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Smoke and Spirits Celebrating Halloween at the Smoke Shop BY J OE R EEF ER

With Halloweentime upon us, ghosts and goblins all around the world are gearing up for the annual celebration of the macabre. Between dressing up in fun costumes and making caramel apples to taking our kids trick-or-treating around the neighborhood, there’s no shortage of things to do at the end of October; but did you know that some of the earliest traditions revolved around the use of incense and other herbal blends?

Smoke Cleansing People have been setting fire to herbs for centuries. Ancient civilizations certainly enjoyed smoking various herbal blends for recreation, but many also used them as key components in rituals, traditions, and celebrations. Ancient Hindu texts, many of which are written in Sanskrit, even mention the use of incense as a healing and wellness tool. The Minoans and Mycenaeans were known for burning saffron, the ancient Romans regularly burned cinnamon at funerals, and the ancient Egyptians were known for using kyphi, a popular form of incense, as a part of their ceremonial worship. Even the Holy Bible provides an incense recipe that features a blend of frankincense, onycha, galbanum, and storax. 10

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Smudging A practice that is still very much in use today, smudging uses dried sage leaves to create a heavy smoke that smells vaguely similar to pine. With roots dating back to the sacred traditions of early Native American and First Nations tribes, sage smudging has become somewhat commercialized in recent years. Nonetheless, it’s still used in much the same manner as it always has been—to cleanse people, locations, and objects of any perceived negative energy or evil spirits. Fire Saining While it’s fairly similar, both in concept and practice, fire saining is more like a large-scale version of smudging. Instead of setting fire to small bundles or single leaves of sage, fire saining is usually achieved through seasonal bonfires—including one to mark Samhain, the historical predecessor of Halloween. Fire saining is traceable all the way back to ancient Scottish and Gaelic folk traditions, where it was used to provide blessings, protection, and purification to anything or anyone that needed it.

Autumnal Traditions History offers many examples of different cultures that use smoke as part of their autumnal traditions. A variety of herbal blends can be used in this manner, since ancient civilizations were generally limited by what was available in their region, and different herbs were often used to mark different seasonal traditions. Regional harvest festivals are often celebrated with incense. Common ingredients include sandalwood, myrrh, and any local herbs that may be available. Not only are these celebrations meant to express the community’s gratitude for a bountiful harvest, but they’re also meant to rid the land of any stagnant, leftover energy from the summer months. In some civilizations, the smoke of the incense is meant to carry prayers upward to their deities and ancestors. • Samhain: If Halloween is based on any one ancient tradition, it would be the Gaelic festival known as Samhain. Meant to bridge the gap between final harvest and winter, Samhain is still practiced today by many cultures and individuals around the world. (Traditional scents: mugwort, rosemary, sage) • Día de los Muertos: Translated in English to Day of the Dead, this Latin American celebration is a time to remember deceased friends and family members. (Traditional scents: cinnamon basil, mexican mint marigold, copal resin) • Chuseok: Although the exact date depends on the lunar calendar, this three-day celebration is generally held throughout South Korea in mid- to late-autumn. (Traditional scents: mugwort, pine, ginseng) Additional cultural celebrations during this time include India’s Diwali, Greece’s Ohi Day, Costa Rica’s Día Nacional de la Mascarada Costarricense, and many others.

Smoke in Other Settings The use of incense and scented herbs isn’t limited to smudging, fire saining, or autumnal traditions. In fact, many modern civilizations still burn incense and other herbs to honor the dead or to celebrate various events throughout the year.

Did you know that some of the earliest traditions revolved around the use of incense and other herbal blends? throughout corpse preparation, during the funeral procession, and at the funeral pyre or crematorium. While Islamic tradition does incorporate incense during the ritual washing and shrouding of the body, it is actually prohibited from funeral processions and gravesites. Celebratory Cleansing In some cases, the smoke from incense and other herbs is used as a cleanser. It can be used to cleanse the body, the soul, a certain location, or a specific object. Some cultures believe that “bathing” the target in heavy smoke can purify the soul or keep evil spirits at bay. Much like smudging and saining, this act of celebratory cleansing has remained a popular practice amongst various civilizations for thousands of years.

