Sensi Magazine - Southern Colorado (November 2018)

SOUTHERN COLORADO

THE NEW NORMAL

11.2018

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STONER STEREOTYPES Born on the Silver Screen

FEATURES

S P EC I A L RE P O RT

32 The Abnormal History

of the New Normal

Senior Editor Leland Rucker doesn’t know about you, but he’s pretty pumped Dave’s still here.

38 Humans Getting High

Cannabis has delighted and inspired humans since prehistoric times.

We should celebrate that.

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09 Editor’s Note 11 The Buzz 16 CrossRoads

HIGH HABITS

22 AskAngie

ROCK ‘N ROLL, CBD, AND MORE

24 TasteBuds

HACKING THE FEAST

50 HereWeGo

MADE FOR THE HOLIDAYS

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NOTE

A LIST

A random compilation of things for which I am

currently grateful, in honor of the holiday season that kicks off later this month.

Magazines, all of them: a near perfect medium. Spotify’s Discover Weekly playlists and all the solid new music it’s turned me onto. Live music. Tiny dogs, with bonus points for my lil 2.75-pound Gidget. Long-sleeve shirts with thumb holes. Fuzzy boot season. Snowfalls followed by 70-degree days. First runs of the season. Last runs of the day. Infused marshmallows floating in steaming cups of chocolate. Canada.

Being able to re-create my mom’s stuffing without having to roast a whole turkey. Celebrating the art of imperfection. Realizing that striving for perfection is a waste of time.

Bearing witness to the major progressive strides being made in

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Vacation days put to good use. Traveling to new countries.

Exploring what lies beneath. Hulu’s “no commercial plan.” Wana’s new vape pens. CBD facial mists in every room of the apart-

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ment. CycleBar, Soul Cycle, and Flywheel. Uber eats. Traditions.

Nacher Apothecary //

Pies by the chef from the Regional in Fort Collins. Watching

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Leftovers. Mashed potatoes with chives. Feasts. Festivals. Fashion weeks. Locally made artisan gifts. Bronco-colored sunrises.

And sunsets. Snowcapped mountains. Perspective. Voting. Sensi, now in seven markets with an eighth magazine—Emerald Triangle, California—launching January 1. And and and… More. For all this and more, I am thankful.

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MST November 17, 2018. If you’ve got any big decisions to make, weigh in before then. And if you’re considering bangs, just go ahead and wait it out. The urge will pass.

From November 15 to 18, Water Circus I: Silver Unit

by Cirque Italia takes over under the special Big Top Silver on S. Prairie Avenue in Pueblo. Tickets start at $20 for the wannabe Cirque du Soliel show, which is a bit of a steal for a Euro-style circus show described as a “vivid, dramatic, and moving experience under a customized traveling tent.” It’s put on by an entertainment company dedicated to bringing the appreciation of production and circus arts together to create a night to be remembered.

The aquatic spectacular features a custom-designed traveling water stage, holding some 35,000 gallons of liquid wonder. Expect Soliel-style performances—aerial acts, hand balancing, contortionists, and other magical showcases of the breadth of human capacity. With more than 30 artists, Cirque Italia’s tour puts affordable shows on in about 50 cities each year, reaching an annual audience of two million. –Stephanie Wilson For details and tickets to the Pueblo big top events, head to CIRQUEITALIA.COM.

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DO: GO CHASING

WATERFALLS

On November 18, head to the Red Rocks Room at the Garden of the Gods at 3 p.m. for a special presentation by author Susan Joy Paul about Colorado waterfall and hot springs hikes. Paul is the epitome of Colorado #lifegoals: she has hiked to more than 100 waterfalls and soaked in more than 40 hot springs, documenting her experiences for Falcon Guides guidebooks. This presentation ($5) highlights hot-water-centric hiking destinations that are legal, open to the public, and free— plus some waterfalls you can visit in the same areas—a great way to get some inspiration for some family activities to tackle over Thanksgiving weekend. –SW For more details: GARDENOFTHEGODS.COM

WORDS OF WISDOM

"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough."

– Oprah

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Walk the Line

On November 3, the annual Veterans Day Parade in downtown Colorado

Springs arrives a bit early. The theme for this year: “Celebrating 100 years Armstice/Veterans Day.” According to PEAKRADAR.COM, the theme will be highlighted by the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, which came to an end on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918.

Veterans Day—11/11 every year—became an official federal holiday 20 years later, in 1938.

The parade—a fall tradition in the Springs since 2000—starts at 10 a.m. It’s self-proclaimed as one of the “biggest and best” in the United States, and given the large local military population, that’s not too farfetched a claim.

About 40,000 spectators are expected to line Tejon Street, cheering on the veterans from all over Southern Colorado as they march down the parade route. There will be Active Duty Units from the Air Force Academy and Ft. Carson, Peterson, and Schriever Air Force bases, representing branches of the Air Force, Army, and Navy. There’s even Canadian Units stationed in the area’s bases participating.

Originally started by a small group of volunteers, the nonprofit organization behind the pomp is guided by one mission: to honor veterans and inspire community awareness while paying tribute to the service and sacrifices all veterans have endured in the pursuit of freedom.

–SW

For more info: COSVETSPARADE.ORG.

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What began in the 1940s as a ski bum’s hobby of mak-

ing videos of his friends on the slopes so they could critique their form and improve their skills has avalanched into a global institution. Warren Miller Entertainment—

land on the 13, Pueblo on November 16, with additional

the brand created by that former slope bum—has been

screenings this month in Steamboat, Denver, Breck, and

releasing a ski film to kick off winter every year since 1949.

other Colorado mountain towns. Catch it while you can.

