HERBAGE MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2021 ISSUE 35

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I WON’T TAKE IT

BY JAMES BRIDGES

PG 8-12

LETTUCE BE SEATED

BY JAMES BRIDGES

PG 13

COSMIC REVIEW

BY KATHY LONG-BARKER

PG 14-15

FIGHTING BACK

BY MICHAEL KINNEY

PG 19 SOWING THE SEED

BY CHET TUCKER PG 22

LOTUS LETTERS

BY KATHY LONG-BARKER

PG 23

THIS INTUITION WILL BE VISUALIZED

BY JAMES BRIDGES - COVER ARTIST

Events & Contests Randi Kay Robinson Randikay@herbagemag.com

Legal Guide & Wisdom Sarah Lee Gossett Parrish slgparrish@slgparrishlaw.com

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THE FEMININE DIVINE THE NAKED GROWER

BY VERONICA CASTILLO

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EVERY VOICE COUNTS

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UNIVERSE WITH JAZ

BY JASMINE HARVEY

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RIGHT WITH IT-MR GREEN

BY JAMES BRIDGES

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UNIVERSAL CANNABIS

BY JASMINE HARVEY

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STRAIN OF THE MONTH

BY JAMES BRIDGES

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I Won’t Take It

by James Bridges Owner & Publisher

Advice. It’s something I take lightly all too often. It’s something I consider after the fact. It’s something I cannot, for the life of me, stop diverting. It’s something I laugh about when I fail. It’s something I wish for, even when I “win”.

“Your job is to observe and report. Never join.” That’s the current advice I am pondering. The one piece of advice that was given to me in regards to this “circus” we call our community.

They never took into consideration that I am like you.

I am also confused.

Have you ever been in a situation when you knew exactly what was about to be discussed? You knew the outcome. You could sense the feelings of the people involved. You understand the process and steps completely and holistically of how you all got to that point?

Did anything around you seem a little peculiar? Have you ever physically tingled from emotions so much that you cry and didn’t know why? Have you perhaps experienced an underlying relatable understanding between a group of like minded individuals that you are all “in-tune”, and actually mean it?

The ability to accomplish this multiple times daily without the use of heavy hallucinogens or mind altering drugs has led me to believe that actual true authentic life really does exist. I have absolutely ZERO personal issues with being part of that “circus”.

The fact that I would most likely be a perfect candidate for an FDA approved mind altering drug to force me to forget those emotions and observations should be criminal.

There’s power out there. An energy. One that we all know. One that we all have denied at one point or another.

We joined the circus a long time ago. The moment that our human bodies took its first breath.

Witnessing someone trying to keep oneself from considering the fact that the circus is actual life would be much more of an entertaining act. Oh the drama…

Those that deny and observe are merely not ready for what is at hand.

At times it’s strange to see someone act as “themselves”. One might even start to believe that authenticity is “fake”. It really makes you wonder who or what are these “fake” figures, and why do they keep popping up...

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Lettuce Be Seated

by James Bridges

There’s a wave that business owners and entrepreneurs recognize that we are all riding. The simple fact that one recognizes this natural wave of energy, some call flow, is extreme progress of the psychological. What’s more extreme is turning that recognition into application.

Chet Tucker is the proud owner and vision behind Lettuce Smoke Canna Co. This is the parent company to the full vertical line-up of Lettuce Smoke, the farm and grow operation, Lettuce Depot for processing and wholesale,

and last but certainly never least, The Lettuce Bar dispensary division.

“One of the biggest reasons I’m here is because of my need for a creative outlet. I also consider myself as somewhat of a freedom fighter. I think that nobody should control a plant. No one should say what we can or can’t have access to. It is our own choice.

I lost my father at 54 years old to epilepsy. If he would have had access to cannabis 15 or 16 years ago… he’d be alive today and I firmly believe that. I’ve seen it firsthand help people from epileptics to autism. It has helped people that can’t sleep. There’s a plethora of reasons why I would choose cannabis over anything. I’m not a PHARMA guy at all. That’s kind of why we started Lettuce Smoke. To go back in time before the 1920s. Back when you could choose your medicines and your oils and the things that are natural.”

While learning the application of this juice in the air some call flow, there’s a sense of connectivity in the atmosphere. Some call it luck. If you look closely you can

literally see the splashes of the tiny wakes from the vessel in which that “lucky” person is guiding. You will understand that it’s more of a navigational skill than anything remotely left up to a silly thing called “luck”.

“We were fortunate in finding this building. We’re on the edge of Choctaw. Right in Nicoma Park. The location is incredible. We are located to easily work out logistics for any kind of shipping or deliveries. We were going to use this as kind of a wholesale processing place but it just fit the theme perfectly.” Chet was excited to show us around.

I thought I heard a distant whistling from a stranger in the background. Maybe it was nothing… Dust dancing in the wind as I approach the swinging doors. Nearly noon. Something was going down. I noticed the beautiful Madame approach as I wiped the smudge from my eyes.

“This is no brothile,’’ she whispered. “This is where we begin healing.”

Crystal Hilmes, Director of operations, met Chet about a year and a half ago through Chet’s prior business with Arcadia Brands. “I started with Chet only a couple of months ago. I immediately understood his vision. We’re really trying to take it back to the late eighteen hundreds or early nineteen-hundreds when I wasn’t a bunch of cannabis laws. At that point you could choose your own medicine.”

Crystal has had the opportunity to help build on that vision. She has brought her many talents and expertise to the table. However, during the “growth”period of something special it can easily become all hands on deck.

“I learned how to run a nail gun and build a bar out. You know anything that needs done. I’m here to get it done.

We have to make sure that everything is functional and ready.” Crystal was on-point.

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It’s at this point that I learned of her passion. She was not only making sure that fires were being extinguished and holes were being plugged, she was creating a culture of trained Cannacians™.

