April 2024 - Maryland Leaf

THE GLASS ISSUE

THE ENLIGHTENED VOICE

WES ABNEY CEO & FOUNDER wes@leafmagazines.com

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ABOUT THE COVER

Each year for The Glass Issue, we really try to go above and beyond with showcasing high-end glass art on the cover. This piece titled "Biomech-Ganesh" is a collaboration between Joe Peters and Banjo from 2017. The Maryland Leaf crew was lucky enough to sesh this pipe and more, all while capturing the expansive and impressive collection of Nik Dimitrijevic, a DMV local collector with a passion for glass. Check out our profile of him on pg. 26-27 and be sure to peep the rest of The Glass Issue covers on our site!

PHOTO BY GREG MALCOLM @MARYLAND.CONNOISSEUR DESIGN BY DANIEL BERMAN @BERMANPHOTOS

CONTRIBUTORS

ADHDDEAD, FEATURES

JOSHUA BOULET, ILLUSTRATION

AMANDA DAY, PHOTOS + FEATURES

MAX EARLY, FEATURES

MATT JACKSON, FEATURES

JESSE JOHNSON, FEATURES

REX HILSINGER, FEATURES

GREG MALCOLM, PHOTOS

TYLER ODACHOWSKI, PHOTOS

TAYLOR MARTIN, FEATURES

JESSE RAMIREZ, DESIGN

LUCAS REILLY, PHOTOS

ALEX REYNA, PHOTOS

MIKE RICKER, FEATURES

MEGHAN RIDLEY, EDITING

SCOTT SOUTHERN, PHOTOS

CARRIE STRONG, PHOTOS

TOTO PHOTOGRAPHY, PHOTOS WINDHOME, PHOTOS

KATHERINE WOLF, FEATURES

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WES ABNEY

Editor’s Note

Thanks for picking up The Glass Issue of Maryland Leaf!

Our longest consecutive issue here at Leaf Nation, we first started photographing glass in 2010 and released our first 420 Glass Issue in April of 2011. From the start as a Cannabis user, I was transfixed by glass art and how smoking weed could be accessorized or simplified depending on the piece being used. This was pre-dabs and bangers and electronic rigs, but there were still crazy bongs and pipes to be found at the local head shop … all labeled “for tobacco use only.”

Glass blowing was an underground art for decades and artists risked more than stigma for choosing to turn borosilicate into bubblers. In 2014, I interviewed Tommy Chong about Operation Pipe Dreams, a DEA task force that raided glass blowers around the country and shut down his Tommy Chong glass company. He served nine months in federal prison for his role, and those in the legacy glass game still remember hundreds of doors being kicked down from Eugene, Oregon to Pensacola, Florida. Reminiscent of a communist country banning art and expression, the government targeted glass artists as a pathway to keep Cannabis illegal – a plan that ultimately failed.

"SO MUCH OF OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE PLANT IS FACILITATED BY GLASS."

The two forces at play were seeds and creativity, neither of which can be stifled for long. Cannabis prohibition failed, and in the last 15 years glass has gone from a somewhat sketchy genre to a legitimate art form that commands prices and attention similar to mainstream works. No longer just a pipe dream, the world of glassblowing has taken a legitimate place in the world of collectibles and art, and I believe both the marketplace and the consumer demand is still in its infancy.

So much of our relationship with the plant is facilitated by glass and it’s impossible to overlook the importance of a good piece. From function to art, simple and affordable to so expensive it’s scary to dab from, glass is how we experience the plant – and how Cannabis users can express themselves through the art they purchase. The pieces in this issue are a beautiful representation of the plant and the high that it provides us, which is why we’ve celebrated glass for the last 13 years.

I hope that our selection of high art inspires you to seek out more on social media and at your local glass shop, and to invest in an American-made piece for your next purchase. By supporting the artists that get us high, we complete the circle that feeds our culture, community and plants.

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CANNABIS HELPS RELIEVE DEPRESSION SYMPTOMS

While many stoners have been studying the effects of Cannabis on depression, anxiety, sleep and pain for years, the inquisitive folks at the medical journal Pharmacopsychiatry have confirmed what we already suspected.

With at least 21 million Americans suffering from depression, it’s no surprise that big pharma has suppressed Cannabis legalization and efficacy data in pursuit of profits from pills since the beginning of the war on drugs.

“The regular use of Cannabis was found to significantly reduce the severity of users' depression and had no discernible side effects outside of dry mouth and increased appetite.”

But unlike SSRIs and other drugs prescribed for depression, Cannabis doesn’t have the pesky side effects that depression pills bring like nausea, headache, insomnia, nervousness, agitation, suicidal thoughts and sexual dysfunction. That’s how patients get stuck in a loop of pharmaceuticals – treating one symptom with another pill until there’s too many to count.

To study the effects of Cannabis, the participants selected had all failed to treat their depression with traditional pharmaceuticals and were instead given access to vaporize Cannabis flower over the course of 18 weeks. The regular use of Cannabis was found to significantly reduce the severity of users' depression and had no discernible side effects outside of dry mouth and increased appetite.

While the study organizers say more research is needed to confirm the effects of Cannabis on mental health and illness, those of us doing at home research have already concluded that Cannabis is safer than pharmaceuticals in treating depression, pain and many other ailments.

INSIDE PENNSYLVANIA’S FIGHT FOR CANNABIS FREEDOM

he Health Subcommittee on Health Care and Judiciary Support has taken up the subject of Cannabis legalization at the behest of Gov. Josh Shapiro, who has repeatedly pushed legalization from the stump and through budgetary requests. The state has a somewhat limited medical Cannabis program that initially restricted patient access to only infused pills, oils, topical ointments, tinctures or liquids. A 2018 law change allowed patients to vaporize dry flower – but it’s still illegal for patients to smoke Cannabis or grow their own medicine.

With unnecessary burdens placed on patients and the war on drugs continuing through marijuana enforcement, the Joint Committee has been tasked with creating a Cannabis legalization framework that addresses social equity, criminal records and the right to bear arms, among other more common areas like testing, possession limits and regulations for businesses.

Many states have found pathways to legalization through initiatives such as Washington’s I-502 or California’s Prop 64, which were written by private groups with varying interests and concessions that got them onto the ballot and ultimately into law.

