WEEKLY ZINE VOL 76

August: Smoke, Sweat, and the Slow Burn Toward Harvest

August isn’t the loud, flashy month that brags about fireworks or pumpkin spice. It’s the month that simmers, and for some reason it reminds me of the fake bacon stuff Sizzlean from my childhood It’s the dog days of summer as Boomers refer to it

The heavy air. The sweat-soaked grind where time feels like it’s stuck between the reckless freedom of summer and the structure of what’s next This is when the sun lingers just a little too long, when nights are sticky, and when the world seems to be holding its breath

For the cannabis community, August is less about the full harvest and more about the patience before the feast Plants are reaching tall, becoming resinous, swollen with potential, but the big cut doesn’t come yet. Croptober will always be the high holy month of cannabis harvests, the great reaping of green But August? August is the slow burn. It’s when cultivators and homegrowers hover over their gardens like watchful shamans, checking trichomes, feeding the soil, and praying to the weather gods that no storm, pest, or heatwave strips away the months of sweat and soul poured into their plants.

History calls August a month of empire, named for Caesar Augustus and marked by battles, revolutions, and uprisings For cannabis, it mirrors that fight: the constant battle between patience and pressure, between letting the plant finish and wanting to taste it now The battle between the tyrannical administration and the people and patients that depend on cannabis for life in more ways than you can count

We’ve been told all our lives to wait for permission, to let someone else decide when and how cannabis belongs. But August reminds us that growth doesn’t follow calendars or boardroom plans It happens in cycles that are messy, natural, unstoppable

So light one up, drink one down, smash a gummy in your piehole and celebrate the sweat, the anticipation, the stretch of summer nights that bleed into the dawn Know that while October may hold the crown of harvest, August is the heart of the journey, the humid inhale before the cool release, the smoke-thick reminder that good things come to those who wait, and better things come to those who keep growing regardless of the rules.

Dustin Hoxworth

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Photo by Paola Tello

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