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Truck Stop #7: A Mack Truck to the face

Angelica Leicht aleicht@bcimedia.com 375-4551 Staff writer

This innocent-looking strain was like an eighteen-wheeler to the dome that we did NOT see coming. Not that we’re complaining, mind you. Not complaining at all.

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6 Films in an altered state?

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The SPLIFF Film Festival consists of short films (with a max length of 4 minutes 20 seconds) made by stoners for stoners. Each film examines or celebrates some aspect of cannabis, its effects, or its place in culture.

9 Pagosa Therapeutics wins big at High Times Cannabis Cup

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Fans of the works of Lewis Carroll will recognize the Jabberwock as a ferocious creature with “jaws that bite,” “claws that catch,” and “eyes of flame.”

It turns out that the cannabis strain that bears its name, “Jabberwokie,” is also a beast.

Don’t leave your open weed grinder on the arm of the couch if you’re going to smoke Truck Stop #7 from The Green House Durango. I learned this little lesson last weekend when I was smoking said strain for this review. What happens if you do, you ask? Well, nothing good. /dgomag

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The 2020 Cannabis Crawl is FINALLY A GO! Sorry for yelling. We’re just so gosh-darn excited about it.

It’s the time of year we’ve all been waiting for: The Cannabis Crawl.

That’s right; the crawl is officially upon us. We’ve had to schedule, and reschedule, and reschedule again, but we’ve finally made it. Freaking COVID, man.

information on the deals, giveaways, Q&A sessions, and other cannabis-related events happening throughout the month.

Oh, and if you’re one of the first 200 to pick up your bag? You’ll get a bag with But while the 2020 Cannabis Crawl is the official Cannabis Crawl T-shirt and a go, things are going to look a bit differ- lighter in it. WE didn’t even get those. ent this year. We’ve changed things up so (Drop one off for us at the office, would that we can get you all those sweet deals ya?) safely. Here’s how: The crawl, while longer this year, will work just like it has in recent years. You’ll While the Cannabis Crawl has been visit the dispensaries and businesses a one-day event in years past, we’re extending it this year to three weeks. That on the map to get your map stamped (or stickered, to be specific). You’ll snag means three weeks of steals, deals, and some killer deals while you’re there. And super cheap cannabis at all your favorthen you’ll move on to the next place, ite dispensaries. There are edibles to where you’ll do the same. snag, eighths to stock up on, and plenty of other weed products to secure at a Before you get started, though, you discount. should know that we’ve upped the ante The event will now officially start on October 8 — when this issue hits the stands — and end on October 31. Your map, which you can find tucked in a print issue of DGO or in a swag bag that can be picked up at The Green House in Durango, will be your guide. It includes

and added businesses in Pagosa Springs, Mancos, and Cortez this year, too. These aren’t required spots to visit, but if you do make a stop at these dispensaries, be sure to get your map stickered. Want to know why? Cause you’ll get an extra entry to win the prize for each dispen-

sary outside of Durango that you visit, that’s why. Considering that you have three freakin’ weeks to get this done, you should have plenty of extra entries on your map.

Once your map is filled out, all you have to do is drop it back in at Kinfolk Farms to be entered in the drawing for the $500 cash (err...check) prize. That’s $500 you didn’t have before and a bunch of discounted weed. 2020 may suck, but October is clearly the month that keeps on giving.

Wait, one more thing. While you’re at Kinfolk Farms, you might want to take time to check out their live grow and grab your coupon book with Munchie Deals. That will give you discounts on all sorts of delicious food (that you’ll need in order to satiate the grumbling belly post-smoke session). The coupon book contains deals at Ernie’s Bar, The Box, Backcountry Gourmet, Durango Popcorn Depot, and On A Roll Ice Cream, so you’ll have plenty to choose from.

the lucky Cannabis Crawl 2020 winner.

That drawing will take place on November 2, and we will announce the winner via Live Stream on the DGO Facebook / Instagram at Prohibition Herb.

So, yeah, That’s our 2020 Cannabis Crawl plan. We’re stoked to be able to continue to host the event, even in the midst of a pandemic. And, of course, we’re looking forward to a time when we can go back to throwing a massive bash to close it all out. But until then, this is how we’ll make it work.

Now go out, snag some cheap weed deals, and remember to pass the dutchie to yourself, from yourself — not to your friends. We’re all for the “Sharing is Caring” movement in normal times, but right now, that’s how COVID spreads.

Be safe, have fun, and get your dang map marked off! You put in the work.

Might as well reap alllllll the benefits.

Once all the entries are in, we’ll do a $500 prize drawing to crown one of you

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The perfect Halloween strains to help smoke away that terrible costume Nobody told you to go as the ghost of COVID, man

It’s no secret that there are three things that we here at DGO love: weed, beer, and Halloween. October is our November AND our December. Hauntings and monsters and witches? It’s what we look forward to all year round.

Scary movie pairing: “Alien”

Strain: Hybrid

Frankenstein is a strain with a background as mysterious as its namesake.

We’re not entirely sure about this strain’s genetic history, but it sure is a fun one nonetheless. Unlike the literary character of “Frankenstein” (we assume), Frankenstein bud smells like a garden — with a floral smell and notes of lavender. If you’re gonna smoke this strain, plan for an evening of relaxation (which we know isn’t very Halloween-y of us but they can’t all be thrills and chills!).

Scary movie pairing: “The Others”

Zombie OG

So, we took a page from, “The Sound of Music,” and decided to combine a few of our favorite things. After all, if you’re not stoned during Halloween, were you really there?

Ghost OG

Ghost OG might just be the perfect Halloween strain name. It stems from its parent OG Kush and is a potent hybrid strain for when you’re wanting to feel a little less attached to your body. This award-winning strain smells like citrus and is covered in these magical little crystals. This strain has euphoric properties that will make you feel so relaxed you’ll think twice before wanting to come back down to earth.

