NortheastLeaf_Jun2026

THE ENLIGHTENED VOICE

#66 | JUN. 2026

NORTHEAST

FEATURING

WOODY HARRELSON // pg. 22

LUCIA CIFONELLI // pg. 28

SISTERS OF THE VALLEY // pg. 30

CABIN 7 ORIGINALS // pg. 38

the impact issue F RE E / L E A F M AGA Z I N E S . COM

An Exclusive Q&A with Actor & Cannabis Entrepreneur Woody Harrelson INDEPENDENT CANNABIS JOURNALISM SINCE 2010

TOP NOTCH BUDS

AS NATURE INTENDED. AUTHENTIC AROMA

TRUE TASTE

CAREFULLY CULTIVATED

INDOOR GROWN

Indoor grown in state-of-the-art facilities and overseen from seed to store by our best-in-class cultivation teams, our plants are handled with the utmost care. Extensive cultivar catalog research allows us to optimize the growing conditions for each cultivar, ensuring our buds retain their true-to-nature characteristics.

Rigorous research and development ensures the selection of big, beautiful buds with full trichome coverage for premium aroma, flavor and enhanced efficacy—a full sensory experience that’s authentic to each cultivar.

FIND BIG BUDS NEAR YOU GRASSROOTSCANNABIS.COM

FOLLOW US

PLEASE CONSUME RESPONSIBLY. MARIJUANA CAN IMPAIR CONCENTRATION, COORDINATION, AND JUDGMENT. THERE MAY BE HEALTH RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH CONSUMPTION OF THIS PRODUCT. FOR USE ONLY BY ADULTS 21 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER. 18+ FOR MEDICAL STATES. KEEP OUT OF REACH OF CHILDREN. DO NOT OPERATE A VEHICLE OR HEAVY MACHINERY WHILE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THIS DRUG. LAWS GOVERNING LEGALITY, AVAILABILITY AND USE OF MARIJUANA VARY BY STATE. CDPH-1003298, 404R-00025, AMS 351, DEVINE DESERT HEALING INC. A/U: 00000026ESRZ99769978.

GROWING TOGETHER

Breeding Grounds is a project under which Sensi Seeds releases its cutting-edge strains.

As part of this program, we join hands with breeders of Sherbinskis, Serge Cannabis, Champelli, Humboldt Seed Company, Fat Beans, and more.

We are proud to be at the forefront of developing ground-breaking genetics, working in collaboration with some of the best breeders worldwide.

SENSISEEDS.US @SENSISEEDS_US

SENSISEEDS.US

@SENSISEEDS.US

/SENSISEEDSTV

THE IMPACT ISSUE

CULTURE HOUSE NYC GREENPOINT SHOP REVIEW

jun. 2026

22

FIRE FOLLOWER

COURTESY

14 BLOCKHEAD BLUEBERRY SUGAR

16

SISTERS OF 28 THE VALLEY

30

NUNS WITH NUGS

34 CABIN 7 ORIGINALS 38 STUDIO SESSIONS

RX MARYJADE FEATURE

11 12 14 16 18 19 20 22 28 30 32 33 34 36 38

32

EDITOR’S NOTE RESCHEDULE TOLERANCE BREAK FIRE FOLLOWER EDIBLE OF THE MONTH CONCENTRATE OF THE MONTH STRAIN OF THE MONTH WOODY HARRELSON LUCIA CIFONELLI/SMOKE SHOW SISTERS OF THE VALLEY RXMARYJADE PROFILE PAGE BURNER REVIEW CULTURE HOUSE GREENPOINT COOKING WITH CANNABIS CABIN 7 ORIGINALS

COURTESY

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

JARRETT JARMON @KNOW_JRAMA

FEATURE

SUPER BOOF’S NEXT BIG HIT

CABIN 7 ORGIINALS

SMOKE SHOW

PERSPECTIVE

COURTESY

HARRELSON

ROGER KISBY @ROGERKISBY JARRETT JARMON @KNOW_JRAMA PHOTO BY NICHOLAS GAZIN @NICKGAZIN

leafmagazines.com

MY UNEXPECTED TOLERANCE BREAK

WOODY

THE impact ISSUE

8

#66

[

JUN. 2026

issue

Taste the Terps Award-Winning High Terpene Extracts A Full-Spectrum Flavor Experience

sunextractions.com | @sunextractions

E S TA B L I S H E D 2 0 1 0

T H E E N L I G H T E N E D VO I C E

N O RT H W E ST LEA F / O R EG O N LEA F / M ARY LAN D LEA F / CAL I F O R N I A LEA F / N O RT HEAST LEA F

A B O U T T H E C OV E R At a time when many Hollywood types were too afraid to be open about using and supporting Cannabis, iconic actor and Cannabis activist Woody Harrelson was on the cover of High Times calling for legalization and chiding stubborn politicos stuck in the oh-so-distant past.

Leaf Magazines Founder Wes Abney sat down for an intimate interview with Harrelson over a few hours at The Woods Cannabis lounge in West Hollywood, Los Angeles. Our thanks to Roger for the beautiful portraits of Woody and George, the palm cockatoo.

PHOTO BY ROGER KISBY @ROGERKISBY | ROGERKISBY.COM

CONTRIBUTORS

WES ABNEY C E O & F O U N D E R wes@leafmagazines.com

WES ABNEY, FEATURES

MIKE RICKER O P E R AT I N G PA R T N E R ricker@leafmagazines.com

AJ AGUILAR, FEATURES DANIEL BERMAN, DESIGN

TOM BOWERS C H I E F O P E R AT I N G O F F I C E R tom@leafmagazines.com

BOBBY BLACK, DESIGN TOM BOWERS, FEATURES

DANIEL BERMAN C H I E F C R E AT I V E O F F I C E R daniel@leafmagazines.com

JACKIE BRYANT, FEATURES

JACKIE BRYANT C O N T E N T D I R E C T O R

REX HILSINGER, FEATURES

jackie@leafmagazines.com

ELLEN HOLLAND, FEATURES

BOBBY BLACK LEAF BOWL DIRECTOR & HISTORIAN bobbyblack@leafmagazines.com

MATT JACKSON, FEATURES ROGER KISBY, PHOTOS JAMIE OWENS, FEATURES PETER PRACILIO, PHOTOS BECK ROURKE, FEATURES JADE SANCHO-DUSER, PHOTOS

CARA WIETSTOCK C O PY E D I T O R

JOANNA VALENTE, PHOTOS

MATT JACKSON SOCIAL MEDIA mattjackson@leafmagazines.com

This month, I had the honor of interviewing Woody Harrelson, who is our cover feature story, inside his beautiful Ganja Giggle Garden off Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, California. Being a fan of weed, film and Harrelson my entire adult life made the interview all the more special. We chatted about acting, activism and why organic sun-grown Cannabis deserves a place on every top shelf.

11

Heading into The Woods starts as a luxury dispensary experience. Entering the store reveals living trees growing through the floor, earth tones with wood and glass displays and Cannabis on every available shelf. After shopping for all the weed needs and hitting the prominent sun-grown display, a few steps toward “YOU MUST the back reveal a tropical oasis complete with birds of paradise, a flowing HAVE HAD A koi pond and friendly faces smoking everywhere.

HELL OF A TIME

EXPLAINING TO

We arrived before Harrelson for the interview, giving us time to indulge YOUR PARENTS in the sensory experience of a stoner jungle. Once in the lounge, the WHY YOU sounds of the city disappear, replaced by bird calls and the gentle DROPPED OUT coughs of fellow smokers. There’s seating all over, a walk-up bar serving OF COLLEGE TO chilled infused beverages and a full coffee shop on-site. As we roamed START A WEED MAGAZINE.” and toked, I saw a diverse audience of industry professionals taking -WOODY HARRELSON meetings, tourist stoners and locals enjoying a quick tropical vacation before continuing about their day. Far from a smoky bar scene, The Woods has the purest of stoner vibes, and I’d smoke there every day if I lived in Los Angeles — just like Harrelson does when he’s in town.

TERPODACTYL MEDIA, FEATURES

MICHELLE NARANJO C O PY E D I T O R michelle@leafmagazines.com

cara@leafmagazines.com

Thanks for picking up The Impact Issue of Northeast Leaf!

BRIT SMITH, FEATURES BRUCE & LAURIE WOLF, RECIPES KATHERINE WOLF, FEATURES LEEVAN WONG, PHOTOS

We are creators of targeted, independent Cannabis journalism. Please email us to discuss advertising in the next issue of Northeast Leaf Magazine. We do not sell stories or coverage. Email paige@leafmagazines.com to start advertising!

CON N EC T W I T H

NORTHEAST LEAF!

Exclusive Cannabis Journalism @NORTHEASTLEAFMAG

The interview took place inside one of several treehouse cabanas that you can rent hourly, the same cabana where Harrelson and Bill Maher filmed a smoky episode of the “Club Random” podcast. We shared the space comfortably, and Harrelson made the first statement of the interview, which isn’t in the main article. “You must have had a hell of a time explaining to your parents why you dropped out of college to start a weed magazine,” he said before a big chuckle, which set the tone for our conversation. He also asked about my faith in God, as I wore my cross on set, and he listened to my belief that Cannabis is a gift from God, along with our endocannabinoid system.

Of all the celebrities I’ve met, Harrelson was the warmest, most genuine and certainly the only one to build a lounge where, as he put it, “I’d like to go myself as a stoner.” I left our interview with more respect and admiration for a man whose career I already characterized as deserving of a lifetime achievement award in Cannabis. I’m honored to have him on the cover of this magazine. Like Harrelson, the Leaf team cares about the culture of Cannabis, which starts and ends with our community. I hope that this story and issue will be shared with those on the fence about Cannabis. That way, we can truly work to “love thy neighbor,” as it says in the Bible, while we connect and share the truth and the plant that we all love and benefit from.

NORTHEAST LEAF MAGAZINE

LEAFMAGAZINES.COM

-Wes Abney

JUN. 2026

PHOTO BY ROGER KISBY @ROGERKISBY

MIKE GIANAKOS O N L I N E E D I T O R mikeg@leafmagazines.com

DAVID DOWNS, FEATURES

Editor’s Note

perspective

Former San Diego Magazine Managing Editor Jackie Bryant joins Leaf Nation to imagine the future of the Cannabis industry.

