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tired? feeling blah? couch locked? There’s a strain for that by: TCB Staff
We know that there are many who shop strains for THC levels or Sativa versus Indica and ignore so many other factors that control your cannabis’ effect. But what many forget is that there are strains that enhance your mood, energy levels, and creativity without strapping you to the couch all day, watching re-runs on Discovery Channel. They can enhance more than your mood, they can lessen depression and
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Sure, you can ask for Sativas and Sativa-leaning hybrids, but you might want to also ask about the terpene profile if you are hankering for motivation to clean the house, get your creativity back, or find the drive to take on a procrastinated project. There are many strain families conducive to achieving
2. The CBD content should 1. Of the top terpenes, a few not be ignored, despite the can REALLY help you get search for the highest THC motivated: limonene (citrus scent) and pinene (pine percentages. A 10:1 to 5:1 scent) are the top two most CBD to THC ratio can help with aches and pains, thereby common terpenes that can giving us all more energy help you get going, but to get moving. CBD-dominant linalool (lavender scent) strains often have 4% dry can do the job too. What continued on page 5 scent appeals to you can play
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4. We’ve said it before but keeping a record of strains you like will go further to help you find the best ‘energy strain’ than a shotgun approach. Finding that special group of terpenes that speak to your needs is mental gold.
It never hurts to try a sample edible in the strain you think you may like. Start small, give it time to work, and document your success (or failure). Another way to experiment is to buy what you already know you like, then get your bonus pre-roll in a new strain or use frequent buyer discounts on the new stuff. And, as always, ask your budtender what the most popular strains are for creativity, energy, pain relief and mood enhancement. You’ll be off that couch in no time.
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5. There are strain families that are inherently better for finding your energy: Hazes, Purples, OG Kush, Tangies, Cookies, and Cakes can all help with getting you moving. Of course, we hear from many people that Sativas are better for motivation than Indicas, but we suggest you don’t limit yourself by choosing one over the other. Maybe start with a Hybrid that leans toward Sativa to start.
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joe KNows: don’t grow breaking my heart by: Joe Smith People said I should have sold it for processing, but hell no, I personally think that if your plant is contaminated any product from it is as well. After that $10,000 dollar mistake, I decided my knowledge was lacking to say the least. I consider PM to be the STD of the Marijuana world and left untreated, it will spread to everyone.
I started the trim process and saw what I thought was bird poop that almost washed off, get to trimming more, saw the white, gray and brown signs of bud rot, and powdery mildew. It was so bad when I started touching the True horror story: one year, I had some high-power strains flower, they would fall off. All six of Durban Poison. I had topped plants were like that. I burned all six plants that day along with them well and everything was perfect. Or so I thought. When I the 30 pounds of wet trim from went to harvest them, the colas them. I said they were perfect, were as long as my forearm and and they sure looked it. And thicker than a soda can. I mean Durban Poison is supposed to HUGE! I was looking forward to be one of the most resistant a solid harvest. strains for powdery mildew. This is what happens when you spend months growing out your girls and looking at the big dense buds. Then you find out they have powdery mildew.
Once your plants have it, it stays, there is no getting rid of it, and all you can do is loss mitigation. Most of the time it is best to burn the infected plant.
I started doing my research: read more; Cervantes, Rosenthal, doing hours of research online and talking to people, and remembering how my Grandmother treated what she called the “crud” in her vegetable garden. My Grandmother, her name was Ida, treated her garden with spoiled milk. Turns out Ida knew exactly what she was doing; the Lactobacilli kills and keeps PM from reproducing. So, after all the research I came up with a formula for treatment of PM.
It’s simple, organic, cost effective, and most important, it works. Here it is: 20% milk to water ratio, it does not make You know all I grow is outdoor, any difference what kind of milk, and when done correctly, you I buy what is on sale. Then add will not get a better flower than outdoor. Growing in Oklahoma, 1 ½ tablespoons baking soda per gallon. Add one teaspoon grow with the idea that your of an organic liquid hand soap. plants have PM; control and prevent it from spreading. When If you use a dish washing soap, there is a very good chance harvested, a good bud wash you will burn and kill your plants will get rid of any PM you may (I use a liquid castile soap for have missed. I know this from personal experience, my grows babies I get online). Mix, then have always passed a full panel shake well. So, for a one gallon solution, 26 ounces of milk to test. my dedicated sprayer, then add
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So, don’t be heart broken, grow great medicine, be happy. A good bowl of your own medicine is the best. Joe Knows.
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communities. It takes tough skin and a real driving passion to develop the problem-solving and community-building skills critical to overcoming these adversities. Otherwise, “the market is too flooded” and “taxes are too high”.
personally serve up some validation in exchange for a photo shoots for a few months while said business crumbles.