Pennsylvania has a unique opportunity to legalize via the legislative process, in which lawmakers can potentially craft a more nuanced and developed form of legalization that is based on successful parts of other state’s experiments. With two thirds of polled state residents in favor of legalizing, it’s safe to say that anticipation is high for a new law change.

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“We’re putting people in a very vulnerable position where they have large amounts of cash. We’re encouraging criminals to break into businesses that deal in Cannabis. I am neither a user nor suggester of using, but the fact of the matter is every state that’s voted on it has made it legal, and I appreciate your work and whatever I can do to help you on there.”

-Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD), addressing Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen last month during a House Appropriations Financial Services And General Government Subcommittee hearing on the conflict between federal and state marijuana policies harming legal Cannabis businesses.

LEGALIZATION

NY GOV. DECLARES STATE'S POT PROGRAM A "DISASTER"

Although Cannabis plants are known to grow slowly, nothing prepared the consumers or industry of New York for the sluggish rollout of the legal marketplace.

Cannabis has been legal in the Empire State since 2021, when legislators passed the Marijuana Regulation & Taxation Act.

“...there are only 85 legal stores open, with over 1,000 illegal storefront competitors in the city alone.”

For citizens and tourists, the last few years have felt like legalization was open and done, thanks to the proliferation of illegal dispensaries and delivery services operating from Times Square storefronts to tables in Central Park. This explosion of illegal players has created a booming black market that is not enforced or restricted. While individuals never deserve criminal charges or time for Cannabis possession, the lax prosecution of crime in New York has given the illegal market a head start – while licenses and applications for legal businesses remain mired in bureaucratic red tape.

The New York Times recently reported that of 7,000 applications for licenses to grow, process or sell Cannabis, only 109 have been approved this year. While a total of 500 licenses have been issued since November 2022, there are only 85 legal stores open, with over 1,000 illegal storefront competitors in the city alone.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul declared the rollout a "disaster" and has pressured state officials to clean up the mess and get legal Cannabis stores open. The dichotomy between the legal and illegal markets reached a fever pitch at a Cannabis Control Board meeting last month, when the governor directed a full review of the licensing process. Whether that will speed up the system for those companies desperately awaiting a chance in the legal market is sadly something only time will tell.

MOROCCO CELEBRATES FIRST LEGAL CANNABIS HARVEST

Morocco’s recent shift towards legalization and cooperative growing has delivered huge yields –including a 2023 bumper harvest of 294 metric tons of plants grown. While recreational Cannabis is still illegal in the country, it has been grown and shared in the country for centuries. Over the last 200 years, Morocco has grown to become a large Cannabis exporter – and more recently in the ‘60s and ‘70s, became a hash-producing oasis supplying most of the hash smoked in Europe.

In an effort to protect local tribes and the livelihood of over a million people in regions that depend on Cannabis production for income, the government is working to license medical grows to supply the growing global market for legal Cannabis.

While this export of medical Cannabis and industrial hemp is good for the economy, it still leaves a gap in freedom to grow and smoke on a personal level. So don’t book a cannatourist trip yet to this North African country, but if you really desire a taste of Moroccan hash, just visit an Amsterdam coffee shop. And always remember to ask for hash with edges, not in a ball!

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AMEER TAYLOR

FROM THE NAVY TO THE MEDICAL CANNABIS WORLD, Ameer brings his discipline and expertise from life to the dispensary front lines at Columbia Care. He is extremely passionate about sharing his knowledge with the patients he serves. Sports remain a huge part of his life, where he fondly recalls going to state for swimming in high school. Dedicated folks like Ameer are part of what make this Cannabis industry in Maryland so great – continuing to break the stigma on what the life of a stoner looks like while bringing informed and positive energy to the industry is something we can all resonate with. Be sure to say hello to Ameer when swinging by Columbia Care in Chevy Chase.

WHEN DID YOU FALL IN LOVE WITH CANNABIS? Probably a little bit before high school even started. I had some family members that were already using it for medical purposes like pain. One time I caught a little contact buzz and felt relieved – I remember feeling like the stress had left my body. After that I was like, ‘All right, this seems like something that could be helpful for me going forward.’ I first started really smoking around 2015-2016 when I got out of the Navy. I had an L5 spinal injury and it was seizing up my back – I couldn’t move around as comfortably as I would’ve liked. Cannabis relieved that and it’s been smooth sailing ever since.

WHAT PAST CANNABIS INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE DO YOU HAVE?

I previously worked for Rise Bethesda for about five-and-a-half years when the industry first started. I was almost badge number 420 in the state of Maryland, but I got 421. I was hired as a supervisor and accumulated over a million dollars in sales in two to three years, while helping them increase accessory sales. For me, customer service has been my thing for forever and I love helping people. Being able to do that in a new industry in Maryland helped me hone in my skills and it was a huge opportunity that I’m forever grateful for.

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TRANSLATED TO LIFE SKILLS. The Navy was great. I went in as a hospital corpsman and then I specialized as a medical lab tech. One of my goals when I got in was to become a lab tech so I could find a cure for lupus. My ex-wife had lupus so I wanted to do something to help her. I didn’t have to go into battle or anything, but I worked with the elderly in the hospital. I gained the ability to know the importance of using certain skills in certain situations and getting things done with discipline. Anytime I come into a place or situation, I feel confident in my ability to diagnose what needs to be done.

IF YOU KNEW THE WORLD WOULD END TOMORROW, WHAT WOULD YOU DO? Family, go be with my family. I would try and gather them all up like gemstones … whether it's blood relatives or friends, it means everything to me. I stayed close with some people from the Navy that are my Navy family.

WHAT ARE SOME OF YOUR HOBBIES OUTSIDE OF WORK? I play sports like basketball and football. Also, I love to work on my business which is a Cannabis business customer service consulting firm. I spend a lot of time trying to learn about finance too, figuring out ways I can set myself up for success. I look things up online and spend time reading about dividend stocks.

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE WAY TO CONSUME CANNABIS?

FAVORITE PRODUCTS? When I was working for Rise my nickname was Dr. Dabs, and it’s even my name in the system here at Columbia Care. I previously held a concentrate class where 2030 people wanted to learn about concentrates and dabs, and streamed it on IG live. So I’m a dabber, live resins are my go-to but I always like to switch it up to smoking flower from time to time. Rythm and Evermore are my favorite companies to dab on, and Eden makes some top-notch stuff as well. For flower, probably I have to say Rythm again and SunMed.

