Growing your own cannabis can be fun and rewarding, but it can also get expensive. In this article, we get tips from expert Jeff Jones on how to save money while growing high-quality cannabis.
Choose low-cost, high-quality cannabis seeds
One of the most important factors to consider when growing cannabis is the quality of the seeds. It’s crucial to choose high-quality cannabis seeds to ensure a healthy and robust plant. Online seed banks like Homegrown Cannabis Co. offer a wide variety of seeds at different price points. It’s essential to compare prices and quality before making a purchase.
“Seeds are low-cost and safe to transport,” says indoor growing expert Jeff Jones, a Horticulture Faculty Member of Oaksterdam University. “It’s easy to have them mailed to you.”
Buy seeds from trusted seed banks
When purchasing cannabis seeds, it’s important to buy from trusted seed banks. A reputable seed bank will ensure that the seeds you receive are of high quality and will germinate correctly. Additionally, seed banks will typically offer a guarantee on their products, which can provide peace of mind for the buyer. Avoid purchasing seeds from unverified sources, as this can lead to poor quality or even non-germinating seeds.
According to Jones, seeds are the way to go in order to cultivate your own unique cannabis, one of the benefits of growing your own.
“When you’re in cultivation, seeds is where everyone wants to start if they want their own varietal that no one else has,” Jones says. “Seeds give you more genetic drift. When you’re growing from a clone you’re getting someone else’s varietal.”
Clone what you grow
Once you’ve grown your seeds to maturity, and found a varietal that you enjoy, you can then begin to clone. Cloning is an excellent way to save money and keep growing.
Clones are genetically identical to the parent plant and can be used to create multiple plants. Cloning can also help ensure a consistent harvest as the new plants will have the same characteristics as the parent plant.
To clone cannabis, take a cutting from the parent plant and place it in water or a rooting hormone to promote root growth. This also can save money by generating harvests three to five weeks more quickly than growing from seeds.
Reuse and recycle supplies
Growing cannabis requires a lot of supplies, including pots, hoses, pruning shears, and soil. While these supplies can be expensive, there are ways to save money by reusing and recycling them. For example, pots can be cleaned and sterilized between uses. Pruning shears can also be sharpened and sterilized between uses to ensure they are in good condition for the next harvest.
Growing media — including soil, rockwool, clay pellets and coco coir — can also be reused.
Use autoflower seeds
Autoflower seeds are a cost-effective option for growing cannabis. These seeds are designed to flower automatically, which means they do not require a change in light cycles. Autoflower seeds can be grown under any light cycle, making them ideal for indoor growing. Additionally, these seeds typically have a shorter grow cycle than traditional seeds, which can result in a quicker harvest.
Don’t discard your end product
Many growers only use the buds of the cannabis plant and discard the leaves. However, trichomes, which contain THC and other cannabinoids, can also be found on the leaves. Instead of discarding the leaves, they can be used to create edibles, tinctures, and other cannabis products. This can help maximize the yield and reduce waste, ultimately saving you money.
Seek help along the way
To ensure your investment pays off, ensure you are getting good quality information so your plants remain healthy to a successful harvest. A lot of information is available online, including online classes in horticulture or home growing. Many seed banks offer continuing education to ensure your success.
The experts at your local hydroponics store can give you helpful grow tips and steer you toward the best products for the price. Oftentimes, if you cultivate a relationship with the owner or manager, they can price-match and alert you about upcoming sales.
These are all ways to save money growing cannabis.
“It matters how well you lived, not how long. And often the “well” lies in not living long.” ~Seneca
What does it mean to live well? It means to live wide. To live fully, deeply, maximally. It means to cast the net of yourself wide despite the risks. It means digging down deep and discovering what makes you come alive. What triggers you? What astonishes you? What makes you yearn? What makes you squirm? What do you fear?
Living well is asking ego-smashing, soul-awakening questions, and then taking the answers gleaned, like precious seeds, and planting them in the soft loam of the world. It’s what James Baldwin called “the doom and glory of knowing who you are and what you are.”
What might pop up? Glory? Self-actualization? Perhaps. But more than likely: Ego Death or a dark night of the soul. Either way, living well is living wide, and so encompasses it all. Sometimes a broken compass can lead to greater adventures than a functional one. Then again, usually not.
But this is no reason to balk. This is no reason to turn to religion or nihilism or other escapist routes. Not at all. This is a reason to grab the cosmos by the throat. It’s a reason to challenge the gods. It’s a reason to sharpen your mettle.
Death should not be avoided at the expense of adventure; adventure should be embraced at the risk of death.
As Mark Twain said, “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
In the spirit of living fully, here are five ways to live wide…
1.) Live immediately:
“The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.” ~Seneca
What does it mean to live immediately? It means to fall in love with the moment. It means doing what makes you come alive now, not later. It means embracing the uncertainty that outflanks you and doing the damn thing anyway. Because what else is there? Comfort? Sloth? Procrastination?
