Carlos Santana Sobre Marihuana, Música y Vida: ‘La Mejor Música Es la que te Toca a Ti’

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Carlos Santana, músico legendario e iluminado espiritual, ha cultivado una profunda relación con la marihuana; un vínculo que se sembró durante su infancia en México y que ha florecido con el tiempo

“Estuve cerca de la marihuana desde niño”, recuerda Santana, “pero nunca me metí de lleno con el tema hasta 1963 o 1964, justo antes del nacimiento de la revolución de la conciencia… la era de The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, The Grateful Dead…”.

Para Santana, la marihuana es el ‘músculo de la imaginación’

La relación de Santana con la marihuana trasciende el uso personal, ya que le sirve de conducto para su exploración espiritual y creativa. Para él, el cannabis es más que una sustancia: es un catalizador.

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“El cannabis estimula un músculo. Se llama imaginación. Te ayuda a ver con claridad lo que otros no ven, que es… lo que yo lo llamo ‘la atracción del futuro’”, elucida Santana, haciendo referencia a la idea de que el cannabis ayuda a transportarse a un futuro de posibilidades y que dicha visión del futuro ayudaría a superar un desafío actual.

El músico atribuye la capacidad de “manifestar” sus propios deseos gracias a las enseñanzas de su madre: “Lo visualizas y vas por ello. Te está esperando. Cuando menos te des cuenta, lo tienes en tus manos. Ya sea una casa, un auto o, ya sabes, tu reina, lo que sea. Y otra forma de decir esto es que somos manifestadores, manifiestas lo bueno o lo malo, lo correcto o lo incorrecto“.

Siguiendo la luz: el nacimiento de Mirayo

En 2019, Santana decidió fusionar su viaje personal con la marihuana y su exploración espiritual presentando una marca de cannabis en colaboración con The Parent Company (TPCO), llamada Mirayo. Troy Datcher, CEO y presidente de TPCO, explica que “Carlos y la marca Mirayo empoderan a las personas para que descubran su armonía, espiritualidad y creatividad”.

Mirayo, un término que une “mi” y “rayo”, es el resultado del viaje espiritual de Santana, que invita a lxs usuarios a “seguir su luz”.

“La marihuana es una planta que ha estado dando vueltas por mucho tiempo. Es una planta con mucho para ofrecer. No es sólo para colocarse. Es medicina. Es para muchas cosas”, asevera el artista.

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La filosofía de Santana sobre la conciencia y el despertar a lo común está profundamente entrelazada con su música. Se ha inspirado en otras leyendas del rubro como The Doors, The Beatles y Louis Armstrong, y afirma que “su música tiene resonancia, vibración, frecuencia… sientes unidad, armonía y totalidad”. Concibe su marca, Mirayo, como una contribución a este despertar de la conciencia colectiva y de lo comunitario.

Es más, compara esta unidad con la sensación de conexión que experimentó en Woodstock. “Cuando tocaba en Abraxas, básicamente hacía todo lo posible por no pensar. Lo aprendí mucho de Miles Davis. La mejor música es la que te toca a ti“, comparte, sugiriendo que el vínculo entre lxs músicos y su público es similar al que puede fomentar el cannabis.

El objetivo más deseado de Santana con Mirayo es compartir su viaje espiritual, guiando a los demás para que encuentren su propia luz y alcancen un nivel superior de conciencia. Cree que la esencia de la experiencia cannábica reside en este espíritu comunitario. “Se trata de aprovechar esa energía divina que todxs llevamos dentro”, afirma. “Se trata de dejar brillar esa luz interior y guiar a lxs demás para que encuentren su propia luz”.

Sin embargo, la creación de Mirayo no estuvo exenta de desafíos. Santana considera estos obstáculos como una parte integral del viaje. Se identifica a sí mismo como un “rayo de luz” que encarna amor y positividad. “Lo único que se me ha dado es que soy un rayo de luz, el recuerdo constante de Dios”, declara.

Datcher trata de confirmarlo: “Carlos Santana aporta una perspectiva única y un profundo conocimiento de la experiencia de la marihuana. No sólo está respaldando un producto; está compartiendo una parte de su viaje vital”.