PATIENT OF THE MONTH

jakeshriner

For Jake Shriner, a desire to learn about all things Cannabis landed him a few different jobs in the industry. The knowledge he acquired along the way is something he wants to pass on to others.

LAST YEAR, he started the YouTube channel “Weeducation” with the goal of educating Cannabis users of all levels, backed by what he’s learned in his own experience as a patient and as a budtender. “I’ve always wanted to be like, ‘Here’s a YouTube channel or a playlist of videos that you can watch and this will catch you up so you know what you want.’ And then I can point you in the right direction,” the 31-year-old explained.

Jake’s Cannabis journey began in high school after being introduced to the plant through his older brother, after which he said, “It was off to the races.”

Also suffering from anxiety, Cannabis was his go-to for “self treatment” until receiving an official diagnosis from his doctor in 2017. This led to his first medical card and ushered in an era of access to higher quality Cannabis – as well as conversations with budtenders and others in the industry who were familiar with treating anxiety with different strains.

The dispensary he visited, Mana, was big on educating their patients about terpenes. After being guided to what he needed fairly quickly, he started studying them on his own. “It kind of became my other love,” said Jake. He became a regular customer at Mana and eventually began working there after some of the staff encouraged him to apply. There, he said every day was “kind of like an open-book quiz,” as he would refer to his notes and fellow budtenders to help his own patients.

“My notes grew from when I got my card,” he said. “Instead of just a couple minutes a day picking up my stash, I was able to stand there with the other budtenders and talk for like an hour or two or even longer, because we were there all day.”

The idea for the YouTube channel also came while he was working at Mana, but with the demand of his job, he didn’t think it would be something he ever started. “You know that group of friends that are like ‘Let’s start a band!’ – and then you never actually start a band with them? I thought it would be something like that,” he said. “Then one day I was just bored and said ‘Screw it.’”

While his channel mainly consists of educational videos and product reviews, Jake said he decided he wanted to make “fun challenge” videos to mix in with his other content. He collaborated with his friends in “The Hot or Not Show” (another Maryland-based YouTube channel) to make a medicated hot sauce and host a hot wing challenge. This channel also inspired how he creates his videos, singling out the editing of the show and the use of B-roll footage.

To help stay creative and focused, Jake gravitates towards strains high in terpinolene, which he describes as “fruity and floral” and will also be the first terpene featured in a planned “Terp of the Month” video series. Jake also fills his days working as a lab technician at a Cannabis facility on the Eastern Shore. While he felt the need to branch out from selling the product, he found his new job doesn’t require much of the knowledge he learned as a budtender. “I only use any of my terpene knowledge and stuff of that nature if a coworker asks,” he said.

In addition to his current job and running his YouTube channel, Jake is also an active musician in the Maryland music scene, currently playing with singer-songwriter Pat Renny. His passion for music goes hand in hand with his passion for Cannabis.

"Tohelpstaycreative andfocused,Jake gravitatestoward strainshighin terpinolene."

“It helps me to be able to be creative when I feel like it, and helps me to not be in my head when I want to be in the moment,” he said.

To Jake, the goal for “Weeducation” is simple: for people to use it as a reference.“I want it to be something that people use to educate themselves, their friends, their family,” he said. “It’s a passion project … I did it because I wanted something like that when I was a budtender.”

Check out their YouTube youtube.com/@Weeducation_

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"AN ABSOLUTE BURST OF ENERGY TO THE MIND AND BODY – WITH THE TERPINOLENE, LIMONENE AND OCIMENE COMBO STIMULATING CREATIVITY AND GENERAL EUPHORIA THROUGHOUT THE DAY."

ALCHEMIST’S GRAPEFRUIT DIESEL LIVE RESIN SAUCE IS EXACTLY THE PIECE OF EFFERVESCENT ENERGY YOU NEED TO USHER IN A PRODUCTIVE SPRING!

The team at Alchemist is a relative newcomer to the market, but they have already earned a reputation for producing a meticulously quality product, time and time again. Their Grapefruit Diesel live resin sauce is no exception to their trend of excellence and dare I say, a step up? With a stunning 18% terpene concentration and a moderate 56% potency, this sauce really is the perfect accoutrement to any dab, blunt or bowl – bringing high energy alongside a heavy body.

At the top of the profile is the oh-so-common and heavy myrcene, closely followed by the energetic terpinolene and trailed by a limonene, ocimene, caryophyllene and pinene tail. Together, this profile is an absolute burst of energy to the mind and body – with the terpinolene, limonene and ocimene combo stimulating creativity and general euphoria throughout the day – so much so that it powers through the traditional myrcene effects to produce an energized stoniness that is nothing short of excellent.

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THCa 56.12%

Total Terps 18.79%

Myrcene 5.29%

Terpinolene 4.93%

Limonene 2.4%

Ocimene .97%

Caryophyllene .78%

Pinene .71%

Linalool .67%

Terpineol .58%

Terpinene .51%

Beyond the robust terpenes preserved by the Alchemist team, there is the fact that they made this product into a live resin sauce – making it a versatile addition to any smoking style you wish. Sauces are just that: a liquid that is generally enjoyed as an addition to another product. I find that mixing dabs with this sauce is an excellent way to bring about an energy boost to a heavy concentrate, or even dripping a bit into a blunt or a bowl can dramatically affect the potency, flavor and energetic power of your high. So stay saucy out there friends … and consider this Grapefruit Diesel live resin sauce as a great way to enhance your next sesh.

POSITIVE ENERGY

SETTING AND VIBE

The design of this store can best be described as modern with a nature-forward touch intended to transcend the current stigma surrounding Cannabis. Owner Lyndsey Odachowski recalls people often saying, “I can’t believe this is a dispensary.” They are definitely not wrong – this impressive yet comfortable store has a unique vibe that makes both patients and adult-use customers feel included. There is also a patient-only drive-thru that's accessible from Route 50, making this easier than ever for patients to stop and grab their meds in an even speedier fashion. When entering the store, reception asks if you want to order either with a budtender or on a tablet. Both options are solid, adding a level of versatility to this dispensary that everyone can appreciate.

FLOWER

You could get lost in this long flower menu, but the fact that the budtenders here have so much knowledge of the products makes the options approachable. Having this kind of variety is an amazing aspect that Lyndsey and her team are proud of. It goes to show how far the Maryland market has come since its inception, and this dispensary stays ahead of the curve procuring all the options a customer could want or need. There was a little bit of something from every grower I could think of, with as many as 10 options from a single company.