When you’re living immediately, you’re fully engaged with cosmos. You are vulnerable, open, and honest with being a creature that doubts, yearns, and fears. But you let it in. You don’t deny it. You don’t repress it or project it. You embrace it. You own it. You take ahold of your mortal angst. You laugh into the abyss. You grab the halo that’s been culturally pinned over your head, and you force it down into the mortal coil that it always has been.
You get out in front of it. You spearhead it. You make the best of the short time you have. You are mortal? So be it! Live so fully that the immortal gods can’t help but weep with envy.
2.) Forget about your reputation:
“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.” ~Rumi
Reputation has you trapped in a mask of yourself. It has you locked inside a comfort zone. It has you mirroring mediocrity.
Stop making things easy for yourself. How will you grow if you are too comfortable? How will you mature if you are not challenged? How will you become sharper if you are not tested?
Reputation is overrated. So are security and comfort, for that matter. There’s a wealth of wisdom in insecurity. Alan Watts wrote an entire book about it: The Wisdom of Insecurity. It’s okay to be insecure. It’s okay to be vulnerable. It’s okay to be paradoxical. For it is in these realms where you will be tested, challenged, and where you will learn how to grow out of mediocrity.
Get ahead of the curve. Become an outlaw. Rearrange the nightmare that surrounds you. Don’t follow power, learn how to turn the tables on power, even your own, so that power does not corrupt. Don’t kowtow to “the law,” or “that’s just the way it is,” or “everybody else is doing it.” Question it, despite the “rank and order” and outdated narrative that props it up. Have the courage to do what it takes to maintain truth, health, and freedom. Even if it’s unpopular. Even if it means shame, a loss of reputation, incarceration, or death.
As the graffito in Anacortes states, “When freedom is outlawed only outlaws will be free.”
3.) Leave the rat race:
“The word “courage” should be reserved to characterize the man or woman who leaves the infantile sanctuary of the mass mind.” ~Sam Keen
Diminish the programming of the codependent ego so that you can tune into the broadcast of the interdependent whole. There’s an entire world out there. Outside the chaos of the disconnected man-machine, there is an interconnected order keeping everything together. It’s time to marry yourself to that order.
Choose exhilaration over comfort. Grab the bull by the horns and force it to guide you in the direction you want, even at the risk of being dragged or tossed or even trampled. Jump the line that everybody else is toeing. Take risks that will make all the rats still caught up in the rate race cringe. Double-dog-dare yourself to escape the doghouse of a sick society. Gamble with your life on your own terms. Tyler Durden is whispering in your ear, “Let the chips fall where they may.”
Seek solitude and meditation. Turn away from the grind before it grinds you into a postmodern pulp. Un-cog yourself from the clockwork before it kills your precious time. Overcome the default setting. Recondition your cultural conditioning. Trick yourself into going on a Hero’s Journey that will broaden your life more than almost any singular task.
Face the chaos on your own terms. The Hero’s Journey is a whetstone. It’s a way of sharpening your character. It’s a way of strengthening the muscle of the soul.
As Joseph Campbell wisely surmised, “The modern hero must not wait for his community to cast off its slough of pride, fear, rationalized avarice, and sanctified misunderstanding. ‘Live,’ Nietzsche says, ‘as though the day were here.’”
4.) Wreck yourself against infinity:
“I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.” ~Elias Canetti
Infinity is the teacher. You are the student. You want to live wide? Be teachable. Be adaptable. Let infinity drag you kicking and screaming into the pain of higher knowledge (interconnected faith) lest the bliss of ignorance keep you trapped in lower knowledge (disconnected belief).
Be a drop in the cosmic ocean that mirrors the interconnectedness of all things. Realize that you may be a speck in the universe, but you are also the entire universe in a speck. The soul with which infinity feels you is the same soul with which you feel infinity.
Use infinity as a form of humility. Use it to crush your false gods and erect God—the infinite God that trumps all your petty religions, politics, and cultural conditioning. The God that subsumes all things, light or dark.
Use it to find your shadow. In the wake of infinity, you are a fallible, imperfect, and mistaken being. And that’s okay. Embrace it. Honor it. And then integrate it like you would your shadow. Humble yourself in the wreckage of being a mortal broken against the idea of immortality, but then gather your brokenness and piece it together into wholeness.
Collect your darkness and transform it into a beacon that pierces through all the false light. As Edward Abbey said, “You can’t study the darkness by flooding it with light.” Reciprocally, assemble your humility into a force of nature, a rebellion against absurdity. Then “rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
Learn how to live well by learning how to die well. Understand: in the tug-o-war between life and death, you are not on either side. You are the rope! You are the one being tugged. You are both alive and dying. Living well is dying well, and vice versa. Life is a journey; death is a compass. Live well by being flexible, robust, and balanced. Die well by being fearless, courageous, and heroic.