“All of our budtenders will be fully trained and certified Cannacians™. We are concentrating efforts on true medical needs. We are able to pinpoint exactly what problems the patients are looking at. We can help them properly find medicines they need. The most important thing and the only true way is to get the patient to a better place.” I could have sworn Crystal ran to unlock the front doors from excitement.

To look at someone from a personal perspective changes things. I’ve been involved in projects that concentrate on results or money invested. The time and chips that move around for the most part have no real value other than logistics. What makes something tick is it’s heart and soul. If you can tap into that then you can nearly tap into lightning, in terms of entrepreneurial vision.

“I think I’ve just always been kind of a creative person”, Chet shares. “I dabble in photography and songwriting.

I’ve always been kind of creative. I did some Art and Design and advertising type work and I wanted to learn so I studied a little strategic communications at Penn State. I’m kind of an educational journeyman. I hopped around five or six colleges. Always learning, you know.”

“I traveled a bit too. I was in corporate America for a long time. After 15 years with the same Corp, I there was a layoff so decided just to kind of travel and dive into it.

I did some photography exhibitions in the Dallas area.

I did some modeling shoots but passion was landscape photography and just getting lost out in nature. But I do love candid photography and cities. I would take trips for work and would love to shoot cityscapes. I like to get outside and do some hiking and wandering in the wilderness too. So I did that for, I don’t know, three or four years and started running out of money. I needed to get back and take care of responsibilities.”

“I jumped back into full work mode.” Chet’s determination oozed.

The Lettuce Bar has three locations currently in the works. Cities like Nicoma Park, Noble, and Broken Bow will soon have an outlet for the Lettuce Smoke Canna Co. products.

“We decided we’re working on a couple of grows. Lettuce Smoke is the name of our grow only. Our base company is kind of the conglomerate Depot. It will actually be a wholesale processing player. We will make pre-rolls and concentrates and wash everything that we are growing. We really want to focus on being a single source and primarily work with smaller Boutique Growers and processors. We want to bring the market to them and give them a space to hopefully get it out to other communities. I think it’s about craft cannabis, the cultivators that really know what they’re doing. It’s their passion and livelihood and it’s about serving our local communities. Our goal is to be critical centerpiece; we want to be a brand that helps the local community and helps the small guy. One that keeps that good craft unique style to each of these products.”

“We’re really trying to take it back to the late eighteen hundreds or early nineteen-hundreds feeling. Back when there weren’t a bunch of cannabis laws. You can choose your own medicine. We wanted our hemp and CBD all-natural soaps and oils and salves and things like that to be for the front of the house. Instead of settling for the big industrial chemicals and all that kind of stuff we really want to go for something that’s all natural, specifically to the Cannabis culture. We really shoot for more clean and natural medicines. That’s really what we’re after. Going back in time and going back whenever you could actually get all natural homemade crafted products.”

“I think our biggest challenges have been a lot of red tape to go through. So making sure that you have all your ducks in a row when it comes to all of your paperwork, your legal work to ensure that you have everything put together. The old saying is that it always takes twice as long and twice as much that is budgeted. I believe that is pretty close to right. We were shooting for a July 1st opening and we’re about 60 days behind. Because of the delay we’ve been fortunate enough to do some extra things that otherwise may not have occurred.

What if in order to turn that recognition of the entrepreneurial wave into application you simply go back to what you love?

Chet is no longer inside the man made pressure cooker. Chet gets to play. He gets to show himself that he has proven himself to be in his space. Chet is ready to fly creatively and master what has driven him his entire career.

And so it continues…

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‘Dammit.’ My eyes narrowed at the screen as I felt the ego begin to prickle.

“NO” It wanted me to say. Alas the truth of the matter was,

by Kathy Long-Barker two years had passed and my mother and I once again found ourselves disharmonic. And eerily enough, for simRemember in school when we’d come back from summer ilar reasons as the years before. break and they would review us on what we learned last se- A wild pattern has appeared!! mester before they catapulted (hehe) us into the new stuff?

Well it turns out adulting works the same way.

The woman on the message boards could have said anything. How’d she pinpoint the biggest aggravation on my For a little context, in 2019 I was a passenger in a pretty mind? gnarly car accident that gifted me with an upper Cervical I sighed at that thought knowing why. Like me, she too was sprain, a bulged disk, and just a whole slew of issues main- the universe, a fractal of source. Everyone on the outside ly on my left side. In the midst of all that, I was steeping in is a mirror regarding what needs to be addressed on the some pretty heavy polarity tea involving my Mother. She inside, and I needed to hear this. resurrected some old wounds that I hadn’t transmuted yet.

The very next day I sat down and began a practice known Fast forward to current events. I’m a passenger once more, as ‘Ho’oponopono’ traveling at 60mph towards a museum.

Quintessentially, it all happened so fast. A glance, a gasp, Step 1: Repentance – say: I’m sorry. and then I was hit in the face by my airbag. My neck was Step 2: Request Forgiveness – say: Please forgive me. screaming along with my ears as Johnny asked me over Step 3: Gratitude – Say : Thank you. and over “Baby, Baby, are you ok?”

Step 4: Love – Say: I love you.

Later that week I kept hearing through different spiritual communities that many were experiencing ascension symptoms by way of their left side. I noticed that even though I was on the right side of the car, it was my entire left side that ached with no reprieve.

“Did I really need a car accident to tap into the collective’s ascending experience!?” I asked over the message boards saltily.

A kind woman replied “the left side is associated with divine feminine and we’re currently purging as a planet. Do you have any female figures in your life that you need to forgive?”

The accident didn’t feel as heavy. Neither did my relationship with Mom. Something even weirder...my neck loosened up a little bit and then I got a call from my chiropractor saying my entire treatment had been anonymously paid for…

The way you relate to your world is they way it will relate to you. Keep that in mind my dudes.

