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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.

DEPARTMENTS

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11 EDITOR’S NOTE 16 THE LIFE Contributing to your health and happiness 12 THE BUZZ (DREAM) MACHINE New News, tips, and tidbits to keep you in the loop ALPACA POWER Colorado brand Mirafora makes good use of cute fertilizers.

GREEN PREROLLS Sustainability hits to the joint.

FULLY LEGAL Sen. Chuck Schumer works for national cannabis legislation.

HEXAGON BONG This minimalist tool exudes style and class.

FEELING GOOD TerraVita offers a wide range of plant medicine.

apps take you on a trip— with or without drugs.

HOROSCOPES What do the stars hold for you?

38 THE SCENE Hot happenings and hip hangouts around town DIY CANNAB-ICE CREAM

Infuse your dessert for a refreshing treat.

ON THE COVER

Our 2021 Lit List is lighting up all the stuff that sparks our interest this summer.

40 THE END Farewell, Charlie Watts.

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NATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD NCRMA Risk Management COLORADO Agricor Laboratories Testing Lab Aspen Cannabis Insurance Insurance Services Canyon Cultivation Microdosing Cartology Corporation Cartridge Filling Equipment + Hardware Colorado Cannabis Company THC Coffee Concentrate Supply Co. Recreational Concentrates Emerald Construction Construction Green Edge Trimmers Trimmers Higher Grade Boutique Cannabis Hybrid Payroll Staffing & HR Benefits Jupiter Research Inhalation Hardware Lab Society Extraction Expert + Lab Supplies marQaha Sublinguals + Beverages Monte Fiore Farms Recreational Cultivation Northern Standard History of Cannabis PotGuide Cannabis Culture Source CO Wholesale Consulting Terrapin Care Station Recreational Dispensary Toast Mindful Consumption Uleva Hemp Products Wana Brands Edibles Witlon Inc. Payroll Processing

MICHIGAN Aronoff Law (Craig Aronoff) Licensing Law Firm Cannabis Counsel Cannabis Law Firm Etz Chaim Attestations Grapp Lerash Accounting/CPA Services Great Lakes Natural Remedies Lakeshore: Provisioning Center Kush Design Studio Cannabis Facility Design & Build MRB Solutions Human Resources Northern Specialty Health Upper Peninsula: Provisioning Center Oh, Hello Branding Promotional Marketing Perry & Drummy Inc. Commercial Insurance Pure West Compassion Club Caregiver Connection & Network Rair Medical Flower Solutions by Dr. Dave West Michigan: Hemp CBD Helping Friendly Hemp Company Hemp Topicals NEVADA Eden Water Technologies Water System Technologies Green Leaf Money Canna Business Finanacing GreenHouse Payment Solutions Payment Processing Ideal Business Partners Corporate Law & Finance Jupiter Research Inhalatation Hardware Matrix NV Premium Live Resin Red Rock Fertility Fertility Doctor Rokin Vapes Vape Technology This Stuff Is Good For You CBD Bath and Body

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA 365 Recreational Cannabis Dispensary: Recreational, Santa Rosa Green Unicorn Farms CBD Hemp Flower Humboldt CCTV Smart Ag Tech Kushla Life Sciences Cannabis Formulation and Products Red Door Remedies Dispensary: Cloverdale Southern Humboldt Royal Cannabis Company Mixed Light Farming Sonoma Patient Group Dispensary: Santa Rosa Strictly Topical Inc./Sweet ReLeaf Pain Relief Topicals Superbad inc. Premium California Cannabis Uleva Hemp Products Vaper Tip Vape Supply & Consulting Wana Brands Edible Gummies SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Accucanna LLC Desert Hot Springs: Dispensary EventHI Events Flourish Software Distribution Management Helmand Valley Growers Company Medical Infrastructure Specialist HUB International Insurance Hybrid Payroll / Ms. Mary Staffing Staffing & HR Benefits Ikänik Farms Cannabis Distribution Red Rock Fertility Fertility Doctor Wana Brands Edible Gummies Witlon Payroll

