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FEATURE
20 Cannabis Glows Up
It’s time to curate your
collection of cannabis
accessories for the next big
home design trend: bong carts.
20
DEPARTMENTS
11 EDITOR’S NOTE
12 THE BUZZ
News, tips, and tidbits
to keep you in the loop
SENSI PRESENTS The
debut album from our
new record label benefits
the community.
BOOK CLUB Check out
what Sensi editors are
reading this month.
30 THE SCENE
Hot happenings and hip
hangouts around town
HAPPY PLAN Why
planning your next big
getaway is good for
your brain
34 THE END
Sensi gets a shout-out
on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
16 THE LIFE
Contributing to your
health and happiness
FREE YOUR MIND Breath
work is the latest
trend to get people off
pharmaceuticals.
ON THE COVER
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FEBRUARY 2021 SENSIMAG.COM 7

EXECUTIVE
Ron Kolb Founder + CEO
ron@sensimag.com
Mike Mansbridge President
Fran Heitkamp Chief Operating Officer
Lou Ferris VP of Global Revenue
Chris Foltz VP of Global Reach
Jade Kolb Director of Project Management
BRAND DEVELOPMENT
Richard Guerra Deputy Director of Global Reach
Amanda Patrizi Deputy Director of Global Reach
Tuva Hank Music Director, Sensi Presents
Neil Willis Production Director
ADVERTISING
Nancy Reid Director, Team Building, Sensi East
Joel Bergeson Director, Team Building, Sensi West
EDITORIAL
Stephanie Wilson Co-Founder + Editor in Chief
stephanie.wilson@sensimag.com
Doug Schnitzspahn Executive Editor
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Robyn Griggs Lawrence Editor at Large
Helen Olsson Copy Chief
Jake Browne
Contributing Writer
MANAGING EDITORS
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Bong carts are the new bar
carts, and your home needs one.
I was inspired to add a midcentury modern cannabis cart to my living room while
writing the cover feature that appears in this edition, and it’s turned into a statement
piece amid an apartment decorated in overt maximalist fashion. I anticipate it being
quite the conversation starter once my guy and I are able to welcome people outside
our social-distancing approved circle into our home, but for now I am free to take my
time styling the two shelves.
Functional and aesthetically pleasing, the bong cart gives our various cannabis accessories
a unified home base. The collection is built around a gorgeous glass rig that
was gifted to us by a neighbor and our set of his and hers bongs—his, a clear glass
hefty guy; mine, a more feminine beaker-style piece in an opaque navy blue from Jane
West’s collaboration with GRAV Labs. Rounding out the water-filtrated smoking devices
is a glass bubbler shaped like a giraffe, a gift sent by the great gents at Fat Buddha
Glass specifically for the bong cart, and the high-tech, high-end Dr. Dabber. A
murano glass ashtray, a vintage wooden pipe, Cannabox rolling papers, an assortment
of cannabinoid-enhanced topicals, and two books round out the collection.
Altogether, it paints a picture of a cannabis-friendly home that’s relaxed, welcoming,
and open ... and child-free. After spending most of my life in the cannabis closet,
it’s liberating to put our affinity for the elevating plant on display in my Denver home.
And it’s in line with the mission of this magazine: showcasing cannabis as a normal,
welcome addition to a well-rounded, wellness-driven lifestyle—no stigma attached.
Sensi Spark gives us the chance to showcase that lifestyle to emerging cannabis
markets like Oklahoma, Florida, and Pennsylvania—places where cannabis prohibition
is still in effect (but hopefully not for much longer). Shining a positive light
on the cannabis lifestyle is our way of advocating for the end of the madness that
convinced generations of people to fear a plant that’s long been known to provide so
much good.
Which brings me back to my original point. You should get a bong cart. I’m calling
it now: it’s going to be the hottest home decor trend of 2022, and by getting one now
you’ll be able to say you helped start the trend.
Happy trendsetting,
After
spending
most of my
life in the
cannabis
closet, it’s
liberating
to put our
affinity for
the elevating
plant on
display in my
Denver home.