Using Smoke for Celebration, Remembrance, and Recreation It doesn’t matter if you want to smudge the smoke shop, burn some incense in your bedroom, or hold one last bonfire before winter, the end of October is a great time to do it— and you don’t even have to be a religious or spiritual person. Whether you want to honor a lost loved one, cleanse an area of negative energy, or just enjoy a pleasant scent, there are plenty of options available that go great with the fall vibe.

Honoring the Dead Regardless of the time of year, incense and other herbs are commonly used at various funerals and other celebrations of life. Christian and Catholic churches, for example, often use natural tree resins like frankincense and myrrh. Certain incense blends might also incorporate benzoin, storax, and even sandalwood. Incense is also a key component of Hindu funerals, where camphor, sandalwood, and other tree resins are used

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Tax Write-Offs BY M AT T WEEK S

It’s time to sell yourself on advertising. Not only does it drum up sales and increase customer retention, but it may also cost less than you think. Thanks to recent changes at the IRS, nearly every dollar your business spends toward promotion is 100% deductible from your tax base. Here’s a quick primer on what’s legal and what’s effective when it comes to adverts.

What Can I Write Off? The IRS looks on ads with kindness, but not every media buy qualifies for the three-figure percentage write-off. To understand what likely qualifies, it helps to know the basic rules. First, the simple one: If you pay for ads that advertise your business, you can deduct 100% of the costs from your taxable income. For example, if your business brings in $100,000 and spends $5,000 on advertising, it will only be taxed on $95,000. The second rule pertains to what the government calls “goodwill” advertising. That includes both event sponsorship and charitable promotions. If you want to support a local fun run, rodeo, or battle of the bands, you can write them off—provided that your logo or business name appears somewhere. The same holds true if you want to partner with an NGO or nonprofit. Things start to go wonky at the third rule. Uncle Sam wags his finger at political advertisements. Attaching your business’s name to anything that advocates for or against policies, positions, or lawmakers can’t be deducted. 20

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Fourth rule: All signs can be deducted in year one. The One Big Beautiful Bill changed depreciation rules to make virtually all signage, including permanent exterior signage, deductible. The only signs that don’t qualify are the non-advertising pieces built into your building, like exit signs and room numbers. And finally, the fifth rule: Business only. The IRS rates advertisements on a “primary purpose” scale. You can’t write off your wedding invitation even if you include a company logo because it’s primarily a wedding invite. To be deductible, an advertisement has to be most pertinent to a business. Luckily, these rules leave a lot of breathing space for savvy marketers. Print ads are highly persuasive pieces, but business cards also qualify for the deduction. Even websites qualify. Web maintenance and hosting fees have always been deductible, but the Big Beautiful Bill made website development deductible, too.

The Tricky Bits Unfortunately, not every piece of the Tax Code is as forgiving. When it comes to client relationships, entertainment, and gifts, the IRS swings a heavy hand. Food deductions have become stingier under the latest changes. While catering for employee events and companywide parties remains 100% deductible, Big Beautiful ended write-offs for office snacks and, unforgivingly, coffee. Meals with clients, vendors, business partners, and those eaten while traveling remain 50% deductible. Most of the time, that is.

If you buy food as part of a package for a game or concert, the IRS counts it as an entertainment expense, something it views as mere frivolity. Like all such expenses, those can’t shrink your tax bill. When you take a client out to the ballgame, buy the peanuts and Cracker Jack separately to qualify for the 50% write-off. Vehicle wraps are another odd case. Plastering your logo on a company car is 100% deductible. However, if you wrap the car you use for grocery runs or visiting family, you can only deduct a portion of it. For example, if the car is used 80% for business and 20% for personal reasons, you can deduct 80% of the wrap cost. One more caveat: the wrap itself must be primarily business-related. Simply changing the color and slapping on a business name in small font won’t qualify. The IRS also limits the amount that can be deducted as gifts. Swag items that cost less than $4 per unit, such as storebranded pens, mugs, and keychains, can be fully written off. However, more substantial gifts to clients, like a fruit basket around the holidays or T-shirts, are only deductible up to $25 per customer. Recruiting ads can be fully deducted. However, they qualify as a hiring expense rather than an advertising expense, so be sure to file correctly if you want the discount.