There is, absolutely, incredible amounts of money to be generated by small businesses; with it, miraculous things they can use it for. This is one of few industries where the little guy can become the big guy. Where people can bring light, their family legacy, and share in prosperity. And! (this is a big “and”)...and, this is also one of few industries where someone can slap together a fly-by-night operation impressive enough for Instagram models to come
I write this not with the intention of judgement, nor to dissuade someone to pursue whatever ambitions they have with cannabis, but merely to bring to light the power of intention. The truth of the matter is, there are much easier ways to impress people, make fast money, and raise prestige, and we are smart creatures. We will find the path of least resistance to our greatest commitments in life. Running a successful cannabis business is very much
To each their own, right? So again, I come back to question: “What are you committed to?”
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How did i get here? by Tiffany Cavari I got here by never giving up on my dream. I got here by living through trauma and self-healing. I got here by putting all my free time and energy into my music. Even when I was treated as less than because I was a woman or when I was taken advantage of because I was a woman. I got here because I would not suck my way to the top. I got here from by letting go of what everyone else wanted for me and doing what I love. I got here by being true to myself. Being a solo female artist in this industry is challenging; many men feel entitled to sexually abuse women trying to make a name for themselves, but I won’t do anything to get to the top. After high school, I was lost. I was selling drugs and partying too much. I made music,
but it was more for myself. I needed to make a big change, so I joined the Army National Guard. After completing four years of service, I worked in the fast-food industry, and I also got signed to Prostreamz, an underground recording label that came to an end, but my love for music kept going. I did ghost writing for a production company, hoping to get myself closer to fame, but I found that it was only holding me back. So, I took charge of my music career and started booking my own shows; I opened for artists such as Twista, Travie McCoy, and BigBoy. As I chased my dream, I grew, learned, and molded myself into someone new. Everyone around me told me I should be doing music that I truly felt. As time passed and brought me to today, I now make my music organically: straight from my heart and soul. I learned big lessons about my innate skills for people and customer service working as a waitress at a Holiday Inn for five years. I loved that job. I love catering to people, assisting them, and knowing I had a role in their having a good time. I achieved the top service recommendation on Trip Advisor and I was the only server scheduled to work alone because almost every guest requested me as their waitress. It was eye-opening to know I had people skills that are appreciated and in-demand.
I’ve moved back and forth from Skiatook, OK to West Palm Beach, Florida since I was seven. My parents tried to stay married, but it didn’t work out. That’s how I always had a connection to Oklahoma. I was my grandmother’s caretaker, and after she passed in 2018, I moved back to Skiatook to live with my mother. Then Covid hit, life stopped for all of us, but we are now seeing light at the end of the tunnel. When I think about the people that helped me, I think about my mother. She has always believed in me and accepted me despite the crazy things I did. I watched that woman come from po dunk poor to become a soon to be retired millionaire. She taught me more things in life than anyone on this earth. I would not be here today if it weren’t for her. I want to be the person who revamps the current adoption/ orphan system and create a better non-system, so every child receives a loving, influential, lifelong family to raise them and love them, no matter their age, race, or background. I want to be the person that makes a difference past the now or self and I want that difference to last forever. Now, I am working toward one day owning The Current Buzz so I can fund my music. In the meantime, I am a UPS truck loader by early morning, a sales
rep for TCB during the day, and a musician by night. I am a business savvy, idealistic, music making news network establisher. I am a living prototype on future success while sticking to my principles of giving love to everyone, which coincidentally, fits into the cannabis industry’s way of doing business. And I plan to stick to my principles. World Culture Music Festival – how I got there I got involved in the WCMF after meeting Darrel Davis in one of those “right place right time” situations. He was one of the first Hip Hop influencers in Oklahoma, and, with that, I also met Steph Simon, a major music influencer in Tulsa. Steph Simon offered me the opportunity to be a part of the World Culture Music Festival, a cultural music and arts festival since 2017. With all that has happened in the past year converging with the 100-year anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, this year’s festival will be monumental. I will be performing a tribute to 1921, created from the inspiration from the Fire in Little Africa (Tulsa Race Massacre). Find out more about Fire In Little Africa on our Website, www. thecurrentbuzz.net or at www. wcmtulsa.com. Follow me on instagram @tiffanycavari
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steph simon - getting to woodstock via tulsa by Tiffany Cavari Strolling down memory lane does Greenwood no justice, but we can prevent more of these atrocities by sharing the truths behind this blood stain on Oklahoma’s history and its streets. One man I had the pleasure to have a one-on-one with is Black Wall Street’s face of the future, Steph Simon. Despite how the history bled into the soil for almost 100 years, Greenwood is rebuilding its way back to greatness from where it burned a century ago with the help of this remarkable man. In 2008, Steph’s mother passed, and Steph fell into a dark depression. He became distant and broken, battling with loss, trying to figure life out, sleeping from couch to couch, and he found himself wasting away with no sense of direction. Through work, he generated a lifeline to save himself. Working kept him alive. Steph found his purpose by working. Retelling the story of the fire in Little Africa in facts rather than platitudes spoke to his need to feed his soul
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terms we need to start using today and data we need to pass around. a primer by TCB Staff Please encourage others to treat the Cannabis industry and users with the respect we ALL deserve.