Presente y futuro de Mirayo

A principios de este mes, Mirayo presentó una nueva línea de gomitas de rosin de hachís sin solventes. Cada una contiene 10mg de THC y está elaborada con ingredientes totalmente naturales. Las gomitas, con la forma del “Sagrado Corazón” (una figura icónica que aparece en los sombreros y la mercancía de Santana) vienen en sabores como guayaba, higo chumbo y frambuesa. Santana explica que se elaboraron para promover el bienestar y facilitar el sueño, “sentirse sin miedo y sin estrés”.

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Sin embargo, procede a advertir: “Si estás en modo ‘malo’, gruñón y enfadado, no te recomendaría estas gomitas porque no la vas a pasar bien. Es como si estuvieses vestidx con jeans y como un hippie, y vas a un lugar donde usan esmoquin y corbata negra; no va a funcionar… Así que cada frecuencia debe ser honrada y respetada por lo que es”.

En su opinión, el cannabis debe tomarse “como un sacramento. Se usa de forma sagrada, no profana. Si lo usas de forma profana, tendrás manifestaciones profanas. Si lo usas de forma sagrada, tendrás manifestaciones sagradas”.

Mientras reflexiona sobre el éxito de la marca, Santana anticipa un futuro brillante para Mirayo. “El futuro es muy prometedor”, proclama. “Tenemos previsto introducir nuevos productos que estén en consonancia con nuestros valores fundamentales de armonía, espiritualidad y creatividad. ¿Y quién sabe? Quizá incluso traigamos un poco de la magia de Woodstock a la vida de la gente“.

Prácticas ancestrales y legalización moderna de la marihuana según Santana

La perspectiva de Santana sobre el cannabis abarca el uso histórico de la planta en prácticas ancestrales para la sanación y la expansión de la conciencia. Sin embargo, reconoce las complejas motivaciones que subyacen a los recientes movimientos de legalización.

“Lo hacen por el dinero”, afirma Santana sin vueltas. “No lo hicieron por la conciencia. Lo hicieron casi como… por codicia”. A pesar de este cinismo, el músico reconoce los beneficios sociales que han surgido de la legalización, como los ingresos fiscales para infraestructuras y escuelas, a pesar de las motivaciones subyacentes.

“Vivimos en una sociedad en la que el Dios número uno es el dinero, y el Dios número dos es el tiempo. Pero el tiempo no existe, y Dios no es dinero. Dios es amor. Y cuando te das cuenta de eso, te das cuenta de que el dinero y el tiempo son sólo dos conceptos que los humanos crearon para sacrificar a los humanos. No son reales”, explica.

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No obstante, cuando se le pregunta si importa por qué se hacen las cosas (siempre que resulten positivas para la sociedad) Santana responde claramente: “A mí no me importa. Estoy en un lugar para observar el mundo”. En este sentido, subraya la importancia de liberarse del adoctrinamiento negativo. “Mi Dios es el amor, fume marihuana o no fume marihuana”, expresa.

Pero Santana también es consciente de los riesgos potenciales asociados al abuso de cualquier sustancia y advierte de las consecuencias negativas que pueden manifestarse a partir de intenciones dañinas. “Si eliges caminos que son negativos y dañinos, entonces vas a tener cáncer, vas a dañar tu cuerpo y dañar a otras personas. La gente dañada daña a la gente“. Sus palabras ponen de relieve el impacto de nuestras intenciones y mentalidad en nuestras acciones, incluido el uso del cannabis, y su potencial para moldear nuestra realidad física.

Autodescubrimiento y autoengaño

Según Santana, la dicotomía entre autoengaño y autodescubrimiento es crucial para entender cómo mejorar la experiencia humana: “El autodescubrimiento es espíritu. El autoengaño es codicia y valores estúpidos”.

Subraya la necesidad de ver el mundo desde una perspectiva más amplia, libre de las construcciones humanas de tiempo y sacrificio. “Cuando aprendes a rendirte (…) a tu corazón, eres capaz de recibir una sabiduría brillante”, comparte.

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El viaje de Carlos Santana con el cannabis, la espiritualidad y la música se entreteje en la narrativa de su marca, Mirayo. Este viaje, marcado por dificultades y triunfos, siempre está guiado por su luz interior. “No se trata del destino, sino del viaje. Y el viaje siempre es más interesante cuando sigues tu propia luz”, concluye Santana con pasión.