Why Advertise at All? A certain species of small business owner bemoans advertising. They believe stores that pull in steady customers will stay afloat by inertia alone. Many go further, believing that advertising doesn’t work. But that’s ridiculous. American businesses spent more than $550 billion on advertising last year, and they’re not suckers. Madison Avenue pays cognitive scientists big money to unlock the most elegant ways to manipulate human behavior. Today’s ad men possess a sophisticated understanding of what drives buying behavior. What they’ve found is worth knowing. Advertising doesn’t work as Don Draper wishes. While ads typically showcase practical information, their true purpose is to prey on emotions. The most effective ad is the one that runs in the background of your mind. The biggest return on advertising doesn’t come from a single ad, but persistent campaigns. Researchers call it the “mere exposure” effect. It’s why Coke and Pepsi pony up millions for 30 seconds of Super Bowl airtime. Once those brands fall out of your head, it takes a lot of effort to get back in.

Advertising doesn’t work as Don Draper wishes. While ads typically showcase practical information, their true purpose is to prey on emotions.

Advertising Write-Offs at a Glance What’s 100% Deductible: Print Ads Website Maintenance and Hosting fees Business Cards Event Sponsorships Billboards Online Ads Product Packaging Design Costs Display Racks Samples to Give Away* Radio and TV Ads Vehicle Wraps* Web Development* Hiring Notices/Staff Recruiting Ads* Raffle Prizes Charitable Advertising* What Isn’t: Personal Ads Political Lobbying/Issue Awareness Campaigns Large gifts Entertainment expenses *Some restrictions apply; see full article for details

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Selling in a ConstantlyChanging Regulatory Landscape BY K ARE N MAI NA There's a version of this article that starts with something like, "Regulations are changing, and shop owners need to stay informed.’’ However, every business owner already knows that. You knew it before the ink dried on last year's rules, and you'll know it again the next time a city council or a state legislature makes a ruling that causes chaos for your product mix. So let's instead spend this time asking ourselves, how do you build a business that can survive a landscape in a constant state of flux?

The Only Constant is Change First things first, they say the only constant is change, or regulatory rewrites, in this case. Every category in retail, and most particularly smoke shop retail, from vapes and nicotine to hempderived cannabinoids, has spent the last several years being contorted into different shapes. We have seen new age-verification standards, local retail moratoriums, and flavor restrictions. And now, there is the fast-approaching November deadline that sets a Total THC standard. The majority are checking their shelves and their supplier contracts with dread. While regulatory risk has always been a part of society, the recent pace is only equivalent to the flash; it burns up your capacity to keep up, really fast. 26

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Products used to have years to mature before regulators caught up; that is no longer the case. History shows tobacco control policy tends to lag behind the industry, which means new products can be sold for years before rules catch up to them, but then, when the rules start to be established, they land fast. We seem to be in a landing season.

Don’t Build Your Business Around One Category It is a smart strategy to ensure that no single regulation could take your whole business down with it. Researchers surveying shop owners and managers across several U.S. cities found that when the industry got hit with tightening e-cigarette rules, nearly three-quarters of them had already added CBD products to their shelves. A majority said those products would keep growing as a share of their business. As businesses wait for the looming ban and you face the restocking conundrum, ask yourself: if your best-selling category disappeared tomorrow, would your shop survive the quarter?

If the answer makes you wince, it's time to diversify. Luckily, there are so many new categories to add to your shelves. Wellness and functional products, glass and accessories, apparel, storage and cleaning lines, and novelty and gifting are all safe bets.