Dark Devil Strain: Hybrid Scary movie pairing: “Hereditary”

Strain: Indica Scary movie pairing: “28 Days Later” Halloween isn’t Halloween without its most important ingredient: zombies.

And nothing is going to make you feel like the undead more than Zombie OG (in a good way, of course). Warning to our cannabis newbies out there: Zombie OG doesn’t mess around. This heavy strain takes no prisoners and will leave you feeling zonked out - just like a zombie! Don’t worry, though. Zombie OG will make you feel like a zombie but doesn’t smell like it. Like Frankenstein, Zombie OG smells like lavender with hints of pine. However, if you know Zombie OG descends from OG Kush and Blackberry strains, the aroma shouldn’t surprise you too much.

One look at Dark Devil and you’ll figure out real quick where this strain name came from. Dark Devil buds are sticky and covered with resin-covered flowers that are so dark you could even Jack Skellington say they’re black. This mad scientist Strain: Sativa strain was created via Big Devil and a purple strain which allowed for the dark Scary movie pairing: “Nightmare colors that make this strain unique. Even Before Christmas” (duh) more strange? Big Devil has a flavor Long live the Pumpkin King! We’re so similar to passionfruit. Who knew the glad good ol’ Jack decided to stick with devil could be so sweet.

Halloween instead of Christmas so we could have this strain. This potent strain Frankenstein Strain: Indica

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The 2020 festival is hosted by drag queens Betty Wetter and Cookie Couture and features 22 films. Here are a few of our favorites: • “Triptychâ€? — This film, which won the audience award for Trippiest Film, is just a delightful piece of audio-visual art.

It was the only one that we rewound so we could experience it a second Courtesy of SPLIFF Film Festival time. The festival program describes it as “intense, eye-melting space travel If you’re like us, you love film festivals projected through multiple lenses in an — but you’ve probably noticed that, generally speaking, they’re full of heady, Escher-esque universe.â€? Uh, sure. We’ll indie films that try to push you into deep go with that. introspection on the human condition. • “Follow the Sunâ€? — This animated In other words, they’re stacked with short starts off in the vein of one of movies almost specifically designed to those old-timey “Let’s All Go to the harsh your mellow. Well, it turns out that there’s also at least one film festival Lobbyâ€? concession ads until everything perfect for watching while baked. goes wrong and it spirals into madness.

It’s one of the few ostensibly horThe SPLIFF Film Festival consists of short films (with a maximum length of 4 ror-themed entries. minutes 20 seconds, naturally) made by • “Deb’s Divorce Partyâ€? — In an effort to stoners, for stoners. In one way or anprove that she is the undisputed queen other, each film examines or celebrates of last hits, Deb finds herself transportsome aspect of cannabis, its effects, or ed to another level of existence. This its place in culture — or at least that’s one won the Funniest Film award. the loose idea. Some of the shorts are just entertaining, vaguely weed-related • “All Hail the Voidâ€? — Another horror abstractions. short, this film follows some skaters as The festival, which had its first annual they try a new strain called “astral shitâ€? screenings last year, shows its films in and it begins to change them. theaters in Denver, Seattle, Portland, • “Random Panic Attacksâ€? — This Taiand Washington in April and May wanese animation follows a character’s because some of the larger showings are on April 20. (Look, stoners have one love-hate relationship with modern special number that everybody knows, technology. And it’s set to a pretty cool and they’re going to use it every single score. chance they get.) April wasn’t a great • “Cleaning Dayâ€? — A music video in time to pack into theaters this year, which a lingerie-clad woman smokes obviously, so they moved the festival so she can do some chores, but inadonline.

We were going to watch it back in April, vertently summons a tiny trash goblin instead. but then we got ... *writer distractedly begins humming Afroman song ...* Hmm? To prove that the films were created Oh yeah, uh ... anyway, it’s still online specifically for SPLIFF, the organizers and seems like it will be indefinitely. If ask the filmmakers to incorporate a you’re so inclined, you can watch both few specific props into their entries. If the 2020 festival and the 2019 festiyou want to enhance your experience val. The ticketing system allows you to choose your own price of admission — of the 2020 festival — beyond the way between $10 and $20 for this year’s fes- you were already going to enhance it — tival, and between $5 and $15 for last place a large platter of deviled eggs in year’s. The tickets allow you to screen front of you before you press play. Trust the festivals (the 2020 one runs about us. an hour and 20 minutes) for a whole week, which comes in handy just in case, —— Nick Gonzales

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»» The exhibits at the Cannabition Cannabis Museum were specifically designed to be Instagram-able.

Cannabition is currently closed, what with the COVID-19 pandemic and all, but it is using this time to relocate to Planet 13, a huge mega-dispensary.

When it reopens, the museum “will be a 10,000 square foot journey featuring more than 20 unique, cannabis-inspired art installations celebrating the arts, culture, history, and celebration of the medical and recreational cannabis experience,” according to its website.

If you’ve been to Meow Wolf’s House of Eternal Return or one of the Museums of Ice Cream on either coast, then you know that these “immersive art attractions” are ridiculously fun. If, say, you just woke up from a coma you enWalker said that all of the museum’s tered before 2016, these non-traditionprevious exhibits will still be on display al exhibition spaces feature interactive installations that you experience instead at the new location.