THEY FINALLY DID IT … KIND OF

ADOBE STOCK

(SOME) CANNABIS MOVES TO SCHEDULE III

ON

April 23, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche issued a final order to move state-legal medical Cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule III, while leaving adult-use, synthetics and hemp untouched. It’s a narrow yet significant move with potentially massive consequences: 280E relief for medical operators, new questions for dual-license businesses and fresh uncertainty around exports and federal enforcement. It does nothing regarding criminalization, expungement, clemency or anything else regarding criminal justice. To sort out what actually changed and what’s still guesswork, I spoke with Hirsh Jain of Ananda Strategy.

In this Q&A — originally published in my newsletter, Cannabitch, and edited lightly for clarity — he walks through the order and what’s coming next.

12

The attorney general's order indicates that medical Cannabis — Cannabis sold under state-licensed medical programs — is now Schedule III. It's worth pointing out that the attorney general used really imprecise language that confused people. Todd Blanche said we are rescheduling cannabis, which some people took to mean adult-use. But really, he meant medical. The other big thing we know is that if medical Cannabis survives legal challenges, state-licensed medical operators are no longer subject to 280E. What's actually in there regarding 280E relief?

DINA DOUGLASS @DINADOUGLASS

leafmagazines.com

What did the Department of Justice and the acting attorney general do, and what do we know for sure?

H I RS H JAIN

jun. 2026

The attorney general's order indicates that retroactive 280E relief could apply for prior tax years — the AG is encouraging the treasury secretary and the IRS to consider making 280E relief retroactive for medical operators.

It's the first official government statement that 280E could be retroactive. At the same time, the IRS can ignore

Schedule III on paper, with real potential 280E relief and even retroactivity — if it survives legal challenge and if Treasury and IRS follow through. Adult use has been kicked into a DEA hearing process with a plausible, but not guaranteed, Q3 timeline for action. The medical/adult distinction is being hardened on paper even as this move exposes how absurd that distinction is in practice.

So there you have it. One more provision worth noting: Buried in the order is a requirement — rooted in U.S. obligations under the 1961 UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs — that the DEA nominally "buy" medical Cannabis crops from registered manufacturers and immediately "sell" them back at the same price plus an administrative fee. In practice, growers keep their product, and nothing changes commercially. It’s a paperwork transaction designed to satisfy an international treaty, not, technically, a sign that the DEA is entering the Cannabis business.

What it does do, however, is make the DEA the mandatory intermediary in the medical supply chain, giving the same agency that can raid or prosecute operators a formal chokepoint over the market.

Legal experts note the intent is to make the process as frictionless as possible. Whether it stays that way remains to be seen.

the AG if it wants to. Until we get guidance, in theory, this 280E relief could be retroactive for a California operator going back 10-15 years. That would be incredible. I'll believe it when I see it, but it would be incredible.

What's the timeline on adult use?

The AG has ordered a new DEA hearing to consider the rescheduling of adult-use Cannabis. It begins June 29 and ends July 15. People like Kim Rivers and Boris Jordan — well-placed CEOs — are publicly saying they expect rescheduling to happen sometime in Q3, before the end of the year. Those folks have been wrong before, so that's Medical is now not definitive. But it is notable.

For dual-license operators — someone holding both a medical and adult-use license — how might 280E treatment work? This is a big,

Schedule III on paper, with real potential 280E relief and even retroactivity — if it survives legal challenge

unresolved area. Some people say 280E applies to the taxpayer — if you are a person or a company that is trafficking in Schedule I drugs, your entire operation is subject to 280E. Even if you're doing both.

There is at least one serious theory that says holding a dual license won't allow you to cleanly separate your operations and say, "These things should not be subject to 280E." Nobody has a definitive answer yet, but it's a very real question.

Hirsh Jain is the CEO of Ananda Strategy, an advisory firm that works with Cannabis brands, retailers, distributors, testing labs, technology platforms, professional service firms and capital providers. He has previously served as vice chair of the Cannabis Chamber of Commerce and on the Board of Directors of California NORML. He holds a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

STORY by JACKIE BRYANT @JACQBRY | AUTHOR PORTRAIT by IYDEEN YOUNIS | PHOTO by DINA DOUGLASS @DINADOUGLASS

COURTESY

What's the most important takeaway for operators right now? Medical is now

GET YOUR VEAZY

Ellen Holland is a San Francisco Bay Area-based freelance writer, the former editor of High Times

perspective

and the author of multiple books, including "Weed: Smoke It, Eat It, Grow It, Love It" (2024).

The next day, it became clear that I needed to stay with my mom, and I had my husband bring my bag of belongings into the intensive care unit. “I think it’s best to remove the big jar of weed,” I texted him before he brought my bag into the hospital.

I ended up spending two nights in the hospital, sleeping in a recliner in my mom’s room. I hardly got any sleep. My irritable bowel syndrome went into a flare-up and my face began to flush with anxiety.

MY UNEXPECTED TOLERANCE BREAK

LEAFMAGAZINES.COM

ADOBE STOCK

14

Self-care often disappears when you become a caregiver Recently, I was hit with a family emergency, and as the circumstances of my life began to fall away from my normal routines, I was faced with something else I did not plan for: an unexpected tolerance break.

jun. 2026

THIS ALL HAPPENED at the end of April. My cousin was getting married and the whole family was invited to his wedding in the Sacramento, California area. I had packed up a few outfits for before and after the wedding, along with a Mason jar full of Blueberry Biscotti to enjoy during my time away from home. But at the wedding, right after the ceremony was over, it became clear that something was wrong with my mom. My aunt called an ambulance and my brother jumped in the front with the EMTs. That first night, while my mom was still in the emergency room, I wasn’t really thinking about weed at all. The funny thing is that my mom was.

She grew up as a hippie in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1970s and has more recently returned to experimenting with Cannabis. When I first saw her in the ER, she told me to ask the guy in the next room if he had any weed.

“Mom, we’re in the emergency room,” I said.

She responded, “I know, I thought it would be a funny joke.”

“It is a funny joke, Mom, and I’m going to tell people,” I said, and reader, here I am telling it to you.

DINERS AND DECISIONS In the days that followed, I had to make some important decisions for my family. Once the acute crisis had passed, my goals were getting my mom set up with the home health visits she had been instructed to receive after the hospital stay and arranging an appointment with her primary care provider.

I’ve had friends who have been hit with emergency situations before, and I felt like I didn’t know what I could do to help. Typically, people bring food, and I’ve done that for friends and family in the past, but it wasn’t until I was in the moment of navigating and setting up a million other things that I realized how important that gesture can be.

My brother brought us sandwiches from Cregor’s, the local liquor store and deli. My sister-in-law brought over home-cooked chicken piccata and an easy bagged salad. I took trips to the Thai food spot and Mexican market, where I picked up a family-style meal of al pastor, rice, beans and salsa for everyone to make their own tacos.

In addition to making sure everyone got fed, I started doing things around my parents’ house in Paso Robles, California, to ensure that they would be more comfortable. Part of that meant borrowing my mom’s car (my husband had taken our car back to our home in Oakland) to make a shopping run to the Walmart across town. On the way there, I put on the 90s station, and as I blasted Lauryn Hill’s “Doo Wop (That Thing)” while driving over the Niblick Road Bridge, memories of my youth in Paso Robles wine country came flooding back.

At this point, it had been about a week since my cousin’s wedding, and while I did have a glass of Justin rosé, I had still not smoked any weed. I wasn’t intending on taking a tolerance break, but then again, none of this was planned.

A CANNABIS DESERT While Cannabis is legal for adults in California, the law left it up to individual cities to determine whether or not to allow retail shops. In many places, retail shops are not allowed, and Cannabis delivery services fill in the gaps. Paso Robles is located in California’s Central Coast and has always been a pretty conservative community. When I worked as a reporter at a newspaper in neighboring Atascadero in the early 2000s, a dispensary that opened there — the first in San Luis Obispo County — was chased out of town. The owner of that dispensary, Charles Lynch, ended up opening another shop within San Luis Obispo County in Morro Bay and was greeted with a warm welcome and a ribbon-cutting ceremony by the town’s chamber of commerce.

All Things Cannabis For All People beardedlorax

ADVERTISE WITH THE LEAF!

rickerdj aj.og maaryjwhite

PODCAST

leaflifepodcast

support exclusive cannabis journalism! in print since 2010!

ADOBE STOCK

EPISODES: #317 MODELING & CANNABIS #314 BONGS #310 ROLLER SKATING & CANNABIS #303 TECH IN CANNABIS #296 TOLERANCE BREAKS #294 MUSHROOMS #285 HOW TO BE A GREAT BUDTENDER

so manywho more!have been hit with emergency situations before, I’ve hadand friends and I felt likeTHANKS I didn’t know what I could do to help. Typically, people TO OUR SPONSORS bring food, and I’ve done that for friends and family in the past, but it EVERYWHERE wasn’t until I was in the moment of navigating and setting up a million other things that I realized how important that gesture can be.

LISTEN

leafmagazines.com

EMAIL RICKER@LEAFMAGAZINES.COM

@leaflifepodcast4185

UP NEXT! THE CONCENTRATES ISSUE / JULY 2025 / EMAIL PAIGE@LEAFMAGAZINES.COM FOR INFO & RATES!

Marijuana products may be purchased or possessed only by persons 21 or older. This product has intoxicating effects and may be habit-forming. Marijuana can impair concentration, coordination and judgment.

Do not operate a vehicle or machinery under the influence of this drug. There may be health risks associated with consumption of this product. For use only by adults 21 and older. Keep out of reach of children.

Nearly a year later, the Drug Enforcement Administration served a search warrant on Lynch’s home and the dispensary, and then months later, in July 2007, authorities arrested Lynch and indicted him on several counts: conspiracy to manufacture, possess and distribute marijuana; providing marijuana to people under the age of 21; marijuana possession with intent to distribute; and maintaining a drug premises. This began a nearly 17-yearlong legal battle for Lynch.

After I moved away from San Luis Obispo County, a few Cannabis dispensaries appeared in the city of San Luis Obispo. Today, there is one Cannabis shop in Paso Robles that operates under the loophole of coordinating with a delivery service to get weed delivered there. There are, however, plenty of wineries with tasting rooms.

So here I was in Paso Robles without any weed, and I was stressed out!