CONCENTRATES

Patients keep flocking back to this store for their tasty concentrates time and time again. To name just a few, they had Berry Pie and Blanco live resin sugars from Cookies during the time of our visit. I was also really excited and impressed to see White Durban live resin ‘Terp Jam’ on the menu from Rythm, whose concentrates we all know and love. Lastly, there was plenty of shatter, badder, cured resin, and even terp sauce droppers.

EDIBLES

Taking some edibles and sitting on the beach is truly something you need to experience if you’ve never done it. But whether you’re sitting on the beach or need a restful night’s sleep after a long day, they have an edible to meet any occasion with tons of different options including drink mixes, gummies, chocolates, baked goods and capsules, just to name a few. I felt like I was in the Candy Kitchen before I even went onto Coastal Highway.

"THERE WAS A LITTLE BIT OF SOMETHING FROM EVERY GROWER I COULD THINK OF, WITH AS MANY AS 10 OPTIONS FROM A SINGLE COMPANY."

Gold Dust is an in-house product exclusively for Positive Energy that makes use of whole flower ground right in the dispensary. This Gold Dust pack of .5 gram joints is Apples & Bananas from Curio Wellness. There is no mistaking its sugary-sweet, fruit-forward aromas that are further highlighted by a creamy gas undertone. At 4.16% terpenes and over 2% myrcene alone, this pre-roll couldn't pair better with a spring evening as the days get warmer – especially on the salty coast. 33.21%

RAYMONDBERRY

RAYMONDBERRY

“The fruitiness is an all-encompassing mixed-berry ode to its Runtz lineage.”

BERRY RUNTZ

BERRY RUNTZ

GRASSROOTS' RAYMOND BERRY RUNTZ is the mellow way to push through a second winter and float on into a gentle spring. Not only is this cultivar a stellar bouquet of berry goodness, but

it is also one of the more potent medicinal varieties available in Maryland.

Taking a look at the terpenes, Raymond Berry Runtz features a rather respectable 2.42% total terps and is quite frankly one of my favorite profiles – ever. Coming in with a slightly dominant linalool concentration, followed up by an even-tempered caryophyllene and limonene, then chased by just a dollop of myrcene, this strain truly offers the Maryland market a rare smoking experience. As all connoisseurs know, Cannabis is capable of producing a very wide array of terpene profiles, but they do tend to be found in similar groups. The linalool/caryophyllene/limonene stack is more or less like hitting the terp lottery.

Naturally, it isn't all about the numbers – it's about the effects those numbers have on us as biochemically sensitive organisms smoking our way through life. Linalool dominant profiles are my go-to medicine for all of my anxiety needs, as it is one of the more anxiolytic terpenes Cannabis can produce. But the sedating and calming effects of caryophyllene and myrcene, coupled with enough limonene to keep my mood and energy up, makes the Raymond Berry Runtz a true delight to toke on. The aromas of the Raymond Berry Runtz are as delectable as to be expected, with powerful wafts of candied fruits and Pine Sol undertones dripping from the dense, berry-purple nugs. The fruitiness is an all-encompassing mixed-berry ode to its Runtz lineage – coalescing like a bag of fresh candy. The Pine Sol is subtle but absolutely accentuates the strain’s true mother-watering, berry-esque flavor.

So, calling all connoisseurs! This tremendous cultivar is a shining example of top-shelf Cannabis from the team at Grassroots deserving of your attention – and perhaps even a special place in your headstash.

In A Glass Of Its Own

THE IMAGE OF GLASS IN THE EYE OF THE PUBLIC IS EVER EVOLVING.

From heady glass collectors hoarding some of the nicest pieces in existence, to TV shows on Netflix like “Blown Away” that showcase a variety of glassblowers and their skills, there are a number of ways in which heady glass continues to make room for itself in the art world. Glass and Cannabis proponent Nik Dimitrijevic gave us an inside look at his insane collection and a glimpse into how he sees t he world of glass and its place in modern culture. With a six-figure collec tion, showcasing his pieces to the masses is his approach to sh ifting the perceptions surrounding the artform, whether it’s a bong, marble or anything in between.

ROOR ART BY EUSHEEN X YOSHI KONDO DISK X MAH X ROOR GERMANY

NIK

grew up in Northern Virginia and upon turning 18 in 2011, he bought his first pipe – a Sovereignty bong. Up to that point he only smoked blunts and bowls, but he instantly fell in love with his first piece. Fast forward to 2021, he came into a little bit of money and wanted to spend some of it on something special. After following some glass pages on Instagram, he tried to buy a couple pieces from Illusionz Glass Gallery in Colorado. He went to their website and made two insane heady glass purchases – one for $30,000 and one for $60,000. Right after the transaction went through he was contacted to let him know that they couldn’t actually sell him the pipe for “that cheap.” Illusionz had some of their glass on consignment from collectors, and the owner wanted more for the pipe after the sale went through. Nik was extremely bummed out and confused, but determined to get some heady glass in his collection.

but Nik had a special relationship with them and talked them into selling him a Burtoni flamingo and a Eusheen x Yoshinori Kondo collaboration. At the time, he didn’t even realize how heady the artists’ glass he was buying was. The Kondo collab was the first functional pipe he had ever put a marble on.

Nik decided to go back to where he bought his Sovereignty 10 years prior, Glass Stache in Alexandria, Virginia. The store owners had a couple pieces that were technically not for sale,

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From here, Thomas Rose, commonly known as @glassgamestrong on IG, was introduced to Nik by the owner of Glass Stache. Thomas is known for being able to source pretty much any high-end piece of glass art under the sun, and Nik ended up scooping a bunch of different pieces with his help. Some of the coolest pipes in Nik’s collection were acquired with the help of Thomas, including the Joe Peters x Banjo Ganesha on the cover of this magazine. Being familiar with Roor, Nik asked Thomas to help him secure a heady Roor pipe and less than a week later, he had some options on the table for him – most notably a Eusheen x Yoshinori Kondo x Roor x Disk Glass collaboration from a shop in Canada. It had never even been water tested, let alone smoked out of. After taking it to a local glass show, Nik brought the pipe out and while sitting there not thinking about it, let a random stranger take the first rip off his historic pipe. He looks back at the situation and laughs, realizing how bright eyed and bushy tailed he was, being new to the glass game.