NEW ENGLAND Corners Packaging Packaging Flourish Software Seed to Sale Green Goddess Supply Personal Homegrown Biochamber GreenHouse Payment Solutions Payment Processing The Holistic Center Medical Marijuana Evaluations Revolutionary Clinics Medical Dispensary Royal Gold Soil Tess Woods Public Relations Public Relations

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EDITORIAL

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 Mona Van Joseph Contributor, Horoscopes Radha Marcum Copy Editor Bevin Wallace Copy Editor DESIGN

Jamie Ezra Mark Creative Director jamie@emagency.com Rheya Tanner Art Director Wendy Mak Designer Josh Clark Designer Jason Jones Designer

EXECUTIVE

Ron Kolb Founder ron@sensimag.com Stephanie Graziano CEO stephanie.graziano@sensimag.com Lou Ferris Vice President of Global Revenue Chris Foltz Vice President of Global Reach Jade Kolb Director of Project Management ADVERTISING

Nancy Reid Director, Team Building, Sensi East PUBLISHING

Jamie Cooper Market Director, Michigan Abi Wright Market Director, Nevada Richard Guerra Market Director, New England Nancy Birnbaum Market Director, NorCal Diana Ramos Market Director, Oklahoma Rob Ball Market Director, S. California Angelique Kiss Market Director, S. California

BRAND DEVELOPMENT

Richard Guerra Director of Global Reach Amanda Patrizi Deputy Director of Global Reach Neil Willis Production Director MEDIA PARTNERS

Marijuana Business Daily Minority Cannabis Business Association National Cannabis Industry Association Students for Sensible Drug Policy

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COLORADO Liana Cameris Media Sales Executive Amanda Patrizi Media Sales Executive Tyler Tarr Media Sales Executive NEVADA Pam Hewitt Media Sales Executive NEW ENGLAND Jake Boynton Media Sales Executive Peter Dunlap Media Sales Executive Bryant Mahony Media Sales Executive MICHIGAN Kyle Miller Media Sales Executive Leah Stephens Media Sales Executive

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EDITOR’S NOTE

Magazine published monthly

by Sensi Media Group LLC.

© 2021 Sensi Media Group. All rights reserved.

Welcome to the Lit List.

We are releasing this issue during the dog days of summer, those long hot days that languish at the end of the season.

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We love this time of year, and so we made an issue celebrating the things that we love most—not just from Colorado but from around the country, highlighting products new and old, from the world of cannabis and beyond.

Basically we made a list of all sorts of fun ways you can get lit. And we hope you enjoy it.

Stay hot, people.

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Basically we made a list of all sorts of fun ways you can get lit.

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Product Spotlight Plenty of hemp and CBD products make claims of sustainability. Boulder-based Miraflora is the only one we know of that backs up that talk…with alpaca poop. The 160-acre farm, which has been in operation for over a century, creates its fertilizer courtesy of its resident Andean pack animals. You can even read up on each member of the herd and learn a bit about their unique personalities on the Miraflora website. But the proof is in the product, and the brand consistently wows us with everything from its Sport Balm ($25), which is perfect for post-yoga aches, to its full-spectrum CBD Soft Gels ($33), which are ideal before bed, to it’s new Sparkling CBD Beverage +Sport ($20, four pack), which is a godsend after a big workout. miraflora.co

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Miraflora brings you CBD— courtesy of alpacas.

CONTRIBUTORS

Debbie Hall, Tracy Ross, Doug Schnitzspahn, Jenny Willden

BY THE NUMBERS

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$100 MILLION Cannabis Packaging Goes Green Green pre-rolls feature 100-percent recycled paper.

Savvy consumers seeking sustainable products will love MM Green Packaging Solution’s new recycled paper pre-roll packaging.