But luckily for me, my brother works at Urbn Leaf, a dispensary in Grover Beach, and brought me over some prerolls, an eighth and a THC-infused beverage. I was so grateful. When I went on a walk to smoke the prerolls he had given me, I felt the Cannabis LeafLifePodcastAd-May2025-10.5x12.25-FNL.indd 1

go into my system and instantly felt calmer. The trees and plants along my walk looked beautiful, the sunshine and movement felt great. The next day, I requested an upgrade, and my brother bought a jar of half-gram Zodashi prerolls from one of my favorite cultivators, Fig Farms.

4/19/25 8:51 AM

NEVER QUIT The experience of not having Cannabis during this recent family health crisis helped me to understand how important the plant is to my own wellness. Although there are times when I cut back on it, I know I will never quit it. Cannabis helps me feel more grounded and calm, and quells the symptoms of my IBS, which get worse in stressful situations.

Caregiving is hard, but it’s something that most of us will be faced with as our parents get to an age where they need more help. Make sure that when you’re helping them, you continue to care for yourself.

Don’t forget to eat, get exercise, stay as well-rested as possible and, in down times, enjoy some Cannabis to take the edge off. The road ahead is long, and we need strength for the journey.

Take care.

STORY by ELLEN HOLLAND @HOLLANDBUDS for LEAF NATION

Shop for for Shop high end high end genetics genetics @thecultureseedbank @thecultureseedbank

SUPER BOOF BREEDER PLANS THEIR NEXT BIG HIT SUPER BOOF, LEAFLY STRAIN OF THE YEAR 2024, CONTINUES TO DOMINATE THE AWARD CIRCUIT IN 2026. BUT THE STRAIN, ALSO KNOWN AS BLOCKBERRY, IS AS BIG AND HIGH PROFILE AS THE BREEDER IS SMALL AND UNDERGROUND. ONE-MAN SHOW Blockhead works in cramped, noncommercial conditions in Southern California — yet big things are coming from tiny rooms.

His latest release — sold at blockheadbuds.com — is a line of feminized seeds that are all crosses of his current favorite strain, John Truffolta. The project unites work from GG Strains, Thug Pug, Beleaf, Harry Palms, OGKB, Archive, In House Genetics and Party Time Farms.

DAVID DOWNS @DAVIDDOWNS

THE IMPACT ISSUE perspective

FIRE FOLLOWER

Award-winning journalist/author and former Leafly Senior Editor David Downs’ monthly genetics intelligence dispatch.

SUPER BOOF

W H AT I S J O H N T R U F F O LTA?

leafmagazines.com

16

John Truffolta is based on Truffaloha crossed with Blueberry Sugar. Let’s dig into that: Blueberry Sugar is Grape Cream 2.1 x Blueberry Frosting. The Blueberry Frosting pollen came from Party Time Farms in Santa Cruz. The Grape Cream 2.1 came from Bloom/Harry Palms’ Grape Cream Cake x OGKB 2.1. OGKB 2.1 is listed as OG Kush Breath x Dosidos from In House Genetics. Beleaf’s Truffaloha S1 is Gorilla Butter F2, also known as White Truffle, crossed with his Platinum Punch, which smelled like Hawaiian Punch. PB Breath and Gorilla Glue are in there.

Blockhead, who doesn’t publish his real name because he could lose his day job, said the latest drop is all hand-pollinated, small-batch feminized seeds.

He’s obsessed with John DIABEETUS Truffolta because “it freaking tastes amazing,” he said.

South Africa, Madagascar, Thailand, “It literally smells like HawaiGermany, the United Kingdom, Canaian Punch or fruit punch and da, Mexico, Chile, Scotland, Australia old-school Skunk. It’s super and New Zealand. unique. I’ve “It’s pretty much BLUEBERRY Similar to how never smelled blasting off everywhere,” SUGAR Radiohead made a terps like that,” Blockhead said.

Blockhead said. “Obviously, it’s got bag hard left turn after the appeal. It’s got the yield. It’s super easy to HOT CROSSES album “OK Computer,” grow. It’s just a fire strain.”

Digging into the Blockhead is setting different crosses, there’s aside his careerMOVING BEYOND THE BOOF a Blockberry #5 crossed defining Super Boof Similar to how Radiohead made a hard to John Truffolta for and going in an entirely left turn after the album “OK Computer,” $200. It’s an even bignew direction.

Blockhead is setting aside his career-definger yielder than Blocking Super Boof and going in an entirely new berry, with a heavier stone. direction.

But Blockhead is most “It’s the next album, for sure. I’m super small, so I have amped for the Dante’s Sugar x John to pick whatever the heck it is,” he said. “I really love Truffolta. Both parents are easy to grow Blueberry Sugar, I really love Blockberry, but here’s the and extremely vigorous. next one.”

“It tastes like grape Skittles. It’s not the He said his feminized seeds are for home growers beterpiest up front. Some of the other ones cause they don’t like dealing with males, and big commerare louder. But just in terms of what cial growers only want clones. Sales reflect global interest: everybody says that they want — the

jun. 2026

ALOHA SUGAR BLOCKHEAD

freaking bag appeal, the yields, the THC, all that stuff — it’s good,” he said.

Look out for some GMO-type terps in the Tiger Bomb cross.

“It’s kind of got a fuel-ly, GMO, garlicky, kind of terp, a little bit on the raunchy side, but it has that top note of Blockberry in it,” he said.

He said these John Truffolta feminized crosses grow well indoors or outside.

F L AV O R A B O V E E V E R Y T H I N G

Up next for Blockhead: a flavor-over-everything-else line that sets aside bling, flower or hash yield, THC scores and flowering speed. People constantly ask for the chunkiest, fastest, easiest and highest-THC strain; it’s become tiring.

“It’s whack, bro. I just get the same freaking questions,” he said. “That’s all you care about?”

Blockhead’s new favorite strain after John Truffolta is called Diabeetus.

“It looks insane. But, again, this one is more on the flavor side,” he said. “It’s like a slower grower. Giant-yielding motherfucker, but I’m going to be working that one next, that whole line.”

BLOCKHEADBUDS.COM @BLOCKHEADBUDS2

STORY by DAVID DOWNS @DAVIDDOWNS for LEAF NATION | PHOTOS by ALIEN GENETICS

edibles THE of IMPACT the month ISSUE

SUPERNATURALS NEW YORK

SUPERNATURALSNY.COM @SUPERNATURALSNY

HERBALGUMMIES

18

leafmagazines.com

Supernaturals New York is a farmer-owned, living soil operation out of Accord, in the Hudson Valley, growing Cannabis on 50 acres under full sun without synthetic fertilizers or pesticides — sheep graze the cover crops, praying mantises handle the pests.

WHILE A GUMMY is sometimes just a gummy, I like it when the edibles feel like they were made by people who actually give a damn about what goes into them. Supernaturals NY founder Jens Verhaegh clearly does, and it comes through in the final product. The farm started as an herbal tea operation before it blossomed with Cannabis, a satisfying throughline for gummies that actually taste like they came from somewhere.

Each of the five flavors includes 10mg of THC from pectin-based nano distillate and is paired with a minor cannabinoid and two adaptogenic herbs chosen for specific effects. Sleep gets 10mg of CBN with valerian root and passionflower. Energy gets 2mg of THCV with yerba mate and guarana. Focus gets 2mg of CBD with turmeric and ginkgo.

Chill gets 2mg of CBC with tulsi and ashwagandha. Erotica gets 2mg of CBG with maca and damiana. I appreciate that the pairings here are coherent and considered — the herbs aren’t decorative, they’re doing something, and the effect profiles back that up.

JUN. 2026

What really gets me into this line is the culinary variety. The flavors read like a farm-to-table restaurant menu, and I mean that as genuine praise — every combination sounds like something I’d order at a good bar or that would appear in a creative dish. I keep thinking about how well the mango habañero ErotAll five are made with real ica would translate over ice, ...gummies that fruit juices and organic ingrediwhich is not a thought I’ve ever actually taste like ents, and you can taste that — a had about a Cannabis gummy. higher bar than it sounds when The heat builds and lingers in they came from most gummies on the market a way that suits the occasion. somewhere. are still leaning on artificial flaRosemary lemon Focus is voring to do the heavy lifting. the one on my desk The line feels less like a pivot than a when I’m on deadline: herbareturn — culinary herbs, adaptogenic pairceous, sharp, specific and clearly ings, real fruit juices, all from the same land culinarily inspired. Those flavors where Verhaegh was growing herbal tea could also appear in a delicious before Cannabis was legal. cookie or roasted chicken, for Each jar contains 10 gummies and example. Peach matcha Energy 100mg of THC total, priced between $20 is bright and clean, the kind of and $32. Find them legally at dispensaries flavor that feels like it belongs in across New York. an afternoon spritz.

STORY by JACKIE BRYANT @JACQBRYANT @NORTHEASTLEAFMAG | PHOTOS by SUPERNATURALS NY

710LABS.COM @710LABS

“The rosin’s just insane. I couldn’t believe how much the flavor came through. I literally can’t put it down.”

Brad Melshenker, founder of 710 Labs, fell in love with the LMNO-Z as a judge for the Billy Awards in New York.

“We gave the cut to Brad because he loves to smoke it as much as we do,” Sour Family Farms’ Mike Perrini, aka Rosin Dogs, said.

“I mean, it’s fucking 710.

He has good taste.”

“IT WAS SO NOSTALGIC,” Melshenker said. “I had 40 samples to smoke through, and I opened all the jars and was like, ‘This one’s special.’ It’s the closest thing to Sour Diesel that I’ve smelled probably since 2011-2012. We used to grow a lot of Sour and Chem, and I just felt like it was all watered down since then.

It smells like it, the taste comes through in the smoke. I ended up calling the guys from Astor Club who threw the Billy’s. I was like, ‘Whose entry is this? I need to get this cut.’ I’d been searching for Sour for like 10 years — actual, real Sour.”

Melshenker is not alone in his obsession. Sour Family Farms has won awards for the LMNO-Z in flower form, including first place in the Sour Cross category at the 2025 Kush and Sour Competition and first place at the 2025 Gene Traders Sour Showcase.

The Le-mawn-OZ, as Perrini says it’s pronounced, was made in a New Terp City breeding project when LMNO (Chem91 x Sour x Zkittles cross) got hit with Kush Mints.