5.) Transcend it all through radical Humor:
“We need a new cosmology. New gods. New sacrament. Another drink.” ~Pattie Smith
High humor connects the finite with the infinite. It forces the mortal head over the immortal abyss. Where you are faced with a terrible choice: cringe with self-seriousness, invulnerability, and angst or defy it with authenticity, vulnerability, and lightheartedness. The choice will define your life.
Choosing humor rather than fear keeps power in check. It checks all power. In fact, the only thing that can trump the will to power is the will to humor. High humor is a way of keeping the will to humor ahead of the will to power.
High humor subsumes all other virtues. It radicalizes courage, moderation, wisdom, justice, creativity, and honor. It creates a sense of infinite play in the midst of mortal seriousness. It infuses life with boldness, authenticity, presence, joy, and passion. Armed with the vulnerable armor of high humor, you become open, hungry, daring.
Through such fearlessness, you are free to experiment. You are free to transform tragedy into teacher, wounds into wisdom, longing into laughter. Because then you realize that life itself is but a grand experiment and you are merely the experimenter. You are the mad scientist, and your life is your crazy invention. You are a full-frontal alchemist, transmuting all energy, whether positive or negative, into fuel to fly higher while transforming all weapons formed against you into a force that works for you rather than against you.
High humor is living wide. It puts the fleetingness of life into hyper perspective. It’s vulnerable yet voracious, primal yet provident. It’s unforgiving in its pursuit of levity. It’s the animal of your highest appetite feeding on the absurdity of the cosmic joke while widening the mark. It transforms your inner animal into a God, your inner God back into an animal. It does this again and again, laughing at the fragility of the human condition while thumbing its nose at the abyss. It’s a Phoenix smoking the pipe of its own ashes.
As R.A. Lafferty declared, “The law of levity is allowed to supersede the law of gravity.” And so it does.
Gary Z McGee, a former Navy Intelligence Specialist turned philosopher, is the author of Birthday Suit of God and The Looking Glass Man. His works are inspired by the great philosophers of the ages and his wide-awake view of the modern world.
This article (The Art of Living Wide Rather Than Living Long) was originally created and published by Self-inflicted Philosophy and is printed here under a Creative Commons license with attribution to Gary Z McGee and self-inflictedphilosophy.com. It may be re-posted freely with proper attribution, author bio, and this statement of copyright.
Imagine a cup of tea. What starts out as dried leaves becomes a satisfying drink when hot water is added. Depending on how that tea is taken, milk or lemon juice may be added to increase the flavor, and others may choose to add a cube or two of sugar to sweeten the drink even further. Once all of these ingredients are mixed together, the tea bag is removed and the flavors mix together seamlessly. This sounds simple, but what if we would like to reverse this process and we would like to remove the tea leaves fully infused into the drink? It would require a more complicated operation than just lifting them out of the cup. We should perform a distillation. Distillation is a process that allows all the additional liquids or compounds to be removed from the solution. In some cases, distillation may be used to get the solvents back in the pure form, like distilling the water back in the example with tea, or could also be used to extract the physical material within the solvent. With this in mind, there are two ways to distill a solution, and while the procedures are similar they can both be utilized in different ways.
How to Perform Simple Distillation
To explain simple distillation, the easiest way to take a real world example. [1] In order to remove the salt from seawater, a simple distillation is the easiest way to do so. [2] This solution consists of two components: salt and water. Both of these components are usable, but the solvent, the water, needs to be separated from the physical material, the salt. Using a simple set-up, it is possible to isolate these materials in a few basic steps. First, the salty water is placed into a round bottom flask. [3] From there, the solution is boiled, allowing the liquid to evaporate. The water vapor separates from the solution and is siphoned off into a separate container to condensate back into its liquid form. This leaves pure salt in one container, and distilled water in the other.
Using salty water as our hypothetical solution means water as a solvent reaches its boiling point of 100 °C, and the components separate from the mixture. This is the basic technique used to desalinate saltwater, and helps provide potable water from salinated sources. As the name would suggest, the distillation procedure works very well for solutions that are simple. However, what if the solution is more complex, and consists of multiple solvents? In this instance, fractional distillation presents a slightly different technique to achieve the same end result.
The Difference with Fractional Distillation
Simple distillation is effective for isolating components in solutions with drastically different boiling points. In the previous example, water boils at 100 °C, and salt reaches a melting point of 801 °C. [4] But what happens when the boiling points are much closer to each other? It becomes much harder to isolate each individual part of the solution as one component may evaporate with the other.