This month, WME invites you to ride along on its 69th

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It’s basically slope porn for the powder hungry. It brings together new and veteran athletes to pay tribute to Miller as it visits some of his favorite locations from Switzerland to Chamonix, British Columbia, to Alaska, Chile, Iceland, New Zealand, and beyond.

Tickets for the annual affair went on sale in September, but some were still up for grabs as of press time. They will sell out, so move swiftly to catch one of the two shows at Pikes Peak Center for the Performing Arts on November 2 and 3 at 7:30 p.m. If you miss those shows, it’s heading to Pace Center in Parker on November 7, then to Evergreen on November 9, Salida on November 10, Love14 NOVEMBER 2018 Southern Colorado

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Midterm Elections: Tuesday, November 6 Vote like your life depends on it.

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{crossroads }

by R I C A R D O B A C A

HIGH HABITS Coming to terms with my cannabis style.

“What is my cannabis style? Do I even have one?”

thereof) will yield a rainbow of varying answers. While some

As much as I dislike that question—more on that short-

take it to the extreme with the “Weed Kween” bling and leaf-

ly—I’ve been thinking more about the construct of canna-

print robes, others take a more subtle approach by support-

bis style lately, especially since North America is seemingly

ing hemp clothing brands and more muted shout-outs to the

obsessed with the so-called cannabis lifestyle these days.

plant (via related icons such as pineapples and trees).

But the cannabis lifestyle being portrayed in these

And that’s where the conversation gets interesting. What

varying media outlets and TV programs doesn’t reflect

are we putting out into the world when it comes to our rela-

my own relationship with the marijuana plant. And be-

tionships with marijuana, and what does that say about us?

yond the style-specific serrated-and-leafy aesthetics,

Of course this delves far deeper than our clothing and jewelry

I would also never claim to live a cannabis lifestyle—or

choices, because style is such an all-encompassing metric.

any particular kind of lifestyle, for that matter.

I just live my life. And cannabis is a part of my life, most days.

And so back to my cannabis style. When a friend asked me about it at a recent networking function, I laughed at the thought. “I can generally piece together an outfit

That said, I know I’ve been intentional in crafting my

each morning that doesn’t embarrass me, but beyond

public-facing style as it relates to cannabis. And while this

that I don’t regularly think all that much about my style,”

is less about Huf boxers and Jonathan Adler candles and

I remember telling her.

more about my personal take on the image I want to put out into the world, it’s still technically my cannabis style.

And I think it makes for an interesting conversation, because asking friends about their own cannabis style (or lack

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But when she pushed me, asking me to expand my thinking and to include how I presented myself as a member of this community to the greater world as a whole, it started to come together.

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I found myself immediately turn-

T-shirts and flat-brim hats

ing the tables and looking inward,

over the years, you won’t

because my day job (at full-service

regularly see me wear-

agency Grasslands) has me think-

ing much of that overtly

ing constantly about how my clients pres-

branded weed merch. I am, however,

ent themselves to the public. What does

drawn to clothing that educates and

their personal social media presence, their

pushes the envelope of long-overdue

company’s website, their thought leader-

drug policy reform—and it’s even bet-

ship op-eds and speaking engagements

ter when the sale of such wearables

say about their place in this industry, their

benefits individuals and organizations

role in this space?

doing this important work.

And what does my cannabis style say

And that’s why my friends have seen

about my role in this space? After some

me rocking Ts with a message: “Weed

mildly uncomfortable introspection,

Like Statehood” to promote D.C.’s as-

here’s where I’m at today:

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state that needs his voice, and “The War on Drugs is a War on

yet I get so many compliments on them. People usually

Us” to promote a non-profit working toward sensible drug poli-

notice the brand’s iconic red-rectangle tag first, but even

cy. Every time someone asks me, “What does your shirt mean?”

then their curiosity is more of the I-didn’t-know-they-

I take it as an opportunity to spread the important word.

made-shoes variety.

Fact-Based Information: I’m hardly the most prolific cannabis commentator on Twitter or Facebook, but when

When I tell them the shoes are made of hemp, that’s when the compliments start flowing in.

I do post something, I know it’s timely, compelling, im-

Poor hemp. While marijuana never deserved the aw-

portant and published in a legitimate media outlet. So I’m

ful reputation assigned to it back in the 1930s, nonpsy-

proud to count fact-based information as central to my

choactive hemp was even more misunderstood by the

cannabis style.

masses. But now the suburban moms know all about

As I’ve written before, negative misinformation fueled

cannabidiol (CBD), hemp seeds and the sturdy fabrics

an unjust drug war for nearly 80 years, but misinforma-

woven from hemp, and it’s encouraging to see them and

tion is misinformation, and spreading misleading charts,

others invest in brands that have doubled down on this

lists and stories positioning the industry in a positive light

malleable textile and food source.

is just as harmful as the drug war rhetoric of decades past.

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{askangie }

by A N G I E Mc C A R T N E Y

MEET DR. ANGIE The only living Beatles’ stepmom, Dr. Angie McCartney, is ready to regale Sensi readers with anecdotes of inspiration, humor, survival instincts, small business tips and tricks, backstage tidbits, and more.

I’m Dr. Angie McCartney. I’m almost 89 years old, still

football match in Manchester. Times were tough. We lost

working full time on various ventures, including McCartney

our home, which belonged to Eddie’s employer, and after

Multimedia, McCartney Studios, Mrs. McCartney’s Teas, and

being turned down by 46 landlords who said, “We don’t

Mrs. McCartney’s Wines. As a newly converted advocate for

take kids,” I got a one-bedroom flat on the Kirby Trading

CBD, I’m excited Sensi magazine invited me to write a column.

