EDITOR’S NOTE

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Oh hey there. I’ve missed you. We’ve missed

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 fi rst 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. FIND At Sensi, we had 15(!) diff erent editions ready to ship to print for April 2020, inUS cluding 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 ON advertisers with continuing monthly bills when facing a shut down. Given that our main point of distribution tends to be dispensaries (because laws surrounding canna-SOCIAL bis advertisements require that we guarantee the majority of our readers are over the MEDIA 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 FACEBOOK to us, too. It took a little while, but here we are. Seventeen months after we printed Like Sensi Media our last magazines, Sensi is back in print in four markets—Colorado (our fl agship and Group to infuse your newsfeed with more homebase), California, Michigan, and New England. Plus, we will continue to cover of our great cannabis Nevada, Florida, and Pennsylvania in the monthly digital edition of Sensi Spark, which lifestyle content. 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 TWITTER we couldn’t come back the same way we went out. The world has changed and so have Follow @sensimag we, which is why we launched a whole new Sensi Local section, unique to each regionfor need-to-know news and views from al issue, designed to give you actionable information to help you see, do, meet, taste, Sensi headquarters. 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 spe-INSTAGRAM Pretty things, pretty cial edition. I felt our fi rst magazine back in print deserves to be a work of art, and I places, pretty awe- can’t thank Rube enough for making that dream come true. It’s as if I wished upon a some people: nd it all on @sensimagazine 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 fi rst 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.

Steph Wilson @stephwilll