Meanwhile, Planet 13, which is a few of just looking at them. blocks west of Vegas’ Strip, also added Would it blow your mind if I told you a coffee house and a restaurant to its that one of these so-called museums is complex, from which visitors can watch devoted to cannabis? (There are actually two! The Weedmaps Museum of Weed cannabis-infused food and drinks being opened in August 2019 in Los Angeles, made. It also has the infrastructure but we’re going to focus on the one ready for if and when Nevada gives its that’s ever-so-slightly closer to home.) blessing to smoking lounges, the dispenThe Cannabition Cannabis Museum sary’s co-CEO Bob Groesbeck told the in Las Vegas takes the basic concept of Los Angeles Times. those other places and uses them to talk The legal status of cannabis consumpabout the culture, celebration, and histion lounges is a little bit complicated. tory of cannabis, said founder JJ Walker When the state legalized recreational — who previously ran a dispensary and cannabis, the language of the law more produced cannabis events in Colorado. or less allowed lounges anywhere. So, “The whole idea is to have this elein May of 2019, Vegas’ city council vated experience around cannabis seen approved an ordinance allowing lounges through a new kind of lens,” he said. in the city. Then, the very next month, The larger-than-life installations can the State signed a bill into law creatbe touched and interacted with, and have been designed with Instagram-abil- ing a Cannabis Compliance Board and ity in mind. (Is it a bit dorky? Yes. But we prohibiting local governments from licensing lounges on their own. The both know that you’re going to post a board, in theory, is currently conducting photo of yourself holding up an 8-foota study on consumption lounges and tall bag of nugs to your feed before you even exit the building.) will submit its recommendations about whether they should be legal or not to When it first opened, the museum was designed in such a way that visitors Nevada lawmakers during the first half would experience the life cycle of a can- of next year. nabis plant, from seed to harvest to inSo hey, by the time you actually take halation and exhalation. It also featured your next Vegas vacation, they might exhibits on the chemistry and social even exist. At the very least, you’ll be history of weed. In addition to a bunch able to ‘Gram yourself pretending to of visual references to specific strains smoke an enormous spliff. (for example, the first room featured a —— Nick Gonzales “white rhino”), the museum had a bunch

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At a few Colorado dispensaries, you can now buy weed from vending machines The technology was developed to cut down on long wait times now that the whole world is buying weed thing and sent everyone searching for If you’re the kind of shopper who prefers to get in, get what you’re looking ganja. for, and get out, vending machines are According to The Know, customers a godsend. Sure, a Redbox will never be navigate the machines using a 27-inch able to deliver the same experience that wandering around a Blockbuster once touch screen, allowing them to fill their brought (R.I.P. video rental stores). But digital shopping basket with items from they’re a heck of a lot more efficient. the menu. They can then pay with cash And along with all the other craor a debit card, which further eases the zy things you can buy out of vending purchasing process if you’re used to machines, you can also use them to buy needing to stop by an ATM anyway beweed.

A startup called Anna has begun putting its tricked-out vending machines in Colorado dispensaries, beginning with Strawberry Fields in Pueblo and Starbuds in Aurora in mid-August. You still have to go to the dispensary and go inside, but — assuming you know what you want — you can skip the lines, and interacting with a budtender, and make your purchase directly from the machine.

According to CNN, they’re currently being used to vend edibles, infused beverages, flower, balms, and vape oils, so you’re pretty much set regardless of your cannabis consumption preferences.

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Anna is currently developing a mobile app that customers will be able to use to pre-order products that they will then 2,000 products.

“There are experienced cannabis customers who don’t necessarily need that one-on-one interaction with a budtender. They know what they want before they walk in, they’re ready to go in and out. By doing this we’re giving more time back to the people who do need hand-holding and want that education from a live person,” Anna CEO Matt

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“With COVID and social distancing and contactless, definitely we have an appeal there, as well.”

Frost said he originally developed the idea of applying self-checkout systems to weed in Massachusetts, his home state, where dispensary waits can last for hours — and that was before the COVID-19 epidemic complicated every-

be able to simply pick up at the machine.

The company is also looking into adapting the machines to sell CBD products potentially anywhere, as they would not need to be placed inside a dispensary.

For now, we’re just interested to see if this automated budtender technology will make it west of the Front Range.

—— Nick Gonzales

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Jabberwokie from Pagosa Therapeutics wins Best Sativa at High Times Cannabis Cup Colorado Growers say the strain is most appropriate for a weed connoisseur sary with Jason Werby, said Jabberwokie probably isn’t the right flower for an inexperienced smoker.

Fans of the works of Lewis Carroll will recognize the Jabberwock as a ferocious creature with “jaws that bite,” “claws that catch,” and “eyes of flame.” It turns out that the cannabis strain that bears its name, “Jabberwokie,” is also a beast that will take you through the looking glass.

The strain, grown by Pagosa Therapeutics, won the people’s choice award in the Sativa Flower category at the High Times Cannabis Cup Colorado in August.

Courtesy of Pagosa Therapeutics It was the only award given to a grower »» Jabberwokie recently won People’s in Southwest Colorado, and the first Choice award in the Sativa Flower category Pagosa Therapeutics has won. in the High Times Cannabis Cup Colorado.

Usually an in-person festival and trade factories that produce cannabinoids, show, this year’s regional Cannabis Cups terpenes, and flavonoids — the things have been converted to online events in that make cannabis enjoyable. It was the the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. first strain the company submitted for The competitions are usually judged competition. by a panel of cannabis experts, and this The strain has a diesel, skunky smell, year’s voting had up to 28 entries in each and also some sweetness, all likely a category judged by 228 judges. result of its lineage. Genetically speakPagosa Therapeutics chose to submit ing, Jabberwokie is a cross between an Jabberwokie for competition because especially great resin-producing cut of of its high potency and pleasant effects, Lucky Charms and Bio-Diesel — two said Scott Raymond, director of cultivastrains with extensive family trees. tion. The strain’s frost indicates a high concentration of trichomes — the tiny

Jeremy Bonin, who owns the dispen-

“It’s extremely complex and delicious and potent,” he said. “Every batch so far has tested over 30% (THC). It’s rare that you get a good strain that tests that high and also has the terps that go along with it — that still give it the taste and smell and the true full-spectrum effects that you get. A lot of times when you have really high testing bud, it seems like the terps aren’t there — so it’s kind of a one-dimensional high, but (Jabberwokie) definitely has the multidimensional effects that we’re looking for.”