Estates on the outskirts of Liverpool.

I grew up in Liverpool during World War II. The severe

In the summer of 1964, I met Paul McCartney’s dad, Jim.

bombing of our city in 1941, when I was 11, meant school

We married in November 1964, and shortly after, Jim ad-

was not a viable option. We kids were scattered and went

opted my four-year-old daughter Ruth.

one day a week to a local home to assemble with our teacher and try to learn something.

As you can imagine, precious little school work got done.

It was just us kids yakking on about the war, about whose brother had been injured (or worse) in Europe.

Life took a huge turn, and I’d find myself doing laundry for John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, and others who came to “crash” at our house in Merseyside, near Liverpool.

Paul would sometimes drive up from London to visit us, often bringing along his hippie chums. That’s when

My dad was a compound pharmacist, creating medi-

Jim and I became aware of the various substances these

cines, ointments, and tinctures to relieve pain, calm tooth-

young folks were mad for, and being the mother of four-

aches, etc., and he always said, “If it didn’t grow out of

year-old Ruth, I’d clean up, sweep away, flush away all

God’s green earth, then you shouldn’t put it in your body.”

kinds of powders, pills, and potions around the house. My

He died a long time ago, but I still remember his words.

janitorial efforts must have cost the guys fortunes.

How right he was. Now, in these days of opioids, we all know too well what can happen.

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Fast forward to today. After I had two knee replacements and got a new hip, a friend suggested I try CBD topicals for the pain. I needed some convincing, because of the stigma of the old days.

But once I tried CBD, I knew it was right for me. So now, as I am pushing 90, I find myself being an advocate for the soothing properties of cannabinoids. And I want to share my journey, experiences, and opinions with you.

Each month, I’ll reply to readers’ submissions in this new Ask Angie column. What kind of questions? I’m glad you asked. All types: queries about what kind of topicals I use and how often are as welcome as questions about the rock and roll years. If any of you folks need any reassur-

Got a burning question?

Ask away! email: ASKANGIE@SENSIMAG.COM Instagram: @SENSIMAGAZINE #ASKANGIE web: SENSIMAG.COM/ASKANGIE

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Catch her weekly show Teaflix Tuesdays on Facebook.

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ing about using anything derived from the cannabis plant,

Listen to her live radio broadcast on the Pete Price Show

please get in touch.

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by J O H N L E H N D O R F F

How the hippies hijacked Thanksgiving and had a feast that can’t be beat.

HACKING THE FEAST

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Back before football and Black Friday frenzy came to dominate the day, Thanksgiving was the stodgiest of the big American holidays. The national feast day was mostly a quiet family home meal with the same turkey, boxed stuffing, and green bean casserole. It was traditional, but not necessarily that much fun.

I come from Massachusetts where Thanksgiving was always a big deal. The Pilgrims and Wampanoag Indians got together for a three-day harvest feast in 1621 about 50 miles from where I grew up. More importantly, I was just down the turnpike from Stockbridge, the town where folk singer-songwriter Arlo Guthrie and a friend dumped trash over a cliff in 1965. That seminal moment sparked a folk song that would change Thanksgiving history.

“This song is called ‘Alice’s Restaurant’ and it’s about Alice, and the restaurant, but Alice’s Restaurant is not the name of the restaurant” When Guthrie’s “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree” debuted in 1967, the song immediately became an underground hit. For young males like me approaching the age when we could be drafted into the military to fight in Vietnam, the song about questioning authority was a call to action as well as a cautionary tale. It was also about the communal nature of Thanksgiving.

“My friend and I went up to visit Alice at the restaurant” I grew up loving Thanksgiving with our large, overextended family of Austrian, Sicilian, and Polish relatives who contributed ethnic side dishes. The bird was always filled with mashed potato and Italian sausage stuffing. However, the title track of Guthrie’s Alice’s Restaurant album describes a holiday with friends that sounded much more like a party than the sometimes nerve-racking family feasts we knew at home. Because of the epic, 16-minute talking blues track by the son of folk icon Woody Guthrie—the singer-songwriter behind classics such as “This Land Is Your Land”—nondenominational Thanksgiving Day soon became the hippies’ unofficial national holiday.

“Now it all started two Thanksgivings ago” I was an American student at McGill University in Montreal in the early 1970s when our household decided to host the hippest Thanksgiving ever. We recorded a soundtrack on a reel-to-reel tape deck of our favorite songs—some early Springsteen like “Rosalita,” lots of country rock including Emmylou Harris’s “Bluebird Wine,” and, of course, “Alice’s Restaurant.” The tunes were supposed to fit the various stages of the festivities including digestive tunes for the aftermath. Some of the memories are a tad foggy, but it was a great time.

“Had a Thanksgiving dinner that couldn’t be beat” We were antiestablishment so we kept the parts of Thanksgiving we liked— the wine and the pies—and got rid of the parts we couldn’t stand, such as the need to dress up. Long before it caught on with mainstream, the counterculture hosted vegetarian Thanksgivings with a big-tent approach that welcomed side sensimag.com NOVEMBER 2018 25

“You may know somebody in a similar situation, or you may be in a similar situation” Another year, I knew that slicing the turkey in the aluminum pan was a really bad idea but I went ahead anyway. I sliced through the pan, and the hot, fatty, delicious collected juices started pouring out on the cutting board, counter, and floor.