STORY by BECK ROURKE @PUNKYFUNKSTER2.0 for @NORTHEASTLEAFMAG | PHOTO courtesy 710 LABS @710LABS

19

leafmagazines.com

LMNO-Z PERSY BADDER

“Sour Family Farms is like a record label, and we’re the artists,” Perrini said. “New Terp City is the geneticist. Seven Leaf is the grower.

Rosin Dogs is the rosin guy.”

710 Labs initially got the cut of the flower, and Rosin Dogs had ironically never washed it.

“The rosin’s just insane. I couldn’t believe how much the flavor came through,” Melshenker said. “I literally can’t put it down.”

“Persy” means “personal stash,” a designation awarded only to the batches that meet Melshenker’s highest standards.

“I’m a Zkittlez fanatic, and right now, I’m smoking the LMNO-Z,” he said.

The badder — a more stable version of their 90μm fresh press — is devastatingly beautiful. It’s the palest blonde with a soft, creamed frosting texture. The nose on the jar is a true Sour/Chem — actual gas — with Z terpenes for days.

Testing at over 10% terpenes and very limonene-dominant, the Zkittlez spice of beta-caryophyllene and sweet, floral linalool adds a grounding warmth to the bright yet funky Diesel aroma.

It’s such a smooth smoke and melts like water to an almost imperceptible residual in the banger. The smell translates to the taste, which lingers in my mouth and coats my throat with a bright lemon gas long after the exhale. The Sour taste is so pronounced that even after I take a sip of water, my taste buds are still coated.

The badder tastes iconic, like summer in New York City. Think hot asphalt, bus fumes and lemon Italian ice — straight up gasoline.

The effect is uplifting with a clarifying head space but a grounding body high. I feel invincible, boundless and very freaking happy.

To stay up on 710 Labs’ limited drops in New Jersey, including the LMNO-Z flower, fans can sign up for The List program.

“It’s like a sneaker drop, and you have a few hours to order before it sells out,” Melshenker said. “The one in September is going to be a pheno hunt pack, and we’ll get people to vote on which one they like.”

“We just love smoking this, and we want as many people to get to smoke it as possible,” Perrini said.

“This is about more than money.”

This is most definitely about terps.

concentrate of the month

710 LABS

THEOF IMPACT ISSUE STRAIN THE MONTH

NORTHEAST

leafmagazines.com

20

Peter Pracilio’s story reads like counterculture Americana on an info sheet he provided to the Leaf: “Gifted my first handful of seeds in the mid 90s, I traveled West in an old gutted 1970s school bus with nothing but my glass blowing torch and my dog until I could rent my first place to grow in.” jun. 2026

Rainbow OG

Grown by Mount Vision Pharms

@MVP_NEWYORK

HIS BRAND, Mount Vision Pharms, exudes the kind of authentic quality and artistry you know must come with rich lore.

With over 30 years of growing experience, journeying from 10,000 feet in the Colorado mountains to British Columbia for genetics before there were seed banks, he ran rooms for years before finally landing back in New York to study art and design.

Pracilio “traded in his Metro card for a tractor upstate” on a 75-acre homestead, where he also raises rare and heritage breed chickens and turkeys with an underlying philosophy of sustainable stewardship of the land. That translates to the greenhouse, which was “built with sustainability and energy conservation in mind, while making sure to produce topshelf quality flower throughout all times of the year” in central New York.

MVP stays craft by staying small: a 3,000-square-foot greenhouse with two growing zones pulling four harvests per year. Pracilio runs the entire operation with one assistant. All flower is hand trimmed.

“I set a pretty high bar for myself and the flower I decide to jar,” Pracilio said in an interview with Northeast Leaf, “but I hope that the love for every unit I package up shines through and is seen and enjoyed.”

“The Rainbow OG were seeds from LIT Farms that I grew out and hunted through,” Pracilio said. “I do sacrifice some space to run pheno hunts alongside my commercial strains to be able to find unique flavors and keepers, all the while working on my own crosses to start to move more toward offering just my own bred and hunted work.” He’s got one of his own already: Grapeopottomus.

The Rainbow OG is a solid choice for a commercial strain. The nose on the jar is earthy and sweet, a little Runtz-ey.

The buds are chonky and solid, and they sparkle in the light. The coat of orange hairs is particularly dense, and when I break the bud apart for the mill, citrus notes jump out first. The bud sticks to my fingertips slightly, and the resin has a spicy warmth, like ginger, when pressed together.

Milling the flower releases even more of the sweet orange and bright lemon. With a combined 0.5% valencene and limonene, the dry pull fills my mouth with the citrus bouquet.

Once lit, on the inhale, the spicy warmth shifts toward a soft, sweet note of baby powder. On the exhale, the sour citrus translates closer to bitter green apple peel.

The flower burns evenly with a slick resin ring and keeps its flavor the whole way through.

About one-third into the joint, I started to feel the rainbow vibes. It was rainy and gray out, but the fresh yellow-green of the first spring leaves looked brighter. Halfway through, the tension in my back melted into the chair, and I was slowed into a relaxed, aware presence. The vibe reminded me of those Happy Buddha statues.

Going forward, Pracilio “looks forward to collaborations and for some personal art and design to hit the packaging and peripherals, all while hunting for the next tire fire, chemmy, skunky, candy, sour flower to share with New York.”

“I’ve always wanted MVP to be a blank canvas for not only the work to outshine the Mylar but also to incorporate the colorful, the fun and the weird,” he said.

“I’m cultivating creativity.”

STORY by BECK ROURKE @PUNKYFUNKSTER2.0 for @NORTHEASTLEAFMAG | PHOTO by PETER PRACILIO HAVE A LEAD ON SOME SERIOUS FIRE? EMAIL JACKIE@LEAFMAGAZINES.COM

THE IMPACT ISSUE

leafmagazines.com

22

Woody Comes Home An Exclusive Q&A with Actor & Cannabis Entrepreneur Woody Harrelson

Sharing a hotboxed treehouse with Woody Harrelson in a lush tropical paradise known as The Woods — the smoking lounge off Santa Monica Boulevard he owns with Bill Maher, John McEnroe and Devon “Samba” Wheeler — he settles in for our interview as if meeting friends for an afternoon sesh. The world has been captivated

by Harrelson’s characters on the silver screen, from “Natural Born Killers” to “The People vs. Larry Flynt,” but the best performance he gives is as himself. His natural drawl is relaxing, his vibe unhurried with an air of mirth and the comforting understanding that as a true A-list star, he doesn’t have to act like one.

WITH A CAREER that began in 1978, he’s seen America and Hollywood evolve and been a voice of reason for healthy living, stewarding the environment and the freedom to enjoy Cannabis. Once a California bad boy known for his wild antics, Harrelson’s energy shifted to activism, with notable protests like climbing the Golden Gate Bridge to release a sign saying “Hurwitz, aren't redwoods more important than gold?” and a symbolic arrest in Kentucky for planting four hemp seeds.

This history is why we honor Harrelson with our Impact Issue cover. His career of smoky mystique in the zeitgeist wasn’t a phase, but a true love for the plant. Far from losing his path or purpose with Cannabis, the plant seems to have steered him through the pressures of fame and the changes of the last 50 years, with Harrelson emerging as a Cannabis success story via a household name.

When you look into Harrelson’s eyes, it’s hard not to see film scenes, like the Twinkie search in “Zombieland” or the simmering, about-to-boil-over energy on “True Detective.” Such is the power of acting, the ability to take on a role and embody it so fiercely that we believe in the scene, the moment, the idea that what we are seeing could be real.

Today, Harrelson gets to play himself. There’s no fame to lose, and speaking on Cannabis is no longer a risk. We see the actor who is able to be comfortable in his own role, that of an advisor, mentor and advocate who wants to share the choices and products that have made his life healthy and happy. For a man who continues to impact countless lives on screen, Harrelson now plants seeds of inspiration at his lounge, where sun-grown Cannabis and good vibes are the menu every day. > > C O N T I N U E S N E X T PA G E

jun. 2026

STORY by WES ABNEY @BEARDEDLORAX/LEAF NATION | PHOTOS by ROGER KISBY @ROGERKISBY

Woody Harrelson THE IMPACT ISSUE

CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE

WE’RE HERE IN THE WOODS, WHERE PEOPLE CAN SHOP AND SMOKE IN A LUSH TROPICAL SETTING THAT’S THE MOST STUNNING AND INVITING CANNABIS LOUNGE IN THE WORLD. WHAT INSPIRED YOU TO JOIN THE INDUSTRY, AND WHY A LOUNGE? My buddy Samba, who opened Erba, would bring me to look at places, and it never felt right until I set foot here in this beautiful Ganja Giggle Garden. I fell in love with the property. I always wanted to open a place that, as a stoner, I would want to go to.

I’ve been to places that have smoking on site, some legal and illegal, but none that I would say, “Wow, this is the Shangri-La, this is what you want.” Well, here we have it! But it’s not perfect yet, there’s lots more to be done.

HOW WAS THE CLUB RANDOM PODCAST YOU FILMED HERE WITH YOUR PARTNER BILL MAHER? Oh, we were fucked up. You should never do an interview that fucked up, but I feel like I’m right on the border now, by the way.

DO YOU THINK YOUR OTHER PARTNER, JOHN MCENROE, WOULD HAVE BEEN SUCH AN ANGRY TENNIS PLAYER IF HE TOOK BONG TOKES BEFORE THE MATCHES? I honestly don’t know, but something in me doesn’t think he smoked during his career. He was as dedicated an athlete as you can be. I’ve met the highest-level athletes that smoked. Basketball players tend to smoke, and I found over my rather lengthy career in playing basketball that pot didn’t seem to hurt. It hurt if I was stoned playing, that could hurt, I don’t think that’s a good idea. But for recovery, man, come on, it’s so nice.

COURTESY THE WOODS

leafmagazines.com

24

jun. 2026

DO YOU SMOKE WEED WHILE ACTING? I can’t smoke when I act. Well, the very first time I did that, I thought we were done, and I went upstairs with George Wendt after an episode of “Cheers,” and we start smoking. And then I hear the intercom for me to come do the monologue in scene C that I had tripped up in the performance. So to pick it up, after I thought we were wrapped, I don’t know what the fuck I was thinking. What would have taken once took 10 times, and Jimmy Burrows was like, “Is everything OK?” He’s the greatest sitcom director ever!

DID YOU SMOKE WEED WHEN YOU FILMED “WHITE MEN CAN’T JUMP”?