Make Compliance and Customer Experience One and the Same When you say the word compliance, most of us think of paperwork behind the register. We see licenses, age-verification logs, and supplier documentation. Customers never see any of that. What they see is how your staff answers their questions. They look at how you organize your displays and whether the person ringing them up actually checks ID. When local enforcement is strict, including heavy fines and impromptu inspections, shop staff tend to take the day-to-day rules seriously. However, as the owner, you should enforce this with or without law enforcement. A shop that runs a tight ship with clean records, confident staff, and ID checks reads as trustworthy, and trust is a currency in this industry.

Training, Training and Some More Training We should make this an anthem. Quarterly staff meetings can't keep pace with the current regulatory environment. In fact, roughly 40% of the owners and managers don't know, or got wrong, whether state and local age-verification and flavor rules were even in effect before federal versions came into effect. It is often more efficient to have frequent training, for example, five minutes at the start of a shift. It should be simple and easy to keep consistent. Use the time to discuss what has changed during the week, product information, and how to sell, and any questions staff received and were not sure how to answer. This turns compliance into muscle memory instead of a binder nobody opens until an inspector asks for it.

Push Compliance Upstream, to Your Suppliers The products causing the most regulatory headaches right now have unclear documentation, murky lab testing, and mislabelling. It is important to have a conversation with suppliers and ensure you cover any possible vulnerabilities. A supplier who can't produce a current lab report or a straight answer about ingredients is actively transferring their risk onto your shelf.

Make Compliance a Habit Set aside one hour a month to walk the inventory, check that supplier documentation is current, and confirm your labels, your website, and your point-of-sale system all say the same thing about what you're selling and to whom. This hour will save you time and money when the inspector finally comes through your doors. In addition, intentionally build a shop that can pivot in weeks. Rather than filling your shelves with one product line, start with smaller orders and see what your customers actually want. Keep your store layout flexible so you can adapt quickly as trends and regulations change, and build relationships with multiple suppliers, so you're not left scrambling if one product line disappears. Lastly, keep a little cash in reserve. You never know when you'll need to refresh your inventory on short notice. O CTO BER 20 26

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women in cannabis Charlea Estes-JOnes

BY EMILY LONG For Charlea Estes-Jones, cannabis is more than just a day job. In fact, she credits the plant with saving her life. Charlea came into the cannabis space as a journalist, covering Missouri’s fascinating cannabis landscape as it rapidly evolved. While reporting on the state’s medical marijuana vote, Charlea got to know a local physician who was equally passionate about legalizing medical use in the state. When the vote passed by a landslide (65.5%) in November 2018, the two of them quickly got to work, obtaining a license in the highly competitive state lottery and building Cassville Dispensary from the ground up, one of the state’s first medical dispensaries. However, Charlea’s personal relationship with cannabis started much earlier. When she was a teenager, her dad was diagnosed with colon cancer and given six months to live, but with the help of some friends who kept him well-supplied with marijuana, he lived for another three and a half years. “Even his oncologist back then acknowledged that the reason why my dad lived as long as he did was because of how much marijuana he consumed,” she says. Then, Charlea started to get sick. For years, doctors dismissed her and her symptoms. “I got diagnosed very frequently as just being an anxious and depressed woman,” she says. When she began to lose weight rapidly, lost her ability to swallow, and was passing out multiple times a day,

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a doctor finally took her seriously and ordered a brain scan. Nine years after the onset of her symptoms, Charlea was diagnosed with a Chiari Type 1 malformation, a condition in which a smaller-than-usual skull compresses the brain stem, forcing it into the spinal canal and causing all sorts of issues. (Unfortunately, Charlea’s story is not unique—a 2019 study found that it took women an average of four years longer than their male counterparts to receive the same diagnoses.) To further complicate Charlea’s situation, her specific genetic and neurological disorders prevent her from metabolizing medication appropriately, meaning many traditional pharmaceutical drugs are not viable for her. Marijuana was the only thing that could control her pain and help her sleep when her symptoms intensified, and she continued to struggle to get an accurate diagnosis. Ultimately, Charlea had brain surgery in 2022—on the same day that Missouri voted to legalize recreational cannabis use (Charlea voted early absentee, of course). Even her neurosurgeon, a highly regarded professional in a major medical system, acknowledged that Charlea wouldn’t have been functional if not for her marijuana use. “Yes, this is a job for me, but it’s also a huge mission for me too,” Charlea says. “I am still in the marijuana space because it saved my life, and it gave me a lot of extra time with my dad... We went through an insane amount of tragedy, and the cannabis community took care of us.”