Vía Forbes, traducido por El Planteo

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From the Archives: In Lamu, Nothing Changes but the Moon (1978)

Not far from the coast of Kenya in the iridescent Indian Ocean lies an island called Lamu, very much the same as it was a thousand years ago. Since time out of mind, Lamu has been a bustling entrépot of the African-Arabian trade, its wharves aswarm with dhows freighting ostrich feathers, elephant tusks and green hashish, its bazaars awash with every exotic skin tone from Tibetan gold to Zulu ebony. And in recent years, gliding inconspicuously in their shimmering wraparound kikoys among all these motley traders, an increasing number of Western adventurers have been living out fantasies straight from the Arabian Nights.

For a dollar a night, boarding houses in Lamu town will afford a visitor not merely clean lodgings but access to the flat roof with unlimited sunset-watching and stargazing privileges. Lamu marijuana is cheap and powerful, restrictions against it are minimal, and the African equatorial heavens are spectacular and infinitely absorbing. Thus many are persuaded to stay for months on end, renting ancient high-walled townhouses for $20 to $50 a month.

The traditional Swahili ambiance of Lamu town thrives at the 200-year-old Petley’s Inn, complete with first-class bar and restaurant and pool, yet blending perfectly with the island’s unique tranquility and magnetism. Automobiles are banned from Lamu’s narrow streets, constructed to shade the people from the equatorial sun and to generate refreshing sea-wind currents. Transporation is by foot and donkey mainly, or by m’tabi, a sturdy Swahili motorboat with a swan’s curve belly and bow. Every jetty and marketplace is lined with shops decorated with brilliant banners and awnings, the owners and customers alike wearing long white khanzu-robes and fezlike kofias. Business is brisk and noisy in the morning and picks up again toward sunset, after the long afternoon doze.

Thus life stirs early in Lamu, with the predawn muezzin prayer calls ululating fluidly from the island’s 22 mosques. The men go to pray, while the women in their black habitlike bui-buis begin breakfast. For a visitor, wandering about Lamu at any time of day is like a translation into another time, and especially so at dawn and dusk. Thursday evening, the eve of the Muslim Sabbath, is celebrated abroad from every mosque with the hypnotic Sufi music of drums, tambourines, flutes, hymns and chants. The same joint partaken to enjoy the sunset will carry one irresistibly through the musical Oriental streets, haunted with immemorial genies and houris.

It is the gentle mystical tradition of Sufi that lends Lamu its ageless Islamic atmosphere. “We have a different sense of time here,” explains M’zee Selim Ahmed, a 60-year-old Lamu shaykh. “We know that we live in a paradise, and we want to continue to cherish the timeless values we hold to our hearts.”

Lamu town itself dates from the first provenance of itinerant Sufi preachers, who 700-odd years ago settled Somalia, Kenya and Tanzania. The intervening centuries blended the Bantu and Arabian languages and cultures into modern Swahili, a wildly cosmopolitan culture deeply infused with the tolerance and illumination of Sufi Islam.

The Sufi influence accounts for the benign official attitude toward qunnab (hemp) on Lamu and for the exceptionally liberated condition of its womenfolk, virtually unique in all Islam. While the bui-bui is still worn everywhere, Lamu women typically allow the veil to slip after dark, revealing smoky black eyes and bright African fabrics underneath. Virginity is still expected of very young brides, but older girls having once “dallied” are suprisingly free to have lovers. Marriage is no absolute totem on Lamu, where adultery and divorce are almost fashionably commonplace. Polygamy is allowed for men, but rarely practiced due to its expensiveness; and the women are virtually into serial polygamy, many 25-year-old girls having four or five divorces behind them.

Yet the Islamic society on Lamu is as tight and cohesive on every level, from family to government, as any small American town in the 1900s. This proceeds naturally from the communal prayers, fasts and festivals of Sufi Islam, so that a kind of homely holiness pervades the entire island. Visitors with a sincere interst in studying Sufi and Swahili discover themselves welcome in Lamu households, and the shaykhs take great pleasure in instructing Western tourists.

And always there’s the beaches, particularly the eight-mile stretch of surfside sand near Shela, a village populated mainly by devoted dope smokers. Hot and windy the year round, the climate is terrific for swimming, fishing and sailing, and at Shela’s luxurious Peponi Hotel one can order anything from malt beer to lobster thermidor. But the cardinal attraction for any pilgrim to Lamu occurs every 28 days, when the full moon swells up yellow out of India over the ocean, and dope smokers from all East Africa salute it from Shela Beach through a rising ghostly mist of communal cannabis.