People who have smoked it tend to agree.

One of the people who judged the strain for the cup submitted the following anonymous comment: “The smell is to die for. It hits your nostrils and sends a tingle through you as it grabs your attention. The flavor was sharp and sweet with a smooth burn. It creeps in and leaves you in a sweet light haze that sips the tension out of every muscle. Leaves you comfortable and refreshed.”

Raymond said the dispensary’s most recent crop of Jabberwokie would be hitting shelves within October. We forgot to ask him if, like its namesake, the plant has to be harvested by a vorpal blade (as it goes “snicker-snack,” no less).

Pagosa Therapeutics has operated in Archuleta County since 2013, and the shop part of the dispensary features windows into the company’s grow rooms so that customers can see the plants and flowers — including Jabberwokie, now or in the very near future — that eventually will be sold in its stores. Bonin said he decided to create a shop in which cannabis connoisseurs could see the growth of the plants in action after visiting the Netherlands to attend the Cannabis Cup in 2000.

In addition to its Pagosa Therapeutics location, the company operates The Green House dispensaries in Pagosa Springs and Durango.

Will Jabberwokie fill you with such joy that you chortle, “O frabjous day! Calloh!

Callay!”? There’s only one way to find out.

—— Nick Gonzales

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Eepa’s Pizza is baking quality pies in Bayfield Their Pepperoni Egg Rolls also hit the spot We love pizza. Slap some cheese, sauce, and toppings on some dough and bake it? We’re in. But it somehow still took us over a year to make it out to Eepa’s Pizzeria in Bayfield. Fortunately, we recently had a chance to rectify this oversight.

The pizza place opened in June 2019, in the building on the corner of Mill Street and Bayfield Parkway that once held the Bayfield Diner. Melissa and Rob Gaston started the business as a way of accomplishing one of Rob’s lifelong dreams — to open a pizzeria — (Rob worked in them for much of his life, both before and after serving in the Navy).

“I couldn’t really find a pizza that I really liked anywhere, so I started making them myself,” Gaston told The Durango Herald last year.

And now that we know the owners’ names, we can’t get the song from “Beauty and the Beast” out of our heads.

“Eepa,” by the way, is how the Gastons’ son, Tieren, pronounced pizza as a small child.

Anyway, we dropped by Bayfield on

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»» A Ranchero Pizza on the patio at Eepa’s Pizza in Bayfield.

a very warm September day to see how the pizza place stacks up against its local competition. We immediately enjoyed the ska-punk music they were playing around the building. Speaking of ska, one of the specials they had when we dropped by was an Oktoberfest Pizza, featuring a provolone and cheddar beer cheese sauce made with Ska Brewing Co.’s Oktoberfest lager, mozzarella, bratwurst, grilled onions, and sauerkraut.

We thought it was quite creative, but ... we didn’t order it. Sorry. We just weren’t feeling sauerkraut pizza at the time.

(You go order it and then come back and convince us to.)

Instead, we started with one of the most fun items on Eepa’s menu, and

also probably one of the simplest: the Pepperoni Egg Rolls. The image that just popped into your head as you read that is pretty much exactly what they are — egg roll wrappers stuffed with pepperoni, mozzarella, and pizza seasonings, which are then fried. They’re like Totino’s Pizza Rolls, except they’re good and classy and large (about the size of a rolled-up fist, assuming you have smallto medium-sized hands). They come with a cup of the pizzeria’s house marinara, which is delightfully chunky and something you might not notice if you stuck just to the pizza.

(Side note: Have you ever noticed that the egg rolls you get in Asian restaurants across America don’t really showcase the egg as an ingredient, assuming they contain egg at all? They should be called “cabbage rolls.” From a language standpoint, an “egg roll” should be something akin to a breakfast burrito.)

The egg rolls were great and pizzalicious, but also quite filling. They’re mostly a melted glob of mozzarella. This isn’t a complaint — just an observation about their supreme cheesiness.

We followed the appetizer with Eepa’s Ranchero Pizza, which includes red sauce, mozzarella, pepperoni, Canadian bacon, ground beef, red onion, fresh jalapeños, and green chilies. For once, it wasn’t the green chiles that attracted us to it — we were really feeling meat and jalapeño-y that day.

The pizza felt very authentic as a wood-fired pie, with the characteristic thin layer of char on the crust. The ingredients tasted fresh, especially the plant-based ones, and the red sauce really stands out once you cut through the melted cheese. Despite ordering one of the pizzas with the most toppings, the flavor profile wasn’t terribly complicated. Rather, there was a beauty to its simplicity: dough, sauce, cheese, meats, and plants, with some spices thrown in there for good measure.

We’ll definitely be back. The pizzeria is in the middle of a transition phase and there’s no indoor seating, but the patio is open. And, naturally, you can get the pizza to go.

—— Nick Gonzales

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Maybe don’t watch scary movies after dosing with Wyld Gummies, but definitely dose with Wyld Gummies any other time It is my personal belief that you should always trust your friendly neighborhood budtender when you’re visiting a dispensary. Chances are, they’ve tried most of the products, are on top of all the new stuff coming, and are familiar with the classics. After all, who’s a bigger stoner than a budtender?

Anywho. After making a weed run to Prohibition Herb, I realized how right I was because thanks to my budtender, I got my hands on some Wyld products.

In case you’re unfamiliar with Wyld, let me give you a quick summary. Founded in 2015, Wyld is a Portland, Ore. based company and makes the nation’s top-selling edibles, according to Forbes.