Stephanie Wilson
@stephwilll
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David Starfire
SWEET RELEAF
The first compilation album from Sensi’s new record label drops with a
mission to bring justice to those incarcerated for cannabis offenses.
Sensi has always been more than
just a magazine—it’s a concept
and a community. And now it’s
a record label, Sensi Presents.
The initial offering will not
just provide the soundtrack for
everything from cooking at home
to Zoom dance parties to ski trips,
it will make a difference. Fifty
percent of the proceeds for the
sale of the first album, Sensi Releaf
($22, available through April at
sensimag.com/presents), will go to
the Last Prisoner Project
(lastprisonerproject.org), a
nonprofit working to reform
cannabis criminal justice and fight
inequity when it comes to those
serving time for activities that are
no longer crimes. A version of the
album to be released in April will
include commentary from Last
Prisoner Project’s Andrew and
Steve DeAngelo.
“The main goal of Last Prisoner
Project in 2021 is to build
on the momentum of 2020,”
Andrew DeAngelo says. “We want
to get more cannabis prisoners
out and home. We want their
records expunged. We want them
re-entered into society with good
paying jobs, housing, health care,
etc.” Andrew is hopeful that new
leadership in DC will work with
the nonprofit toward that end.
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CONTRIBUTORS
Doug Schnitzspahn,
Stephanie Wilson
BY THE
NUMBERS
Feed Your Mind
The books Sensi editors are
reading this month.
“LPP and many others in the cannabis
social justice movement are hopeful
of partnering with the Biden administration.
It remains to be seen if that
partnership meets our expectations, but
there is optimism right now.”
All the artists on Sensi Releaf are on
board with the cause. “I think the Last
Prisoner Project is an amazing organization.
I’m a firm believer in social justice,
and I think it’s wrong to incarcerate
people for drug crimes,” says California-based
multi-instrumentalist and
producer David Starfire, who remixed
Dub FX’s track “Fire Every Day” for this
project. “I hope that with this album
project that there is more awareness
about this issue.”
Releaf will deliver positive vibes as soon
as you press play. A wide range of cuts—
from Tubby Love and Amber Lily (with
Trevor Hall) channeling classic reggae
beats in “Chant Up Zion” to transpersonal
psychologist AshEL SeaAll SeaSunz
dropping mindful funk on “Lady Justice”—keep
this compilation moving.
“Sensi Releaf raises money for the
cause, and that money goes to get people
out of prison,” Andrew says. “That’s
the transactional benefit. The music
itself also has many beneficial messages
regarding justice that are done in a way
that inspires and rejuvenates the soul. It’s
a great album to play in the background
while working. It’s also a spectacular cannabis
session album for after work.”
$1.8
BILLION
Amount of sales an
adult-use market
in Pennsylvania
would generate by
the fourth year,
once made legal,
according to projections
by Marijuana
Business Daily
383,379
LICENSES
Total number of
medical marijuana
licenses active
in Oklahoma as
of February 7,
2021—370,591 of
which were issued
to patients
SOURCE: Oklahoma Medical
Marijuana Authority
38
PERCENT
Oklahoma’s share
of active marijuana
cultivation licenses
issued in the US last
year—more than any
other state
SOURCE: MJBiz
Carnal Knowledge: Sex Education
You Didn’t Get in School
By Zoë Ligon with photography by
Elizabeth Renstrom / Prestel Publishing, $20
When it comes to sex, there’s practically no question
that Zoë Ligon hasn’t heard and researched.
Her Instagram and YouTube videos, as well as
product reviews, are extremely popular for their
up-front approach. Now, she brings her wealth
of experience and open-minded attitude to a
sex-positive guidebook that’s honest, inclusive, and
right on time. Lusciously illustrated, the book takes
readers through every aspect of sexuality—from
body basics and physiology to maintaining healthy
relationships. It highlights the usefulness of sex
toys in aiding solo and partnered exploration and
explains why there should really be no stigma
around using these practical tools. It also includes
advice on setting boundaries, being respectful
of other people’s gender identities, and thinking
outside the orgasm. Elizabeth Renstrom’s dreamy,
colorful photographs drive home Ligon’s philosophy
that there’s no one right way to have sex. With its
focus on intimacy, body positivity, and self-care,
Carnal Knowledge can lead you to enjoy sex with
security and confidence.