Take alcohol for example. [5] Any alcoholic beverages designed for consumers must first go through fractional distillation to isolate the ethanol, fermented plant material, and water from the initial solution. The solution first goes through a maceration process, known as fermentation, where the sugars and starches in the plant material are converted into ethanol.[6] This solution typically comes in the form of a mash. Once the ethanol is ready, any harmful substances and excess plant material must be removed to convert the solution into a liquid that is safe to drink. To do this, the solution is added to the base of the flask, similar to simple distillation. The equipment is slightly different, though, primarily relying on a beaker with a fractionating column instead of a standard neck. [7] Because ethanol has a boiling point of 78 °C, compared to water’s boiling point of 100 °C, the heating of the solution must be done in stages. If simple distillation were employed, it is possible that too much water vapor may combine with the ethanol. To avoid this, the beaker is first heated to 78 °C, allowing the ethanol to evaporate. Any water vapor that comes with the ethanol is trapped in the fractionating column, where it condensates and recombines with the solution. The ethanol is isolated in a separate container before raising the temperature again to 100 °C to effectively distill the remaining water out of the plant mash. Depending on the alcoholic content of the finished product, the heating times and distillation may vary to determine the concentration of ethanol.
This process is similar to simple distillation, but fractional distillation involves more steps to allow greater efficiency in the distillation process.
Advantages and Effectiveness of Each Process
Simple and fractional distillation are two procedures that work on the same physical principles of evaporation and condensation to isolate materials within a solution. Both can require round bottom flasks to heat the solvents to their boiling points, but the main difference between the two comes down to the components within the solution. With this in mind, there are advantages to each system, but it may depend on what is being distilled and which solvents are employed.
In terms of simple distillation, the costs tend to be slightly lower. This is because the solvent extraction has only to be performed once, and the equipment used tends to be simpler. With this in mind, it is possible to perform simple distillation on a solution with more than one solvent, but only if their boiling points are dramatically different from each other. Because of this, fractional distillation provides an advantage in more efficiently separating solutions regardless of their boiling points. Fractional distillation needs to be performed in stages, allowing each component to be completely removed from the starting solution. The downside to this is that it extends the distillation time and thus the energy needed to heat the solution.
However, if the solution is exceedingly complex, fractional distillation may ultimately prove more beneficial as it can lead to a better reclamation of each component parts. Depending on what is being distilled, this may allow for more recycled solvents in the long run.
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Marijuana e-commerce platform Leafly has filed a lawsuit challenging the New York Office of Cannabis Management’s ban on third-party marketing and advertising services in the state’s nascent recreational cannabis industry. A recent report from Spectrum News 1 revealed that Leafly Holdings is a plaintiff in a suit against state cannabis regulators.
The Albany County state Supreme Court lawsuit argues that the state’s rollout of cannabis has been “disastrous” and has essentially hampered the fledgling industry’s growth. The suit comes at a time when New York cannabis regulators are dealing with litigation from severalparties, which has held back the rollout of recreational cannabis sales in the state.
It claims that the state’s Office of Cannabis Management adopted advertising and marketing regulations that target third-party platforms such as Leafly Holdings and that these regulations are actively limiting the industry’s ability to promote and market its products. A statement from Leafly noted that the “unprecedented restrictions” place major restrictions on the ability of small business owners to reach their consumers.
Leafly is a Seattle-based company that functions as a “customer acquisition tool” for 4,600 cannabis retailers and more than 7,800 brands. The company’s main bread and butter for the majority of its life was cannabis industry reporting. However, it recently pivoted to customer-oriented content such as cannabis product descriptions and information. Leafly currently features more than 11,000 cannabis resources and stories as well as more than 5,000 marijuana strains.
Players in the state-level cannabis industry already deal with a wide variety of barriers due to federal prohibition, and Leafly argues that the Office of Cannabis Management’s advertising rules add even more barriers for small business owners. The Seattle-based company said that every customer should have the right to compare prices and shop wherever they please, but New York chooses to ignore this right, according to several court cases related to commercial speech.
Now that New York is set to launch recreational sales with a ban on third-party marketing in place, Leafly is the primary plaintiff in a suit seeking to overturn the third-party marketing ban. Ryan McCall, the deputy cannabis practice chair at Tully Rinckey LLC, says the rule limits the number of businesses that could be involved in New York’s recreational cannabis industry in the future.
He theorizes that Leafly and other plaintiffs are suing the state now because it is preparing to implement cannabis regulations in and roll out recreational sales. McCall says this recent lawsuit will likely result in a reasonable compromise for both parties. However, he notes that it could affect marketing rules moving forward if a compromise isn’t reached.
The marijuana industry is constantly engaged in advocating for improved conditions akin to what other industries enjoy, and cannabis industry players such as Aurora Cannabis Inc. (NASDAQ: ACB) (TSX: ACB) will be watching how this particular case pans out since it could chip away another form of unfair treatment targeting marijuana industry actors.
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“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.” Tesla.
“The world of imagination is Infinite and Eternal, whereas the world of generation and vegetation is finite and temporal. All things are comprehended in their Eternal forms in the divine body of the Saviour, the true voice of Eternity, The Human Imagination.“ William Blake.
Over the years, thousands of people have visited my house for various ceremonial events, and although many profess to be spiritually orientated, I have found very few that have experienced meaningful encounters with the unseen worlds.