“I don’t need to smoke out of these pieces, I just need to look at them when I’m high because they’re so fuckin’ dope,” says Nik. “It’s crazy that humans can create these beautiful pieces of functional art that people can smoke out of. That concept to me was insane.”

As Cannabis products have continued to evolve in their quality and forms, so has the glass used to smoke them. If we have the best hash rosin available to the public, why wouldn’t we want to smoke that hash out of the best and most artistic pipe possible? Nik attributes that sentiment to being part of the reason people are so interested in high-end glass art.

“As things got better for weed itself, you can see the progression of glass and the newer designs like Eusheen’s redisculators. These are basically the same concept of an old school recycler, but people have gotten so creative in how they’re able to figure out the physics,” explains Nik.

At the end of the day, the glass world is now turning more heads than it is raising eyebrows – and that is a testament to the artists and their dedication to their craft.

Glass artists can spend days on days working on pieces, and some of them don’t even make it out of the kiln – while other artists collaborate all around the world, sending sections of glass internationally to make one-of-akind pieces. Thankfully we have collectors like Nik canvasing the globe for the finest expressions of this artform, bringing them together and giving us the chance to ponder just how profound a pipe can be. Shoutout to Kyle from Glass House Gallery in DC for hosting us for this photoshoot and a legendary sesh!

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FAR MORE THAN JUST COOL, HEADY BONGS, THE PIECES CRAFTED BY THE MOLTEN ART CLASSIC CREW ARE SOME OF THE MOST ELABORATE & UNIQUE FUNCTIONAL GLASS SCULPTURES THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN.

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What began nearly a decade ago as an excuse for a few glassblower buddies to get together has evolved into one of the world's most ambitious glass art collaboration projects: the Molten Art Classic.

FIRST ORGANIZED in 2015 by glassblowers Carlos Ali, Steve "Hops" Hoppenfeld and Adam "Hoobs" Whobrey, the project was initially called "The Ziggys Classic" – named after Ziggys Smoke Shop (Ali's glass gallery in Huntington Beach), which hosted the live glass blowing event to celebrate the shop's fifth anniversary. Over the course of a week, six artists worked together to create a phenomenal, functional funny car called “Tow U.”

The crew had so much fun that they decided to make it an annual event, and it's grown exponentially bigger ever since. In 2016, nine artists contributed to the creation of the “Ziggy’s Correctional Bus” piece. Then, in 2017, things really started getting serious: Before the event began, Hoobs and Hops spent two weeks constructing a preliminary framework upon which 16 other artists would then contribute their own unique elements. The result was a vaunted vessel weighing over 18 pounds and standing 29 inches tall that they dubbed “The Sea Cow Pirate Ship.” By that time, Hoobs and his partners recognized they were onto something big. So in 2018, they rebranded their annual mega-collab as “The Molten Art Classic,” created

a website for it, brought in sponsors, and made arrangements to film a documentary and publish a book about the project. That July, their “Glass Odyssey Space Station” art piece became the largest glass art collaboration in the nation – weighing in at a whopping 50 pounds, standing 48 inches tall, and featuring over 3,000 hours of work from 27 different artists.

That was followed by another boat, “Shipwreck 420 Leagues Under the Sea” in 2019, and then the mean, green “Grave Dabber” monster truck in 2020 – featuring wheels that actually roll, made of rubber-coated glass with ball bearings and sandblasted tread (which later won first place for Best Collab at Glass Vegas’ 2022 World Series of Glass competition).

Due to the vast amount of time and resources necessary to produce one of these epic pieces (thousands of hours and tens of thousands of dollars), the MAC team has decided that going forward, they'll only have the bandwidth to produce their pieces biannually.

Sadly, due to Covid, the MAC was canceled in 2021 … but the group returned to Hoobs’ Classic 33 Studio in fall 2022 to create another badass borosilicate behemoth: the “Kiln Buster” Samurai Robot (over 2,500 hours of work, 33 inches tall, 45.5 pounds), which again won first place for Best Collab at Glass Vegas in 2023.

“Currently, our goal is to complete one more project this year, complete the filming and editing of a short film about the project, and plan a nationwide museum tour of the entire decade-long body of work that will tentatively begin in 2025,” Hoobs tells us.

“After that, we will be transitioning into a new series of even bigger ideas that will span multiple years to accomplish each conceptual collaboration, with the goal of creating pieces that will truly stand the test of time as some of the greatest flameworked sculptures ever created.”

I think I speak for our entire community when I say we can’t wait to see what epic insanity MAC’s torches conjure up next. @MOLTENARTCLASSIC

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GLASS ODYSSEY SPACE STATION

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MSG FILLAEGG

Most of our pieces are touched by several pairs of hands before they are finished. This Fab Egg has detailed sections of firefade and water-fad fillacello prep and UV-fluorescent Illuminati glass.

FACETED DICHROCUP

Last year we introduced the Torus Nova, an evolution of the Torus model with an integration of the joint into the top of the piece, passing through the recycler’s drain to enter the perc chamber.

This Faceted Dichro iteration has a removable mouthpiece and is intricately cold-worked.

mothership glass

THE MOTHERSHIP FIRST LANDED ON EARTH IN 2013, MAKING CONTACT IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST.

Their team of glass artists and crew constantly push the boundaries to make creations that combine beauty and sophistication into glass art and deliver the best function in the galaxy.

Captained by glass innovator Scott Deppe, Mothership Glass strives for quality on every level.

Piece is roughly 25” tall, with Hologram prep of detailed silver- and goldfumed artwork

SKULL FKT

This Fab Klein Torus was made by Mothership’s Captain Scott Deppe and wears a sculpted skull that and features a matching skull pendant to complete the set.

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elbo glass

Elbo started out in the hot shop at Tyler School of Art and Architecture in his hometown of Philadelphia in 2005, where he mostly did furnace work with soft glass. It wasn’t until after he graduated in 2009 and was apprenticing for internationally renowned artist Zach Puchowitz that he began working with boro and making pipes. Elbo eventually relocated to Colorado in 2013, where he’s now the co-owner of Everdream Studio and blowing glass alongside some of the industry’s finest including WJC, Eusheen and N8 Miers.