There was one moment where me and Wes (Wesley Snipes) are in the car together driving to the location for the scene where I bet him that I can dunk the basketball and I lose, and, uh, unfortunately, we did get high in the car. And I felt like it compromised the scene. It doesn’t work for me because all those things that come so easy to me, suddenly, I get into paranoia, and I’m not comfortable and relaxed, which is really important to be in a state of dynamic relaxation when working in this particular field.

For that reason, I cannot smoke and do my job. But I can directly after!

WORK FIRST, SMOKE AFTER? You know, they call the final shot of a movie set day, on the uh, um … “the martini”!

Dammit, that’s what I mean! How many times have I heard martini in my life? Ten million times, and I couldn’t think of it. This is evidence; I’m glad you’re documenting. You can use this for study later on, the documentation of a brain that has just broken down into a little heap of ashes.

IT’S LIKE WEED INCEPTION. YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT WORKING STONED WHILE WORKING STONED. That’s another thing. I never get high and do an interview, but of course, it’s the Leaf Magazine, so I have to get high. And because it was Bill, I had to get high, but other than those two examples, I would never do an interview high.

"For a man who continues to impact countless lives on screen, Harrelson now plants seeds of inspiration at his lounge..."

SO THE MARTINI IS THE HEAD-TO-THE-BAR, SHOOT’S-OVER CALL? Yeah, so we call it “the smoker” ’cause as soon as it's done, we’re going to smoke. And the second to last one we call “the twister,” to go twist it up! Hopefully, that’ll become new jargon in Hollywood.

DO YOU THINK IT’S BETTER TO START WITH WEED AT 21 THAN ALCOHOL? I think that straight edge is the best.

I’ve always admired straight edge, and thought I would get there, but I seem to be still on the road to … because if the conversation is should I do a drug, the answer is don’t do drugs. I almost feel like Ronald Reagan: (imitating his voice) “Don’t do any drugs.” There was a time that I had a near photographic memory. Do you know the play “Zoo Story”? Long, long, continuous monologues for this character, Jerry, that I played in college, that I memorized in one Sunday, the whole one-act play. A massive, massive amount of verbiage. And now, I can’t even imagine doing that because I’ve degenerated my memory a bit.

HAS YOUR ACTIVISM AFFECTED YOUR BRAND OR STATUS? That’s hard to say. I think a lot was inspired by playing Larry Flynt in ’96.

It made me think about speech, and that’s when we did the Golden Gate Bridge protest. I was inspired and saw the way he lived his life, and there's a lot I do disagree with about his life, but I thought he was an extraordinary original human, and he made me feel like if you believe in something, do something about it. >> CONTINUES NEXT PAGE

STORY by WES ABNEY @BEARDEDLORAX/LEAF NATION | PHOTO by ROGER KISBY @ROGERKISBY

THE IMPACT ISSUE

Woody Harrelson

leafmagazines.com

26

CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE

I’VE ALWAYS FELT THAT THE RIGHT TO PURSUE HAPPINESS INCLUDES THE RIGHT TO INGEST DRUGS, AND THAT WE SHOULD ONLY CRIMINALIZE BEHAVIOR, NOT POSSESSION. HOLLYWOOD IS A GOOD EXAMPLE. WEALTHY PEOPLE WHO DO DRUGS ARE CELEBRATED, POOR PEOPLE WHO DO DRUGS END UP IN CAGES. I agree, but you're talking now of a very important and much larger issue, which is consensual crimes or victimless crimes. There’s no victim to the crime. How is it a crime? Or is it just moralized legislation? In my mind, it’s about the money. The war on drugs, like all war, is lucrative. Somebody is making money with every bomb that drops. It's the same thing for the war on drugs. There's a huge industry around that, including private prisons that basically use slave labor. It’s incredible how feudal it all is still.

WHO WON THE WAR ON DRUGS? I don’t know, it’s been such a great campaign. It’s been such a great propaganda campaign. You have to give credit to the government; they've really made people not give a shit about pot smokers. People who don’t smoke don’t care about the war on drugs; they don’t see the personal level of what happens.

Hats off, once again, to Uncle Sam, coming through strong in the propaganda department!

DO YOU STILL GET EXCITED TO BE ON CAMERA? Always! But the night before I know what will happen, I don’t sleep. It’s always the same. I get so amped up. But I saw Bruce Springsteen recently in Austin, and we hung out before the show. I said, “Listen, there’s something I always wanted to ask you, and you don’t know how helpful it would be to me to hear you answer in the affirmative. So I’m going to ask: Do you get nervous before the show?” And he goes, “Oh yeah, I would call it anticipatory anxiety,” and said he would be worried if he didn’t feel that. I feel that I still get that the night before the shoot, and then it wears away, and by the second or third day, I’m comfortable. Even with a tense character, I want to be comfortable inside the way I’m feeling.

IF THERE WAS A LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR CANNABIS, YOU’D BE AT THE TOP OF THE LIST. HOW DOES IT FEEL TO CREATE A LEGACY IN WEED AND STILL BE SHAPING THE FUTURE OF THE PLANT?

jun. 2026

Well, I don’t know what I’m doing to shape it, other than having a place for people to enjoy the plant. There was a time where myself and my PR team and team wanted me to be less associated with herb. And now, of course, having embraced that, there is something beautiful about Cannabis.

Of any drug I’ve done, there’s something about the way it brings people together. When you talk about people brought together over cocaine, that's a different group of people. But this brings a brother and sisterhood of interesting people who are socially, politically, economically diverse, in every way, spiritually diverse people who seem to be attracted to this plant. I love to be a part of this culture. To me, if you are going to do a drug, this is the more benign drug to be doing.

HOW DID YOU FIRST BECOME ACQUAINTED WITH CANNABIS? When I was a kid, my mom would be, in the morning, having her cup of coffee, and she was a big cigarette smoker. So she’d say, “Son, if I ever hear (mimicking inhale) about you (inhaling) smoking marijuana, it’ll just kill me.” It’s so funny because there’s all kinds of avenues to get drugs into your body, and some people it’s legal, and some people it’s illegal, but it’s still drugs. I always think that the No. 1 drug in the world is sugar.

WHAT WAS HOLLYWOOD’S VIEW ON POT WHEN YOU FIRST CAME OUT OF THE WEED CLOSET? WAS IT ALWAYS PART OF WHO YOU WERE AS AN ACTOR? Well, everybody smokes, but publicly, nobody was above board on that. For the longest time, it was not OK to say (that you smoked).

WHEN DID YOU FIRST EXPERIENCE THE MAGIC OF OUTDOOR CANNABIS IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA? When I moved here to LA — I don’t live here now — I moved here in the ’80s, and it wasn't long before I was trying that Northern Cal herb. It’s such a cool, spiritual experience. It’s a very spiritual plant. It’s only our abuse of it that makes it less spiritual. I think if we did it a little more religiously, it would be much better for us, but that’s coming from an addict who doesn’t do that.

TELL US ABOUT YOUR LOVE FOR THE EMERALD TRIANGLE? I just worry about those guys up in Humboldt, Trinity, Mendocino. They’re the best, and they’ve been doing it the longest — multigenerational. And now, because of the popularity of indoor, which befuddles me, I still don’t understand it. To me, the elements that are the most important elements of any herb are three things, aside from the genetics: the sun, water, soil. Those three things make the best herb, and the best herb in the world is grown in Northern California. This is the spiritual fight I feel that I want to have, to use The Woods as a place to testify about sun-grown Cannabis.

DO YOU IDENTIFY WITH THE NOR CAL

GROWER LIFESTYLE? I am a hippie. I love that lifestyle, that really close to the earth lifestyle. And I’ve seen various levels of luxury or comfort up there, but generally it's pretty rural, close to the ground.

There's a certain primalness to it, just to being up in those mountains, among those beautiful trees, and of course, the trees that they are growing as a crop. It’s really special. I’ve had some wonderful experiences up there.

IS THAT WHY YOU REPRESENT SUN-GROWN CANNABIS IN THE DISPENSARY AND LOUNGE? I want to make The Woods a mouthpiece to the Emerald Triangle. I want to speak for the trees, for the outdoor organics, for Northern California. I’m pretty knocked out by the quality of the people, who are kind and devoted, how interesting they are and great at their craft, and they deserve to thrive. I don't get the disparity in why outdoor organic is so inexpensive compared to indo, when to me, there should at least be parity. It’s odd. But it's good for people to enjoy the outdoor; it's less expensive.

THE DOCUMENTARY YOU NARRATED, “KISS THE GROUND,” REALLY EXPLAINED LIVING SOIL AND REGENERATIVE FARMING IN A WAY THAT MADE SENSE TO ME, EVEN AFTER TOURING MANY LIVING SOIL WEED GARDENS, WHERE THE POT PLUS THE SCIENCE CAN GET LOST IN TRANSLATION. WHY ARE YOU INTERESTED IN SOIL, FARMING AND FOOD? You think about how incredibly important is the soil, as is the water and the basic things that we need. Soil, water, air, the real basics. They are ironically threatened by our own activity as a species. So you're seeing a lot of desertification around the world, and the soil is more important than ever. And it's a very practical way to say here's something we can do to make a difference in this ecological catastrophic experiment we call modern times.

WHAT PROMPTED YOU TO LIVE AS A VEGAN? I went vegan Jan 1, 1990. It was a New Year's resolution, but I’d been wanting to do it since I was 16. I did my first cleanse at 16 — three days of fruit and smoothies — and then I ate a stack of pancakes 3 feet high, and after the second one, I was stuffed.

Back then, I wanted to become vegetarian, and my mom and everyone said you can’t do that, you need protein. For some reason, all this time later, I decided to go vegan, and Laura, my wife, did a couple months later. But I’m not entirely vegan; I love honey and an egg if I can be sure of the happy life of the mother. But I wouldn’t go to a random restaurant and eat an egg.

I’VE ALWAYS FELT THAT CANNABIS OPENS OUR MINDS. DOES IT HAVE THAT EFFECT FOR YOU? You think differently after ingesting it. Sometimes it does open a little portal, but I gotta say I’m the last to encourage use of it.

DO YOU FEEL LIKE YOU HAVE BUILT A LEGACY IN WEED WITH THE WOODS? With this place, yes, but it’s very difficult because the government wants to fuck you right down the line, start to finish, any way

"Hats off, once again, to Uncle Sam, coming through strong in the propaganda department!"