These hemp pre-rolls and green pre-rolls are made entirely of recycled paper and feature a special freshness lining. Look for California cannabis brands using MM Green’s sustainable packaging instead of contributing to one-time-use waste.

The amount San Fransisco-Based cannabis brand Cookies is investing into its new Florida headquarters in DeLand. The company promises to create 400 jobs in Central Florida.

39 Number of Native American tribes in the state of Oklahoma. A US Supreme Court decision in 2020 has given those tribes sovereignty in about 19 million acres of the state.

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I’m a bit of a tomboy, but then a girly girl.

And I feel like you can be both.”

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Fully Legal

Lawmakers bring the US a step closer to federal legalization.

“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.

Chuck Schumer at the Cannabis Parade and Rally in New York City in May.

Age of Pottsville, Pennsylvania’s famed Yuengling Brewery. The classic brew is available in 22 East Coast states and just made a move into Texas this month.

—Doja Cat, musician

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Enter the Hexagon This minimalist bong exudes style and class.

Inspired by the angular forms and intersecting planes of Daniel Libeskind architecture, this uniquely designed bong re-imagines what this product should look and feel like. With high style you’ll want to showcase on a shelf, the Hexagon Bong is the ultimate contemporary home accessory. When you light it up, expect a smooth, satisfying hit. $125 / brnt.ca

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Embrace wellness filled with goodness from the earth.

TerraVita’s plant medicine collection features more than 50 products combining adaptogenic herbs, functional mushrooms, vitamins, essential oils, terpenes, and other natural supplements. The organic broad-spectrum CBD company sources the highest-quality Colorado- and Oregon-grown full-spectrum CBD, broad-spectrum CBD, and CBD isolate and combines them with other potent, plant-based ingredients to create its entire collection of innovative wellness products.

Need help sleeping? TerraVita offers Sleep CBD Oil for Sleep, a full-spectrum CBD product with sedating terpenes and melatonin. Relax CBD Oil for anxiety and stress calms with terpenes and Ashwagandha Root. Focus CBD Oil helps with energy with terpenes, ginseng, taurine, and green tea extract. Ease CBD Oil for Pain fights inflammation with terpenes, white willow bark, turmeric, and glucosamine. And Pure CBD Oil helps maintain everyday wellness.

CO2 extraction methods create a phytocannabinoid-rich oil that is free of impurities, and all full-spectrum CBD tincture products contain high levels of hemp-derived CBD, along with minor cannabinoids including CBN, CBG, and CBC. Terra Vita / terravitacbd.com

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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.

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THE LIFE

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.

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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.”

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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

HOROSCOPE

AUGUST HOROSCOPE What do the stars hold for you?

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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.

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CAPRICORN

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.

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AQUARIUS

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.

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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.

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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

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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.”

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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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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.

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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.

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Candy Relics' Honey Bear Bubbler. $160

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K.Haring Dog Bat Catchall. $60

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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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Don’t confuse Mello Bottoms CBD suppositories (for anal and vaginal use) with typical lube— they’re so much more than that.

Mello Bottoms deliver 75mgs of CBD directly to the lower body, impacting the endocannabinoid receptors and increasing blood flow to provide more targeted and effective relaxation of your sexy parts and increased arousal in as little as 10 minutes.

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PHOTOS (CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT) COURTESY OF MEET DELIC, CREATIVE COMMONS, ALIVE + KICKING, ANTHONY DOERR, DR DABBER EVO

Vintage concert t-shirts are the bees knees right now and you should e-bay yourself a couple stat. But you can’t have this NKOTB one, because we want to rock it all around town while we’re hanging tough.

Are you a psychonaut? Or are you just now seeing that word for the first time ever but you like psychedelics and think they have a world of mental health potential?

Check out Meet Delic, a two-day psychedelic wellness event taking place (if all goes as planned, which, you know) early November in Las Vegas at Area15—the perfect psychedelic playground.