He’s one of those artists where you can just look at a piece and immediately know, “That’s an Elbo.” He’s built a cult-like following of collectors with highly sculpted functional pieces in the shape of Raptors, Triceratops, “Recyclerdactyls” and more – and these dinosaur motifs that appear throughout his art are actually a love story.

“The woman that I fell in love with when I first started blowing glass made me these little glass dinosaurs on the torch,” Elbo tells me. “I was so focused on building my glass career that we ended up having a falling out. After that, I wanted to let her know I was still thinking about her in the studio, so I was making replicas of this Brontosaurus that she had made me.” He brought

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three of these replicas to a trade show just as side pieces to fill the table, but ended up getting an enormous amount of orders off the dino designs alone. The rest is history.

Since then, Elbo has expanded his work into many other me diums such as plushies, vinyl figurines (like the butterfly stego collab below with Felt @feltusa) and even baseball cards – which, while not made with glass, are still inspired by his functional pipes. “I was going at them as if they were prints of my work. Like as a painter makes prints of their original canvas, I was trying to develop ‘prints’ of my glass and design them based off of actual pieces I’d made in the past.”

With this approach, Elbo has been one of the few to successfully cross over from the niche glass scene into mainstream pop culture, proven by his collabs with iconic brands such as The Hundreds, Felt and Topps. His next venture is a flagship storefront in Denver – The Elbo Shop, which will be home to exclusive seasonal capsules of glass, clothing and his entire lineup of collectibles, as well as monthly events and heady hangouts.

“I’m really trying to cultivate a place for the glass community to come to where they can hang out,” he tells me. “Just like the streetwear world did with their brick-andmortars, that same vibe.”

Opening April 6th, stop by the shop if you’re in the Mile-High City.

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jptoro

JP Toro has long been celebrated for his heady and pioneering contributions to the world of glass art, especially within the Cannabis community.

His many creations, such as the Terp Slurper, have revolutionized how hash and concentrate enthusiasts experience their favorite strains, melding innovative function with unparalleled artistry.

The family-owned team is currently embarking on a new journey in Ithaca, as they open a licensed storefront called The Highly Connected Dispensary in their home state of New York.

This exciting fusion of his glassblowing genius and passion for Cannabis aims to redefine the standard for Cannabis retail spaces. As the industry evolves and more states come online, figures like JP Toro are at the forefront – helping guide the way towards a more integrated, artistic and creative Cannabis experience.

In this exclusive Q&A, JP Toro and Wendy sit down with ADHDDEAD and share insights into their latest projects, vision for a unique dispensary experience, and the future of glass art in the Cannabis industry.

"I WANTED TO TASTE THE PRODUCT TO THE FULLEST AND GET THE TERPIEST EXPERIENCE."

JP TORO ON CREATING THE TERP SLURPER

What inspired you to venture into the Cannabis retail sector?

Wendy: We had the opportunity to be among the first applicants under the NY CAURD program. Both JP and I were legacy growers since the ‘90s. A lot of our Sour Diesel was sold in NYC in the early 2000s, but we were raided in 2009. Who knew that years later, the hell we went through would pay off?

What unique features can customers expect from your dispensary that sets it apart from others in the market?

W: In addition to the inclusion of TORO Glass products in our inventory, our most unique feature is that JP knows Cannabis and hash. At The Highly Connected Dispensary, our primary objective is to curate the finest Cannabis and hash selections in New York. With our robust presence in the global Cannabis community, we are confident that we can create a world-class showcase featuring top-tier brands, attracting Cannabis enthusiasts from near and far.

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How has broader legalization impacted your glass work?

JP: As always, I hope to keep doing me and doing it all for the true love of Cannabis. My glass art is an extension of my version of the quest. I absolutely love what I do on every level. When you do it for love and passion, everything else always follows. This I strongly believe is the secret to our success. I'm constantly chasing the high to get to the ultimate experience. When you get to do what you love every day, it's not a job. Many will enter and leave our industry chasing the money. I will always chase the high, which is why I will still be relevant and around and hopefully leave an impactful legacy on the Cannabis game.

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YUNK GLASS

DOESN’T JUST BLOW GLASS, HE BREATHES LIFE INTO IT.

His work features cartoonish appendages or fully formed, tiny humanoids that look like they could move across the table and hand you a light er. Like something out of an old TOOL music video, these faceless homunculi, seem both ready to spring to life and trapped in a moment of expression – prompting the artist to refer to them on his website as “Yunktionals.”

Operating out of the Lone Star State, Josh Yunker has spent the last 15 years honing his craft. Originally taught to make spoon pipes on a production line style, afterwards he found himself spending any time outside of the nine-to-five grind out in his mom’s garage practicing glassblowing. After two years of moonlighting, he turned to the craft full time and started working on the style he’s become so well known for. Alongside these animated pipes and rigs, his work with pendants, marbles and glassware are all in high demand when released online and sell out quickly.

Perhaps it’s because much of Yunker’s work seems to speak to both the adult and child brain simultaneously – impressing you with its contrasting use of black with clear glass, the skill in the shaping of the tiny appendages, and also making you feel as if you’re holding something that could come to life at any moment. It’s a style that is both super individualistic and yet calls back to the work of Osvaldo Cavandoli, Hayao Miyazaki or Disney Animation. If “Beauty and the Beast” would have had a pipe in the castle, it would for sure have been a Yunk Glass piece voiced by Werner Herzog.

If you ask, Yunker will tell you his work is a distilled mixture of two prominent glass art styles: Sculpted and Venetian. Sculpted references a glass object’s ability to reference something familiar in our world.

Venetian style often makes use of intricate and ornate techniques to exemplify and play with the language of glass. His aim is to “combine both philosophies by using the human form.” This duality that your brian perceives when seeing his work is the artist’s intention, hoping to convey something “both sterile and personal, high-brow and low-brow, black and white.”

Yunker says his favorite kind of piece to create is something that allows him to work a new shape or style of piece into that of the human body, something that offers a challenge as to how much personality he can instill into the Venetian style. We asked Yunker what helped stoke the fire of inspiration and he said that he’s found the ability to take inspiration from seemingly everywhere – finding that much of it seems to spring out of everyday interactions with people and a desire to communicate with others. yunkglass.com @yunkglass

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Elissa Newmeyer

Bends of color twist effortlessly into symbol-like shapes or stretch out into delicate geometric lattices that have a Legend of Zelda BOTW feel to their patterns – and just like that video game, it might take you a minute to puzzle out how to hit one of these sculptural pipes. Often a wonder of design as much as functional art, she exemplifies that kind of glass blower whose work looks at home on the shelf of a Danish mid-century modern cabinet, just as it does on a coffee table or in a glass display case. Her style has been described as “inventive, playful and genre-pushing,” but Newmeyer describes it as simply “funky and fun.”

