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The 2021 Sensi Holiday Gift Guide

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Hacking The Feast

Here’s how the hippies hijacked Thanksgiving.

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11 EDITOR’S NOTE Check 42 THEoutSCENE what’s hot in the world of cannabis 14 THE BUZZ and beyond.

News, tips, and tidbits to keep you in the loop TUNE IN Jon Hopkins’ new album puts the spiritual teachings of the late legend Ram Dass to music.

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The Creative Thinking Journal will help you tap into new ideas.

SENSIBILITIES There’s a need for cannabis conviction expungement.

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29 LOCAL Spark editor Debbie Hall outlines the whos, wheres, and whens of Florida, Nevada, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania.

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WISH LIST Stone Slade, the host of the upcoming docuseries Hittin’ the High Road, highlights some of the uplifting items he’s currently coveting.

46 THE END Dr. Lola Ohonba understands the challenges that people with disabilities face and the relief cannabis can provide.

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passed and, with the anticipation of Thanksgiving, celebration is in the air.

There was a time, pre-pandemic, when many complained that the holidays seemed to appear too soon in the year, posting diatribes about holiday decorations on display in September. There were even throwback proponents who refused to embrace the holidays—at all—until the actual day of Thanksgiving.

The pandemic may have shifted these attitudes a bit. In 2020, people decorated for the holidays early, some even did so over the summer months. Brightly colored lights and Christmas trees appeared. So many people rejoiced at the first week of October, celebrating the season and the permission to have fun. In November 2020, communities made extra effort to include underserved and at-risk folks in holiday celebrations.

The theme: “Everyone is in this together.”

Did you know that Thanksgiving is celebrated on various dates around the world?

An official holiday in the United States, Canada, Grenada, Saint Lucia, and Liberia, it is also celebrated in Germany and Japan unofficially. Around the globe, it’s recognized as a day of gratitude, giving thanks, and rejoicing with a bountiful harvest of plenty.

In the world of cannabis, many are thankful for legalized medicinal cannabis for personal health and relief. Others can celebrate living in states where recreational cannabis is also legal. According to politico.com, two in three Americans live in a state that has approved the sale of recreational cannabis. At Sensi, we are thankful to see progress toward federal legalization and strides in the decriminalization movement.

The pandemic has taught us to remain in the present moment. So many of us have dealt with exceptional challenges this year, including the passing of loved ones and many other kinds of sacrifice, loss, and heartache. Gratitude keeps us on the path to creating a better tomorrow.

A big thank you for joining us during this holiday season as we journey to 2022. It is my honor to continue to serve you, our readers, as part of Sensi magazine.

The pandemic has taught us to remain in the present moment.…

Gratitude keeps us on the path to creating a better tomorrow.

In gratitude,

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Jon Hopkins’ new album is a meditative experience that puts the spiritual teachings of the late legend Ram Dass to music.

In light of the recent psychedelic resurgence (a COVID-19 silver lining: free time many among us used to expand our minds), techno auteur Jon Hopkins hopes his new album Music for Psychedelic Therapy, set to release on November 12, will take listeners on a new kind of meditative musical journey. It’s the English artist and producer’s first full-length release since 2018’s Singularity, an album Pitchfork.com said was “pitched between heat-seeking acid 14

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house and ambient bliss” and a “beat-music odyssey that thrums with spiritual resonance.”

More ambient bliss thrumming with spiritual resonance than heat-seaking acid house, Hopkins’s new album grew from the artist’s expedition to Tayos Caves in Ecuador. “Music for Psychdelic Therapy is not ambient, classical, or drone but has elements of all three,” he says. “For me, it’s a place as much as it is a sound. It works for the sober mind but takes on a new

dimension entirely when brought into a psychedelic therapy.”

To make the album, Hopkins began working with researchers in the Department of Brain Sciences at Imperial College London who were exploring experiential therapy using psychedelic drugs. The department was investigating the importance of music in positive therapeutic outcomes, and Hopkins began suggesting tracks for the accompanying playlists.