The thing is: We all get anxiety attacks over hosting Thanksgiving. I’m getting nervous even as I write this, because this year everybody’s coming to eat at my house. I figure it’ll be worth it for the leftovers.

“Kid, have you rehabilitated yourself?”

In a recent feature on feast dishes for 50 states in the New York Times, Colorado got special attention. “It’s diffidishes of all denominations. What mattered was gathering like-minded members of your tribe.

Besides, Thanksgiving with friends was also the one holiday bash other than New Year’s Eve when we could enjoy highly illegal cannabis along with beer and wine.

“And everything was fine, we were smoking cigarettes and all kinds of things, until the sergeant came over” Over the years, I’ve hosted Thanksgiving or helped stage the feast dozens of times, but not without combating the prevailing paradigm. Magazine covers and TV shows show

cult to assess exactly how much the legalization of marijuana in Colorado may have changed the Thanksgiving menu. But it has indubitably increased the snacking that goes on afterward,” the esteemed publication noted.

We would remind the Times that cannabis and Turkey Day have been intersecting for many decades in many places, not just in Colorado.

I interpreted the wisecrack to mean that we love our leftovers in Colorado. If I’m going to bust my buns pulling off Thanksgiving, then I want enough goodies so I can relax and enjoy the meal in the days that follow.

perfect birds, oh-so-easy side dishes, and 126 things you can do to decorate your home for the happy feast day. You must remain the relaxed and gracious hostess or host.

It is a fairy-tale feast complete with unreasonable expectations, because stuff always happens. No wonder folks end up making reservations at a restaurant instead of hosting an elaborate meal. I feel their pain.

“I walked in, sat down, I was hung down, brung down, hung up, and all kinds o’ mean nasty ugly things” Turkeys have been overcooked and undercooked when I’ve hosted. I’ve burned dishes that only needed to be warmed.

Once the fridge was packed and I was tired on Thanksgiving night so I left the turkey carcass on the back porch on a near-freezing night. I awoke to a brutally attacked turkey scattered across the porch and back yard after an alley gang of obnoxious raccoons broke in. I mourned the lost meat and soup.

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“Had another Thanksgiving dinner that couldn’t be beat”

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LET’S

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I look forward to turkey breast BLT’s, dark meat turkey in french dip sandwiches with gravy replacing the au jus, and turkey tacos in chocolate-chile mole sauce. I love making waffles out of leftover bread stuffing, and serve latkes made from Italian sausage and potato stuffing topped with eggs.

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will dig into the freezer and smile when I find carefully packaged gravy, cranberry sauce, turkey, and side dishes for a comforting, easy dinner.

“You can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant, excepting Alice” Ironically, our antiestablishment counterculture ended up creating rituals that are followed annually. Many radio stations have made it traditional to play the 16-minute protest song on Thanksgiving Day, sometimes several times.

If Grandpa and Grandma get a silly gleam in their eye when they hear “Alice’s Restaurant” playing, they may have been hippies. There were challenging times, chronicled in the song, that they lived through in the late 1960s to the early ’70s. It wasn’t all peace and love, either.

“If you want to end war and stuff you got to sing loud” Is hosting a Thanksgiving feast really worth the hours of prep, the cleaning, the shopping, the cooking, and commotion of inviting others into your home for a dining experience fraught with so many possible disasters?

My answer is still yes.

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PHOTOS BY ANDRE VELEZ

THERE WAS A TIME WHEN CHEECH & CHONG KEPT ME SANE.

IT WAS WINTER 1971–72, AND THE WORLD WAS WARNING ME THAT SMOKING POT WAS GOING TO

DESTROY MY AMBITION, ROB ME OF MY MOTIVATION AND, FOR ALL I KNEW, SEND ME STRAIGHT TO HELL. EVERYTHING I READ SAID THAT MARIJUANA

WOULD TURN ME INTO A LOW-IQ COUCH POTATO, YET HERE I WAS SMOKING A JOINT THEN CLEANING THE HOUSE AND WEEDING THE YARD. IT JUST MADE NO SENSE. And in the midst of the madness, along came Cheech &

Chong and Big Bambú, two records that amplified and cru-

most famous routine, “Dave’s Not Here,” became part of stoner mythology. Everybody knew “Dave’s Not Here.”

cified the stoner clichés of the era. Those albums kept me,

Cheech & Chong’s comedy, far ahead of its time and

and as it turns out, millions of other tokers, laughing our

with a minority focus—Richard “Cheech” Marin is Mexi-

asses off, whether at Bob Bitchen enthusiastically going for

can-American, and Tommy Chong is of Scottish-Irish/Chi-

the hash on the C&C’s 1980 Let’s Make a Dope Deal album,

nese descent—provided a secret language for our then-ille-

the hapless “Pedro and the Man at the Drive-Inn” down-

gal, secret society. C&C made it so much less clandestine.

ing their stash to keep from getting busted by the police on

They poked holes in marijuana myths—wink, wink—which

1973’s Los Cochinos, or Sister Mary Elephant scream-

made us giggle, and at the same time convinced the an-

ing at her class to “SHUUUUUDD-UP!” in the

ti-pot crowd that that’s how people act when they’re high.

skit bearing her name. Nobody said

We knew better. But the stoner stereotype was born.