A born-and-raised Oklahoman, she still lives in the state where she’s blown glass now for 11 years. While she’s received some previous training from an old employer, she told us that most of what she’s accomplished in over a decade behind the torch has been self-taught, building on “an insatiable curiosity via trial and error.”

When asked if there’s a particular inspiration behind her vibrant and mesmerizing work, she said it’s not really any one thing or style, but the endless creativity of others that actually drives her to produce such stunning creations.

This hasn’t gone unnoticed, as last April, Newmeyer was tapped to be part of an exhibition at the Flint Institute of Arts in Michigan that focused on the historical significance of pipe-making, as well as the artists who have pushed the boundaries and changed the landscape of what we consider to be glass art and smoking accessories.

Though many of her pieces are dry pipes, she doesn’t have a particular favorite thing she likes to put into the kiln – telling us instead that it’s the sketch, the artwork itself, that really tends to drive what comes next. Looking at her Instagram feed, you can truly begin to see the truth in that … as she goes from creating pipes and bubblers to cups, jewelry, furniture, water bulbs, sunglasses, and recently even stained glass. Even the descriptions and titles of her work reflect more of a sculptural and artistic approach with names like “Third Eye Planet,” “Mid Modern Boom” and “What Punishments Of God Are Not Gifts?” Quotes from figures like Fred Rogers or Mark Nepo further provide glimpses into the journey spent constructing each one. Bottom line: Acquiring an Elnewglass item is like connecting with a piece of art that you want to display both when you’re smoking, and when you’re not.

When you’re looking for the most creative artists working in glass today, Elissa Newmeyer is a name that instantly comes to mind. Also known as Elnewglass, her art conjures up this futuristic yet ancient alien world where a ‘90s/Art Deco aesthetic is having a renaissance.

elnewglass.com @elnewglass

"JUPITER JAZZ" (2024)

HER STYLE HAS BEEN DESCRIBED AS “INVENTIVE, PLAYFUL AND GENRE-PUSHING,” BUT NEWMEYER DESCRIBES IT AS SIMPLY “FUNKY AND FUN.”

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"FUNK DA FEELING" (2023)

"ELECTRIC DREAM" (2023)

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BOB’S BEGINNINGS

When it comes to living legends of stoner culture, there are few figures whose flame burns brighter than that of the tie-dyedrenched, benevolently bearded teddy bear of a man named Bob Snodgrass.

Bob was born in 1946 in Ohio and seemed a relatively average American for the first 20 years of his life. After a tour in the Air Force in Missouri during the 1960s, he got married, had kids, and moved back to Ohio in 1970 to raise his family. During the week he worked a job at a machine shop, and on the weekends he made candles with his wife Marie to sell at flea markets and craft shows. It wasn’t until 1971, at the age of 25, that Bob and his wife decided to try marijuana – buying a $15 bag from a neighbor that was mostly stems and seeds, which only gave them a headache rather than a high. But weeks later, when a former schoolmate offered him a joint of skunk weed, he became a believer.

INTRO TO GLASS

One day, Bob was walking his dog in Akron when he came across a new lamp shop down the street with a clear glass pipe in the window. Intrigued, he decided to pop in.

PASSING THE TORCH

“There was a fellow in there blowing glass,” Snodgrass told Puffco in 2019. “He wore a beret and was a beatnik kind of character … he introduced himself as Chuck Murphy.”

Chuck Murphy had been apprenticing under a scientific glassblower from Germany since he was 10 years old. And unlike Snodgrass, Murphy had already been smoking weed since the age of 13 when he was offered a joint at a jazz show. Murphy brought some home to share with his teacher, who enjoyed it so much that after smoking it, he fashioned a little tubular joint holder, creating the first “flare” pipe. Soon, the two were repurposing more scientific equipment into smoking devices, becoming two of the only few glassblowers in the world making Cannabis pipes –which they continued until Chuck set out on his own. Little did he realize that now, at 23, he was about to take on a pupil of his own.

At the time, selling pot paraphernalia wasn’t exactly an easy thing to do in Ohio, so Murphy was looking for any sales opportunity he could get. Thankfully, Bob agreed to take some pipes with him on one of his candle sales trips – and returned with more orders than Chuck had ever had. With huge orders to fill, Murphy enlisted Bob to help him with the “cold work” (work on glass that hasn’t been heated) – scoring tubing into sections and fire-polishing the ends.

“He hooked a torch up … and he said, ‘I’m going to tell you the same thing my teacher told me as he first lit my torch,’” Snodgrass remembers fondly. “He said, ‘Fire burns, and glass cuts.’ That was my first lesson.”

As Murphy’s part-time assistant over the next several years, Snodgrass learned the art of glassblowing – eventually buying a torch of his own in 1974, honing his new craft, and even experimenting with innovations of his own.

RUNNING ON FUMES

Much like the candle-making, glassblowing was still just a hobby for Snodgrass; he was still working full-time as a “tool and die” guy, grinding and heat-treating metals. One day, he brought home some copper filings, which he and Chuck

The glass master at work.

“Without Bob and his amiable spirit, it’s hard to imagine how the current landscape of glass pipes and flameworking would have evolved.”

SHAKEDOWN STREET

“The first time I encountered the Grateful Dead scene, a friend told me he had tickets, and I should bring my bus so we could camp in the parking lot,” Snodgrass told Leafly in 2019. “He said I was going to sell glass like I’d never sold glass before.”

then attempted to fuse into some clear glass. But when their torch started running low on propane, the flame oxidized, causing the copper filings to vaporize and imbue the glass with a hint of color. The result was that as dark resin built up inside the pipe, colors would emerge that weren’t visible before. Thanks to his alchemical accident, Bob had invented the technique of “fuming” – creating what he called “color-changing glass.”

“It becomes dazzling when it’s done right,” he told Eugene Weekly in 2014. “It’s real magic.”

