspot. Ranchers have reported cattle mysteriously mutilated and others have witnessed strange lights in the sky. You’ll ﬁnd Colorado’s only UFO watchtower here, where people record hundreds of sightings every year in the tower’s logbooks. Even if you don’t spot a UFO, the night sky in this isolated region is worth the visit.

Bishop Castle is perhaps Colorado’s most impressive one-man job. It has taken over 60 years for Jim Bishop to build his dream, but his castle is ﬁnally nearing completion. Constructed from local stone and other materials by Bishop and Bishop alone, the castle draws people from far and wide. More than anything, it’s a monument—a 160-foot tall, ﬁre-breathing, stonestacked testament to one person’s determination to make his vision reality.

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Nestled high in the Rockies in a small boom-and-bust mining town called Victor, the Black Monarch Hotel is a classy, yet macabre reincarnation of its Old West self. Once known as The Monarch, the hotel was a hotspot for high-society folk, gunslingers, miners, and prostitutes—until it burned with the rest of the town in 1877. It remained defunct for over 100 years until recently, when a businessman/artist took it upon himself to give the building a new life. Though, reputedly, it’s still haunted by its past one. blackmonarchhotel.com

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Built in 1889 as the “Creswell House,” Denver’s Marijuana Mansion has been the Colorado headquarters for the Marijuana Policy Project, and it’s where the world’s ﬁrst successful recreational marijuana bill—Amendment 64—was drafted. Now it’s owned by cannabis entrepreneur Lisa Leder, who has transformed it into an interactive art experience. Each themed room is decorated uniquely, and many are designed by renowned local artists. It’s the perfect cannabis event space—just don’t ask about its paranormal history. mjmansion.com

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In 2017, a nearly 100-yearold Lutheran church in Denver reopened its doors with a new form of spirituality—one with colorful murals, lasers, and visualizer projectors. Now dedicated to the religion of “Elevationism,” the International Church of Cannabis ﬁts right into the Mile High City. elevationists.org S E P T E M B E R 2021

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Spend any time in Boulder and you’ll start to recognize Phil Lewis’ psychedelic nature art around town—on stickers slapped onto laptops, decorating frisbees or tapestries sold at head shops, hanging on the walls of local restaurants, livening up living room walls, and, of course, on display in his studio on Pearl Street. Lewis’ art is as colorful as it is trippy, and it’s deeply inspired by the natural world. His recognizable style invokes the spirit of the Rocky Mountains and jam bands everywhere. phillewisart.com

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Max Montrose has been working in cannabis for a decade. He recognized early on that there was a gap in standardized education and information. That’s why he created the Trichome Institute, a service that offers courses and industry-recognized certiﬁcations for consumers, cannabis industry staff, consultants, entrepreneurs, government entities, and more. Montrose has dedicated his life to educating people about plant medicine. Check out his Instagram page for a wealth of facts on magic fungi, sacred cacti, cannabis terpenes, and much more. trichomeinstitute.com

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After years working in legal services addressing racial and gender inequities, Sarah Woodson pivoted in 2016 to offer her skills to the cannabis industry. Her nonproﬁt, The Color of Cannabis, aims to rectify systemic inequities in the cannabis industry. Her background as a consultant for the Marijuana Industry Group and as the current Redress Chair for the NAACP Denver Chapter has given her the experience to really push for meaningful change. The Color of Cannabis offers business connections for aspiring cannabis entrepreneurs and legal advice and services for those communities most affected by the war on drugs. thecolorofcannabisco.org S E P T E M B E R 2021

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Silver Mountain Guitars in Loveland is the only guitar and amp cabinet company making products out of hemp. The company’s hemp-wood electric guitars come in two body styles in seven different colors and they are equipped with the hottest musical hardware on the market: DeMarzio humbucker pickups, Warmoth necks, Planet Waves locking tuners, and a Gotoh tele bridge. Silver Mountain’s electric tube amps (likewise made from hemp-wood and CannaGrove board) sound incredible no matter what guitar you play on them. silvermountainhemp.com