Many are so consumed with intellectual materialism that they have lost touch with intuitive imagination and the subtler faculties of perception and as a result, the spiritual realities are lost to them.
William Blake knew well that the acute development of intellectual knowledge was achieved at the price of losing touch with the spiritual worlds. This narrowing of vision prevents us from seeing and uniting(energetically) with the One Life. Instead we stand against and over nature. Our cold intellect forever experimenting on living things, cutting and dissecting them into smaller and smaller pieces with no respect for the being within the form.
This is why mankind is sick. We have been engineered to focus only on physicality. Our spiritual worlds have been hijacked by fear based control religions, and delusional guru led cults that tell us what to believe and how to live.
It is time to break the chains of physicality and think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.
The body electric – everything electric
Everything that exists in our physical world is made up of a positive and negative charge, frequency and vibration. Our reality and our bodies are electric. Eyes, ears, nose, tongue, skin are merely interfaces, ways for our bodies to convert the ‘outside world’ into an electromagnetic wave form that creates our thoughts and feelings. Electric charge is the glue of reality. It holds everything together. And the frequency of the electric life charge is about to change.
Momentous times
We are at the end of a Grand Year and everything is in chaotic flux. Changes will take place on every level of our being…physical and energetic. We are in a time of transformation and transfiguration as incoming cosmic frequencies mutate our dna. The spiritual opportunities that are manifesting within each one of us will expand our awareness and our understanding of Self.
This is an exciting time to be alive.
However….
In a duality there is always an opposite charge, and so it is with mankind.
For eons, there has been an evil force that has enslaved and experimented on the human family. And this force that has turned many of us into heartless monsters….is very much alive. And, through its puppets has launched an energetic attack on our psyche.
Picking up the speed of attack
The attack on the integrity of our physical and spiritual reality has picked up speed in the last 50 years. There has been a technological revolution with all the world’s governments in lock step.
Electromagnetic fields are beamed down upon us from cell towers, gravity wave emergency network towers, wind farms, and satellites. Our electrical selves are choked by an infernal smog designed to block the cosmic signals of revelation and liberation. The rise of the smart devices, we have been engineered to think we all need, are destroying our circadian rhythms, interfering with our natural electromagnetic modality. We are being bombarded with harmful radiation.
Are you getting the picture? Our energetic integrity is under attack.
The cell phone
Cell phone technology has taken over the rule of human life. And, the powers that be want all of us enslaved by it. They are trying to make sure that we cannot survive in their new dystopic reality of smart everything without their control device, their universal credit system and their world digital currency.
All things convenient
Most people are totally reliant on their cell phone. It houses their music, their photographs and videos. Their bank accounts, their contacts, their business, their entertainment. I mean…it’s a world unto itself and if we are not careful, the device will define who we are.
Glued to a little screen
I see it all around me. People are glued, stuck to their small pulsating screens like barnacles on a rock. Their whole world has become embedded in manufactured electromagnetic signals. Many are so absorbed by the machine and its realities, that they walk out in front of traffic and get run over. And how many accidents…lives lost or bodies maimed because of some one texting on their cell phone. There is nothing wrong with cell phones per-se as long as we don’t become so addicted that ‘the machine’ takes over our lives.
How many times a day do you check your cell phone? Do you carry it on your body? In your pocket next to your gonads or near your heart. Do you sleep with it next to you? If so, what electromagnetic damage is it doing to your organs, to your dna and to your consciousness?
Do you see where this is going?
“The continuous checking and/or utilization of smartphone applications for prolonged periods is associated with stress, withdrawal, anxiety, sleep disturbance, decreased physical activity, poorer academic performance, and deterioration in wellbeing. Several studies have shown an association between time spent using smartphones and the severity of musculoskeletal complaints Moreover, studies have reported the harmful impact of smartphones on neck and upper extremity function: the neck becomes more stressed due to the overuse of smartphones, leading to neck muscle weakness. It was reported that the prevalence of neck pain ranges between 17.3% and 67.8% among smartphone users, and the lifetime prevalence is 55.8%.” National Library of Medicine
Oh! Mirror…Mirror…
Digital zombies
Billions of people spend hours in the mind numbing virtual world of the internet and social media platforms… scrolling, commenting in virtual chat rooms, and escaping from reality with mindless entertainment. The convenience of electronic communication is actually a spiritual curse. We have become digital zombies and its about time we woke up to it.
The serpent spell
Karl Schwab said that the digital world would become more satisfying and alive than this one. And it is happening just the way it was planned.
I think a new matrix is being created to replace the old one that expired on December 21st 2012…and the younger generations are being sewn into the fabric of a new order.
Change in frequency
What they don’t want you to know – it’s not me, not you or co2.
There’s a lot of hot air being spouted right now about climate change and a move to green energies which are just as pollutive as fossil fuels. Insanity is in control of this world…playing god and trying to control the weather. Man in his arrogance thinks he is the centre of the world but he is not. The sun is the big boss of this dimension.