But Hopkins soon noticed an

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incongruity: The playlists used in the Imperial research were made up of pieces of music written by many different musicians—“disparate pieces of music for what really are quite long, coherent experiences,” he explains. “And that will take the patient somewhere very different, suddenly. There aren’t cohesive single bodies of work.” And with that, Music for Psychedelic Therapy was born.

“Sit Around The Fire,” the album’s closing track, is one that will make spiritual seekers “om” so hard, a collab between Hopkins, producer and ceremony guide East Forest, and legendary spiritual teacher the late Ram Dass, whose iconic book Be Here Now celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. “‘Sit Around The Fire’ exists from one of the deep synchronicities that ushered this thing—Music For Psychedelic Therapy—into being. I was contacted by East Forest, who had spent some time in Hawaii with Ram Dass. He was given access to several [of Dass’s] lesser-heard talks from the ’70s and asked to set them to music.”

Hopkins took East Forest’s vocals, added his own, and began to play Ram Dass’s talk in the studio. Its place at the end of the album, Hopkins believes, brings a sense of release. “If you’ve had a very intense experience listening to this album, when Ram Dass’s voice comes in, it’s such a relief because his voice is embedded with all that knowledge, and all that spiritual experience, and where he’s been, and what he’s been through. It’s all in the peace in his voice.”

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You like art, you like thoughts, you like pot: buy this book.

Creative thinking is a competitive edge that separates the good from the great in all aspects of life, so light up a joint and think about thinking.

This guided journal is designed to engage your imagination to help uncover new ideas, build more productive habits, and inspire creative thoughts.

Bonus: you’re supposed to use it while you’re high.

It’s not your basic coloring book, although there are pages for coloring plus a set of colored pencils for you to use on them. Nor is it a puzzle book for stereotypical “stoners” too blazed to think thoughts at all. Refreshingly free of clichés, the Original Creative Thinking Journal by Pilgrim Soul is packed with more than 50 engaging prompts that are neither incredibly boring or stupidly zany.

The book asks you to make up and define new words and to complete abstract analogies (“Being in a relationship is like cleaning the bathroom. How So?”), write a Tinder bio for Oprah, and fill out the famed Proust Questionnaire. (What is your most marked characteristic? What do you regard as the lowest depth of mystery? Which words or phrases do you overuse most?) One exercise instructs you to go to a public place and invent a narrative for two strangers you encounter.

The people at Pilgrim Soul say the goal of the journal is to “get people to look at problems in entirely new ways, get out of their comfort zones, and tap into what makes them uniquely creative.”

Get the book, get high, and spend a few hours losing yourself in the mental playground. You’ve already seen everything on Netflix anyway. $30 / pilgrimsoul.com

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What’s on our editor in chief Steph’s mind this month: the importance of cannabis conviction expungement. Things you can’t do* if you’ve got a felony conviction on your record—even if that felony is for the possession of a plant that’s now legal in all sorts of states:

1 VOTE. 2 HOLD PUBLIC OFFICE or be a candidate for office.

3 SECURE HOUSING. 4 BECOME AN ELECTOR (someone who votes in the Electoral College—which you probably weren’t going to ever do anyway but now that you can’t, don’t you want to just a bit?)

5 OWN A FIREARM. 6 SERVE ON A JURY. 7 TRAVEL INTERNATIONALLY, depending on where you’re go-

The Mincing Mockingbird is artist/writer/designer duo Kim Bagwill and Matt Adrian, the married couple responsible for the products on themincingmockingbird.com. Among them is the amazing postcard featured here.

If you read it and find yourself wondering, Who is “she?”, she is you and you totally need this postcard. Possibly the magnet version, too.

Bagwill and Adrian are “she” too. “Since 2008 we’ve been having an almost criminal amount of fun creating things that delight us,” Bagwill writes on the company’s site, “and the recent relocation of our studio to the wilds of Joshua Tree has upped the inspiration level by an order of magnitude.”