The company sells cannabis products in Colorado, California, Nevada, and Oregon. Wyld sells CBD gummies and seltzer in all 50 states. To give you an idea of how profitable this company is, Wyld expects to make $65 million in revenue this year (an increase from $25 million in 2019) and they’re projected to make $130 million in revenue by 2021.

That’s a whopping 420% (yes, that’s the number!) increase just since 2019.

member entirely because most of it was a blur, but I vaguely remember eating an entire bag of chips. There’s no such thing as being full when you have the munchies like that.

“We’re in a good position— just hold our beers while we figure out how to get bigger,” CEO and founder Aaron Morris told Forbes.

Some of their most popular products are their gummies. Wyld gummies come in six flavors: raspberry (sativa), huckleberry (hybrid), marionberry (indica), peach (2:1, CBD:THC), pomegranate (1:1), and strawberry (20:1). I got me some huckleberry because, well, I’m a sucker for all things huckleberry. After all, how often do you find huckleberry edibles?

Huckleberry Hybrid, as it’s called, is made with real fruit and a “balanced hybrid terpene profile,” according to Wyld, that is meant to create a sense of cheer. As someone who is committed to cynicism, let’s say I could use a little more cheer in my life.

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You can tell these are some top-notch edibles made with love for stoners.

I was so excited to try these new edibles, I decided I couldn’t wait another day and that I should share them with friends. As you all know, there’s really not much to do with COVID-19 still raging, so, when I say I’m sharing them with friends, it means we all take one then watch a movie on the couch. Which is what we did.

Two things I noticed: Wyld huckleberry gummies will throw you into laughing fits and will literally leave you high and dry with the munchies. And I mean DRY. That cottonmouth was no joke. I can’t re-

We ended up watching “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark,” as we all grew up reading the books and are still haunted by them decades later. Thanks to the movie and the edibles, we’re even more scared. The gummies made every creepy detail that much more heinous. I personally will never recover from the Jangly Man or the Pale Lady. In fact, I still can’t decide which is worse. The great part about the edibles though was that in between the moments of terror, we were laughing our stoned asses off.

There’s a reason Wyld products are flying off the shelves. They’re delicious and an effective way to get high. It doesn’t hurt that the art and packaging are gorgeous either. Is there any coming back from Wyld gummies? Probably not.

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How do we fix medical cannabis?

Weed is legal in Colorado, but issues linger, especially for medical users

By Nick Gonzales DGO STAFF WRITER

These days, when the legal status of weed makes the news, especially in Colorado, it tends to be in reference to recreational usage. This bias makes sense to a certain extent — the market for recreational marijuana is larger than the market for medical marijuana. And when medical cards and prescriptions were no longer required to legally access cannabis, would-be users without medical conditions lost interest in its availability as a medicine.

But paradoxically, as access to recreational marijuana improves, access to medical marijuana gets worse. Now that it’s out of the limelight, medical weed takes a back seat to recreational when it comes to things such as, say, making sure people have access to it during a pandemic. This can be a major problem. After all, in this context, we’re talking about medicine.

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What makes medical marijuana different?

It sounds like a question with an obvious answer, but it’s worth explaining why the cannabis industry is divided into two sides. For the most part, medical and recreational cannabis are the same (though some products, such as edibles, are allowed to have a higher THC potency when they’re produced for medical reasons, as this allows patients to treat their medical issues more effectively). It’s the rules surrounding the sale of medical-use vs. recreational-use cannabis that differentiate them.

The three big rules that separate the sale of recreational from medical cannabis are the age at which it can be consumed, the quantity of it people can purchase, and the taxes charged on it (or lack thereof), said Tom Newell, a family nurse practitioner at Family Health Care, one of the very few medical practices in the Durango area that provide Medical Marijuana Card services.

Much like alcohol, you have to be 21 years old to buy weed for recreational purposes in all states where it’s legal. If they suffer from an approved medical condition, though, 18- to 20-year-olds can purchase cannabis products from a medical dispensary. If two physicians sign off on it being absolutely necessary, patients even younger than 18 can get access to it.

In Colorado, a recreational customer can possess an ounce of marijuana at a time, while a medical customer can have twice that amount. Similarly, a recreational user can grow up to six of their own plants at a time, while medical users can potentially grow twice as many.

And while recreational users have to pay some hefty taxes on their

weed, at medical dispensaries, cannabis is tax-exempt, saving medical users a significant amount of money.

what ails you. Anecdotally, he said that most of his patients with medical cards don’t smoke cannabis, opting to use edibles instead.

The process of getting a medical marijuana card in Colorado is not terribly complicated. You have to prove that you’re a resident of the state and you have to meet with a physician to discuss your qualifying medical condition (the legislature has approved a limited list of conditions that qualify). Newell said that most of his patients seek out cannabis as a treatment for chronic pain. If the physician determines that you’re eligible, they’ll upload your information to the Colorado Medical Marijuana Registry and print out forms for you to complete and submit by mail — or you can complete and submit the forms online instead. You then pay a $25 fee and either receive a card in the mail or download a digital copy so you can show it electronically.

What’s the problem?

Physicians don’t typically recommend what kind or form of cannabis to use, Newell said.

Instead, budtenders at a medical dispensary will be able to recommend products to treat

As recreational marijuana became legal in Colorado, it took over the majority of the industry — to the point where most companies have no interest in opening a medical dispensary.

“Medical is about 10% of the market and recreational is 90% of the market,” said Martha Montemayor, director of Cannabis Clinicians Colorado, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting people who work with cannabis patients, and founder of Healthy Choices Unlimited, a group of clinics. “From a business standpoint, if

you own a rec dispensary, why would you get a second license for tens of thousands of dollars, a second grow for tens of thousands of dollars. You shouldn’t have to have a separate joint rolling machine that’s not allowed to move in between med and rec. ... You have to have a whole separate system for 10% of your business. And that’s why we see the number of medical dispensaries reducing.”