(continued on p.15)
QUICK HIT
Cannabis media co.
Leafly predicts that
Florida, a medical-only
industry, will overtake
Washington and
Colorado to become the
nation’s second-largest
cannabis market in 2021,
trailing only California.
Florida dispensaries
have nearly 450,000
patients, and the state’s
medical marijuana
industry is worth around
$1 billion.
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THE BUZZ
BILITIES
BY STEPHANIE WILSON, EDITOR IN CHIEF
1 AIR TIME Don’t let the “aqua” in the name of the 11th astrological
sign in the zodiac fool you—Aquarius is a visionary air sign represented
by the water bearer. The 10th largest constellation in the
zodiac, Aquarius is also one of the oldest, first documented in the
second century by a Greek astrologer.
2 FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH Greek mythology links the constellation
Aquarius with Ganymede, who, as the story goes, was the hottest
dude like ever—so hot that Zeus, the god of thunder himself, just
had to have him. The details vary depending on which ancient text
you’re reading, but basically Zeus abducted Gany and brought him
to Mount Olympus to serve as a cup-bearer and quench his thirst.
(The original thirst trap?) Ganymede was rewarded with eternal
youth, which explains why I, an Aquarius, don’t look a day over 39
when by the end of this month I will be 28 days over it.
3 THE AGE OF AQUARIUS But who cares? Age is just a number.
Lying about your age just perpetuates the idea that whatever age you
are is somehow bad, that by being that age you are worse than you
were before. The Aquarian in me finds this to be bullshit. Don’t buy into
the labels, don’t let anyone put you in a box, just be yourself …
4 THIS END UP Oops, I got distracted. That happens to Aquarians.
We’re a bit all over the place because we’re interested in everything. But
we don’t like to label ourselves as out-of-the-box thinkers, because we
despise labels, we question assumptions, and we do not like being told
what to do. Besides, we didn’t see the box anyway; we were lost in our
thoughts, which are always flitting from one topic to another as we move
through life with an aloof detachment that can come across as cold.
5 LET THE SUN SHINE IN We are cold; we’ve always been cold.
We came into this world in the middle of the winter when the
planet couldn’t be farther from the sun. We’ve been chasing that
sun ever since. It’s fun; you should come with.
6 DON’T CHA HEAR ME CALLIN’ TO YA? Think of your most
free-spirited, eccentric friend—the person you call when you’re in
the mood for an adventure but avoid when you’ve gotta be up early
the next day: they’re probably an Aquarius. You should call and wish
them a happy birthday.
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Discover how weed has grown into a good-looking
business. Consuming the plant and using its derivatives
have become legal in several countries and
paved the way for a new generation of designsavvy
and diverse consumers and entrepreneurs.
High on Design, released in September,
showcases the new brands, designs, and creators
behind this revolution. While reflecting on the
novel aesthetics and trends of contemporary
cannabis culture, High on Design also gives a
profound view of the phenomenon regarding
politics, history, legalization, and society. This is
your guide to the best brands, the most stylish
dispensaries, the slickest products, and the most
creative entrepreneurs.
Milk Blood Heat
By Dantiel W. Moniz
Reading an excerpt whet our appetite for this novel
about the sultry lives of Floridians in intergenerational
tales that contemplate human connection,
race, womanhood, inheritance, and the elemental
darkness in us all, as described by the book’s publisher
Grove Atlantic. And once you read it, you’ll
understand why we’re already craving more from
this exciting new author who the publisher calls
“one of the most exciting discoveries in today’s
literary landscape.” Here’s quick preview:
“Once a month, the members gathered in the
night, wearing elaborate half-face masks in the
likenesses of pigs and dogs and cats that hid their
eyes but left their mouths free. While we poured
tart cherry mead, fetched fresh cloth napkins,
procured new spoons for ones that had fallen, we
observed them: a walrus tipping back raw oysters;
a big-eyed cow knifing marmalade onto toast; a
peacock shimmering in a gold dress, sloshing pink
champagne onto the floor.”