Want to see even more of their criminally delightful creations? Check out their respective websites: mattadrian.com and kimbagwill.com.

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ing. (Canada makes it difficult for anyone with even a DUI conviction on their record to cross their border.)

8 GET CERTAIN JOBS with a felony conviction on your record.

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Just ask anyone who’s been subject to a background check by a potential employer.

9 GET A PROFESSIONAL LICENSE or permit from state boards that require applicants be of “sound moral character,” never convicted of a “crime of moral turpitude.” Those licenses and permits apply to doctors, lawyers, architects, private detectives, guards, acupuncturists, massage therapists, barbers and hairdressers, midwives, major contractors, public accountants, pawnbrokers, interior designers, real estate agents, and so many more professions.

10 RECEIVE SNAP (food stamps) and TANF (cash) assistance.

11 GET FEDERAL ASSISTANCE for higher education. *Laws vary by state.

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HACKING THE FEAST How the hippies hijacked Thanksgiving and hosted a celebration that can’t be beat. TEXT JOHN LEHNDORFF

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ack before football and the 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.

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 “This song is called ‘Alice’s Thanksgiving ever. We recorded a Restaurant’ and it’s about Alice and soundtrack on a reel-to-reel tape the restaurant, but Alice’s Restaurant deck of our favorite songs—some is not the name of the restaurant.” early Springsteen like “RosaliWhen Guthrie’s “Alice’s Restauta,” lots of country rock includrant Massacree” debuted in 1967, ing Emmylou Harris’s “Bluebird the song immediately became Wine,” and, of course, “Alice’s an underground hit. For young Restaurant.” The tunes were supmales like me approaching the posed to fit the various stages of age when we could be drafted the festivities, including digestive into the military to fight in Viettunes for the aftermath. Some of nam, the song about questioning the memories are a tad foggy, but authority was a call to action as it was a great time. well as a cautionary tale. It was also about the communal nature “Had a Thanksgiving dinner that couldn’t be beat.” of Thanksgiving.

We were antiestablishment, so we “My friend and I went up to visit kept the parts of Thanksgiving we Alice at the restaurant.” liked—the wine and the pies—and I grew up loving Thanksgiving got rid of the parts we couldn’t with our large, overextended stand, such as the need to dress family of Austrian, Sicilian, and up. Long before it caught on with N OV E M B E R 2021

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Long before it caught up with the mainstream, the counterculture hosted vegetarian Thanksgivings that welcomed dishes of all denominations. What mattered was gathering like-minded members of your tribe. mainstream, the counterculture hosted vegetarian Thanksgivings with a big-tent approach that welcomed side dishes 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.

“You may know somebody in a similar situation, or you may be in a similar situation.”

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.”

“And everything was fine, we were smoking cigarettes and all kinds of Turkeys have been overcooked things, until the sergeant came over.” and undercooked when I’ve hostOver 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 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.

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ed. 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.

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 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 2017 feature on feast dishes for 50 states in the New York Times, cannabis got special attention. “It’s difficult to assess exactly how much legalization… may have changed the Thanksgiving menu. But it has indubitably increased the snacking that goes on afterward,” the esteemed publication noted.

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We would remind the Times that cannabis and Turkey Day have been intersecting for many decades in many places. And 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.

cubes that I bag for later use in sauces, soups, and such. A month (or three) from now, I’ll dig into the freezer and smile when I find carefully packaged gravy, cranberry sauce, turkey, and side dishes for a comforting, easy dinner.

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 “You can get anything you want at cleaning, the shopping, the cookAlice’s Restaurant, excepting Alice.” ing, and commotion of inviting “Had another Thanksgiving dinner that couldn’t be beat.”