Who knows? You might find yourself passing a long-handled hash pipe between Richard Burton and the Khalif Haroun al-Raschid. Or merely giggling like crazy with a very attractive sunburned fellow pilgrim from Kalamazoo or Copenhagen. And here you all are in Lamu.

High Times Magazine, July 1978

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Mama Sailene Promotes Health

California cannabis patient Sailene Ossman’s journey with the plant came after a horrific car accident when she was just 19 years old. Her injuries included a spinal fracture at the C2 vertebra, a fractured sternum, five broken ribs, a compound fracture of her right leg—nearly resulting in the amputation of her foot—as well as chronic pain, arthritis, and neck degeneration.

“It took months to learn to walk again, with my dad dubbing me his ‘walking miracle baby,’” she told High Times. “I had a tracheotomy and was in traction on my back in the ICU when a respiratory therapist compared cannabis to other medications as a bronchodilator or a productive cough that would loosen the phlegm, preventing my lungs from filling up and causing pneumonia. That’s when I realized she was telling me that cannabis was medicine.”

Once she returned home from the hospital, she dove headfirst into learning more about cannabis remedies, which continue to quell her pain to this day. Since then, her journey with cannabis has led to careers she never dreamt of having.

The Queen of Abbot Kinney Boulevard

The one-mile stretch hosting some of the hippest shops in Los Angeles makes up Abbot Kinney Boulevard in the eclectic town of Venice Beach, California. This is where Ossman began her career as owner of Abbott’s Habit, a community hub where she gained the title “The Queen of Venice” in the mid-1990s.

She had a secret life, however, establishing the first cannabis delivery service with no name in the beach town and branching out to found the Privee Social Club, which hosted infused gatherings and dinners around the country, including a soiree for P Diddy. The web series Smoke in the Kitchen with Mama Sailene found her cooking side by side with Snoop Dogg for his website, MERRY JANE. Merry Jane dubbed her “Mama Sailene” when they produced her video series with the tagline, “Mama Sailene, a mother to none, mama to all.” Ossman then went on to found the Glowing Goddess Getaways, a traveling cannabis camp-out for women.

Rolling Stone wrote that Ossman was “the goddess earth mother you always wished you had… Mama Sailene, the nurturing and cheery feminist cannabis guru of Southern California, really specializes in making sure everyone else is having a wonderful time—and always has enough weed.” 

In 2020, Ossman published the book CBD Cocktails encouraging readers to “take the edge off with over 100 relaxing recipes.”

The book is unique in that each recipe incorporates various CBD (cannabidiol) tinctures made by different companies, available nationally either in dispensaries or by mail order. The idea is a novel one. How many times have you stood looking at the sea of CBD tinctures at a dispensary and wondered what else you could do with them besides simple dosing?

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Cali Sober

Ossman is an admitted California girl through and through. Since she doesn’t consume alcohol, she was only too eager to incorporate cannabis mocktails into her recreational and medicinal dosing regimen. One section of her book is devoted to mocktails. The trend of using cannabis, but not alcohol, has been called “Cali sober,” and Ossman has included beneficial and tasty recipes for those who prefer this lifestyle.

“As the plant loses its historical [negative] stigma, cannabis and CBD products have begun to flood the market, making the healthful benefits derived from CBD accessible to all, whether marijuana has been legalized where you live or not,” Ossman wrote in her book. “If it hasn’t, it soon will be, as everyone has begun to learn of the incredible health benefits derived from this miracle plant.”

In the book’s introduction, Ossman also offers a brief overview of the history of the plant and its origins dating back to ancient times in countries we know today as China, Tibet, and India. She expounds on the plant’s use as medicine and its place in shamanistic rituals. While the book is all about CBD, she also highlights the medicinal benefits of cannabinoids working in synergy.

“Cannabinoid receptors in the body need higher levels of THC to be activated than those present in CBD products alone,” Ossman wrote. “This is why users find that the products containing only CBD are less effective, and why products using the entire plant, THC and all, work best, especially when it comes to pain management.”