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Fighting Back RAKEEM WILLIS

by Michael Kinney As manager of Everything’s OK Dispensary, one of the first faces a customer sees is Rakeem Willis. Better known as Kemo, the 32-year-old stands behind the counter dressed crisp and fresh, and looking to help people find the perfect strain or edible for the right occasion.

To see Willis today, it would appear life has been treating him well and he has everything going for him.

However, Willis will tell anyone who asks that has not always been the case. More than a decade ago, he almost lost his life (twice), his ability to walk and the use of some important internal organs all because he was living a life he isn’t too proud of today.

Because of that, Willis had to endure things that most young men entering their prime never have to face and he didn’t know if he could handle those challenges.

“The biggest thing I learned is how strong. I never knew my strength,” Willis said. “I didn’t know how strong I could get. I had days where I was like, man, just go ahead and take me. I would ask God. I would literally pray, like please let this be the day. But I overcame that. I overcame some of those dark days that I had. My strength just became incredibly bigger.”

Willis grew up the son of a single mother who was constantly moving back and forth from Oklahoma to Texas.

He described his mother as a rolling stone.

As he got older, Willis found himself attracted to the streets and the parting life. By the time he was out of his teens he was drinking heavily, ‘popping’ pills and living that rock and roll lifestyle.

“I was experimenting with life,” Willis said. “I was 21 at the time and following the crowd of what everybody else was doing, trying to be cool.”

After partying in Duncan (Ok.) one summer night in 2011, Willis and a friend were heading through Lawton. Willis realized he was too inebriated to drive, so he handed the keys to the car to his friend, who also had been drinking heavily.

“We were driving, passing the east side of Lawton, and right as we were passing, boom. I just remember boom, that’s all I remember. Boom,” Willis said. “I opened my eyes, man, and I was in the grass. It was crazy. We crashed and we hit a pole, but when the car hit the pole, it shattered the windshield.”

According to Willis he flew through the windshield and landed outside the car in the grass. The next thing he knew his friend had run up to him saying they needed to get out of there.

“I’m lying in the grass. He’s like, ‘Get up, man. We gotta go. We got to go. I just crashed. I got up to try to run

away,” Willis said. I fall instantly. I just feel this sharp pain go down the bottom of my spine, down my whole spine. I just freeze up and fall back on the ground, and I’m like ‘I can’t go. I think I’m paralyzed.’”

As if he didn’t understand the gravity of what Willis told him, the driver of the car kept encouraging him to get up and run and saying they needed to get out of there.

“He just left me. He ran off and he was like, ‘I’m going to go find some help.’ That’s what he told me,” Willis said.

“And he ran off and I don’t know where he went.”

His friend never came back and to this day he has never heard from him.

Willis was laying in the middle of a back road, well after midnight and unable to get up or move. His phone was nowhere to be found. At that moment, Willis thought he was going to die.

But then a car came from around the bend, pulled up on the wreckage and spotted Willis all alone.

“She gets out the car and she came over to me, and she’s like, ‘Sweetheart, don’t move. Just lay here.’ She helped me out, laid me down flat and just told me to lay there, don’t move,” Willis said. “So, she called it. She actually

ended up saving my life. She called the ambulance. The ambulance came there, picked me up, took me to the hospital.”

Willis was told he fractured the C2 vertebra in his neck, along with a few other injuries, in the crash.

Yet, as bad as he was feeling, Willis was about to get even worse news that would have a much longer-lasting effect on him.

“Once they did the CAT scan and all that good stuff, that’s when they told me ‘Your kidneys are failing. You ever had any problems, any issues with your kidneys?’

I’m like, ‘Not that I’m aware of,’” Willis said. “So, they did some more tests on me and stuff like that, told me they were going to have to do a biopsy. So, we ended up doing a biopsy, and when the biopsy came back, they said, ‘It looks like basically, your kidneys are just failing due to high blood pressure.’ So, I guess through the car wreck and all that stuff, I lost a lot of blood, caused my blood pressure to skyrocket, and that’s just how it happened.”

At that point, Willis had no idea how long his kidneys had been in such a dire situation. What his doctors told him confused him even more.

“It bothered me for a long time because they never really gave me an underlying cause. They just said they believed that my kidneys failed due to a lot of blood loss,” Willis said. “I had two different opinions from two different doctors. One of the doctors also told me that he believed that I probably had high blood pressure over some time. Because he said usually kidney failure and things like that happen over a time period. It’s not something that happens instantly. So, I just had two different opinions on it.”

As Willis laid in the intensive care unit and later in his hospital room for two months, he didn’t know what to make of the situation. He would ask himself for a long time if the wreck ultimately saved his life because he may never have discovered his kidney problems until it was too late.

“I didn’t know what to do. So, I honestly contemplated for about a week before I made the decision that I was going to get on dialysis,” Willis said. “I was at what they call the beginning of end-stage renal failure. So, there was no coming back is how they looked at it. At that point you’re at end stage. They’re not going to come back, so you got to get on dialysis or you’re going to eventually die.”

That was enough to persuade Willis. He wanted more time to see if just changing his diet would have worked, but he didn’t want to take the chance.

However, he made that choice before he knew exactly what he would endure while doing dialysis, which is a procedure to remove waste products and excess fluid from the blood when the kidneys stop working properly. It often involves diverting blood to a machine to be cleaned.

“It’s the toughest thing I’ve ever dealt with in my life.

I don’t wish it on my worst enemy,” Willis said. “I still have dreams about it sometimes. Three days a week, six hours a day. It became real hard on me, man, because I was trying to work and I was sick, too. When you’re dealing with kidney disease, you have days where you’re just feeling real, real bad. And you can’t control it. It’s just your body’s natural reaction to trying to fight out this disease, you know. Hardest thing I ever did in my life, man. Still to this day, I’ve never faced anything more challenging.”

Willis was on dialysis for almost five years. It wasn’t until he got a call at 3 a.m. in 2015 from the hospital to inform him they found a kidney. He had been on the transplant waiting list and they finally got hold of a match for him.