Nov. 2000 High Times Cover they can. They seem to be just wanting to fuck you. So they don’t give you any breaks. They still treat this industry despicably, especially the overtaxing, the greedy more, more out of the people trying to make a living in the industry.

It’s really hard. I hate to go negative, so let me go positive. There's a lot of good people at The Woods. Every time I come in, I meet new interesting people. I usually come every day when I’m in town.

WHAT IS THE FUTURE FOR THE WOODS? I think it's going to be about not just the best, cleanest, purest, most delicious and best high herb, it's going to be about promoting a certain lifestyle of healthy food, healthy products and healthy cleaning products. The shit I use, and if it interests you, you can have some and buy it. Not like a store, but around what I would call “Woods Goods.” Me and my wife use all kinds of cool products and teas and the cleanest fermented coffee beans. I’m being ambiguous about it, but it feels like we can do more here, and I want to do more. I’m basically almost a preacher in my own way, so let this place preach its message, which is a message of regeneration and truth and positivity and cleanliness and good vibes. @WOODYHARRELSON @THEWOODSWEHO

STORY by WES ABNEY @BEARDEDLORAX/LEAF NATION | PHOTOS by ROGER KISBY @ROGERKISBY See more photos at LeafMagazines.com

THE IMPACT ISSUE

SMOKE SHOW

COURTESY

leafmagazines.com

PHOTOS ABOVE BY JOANNA VALENTE @JOJOSNAPS

28

STONER FASHION ELEVATED

JUN. 2026

Lucia Cifonelli has the kind of energy that makes people lean in. Maybe it’s the Jersey-born honesty.

Maybe it’s the disco ball aesthetic of her brand, Smoke Show.

Or maybe it’s because after spending years inside Cannabis, hospitality and fashion, she still talks about the plant with the same reverence she had at 15 years old, when weed first became less of a rebellion and more of a relief.

PHOTO BY BRENTNEY GLADIEUX

“We became an extension of the brands,” she explained.

“I wanted people representing these companies to actually understand the products, understand the culture and care about the experience.”

That philosophy helped Smoke Show scale quickly. At one point, Cifonelli managed teams of more than 40 ambassadors across eight states, building programs for brands entering emerging East Coast markets like New York and New Jersey.

California clients followed her east, trusting her ability to translate Cannabis culture into something elevated, stylish and accessible without losing authenticity.

And authenticity is everything to Cifonelli.

While Cannabis increasingly chases corporate polish, she remains protective of the plant’s counterculture roots. During conversation, she lights up talking about independent publications, old-school events in Hudson, New York, and moments of genuine human connection that still cut through the noise of an industry dominated by networking culture and performative branding.

“I don’t want Cannabis to lose its soul,” she said. “The community aspect is what made people fall in love with this industry in the first place.”

That same mindset shaped the apparel side of Smoke Show, a project heavily influenced by her mother’s fashion background. Together, they developed athleisure pieces featuring Cannabis florals, mushroom prints and bold feminine aesthetics that feel more editorial than novelty.

The clothing became another extension of the brand’s identity: playful, stylish, confident and unapologetically weed-positive.

“My mom has incredible taste and experience from working in fashion,” Cifonelli said. “Being able to build something creative with her has been really special.”

The company’s visual identity also stays close to home.

Smoke Show’s logo was designed by her sister, reinforcing the idea that this isn’t some detached agency assembled by investors — it’s personal.

Every detail carries fingerprints from the people around her.

“My sister tattooing ‘Smoke Show’ on my hand felt full circle,” she said. “This company is such a huge part of who I am now.”

That creative collaboration continues today through projects with artists and photographers, including a bomber jacket collaboration benefiting Freedom Grow and ongoing work with photographer Jojo Snaps.

“MY MOM HAS INCREDIBLE TASTE AND EXPERIENCE FROM WORKING IN FASHION,” CIFONELLI SAID. “BEING ABLE TO BUILD SOMETHING CREATIVE WITH HER HAS BEEN REALLY SPECIAL.” Whether she’s producing executive networking events at MJBizCon, planning immersive activations or coordinating “puff portrait” concepts for future gatherings, Cifonelli approaches Cannabis branding less like marketing and more like storytelling.

One of Smoke Show’s standout moments came during MJBizCon, where the company hosted a Women’s Day event for nearly 90 executive women in Cannabis. For Cifonelli, events aren’t just photo opportunities – they’re opportunities to create community in an industry that can often feel fragmented and transactional.

“There’s room for everybody here,” she said.

“If people operate with integrity, we all grow.”

That optimism feels increasingly rare in Cannabis.

But it’s also what makes Cifonelli compelling. She understands the burnout, the volatility and the endless cycle of hype. Still, she believes deeply in the plant and the people who genuinely care about it.

“You can’t survive in Cannabis if you’re only here for money,” she said. “You have to actually love this plant and love the people around it.”

That belief is visible everywhere in Smoke Show’s orbit, from custom apparel drops to ambassador trainings to the tattoo on her hand.

For Cifonelli, Cannabis was never just business. It was family. It was fashion.

It was hospitality. It was healing.

And now, through Smoke Show, it’s become a platform to bring all those worlds together under one glittering, smoke-filled roof.

PHOTO BY JOANNA VALENTE @JOJOSNAPS

RAISED IN a loud, creative Italian family in New Jersey, Cifonelli grew up surrounded by personality. Her mother worked in fashion. Her father was a teacher and former wrestler. Her sisters became artists. One now tattoos in Las Vegas and recently tattooed “Smoke Show” across Lucia’s hand; a permanent reminder that the company she built is deeply tied to family, identity and creative expression.

“My family’s always been very expressive and creative,” Cifonelli said. “Everybody had their own thing, but we all inspired each other.”

Cannabis was openly discussed inside her immediate family, even when the broader culture still stigmatized it. For Cifonelli, the plant became grounding early in life.

“I was always kind of anxious and overstimulated,” she said. “Cannabis slowed everything down for me in a positive way. It helped me feel calm and present.”

That culture of openness and creativity eventually became the foundation for Smoke Show, the Las Vegas-based creative agency and apparel brand Cifonelli launched during the uncertainty of the pandemic. Equal parts experiential marketing company, staffing agency, fashion project and creative playground, Smoke Show exists in the overlap between Cannabis, nightlife, hospitality and counterculture. Think pink branding, mirrored disco balls, custom bomber jackets, women-led events and Cannabis ambassadors trained with the precision of luxury hospitality staff.

But before Smoke Show became a recognizable name in Cannabis event culture, Cifonelli was building her career the old-school way — through travel, hustle and hospitality.

After studying hospitality management with a concentration in beverage at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, she graduated into the chaos of the 2008 recession and spent years working throughout Prague, the Caribbean and eventually San Francisco. Hospitality taught her how to create memorable experiences and make people feel welcomed. Cannabis taught her something else entirely: authenticity matters.

“I learned that people remember how you make them feel,” she said. “Whether it’s hospitality or Cannabis, people can tell when something’s genuine.”

By 2018, Cifonelli entered the legal Cannabis industry through a packaging company, managing national accounts and quickly learning how difficult it was for brands to stand out in an increasingly crowded marketplace. While working at Kush Supply Co., she helped drive millions in sales, but she also noticed a gap. Many Cannabis companies had products, but very few had an identity.

So she built one.

Originally launched as Cannabis USA before evolving into Smoke Show, the company started with a simple mission: help Cannabis brands connect with people in a real way. During COVID, when traditional events disappeared overnight, Cifonelli pivoted into brand ambassadors, field marketing and experiential retail strategy. Instead of waiting for the industry to stabilize, she adapted alongside it.

SMOKESHOWCO.COM @SMOKE_SHOW_CO

STORY by BRIT SMITH @BRITTHEBRITISH for @NORTHEASTLEAFMAG | PHOTOS by JOANNA VALENTE @JOJOSNAPS See more photos at LeafMagazines.com

THE impact ISSUE

By now, you’ve heard of California’s ganja-growing, pot-smoking nuns known as the Sisters of The Valley. Maybe you watched the 2018 documentary “Breaking Habits,” saw them in Forbes and CNBC or caught their depiction as the “Sisters of the Brave Beaver" in the 2025 film “One Battle After Another.”

30

leafmagazines.com

THE HOLY FLOWER THE SISTERS OF THE VALLEY are not affiliated with the Catholic Church. Instead, their order is modeled after the Beguines, a group of women in the Middle Ages who formed communities that practiced a life of spirituality and service free from male or clerical oversight.

Each sister takes a set of vows that include living in practical ways, performing service to their community through plant medicine and practicing environmental stewardship. The meta description on the Sisters’ website NUNS characterizes them as “modern & NUGS Beguine revivalists empowering

jun. 2026

women through Cannabis and ancient wisdom.”

It’s hard not to be captivated by the sight of a nun’s habit set against a pair of sunglasses in a field of Cannabis plants. The very image seems to defy the stigmas and taboos around Cannabis. But despite all the media attention, founder Christine Meesen, who goes

by Sister Kate, says they have been fighting to stay alive for the last few years due to legal complications over trace amounts of THC in their CBD wellness line.

Sisters of the Valley started their brand with salves, ointments and oils made from hemp flower harvested

on their farm in the San Joaquin Valley. The business thrived, especially with the advent of online sales, but since 2024, an oversaturation of brands in the CBD market, along with an unfair ruling regarding trace amounts of THC in their products, has cut incoming revenue to one-fifth of what it used to be. The situation got so bad that Sister Kate said she even contemplated hanging up the habit, “It was like riding a wave to extinction.”

But, as the saying goes, “When God closes a door, he opens a window.” That’s what the Sisters found in an unexpected visit from Jessica Blair of the Traditional DTLA dispensary location and Damian Martin from Catalyst Cannabis stores.

Sister Kate was impressed with their interest in partnering, not just putting the order’s name on a jar.

Later, along with Catalyst CEO Elliot Lewis, the trio outlined a way for the Sisters of the Valley to launch THC products in dispensaries, and to start legal proceedings to get their CBD business back on track.

After three days, the group hammered out an agreement to design and release a product line to sell in over 30 Catalyst retail locations. Now, thanks to this retail partnership, Sister Kate envisions a future that is brighter than ever.

“The industry needs some other culture that's not just stereotypical stoner culture,” she told the Leaf during a phone interview.