After two back-to-back surgeries and a successful recovery, Charlea’s time in the hospital still wasn’t over, however. In 2024, she noticed her husband’s kind and loving personality start to shift. Informed by her own challenges and diagnostic hurdles, she knew something was wrong and urged him to seek treatment. In July 2024, he was diagnosed with brain cancer and had to undergo major surgery immediately. “The cannabis industry really came together when they found out what was going on with us,” she says. As he recovered from his own brain surgery, Charlea’s husband relied heavily on full extract cannabis oil (FECO). Dispensaries throughout the state made sure he always had the FECO he needed free of charge, and one company even offered a “cannabis compassion grant” to help offset the medical expenses. Even as Cassville’s Dispensary’s ownership has changed, they’ve remained incredibly supportive too. Of course, Charlea has encountered challenges in the cannabis industry, but she’s experienced significantly less sexism here than she did as an editor. Like many other women, she came to cannabis for medical reasons, and that Continued on pg. 32

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lens continues to inform her work daily. “Women are looked at differently in the cannabis space because we take care of people,” she says. “We’re not just thinking about ourselves; we’re thinking about everyone around us.” For Charlea, that altruistic orientation is a huge asset in her work. She’s also found a lot of acceptance among other professionals. “People are really good at what they do,” she says of her comrades in cannabis. “They’re also really smart and really weird. You can find a place you fit in if you really look.” For women looking to get into the cannabis industry and make a career there, Charlea recommends finding a good mentor and someone to talk to. Charlea was the original store manager at Cassville Dispensary, and after eight years, multiple brain surgeries, and lots of change, she’s still there. One of the biggest shifts came when Missouri legalized recreational use in November 2022. With just 87 days between the legislation passing and the first recreational sales, the state had the fastest rec rollout in U.S. history, largely because of dualuse conversion of established medical dispensaries, like Cassville Dispensary.

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To stay true to their medical roots, Cassville hired an extra nurse to work onsite three days a week and offer more thorough expertise to medical patients, allowing budtenders to serve a wider breadth of customers. “There’s lots of opportunity for self-exploration and learning in our shop,” Charlea says, mentioning the book corner, ongoing education resources, and her favorite interview question for new hires: “How do you learn best?” While the Missouri state average is now 5% medical marijuana customers (compared to 95% recreational), Cassville Dispensary has maintained a higher-than-average medical contingent at 13%. Charlea takes pride in that number but knows the true count is even higher. “At least half of our rec users are medical customers,” she says with a laugh. “They just might not know it yet.”

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Through the Smoking Glass How I learned about the wild world of glass, and how you can benefit from it. BY J IM M Y WOH L

I love (Green) Lucy

Pretty cool, right? A dragon’s breath of color exhaled into a nascent pipe.

When I was in college, my sophomore year roommate, who went by Bear, had a two-foot-tall bong with a name. Green Lucy was a gorgeous emerald-colored masterpiece with thick, bulbous glass at the top, comfortable for ripping huge hits. It was a celebrity on our floor of the creative arts co-op where we lived. People would come from all over the house, and sometimes from other parts of campus, just to hang with Bear and get baked from Green Lucy. Did smoking from that verdant vertical pipe feel different? It seemed like it. For me, the hue and texture of the glass had a subtle positive effect on the high. Whatever it was (placebo? a cognitive condiment?), the result felt placid, dreamy. Sure, a bong or pipe is just a delivery mechanism, but it feels like when it comes to its aesthetics, there’s something to it. Despite knowing a few people involved in glass blowing and making pipes, I never plumbed the depths of how they’re created, no less how they get colored. I still thought that glass was made by melting sand. Yup, that’s where I was. And then, all that color in the glass itself. How does the jelly get in the donut?