The transplant took place Oct. 2. Willis readily admitted he was scared going into the surgery because he knew some people didn’t make it out alive.

But it was also a relief. After four and half years of dialysis, Willis was ready for the next chapter in his life.

That included making the necessary changes to ensure he would be around long enough to enjoy the kidney.

“When I first found out about my kidney stuff, I was still drinking. I didn’t take it seriously,” Willis said. “I just didn’t take it seriously at all. And one day my mom came in and she had a really long talk with me. That was the moment that I realized this is the decision that I got to make to change my life, to better my life, to look forward to the future and be able to overcome this disease. So I think around that time when I was 21 is really when I had an eye-opener for me.”

It took a life-altering accident for Willis to turn his life around. He has been with Everything’s OK (10717 N. May Ave) since its founding in August of 2019. The former restaurant manager sees a bright future for it and himself.

Unfortunately, his kidneys were in such bad shape, that it was going to take more than just cleaning up to save his life.

“I don’t know who I’d be today if I didn’t go through those changes in my life,” Willis said. “I was partying, drugs, you know, rock and roll. So, I don’t know who I’d be today if I didn’t have that. It really humbled me in life and made me appreciate my fingers, my toes, my eyes, everything on my body a little bit more. I don’t even drink because of how appreciative I am of my body parts now. So, oh yeah, it gave me a different strength and I’m proud of myself.”

Willis was given two wildly different options from two different doctors. The first told him he needed to change his diet. The second doctor told him he needed to get on dialysis because his kidneys were only functioning at 10 percent and dropping.

At 21 years of age, Willis had to make a life-changing decision about his health.

Yet, Willis’s journey is never too far from his thoughts.

He knows he has come a long way just to get to where he is now.

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We’ve made it through the seed to marketplace and we’re now making our way to the checkout counter to learn what methods of cannabis make work best. The different methods and products for consuming cannabis have grown wider than the rows upon Oklahoma rows of “high cotton” growing in the state. Where once the plant was smoked or seeds ground into edible mash, the mechanisms used to process cannabis have extended the layers of medicinals.

Beyond the basics of inhalation, oral/sublingual, and topical consumption methods are a myriad of cannabis accessories and products, including suppositories as well. We’ll start with the most popular way to consume the plant and move to the more isolated but no less effective ways of use.

Smoke. Smoking cannabis still remains the number one method of consumption but that’s been changing with alternative and more discreet methods of passing the puff puff. The ease and anonymity of which a vape allows has quickly amassed a consumer loyalty that only loses to the skepticism of its consistency and safety. That’s not to knock vaping cannabis, it’s simply to acknowledge the awareness brought forth by eCigs and “savory” additives that may add to taste but diminish the overall benefits of raw cannabis smoking. There’s something native to our campfire discoveries; of what smoke was pleasant and what herbs and trees over a fire were less palatable. It’s an ancient saging of the spirit and mind and though it may someday lose its peak standing, fire to the cured “herbal tree” still remains the tried and true.

So, what makes smoking the king of the mountain? And more importantly, is smoking cannabis the best method for your desired result? Those that typically avoid smoking do it for a number of good and fair reasons. First, it may not impact the user the same way an edible or topical would affect them and their desired experience. Some avoid it due to smell and the stigma associated with a good ol’ cloud while others have lungs not equipped to take on inhalation of smoke. No matter the justification for consuming a certain way, do what works best for your mental and physical health and know that it doesn’t remove you from the peace pipe circle. The magic of cannabis is that it’s so versatile due to its DNA and how it moves through our endocannabinoid system that smoking it is definitely not the only way to benefit.

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“Don’t gimme those eyebrows, just open it.” She tutted.

Dearest daring divine, What’s with the long face? Now wait, wait just a minute, maybe that’s stupefaction. Indifference? Either way it won’t do, where’s your heart smile?

I’m guessing you’re probably wondering again. Ah humans, so full of it. Wonder I mean.

Now then, let me explain.

A being can wear a smile against their skin all day long and little do many know, it’s not genuine! Sure, the corners of the mouth are upturned. One might even be skilled enough to mock a bubbly disposition. But we’re moving into the age of vibration, babes. An imposter vibe never lies, and besides, sitting in your own furshlugginer frequency is a war on self care. We’ve already established, you too are deserving of your own love. I’m not a fan of repeating myself, but by golly don’t think I won’t!

I’m going to teach you about your heart smile, or more widely known as the ‘inner smile.’ Did you know it’s impossible to be a grump when you're practicing gratitude? It’s the same when you're smiling from your heart! Why do I get the feeling you’re testing this theory? Stop it, you look like Jack Nicholson on house arrest.

I’m serious! Give it a proper go. Take a deep breath in, close your eyes and think of a memory that never fails to make you beam. If you're honestly doing it, you should be pretty vulnerable right now, reliving that private moment of joy. Good. Soak up that feeling and try and describe it to yourself. In my experience, it’s like an unconditional warmth with attachment to nothing. It’s Just being mindful within positivity. You’re thankful for that moment are you not? Well there you go, gratitude is part of the experience.

Take this base feeling, along with your awareness and place it in the area where your heart sits. Now imagine your heart has a mouth if it’s own and 1...2...3...smile. Beam it outward star child, radiate that golden gratitude to each organ until you reach the air. Then smile at the wind. Ride that gust until you meet the rain, then smile at the thunder and keep on going.

When you open your eyes you might feel like whatever was weighing you down isn’t so pivotal. Things have a way of working themselves out if only you trust them to.

Whenever you feel lonely, whenever you feel afraid, just cast your heart smile. Hey that’s kind of like a general purpose Patronus charm!

Always, the YOUniverse.

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This Intuition Will Be Visualized

By James Bridges

Holly McHughes COVER ARTIST

Too much. Those two words are very difficult for me to swallow.

Though swallowing too much has never really been an issue, perhaps thinking has.