Ironically, our antiestablishment others into your home for a dining I look forward to turkey breast counterculture ended up creating experience fraught with so many BLT’s, dark-meat turkey in French rituals that are followed annually. possible disasters? dip sandwiches with gravy replac- Many radio stations have made it My answer is still yes. What I reing the au jus, and turkey tacos traditional to play the 16-minute member best about Thanksgiving in chocolate-chile mole sauce. I protest song on Thanksgiving Day, dinners is not food or faux pas, polove making waffles out of leftover sometimes several times. litical tiffs or football games. I am bread stuffing, and serving latkes If Grandpa and Grandma get a thankful for the funny, argumentamade from Italian sausage and po- silly gleam in their eye when they tive, and heartwarming moments tato stuffing topped with eggs. hear “Alice’s Restaurant” playing, shared among the folks who filled I turn that precious turkey into a they may have been hippies. There the circle around the table on evehearty broth that becomes frozen were challenging times, chronicled nings in November.

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Clark County is predicted to issue 5 million wedding licenses between December 2021 and February 2022. Along with Valentine’s Day, February 22, 2022 (2/22/22) is expected to be another hot date for weddings, with a predicted 1,600 weddings on that day alone.

The 5-Million Love Stories Celebration is coming in September 2022 in partnership with Caesars Entertainment. Clark County Clerk Lynn Goya outlined celebrations during the fifth annual State of the Wedding Industry hosted by the clerk’s office and Las Vegas Wedding Chamber of Commerce. The county also invites couples to help break the Guinness World Records for the largest number of vow renewals. weddingchamber.vegas

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Gathering Place

Gathering Place in Tulsa shares open space on the east bank of the Arkansas River, south of the Downtown area and west of the Maple Ridge Historic District. Children and adults will enjoy Chapman Adventure Playground, the Williams Lodge, a boathouse, a splash playground, the great lawn, outdoor sports courts, a skate park, a wetland pond and garden, and numerous trails.

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Nov. 8-10 The inaugural Hemp Grower Conference will bring together people and companies shaping the future of US, Canadian, and global hemp markets.

The conference aims to empower hemp growers and entrepreneurs to overcome challenges, seize opportunities, and build thriving businesses.

Join other ambitious hemp entrepreneurs, industry-leading professionals, researchers, and legislators this fall for two and half days packed with education, networking, and an expo featuring hemp solutions providers. hempgrowerconference.com

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Lancaster

Endo Café Lancaster is an inspired community space offering coffee and food along with bikes and hemp products. Purchase a variety of CBD products with a coffee drink or a delicious treat—think bagels, muffins, breakfast burritos, and pastries. The owners share their love of cycling, leading group bike rides, bike clinics, and other bicycling-related events in partnership with Hush Money Bikes.

Their appreciation for CBD is also tied to their love of bikes. After an accident resulted in a broken back that ended a professional cycling career, cannabinoid therapy helped, so the owners integrated both passions into their business. endocafelancaster

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Pocono ORGANICS

Experience the future of farming at Pocono Organics.

Located in Long Pond, sprawling over 380 acres of land, it is one of the largest regenerative organic farms. Go behind the scenes to learn about regenerative organic agriculture and the benefits of CBD. Depending on the season, Pocono Organics offers a variety of fresh, organic produce in its market—all straight from its fields and greenhouses. The cafe features a delicious menu created by Executive Chef, and Food Network Chopped Champion, Lindsay McClain.

Indulge in a variety of homemade baked goods, coffees, and smoothies infused with CBD. poconoorganics.com/tours

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Philbrook Museum of Art

Travel to a little piece of Tuscany in Tulsa in this sprawling Italian Villa. Philbrook Museum of Art offers fun for all ages, from running through sprinklers in the 25-acre Philbrook Gardens to viewing masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance. Opened in 1939, the museum serves as a world-class art center with hands-on activities, such as Friday Social Sketch during which one person begins a sketch and then passes it on to the next person to add to the artwork. philbrook.org

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Everglades National Park

Everglades National Park showcases stunning wildlife.

Get up close (but not too close!) to roaming alligators, flying exotic birds, turtles, and numerous rare species like the manatee, American crocodile, and maybe an elusive Florida panther. Stroll the Anhinga Trail or climb Shark Valley’s 65-foot observation tower for a bird’s eye view of the glades. Glide over Florida Bay by tour boat or kayak and watch the sun set over Flamingo. Explore the pinelands by bike, paddle in mangroves on Nine-Mile Pond, or tour the historic Nike Hercules missile base. Looking for solitude?