then a bunch of incorrect steeped in wine or brandy barely makes the list and is anecdotal data is passed (like tea) called “potacion de lower risk than even around about how kids will guaya” or ‘Drink of Grief’. cigarettes. become addicts sleeping in Potiguaya has been around the streets, then “Adult Use” for a long time, but the term 2. Cannabis use shows no In the Cannabis world, those replaces it and lawmakers’ was used in a popular book in potential for harder drug who medicate are no longer shoulders drop from their the 1940’s so this term stuck. use. Cigarettes are more forced to hide in the shadows, ears. The first thing they go to likely to lead to hard drugs and therefore, we should is the old, “Recreational WEED: this adage is pretty than cannabis. This is sound also no longer use shadow means kids will use Marijuana straight-forward to those science. vocabulary. If you want to be and they’ll get addicted!” We from the 60’s and 70’s, but taken seriously, you must use need to stop using the term if you don’t get it, weed can 3. Scientific data shows grown-up words to show that Recreational to get describe any plant that that using cannabis on you are informed and mean legalization to happen, as silly invades a garden or yard, the job negatively impacts business. as it seems. but in the context of job performance BUT using Cannabis, it has often cannabis on your off Let’s look at a few words we 3. Cannabis vs Marijuana vs been used because cannabis hours can improve your job frequently mix-up: Pot vs Weed vs Reefer: plants were planted wherever performance. For many Did you know the term opportunity presented itself. users, cannabis relaxes 1. Legalize vs Decriminalize: ‘Marijuana’ was coined our thinking, opens our minds these are two terms used in America in the 1930’s to REEFER: We aren’t even to new ideas, and helps interchangeably by laymen repress minorities, especially goin’ there. If you use the with sleep and stress. Alcohol and lawmakers alike, but Mexicans and Central and term “Reefer” to describe can actually impair sleep, as they are not the same. South Americans who were anything but a marine alcohol converts to sugar and Legalize is allowing an action immigrating into the U.S. biologist with an fascination can make the drinker wake or thing that was as laborers and (supposedly) with reef fish and sea up feeling hyper after a few previously not allowed by bringing cannabis with creatures, you are a dirty cop hours. If your job entails law. Decriminalize is a grey them? In white America’s from ‘The Simpsons’. driving or doing detailed work word: it can mean that it’s effort to repress non-whites, like brain surgery, you may be legal for some and/or legal they embraced the Spanish Let’s finish this off with this outta luck for partaking with a under circumstances. For name Mary Jane. It’s data: pre-roll after 5 p.m., so many, this is where the legal technically an American research the rules before system trips them up and English term attributed 1. Scientific data has repeatedly assuming you are good to go people end up serving time to Cannabis (for the record, shown that there is no because you have your for not knowing about those Mexico is in North America). physical addiction danger OMMA card. nuances (“Ignorance of the from cannabis use; alcohol law is no excuse”). If you POT: The label of ‘pot’ has has been the cause of many are using cannabis without an nothing to do with cooking more accidents, shootings, OMMA card, you are not legal implements, and like addictions, and violent and could get jail time. ‘Marijuana’ it took hold in the behaviors BY FAR than 1930’s as a shortening of the any other drug out there. The 2. Adult Use vs Recreational: term ‘potiguaya’ or second highest dangerous see #1, but lawmakers see ‘potaguaya’, which is a drink drug is crack cocaine, “Recreational” and panic, created from cannabis followed by heroin. Cannabis
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there’s a new delta in town, and it’s a 10 by Amiea Eleban The DEA has said “All synthetically derived tetrahydrocannabinols remain scheduled I controlled substances.” The DEA’s definition of synthetically derived tetrahydrocannabinols is:
Have you noticed all the different THC variations there are nowadays? I remember way back when, all you had was “weed”. Now you have so many different options, but I see that as kind of a good thing. More options mean you’re more likely to find something to fit your needs. This time we’re gonna talk about Delta10. What is Delta10 THC? Delta10 THC is another cannabinoid found in Marijuana and Hemp plants. Although it is found in even smaller amounts then Delta8 THC and Delta9 THC, it is in such small amounts that some labs even mistake it for CBD and CBL. Does Delta10 get you high? Short answer is yes, it can. Delta10 is not like Delta8 or Delta9 (Delta9 is the most intense high of the three). According to David Reckles from Private Label CBD Lab, the high from Delta10 is even less intense than Delta8 - which is
good news for those who don’t have a high tolerance to THC: “I would compare Delta10 to a Sativa in terms of its effects, while Delta8 is more of an Indica.” How does Delta10 make me feel?