Some odd reason other than not really comprehending where I actually was walking at the moment, I found myself in a mall. I had no idea why I let the journey of the afternoon take me to the halls of hell some call shopping malls, however I was there and I wasn’t turning back.

I recalled someone mentioning an art gallery nearby. I hurriedly walked toward the light. As I entered I realized I had been focusing so intensely on my last few projects I was possibly there for some inexplicable reason.

There was an eye looking directly at me from the canvas.

“This started as a joint project with several artists.” Holly McHughes, AKA Night_Owl_Artist, says about the cover art on this month’s Herbage Magazine. “I picked the eye color. It was interesting.”

Many artists feel the intuition of the piece they are working on.

Holly is no different.

“My work has to have some type of spiritual depth. It has to have a connection to me. Not just to my viewers. I probably stared at this eye way too long. All the other people were staring at this too. All of those other artists that worked on this painting. We all had to focus on this eye. I would walk away from the canvas but the eye didn’t go away. Like it, it just kept coming every single time I would walk away and come back.” Holly seemed reserved a bit.

I could tell her reservation came from judgment. She seemed worried that she may be judged for thinking too “openly”. It’s quite sad what society tries to do to a person’s creativity. I wanted Holly to understand there is no such thing as judgment in this space.

“So I just decided to be okay with the thought that apparently this is supposed to be. To me it’s a look at how we normally feel.

All of the crazy anxiety up in your head. We have to get rid of it.

Sometimes we can’t figure out how. So it’s really a matter of just how you feel at that moment. The focus…”

I’m very intuitive. I can’t express that enough. I think art just evolves as we stare at it. I guess that’s the best way to put it.

INSTAGRAM: @night_owl_artist FACEBOOK: @holly.mchughes

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The Feminine Divine

Raw, Real, and Bare in Oklahoma Nothing to hide behind, exposed, and real with Wendy Elena,

The Naked

Grower

by Veronica Castillo

Born in the tropical state of Florida, and raised by Panamanian born and raised parents, cannabis cultivator Wendy Elena, keeps it raw, real, and truthful about her experience with cannabis. As she travels throughout the state of Oklahoma to mentor and inspire other cultivators, she took the time to chat with Herbage Magazine, about her journey into the world of cannabis consumption and cultivation.

About Wendy’s Childhood in the South

self-sustainability, self worth, and so much more”.

Wendy’s journey in life, led her to cannabis, cannabis cultivation, and so much more: “The journey that has led me to cultivating cannabis with so many amazing growers. It has been an incredibly long and grueling path, like much others in the industry still endure daily. My navigation has led me to experience almost every aspect of the industry, small and corporate level large. Through this I’ve developed several avenues of reaching out to the community”.

In the cannabis industry, you can find Wendy leading/being involved in/with:

Dispensary consultation

CRM and POS consultations

Sharing in local marketing networks Cultivation

Cultivation consultation

Business Management Consultation

Seed to sale software (W.E.N.D.Y)

Software management consultation

A future platform for cultivation networking

Wendy describes her childhood as: “I grew up in the tropical climate of Florida! My family immigrated to The Unit- Wendy’s Favorite Strain and About: W.E.N.D.Y ed States from Panama during the late 80’s when the drug war was at its peak. My mother wanted a life with more I always ask cultivators about their favorite strain to consume and grow. Wendy said: options for my two sisters and I”.

I grew up in Florida, with Puerto Rican parents, and so I “My favorite strain is Tropicanna Cookies byOni Seed Co, wondered how Wendy learned of cannabis and what can- but I think it may originate from Bloom Seed Co.! I love to grow this and equally love to smoke it! The terpene profile nabis was described as in her household. Wendy states: is so good for the biology of my body. No matter my toler“My parents were closet stoners, they didn’t share with me ance level, or the time of day, Tropicanna Cookies hugs me at all the medicinal value of cannabis. It was rather the op- with a beautiful experience tailored by the terpenes, the posite, I was deterred from any “toxin” intake in my youth. stars of the show.”

Given the chaos my mother grew up around due to the “drug and narco violence”, to her keeping us away from ev- In regards to hardest and easiest strain to grow, Wendy erything was safer than attempting to explain the unique- provided the following insight: ness of cannabis.

“The strains haven’t been the difficulty, so much as making I never drank or smoked cannabis until adulthood, 21 to due in environments that were not ideal ! I’ve had to veg be exact. What my parents did do, rather successfully I in the tiniest spaces and flower in rooms that have were might add, is prepare me for a life as a functional pothead. shorter ceilings than you’d like., and a lot more in th 150ces All of my good habits, my process driven lifestyle, and my It is true that each strain is different, but as long as the environment and the watering is locked in, you can really “doer” mentality was derived and fed by my parents. have fun with any!

I had no idea cannabis was present or so prominent in my family’s history, including the practice of natural medicine in Panama (healing), or the fact that my parents even smoked until adulthood”.

Wendy’s Journey in Cannabis Consumption and Cultivation When Wendy started consuming cannabis at the age of 21, she found healing and said: “ I knew I had to work with cannabis. I needed the space to teach other young ladies and people in general about life, happiness, spirituality,

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Wendy’s Goals in the Cannabis Industry

“I’m sure everyone has had a naked day or two in the garWendy is on a mission to do amazing things in this indus- den. For me, the word naked means so much more than try. I asked her what her goals are: that. It means raw, real, and bare. Nothing to hide behind, exposed and real.

“The point behind all of this is very simple. Keep it local.

This level of business only seems to be conducted by large I try to fulfill all of those core values, every day in my own corporate interests. My goal has always been and will al- garden and with clients. Like I said before, there is no seways be, to empower the farmer. I travel all over the state of cret! Humans, fellow Americans, and fellow Oklahomans Oklahoma, on top of maintaining my own personal crops, need to learn to be self sustainable, that’s the naked growto help other farmers pioneer their way into this industry. ing. The real growing”.