Try a week-long canoe trip, camping along the 99-mile Wilderness Waterway. nps.gov/ever/index.htm NEVADA

420 Experience - Las Vegas Tour

Looking for a fun way to experience the cannabis scene and try some of the finest flower in Sin City? Whether you’re a resident or just in Vegas for the weekend, take a cannabis tour with 420 Experience. Accompanied by a knowledgeable tour guide, guests are transported in comfortable, spacious buses to a unique manufacturing facility, then over to top-of-the-line marijuana dispensaries with munchies from Wing King Las Vegas. Enjoy VIP discounts on cannabis products and merch. Guests receive gifts, goodies, and swag. greentours.com/420experience-las-vegas-tour N OV E M B E R 2021

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Celebrate like a genredefining artist with the new line of co-branded Rolling Stone by Select products. Select’s first-ever pre-roll and The Cliq (Select’s newest proprietary pod system) will feature three strains and flavor profiles hand-selected

by Rolling Stone.

Indulge in a berryforward Overdrive Sativa, a complex and full-bodied Reverb Indica, or a fruity and calming Phaser Hybrid.

These new products pay homage to Rolling Stone’s legacy of reporting on the fight to legalize cannabis. selectcannabis.com

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Hippie & French

Owner of Hippie & French (located in Pittsburgh), Lindsay French draws on her own experience using cannabis to heal herself. The store is a CBD wellness boutique where French and her knowledgeable staff help and educate customers about the highly curated collection of CBD products. Customers will find oils, tinctures, edibles, gummies, flower, salves, muscle rubs, topicals, protein powders, coffees, edibles, pet treats, and pet oils for purchase. hippieandfrench.com

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THE INDIGO ATTIC A colorful little shop in Oklahoma City, The Indigo Attic sells artwork by celebrated local artists. Items for sale include functional and non-functional glass of all types, tapestries and flags, smoking accessories, incense and holders, clothing, jewelry, candles, sprays, oils, lamps, and local crafts and accessories. Kristi Conant, one of the featured glass artists, has worked on the torch since 2002 and considers herself a bead maker turned pipe maker. theindigoattic.com

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Chillum

Chillum is a hemp dispensary, glass gallery, and CBD resource that that takes the industry very seriously. The shop specializes in the science behind legal cannabinoids (CBD, CBG, and Delta-8 THC) along with functional glass art. Their employees are certified hemptenders educated in the science.

Customers will not find glass roses, oil burners, spice, K2, kratom, or kava. As they state, “The ultimate goal for the store would be to NORMLize alternative culture. To celebrate it, to educate, and to help people at the same time.” chillumcbd.com N OV E M B E R 2021

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Sex, Drugs, and Rock-n-Roll: oOYes

Get to know the groovy, sex-positive woman behind this new line of “cannagasmic” products created by women—for anyone who enjoys a good f*cking.

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you,” says Tanya Griffin, whose love affair with sex runs deep.

A badass businesswoman based in Denver, Griffin spent the last 30 years opening retail stores, restaurants, and dispensaries, creating products

focused on women’s and family health while she hopped continents and industries, working in everything from cannabis to financial services to software development— all while raising four kids.

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latest venture, oOYes, she can add an “ecstatic sex, experience-driven lifestyle brand” to her list of entrepreneurial ventures.

“I like to say that I’ve gone from colostrum to cannabis to cum,” Griffin says with an easy laugh.

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Colostrum is a type of breastmilk, and Griffin was a lactation specialist early in her career. She transitioned into cannabis in 2014, joining The Green Solution to help build the first vertically integrated cultivation, manufacturing, and retail national franchise opportunity in the industry—a highly successful effort. The multistate dispensary chain was bought by Columbia Care in 2019 for $140 million.