“far out, man” better than

Fast forward about 46 years to September 2018, and I’m

Tommy Chong.

eating catered Cracker Barrel pancakes, bacon, and scram-

Their

bled eggs on paper plates chatting with Tommy Chong in sensimag.com NOVEMBER 2018 33

Lucy Sky, a Denver dispensary that carries Chong’s Choice,

hippies, and drug use among them. His aide John Ehrli-

his brand of cannabis products. What once was an under-

chman later admitted the administration put cannabis

ground cult with its own code and buzzwords is now a

in the same classification as heroin to give Nixon extra

worldwide, multibillion-dollar industry that even Coca-Co-

legal leverage over hippies and minorities—that period’s

la is interested in investing in.

“enemies of the state.” This was after the administration’s

Darkness and Lies

Shafer Commission concluded the only problem with marijuana was its illegality. For a short period, the US

Thinking back, it’s pretty amazing the lengths that the

government helped Mexico spray its fields with the her-

federal government went to—and still does, the budget

bicide paraquat to kill pot plants in the early 1970s in an

for the Drug War this year is about 36 billion dollars—to

effort to curtail use. In March 1978, 33 percent of marijua-

try to keep Americans from “getting high.” Despite that

na samples found in the US were found to be contaminat-

pharmaceutical drugs and alcohol get you “high,” too,

ed with the chemical, a known pulmonary toxin.

American leaders on both sides of the political aisle

But even then, the hypocrisy was already beginning to

have tried their damnedest to stop millions of Ameri-

unravel. I remember reading about a 20-something-year-old

cans who use cannabis as a part of their lives.

man named Robert Randall, who, after years of court battles,

International cannabis policy is still governed by the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, convened in 1961

won the right to have the US government supply him with marijuana to keep him from going blind back in the 1970s.

IN 2017, 659,700 AMERICANS WERE ARRESTED FOR MARIJUANA OFFENSES. and updated in 1971 and 1988 by the United Nations. The

Randall’s eye doctor had given him the unfortunate

Single Convention was based on the idea that addiction

news that severe glaucoma would render him unable to

“constitutes a serious evil for the individual” and is a so-

see by age 30. After smoking a joint, he noted that the

cial and economic obstruction to mankind’s progress.

halos he usually saw around streetlights, a symptom of

The “solution” was an approach that included incarcer-

his disease, had disappeared. He started self-medicating

ation for users and dealers and, except for medical and

and working with his ophthalmologist, who noted that

scientific purposes, total elimination of all illegal drugs. To

cannabis was lessening the glaucoma symptoms. He

be honest, it hasn’t worked out very well after a half-cen-

began growing his own plants, and in 1975 was arrested

tury and who knows how many dollars spent, and it’s not

after a search warrant was executed on his property.

surprising that some signatories are beginning to question

Instead of pleading guilty to a misdemeanor posses-

this wisdom, especially in light of legalization efforts in

sion charge, Randall challenged the government, argu-

the US. At this point, American states that allow legal mar-

ing that he was forced to break the law to keep from go-

ijuana are technically breaking international law.

ing blind. And he won. When he found that the feds were

The Convention was used by President Richard Nix-

growing marijuana on a farm in Mississippi, he demand-

on and Congress to help pass the Controlled Substances

ed that the government supply him with marijuana to

Act in 1970, and since then, the federal government has

keep his disease in check, and Randall became the first

desperately tried to stop you and me and lots of other

recipient of the short-lived Compassionate Investiga-

people from doing something they find enjoyable and

tional New Drug program, which supplied him with a tin

that, given the alternatives, seems fairly benign. So plea-

filled with 300 hand-rolled joints every month for many

surable, in fact, that millions of Americans are willing to

years. The label on the bottle: “Smoke as directed.”

continue to break federal and international law to do it.

When Randall died in 2001 at age 53 of AIDS-related

Nixon, who wandered the White House corridors drunk

complications, he still had his sight. So marijuana was

and babbling to paintings in the dark days before his res-

as bad as heroin, the government was telling us, unless

ignation, was phobic about a lot of things—Jews, gays,

you had glaucoma. Did they think we weren’t paying at-

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tention because we were all as stupid as Cheech & Chong were pretending to be when in character?

Clinton claiming that he never inhaled?

Still, attitudes toward legalization began to change in the

Ah, and then there were the Reagan years. Ronald Rea-

1990s, as the numbers of people incarcerated for cannabis

gan, the handsome former actor and corporate spokes-

continued to rise, and states, beginning with California in

person, became president in 1980 and reinstated the goal

1996, petitioned to allow cannabis for medical purposes.

of zero tolerance for all drug users and sellers. Richard

Undaunted, the DEA, unable to stop the flow of canna-

Nixon reborn, Reagan demonized marijuana much as he

bis into the country from our borders, targeted American

did communism, calling for a nationwide crusade “to rid

growers, unwittingly leading to cannabis becoming the

America of this scourge.”

largest cash crop in America. On several occasions, the

The dope jokes were running thin, but Cheech & Chong’s

government went after paraphernalia shops. During one

string of hit films after 1978’s Up in Smoke coincided with

of those, 2003’s Operation Pipe Dreams, Tommy Chong

the Reagan years and found another eager generation,

was arrested and served nine months in prison.

this one the recipients of Nancy Reagan’s “Just Say No” and the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) absti-

The New Normal

nence campaigns. I’m always reminded of those two fail-

The fact is, as Cheech & Chong continue to remind us,

ures every time I attend a cannabis function, since many

that humans are always going to find ways to change

of the brightest people in the modern cannabis industry

their consciousness. Always have, always will. The

grew up in the clutches of those programs.