The sun’s heliosphere is changing frequency and as ruler of our solar system everything changes with it including our planet and every living being on it. In a magnetically changing world we have to get up to spiritual speed, expand our intuitive capabilities to understand the incoming cosmic frequencies…how it affects our consciousness and resonate with it. This force has many names, the Shift of Ages, the Rapture, and the Evolution of the Life Waves. The video on electromagnetic amplification with this post is a must watch. It allows us to learn about the cyclic planetary and astrological events that affect our consciousness and all life on earth.
Perfect timing for an electromagnetic block
It is interesting to note the timing of the digital era, cell phone addiction and the elite’s electromagnetic onslaught on human consciousness. Immersing all life in a dissonant, incoherent electromagnetic soup. It coincides precisely with the Shift of Ages, the Rapture and the Evolution of the Life Wave. The elite’s agenda is to trap us in the world wide web. Block us off from the NOW! Block us off from the spiritual evolutionary energy flowing through our solar system.
Is that an accident or by design?
I think you know the answer.
So dear friends, check yourself out. Ask yourself: Am I addicted to digital reality? Do I binge watch shows? Am I addicted to virtual reality games, like 20 percent of the US population? Do I don my headset at every opportunity and escape into a fantasy world? Do I escape the traumas of life with a bottle, pills or drugs?
Because if we are to grasp the amazing spiritual opportunity at hand, we have no time for escapism. The run is on…..
The new frequencies enveloping our planet are liberating. Our dna is changing and as the cosmic wave flows through us it is my understanding that the electromagnetic shackles on our pineal gland our crown chakra will fall away. We will vibrate faster than the matrix of visible light. We will be free of the re-incarnation cycle.
Love on its infinite journey will be ours.
There is no time for escapism. We must be mindful and fully present in the Now.
Elva Thompson was born in England in 1947 and moved to Rosebud Lakota reservation in 1987. She is the author of the Heartstar Series; Book One: The Key made of Air, Book Two: The Gates to Pandemonia, and Book Three: Walking In Three Worlds. Her other interests include organic gardening, ancient phonetic languages, sonic sound and their application in the healing arts. She is also a medical intuitive and teaches sonic re-patterning using sound, colour, and essential oils. Elva Thompson is on Amazon Author Central @ amazon.com/author/heartstar
New York authorities are intensifying their efforts to combat the proliferation of unlicensed shops selling marijuana across the state in response to the ongoing struggle to establish a thriving legal marketplace for the substance. With the legalization of cannabis in 2021, an influx of unauthorized vendors peddling cannabis, vape products, edibles and more has posed a significant challenge to the state’s legal cannabis industry, with New York City bearing the brunt. Presently, only 23 legal cannabis dispensaries are operational statewide, and nine are located in NYC.
A recent study conducted by the Independent Budget Office of NYC revealed that approximately 1,500 unregulated retailers within the city may be holding marijuana products worth $484 million. If these products were to be sold through legal channels, it could generate a substantial $19.4 million in revenue for NYC.
In response, the state has escalated its efforts to crack down on unregulated shops by increasing the frequency of inspections, imposing fines and even ordering closures when necessary. These measures extend beyond the stores themselves, with landlords now facing penalties of up to $10,000 if they knowingly lease commercial properties to unlicensed sellers.
The crackdown on these illicit operations is not just a legal matter; it also has significant economic implications. Unlicensed sales deprive the state of much-needed revenue, as the state imposes a 13% retail tax on all cannabis products, with additional taxes based on the potency levels of THC.
Beyond the financial considerations, unlicensed shops also present substantial health risks. A 2022 study commissioned by the New York Medical Marijuana Industry Association, which examined products from 20 illicit stores in NYC, discovered that around 40% of these products contained harmful contaminants such as salmonella, lead and E. coli.
The state’s Marijuana Control Board recently announced plans to open up license applications to the general public as well as to multistate medical companies and manufacturers. Previously, licenses were restricted to individuals with prior cannabis-related convictions under the Conditional Adult Use Retail Dispensary (CAURD) program. This move is expected to expand the number of legal cannabis shops throughout the state, further shaping the future of New York’s cannabis industry.
While illicit sales have been fueled partly by delays in the opening of legal dispensaries, experts anticipate a decline in such sales in the years ahead. New Frontier Data, a marijuana research company, projects that illicit sales, which were estimated to reach $7 billion annually in 2023, will decrease to approximately $3 billion by 2030 in New York.
The black market isn’t only a concern in New York. Major marijuana companies such as Tilray Brands Inc. (NASDAQ: TLRY) (TSX: TLRY) also have to contend with illicit marijuana sellers in the jurisdictions where they operate, and authorities are constantly trying to weed out black market actors so that only licensed operators can sell their products.