The profit to be made in the recreational sector and the expense of opening a complete, secondary side of the business have left many Colorado counties, such as Archuleta and Gunnison, with no medical dispensaries whatsoever. Some recreational

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dispensaries try to compensate for the absence of medical ones. For instance, Pagosa Springs’ Good Earth Meds, a recreational-only dispensary that began in 2009 as a medical one, advertises a discount for customers who have Colorado medical marijuana cards. But this doesn’t change the amount the business can sell to someone or the fact that a 20-year-old cannot shop there.

There’s a danger, Montemayor said, when people assume that medical patients can just go shop at a recreational dispensary.

“That thirty to fifty percent in taxes is brutal for a lot of our patients who are low income, because they have chronic debilitating conditions,” she said. “Many of our patients use edibles to control their conditions — literally, about fifty percent of our patients find an edible at bedtime is both a sleep aid, number one, and number two, it helps reduce inflammation from the inside out and better sleep and less inflammation means less pain the next day. Number three, (it also) helps them maintain better the next day without having a lot of other medicines because of the long term effects. So being limited to one hundred milligrams on an edible in a rec store is not enough for a lot of our patients. The same twenty-five dollar candy bar at a rec store that’s only one hundred milligrams might be three hundred, five hundred, or a thousand milligrams at a med store, which means they can break it

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up and have it last.”

When medical patients can’t shop for what they need, can’t afford recreational taxes, or simply can’t shop at all — Montemayor points out that cannabis patients under 21 years old at Western Colorado University in Gunnison have nowhere to go nearby (and almost certainly can’t grow it in their dorms) — tend to travel however far they need in order to find a medical dispensary. In addition to limiting access and putting an extra burden on people seeking medical treatment, this proves especially problematic during a pandemic, when people are supposed to be limiting the amount that they travel to slow the spread of the virus.

In response to some of the immediate problems facing Colorado’s medical marijuana industry during the COVID-19 pandemic, Cannabis Clinicians Colorado has drafted a bill that aims to protect patients. It seeks to allow medical marijuana evaluations via remote means (such as telemedicine); let patients age 18 and older purchase cannabis from recreational dispensaries without the burden of taxes and at medical potencies and quantities; and let medical marijuana patients without internet access purchase cannabis with new or renewal application paperwork and proof of mailing for up to 90 days. This would allow a medical patient to treat the closest dispensary to them

as a medical one, regardless of whether it was licensed as such or not.

Montemayor said the organization is currently in the middle of a drive to get people to sign a petition so the bill can get a sponsor within the Colorado legislature.

Recent successes and lingering issues The status of medical marijuana in Colorado is not all gloom and doom. In 2019, the state passed two laws that widened what weed could be used to treat. One, HB19-1028, added autism to the list of conditions. The other, SB19013, made it so that physicians can prescribe cannabis for any condition for which they could otherwise prescribe an opioid. This was added as a way to fight the country’s opiate addiction epidemic by creating increased access to alternative treatments for pain.

“The way the law was written previously was that the severe pain had to be chronic,” said Montemayor. “So if you had your wisdom teeth pulled last week, we couldn’t prescribe medical marijuana for it — we would have to wait a month so you got dry sockets or infection or something like that, and then ‘Okay, now it’s chronic pain. Now we can write for it.’ ... Instead, we can start using cannabis right away. That’s actually been huge.”

Newell agrees with Montemayor.

“When I started ... I thought it was just people who wanted to smoke pot and get a discount on doing it — I was wrong,” he said.

“We’ve probably done about 200 or so cards, and I am amazed how many people tell me they’re off their chronic meds, their opiates, their fentanyl patches.

It’s amazing how many elderly you see, sixty- to seventy-year-olds, who say, ‘I’ve been on chronic meds my whole life, back pain, neck pain, etc., and I’m now off all my medications.’”

For medical marijuana advocates like Montemayor, though, Colorado’s laws still have a long way to go to reach a state of fairness, and some of its problems have been around since weed was first legalized.

A persistent problem, she said, is that when the state legalized medical and recreational marijuana, it never made corresponding changes to the Colorado Controlled Substances Act. This isn’t a big deal if you buy

weed recreationally, but the process of becoming a medical marijuana patient lands you on the medical marijuana registry. In theory, a list like that should be private and protected by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. The Controlled Substances Act, however, enables any government agency to access the registry and check to see if you’re on it. They can then use this information against you.

“We have patients who are military veterans who are now unable to own a gun or can’t renew their concealed carry permit because the Colorado Bureau of Investigation uses that controlled substance loophole to see if they’re on the medical marijuana registry. If they are recreational users smoking every day, no problem. But if they’re actually treating a chronic condition, with a doctor helping them, then all of a sudden they can’t,” she said.

Likewise, courts can see when a parent is on the registry and use that information to justify granting custodial rights of their children to the other parent — simply for seeking a legal medical treatment.

Speaking of doctors, another outdated remnant of Colorado’s laws is the fact that any adult over the age of 21 can use marijuana recreationally — except for a doctor or a nurse. Because it would violate the Controlled Substances Act, doing so would also violate the Medical Practices Act and the Nursing Practices Act, Montemayor said. In other words, a physician can recommend cannabis as a treatment for their patients’ arthritis, but they can’t try it for their own arthritis, thus gaining firsthand experience that would inform the advice they would give to patients.

Needless to say, Cannabis Clinicians Colorado also seeks to change the language of the Controlled Substances Act in the near future.

Cannabis, she said, “is separately and well regulated outside of the Controlled Substances Act. There’s no reason for it to be there anymore. It’s kind of an oversight that wasn’t removed when we regulated it separately.”