Today, Ossman is the founder and owner of the Brewja Elixir in Joshua Tree, California, where she makes her home in the high desert. In her shop, you’ll find mocktails and elixirs made with a variety of CBD products, herbs, plants, and fruits, including a myriad of medicinal mushrooms.

The cannabis plant has forever changed Ossman’s life.

“The benefits from plants, and the healing I’ve witnessed for myself and others from CBD and cannabis in general, are too numerous to detail,” she said. “This experience in witnessing the healing caused me to step up to the plate for this female plant, and there’s no turning back. Cannabis has been my life, all of my adult life now, for a good reason. She’s added so much to my life, and I’m honored to work for her.”

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Recipe: Martini

This is the ultimate form of sophistication in a glass. If you like a simple drink, reach for a simple CBD add on like a neutral tincture.

Ingredients

4 parts gin

1 part dry vermouth 

1 lemon twist

Neutral CBD tincture, to taste

Glassware: cocktail glass 

Place the gin and vermouth in a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously, strain the mixture into a cocktail glass, and garnish with the lemon twist and the tincture.

Excepted from CBD Cocktails by Sailene Ossman

This article was originally published in the October 2022 issue of High Times Magazine.

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¿Quién es la Candidata Presidencial Argentina que Promete Legalizar el Cannabis Recreativo?

Nota por Hernán Panessi publicada originalmente en El Planteo. Más artículos por El Planteo en High Times en Español.

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En el marco de las próximas elecciones presidenciales argentinas, la candidata del espacio Nuevo MAS, Manuela Castañeira, se refirió a la legalización del cannabis recreativo y afirmó que “la impulsaría”.

Desde una mirada “anticapitalista”, que suele derivar en largas conversaciones y forobardos en redes sociales, Castañeira suele meterse en terrenos ásperos como los montos de los salarios mínimos y el futuro de la deuda que Argentina mantiene con el Fondo Monetario Internacional.

Y ahora, también, en conversación exclusiva con El Planteo, Castañeira se anima a dar definiciones a propósito del cannabis. “Es una planta, déjense de joder”, arremete rápidamente.

¿Por qué Manuela Castañeira quiere legalizar el cannabis?

“Les jóvenes hoy pueden tomar alcohol y fumar cigarrillo, pero no fumarse un porro. Rechazamos la criminalización de la juventud, que sufren especialmente les jóvenes de los sectores populares”, señala Castañeira.

Desde el espacio político trotskista Nuevo MAS sostienen que “que cada generación tiene que ser libre de hacer sus propias experiencias y sin querer ningún tipo de alienación, confiamos en que pueden probar y ponerse sus propios límites”.

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Manuela Castañeira asume que “la legalización es una medida para frenar el narcotráfico, que se apoya en la ilegalidad de la producción y del consumo y agrega todo tipo de sustancias tóxicas y peligrosas para la salud”.

Por eso, considera conveniente que estas iniciativas estén acompañadas de la promoción de políticas públicas de salud, información y contención.

El termómetro de la izquierda argentina

Por estos días, la Convención Nacional del Nuevo MAS votó un programa de “7 medidas anticapitalistas de emergencia frente a la crisis”.

¿La más conversada en redes sociales y medios de comunicación? Su propuesta central, que anida en el establecimiento de un salario mínimo de $500.000 indexado mensualmente a la inflación.

“Esta medida produciría una mejora inmediata y generalizada en los ingresos de las y los trabajadores y sacaría de la pobreza a millones en un país en el que hoy el índice de pobreza se encuentra en torno al 40%. Pero también es una medida de soberanía porque obligaría a los grandes empresarios a invertir un mayor porcentaje de sus ganancias en el pago de sueldos en vez de fugar los dólares al exterior y seguir causando la falta de divisas que sufre el país”, explica la candidata.

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Asimismo, aprovecha para criticar las propuestas del Frente de Todos y de Juntos por el Cambio, dos de los frentes políticos más importantes de Argentina, y se entusiasma destacando las “enormes posibilidades de la izquierda” de cara a las elecciones de octubre.

Sin embargo, encuentra un “pero” en la configuración de la izquierda nacional y empuja la discusión para lograr una votación interna para dirimir a sus mejores candidatos: “Para darle volumen a esta alternativa ante el crecimiento de los discursos de ultraderecha, nosotros estamos proponiendo una PASO de toda la izquierda”.