Lil’ Nibble
A line from the intro to Getting It: A Guide to Hot, Healthy
Hookups and Shame-Free Sex from sex educator and Girl Sex
101 author by Allison Moon: “Allison, horniness is like hunger.
It’s a basic bodily function signifying a need.”
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Free Your Mind
Breath work is the latest trend to get people off of
pharmaceuticals and in touch with their bodies.
TEXT JAKE BROWNE
“Since age six, I had horrible
chronic migraines,”
Lindsay Balgooyen tells
me. “I pretty much lived
my entire life with a migraine.”
Admittedly, I’m
not expecting this. My
interest in the idea of
breath work started when
I interviewed comedian
and psychedelics expert
Shane Mauss last year.
He described to me an
intense, mind-altering experience,
one that seemed
more of a consciousness
expansion than healing.
Considering the impressive
résumé of substances
he’s experimented with,
I took stock in his words
but never considered the
curative properties of my
own breathing.
“I grew up in Michigan
in not exactly a progressive
town, and when
I was 17, I had been on
50 different drugs,” Balgooyen
says. “I decided I
was done with that.”
Working with medical
cannabis patients
for years, I’m used to
hearing about chronic
pain, but there’s some-
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thing beneath her words
that suggests how much
of a struggle it was for
her, how defining the experience
was. Balgooyen’s
journey overcoming
the constant illness led
her to seek a number
of treatment options
outside of traditional
Western medicine, from
acupuncture to physical
therapy to massage. It
wasn’t until a 2015 trip
to Southeast Asia that it
all clicked, though.
While assisting at a
yoga retreat in India, she
had made plans to head
to Thailand toward the
end of her trip to experience
a modality that was
totally new to her: circular
breathing. “I did my
first session, and it absolutely
blew me away,” she
says. “My entire body felt
like it was paralyzed; I
couldn’t move anything
and just felt like my body
was filled with cement.”
She notes that this isn’t
uncommon, but it’s one
of the reasons guided
sessions are recommended
for beginners before
branching out on their
own. “My whole body
was in pain.”
The process of circular
breathing, she tells
me, can lead to cramps
and tightness, but she
describes it as energy
moving through your
body and hitting blockages
along the way. I’m
a skeptic at heart, but it
reminds me of a tai chi
teacher I once had who
would have us tense our
muscles to lead the way
to relaxation. Balgooyen
says that once she
worked through the pain
in her first session, she
experienced a release like
nothing else she had felt
before. She was hooked.
“That day, I found a
month-long training and
signed up for it. Within
a week, my headaches
went away completely.”
Returning home to
Steamboat Springs, the
transition was natural.
“There’s a ton of different
healers up there,
and it’s a pretty spiritual
town,” she says. Once a
week, she’d bring together
friends and people
who had heard the buzz
for three hour sessions as
part of a longer course,
and soon students became
apostles. “It just
takes one session because
it’s such a crazy, profound
experience,” she
says. “It kind of becomes
addicting.”
After another year of
building her practice
through word of mouth in
Steamboat, Balgooyen decided
it was time to take
the next big leap and work
in Boulder, a liberal bastion
of alternative medicine
and a town where
collaborators would be
bountiful. Soon, she was
incorporating other modalities
into her practice,
particularly sound healing.
I have some experience
with the chanting
and music of kirtan (Deb
Browne, my spiritually
woke mom, introduced
me to it), and I start picturing
us in a session together.
“The sound alone
is so powerful,” Balgooyen
says, as I nod.
At festivals, it started
with Nibumbu, a neotribal
band that has spent
the last 2½ years incorporating
shamanic drumming
into breath work,
creating an immersive experience.