War on Drugs has been extremely effective at putting

If anything, President George H. Bush was even worse,

Americans, especially minorities, behind bars. (In 2017,

hiring William Bennett, a compulsive gambler and

659,700 Americans were arrested for marijuana offens-

nicotine addict, as his first Drug Czar. “The white mid-

es.) But despite endless cash, “Just Say No” and D.A.R.E.

dle-class user needs to be coerced, needs to be told that

campaigns, zealous border patrols, sophisticated gad-

his behavior won’t be tolerated,” Bennett once said. He

getry, mandatory sentencing, and harsher punishments,

still believes that. And who could forget President Bill

the government hasn’t been able to stop anybody who

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really wants to from using cannabis.

More than 30 states allow some kind of medical marijuana, and nine states and the District of Columbia allow adults over 21 to purchase cannabis. More than 200 million Americans have access to legal marijuana. Celebrity brands are growing, with Tommy’s Choice among them.

Chong, who turned 80 in May, has never been the character he plays on stage and screen, and he says he’s pretty much a one-toker these days. Almost as many people recognize him from his appearances on television’s

Dancing with the Stars as from his routines with Marin.

“It’s pretty funny having young fans come over and grab the old stoner for a selfie,” he says, grinning.

He and Marin do about two months worth of live gigs every year, many of them in casinos, he says. The Cheech & Chong act has transformed from a series of skits about stoners into a kind of a play. A quick look at a recent show on YouTube indicates that “Dave’s Not Here” is now part of a set piece on vigilante justice. #TheNewNormal as theater.

I just read about a campaign in California that is trying to defame words like “stoner” that contribute to the continuing stigma around cannabis use. I’m all for that, but only up to a point. It’s somehow still comforting to know that Dave’s still here.

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Cannabis has delighted and inspired humans since prehistoric times. We should celebrate that.

by ROBYN GRIGGS L AWRENCE

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SINCE C ALIFORNIA BEC AME THE FIRS T S TATE TO LEG ALIZE

medical marijuana

IN 1996, THE PL ANT’S CUR ATIVE VALUE HA S BEEN THE LE ADING ARGUMENT FOR C ANNABIS L AW REFORM. THE SACRED HERB IS OF TEN THE ONLY MEDICINE THAT WORK S WHEN PHARMACEUTIC AL S FAIL , AND THAT’S A P OWERFUL P OINT. ALL TOO OF TEN, HOWE VER, IT OVERSHADOWS OTHER JUS T-A S-IMP OR TANT BENEFIT S.

Cannabis induces merriment, creativity, and divine

bhang to relax and escape at the end of a long day, much

inspiration. It gets us high. It helps us have fun. If we’re

like Americans drink beer. According to Clarke and

ever to win this legalization debate, we need a better

Merlin, an 1894 Indian Hemp Drugs Commission report

word to encapsulate these blessings than “recreational.”

stated that cannabis use was generally accepted be-

Delight Giver or Liberator of Sin? Humans have been enthralled with cannabis’s gentle intoxication since the earliest foragers taste-tested sticky cannabis flowers and, if you believe ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes, subsequently invented religion.

cause it had positive effects like “raising a man out of himself and above mean individual worries.”

Branches of Bliss and Thought Morsels Cultures and religions have been defined—and divided—by their intoxicants of choice throughout histo-

In Cannabis: Evolution and Ethnobotany, Robert C.

ry. Early Christians ordained alcohol, and in 1484 Pope

Clarke and Mark D. Merlin describe the cannabis plant’s

Innocent VIII decreed cannabis use cause for excom-

most significant evolutionary trait as “the adaptation of

munication, despite what many believe to be the Bible’s

the female inflorescence to exude large amounts of

blessing in Genesis 1:29: “Behold, I have given you every

readily apparent and easily collected psychoactive res-

herb bearing seed, and to you it will be for meat.”

in.” Throughout the ages, humans have both reveled

Perhaps Christians vilified cannabis because Mo-

with and reviled the gift of those psychoactive crys-

hammed’s followers reached for it instead of alcohol,

tals—almost exclusively for economic and political

which was forbidden to them. Cannabis is key to the

reasons as revolutions in thought and art have exploded

myth of 11th-century Shiite zealot Hassan-Ibn-Sabbah,

during the intelligentsia’s cannabis (usually hash-

who reputedly lured male followers to a paradise and

ish-eating) binges.

plied them with wine, food, women, and hashish before

Though cannabis was referred to in ancient China

he forced them to kill infidels. (The word assassin is

as “liberator of sin” and “delight giver,” it was never

said to be derived from Hassan’s name, and centuries

popular for its mind-opening qualities in that nation.

later, primo narc and “devil weed” hater Harry Ansling-

In India, on the other hand, cannabis in various

er referenced this pernicious urban legend during con-

forms—ganja, the flowering tops; charas, concentrat-

gressional testimony and in his famous article, “Mari-

ed resin; and bhang, a drink made from cannabis, spic-

huana: Assassin of Youth.”)

es, nuts, seeds, and milk—has been a staple for Hindus

Arab legend credits 12th-century Islamic Sufi found-

who are forbidden to drink alcohol for centuries. Be-

er Sheik Haidar with discovering cannabis’s happiness

lieved to be Lord Shiva’s favorite food, bhang is deeply

factor after he ate some leaves while wandering in the

embedded in the rituals at holy festivals, weddings,

Persian mountains, though hashish (sometimes known

and other celebrations.

as “Haidar’s wine”) was widely used in the Middle East

Described in the ancient text Atharva Veda as an

long before that. Travelers, scholars, and poets openly

herb that relieves anxiety, ganja has been a part of daily

procured hashish—which early Arab texts refer to as

life in India for thousands of years. Many Hindus drink

“shrub of emotion,” “shrub of understanding,” “peace of sensimag.com NOVEMBER 2018 39

mind,” “branches of bliss,” and “thought morsel”—in Egyptian bazaars. An Egyptian researcher who studied his ancestors’ predilection for hashish through 12th- and 13th-century poems found evidence of euphoria, sociability, freedom, jocularity, and amiability.