Cannabis: desafíos y miradas a futuro

Volviendo al ecosistema del cannabis nacional, Manuela Castañeira destaca el lugar del REPROCANN, el programa nacional que procura mejorar el acceso al cannabis con indicación médica: “Fue un logro de la lucha de un montón de sectores que reclamaban por el acceso al cannabis medicinal de manera imperiosa, como Mamá Cultiva. Por eso consideramos que es progresivo frente al prohibicionismo amparado en concepciones oscurantistas y anticientíficas”.

No obstante, considera que no resulta suficiente porque “no resuelve el problema de la persecución y de la criminalización de la juventud, que afecta especialmente a los sectores populares”.

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—¿Vos sos paciente, fumadora o consumidora de cannabis?

—No soy consumidora, actualmente.

—¿En qué otros aspectos legislativos pensás que se puede avanzar a propósito del cannabis?

—Imprescindible que se despenalice. No puede ser que se siga criminalizando a la juventud. Hay que seguir desarrollando legislaciones para la investigación y el desarrollo del cannabis medicinal, pero sobre todo hay que avanzar en asignaciones de presupuestos para que la investigación se pueda llevar a cabo.

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A Love Letter To The Mylar Bag

I get stoked every time I see a discarded weed bag on the sidewalk.

Okay yeah, litter is a bummer and the bags themselves aren’t great for the environment, but I can’t help it. Every time I walk past a mylar bag lying on the street I stop to check it out, kicking it around and flipping it over against the cracks in the sidewalk until I can see the art, the strain name, the branding, and every word of text. As cannabis and the cannabis community mesh further into the fabric of American life, the mylar bag has quickly become the artistic bellwether for the industry, pushing creativity, trends, and creating a lasting record of the culture akin to skateboard graphics, album covers, craft beer labels and countless other visual staples of counterculture scenes.

Existing both in concert and completely separate from the weed inside, graphic bags have hit all the early hallmarks of subculture evolution, creating a design language that extends past the cannabis community into its own distinct style of art complete with moral panic, bootleggers and copycats, regional intricacies, and iconic standouts. 

The intersection of commerce and counterculture is always contentious, no matter how niche, and while the artistic merits of each particular bag are certainly up to personal interpretation, it is already clear that graphic bags have reshaped the world of weed at damn near every level.

Evolving from RX labels scribbled with a strain name and stuck to black, silver, or plastic windowed bags in California’s pre-recreational medical market, as soon as cannabis sellers turned into cannabis companies the open space on the front of every bag became a billboard for branding and expression, setting strains and sellers apart on dispensary shelves and black market menus. 

Fueled by an influx of legalization laws, increased competition amongst distributors, a flood of flower, and tons of custom print shops and pre-printed bags a Google search away, graphic bags grew from the domain of top-shelf brands and exclusive suppliers to a ubiquitous facet of the regulated and unregulated markets. In 2020, with pack prices high, traditional businesses on hold, hustlers and smokers flush with extra pandemic unemployment funds put the bag game into overdrive, turning branded bud into a status symbol, with dye-cut shapes, holographic printing, and wilder subject matter – the more outlandish the bag, the more clout on social media, the faster it flies out of dispensaries and backpacks alike. 

Just like limited-edition Nikes and Supreme t-shirts, the exclusive aesthetics were immediately bootlegged, with overseas printers churning out cheap knockoffs of every popular brand and bag under the sun, turning downtown L.A. into Canal Street for trappers, with blocks of storefronts dedicated to fake packaging. It might piss off brand owners, but for the culture as a whole the bootleg obsession is a mark of legitimacy to be proud of. 

Outside the culture, cannabis bag art has become a convenient boogyman for prohibitionists, who argue that cartoon characters and bubble letters appeal to kids. Disregarding decades of rated R (or worse) animation holding a significant place in pop culture, a number of legal markets have sided with the prohibitionists on the limits of adult artistic expression, strictly restricting bag designs.

But if the past is any indicator, loud, newsworthy, and eventually unsuccessful protests against rap, metal, controversial movies back to Elvis’ hip shaking and countless other moral outrages aimed at saving kids from deviant art, the long-term odds are in our favor. Besides, you can’t ban cartoon art or bubble letters on the black market, no matter how sick of red eye Rick & Morty we all are.