But fuming wasn’t the only innovation Snodgrass invented – he also created some of the most iconic pipe shapes we all know and love: the “spoon” –a simple design in which the bowl is pushed into the pipe rather than attached as a separate piece; the “hammer,” which looks similar to a gavel; the steamroller – a bong-like tube whose wind tunnel-like airflow produces massive shotgun-style hits; and the “sidecar,” which has a bowl set to the side that serves as a sort of kickstand – a style he got the idea for after he and Marie spent the night on a friend’s waterbed and their pipe kept tipping over when they put it down.

Snodgrass was also the first to make “marbles” –glass orbs with intricate art and patterns inside them.

ON THE ROAD

Bob and Chuck began going on sales trips together all across the Midwest each summer – selling pipes and marbles at festivals, fairs, flea markets, and, of course, to whatever headshops or underground boutiques they could find. They continued these trips throughout the late 1970s and into the ‘80s – that is, until 1986 when Bob’s wife decided she wanted in on the fun.

“When I got ready to leave in ’86, Marie says, ‘Oh, you’re not getting away on your own this year – we’re all going with you!’” he told the “Elev8 at 8” podcast in 2022.

Snodgrass converted an old 1940s school bus into a mobile home/glass studio and went on tour with his wife and youngest daughter full-time. At first, he would typically produce and sell just enough product at each stop to get them to their next destination. But that all changed in 1987 when Snodgrass stumbled upon the counterculture catalyst that would catapult his sales and fame into the stoner stratosphere –namely, the Grateful Dead.

On Easter weekend of 1987, Bob and his family headed to Irvine Meadows in Southern California to experience their first Dead show. He set up his mobile studio in the vending area of the parking lot known as “Shakedown Street” (after the Dead song) and began selling pipes. To appeal to the Deadheads, he crafted a special pipe specifically for the event: a hammer-style pipe in the shape of a skull with a top hat (one of the band’s iconic images). The response from the fans was tremendous.

“We ended up working the next two days and nights straight in the parking lot trying to keep up with demand,” he recalled.

The Top Hat pipe quickly became one of his signature designs and a highly sought-after collectible. Snodgrass had done more than tap into a receptive new sales market for his pieces, though – he had found his people.

“I was just blown away by the atmosphere,” he recalled. “When I got inside and the music started, I saw everybody just go off in a dancing frenzy. I thought, ‘That’s so tribal ... I want to be a part of it.’”

From then on, Snodgrass followed the Dead –becoming a permanent fixture on Shakedown Street and building a cult-like following of heads who looked forward to picking up a new “Snoddy” each year. What’s more, his glassblowing demos in the Dead lots attracted crowds of fascinated onlookers, some of whom would end up apprenticing under Bob in years to come.

THE EUGENE SCENE

However, as fun as the Dead tour was, Bob and his family eventually grew weary of the road and sought a new place to put down roots. In 1990, at the recommendation of Bob’s first apprentice, Hugh Salkind (aka Hugh Glass), the Snodgrasses went to check out the small town of Eugene, Oregon. Falling in love with the community’s weather, weed and thriving art scene, they deciding to settle there.

University of Oregon student named Jason Harris –future founder of the world’s most successful glass smokeware company: Jerome Baker Designs.

“There was just some magical attraction to Bob,” Harris remembers. “He was the coolest dude I’d ever met. I just wanted to be like him instantly.”

In the decade that followed, Snodgrass helped transform Eugene into the functional glass art capital of the world – taking on nearly 30 apprentices and founding the Eugene Glass School in 1998.

“Under his pioneering flame and tutelage, the Eugene-Springfield glass scene in the 1990s became like Montmartre in the 1890s or Greenwich Village in the 1960s – a place where artists flocked, a hub where innovators rubbed shoulders and ideas spread like wildfire,” opines Eugene Weekly’s Alex Notman.

LIGHTING THE WAY

Sadly, the Eugene Glass School closed this past fall … but not before teaching nearly 1,000 artists the many techniques that Snodgrass helped pioneer.

Moreover, many of Bob’s family members are now among the dozens of apprentices he’s trained at his hippie compound by the Willamette River, ensuring his legacy will live on for generations to come.

“My oldest son blows glass; his son blows glass. My oldest daughter’s two sons both blow glass … My five-yearold grandson Ryder, he’s even made a marble,” Snodgrass told Leaf in 2019.

“Without Bob and his amiable spirit, it is hard to imagine how the current landscape of glass pipes and flameworking would have evolved,” attests stokedct.com. We couldn’t agree more. Thanks for lighting the way for our culture, Bob.

Once word got out that Snodgrass was in Eugene, aspiring glassblowers started making pilgrimages there to learn from him. One such admirer was a

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A signature “Snoddy” color-changing Top Hat Skull hammer pipe.

Bob selling pipes and marbles out of his school bus studio at a Grateful Dead show.

Bob with former pupil Jason Harris of JBD.

SLY VEGAS

DRAGON STEAMROLLER PIPE PHOTO COURTESY WORLD OF CANNABIS MUSEUM

SURE, YOU CAN SIT ON YOUR ASS ALL DAY and pile up the layers of blubber while filling your brain with useless information from the boob tube – but that only goes so far until it’s time to get outside and do shit. And the moment you cross that threshold from front door to sidewalk, the real-life video game begins. Be it driving down roads to licking the backs of toads, unforeseen hazards exist at every turn.

Think about it: There just aren’t too many places you can go where the Grim Reaper isn’t posted up with his sickle ready to punch the clock and get to work. Be it getting hit by lightning, tripping on a tree root that sends you off a cliff while snapping a selfie, or your building collapsing because some asshole didn’t stay up with city code for 40 years –the perils are abundant.

You never know when it’s your time to go. So, what’s the best option for navigating unpredictable physics while testing the limits of reason to help you feel accomplished in knowing that you lived a fun life? We all know it’s probably not the safest idea to bungee jump off the Rio Grande bridge in New Mexico or cruise a submarine for gold doubloons off the tip of the Bermuda Triangle, but we still long to create some relative excitement while maintaining the standard nine to five existence.

They say golf is a safe game, but last time I checked, they still haven’t begun requiring helmets on the course. And hiking is always a healthy way to get your blood pumping, but the more it flows, the more the mountain lions and wild boars want to eat your lunch.

Even Cannabis is dangerous – one drop will kill you.

If it was a bale falling out of an open window on a Boeing jet, that is.