Not every story ended so well, however. “The Tale of the Hashish Eater” in One Thousand and One Nights, a compilation of Islamic Golden Age folk tales, tells of a man who’s beaten and ejected from a public bathhouse when he can’t hide the evidence of his hash-induced arousal. Despite the apologue’s unhappy ending, it sparked new literati interest in cannabis, largely for its aphrodisiac potential, when the Arabian chronicles were widely published in the West in the 18th century.

“Taste the Hashish!”

French physician Jacques Joseph Moreau publicly rediscovered hashish for Westerners in the mid-19th century when he asked novelists and writers to let him watch as they ate copious amounts during monthly “Club de Hachichins” meetings at a Paris mansion.

In a description of his first hashish experience with this society, published in 1843, novelist Pierre Jules Theophile Gautier described a scene in which everything seemed gigantic, flamboyant, dazzling, and mysterious.

In his 1860 novel based on these experiences, Artificial Paradises, Charles Baudelaire describes musical notes that enter his breast like luminous arrows, blue and red sounds springing forth in electric sparks. (Some people think the crew may have eaten some opium with their hash.)

“Taste the hashish!” Alexandre Dumas goaded in his wildly popular novel, The Count of Monte Cristo, which describes hashish-induced erotic visions and music that sounds like “the seven choirs of paradise.” Dumas was an influencer, and his book was blamed for all sorts of sins. In 1854, the Mexico City El Correo de Espaa reported that it had created “a veritable ‘hashishmania’ among the European cognoscenti.”

The craze jumped the pond when American writer Fitz Hugh Ludlow wrote about how hashish stops time and expands the mind in The Ha-

sheesh Eater, published in 1857. Imbibers can reach “the soul’s capacity for a broader being, deeper insight, grander views of Beauty, Truth and Good than she now gains through the chinks of her cell,” Ludlow wrote.

“Beauty and Warmth from Gage” Until Anslinger and his band of corrupt industrialists launched their propaganda campaign rebranding “marijuana” as a terrifying menace, cannabis tinctures and confections were readily available in the United States.

The plant—referred to as “muggles,” “reefer,” “muta,” “gage,” “tea,” “Mary Warner,” “Mary Jane,” and “rosa maria”—was an essential component of the Jazz Age. Jazz singer Cab Calloway praised the gage in the lyrics of “That Funny Reefer Man” and urged sisters to “light up on these weeds and get high and forget about everything” in “The Man from Harlem.” Louis Armstrong, who called cannabis “a friend” and said it was “a thousand times better than alcohol,” tooted its horn in “Muggles.” Fats Waller sang “got to get high before I sing” in “Viper’s Drag,” and even Benny Goodman serenaded it in “Texas Tea Party” and “Sweet Marihuana Brown.”

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In the 1920s and 1930s, Harlem was packed with “tea pads,” reefer-friendly speakeasies where people could smoke and dance and talk. People shared joints in dance halls and theaters throughout the city. A 1932 Broadway musical included a musical number called “Smokin’ Reefers” that called cannabis “the stuff that dreams are made of.” Perhaps most presciently, that song admitted it was also “the thing white folks are afraid of.”

Muggles didn’t stand a chance once Anslinger set loose his brigade of yellow journalists. Newspapers across the country ran articles like a 1926

Chicago Herald-Examiner one about a hash eater in Topeka, Kansas, who ended up wandering along the highway, naked and blubbering about being a white elephant while swinging his arms like a trunk.

“Marihuana did it,” the paper reported.

Anslinger and his goonies won. They got Satchmo, who said he was no longer willing to suffer the “drastic penalties” of prohibition in his later years after he was arrested while finishing a joint between sets.

“We had to put it down,” he told his biographer. “But if we get as old as Methuselah, our memories will always be lots of beauty and warmth from gage.”

CANNABIS USE WAS

GENERALLY ACCEPTED

BECAUSE IT HAD POSITIVE EFFECTS LIKE “RAISING A MAN

OUT OF HIMSELF

AND ABOVE INDIVIDUAL WORRIES.”

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MARQAHA

Going Deep CAREFUL ATTENTION TO FORMULATIONS HELPS MARQAHA EXPAND THE CUSTOMER BASE.

Two guys looking for a better life in 2010 found

This is not about getting high, he points out. Rather

their own bliss by shaping a company. That company,

it’s about getting something that anybody can interact

marQaha, is actually named after the Arabic word for

with. “If you don’t have a product line that an 80-year-

bliss, and it manufactures handcrafted whole plant

old woman can utilize, then you really aren’t being a

extracts and hemp-based medicine (a no-THC vanilla

good company by product design and formulation,”

hemp lip balm).

Meador says. “You are missing the boat.”

Co-founder Skip Meador has created multiple suc-

Verification of the formulation of the ingredients of

cessful companies in the tech and consulting spaces.

a product is a particular focus of the company. “We

He founded a nutraceutical company in 2006 that was

test, verify, and validate everything that goes into the

regulated by the FDA. That experience in formulation,

product,” Meador says.

dosing, and federal drug oversight led to the creation

A newly completed research-and-development fa-

of marQaha with co-founder Tim McDowell, a former

cility will further the marQaha mission of formulating

professional chef who develops the formulas used in

and supporting its products and brands for any mar-

the products while overseeing the standard operating

ket and user. “We are not looking at just one market.

procedures used in the process.