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A Michigan lawmaker has relaunched efforts to legalize psychedelic fungi and plants with the caveat that all psychedelic-related activity does not involve monetary exchange. Sponsored by Senator Jeff Irwin, Senate Bill 449 would legalize mescaline, psilocybin, dimethyltryptamine (DMT), psilocin and ibogaine as well as the plants and fungi that produce these five psychedelics.
The measure would allow the noncommercial cultivation, manufacturing, delivery and possession of the five psychedelics and remove penalties for simple possession. Michigan currently classifies the simple possession of the five covered hallucinogens as a misdemeanor.
Irwin introduced a similar measure in late 2021 that would have legalized cultivating, delivering and possessing several plant and fungi-derived psychedelics as long as they weren’t involved in any commercial activity. However, the 2021 bill clarified that individuals were allowed to charge a “reasonable fee” for any guided spiritual, counseling or similar services involving entheogenic fungi or plant-derived psychedelics.
Irwin noted that psychedelics had therapeutic value and religious significance, were relatively safe for use, and had less probability of abuse. He also declared that it was time to stop wasting resources and time creating more victims of the failed drug war.
The senator now says Senate Bill 449 is a reintroduction of pertinent legislation that hadn’t received the consideration it deserved in Michigan and other states. In a recent interview, the senator said that it is crucial that legislators reconsider the measure as psychedelics have exhibited significant medical potential against a host of mental disorders, including major depressive disorder, treatment-resistant depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and anxiety, all conditions that typically affect veterans, Irwin observed. A policy change allowing the therapeutic psychedelic use for such mental-health disorders would be “good public policy,” the senator said.
Although Irwin noted that the bill still had a long road ahead of it before advancing, he was optimistic that hesitant lawmakers would buy into the measure over time.
Psychedelics are still illegal in most states and at the federal level due to policies from the war on drugs era. However, a growing body of scientific literature indicates that psychedelics may be potent mental-health treatments with the ability to offer long-term relief at relatively minimal doses and with hardly any side effects.
This research has spurred legislative action in several states, cities and municipalities across the country. In Michigan, municipal governments in Hazel Park, Detroit, Ferndale and Ann Arbor have already taken steps to decriminalize psychedelics.
Companies such as Seelos Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ: SEEL) are advancing their psychedelic drug-development programs, and the information that filters through regarding the insights they identify is further encouraging the public to warm up even more to these substances and their medicinal potential.
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It’s a crisp and bright November morning, and I am headed to Fungaia Farm, a local mushroom production company born in 2011 that serves my Humboldt County community. Fungaia Farm is owned and operated by local permaculturist Levon Durr, who began this endeavor in 2011.
A Community-Based Cottage Business
On this day trip, I get to join Levon as he works to make an order for a local ranch owner of 50,000 wooden dowels inoculated with shitake mycelium. He’s a busy guy, so he is multi-tasking his work as he tells me about his evolution from a mushroom lover to a mushroom educator and how he is passionate about these organisms. As he loads up large scoops of water-soaked wooden dowels into bags used for sterilization, he explains that property owners are always looking for alternate revenue streams from their land and have an abundance of thickly growing stands of tan oak.
“The real clencher is when you start talking to property owners with acres and acres and acres of choked-out tan oak forest,” he says. “And you tell them, ‘I’ve tried growing a variety of mushrooms on tan oak, and the only thing that’s kicked ass is shitake’, and you tell them [their tan oak thinning] can make them money, and they can grow delicious protein-rich mushrooms.”
Fungaia Farm is a community-based cottage business providing all kinds of mushroom spawn and associated tools to feed your DIY mushroom obsession. Through their website, anyone can purchase plug spawn (inoculated wooden dowels for log culture), sawdust spawn, which can be used to create mushroom beds in your garden, or grain spawn, which acts as a “seeding” spawn to inoculate dowels or other substrates like coffee grounds, wheat straw, hardwood sawdust/shavings, and even cardboard. Also available are his infamous mushroom kits, which come ready to fruit gourmet edible mushrooms right on your kitchen counter.
Novice & Expert Growers
Fungaia Farm provides fungi for novice and expert mushroom producers, but they also have products for those who want to enjoy these extraordinary species. They have spice mixes and mushroom gravy mix, and their medicinal mushroom tinctures can provide your body with various health benefits, but Levon is also passionate about education. He gives workshops on how-to for log culture, sterile culture techniques, and environmental restoration. Levon is passionate about what he does; his business has that energy and expertise on display. I asked him what he felt kicked off his love affair with mushrooms.
“Originally, it really started with just a broader sense of nature and spending time in nature,” he explains. “Then, I was introduced to the idea of wildcrafting and just being this young kid, out on my own at 17; I was selling blackberry jam on the corner at the farmers market or doing whatever I could to make a little money. But then, a buddy of mine teaches me that an Italian restaurant is forking over $10 per pound for mushrooms at the back of the restaurant. So, we started hiking all over, getting AAA plus mushrooms, like chanterelles, to sell to them. That was really the beginning, and David Arora’s book, which helped me expand into other edibles.”