Ditch the torch but do the dab. Dr. Dabber Boost Evo is an e-rig that can put you on cloud 9 with its intuitive interface and hand-held design. Get it in this sexy white color, just because it’s pretty. $330

Literary fiction fans, you’ll want to add this to your nightstand when it comes out next month: Cloud Cuckoo Land (Scribner, $30) by Anthony Doerr, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of All the Light We Cannot See.

Alive & Kicking Slim CBD Hemp Cigarette Pre Rolls: They’re small, slender and just absolutely adorable if you ask us.

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Meet Potent Goods, created by co-founder of Juicy Couture Gela Nash-Taylor and her son Travis Nash. The Hollywood-based brand is Inspired by California's casualmeets-the-high-life culture, so it’s fitting that it launched in July with both a cannabis product line and an elevated loungewear collection. As of press time, the line appears to be free of velour and full of function in the form of discrete pockets where you can stash your stash in style.

High Tales, a video series introduced by Shawn JAY-Z Carter’s cannabis brand Monogram, just dropped its season one finale featuring Chika. The Best New Artist Grammy nominee owns up to some experimentation with photoshop involving Beyonce and Blue Ivy, talks cannabis and social justice, and recalls a time when her blunt was passed around to Wale and Chris Rock while attending the Savage x Fenty 2019 fashion show, earning her the self-proclaimed title “Facilitator of Vibes.”

Dr. Greenthumb's x G Pen Connect. $200 Elevate Jane Lady J Holder. $69

In the Kundalini Activation Process (KAP) a participant lays on a mat with eyes closed while music plays and the facilitator points at different chakra or meridian points on the body. Once the A in KAP is, ahem, activated, people have described feeling a tingling sensation or the “energy” throughout their body, having visions and going on astral journeys, and experiencing an emotional release. You know, releasing. Participants who have experienced KAP have expressed increased awareness, mental clarity, feeling wholeness or oneness, a decrease in anxiety or depression, and relief in body aches and pains. To experience KAP, look for workshops in your area, and follow certified health coach Bre Jenkins at @goinginward on Insta.

GRAV Labs small wide base water pipe in smoke. $99

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PHOTOS COURTESY OF CHEF JOE SASTO

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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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Farewell Charlie Watts

passed away on August 24 at the age of 80, was good every single night— “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking,” Sticky Fingers, and he never once missed 1971. Watts drives the a show. song from start (the sudWhen most casuden gritty riff) to finish al fans think of the (the building interplay between Richards and Stones, it’s Jagger, with Mick Taylor playing his frontman swagger against each other). and sexually dangerous “Miss You” Some Girls, The Rolling Stones’ drummer kept snarl, or Keith Richards, 1978. While so many with enduring riffs and everything in time between the genius rock bands didn’t know ability to outlast death, what to do with disco, and ego of the Glimmer Twins.

Watts brought the four that come to mind first. beats to the floor in a TEXT DOUG SCHNITZSPAHN But ask most musicians way that made it dirty and they will remind and dangerous rather During the Rolling Jagger announced to the you that it was drummer than empty and weak.

Stones shows at Madcrowd “Charlie’s good to- Watts with his impecca“Honky Tonk Women,” ison Square Garden in night, inne?” That phrase ble ability to keep time single, 1969. More November, 1969, which would become an ongoand quiet sense of fashcowbell. would be recorded and ing joke for the greatest ion that made the band released as the live album rock band of all time. The work. When he was not Get Yer Ya-Yas Out!, Mick truth is that Charlie, who playing with the Stones, ESSENTIAL TRACKS:

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the quiet Watts served as a jazz drummer in several side projects and Vanity Fair recognized him as one of the world’s best dressed men.

Drummers often go unappreciated until you see a band play live—and the Stones were no exception. Watts was exactly what a great dummer should be, never upstaging and always moving a train that seemed like it was just about to run off the tracks down the line.

“I don’t like drum solos, to be honest with you,” he once said. In the end, Watts proved that being the best is far more than being center stage.

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