“For tetrahydrocannabinols that are naturally occurring constituents of the plant material, Cannabis sativa L., any material that contains 0.3% or less of D9 -THC by dry weight is not controlled, unless specifically controlled elsewhere under the CSA.” What forms does Delta10 come in? You can find Delta10 in:
Normally, people prefer Delta8 to aid in sleep and relaxation. Delta10 is more uplifting and energizing, better for daytime use. Can you fail a drug test from using Delta10? Yes. A urinalysis cannot determine the difference between Delta9 and Delta10. So, if you are submitted to drug tests, Delta10 will not fly you under the radar. Is Delta10 illegal? Well, it depends: if it is derived from hemp, it is legal, but if it comes from the Marijuana plant it is illegal.
• Disposable pens • Vape cartridges • Gummies • Tincture/oil • Dabbing syringes • Chocolate bars • Shatter • Flower and pre rolls (Delta10 is sprayed on) Expect to see more variations of different THC compounds in the world of cannabis. As technology advances, there will be more we can learn about cannabis and its array of uses. The number of applications for the Deltas is only now being explored, but we have high hopes for what they can do in the future. We’ll keep you in the know.
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medical findings: ocd symptoms can be controlled with cannabis by Amy Addams requiring a lot of legal help (which = $$$), AND the only source of MCB the uni can access comes from Mississippi, which currently has a big backlog (any and all other studies will cause federal funds to the school to be completely cut, including federal student aid, loans and grants). We can all agree this past year was wet dog crap stuck in the cleats of our boots. Even if you were not directly impacted by Covid, there was some aspect of our life that was messed with. Shortages of food, household goods, DORITOS… supply lines reopened with prices marked up significantly, and people who needed help found that it was not forthcoming, or it was like running a gauntlet. Now, imagine dealing with all that while managing a mental health problem. If you are unfamiliar, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a mental health issue that manifests in the need to do a task multiple times (turning off lights, hand washing, checking locks), the need to have things arranged in a particular way, and/or irrational thoughts that intrude on life. During Covid, there were many OCD patients who found themselves unable to handle the new normal and some lost their jobs and access to medications. What’s more, OCD patients often feel the need to lash out
when their symptoms become overwhelming. Because there are too few mental health resources in the U.S., many patients are incarcerated rather than given the resources to control OCD symptoms. It’s worth noting that many of the pharmaceutical meds prescribed for OCD do not give the kind of relief patients need, but instead, only do a partial job on the best days. When symptoms manifest and the OCD has gotten out of control, many people have no recourse but to find their own solutions through street drugs or alcohol. But there is hope. Washington State University did a study on how Medical Cannabis (MCB) can help to reduce the manifestations of OCD and the results were promising (with a few caveats, of course). First, the study had to be done in Canada; if a U.S. university wants to study cannabis, there are multiple hurdles to jump,
Second, much of the methodology and results were a bit ad hoc and anecdotal, however, it couldn’t be denied that there is proof that MCB can help control the anxiety, intrusive thoughts, and compulsions that OCD creates. It’s worth noting that there was no placebo group and some of the patients were self-diagnosed but knowing that the agony of OCD can be controlled with MCB, even to a lesser degree, is a game changer. Third, scientists analyzed the THC and CBD levels of the MCB used and they found that high amounts of CBD were key to alleviating the worst symptoms such as intrusive thoughts (89% reduction), anxiety reduction (94%), and compulsion reduction (over 95%). Overall, only a few patients said their symptoms were made worse (2.4%), but no description as to what the cause may be was found. Follow-up questionnaires were sent to see if MCB could be a
long-term solution for OCD, and patients estimated that they had an overall success: over 60% reduction of compulsions, 50% reduction of intrusive thoughts and anxiety, which compared to a composite success rate of 41% for pharmaceuticals, it appears that MCB could do a lot more for OCD patients if the federal government would drop its Schedule 1 status and/or change the laws to allow more medical studies of this kind to happen. The good news is that President Biden is starting the process to make this happen (although not in the time we hoped): MCB is expected to be dropped from Schedule 1 (akin to heroin) to Schedule 2 (akin to cocaine and crack) soon. This rescheduling will open-up opportunities for universities to conduct further research into how MCB can help those suffering with mental health issues. If you want to be a part of the change, start by reaching out to your Congressman and Senator and tell them they need to vote to drop the Schedule 1 status of MCB.
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