Oklahoma has an incredible local economy, it shouldn’t be any different with cannabis.

Women in cannabis rock! I asked Wendy what it’s like being a woman cultivator in Oklahoma’s legal industry, she I dedicate my life to the plant and the farmer, giving as said: much information as I can so people can sustain their businesses on the cultivation end, and the system manage- “I try to maintain my femininity, without it being the basis ment end. There isn’t a ‘big secret’ to growing weed. As a of who I am. Like many others, I didn’t choose my meat community it’s our responsibility to take care of eachother, suit. I do the best with what I was given. So in short, it can by sharing the things we learn along the way. be difficult at times. People will try to put you in a box, label you, or disqualify you.

I want to create a sustainable network of local farmers, processors, and retail stores in Oklahoma. With this pow- Tenacity is the qualifying attribute for a female in ANY INerful network, we can survive any potential industry take- DUSTRY. I try to let the things I cannot control roll off my over with federal legalization, and keep Oklahoma’s mar- back like water, and do my best to steward what’s within ket strong!” my control well!

The Seed to Sale Software named W.E.N.D.Y

I look forward to the day that people view others as amazing individuals, and less off the basis of sex”.

The software is inspired by a lack of functionality in existing software on the market. Wendy says: As for advice for aspiring cultivators, Wendy said this: “The mission is an ease of use from grower, to key adminis- “Don’t be afraid to even begin!” trator, to ultimately reporting and data collection. Streamlining cultivation facilities has never been more accessible.

The goal of it all is to take the mystery out of growing and operating a cultivation facility, and facilitate in building the next generation of farmers!”

Wendy’s Idols, Mentors, Inspiration Wendy names a woman cultivator and her mom as her idol and muse: “Miss Rad Reefer is a huge female grower inspiration! She shares literally everything on instagram, all her knowledge and real life plant and crop practices. It’s so bold that she’s willing to give all her information away. It really shows her confidence in her own ability, and her personality to want others to rise with her in life.

My mother is my muse. She is a resilient, and incredible woman. As an American I know I could never understand what it was like in Panama from birth to age 28 for my mother, but I know the values and principles she carried with her to America made me who I am today. Without her, I would be nothing”.

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Every Voice Counts

health of the planet and its occupants is in jeopardy. Both physical and

by Charles Duncan mental. Cannabis can help heal the planet and While the cry for equality has been shouted for many years its inhabitants. Biofuel, and for many reasons, I find it highly appropriate that the Hemp based production crumbling of cannabis prohibition is taking place side by vs wood and plastics, side with the erosion of other pedjustices that have lasted Medicinal Cannabis and much too long. Social Justice and Cannabis Justice both Hemp livestock feed are have a long history of working toward the same goals; free- just a small example of dom, recognition and the elimination of ignorance that how cannabis can help helps build bigotry in the first place. fix a broken planet.

When I was in High School, I sold a lot of cannabis. Shocker, I know. Stay with me here. There is a point to this statement. I sold cannabis to cheerleaders, hoods, soc’s, greasers, jocks, nerds, dead heads, hippies, goths and those who didn’t really fit into any group. I actually got along with the last group the best. From my perspective, I found it interesting that most of the members of each clique stayed away from those not in their tribe. And when they did, it often ended in a melee of some sort. But what really made me laugh was the fact they all came to me for some herb. The love of cannabis was the one thing they all had in common.

We really are more alike than we are different.

These are strange days indeed, as the line goes. Social Media platforms are replacing reliable news sources. The

But in order for Cannabis to take the lead in this, it will need the help of many more advocates and educators. It will take people from a variety of backgrounds and belief systems. But in the end, isn’t that the point of having a civilization to begin with.

Speak about your cannabis experiences. Listen to others talk about theirs. Remember, everyone has a voice.

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Universe With Jaz

by Jasmine Harvey HERBAGE MAGAZINE

Hiya Star Shines!

I am Jasmine Harvey. Thank you all for coming along the ride of my life. My story will consist of grief, anxiety, depression, and post traumatic stress disorder.

Photo By Author As a child I was relatively happy. I was always well taken care of, and my mother is to thank for that also my aunts.

When I say relatively happy, meaning I’ve always had some form of anxiety since I could remember. I have been through quite a bit as a young child. I remember the nights when my mother and dad would have disagreements and me hiding from the noise. Which formed a sense of “on guard” mentality most of my life. I did not start seeing a therapist until I was 27 (which I am a huge advocate for.) My therapist states that a lot of my deep rooted self guard comes from my childhood which has now translated into my adulthood.

At the age of seven I lost my father to a house fire. Losing a parent at such a young age was my first experience with death and it was difficult to fully process.

I did not truly know he was gone until he was not there any longer and I caught myself missing him and being jealous of those around me that still had their father. My thoughts were that of “why and how could this happen to me? Why does he have to be gone?”. Of course these questions are not answered as a child because no one ever had the right answer or one at all.

This brings me to mental health; within the black community.

It has always been frowned upon to show weakness within the black community; you would be chastised for it even by your own peers. I so desperately needed therapy or counseling as a child. My mother just did not have the resources to provide that for me; it simply was never given or just the fear of losing your child because “the need for help” was expressed.

Could you imagine not only losing your husband but also in fear of losing your child to a system that is unfair and unjust?

That was my mother’s fear. So, no outside help has ever played a part in helping me sort out my feelings as a child. I just bucked up and carried on as did my mother.

Losing my father was merely the tip of my emotional iceberg.

During elementary and middle school I was bullied. Bullied to the point I would cry everyday and didn’t see the point of living.

Imagine a child being bullied and the thoughts they have are suicide? SUCIDE! At the age of 10.

It started to become too much. Too much for me to handle. All the bullying and the constant trying to fit in. It became worse in middle school. Losing my grandmother who I was dearly close to brought more depression and anxiety. Not only dealing with grief but also dealing with those who thought it was cool to be cruel to another. That’s when my self harm started to manifest. If I could hurt myself then when others hurt me it wouldn’t be as bad. This also started my night terrors. Dreams that feel so real and all you want is relief.