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[weed]

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Accept my fate. Lay there until the sun Details Where to find 1906 Midnight comes up and then inexplicably fall asleep AFTER the sun is up, making me Dark Chocolate for Sleep: Prohibition Herb, 1185 Camino del Rio, prohibilate for work. tionherb.com It sucks. Insomnia freaking sucks.

I popped one in my mouth one night I’ve dealt with this issue for almost as when I was having trouble sleeping long as I can remember. Weed usually (probably due to the copious amount takes care of the issues these days, but of energy drinks I consume) and I didn’t what it takes to fall asleep isn’t always gag. Was it milk chocolate? No. But it what it takes to keep me asleep. In other tasted fine. words, I can smoke to my heart’s conThere was no weed-y aftertaste, eitent and pass out. But if it’s not the right ther. It was all just bitter, slightly sweet dose or strength, there are days when dark chocolate. I honestly wouldn’t have my brain does that same old song and believed it had weed in it if I hadn’t takdance again a few hours later. en it out of the sealed box myself.

That usually leaves me with two And, to be fair, if you’re a dark chocchoices: smoke more at 4 a.m. with the olate lover, you’ll probably love these. risk that it will cause me to oversleep 1906 does a bang-up job of creating edior just flop around and deal with it. I bles. They use a bunch of fancy, high-end generally just take the latter — I’m too ingredients to create their products, and much of a workaholic to risk missing they’re fast-acting, too. These particular work from being stoned. But I will tell edibles kick in, on average, in about 15 you that it’s tempting as hell to do the minutes. So it’s not their fault I don’t like former. dark chocolate.

Well, it was tempting as hell, anyway.

This particular chocolate, Midnight, is Now that I’ve discovered these 1906 one of the company’s best sellers for a Midnight chocolates, which are artisereason. These chocolates contain 5 mg nal dark chocolate edibles that help of CBD and THC in each chocolate, and you sleep, that old song and dance has gone by the wayside. I sleep like a damn they also include another key ingredient, corydalis, which has been used for champ. millennia due to its sedative properties.

I’m going to be honest with you here.

In other words, it’ll knock your ass out.

I only tried these chocolates because And knock my ass out it did. They they were recommended by the budaren’t joking when they say these tender. I’ve tried other 1906 products chocolates should be consumed RIGHT and liked them, but not the dark chocbefore you go to bed. I took one and olate. I wouldn’t have picked them up went from wide-freaking-awake to dead otherwise. to the world in what felt like a matter Why, you ask? Because I’m a big ass baby and I hate dark chocolate. I’ll suffer of minutes. I don’t remember closing through it if it’s in, like, a cake with other my eyes. I don’t recall laying down. I don’t even remember getting in bed. I sweeter chocolate, but on its own? Hell no. Most of it is bitter and gross to me. I just remember lowkey griping to myself about dark chocolate and then waking would not buy it willingly. up the next morning, confused at how I Anyway, I agreed to try these 1906 slept that long.

Chocolates despite the fact that I dislike Is that a win? That’s a freaking win. dark chocolate, and it was one of the No more bouncing songs in my head. best decisions I’ve ever been nicely No more flipping or flopping. Just pure, talked into making. They are a frigging unadulterated sleep. I guess dark chocolifesaver. late is a small price to pay for that.

They also taste pretty good, too. Or better than I was expecting, anyway.

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—— DGO Pufnstuf

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Truck Stop #7 is a Mack Truck to the brain that I did not see coming

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And there it was. An immediate anvil to the head. I felt like my brain was full of helium instead of that grey matter that dictates what I say and do, and it only got more evident with every hit.

One hit, giant helium head. Two hits? I choked, and choked, and then choked some more. When I could finally catch my breath, my head felt like a hot air balloon.

I didn’t stop there, though. I just kept smoking and choking and then smoking

So, the moral of this story is that if you’re going to smoke Truck Stop #7, smoke it AFTER you turn on a show and put the grinder away. Otherwise, you’re going to end up covered in weed and stuck watching a show you can’t understand. Still worth it, though — even if I have to pick bits of weed out of the cushions for the next week.

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I decided to smoke this strain out of a Pax, so I had to grind up the buds to get it to the right consistency. The buds were cured well and ground easily, so nothing was out of the ordinary there either. Once I had enough plant matter to shove into the Pax, I tossed it in and took a hit.

And then I decided if I couldn’t watch TV I would just smoke more instead.

Seemed rational at the time. In a bid to do that, I reached toward the arm of the couch to retrieve my grinder and scoop out the rest of the weed. As you can probably guess, my damn arms went all floppy and I ended up dumping weed all over instead. Such a fail. So rather than smoke or watch French “Unsolved Mysteries,” I opted to pass the hell out instead.

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It got so bad that I just switched over I hadn’t tried Truck Stop #7 before, to Netflix, content to deal with the but it looked pretty unassuming when couch-lock I knew was coming. But at I opened the container to check it out. that point, I was too far gone to actually Nothing seemed out of the ordinary, re- function, and just ended up accidenally — the indica hybrid’s tight, compact tally turning on “Unsolved Mysteries” nugs and inoffensive, slightly weedy in freaking French instead. (I shit you scent seemed pretty status quo. It was not. I even texted a video to our old just bright orange hair and deep green pot writer, Blaze Ridcully, to see if they nugs. could help.)

But friends. This strain’s effects were I couldn’t fix it either. The wires in anything but status quo. I don’t know my brain were so, uh, high, I guess, that how Truck Stop #7 isn’t a constant topic I couldn’t do anything to get the stupid of conversation on ye old interwebs, show out of French and into English, cause while it may look like a big ol’ the language in which I know more than container of nothin’, it is a unique one four words total. I just sat there conindeed. fused instead.