Fuming with creativity Ever wonder how glassmakers get all sorts of pretty colors up in there? The kind that are floating around like fruit suspended in Jell-O, or flowing like a lava stream? One way of doing it is fuming. According to Smoke Cartel (SC), “Fumed glass is created through a lampworking technique where artists vaporize precious metals, typically silver, gold, or platinum, in front of their torch flame. The metal releases fumes that travel up the flame and bind to the glass surface, creating an iridescent glass effect that's completely different from standard colored glass.”

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SC continues, explaining it’s like “spray-painting, but at a molecular level. The metal particles settle onto the glass in an ultra-thin layer, thin enough to be translucent but thick enough to interact with light. This is why these pieces are often labeled as ‘color-changing’ because the lustrous, shifting quality is the signature of genuine fumed glass. The process requires precision. Too much heat or too little metal, and the effect fails. Master the technique, and you create pipes that look different every time you pick them up.”

Making it pop with dichroic The other exciting type of glass is called dichrotic glass, which has been described as “fireworks in a pipe.” SC says it was originally made by NASA and is created by “layering ultra-thin metallic oxides onto glass in a vacuum chamber. This creates stunning, shimmering effects that shift colors depending on how light hits the surface.” I started to see how each type of glass does something very special. The fumed ones are more personal, changing over time with use. Dichrotic glass, on the other hand, is more radiant, with bold designs that pop. Simple Glass Pipe provided this handy chart to help you tell the difference between the features of fumed and dichrotic glass.

The OG in glass is Snodgrass

While there are a variety of ways to make glass, it’s become obvious to me that the most elegant choices lie in the use of fumed glass or dicrotic glass. I’d suggest not only making these products your top offerings, but also making sure you and your salespeople are educated in the differences in quality of glass. Consider even putting out screens that show videos of how these types of glass are made, distinguishing them from other, less high-quality products.

In the early 1970s, Bob Snodgrass was a pioneer in creating glass for pipes and bongs. He would eventually go on to become a legend in the counterculture community, and still creates beautiful glass designs to this day. Speaking about fume pieces in Stoked, he described a particularly brilliant type of glass that captures many colors, creating a “fume fade.” Snodgrass says, “This coloring is achieved by using partitioned sections of color that reflect light differently. The silver creates bluish tones, while vehicle gold creates the orange or gold hues. Then, all of the intermediary sections, containing both silver and gold in different amounts, are what create the more green and yellow hues in glasswork. By strategically placing these different sections on a piece, the possibilities are almost, quite literally, endless.”

Promoting your premium products

Back when I was enjoying taking puffs from Green Lucy, I had no idea what could have gone into its construction. As I noted earlier, it felt good for some reason I couldn’t quite capture at the time. But isn’t that often the case with better things? I’ll never know what Green Lucy was made of, but maybe, back then, if Bear had bought it from someone who had told him why it was such a premium piece of art, it would have been part of our sesh stories. Learn the differences among glass and how they’re colored, and share these explanations with your customers so they can make the tale part of their journeys.

As I’ve been awakened to the complex and beautiful chemistry of glassmaking, I can now see how purveyors of pipes and bongs can capitalize on their construction.

Feature

Fumed Glass

Dichroic Glass

Appearance

Subtle, evolving colors

Bright, shimmering, reflective

Color Change

Deepens with use

Shifts with light angles

Materials Used

Gold, silver fuming

Metallic oxides, NASA tech

Durability

Good, but fades slightly

Excellent, long-lasting

Price Range

Affordable to mid-range

Mid-range to premium

Uniqueness

Every piece is unique

Custom-crafted, dazzling

Best For

Budget-conscious smokers

Collectors & art enthusiasts

Cleaning Impact

Can reset its look after cleaning

No impact, always stays vivid

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