This is something that I still struggle with to this day.

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High school was my relief from the cruelty, but it still left deep scars. I over analyzed (still do) everything. I felt everyone around me was somehow upset with me. I wanted for constant reassurance while navigating my way through my teenage years.

It was rough. Rough to the point, again, became too much for me to handle. This came to be more self harm. Sitting in my room staring at a knife wanting to slit my own wrist. Make it all go away. I have attempted, half assedly, of suicide. By half-assed I mean not fully going through with it but hurting myself enough to where it warranted attention.

This is most certainly not to say to others “do this for attention”. No. This is not the way to go about it, but for some it may feel it is their only way to call for help when no one is listening. There is always another way. There is always someone there to listen. Moving along through my teenage years, that’s when I started to drink.

My suppressor.

I always had fun when I could drink, no matter where it came from or whom. It was a slippery slope. I managed to keep sliding through it.

Portrait by Isa-B Photography

When I reached 19 (by this time I was already hanging out with those who were much older than I). I met David.

David became my outlet. We clicked. We clicked so well we became more than just “hanging out”. He was battling with a lot from his previous marriage so, we both wanted a breath of fresh air. It was just that. We became each other’s rock. We were ride or die in every sense of the meaning. No relationship is perfect and there were times where I reverted back to self harm to fix the feelings I had or feelings that were had towards me in our relationship.

That was very early on when I did not know how to properly express myself.

I became better. Moving onward after being through everything with each other for six years we married. The most exceptional day I could ever ask for. At this time I still battled with depressive episodes, anxiety and night terrors but he loved me through and through as I did for him.

We were at our most high. Newlyweds, starting a family of our own, becoming financially stable. We were at such a good spot he was at his happiest and I was as well. That year of marriage was the closest we have ever been. We both love cannabis and all it’s benefits which brought us to our trip in April of 2018. We celebrated our one year wedding anniversary in Colorado. We were on cloud 9 with our love.

Then came May 16th, 2018 a part of my life that is not completely known to the public...

I woke up with a huge sense of anxiety. A sense of impending doom. David was not home from an overnight job that began after working the normal nine-to-five the same day. He kissed me goodbye the night before but was nowhere to be seen the morning after. I called and called with no answer.

widows and widowers and for those who are grieving here in Oklahoma. It is a completely unbiased peer to peer support group currently. The non-profit status will open up more doors to better help those in need. If you’d like more info please do not hesitate to reach out to me.

I eventually got a call back from him stating how busy he was. I love you and goodbyes were said. The afternoon came. I spoke to him once more. At this point he worked non stop over 24 hours. I rushed home after work to surprise him with something that I bought. He was already there.

Thank you for taking this life journey with me.

I pushed the door open and I presumed he was asleep on the couch. I soon discovered that my husband died by gunshot that day.

Events play out. A year of marriage and seven years together, now gone. All that we built... gone. I had to start from completely new. I never want to explain in detail these events that have happened so please refrain from EVER asking me, just know it’s a huge source of trauma for me.

Losing David was the rest of the iceberg, hidden in plain sight and incredibly damaging. I have now lost three very important men in my life: my dad, my grandpa, and now my husband. After my husband’s death I sat and thought how easy it’d be to use all of my prescribed drugs to end it and be with him.

From David’s death I developed ptsd. The sight of a gun in person makes me go into a panic attack. Shooting of the face or head on any form of media I have an instant panic attack. Music is a huge trigger for me as well. I’ve had panic attacks before throughout my life but now they are way more intense.

I have been prescribed Xanax, trazodone, hydroxyzine, klonopin, and antidepressants. None of those work as well as cannabis does for me. Cannabis has helped me get away from most of those drugs. I can no longer function without some type of aide.

Every time I go to sleep it’s a night terror. Every time I wake it’s pure anxiety. Cannabis helps all of that with a combination of certain medications. I have pinpointed certain terpenes that work well for different times. For example, during the day I’d need something that has the terpene Limonene and Ocimene within it for anxiety and tiredness. For a relaxing evening and to sleep I need something with Linalool and Beta-Caryophyllene in it. A terpene I avoid is Terpenoline, it makes my heart race and puts me in panic mode. I am still learning all the benefits of cannabis for myself and others through my Cannacian level 3 certification as well as being a graduate from Oaksterdam University.

I am a work in progress and I dedicate how strong and resilient I am from reaching out to a therapist after my husband’s death, my huge support system and cannabis. I am so grateful to be here today. I know there were many times that I thought I would not be.

I am in a good place now forever working on my mental well being. I now have someone by my side who supports me wholeheartedly knowing all that I have been through and makes me feel deserving of love once again even though I felt like I was not.

This journey is challenging but so worth it. Keep pushing and your path will shine brightly as the day is long.

I am starting a nonprofit called What The Widow!? for young

Reach out:

Universewithjaz@gmail.com FB & IG: @universewithjaz Donate to What The Widow!? jharveyportrait.com

Right With It

by James Bridges

Ones that clearly lack the ability to pi- Wrangle your thoughts so you are digeonhole themselves into a genre. aled in and focused.”

Trevor talked about deeper inspiration. “Until about a year or so ago, I’d never written a happy song. A lot of people say writing comes from that expression of what we otherwise in our lives can’t find a way to do. Then I realized a lot of that was because of what I had circulating in my head.”

“I grew up in a Baptist Children’s Home. My family is broken. When I was probably 13 or 14-years-old I had tons of anxiety. I didn’t know what to call it. Then I had all these things on my plate. I was at the Children’s Home.

I was vice president of the student council. I went on leadership outings.

I was always helping that family home with livestock. I was doing work at another ranch. I was an honors student in school. I was just trying to figure it out. I didn’t realize how strained I was.