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In this case, I just spilled freaking ground up weed everywhere, making a mess and depriving me of another bowl of Truck Stop #7. But it could have been worse, friends. Think about it. The kief trap could have dumped out too. I would have cried real tears if that had happened.

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Don’t leave your open weed grinder on the arm of the couch if you’re going to smoke Truck Stop #7 from The Green House Durango. I learned this little lesson last weekend when I was smoking said strain for this review.

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What are the weirdest weed laws in legal states? Here are a few standouts As the first place to legalize recreational weed, you would think Colorado would have some of the more unusual laws surrounding its sale. After all, the first time you do something, you usually screw up a few things and then learn from your mistakes. But it turns out that we’re definitely not the weirdest.

Here are a few of the strangest laws surrounding cannabis in the rest of the U.S. of A.: Nevada The Silver State actually has guidelines on the fonts you can use in logos, signs, and advertisements to market cannabis. It specifies that you shouldn’t use more than two fonts (or more than three colors) in a design, and it prefers “clean fonts,” i.e. ones that are sans serif — you know, the ones with extra dangly bits on the letters.

So you’re more than welcome to advertise your weed with ugly, ungainly Comic Sans, but you’ll be run out of Reno if you go with Times New Roman instead. Why is Courier verboten while Helvetica and Arial are not? We don’t know, but next time you’re in Vegas, you should write “Buy marijuana here” and From page 22

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print it out in Palatino (in seven different colors, no less), stick it on a door somewhere, and see what kind of hell you unleash.

you can totally purchase beer and alcohol there — which we’re sure nobody has *ever* consumed before or while getting behind the steering wheel of a car.

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In the Puritan State, it’s illegal to advertise your marijuana on any sort of swag, including T-shirts and novelty items. If you run, say, a dispensary, you can’t put your logo on a hat or rolling papers or matches that you’d give out or sell to customers. We suppose they’re actively trying to make it as hard as possible to attract people to your shop.

Earlier in the pandemic, we remember California, like Colorado, declaring dispensaries essential businesses, allowing them to operate during the shutdown — including their delivery drivers. It turns out, though, that there are super strict laws in place limiting how they could transport weed to customers. Sure, driving is fine, as is walking if they’re close enough. But aircraft, watercraft, rail, drones, human-powered vehicles, or unmanned vehicles? Nope.

If you put an image of Boston Celtics mascot Lucky the Leprechaun smoking a blunt on a T-shirt and sell it at your shop, will you be tarred and feathered and dragged through the streets? Who knows?

Washington, D.C. Our nation’s capital specifically prohibits selling cannabis in places that sell gasoline or auto services. (*Crumples up paper with “Business idea: ‘Spliffy Lube’” written on it and angrily tosses it in wastebasket.*) Presumably, this is to keep people from getting high as they drive away from gas stations. But, like,

You can’t deliver cannabis on by bicycle, skateboard, commuter train, kayak, or drone. But you know what they either forgot to include (or maybe consciously chose not to)? Animals. As far as we can tell, it’s totally fine to deliver weed on horseback in California.

Now if you’ll excuse us, we need to look into renting some stables in San Diego.

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Take a nap in the near future or get more sleep, because you are more tired than usual. And yet, ironically, you also have energy because Mars is in your sign.

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LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22)

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) You will love yourself if you do something to make you feel better organized.

You also will be pleased with yourself if you do something to improve your health. Ideas?

Make sure you take some time to play.

Look for opportunities to express your creative talents. Enjoy sports and fun activities with kids.

CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Home and family always mean a lot to you, but right now, this is stronger than usual. Many of you are involved with a parent at this time. Enjoy cocooning at From page 22

— $43,268,565 in medical marijuana sold — Recreational and medical sales combined created $226,374,568 in revenue These numbers are up quite a bit from June - 13.8 percent to be exact - which was another record-setting month after dispensaries made nearly $199 million in revenue.

As far as 2020 goes, Colorado stoners have purchased more than $1.2 billion worth of cannabis at dispensaries. Thus, the Centennial State has collected $203 million in taxes this year so far. Keep in mind that numbers from August, our highest-grossing month usually, haven’t been reported yet. We won’t find out those numbers till later this month.

That’s not all, though. Cannabis sales did so well this year that they’re expected to blow 2019’s revenue record of $1.75 billion in annual sales out of the water (just like 2019 surpassed 2018’s sales).

This all comes in the wake of the scourge of mankind’s existence right now: COVID-19. However, as we can tell from the numbers, that didn’t stop consumers from getting their weed fix.

During the height of COVID-19 and Colorado’s stay-at-home order, dispen-

VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) It’s appropriate to be focused on money, cash flow and your earnings right now.

You need to know what’s going on. You also need to know what really matters.

LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) Make the most of this time, because people and favorable situations are at hand for you. This means “make hay while the sun shines”!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) You will get a lot done right now by working alone or behind the scenes. You might do research or you might cull what

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Friends are important to you now, which is why you will enjoy increased involvement with clubs, groups and organizations. Reach out to someone soon. Be friendly!

property, taxes, debt, inheritances or

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19)

You are clever and brave. However, you

Because others admire you now, this is your time to act! (Timing is everything.)

Do something now to go after what you want.

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you own and get rid of excess. (You’re good at this.)

saries were allowed to stay open. However, the strict stay-at-home policies forced the state and dispensaries to adjust by allowing for online order, curbside pickup, and even marijuana delivery options.

While COVID isn’t taking a dent out of marijuana sales numbers this summer, it is impacting the industry in other ways, potentially long-term.

In August, a weed vending machine debuted at Strawberry Fields in Pueblo and Starbuds in Aurora.

Could this be the future of weed sales in Colorado? Only time will tell.

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