Now, Balgooyen
is teaming up with Brian
Dickinson, founder of
Sonic Alchemy, to bring
similar concepts to smaller
settings, with gongs,
singing bowls, flutes, and
“other trinkets” adding
to the journey. “It starts
off really relaxed, then
it builds and gets pretty
intense, then it starts to
calm down and gets very
meditative,” she says.
I’m curious about
what science has to say
on the matter, though.
We take tens of thousands
of breaths each
day, so there has to be
some study on how such
a simple act can have
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THE LIFE
such a profound effect.
Instead, Balgooyen directs
me north, to the
brain. “The beta brain
state is similar to hypnosis,
which allows you
to pretty quickly drop
into that deep meditative
state right above
sleep, that usually we’re
just passing through
really quickly while falling
asleep,” she says.
“[Scientists] know that
we have to be in that
beta state to access our
subconscious mind,
where we hold so many
thoughts and the beliefs
that are running our
lives, a lot of times not
to our advantage.”
When I steer the
conversation toward
Mauss’s hallucinatory
experience, it doesn’t
come as a surprise to
her. “It’s definitely common,”
she says. “I’ve
had a lot of people who
have had experience
with psychedelics who
have said breath work is
much more profound.”
How can that be possible,
though? I’ve been
conditioned to think of
substances such as psilocybin
and LSD as incredibly
powerful. Balgooyen
believes that, unlike an
outside substance, your
body is designed to do
the work and can readily
integrate that experience
into its own framework.
“If you have a cut,
it naturally heals,” she
says. “We don’t have to
think about it.”
That’s the breakthrough
moment, the
“Aha!” that ties it all
together for me. For
millennia, practices
like yoga have incorporated
an intense focus
on breathing, using the
body to do the heavy
lifting that substances
couldn’t. Not everyone
had access to the hallucinogens
that scientists
are now increasingly focused
on as alternative
treatments for PTSD and
addiction.
Balgooyen tells me
about future plans, including
going rafting
and trying water therapy.
“You wear a snorkel
and lie facedown while
somebody holds you. It
allows you to get even
deeper,” she says. “Water
is one of the highest
vibrations we have
access to and it also
brings up a lot of stuff
from the womb, so it’s
pretty cool.” Don’t be
surprised if you see me
there.
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CANNABIS GLOWS UP
It’s time to curate your collection of accessories for the next big home design trend:
cannabis carts. Because bar carts are so 2020, and we are so over 2020.
TEXT STEPHANIE WILSON
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Dancing bears, tie-dye
tapestries, bongs made
in shop class ... the
once universal visuals
that accompanied the stoner cliché
seemed set in stone. But the cannabis
aesthetic has evolved, and
we’re oh so glad for the glow up.
It starts with the lingo. The term
marijuana—and its many aliases:
pot, weed, the devil’s lettuce—is
out; cannabis is in. And cannabis
is having a moment, rising from
barely legal to essential status in
a few years flat—and doing so
without ad campaigns touting its
many proven health benefits due to
government-mandated advertising
restrictions. Along with that uptick,
cannabis accessories have become
must-have items for trendsetters.
What’s more, we predict that a
curated collection of said accessories
stylishly displayed on former
bar carts—now transformed into
smoking-hot cannabis carts—will
be the must-have home decor item
of 2021, hashtag #highdesign.
Be ahead of the curve and start
curating your collection now. To
help you get started, we’ve rounded
up some info and suggestions
of top pieces from aesthetically
minded brands that caught our
eye, captured our attention, and
earned spots on our own cannabis
carts. Read on for suggestions
about how to make your own enviable
hub for getting high.
Summerland
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PHOTOS BY ALEX SILVA, SUMMERLAND
GLOW-UP NO. 1:
SUMMERLAND
Consider a Summerland
(welcometosummer.land) bong
for your cannabis cart’s bubbly
centerpiece. This is no hunk of
plastic stored under a dorm bed
and plastered with dancing bear
stickers. The California company
offers premium bongs and pipes
made by hand in small batches
using only natural materials.