Which brings us to the third C in that triple alliteration: cum.

The oOYes line of sex products is created to help you do just that; and they’re formulated with cannabis-derived terpenes and cannabinoids, so oOYes combines two of the Cs into a brand that exudes a 1960s mod-hippie sex-drugsand-rock-n-roll vibe. It’s a whole mood—and it’s a good one, if not a little bit forward. There’s a sex quiz featured frontand-center on the oOYes homepage that calculates your kink score by asking whether you’d be down to try sex acts that range from the basic (oral sex, sensual massage) to the extreme (foot jobs, swinging, anal fisting, so much more). Have your partner take the quiz as well, and find out where your kinks align, perhaps

opening both your eyes (and other orifices) to experiences you hadn’t realized were on the proverbial table.

The whole thing is very sex positive, as are the products, all of which feature a rock-nroll theme and a groovy 1970s-inspired branding.

Created and formulated by women, oOYes sex lubricants and wellness products have a subtle orange blossom flavor and feature plant-based botanicals, active terpenes, and minor and major cannabinoids including cannabigerol (CBG), cannabidiol (CBD), as well as patented BeeFused Superhoney.

While cannabis sexual product lines grow in popularity, the brands behind them tend to play it safe, with vibes that are clinical, possibly sensual.

But fun? Heavens, no!

That’s not how they roll baby roll at oOYes, as evidenced by the products themselves: Roll Baby Roll is a sex oil with BeeFused Honey and CBD. It’s oral friendly, vegan, gluten free, and safe to ingest.

“The bottle has a roller ball that you roll right onto your clitoris—and it feels so good,” Griffin says (she’s not lying).

Going Down is an oral sex elixer that combines sunflower oil, BeeFused honey, and orange blossom with CBD that tastes

delightful. Love Me Too, a sensual moisturizer “for your other lips,” features CBG and cannabinoid-rich honey. Start Me Up is a lickable glide that, according to the product description, is “crafted to rock your world while your partner gets to taste a subtle yet sweet orange blossom flavor. Made to encourage licking, sucking, and f*cking.”

Many of the products feature the brand’s Bee Wild tantric honey, which uses BeeFused patented technology where freerange bees organically feed on nectar made from hemp-derived cannabinoids, cannabis strains, and superfoods to create highly bioavailable, cannabinoid-rich raw honey.

“Bees do all the work!”

Griffin says. “Nothing is added, nothing is made in a lab. This is nature doing what it does best.”

Griffin says, “oOYes is sex forward and by no means shy.” And if it’s not clear yet, neither is she. The Denver-based entrepreneur loves sex, and she loves talking about sex—not in a sterile, clinical way, but not in an omg-TMI-please-stop way either. She just enjoys it, and she’s passionate about helping others enjoy it too. For her, it’s about creating experiences for people. “That’s why all the products are travel sized,

that’s why everything is tied to rock-n-roll. It’s all designed around how you feel, it’s about getting your mind in the right place, and—yes—using drugs to do it. Having fun with it in a nice way.”

And it all comes down to basic biology: sex is fun, and having more of it is good for you. Science backs this up: There are a ton of emotional and psychological benefits of getting busy, and sex is strongly linked to a better quality of life, offering both mental and physical benefits ranging from better self-image and higher rates of happiness to enhanced brain function.

“I freaking love sex,” Griffin continues. “I think it’s like eating and sleeping and everything else. oOYes founder Tanya I think everybody should Griffin is having fun in be having lots of it.” the sex space.

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That’s a piece dreams are made of. And Stone’s dreams are built on a classic beaker base, a large honeycomb percolator for increased filtration and diffusion, and a UFO mouthpiece—a distinguished percolator topped by an hourglass ice catcher for the coolest of hits. Vitae Glass Voyager Bong, $330, vitaeglass.com

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’Tis almost the season for cheer—and finding the perfect gifts to give and to get.