“There's plenty of room for all manner of representation, but I feel the public should see a medicinal and spiritual side to the plant.”

And so, the sisters packed their bags and left the farm on a pilgrimage to visit each Catalyst store, meeting everyone they could to share the spiritual side of Cannabis and learn how to best serve the retail community.

Sister Kate said these interactions proved instrumental in fine-tuning the product line and introducing people to the order. She believes they couldn’t have gotten such a loving crash course in the adult-use market without the relationships the sisters formed with both customers and budtenders. The response to the products has been so positive that drops have already sold out.

The order also formed a bond with Traditional's cultivation team as they took on the difficult task of scaling up, and they have gone above and beyond to ensure everything meets the sisters’ standards.

Before every crop is planted, the sisters perform a ground blessing by walking the rows. Afterward, there is a sunrise and two sunset blessings given to the plants before the harvest. In the 10 years the order has been blessing fields, Sister Kate told us they’ve never had one so large that it took days to complete. She joked that next year they might try blessing the field on horseback.

Sister Kate hopes this relationship opens the door to multiple markets one day. They want to use Cannabis sales to build an enclave where Sisters can live, study and train new initiates. The plan is to purchase a 12-unit apartment building with a garden space where sisters can have quarters on the upper levels and offer the lower units to those in need of assisted living.

On the farm, there’s only enough room for six members to live full time, which includes sisters, applicants, postulates and novices.

With many members operating remotely and chapters established from Mexico to Chile and even Brazil, they need a space to house their growing order — somewhere they can build communal living situations, taking what they do out on the farm into the city as the very first Cannabis convent.

Find Sister of the Valley products in Catalyst stores, select Traditional retailers and their website sistersofthevalley.org

“The industry needs some other culture that's not just stereotypical stoner culture…I feel the public should see a medicinal and spiritual side to the plant.”

STORY by MATT JACKSON @ACTIONMATTJACKSON for LEAF NATION | PHOTOS by JARRETT JARMON @KNOW_JRAMA See more photos at LeafMagazines.com

Getting to know Jade Sancho-Duser, owner of RxMaryJade, MaryJade Therapeutics and founder of Rooted Community Education Group, a Plant-based Transformational Life Coach.

PHOTO BY JOY WASHINGTON

THE IMPACT ISSUE

RXMARYJADE Self-described “philanthropic philosopher and motivational muse” Jade Sancho-Duser, known as RxMaryJade, is a licensed massage therapist, holistic Cannabis educator and community organizer based in New Jersey. She has a deep understanding of Cannabis as medicine, a radiant energy and a penchant for getting totally blasted.

PHOTO BY LUCY LARIOT

leafmagazines.com

32

JUN. 2026

HOW DID YOU FIND YOURSELF AT THIS INTERSECTION OF CANNABIS, CULTURE AND COMMUNITY? In my early 20s, I decided to lose weight, so I cut out everything. No drinking, no sugar, no carbs and no Cannabis. Years later, I started having medical problems and ending up in the emergency room all the time. My boyfriend at the time was like, “I’ve heard smoking can help with that,” and it did.

I was about to move to Colorado for medicine around 2016 until I started working at Breakwater Dispensary. They helped me get my medical card, and my life drastically improved.

I haven’t taken pharmaceutical medications in at least 10 years.

I stopped taking my medicine through the use of CBD, specifically Charlotte’s Web and Cannatonic.

At Breakwater, I worked as a trimmer, then got promoted to the front as a budtender, and then a health coach. I saw there was a lot left to be desired in the medical industry, and there needed to be more education.

I had formulated this online presence, RxMaryJade, and I started bringing physicians to tour cultivation facilities. From there, I started doing community outreach.

Specifically, my thing is pathology, so helping individuals understand their pathology and how it relates to what types of Cannabis they should be using.

HOW DID YOU GET INTO EVENTS? My first event was a CBD brunch. I had a psychologist come and a Cannabis nurse. A gentleman who had Parkinson’s brought me a bottle of CBD he had just purchased for $250. I died inside when this man showed me this bottle for $250 because the stuff we had on hand was $50, probably better quality. That was when I realized this is a cash grab for a lot of people, and I can’t allow that.

We all deserve access to things, no matter what financial boundaries or medical conditions we have.

The Mary in RxMaryJade doesn’t stand for “marijuana.” It stands for Mary, for both of my grandmothers, who taught me kindness and community and gathering together.

My grandmother would be in her 60s and be like, “They need their lawn mowed next door,” and go into their shed, pull out their lawnmower and mow their whole lawn. So that’s my energy.

YOU HELD A THREE-DAY EARTH DAY CLEANUP THIS YEAR. HOW HAS THAT TRADITION COME TO BE? When the pandemic started in 2020, I volunteered for the New York-New Jersey Trail Conference.

I adopted a 2.2-mile-long trail that I was doing maintenance on, and I realized everything the people in the industry do is inside.

Page Burner

TELL US ABOUT THE EVENTS YOU LEAD, TERPENE TREKS? I started that last summer in conjunction with dispensaries. I don’t like to charge for my events if I don’t have to, and charging for hikes seems blasphemous. Everything I do should be free or accessible to people.

Cannabis is an ableist industry. I want to make sure people realize they can get out in nature, there’s something for every type of body, every type of capacity.

I just really like bringing the community together. Some of these people don’t have anybody who’s trying to do anything positive. I want you to see that you can do better.

I want you to see that there’s always an opportunity for growth.

free speech isn’t always so straightforward these days.

As readers and stoners, we’re no strangers to censorship. From banned books to Instagram

COURTESY

stories flagged for showing off fire nugs,

transaction denied

by Rainey Reitman | Penguin Random House

AS AN ACTIVE PARTICIPANT IN THE MEDICAL PROGRAM, HOW HAVE THINGS CHANGED SINCE THE RECREATIONAL MARKET OPENED UP? The medical program is nearly nonexistent now. I spoke at the CRC (Cannabis Regulatory Commission) meeting about that a couple of years ago. There was almost like a food pyramid they had, showing

WHAT ARE YOU LOVING ON THE MARKET THESE DAYS? Definitely Kusala Care and Neptune’s Garden; they told me if I ever want to just go sing to the plants, I can. That got me in my feels. Neptune’s Garden is my daily symptom relief. I have dexterity issues, so prerolls are helpful.

I’m a connoisseur, but when you need something right away, it’s there.

I don’t want to have to use it to feel better, but I don’t take other medications. This is my vitamin. I’ll go and have a shit day, and I’m like, what’s wrong with me? And I’m like, you know, you didn’t smoke. Go take your vitamins...

PHOTO BY JOY WASHINGTON

“I want to make sure people realize they can get out in nature, there’s something for every type of body, every type of capacity.”

RXMARYJADE.COM @RXMARYJADE

STORY by BECK ROURKE @PUNKYFUNKSTER2.0 for @NORTHEASTLEAFMAG

“Transaction Denied” by Rainey Reitman explores this issue from a new angle. Financial censorship means cutting people off from financial tools and institutions because of something they’ve said, created or supported. That could look like a glassblower losing access to PayPal for selling rigs or a podcaster being denied a mortgage over political views. Through stories of humanitarian activists, adult entertainers and even one of Leaf Magazines’ own, this book explores the real consequences of financial censorship and the range of communities it affects.

A personal favorite chapter, Cannabis and Industry Censorship, begins with Jackie Bryant, journalist and Leaf content director, unexpectedly receiving notice that Stripe — the payment processor of her Substack newsletter — is removing her for violating its terms of service. The irony? Cannabitch was completely free to read. It didn’t sell Cannabis or distribute products in any form; it simply linked to Cannabis companies as part of Bryant’s reporting.

Stripe claimed those links helped traffic a controlled substance.

Bryant responded the way most writers would: She went public.

Her account of “raising hell” with the platform went viral, drawing media attention and sparking broader conversations across her 20,000-plus social following. So much so that Stripe quietly reversed its decision.

From nonprofit Muslim organizations to online naked yoga communities, others Reitman interviewed also pushed back against financial censorship by making noise.

“A lot of people I feature in the book were able to find some kind of resolution eventually,” Reitman said.

“That often looked like a public advocacy campaign, like Jackie did, where she was able to get the company to reverse its decision.” Still, “there are a few that I continue to be concerned about,” she explained, “and I hope this book coming out could help them get access to financial services.”

So what can you do? Stay informed! The more we read, share stories and start conversations, the harder censorship becomes to ignore. Pick up a copy of “Transaction Denied” to start; a portion of every sale supports the Freedom of the Press Foundation (co-founded

by Reitman) and its work defending free expression.

STORY by KATHERINE WOLF @KATADELLIC

33

leafmagazines.com

HOW DO YOU USE TOPICALS AS A PART OF MARY JADE THERAPEUTICS? I’ve been a massage therapist for 21 years. My first class and e-book I created was “Take the Confusion Out of Infusion.” I started making Shaman Salve, that’s my CBD topical.

And then I have a product called Witches Brew, which is my THC-infused topical.

You’ll see CBD massages pop up, and everybody thinks CBD’s innocuous, but you can hurt somebody using CBD. That’s why I started having workshops on topical application because it’s not for everyone. There are certain people who take medications that make their skin thinner, so they’ll start feeling woozy because they don’t have that barrier. I’ve done it accidentally to people; that’s how I learned.

the regulatory structure, but the bottom corner was medical and patients. I said to them, maybe cheesy of me, the Bob Marley quote, “The stone that the builder refused will always be the head cornerstone.” I’m like, if you take us out, this whole thing falls apart. I still have my medical card, but I buy rec because what am I going to do with a nearly expired MSO (multistate operator) product?

book review

Cannabis is one of the least green industries. Running all these lights and all this water. So that’s when I decided I want to do a cleanup.

The first cleanup was really small, I think it was like five of us in 2021.

I’ve done it every year since, and it’s grown immensely, to this year’s three-day event. You don’t know how many Dutch wrappers we find — and dispensary packaging.

I also do a wildflower planting ceremony to help protect the Earth and to set intentions. We were able to plant over 150,000 wildflowers this year, which helps increase the monarch population, as well as bees and other pollinators.

We always have the opportunity to change the paradigm. We just have to decide when and take that action.