Aesthetically minded cannabis
enthusiast Liam Kaczmar started
Summerland to bring sustainable,
artisan-made pipes, bongs, home
goods, and hemp apparel to fill a
gap he found while in the market
for a bong that would meet
his style-conscious standards.
Finding only the tacky stuff of
stereotypical stoner nightmares,
Kaczmar decided to create the
bong he sought on his own. Thus,
Summerland was born. Each of the
brand’s sleek, minimal, monotone
bongs and pipes appeal to the
sophisticated smoker who’s as
concerned with the quality of the
cannabis as with the device out of
which it’s consumed.
The ultimate result: each handmade
sculptural piece is a oneof-a-kind
conversation starter.
All ceramic items are made using
lead-free, food-safe glaze and natural
ceramic clay, one of the oldest
building materials known to
man. Available in glossy white or
earth-toned matte colors in three
shapes and styles, these design
objects are worthy of display—if
not on a dedicated smoking cart
then at least on a mantel or coffee
table. They also make beautiful
vessels for fresh flowers.
How to decide which Summerland
device is right for your cannabis
cart? That depends on your
design sensibilities. If your decor
leans toward the classic, opt for
the Chongo ($250), the brand’s
original all-ceramic bong. The
official product description calls
the timeless piece “as familiar as
a well-worn poncho keeping you
warm at the bonfire.” If your decor
leans more maximalist than Marie
Kondo, you’ll want to set sail
on the Land Yacht ($225). The
largest piece in the Summerland
family, the bong’s sleek lines and
roomy double chamber hold a lot
of smoke—and look great doing it.
DON’T FORGET THE
GARNISH
Summerland’s Fruit Fantasy
Apple Pipe ($85) is a
witty nod to the creative
desperation that’s led far
too many cannabis
aficionados to take hits
out of apples when more
standard inorganic devices
weren’t available.
The glossy white ceramic
pipe is a big step up from
that organic DIY version.
If you’re not cannabis-cart-conspicuous
about your consumption
habits, you can let this
juicy lil’ fruit sit stealthily
on your bookcase disguised
as an art object
until the moment is right
to take a bite.
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BEAUTIFUL
BEGINNINGS
The first pipe to be released
under the Tetra
brand, the Balance
Pipe ($65) is also the first
glass pipe to feature meticulous
design. Devised
by New York product designer
Jamie Wolfond,
the pipe showcases a
bowl pierced by a slender
stem encompassing
both the mouthpiece and
its carb. It stands steadily
on a flat surface and
its lab-quality borosilicate
glass does not conduct
heat, making for a
cooler, smoother smoke.
GLOW-UP NO. 2:
TETRA
PHOTOS COURTESY OF TETRA
During the midcentury period,
design luminaries such as Dieter
Rams, Marianne Brandt, and
Enzo Mari created iconic smoking
accessories for the home. Tetra
(shop-tetra.com) seeks to revive
that tradition of beautiful and
useful objects in a contemporary
way, celebrating the new rituals of
smoking through the lens of great
design. The dispensary, retailer,
and accessories brand offers beautifully
designed smoking objects
for “aesthetically minded people”
and curates smoking accessories
for the art collector.
In Tetra’s world, smoking is an
antidote to the harried, tech-obsessed
pace of modern life. These
aren’t thumb-drive-esque vape
pens that you hit as you hustle from
meeting to meeting; these are objets
d’art that demand you sit down,
relax, and be present for your session.
“Breathe deeply, disconnect,
and enjoy the pleasure of cannabis,
company, and conversation with
smoking accessories created by the
world’s top designers and artists,”
says the company.
Take the Elbow Pipe ($70) designed
by ceramist Ninon Choplin
of Neenineen exclusively for Tetra.
Paris-born, LA-based Choplin, who
uses gender-neutral pronouns, is
known for injecting a bit of whimsy
into their designs. The Elbow
is a chubby, tube-shaped pipe that
lets you watch as smoke billows
inside it each time you puff. It’s on
the large side, but it fits perfectly
into one hand, with a carb and an
upturned bowl on one side and a
mouthpiece on the other.