Like the culture’s cousins in skateboarding, graffiti, and streetwear, the design language that dominates bag art from seshes to sidewalks is highly referential, drenched in parody, nostalgic, psychedelic, obsessed with local flavor, global ambitions, and luxury aspirations. 

Be it licensed collaborations with superstar athletes like Cookies’ Gary Payton and 33 by Backpack Boyz, a very unofficial dye-cut Supreme Air Force One sneaker by Shiest Bubz and The Smoker’s Club, a genre-defining run by Jokes Up culminating in the, um, unique, Coochie Runtz bag, hyper-local creations like Chopped Cheese by Buddy’s Bodega, all the way to dime bags printed with hastily photoshopped collages of The Joker, graphic bags are an amalgamation of every corner of cannabis culture, highbrow to lowbrow, political to patronizing, original to bootleg, calligraphy to cartoon and everywhere in between. At the end of the day, seeing a graphic weed bag on the sidewalk – an unavoidable happenstance walking through any American city these days – is saying the same thing – weed is here, weed is everywhere, and you’re gonna see it. 

Because bags can be designed and produced so quickly, mylar art is constantly rotating and reacting at the pace of our collective attention span, with print houses like Sticker Farmer dropping new bags memorializing every Academy Awards slap, viral challenge, and athlete, celebrity, or politician to be “turned into a pack,” all dropping days if not hours after the event itself. 

The evolution of bag graphics is still in its early stages, and if cannabis giants, small brands, and local trappers continue to put significant creative effort and funding into creating the next bag to set their strains apart, go viral on IG stories, and sell out on menus, weed bags are going to continue to solidify a place in the pantheon of modern art. 

I have high hopes, but for the medium to really stick, it is time to start giving respect to the artists and graphic designers behind the bags. Brands, start tagging the artists more frequently on posts, put a signature on the back of the bag, sponsor and host art shows. Smokers, if you like a bag seek out the artist, give them a follow on IG and see if they have any pieces for sale – anything you can do to continue pushing their art as a core facet of the industry and culture. 

The possibilities for bag art are endless going forward and I can’t wait to see what’s next.

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Colorado Governor Signs Psychedelics Bill

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed a bill into law on May 23 that established a regulatory framework for psychedelic substances. 

SB23-290, also called Natural Medicine Regulation and Legalization, was signed just a few weeks after it was approved in the Senate with House amendments. The bill was sponsored by Sen. Steven Fenberg and Rep. Judy Amabile, and is set to take effect starting on July 1.

The Colorado Times Recorder spoke with Tasia Poinsatte, director of the Healing Advocacy Fund of Colorado, last month about the bill’s potential. “Our state is facing a mental health crisis, and our current system has been unable to meet the needs of those who are struggling, including the many veterans in our state who are at a high risk of suicide,” said Poinsatte. “Colorado voters agreed with the passage of Prop. 122 that we need to open new, innovative pathways to healing for those who are struggling with mental health conditions.”

The law doesn’t place limitations on personal possession for any psychedelic substance, ranging from dimethyltryptamine (DMT), mescaline, ibogaine, psilocybin, or psilocin. Psilocybin and psilocin will be administered at “healing centers,” but it does allow other substances to be added later.

The bill also states that anyone under 21 who possesses or consumes a natural medicine product will only be subject to a fine of $100 or less, and a maximum of four hours of “substance use education or counseling.” More than one offense results in the same fine and education requirement, with an added 24 hours of “useful public service.”

The cultivation of natural medicine is permitted if it’s happening on a person’s private property within a 12-by-12-foot space. However, anyone who is not licensed and “knowingly manufactures [a] natural medicine product using an inherently hazardous substance” is committing a level 2 drug felony. An “inherently hazardous substance” refers to solvents such as butane, propane, and diethyl ether.

The bill also includes protections for consumers, stating that a person using a natural medicine doesn’t solely constitute as child abuse or neglect, is not grounds for being denied health coverage, doesn’t disqualify a person to be discriminated against if they’re eligible for organ donation, and “must not be considered for public assistance benefits eligibility.”

A person with a natural medicine conviction is also eligible to have the conviction record sealed “immediately after the later date of final disposition or release from supervision.”