That’s when I first experimented with bud.”

As I entered the dwellings of what one might call the traveling type I was “Through the whole process of writgreeted. Gratitude was in the air, even ing I’m able to see what my psyche is at 3:00 AM. I entered with a smile. doing. From there I can say, okay, well I have to choose to put out the positivI was then introduced to a few more ity. The positivity that I’m trying to see characters. Though, they are not for in myself. What seems to help is the this tale. These other individuals were mindset that I take in order to cope in a perfect environment for a psycho- and deal with the stressors of every- “I figured out quickly that the stigma logical warfare of sorts. day life. Like we all do.” that society has on weed causes people to do things unsafely. The psychology The one who greeted me at the door At that point I could imagine myself of a younger person when they start was apparently the glue. lifted. I sensed the positive outlook using bud under those stigma causes this train was headed for and I wanted the inability to release stress.”

We began a conversation. a first class ticket.

“For me, I know and I believe that I I was amazed at the symbols, letters, “I’ve been through several drug con- wouldn’t have wasted as many years and zeros floating from the top of his sultations and things. I did that be- trying to figure something out in my head as he spoke. It was intellect. A cause of a court-appointed situation. own head.” knowledge that was kind and true. A It doesn’t take long to see it was about knowledge known from experience. control and the psychology of it. Most I asked Trevor about the medicinal people twist and turn things in order values and how he interprets them.

That’s when he introduced himself as to win. It’s not necessary.”

Mr. Green, AKA Trevor Green.

“As I got older I started developing “So now that I’m able to see what my stomach issues. Severe acid reflux “Music has always been a big part of psyche is doing, I can control things and GERD. In four months I lost 40 my life. I grew up on classic rock. Si- that apply to me. On a moralistic level lbs. Every day, for about 2 months, I mon & Garfunkel, Pink Floyd, that that makes me want to be better my- couldn’t eat without getting sick. My genre. Then I got into the beginning of self.” throat is permanently scarred from it.

Hip Hop. I got a high out of learning Yes there were things in my life that something. It was like the beginning “When I started writing it was never were causing it. One of the main things of a movement. You know? So as I to get famous. I was expressing my- that I found, even as I grow older, is started listening to the rhyme scheme self. So that’s what I do now. If this that because of traumatic conditions and everything I really loved it.” helps people then I’m going to con- I’ve been in, stress is a huge cause. Bud tinue. There are still all those negative was always there to help.”

“I’ve always loved poetry. So, it kind of times in my life. I feel like I got it, but fit. That’s just something that had a lot there are still times when I write angry “Since then I’ve just learned how to of impact on me.” music. Wild-ass music that’s just like, work with it.” where I’m even thinking, wow this “I was in my teens and I listened to dude is messed up. It’s just where you “As a youth there was so much stigma grunge. A bunch of grunge. Then I got choose to let your mind go.” that it was just negative. If you imaginto Indian music. Once I got back ine you can almost understand how to into some hip hop again I performed “Nearly every day I struggle with the use cannabis you felt wrong. But for more of a spoken word thing. I slowly negative. This morning, when I woke some reason it was healthy. it’s just worked it into actual hip hop. I’m us- up, for some reason I had this itch- such a confusing thing to put in someing more of that structure.” ing feeling. Like why am I even doing one’s head.” this? What is the purpose of it? Then I Trevor’s inspiration is clearly from all think of this one thing. I’ve got enough Check out Mr. Green’s new single of his surroundings. It’s artists like affirmations. I just have to stop letting “Right With It” on Trevor that intrigue me the most. that self-doubt and that negativity in. Spotify and Youtube.

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Universal Cannabis 101 The History - continued...

by Jasmine Harvey HERBAGE MAGAZINE Who knew the Cannabis Sativa plant had such a rich history!? With this lovely lady being at the forefront for many medicinal uses and spiritual practices there is no wonder why it has remained a staple in many cultures.

According to a Chinese legend, the emperor Shen Nung, considered the Father of Chinese medicine, discovered cannabis’s healing properties during the Han dynasty. With the wide growing awareness of cannabis fast forwarding to 1563 when Hemp was highly sought after, Queen Elizabeth required everyone with more than 60 acres of land to grow Hemp.

In 1890 Queen Victoria was prescribed Cannabis by her physician to treat the pain from period cramps. Cannabis became an important crop for many due to its many uses and value. With the ever growing knowledge on Cannabis there started to be more experiments to test all the different uses for Cannabis/Hemp. In 1942 Henry Ford constructed an entire vehicle made out of hemp and soybeans that ran on a hemp-soybean mixture for fuel.

As you can see we are just scratching the surface for the many uses of the Cannabis Sativa plant. Coming up next are the complexes of the Cannabis Sativa plant.

Let’s dive deeper into the vast universe of Cannabis, until next time!

J HARVEY Portrait Studio

Strain of the Month

by James Bridges

Publisher

The sense of self confidence is within her.

As I approach the desired altar of what once may have been called love, I find myself lacking.

Adventure stirs as the thoughts of what might be. This action is far greater and more amazing than pondering what might have been. The self-assuredness awaits its lonely turn as always. Time ticks…

I think of the courage it will take to be completely and openly vulnerable.

Desire is but a fraction of the streaming emotion…

I’m looking around and I notice the extreme lack of attention to detail. This is not me. I need something. Something is missing in this puzzle and I can no longer ignore it. Locating the solution is no small task.

Trial and error quickly becomes monotonous.

I find the need to have a “lack” of self discipline growing from within as I overburden and overthink my way through the path of life. This must stop.

Eggshells do not present the Aura or texture in which I crave. However, she did when we were face-to-face. The orange that glowed was ever present and that is why this month’s strain of the month is: ORANGE KUSH MINTZ CULTIVATOR: KIND ORIGINS TERP: 2.43 THC: 25.69 DISPENSARY: NAMAH CANNABIS CO.

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