He refers to David Arora, a mycologist dedicated to educating the public on edible and medicinal mushrooms. His books Mushrooms Demystified, All That the Rain Promises and More: A Hip Pocket Guide to Western Mushrooms will be a favorite for those who wish to learn the most satisfying skill of mushroom foraging.
“Then in the late 90’s, I went to a Bioneers conference and saw Paul Stamets speak,” Levon says. “He was working on his Mycelium Running book and he just completed a hydrocarbon soil remediation project. was successful in remediating a few yards of soil contaminated by hydrocarbons using oyster mushroom mycelium. And again, there was that connection that said, I don’t need an engineering degree to do this. I don’t need to know anything but the basic biology of the lifecycle of this organism.”
Foraging Made Possible
Levon is right. Enjoying foraging or growing your own mushrooms without formal academic training is possible. Paul Stamets is a revolutionary mycologist who was largely self-taught. Still, his groundbreaking work earned an honorary doctorate from the National University of Natural Medicine in Portland, awards from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and myriads of other accolades. Stamets has played a massive role in making fungi accessible and approachable to everyday people. Now, through Fungaia Farm, Levon is carrying that same torch and has devoted his life to connecting people to mushrooms and their environment.
“I’ve never had this fascination with just walking around trying to ID everything or DNA sequencing nature, and I can get frustrated with the academia folks when they get obsessive about ID’ing and memorizing massive amounts of Latin,” he says. “I mean, I always seem to find that the large percentage of the human population is interested in what they can eat. Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate the science, but I just don’t know what impact that’s having on the broader public’s appreciation of the natural world. When you can relate to people in that way, like, this is a delicious food, or this is an abundant resource that can be harvested without damaging the ecosystem, and you’re a part of it. It’s connecting this primal ancestral connection to the land that I feel is so important.”
A Green Solution
Levon and his business support people finding the edible joys of mushrooms. However, he is also a big proponent of mycotechnology, which are tactics that use fungi to restore the environment or provide a greener approach to development and land stewardship.
“There is so much diversity in what you can achieve with mycology,” he says. “ I’m working on mycelial building products with a contractor. I’m working on mycofiltration with folks from the biology and forestry world. I’m working on fire restoration with a tribe here in California. All the while, I am also growing medicinal and edible mushrooms to pay the bills.”
How fungi can be used is as diverse as these organisms. Emerging technologies based on biomimicry and enhancing ecosystem succession (the process in which the mix of species and habitat change over time) are fascinating. Levon has worked to clean up diesel-contaminated soil with mycoremediation, a strategy that harnesses fungi’s ability to deconstruct complex molecules and transform contaminants into a food source. Mycofiltration is an approach that uses the fine net of fungal hyphae to capture sediment and pollutants, which can help reduce water quality impacts. He has worked to support a local tribe in restoring their forest soils after fires. Yet, as much as he is a fan of these organisms, he also is pragmatic in his view that implementing these technologies is a complex and difficult challenge.
“People are always asking why these technologies aren’t more wildly used,” he says. “The challenge is when you take these living organisms, and all of a sudden throw them outside in all these different temperatures and humidity levels and environments. That’s super challenging.”
No One-Size-Fits-All
He also stresses that there is not one single winning strategy.
“I don’t believe that fungi are this silver bullet that is the answer to all our problems. I know we love that, it makes a great Instagram post, but I am wary of that approach. What’s the real practicality of [implementing these mycotechnologies]? Are fungi these amazing silver bullets for your health or the environment? No, but they are important pieces of the puzzle. We tend to break things into segments, we break things into categories, separate them, and we don’t see the interconnectedness.”
Fungaia Farm is a unique business with a mission to encourage folks to heal their relationships with nature, to go beyond science, and to teach people to relate to their environment in tangible everyday ways. The Fungaia Farm message is to empower yourself to use the tools nature has given us, that we can do this, and that we all should do this. Fungi can help heal our landscapes, bringing us food, medicine, clean soil, and clean water. But, most importantly, fungi show us the complexity and innate interconnectedness that all of nature possesses.
Please visit and support this man’s incredible work at Fungaia Farm website: fungaiafarm.com
(Globe Newswire) Vancouver — EnWave Corporation announced today that it has signed a commercial royalty-bearing license with Michael Foods, a subsidiary of Post Holdings and a leading American multi-billion-dollar supplier of foodservice, food ingredient and retail offerings.
Michael Foods has also purchased a 10kW Radiant Energy Vacuum (REV) machine from EnWave after conducting product development research and development over the past several months.
The license grants Michael Foods the right to produce certain products using REV technology in the United States of America and provides for an ongoing royalty stream tied to the commercial sales of any REV-dried products produced and sold by Michael Foods during the term.
The license is the fifty-third active royalty-bearing agreement issued by EnWave.
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