Hand-cast in smooth porcelain,
the discrete pebble-shaped
Connector Pipe ($70) is a pleasure
to hold in the palm. It’s designed
by Miwak Junior, the side
project of Chilean fine artist and
master painter Sebastian Boher,
who specializes in aquatic sculptures—fish
homes, he calls them—
as well as pipes.
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Sackville’s Gilded Grinder
and (sold-out) Sackville x
Maya Ceramics bong
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PHOTOS COURTESY OF SACKVILLE & CO.
GLOW-UP NO. 3:
SACKVILLE & CO.
Build your smoking-hot bar by visiting
Sackville & Co.’s online shop
(sackville.co/shop/all). Drawing inspiration
from art, design, music,
fashion, and contemporary culture,
Sackville & Co. products use highend
materials such as brushed gold
finishes, marble, and ceramics to
create chic-looking grinders, rolling
papers, rolling trays, bonds,
and other highly coveted accessories.
Catering to design-forward
consumers, Sackville has redefined
the smoking experience for the
modern female consumer, encouraging
women to celebrate their relationship
with cannabis—whether
at a dinner party, concert, or alone
in the bathtub—and to feel stylish
and inspired while doing it.
Co-founders Hayley Dineen and
Lana Van Brunt bonded over their
shared frustration of being unable to
find design-forward cannabis products
to fit their personal lifestyle.
With years of experience in luxury
product development, experiential
marketing, and business development,
the two cannabis-loving entrepreneurs
felt it was time to not have
to feel stigmas or hide evidence of
their smoking habits. So they created
a line of flaunt-worthy accessories
suited to be display pieces rather
than stashed in a drawer.
Sackville’s collection includes
contemporary gold grinders, rolling
papers, limited-edition rolling trays,
bongs, and other chic smoking
goods. The brand also introduced
limited-run artist collaborations last
holiday season—including teaming
up with the women at Nice Paper to
launch the perfect stash box—that
are as beautiful as they are functional,
giving “high art” a whole
new meaning.
A new joint-rolling kit collaboration
between Wu-Tang Clan’s
GZA and Sackville pays homage
to the Liquid Swords album on its
25th anniversary while backing
the effort to get cannabis prisoners
out of jail, with all profits
going to The Last Prisoner Project
(lastprisonerproject.org).
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PHOTO BY KRISTOPHER ROLLER, UNSPLASH

Happy
Plan
Americans finally have
reason to (cautiously) dream
about travel again.
TEXT STEPHANIE WILSON
If you’re wondering how
to be a good traveler in
the time of COVID-19,
look to the words of
ancient Chinese philosopher
and author Lao Tzu.
Among his many notable
wise quotes is this one:
“A good traveler has no
fixed plans and is not
intent on arriving.”
Fact is, we don’t know
when we’ll be able to
travel freely again, but
there’s reason to be
optimistic we could be
catching flights (not
feelings) sometime
in 2021. In November,
we learned that one
of the candidates for
a COVID-19 vaccine,
made by Pfizer and BioNTech,
was more than
90 percent effective in
preventing volunteers
from contracting the virus—news
that sparked
a dim light at what we
hope is the end of the
very long tunnel we’ve
been wandering in our
masks since March.
If all the wandering
has stirred up some wanderlust
in you, you are
not alone. And stoking
the fire of your passion
for travel is so much
more than just a guilty
pleasure—it’s an exercise
shown by science to
boost your mental health
and emotional well-being.
To which we sing,
“Dream on, dream until
your dreams come true.”
There’s some good
news for globe-trotters:
Although most people
have back-burnered their
leisure travel for now,
trip planning doesn’t
need to be canceled too.
“According to researchers,
looking ahead to
your next adventure
could benefit your mental
health,” writes Erica
Jackson Curran in National
Geographic. “Even
if you’re not sure when
that adventure will be.”
