Entry #4 Cherry – Phartz Live Rosin  Phartz (Dank Dough X Motorbreath #15) .5g Total THC 80.35% Total cannabinoids    % First impression: Glistening with terps – this putty-like, pale yellow glob in the bottom of a small black jar reminded me of ear wax and I’m sorry I mentioned it here because the smell…

Entry #3 Nana’s Lemonade .5g Total THC 76.10% Total cannabinoids  % First impression: Pale yellow dollop of clean and fresh live rosin slush in a white jar. Looks wet with terpenes and smells delicious like lemonade. Its going to be a hundred degrees in Denver today and judging by the smell this Nana’s Lemonade Live…

Entry #2 Sticky Bananas  .5g Total THC 65.40% Total cannabinoids      % First impression: Small little flattened, dry yellowish blob. No oily surface texture, just dry. I mean, it’s fine. Fragrance: Big banana smell as soon as the lid came off. Pure fresh flower terpenoids and just a hint of gas. My entire nose…

Entry #1 Skweez Live Rosin Badder Chem Cake .5g Total THC 76.35% Total cannabinoids 88.93% First impression: Tan or light brown, rectangle shaped, waxy looking half gram in the bottom of a white cup.  Fragrance: Smells gassy and chocolate – or is it subtle coffee? Let’s say its both and think of cake. There’s a…

Dream Come True Last week a good friend at work told me about the 2022 High Times Cannabis Cup Colorado: People’s Choice Edition and about how I could pre-register to get a Judge Kit and I was like, hell yes I want to judge THE CANNABIS CUP that I’ve known about since 1988! Where do…

A Conversation With Tim Kirkland Hello and welcome to the inaugural, first episode of a podcast called the Elevated Self Blog Podcast, a companion piece to my blog called, you guessed it, the Elevated Self Blog which can be found at elevatedselfblog.com  Today I’m joined by a longtime friend, Tim Kirkland.  Tim is CEO of Renegade Hospitality…

Big Lesson Learned I think it was the summer of 2003 I was taking a stroll through the crowded Haight Street Fair near Haight and Ashbury streets in San Francisco. It was the last day of our trip and my wife, and I were going to meet up with our traveling companions and head to…

Four Steps of Cannabis Product Selection  If you’ve ever looked at a dispensary menu of products, you know it’s a lot to take in. inhaling, ingesting, topical application – which one is right for you? Before laying out your hard-earned money in search of the effects that suit your unique and very personalized cannabis product…

I’ve spent some time recently doing a deep dive into the history of cannabis and its impact on human culture through the ages and the subject continues to intrigue me. When I finished reading a book like Michael Pollin’s The Botany Of Desire for example, I spent days days afterward, mulling it over and thinking…

I was introduced to some really beautiful pacific northwestern homegrown Northern Lights back in the nineties. It was mailed-in and wildly unlike anything I could ever find in Colorado at that time. Once I smelled that wonderful earthy, slightly minty, piney – and skunky fragrance there was no going back to the brick weed we…