That’s all I ever want for anybody. You can always do different, and you can always do better.

shop review

34

leafmagazines.com

CULTURE HOUSE GREENPOINT

JUN. 2026

I visited Culture House’s new Greenpoint location during its opening week, and it’s immediately clear that this is not your average dispensary. Set inside a resplendent neoclassical bank building, it’s a sprawling space with big plans to live up to its name as a hub for culture and community.

Culture House Greenpoint is a statement of a location.

Housed in the former Greenpoint Savings Bank, the space carries a sense of history the moment you walk up to the building. Five years into New York’s legalization, with a dispensary seemingly every few blocks, truly unique spaces are starting to separate themselves, and Culture House Greenpoint sits near the top of that list.

Built in 1906 in the neoclassical style, the building is fronted by four three-story Doric columns and set back two impressive steps from the street (the building is also fully elevator accessible).

As you step inside, it’s impossible not to pause and take in the scale of the soaring stained-glass dome overhead.

The main floor feels like a landmark, with office rooms still bearing Victorian-era wood-paneled wainscoting.

Downstairs, the vault level is another stop-you-in-yourtracks moment. With the feel somewhere between a movie set and an escape room, the building’s original function is impossible to ignore. Behind a set of 2-inch-thick, floor-toceiling steel bars sits the original bank vault, complete with a massive multiton vault door and chamber.

Opening weekend, set with a dab bar, live tattooing and a DJ, the speakeasy energy is undeniable. As a born-and-raised New Yorker, there’s often a sense of malaise that comes with seeing buildings from a bygone era of craftsmanship turned into chain pharmaceutical drugstores. It’s refreshing to see how Culture House has embraced the space’s grandeur with its dispensary.

NICHOLAS GAZIN @NICKGAZIN

THE LOCATION

THE VIBE

Culture House has big plans to live up to its full name. With programming ranging from run clubs and yoga to movie nights and cooking lessons, they are leaning hard into the “House” side of their identity, building culture in the absence of formal consumption spaces.

General manager Jesus Benitez pointed to programming as their key differentiator. With a coffee bar on the ground level and plenty of space to work with, the team is building toward a culture-first model and reasons to come in beyond a transaction.

THE PRODUCTS

Culture House’s massive menu gives you more than enough reason to stop by or order delivery across northern Brooklyn. The sheer size of the bank hall not only gives their team space to stock nearly every brand I’ve encountered in the New York market, but it also gives room to show them off. When digging into the flower selection, I found all of my favorite craft growers, including cultivars I had not seen in some of the smaller Manhattan shops.

IT’S REFRESHING THE STAFF TO SEE HOW While the Greenpoint CULTURE HOUSE location might be new, HAS EMBRACED the team benefits from THE SPACE ’S GRANDEUR the foundation built at WITH ITS Culture House’s Manhattan DISPENSARY. flagship dispensary. Benitez joined Culture House at the Herald Square location, and marketing manager Samíris Feliz darts between the two.

With a proven training system in place, Culture House’s half dozen checkout points keep traffic moving so you won’t be stuck waiting in line.

Speaking about their approach at Greenpoint, Feliz emphasized that “Greenpoint is community-driven. People want to take their time, discover and connect. So we lean more into creating a space that feels like part of the neighborhood, not just somewhere you shop.”

CULTUREHOUSENYC.COM @CULTUREHOUSEBK @OFFICIALCULTUREHOUSENYC 807 MANHATTAN AVE., BROOKLYN, NY | (929) 295-0046 MONDAY-SATURDAY 9 A.M.-11 P.M. | SUNDAY 9 A.M.-10 P.M.

STORY by JAKE KERN @KUSHANDCURDS for @NORTHEASTLEAFMAG | PHOTOS by LEEVAN WONG & CULTURE HOUSE GREENPOINT @CULTUREHOUSEBK

cooking with Cannabis

June Joy

SPAGHETTI WITH ARUGULA PESTO

BLT SANDWICH

36

These early summer recipes are infused with Pruf Cultivar’s Rose City Shiska, a strain with a Black Cherry Cheesecake x Shiska Berry cross in its lineage. I love smoking it almost as much as cooking with it. When I send friends to dispensaries around town, that is the only advice I give — Pruf all the way. Whether you’re sharing a casual meal outdoors or winding down at the end of the day, these recipes are designed to be savored slowly, bringing a relaxed, feel-good energy to every bite. laurie@laurieandmaryjane.com

Serves 4 6 cups packed arugula Handful of baby arugula 4 garlic cloves, peeled Salt and pepper 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons olive oil, divided 4 teaspoons canna-oil 1/2 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese, plus extra for garnishing 1 pound spaghetti

Makes two sandwiches 1 ripe avocado, peeled, pitted and thinly sliced 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice 4 slices potato bread 4 tablespoons mayonnaise 2 teaspoons canna-oil or butter 8 strips bacon 4 leaves soft lettuce 4 slices ripe tomato

1. Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil.

2. In the bowl of a food processor fitted with a metal blade, pulse 6 cups of the arugula, walnuts, garlic, salt and pepper until pureed.

With the machine running, add the 1/2 cup of olive oil and canna-oil in a steady stream through the feed tube. Stir in the Parmesan, and set the pesto aside.

3. Cook the spaghetti according to package directions.

4. Drain the spaghetti, return it to the pot off the heat and toss it with the pesto and baby arugula.

5. Divide the pasta among 4 plates, drizzle with the remaining 2 tablespoons of olive oil and top with extra Parmesan.

1. In a small bowl, toss the avocado gently in the lemon juice, keeping the slices intact. Set the avocado aside.

2. Mix the mayonaise and the canna-oil. Toast the bread.

3. While the bread is still warm, spread 1 tablespoon canna-mayonnaise on each slice.

4. Layer 2 bacon strips, 2 lettuce leaves, a few avocado slices and 2 tomato slices on a bread slice, and top with another bread slice. Repeat for the other sandwich.

4. Cut each sandwich in half before serving.

leafmagazines.com

GARDEN PIZZA Serves 2 8 slices peasant bread, lightly toasted 4 teaspoons canna-olive oil 1 1/2 cups ricotta cheese 4 tablespoons olive oil 2 tablespoons chopped scallions 1 cup peas, fresh or frozen

SPAGHETTI WITH ARUGULA PESTO

JUN. 2026

GARDEN PIZZA

1. Preheat the oven to 400 F. 2. Put the crust on a baking sheet, and drizzle it with 1 tablespoon of the olive oil. Bake according to package directions.

3. Put the salad greens, peppers and onion in a medium bowl. In a small bowl, combine the vinegar, salt and pepper, and whisk in the remaining tablespoon of olive oil and the canna-oil.

4. Pour the vinaigrette over the greens and toss to combine.

5. Top the crust with the dressed greens and goat cheese

RECIPES by LAURIE WOLF @LAURIEANDMARYJANE | PHOTOS by BRUCE WOLF @BRUCE_WOLF #DontFearTheEdible #BeKind #EatYourCannabis | Laurie@Laurieandmaryjane.com

JOIN THE ORIGINAL GRASSROOTS CANNABIS ACTIVIST ORGANIZATION IN MASSACHUSETTS, 31 YEARS ON THE GROUND AND STILL GROWING TOGETHER!

THE studio IMPACT sessions ISSUE

HOW CANNABIS INSPIRES ART

CABIN7ORIGINALS.COM @CABIN7ORIGINALS

CABIN7 ORIGINALS Bridget Intessimone, owner at Cabin 7 Originals, is no stranger to Leaf Magazines. Her coloring book was recently

featured in our Analog Play story in the May 2026 Adventure Issue, and she illustrated the cover of the 2024 Culture Issue, alongside a profile from contributor Katherine Wolf. This makes her a perfect addition to our Studio Sessions series.

ORIGINALLY RAISED in the South, Intessimone grew up being taught that weed and meth were practically the same thing. She and her best friend tried smoking weed in high school, but she said she found it too intense.

At 18, the artist said to the Leaf that she went through a difficult period and became “a full-blown stoner overnight. It helped me eat, sleep and escape into my art.”

“Cannabis played a major role in my art career from the moment I became a stoner,” she continued. “I invested a lot of time in sharing my art on IG. By the time I was 22, I had 50k followers.”

From there, clients kept finding her, and BRIDGET she went from drawing individual portraits to INTESSIMONE creating marketing materials, packaging and apparel designs for brands in the space.

Cabin 7 Originals seem to have a distinctly different-butequal foreground and background. While the focus is usually on an activity like smoking a joint or hanging with a friend, the backgrounds are fantastical scenes of nature and space inspired by Intessimone’s own travels. You can almost view each as its own piece, expertly dovetailed with the others.

As a very detail-oriented person, Intessimone shared that she’s prone to sensory overload but uses Cannabis to calm her down, sit still and absorb her environment in a way that doesn’t seem so overwhelming. Plus, she said, “finding inspiration is easy when everything looks more beautiful and colorful.”

Intessimone says it only takes a few hits to reach a warm, vibrant flow state where she creates her best work. Once in that state, she said she usually flips on a soundtrack of truecrime podcasts, fantasy romance audiobooks and dark R&B — a genre she described as: “sexy late night haunted strip club music.”

Check out our previous article to learn how she came up with the name Cabin 7 Originals — and see her incredible cover art.

leafmagazines.com

38

jun. 2026

STORY by MATT JACKSON @ACTIONMATTJACKSON for LEAF NATION | ART by CABIN 7 ORIGINALS See more of their work at LeafMagazines.com

THE NOSE KNOWS:

BEYOND SATIVA, INDICA, & TAC Cannabis isn’t onedimensional — and it shouldn’t be chosen that way. The Nose Knows invites you to explore flower through what truly defines the experience: AROMA. Instead of chasing labels or numbers, we’ve mapped cannabis into six aroma- driven categories.

TAKE THE QUIZ —

Tell us what you like & how you want to feel, and we'll help you Find the Flower that's right for you.

This product has not been analyzed or approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). There is limited information on the side effects of using this product, and there may be associated health risks. Marijuana use during pregnancy and breast-feeding may pose potential harms.

It is against the law to drive or operate machinery when under the influence of this product. KEEP THIS PRODUCT AWAY FROM CHILDREN. There may be health risks associated with consumption of this product. Marijuana can impair concentration, coordination, and judgment.

The impairment effects of Edibles may be delayed by two hours or more. In case of accidental ingestion, contact poison control hotline 1-800-222-1222 or 9-1-1. This product may be illegal outside of MA. Please consume responsibly.