So we asked TV personality Stone Slade—you may know him from the A&E series Modern Dads; you will know him from the upcoming Hittin’ the High Road series Sensi is producing (don’t mind our shameless self-promotion)—to help us set the tone for the upcoming holiday season. Here are his top choices for products that can transform your smoking ritual into a private retreat.

Hold Tight and Statement Piece Never lose another lighter with Chen and Kai’s Serpent holder, designed to wrap snugly around a Mini Bic, keeping it tethered to your keychain. Serpent Lighter Keychain, $38, shop-tetra.com Designed in 1924 by the late Bauhaus design icon Marianne Brandt, the classic ashtray was recently reissued by Alessi to mark the famed design school’s 100th anniversary. It stands on small feet, has a removable lid for cleaning, and has a small stand on top to hold rolled smokes. Marianne Brandt Ashtray by Alessi, $215, shop-tetra.com

Box, Set Strong, durable, odor resistant, and beautiful, this sophisticated stash box holds a full herb organizational system complete with glass jars and humidity-control lids for your flower, dab containers for your concentrates, a removable rolling tray, a topnotch grinder, a padded interior to keep your glassware safe, and other high-end accoutrements a modern smoker demands. Original Apothecarry Case, $275, theapothecarrycase.com

Give It a Spin With compartments for all smoking accessories, plus rolling areas and a silicone slap for concentrates, this highly functional centerpiece is something all smokers should give a spin. Blazy Susan Rolling Tray, from $90, blazysusan.com Flower Power Leave it to Jonathan Adler to bring on a surge of color when we need it most. His new Sinsemilla line includes includes this stash box with real gold accents, a hand-beaded pillow (price: $248!), and a rolling tray— all perfect presents for any rich hippie host. Sinsemilla Stash Box, $68, jonathanadler.com To Have and To Hold Crafted in silvertone brass and covered in croc-embossed Delaunay Lapis leather, this luxe pocket ashtray doubles as an on-the-go stashtray.

House of Puff Poche Pocket Ashtray, $79, houseofpuff.com

Freakin’ Laser Bong Part smoking device, part magic trick, and a total crowd pleaser, this first-of-its-kind laser-powered luxe bong is sleek, opulent, and guaranteed to spark some conversations.

The Trident by Hitoki, $500, hitoki.com

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Shining a Light A trained pharmacist and chemist, Dr. Lola Ohonba understands the challenges that people with disabilities face and the relief cannabis can provide.

Growing up in the crowded, vibrant metropolis of Lagos, Nigeria, Dr. Lola Ohonba suffered from a disability that limited the movement in her leg. She found relief in traditional plant medicine, and even though she headed to the U.S. to study Western medicine and chemistry—and then launch an über-successful career in pharmacy—she never forgot what she had learned at home. Her knowledge of both traditional healing and science spurred her to forge off on her own and found WCI Health with the mission of teaching dispensaries, practitioners, and other interested parties how to safely and effectively use canSHARE YOUR STORY nabis, psychedelics, and other plants as medicine. “I Has cannabis helped you am very passionate about decriminalizing this plant, heal? Show us, tell us, and tag us on Instagram. and I use my platform to talk about that,” she says.

“I am a practicing clinical pharmacist. A lot of my @sensimagazine colleagues think I’m crazy, risking my license, talking publicly about cannabis. Well, I’m proud of what I’m doing. This is necessary. When clinicians like me come out and put a face to this plant, it helps move the work a little bit forward.”

To that end, Dr. O, as she is known, has become a prominent voice in the effort to de-stigmatize plant medicine as a public speaker as well as the author of the bestselling book A Pharmacist’s Guide to Cannabis: Perspectives of a Non-conformist Clinician and the host of the podcast Let’s Talk Plant Medicine: Cannabis, Psychedelics, and Pharmaceutics. Through it all she draws on her experience living with a disability to find compassion and solutions for others who face physical challenges and seek relief.

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“I have a physical disability,” she says. “I know what we go through, the stress that we go through to get medicine, to get things done. So I want to shine a light on that aspect of what I do and what we can get done.” wci-health.com

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