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Denver Beer Company doesn’t just produce a lot of delectable craft beer, it also pumps out a lot of carbon dioxide (CO2). Every brewery does, actually; it’s a natural byproduct of beer-making. However, Denver Beer Co. is capturing that CO2, storing it, and shipping it over to The Clinic’s cannabis grow operation down the street. The CO2 is then used to help grow some of the dankest ﬂower in Denver. Swing by Denver Beer Co. off Platte Street and help boost The Clinic’s crop by drinking a Big League Sticky IPA or a Princess Yum Yum Raspberry Kolsch. denverbeerco.com

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Heart the Cart Bong carts are the new bar carts—you need one. PHOTOS & TEXT STEPHANIE WILSON

In May, dining website-meets-community Food52 asked the question that’s been on interior stylists’ minds for a while now: Are bar carts on their way out? To which I say, um, do you really have to ask? If there’s a question about the continued longevity of any trend’s lifespan, it’s safe to assume that it’s on its way out. Sure, the author posed a question to her Instagram crowd about whether bar carts were “out” or “still cool,” and 84 percent of the responses came back in favor of the bar-on-wheels-as-openstorage, but that’s not surprising. Lots of people thought hanging wooden carvings of “live laugh love” on their walls would be the writing on the wall that told the world just how deep and spiritually sound they are. They 42

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lived. They laughed. They loved. And to this day, some of them keep right on loving. Side story: During the early days of the pandemic lockdown, memes kept my spirit alive. You could say that because of memes, I lived. I certainly laughed. And, my god, some of them I loved—especially the one that just showed a wooden carving of the word “gather”

hung on a beige-gray wall. The simple caption: “That’s illegal, Karen.” I died. I lived. Laughed. Loved. I still do. Perhaps I am the lowest common denominator? Either way, I’ve never had a bar cart. I did purchase a wheeled two-shelf unit in a mid-century modern style that could to the untrained eye be confused for a bar cart, but it’s not a bar cart. No,

no, no. Bar carts are out even if home decor sites are hesitant to declare the trend dead quite yet. Perhaps there’s been enough death this past year, or perhaps they worry that the plebes who embarked on home improvements while spending so much time in said homes would revolt if they read that one of the trendy, musthave pieces they just incorporated into their

got my Jane West Beaker on my bong cart, too! #twinning. And if you’re somewhere in between, I encourage you to take your smoking accoutrements out of whatever hiding place they’re stashed. Bong carts aren’t just for bongs, you know. Pipes, stash jars, grinders, rolling trays, dab rigs, and all of the other objets d’art cannabis accessories can live on the cart, too—just as long as they’re nice and clean. Put them on display unless you’re living with rambunctious kids, or decor was suddenly as that says “humble & kind” jumpy cats, or any other taboo as gathering with hanging on the door creature that could knock unvaccinated strangers in above my home office. them over. Then proceed close quarters while not I picked it up one day at with caution. Always keep wearing a mask. a Home Goods where it the stuff you put into the Let them revolt, I say. was on clearance for $10. Or let them in on the Although the message secret that surely isn’t made me shudder, I going to be a big secret for thought I could use the much longer because— canvas and turn it into you heard it here first, something cool. I never folks—it’s going to be the got around to attacking it hottest home decor trend with some paint, but I did of 2022. Whether you’re tack two oversized Postgetting one brand new or Its on either side of the updating your existing message. The first reads, bar cart into one of the “If you think you’re,” and bong varieties, you too the latter wraps it up with will get to say you helped “you’re confused.” It’s spark the latest rage in now perfect.) interior styles. But if you’re like, omg, If you’re wondering I’ve already been storing my smoking devices secured why you would want a Jane West Beaker on my old safely away from any bong cart, maybe it isn’t bar cart but hadn’t realized minors or pilfering roomfor you. Keep gathering. I should stop calling it my mates who shouldn’t have Keep on living, laughing, old bar cart yet! Well, access to your stash. and loving. (Confession: now you know! You and If you consume canI do have a wooden sign I should be friends, I’ve nabis, there’s no need to