The bill calls for the creation of a natural medicine advisory board to examine “issues related to natural medicine and natural medicine product, and making recommendations to the director of the division of professions and occupations and the executive director of the state licensing authority.” It also requires the creation of a division of natural medicine to be established within the department of revenue to regulate licensing for “cultivation, manufacturing, testing, storage, distribution, transport, transfer, and dispensation of natural medicine or natural medicine product between natural medicine licensees.”

Colorado voters passed Proposition 122, also referred to as the Natural Medicine Health Act, by 52.64% last November to decriminalize psychedelics. “This is a historic moment for both the people of Colorado and our country,” said Natural Medicine Colorado coalition director Kevin Matthews. “I think this demonstrates that voters here in Colorado are ready for new options and another choice for healing, especially when it comes to their mental and behavioral health.”

The initiative took effect in December 2022. “Coloradans voted last November and participated in our democracy,” said Polis. “Officially validating the results of the citizen and referred initiatives is the next formal step in our work to follow the will of the voters and implement these voter-approved measures.”

Coverage from Westword shows that advocates aren’t happy with the law, stating that it’s too restrictive. According to sponsor Amabile, the bill is solid but won’t make everyone happy. “My takeaway from the testimony is that ballot measure 122 is controversial,” Amabile said at a meeting in late April. “It has a lot of aspects that some people like. It has aspects that the people who like some parts of it don’t like. It has parts that nobody likes.”

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Biotech Company Seeks FDA Approval For Psilocybin-IBS Treatment

Tryp Therapeutics announced on Wednesday that it had “submitted an Investigational New Drug (IND) application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its planned Phase 2a clinical trial investigating the effects of psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy in the treatment of patients aged 21+ suffering from Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH).”

The Canadian company said in the announcement that the “planned open label study in collaboration with Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital will evaluate the effect of psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy in patients with treatment-resistant IBS who experience chronic abdominal pain and other debilitating gastrointestinal symptoms.” 

“Many of these patients also suffer from fibromyalgia, anxiety and fatigue. The primary efficacy endpoint of the study will be improvement in abdominal pain. The proposed study will also explore changes in brain connectivity and responses to pain at baseline and at four weeks, six months and twelve months post the psychedelic drug sessions, along with numerous other secondary endpoints,” the announcement said. 

“Tryp and our collaborators at Harvard/MGH believe there is tremendous potential for the treatment of debilitating IBS symptoms by utilizing the combined administration of psilocybin and psychotherapy. The clinical study will examine how psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy may alter brain networks involved in chronic abdominal pain and gastrointestinal-specific anxiety in patients with IBS to improve their symptoms. Submission of IND 163994 is an important step in advancing our program,” said Jim Gilligan, the chief executive officer of Tryp Therapeutics.

Gilligan told Green Market Report that the “most important thing is a clinical data – to be able to not just assume or hypothesize that we’re going to have a benefit, but to actually demonstrate that we can do something positive for patients.

“We’re looking at things a little bit differently than the big guys, looking at unique areas where we can have first-mover advantage. But we’re judicious in selecting areas where we really think that we’ll have a positive outcome,” Gilligan said.

According to Green Market Report, Gilligan “likened the planned administration of psilocin to the work of anesthesiologists.”

“Using an IV to induce and subsequently awaken the patient from the psychedelic state, the approach might also allow for the use of serotonin antagonists to terminate the psychedelic experience, if necessary,” the outlet said, which noted that TRP-8803 will be “central” to the company’s approach to the therapy.

TRP-8803 is “Tryp’s lead program,” the company says, describing it as “a proprietary formulation of IV-infused psilocin (the active metabolite of psilocybin) that alleviates numerous shortcomings of oral psilocybin including: significantly reducing the time to onset of the psychedelic state, controlling the depth and duration of the psychedelic experience, and reducing the overall duration of the intervention to a commercially feasible timeframe.

“The Company has an ongoing Phase 2a clinical trial for the treatment of Binge Eating Disorder at the University of Florida, an upcoming Phase 2a clinical trial with the University of Michigan for the treatment of fibromyalgia and a planned Phase 2a trial for the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome at Mass General Hospital, all of which are utilizing TRP-8802 (synthetic, oral psilocybin) to demonstrate efficacy in these indications. Where a preliminary clinical benefit has been demonstrated, subsequent studies are expected to utilize TRP-8803 (IV-infused psilocin) which has the potential to further improve efficacy, safety and patient experience,” Tryp said in Wednesday’s announcement. 

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