To back that idea up,
Curran points to a 2007
study published in the
Journal of Experimental
Psychology. Researchers
at University of Colorado
Boulder found that
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THE SCENE
PHOTO BY ROBERTO NICKSON, UNSPLASH
people were happier
during the planning
stages of a vacation than
they were after taking
one. Put another way,
we’re likely to enjoy the
anticipation of a trip
more than we enjoy reminiscing
about it afterward,
a theory that was
seconded and thirded by
later studies. According
to findings by researcher
Jeroen Nawijn published
in the journal Applied
Research in Quality of
Life, travelers planning a
vacation reported being
happier than people
who aren’t dreaming of
their next escape. That
2010 study found that all
vacationers experienced
a significant boost in
happiness during the
planning stages of a trip.
“For most,” the researchers
concluded, “the
enjoyment starts weeks,
even months before the
holiday actually begins.”
We all could benefit
from some more
enjoyment right now.
The global pandemic has
taken a toll on American’s
well-being, as
multiple global surveys
and reports have shown.
One study revealed
that Americans are
experiencing the lowest
levels of happiness in
50 years. And according
to results of the latest
Ipsos survey on global
happiness released in
October, the prevalence
of happiness is down
more than nine points
in the United States
compared with last year.
Of those surveyed, 25
percent reported being
“not very happy” and six
percent saying they are
“not happy at all.”
If you can relate,
now’s the time to start
planning your next
escape. A new poll conducted
by the Institute
for Applied Positive
Research backed up earlier
studies, finding that
simply planning a trip
can help boost happiness
and alleviate stress.
According to the institute’s
founder Michelle
Gielan, “Booking a trip—
even just getting it on
the calendar—might be
the very thing we need
to restore our emotional
immune system after
months of mounting
uncertainty and stress.”
If your bank account
is laughing at the
thought of booking a vacation,
first applaud its
sense of humor. Then reassure
it that dreaming
of getting away at any
point in the future is not
an exercise in futility:
planning for life returning
to normal can be a
comforting activity amid
all the uncertainty. Just
because you couldn’t
swing a trip in the immediate
future doesn’t
negate the positive
impact that anticipating
a vacation can have on
your mental health.
This is a long way of
suggesting you go start a
Pinterest board or two to
populate with photos of
whatever exotic paradise
catches your wandering,
lusting eye. Because one
day—perhaps one day
soon-ish—you can be
on your way to finding
it. There’s no time like
the present to plan your
future escape. It’s all
but guaranteed to bring
joy to your world this
holiday season.
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THE END
Contact High
Freddie Miller returns to late night TV (and brings Sensi with him).
TEXT TRACY ROSS
MICHIGAN
NOVEMBER 2020
MINDFUL BAKING
Flour, sugar, and the flow
TRIPPY HEALING
The promise of psychedelics
MEET THE MICHIGAN STONER
Freddie Miller’s experience on Jimmy Kimmel Live
HACKING THE FEAST
How the hippies did Thanksgiving
When we first heard about Freddie
Miller, it was on the Jimmy
Kimmel Live! show in December
2019, when he was about to become
a breakout star of the cannabis
industry, newly known to
the world as “The Michigan Stoner.”
Then we had the good fortune
of interviewing him for our
November 2020 issue. Miller was
sweet, goofy, grateful, and transparent—and
we learned that his
experience with Kimmel reached
far beyond just augmenting his
high. “Talking to Jimmy felt like
I was talking to anybody—even
myself!” Miller said. “The nerves
that had been built up just died
off, and I felt like I was talking
to a friend.” Miller’s enthusiasm
earned him a legion of fans—and
a follow-up mid-January interview
with Kimmel, who called him “a
magical creature.” Miller credits
Kimmel with changing his life
(since the first interview, Miller
moved out of his mom’s house
and got a job at Michigan’s
Cannavista Wellness). And we
credit him with giving new meaning
to the phrase “contact high,”
which we can all use a little more
of in these times.
PHOTO COURTESY OF JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE!
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