hide it away in a cabinet or drawer as if it’s something you’re ashamed of, no matter what you may have been told in D.A.R.E. But there’s still a whole lot of stigma surrounding it today, even as more Americans than ever are in favor of its legalization. After legalization comes normalization. The bong cart (or bud cart, or cannabis cart if you must, but I like bong cart because it’s a better play on the “bar cart” phrase— that’s what we’re going for here) is a statement. If you’re not quite ready to admit that bongs—with water filtration and the ability to deliver a cool, smooth hit—are a superior way of consumption,

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he massive rise in delivery-based business during the pandemic has transformed how customers interact with their favorite brands across the United States and the world. Consumers now expect everything from alcohol to toiletries to be available at their doorstep. As legalization spreads across the country, that expectation of seamless delivery is extending into the cannabis industry. Currently, 14 states permit regulated cannabis deliveries, but that number is expected to rise over the next few years. For most dispensaries, however, the idea of quickly implementing online

Blaze’s software addresses backend logistics and the tracking and managing of drivers. It also creates a delivery service that will pass each state’s regulatory status, avoiding legal headaches. Designed by industry veterans, the delivery software integrates directly with a store’s POS system to allow accurate inventory tracking. It features signature capture and ID verification, and it provides delivery drivers with a complete manifest and inventory ledger. To enhance the consumer’s experience, the Blaze Delivery app easily captures customer signatures, verifies IDs, and tenders orders—customers can even pay ahead. Plus, it offers the ability for drivers to communicate securely with dispatch or with the customer for last minute changes. A recent report from Uber showed that delivery revenue grew 103% in 2020, a number that is expected to continue to rise moving forward. There is no reason why cannabis businesses cannot get in on that trend and expand too. They just need the proper framework in place to make it happen.

purchasing and delivery is daunting, to say the least, if not downright impossible to navigate safely, efficiently, and legally. That’s where Blaze can step in, offering state-of-the-art delivery software and POS systems designed to provide seamless solutions to cannabis purveyors. “We feel that delivery is going to be a key piece for retailers who are looking to grow their businesses,” says Chris Violas, the CEO of Blaze. “We think it’s here to stay and we’re doubling down on that market by continuing to develop new features BLAZE Delivery to streamline and scale delivery Delivery POS Systems operations.” blaze.me S E P T E M B E R 2021

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Enlightened Ink Colorado yoga teacher and spiritual guide Bri Leonard found a way to love her body through her tattoos.

“I am someone who comes from trauma and humble beginnings,” says Colorado-based yoga teacher and tarot reader Bri Leonard, whose body is a canvas of tattoos: a dagger down her chest, a fortune teller on her arm, a scorpion on her back. “Yoga and occult practices have saved my life and given me tools to face the challenges of this world.” She cultivates a practice that is beautiful and powerful both physically and emotionally. Her classes combine creative, challenging movement on the mat with deep introspection (and the occasional dose of Prince or classic metal in the music mix). Through a podcast and members-only classes with Healing House (healinghousepodcast.com), which she co-founded, Leonard encourages students to dig into the past and shuck off the pain and negativity that keeps them from personal evolution. “Our goal with Healing House is to give back and support anyone on the path to holistic healing— with a little touch of humor and magic,” she says. Leonard’s tattoos are an important part of her identity and ground her in her teaching. “They have helped me love my body,” she says. “Before I started getting tattooed, I never liked what I saw in the mirror. I felt like a visitor in my own body. As my collection of art began to grow, I noticed an evolution in my self-perception. I began to feel strong, confident, like me.”

Leonard swears by the work of her artist Danny Boy at Landmark Tattoo (landmarktattooing.com) in Denver. “He's a kind, warm, talented soul,” she says. “That place feels like home.”

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