We are trying to develop products that could address

MarQaha was turned into an intellectual property

solutions globally,” Meador says.

company, allowing it to partner with both large-scale operators and established production facilities in multiple national and international markets.

The first product line was all beverages, but tinctures have emerged as a strong seller recently. “It’s a versatile line,” Meador says. “That is the product line where we said, ‘OK, let’s put some time and energy into this.’”

The company has an agave-based tincture with a maple/honey line coming out soon. “We chose a tincture because it can be used as a food item,” Meador says. “It can also stand on its own, and create something that people enjoy medically or recreationally.”

When the company got into beverages—one of the first cannabis companies to do that in Colorado—it started with a 12-ounce format but has been using a two-ounce format since 2014. “We will come out with the larger format again in various markets based on demand,” Meador says.

MarQaha pushed micro-dosing early in 2011, he says, using its sublingual spray. “Early on it was, ‘how strong can you make the product?’” Meador says. “We said, ‘Let’s go the opposite route and see how small a dose you can get and have it measured.’”

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volved 14 questions, brutal honesty, and a weekend away

As the cannabis industry grows, so does the number of professionals within it, acting as incredible sources of insider info on the trends and issues driving the marketplace forward. The Sensi Advisory Board is comprised of select industry leaders in a variety of fields, from compliance and education to concentrates and cultivation. They are invited to share specialized insight in this dedicated section. This month, we hear from a member in the biosciences category.

from home. The location could be anywhere in the US where we could connect with nature and each other. We began all those years ago with an idea: Let’s pull together some questions in a journal that we could ask each other over time and hold each other accountable for the answers.

We would take two days to answer them all, as it is hard work in between the laughing and crying. We would also include some hikes or outdoor activity as well as a “goddess tradition.” The goddess activity might be a sage-smudging ceremony in New Mexico or a full-moon hike in California

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to activate the power of crystals. We would create the ritual over the course of the weekend. All would be recorded in The Sacred Book.

LIFE OVER THE YEARS

Topics range from, “Are you being emotionally honest in your primary relationship?” to “When is middle age?” Answers change over time. New questions have been added over the years as our friendships evolved. Our least favorite question may be, “What do I think of myself physically?”

There is a collective groan in the room when that question is read. Leave your ego at home.

The Goddess Weekend and the Sacred Book

This year we had some laughter and tears on the aging topic when we watched a video called “How to Age Grace-

by DOROTHY COLAGIOVANNI, VP, PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT, NEXT FRONTIER BIOSCIENCES

fully.” The concept is that the older person gives the younger version of themselves a little advice. We have now incorporated this into the weekend that begins with, “Dear 40-yearold self, don’t be so hard on yourself.” Women are hardest on

Heading north on I-25 from Santa Fe, I reflected on the weekend I had just shared with my two closest friends.

There is something calm and centering when you can relax, rejuvenate and share authentically with your girlfriends.

themselves. Friends are there to lift them up and help them see again that they are kind, loved, and valued.

We recently added a new category: “The stop-doing list.”

This is a particularly sore point for me as I am a perpetual

The concept of the girlfriend getaway isn’t new. Maga-

yes person. “Oh, you need a casserole for that parent-teach-

zines have been touting destinations for girl trips for years,

er conference? Sure, sign me up!” By writing the answers in

from Vegas to wine country. Childless girl trips with cock-

the book and knowing the following year my friends will

tails, pools and beach umbrellas are very in vogue. Throw

hold my feet to the fire helps me to gather the courage to

in legal cannabis, and the weekend just goes to 11. While

say “no.” As a matter of fact, I just canceled an event I had

the getaway is essential for female bonding and sanity

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checks,

begrudgingly signed up to attend this evening—yay, me!

We leave the weekend renewed and refreshed knowing

what

that there are at least two others in the world we can be

makes our trip unique

honest with and still remain loved. We ask the difficult

is the centerpiece of

questions we might not be comfortable with asking any-

the weekend: The Sa-

one else, including a significant other. We look at our rela-

cred Book. And I am the

tionships from a new perspective—be it with spouse, chil-

keeper of the book.

dren or parents.

Back in the late 1990s,

I drive along on this sunny afternoon grateful for the

when my friends and

friendships with my goddesses, and I am filled with emo-

I were all living in Col-

tional energy and support. The Sacred Book drives in the

orado, we started an

passenger seat with me. I will place it in the nightstand

annual tradition. It in-

drawer, safe from curious eyes, until next year’s trip.

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“I usually close custom orders the weekend after Thanksgiving,” says Jamy Daily, the creative force behind Fortuitous Fox, which makes macrame jewelry and homewares in vibrant colors, accented with unique crystals for an upscale look. She says her love of this art form took root when she was a child. “I always loved making friendship bracelets as a kid,” she says. “I had all of my embroidery floss neatly compartmentalized by color.”

Decades later, she felt a creative pull after the loss of a beloved pet and she knew she wanted to create something beautiful to help others struggling with loss. “I put all of my emotion into creating these intricate little beams of light.

Handmade in Southern Colorado Check out these local makers on Etsy where you can find more custom gifts for the special folks on your list.

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To place orders, “people typically send me a DM through Instagram or Etsy. We talk about favorite colors and crystals, patterns and metal preferences,” Daily explains. “I try my best to keep Etsy updated, but during the busy holiday season, it mostly ends up being custom work. I love creating pieces that people feel connected to, so custom works feels like a good fit for me.”

Earrings like the ones you see here typically fall in the $35

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to infuse some