A Golden State: Takes Me There Gently

I just spent the last one and one half days in Santa Rosa, California. The California mood seemed pretty chill. But this trip wasn't a time for shopping at dispensaries, seeking the finest herbs. I was heading to wine country to experience history being made at the Wine and Weed Symposium. The wine industry has been standing strong against most other agricultural endeavors that may attempted to invade their marketplace, to date. Now with massive pressures beyond their control, in the form of legal cannabis, the wine industry is finally coming to terms with the fact that cannabis, at least the legal kind is there to stay. And with wine still being popular, but not quite as popular, the times are changing with the years. Sonoma Wine, please meet the finest cannabis in the land.

After a rather convoluted trip out with a massive tornado causing Newark Airport to be closed six times, with every plane around me, first Seattle, then Portland, then Los Angeles canceled until the following morning. Our plane finally left the east coast almost five hours late. I missed my not-24 hr., rental car at the airport thus I had to sleep in a pretty basic travelers motel at SFO. This whole experience was not one of the high points of my journalistic life, it was up there with that trip to Louisville for the Kentucky Derby, where my editor put me at the end of the runway. Not fun. But this is the life that I wanted. The next day of auto travel would define my entire California articulation as it stands to this date. This trip changed me from multiple perspectives. My first experience was the musical accompaniment. I am friends with a brilliant young musician from San Francisco named DF Tram. His richly visual music is intellectually introspective, cinematic in scope to the initiated. Each inner story is filled with autobiographical allegory. It is certainly not pop music, yet it contains specific metaphors in the musical description of what we call, popular culture. My iPhone pulsed a dreamy soundtrack through the speakers. Each note defined my listening on the trip, along with dabbles of Grateful Dead and Phish. Each notation gently serenading my meandering through San Francisco and across the Golden Gate Bridge. How my mood was about to be changed. Reaching into my hand-crafted Rogue Paq,

I pulled out a juicy flower of indoor grown (with Mt. Shasta water!) cannabis from A Golden State. Am I the only traveler that travels with the finest Cannabis to California from another place? I couldn't be bothered with going to a dispensary- as it was six in the morning! Those flowers have to be pretty darned good to fit my lens. The California product that I reference is none other than A Golden State. It's ultra-luxury flower that brings me to a new place feeling less overwhelmed by my travel experiences.

My last trip to California for the Cannabis Drinks Expo just concluded a couple weeks ago with some really tasty flowers, like A Golden State finding their way into my favorite traveling companion. This little friend would be none other than my handmade Stonedware pipe. Just the correct tool, handcrafted and intriguing in design for my trip to the ultra-stoic wine country. A Golden State would be one of the primary flowers to accompany me up to introduce TSO Sonoma’s Terpenes + Terroir event. Along with our carefully catered event we all took long sniffs of some bodacious fresh herbs. California agriculture is certainly is not just peaches and Cali Cabernet any longer! Its high end cannabis, just like the kind that I had brought with me.

I am lucky to have the opportunity to taste many high-end cannabis brands. I try to seek the top of the line in my quest. A Golden State Cannabis represents itself as "the most expensive cannabis in the world". With the legal California market producing at most, one eighth of an ounce measures costing no more than forty or so dollars, A Golden State is proud to include in their marketing that their their flower is the most expensive on the market.

( I saw their flowers costing eighty or more dollars per eighth of an ounce!)

They fit my description of "billionaires cannabis". Cannabis for the person who has more money than time, just my opinion, ask me. This is the stuff that in the movie named The Black Bird, "Dreams are made of".

The world's best cannabis has a massive responsibility in the already saturated landscape that makes up the ultra-high-end California marketplace. They need to be the best, not just say that they are the best. My pretty educated palate has been challenged before and will be again. This trip I tasted many extraordinarily fine flowers, but I must say that A Golden State inspired my written words in a way which was not overwhelming, but it was richly introspective. Each pull of my pipe offered my mind a new visual scene. These inhalations were way beyond what I expected. Anyone who knows me would already have that knowledge within the scope of my never assigning a score to anything. Not wine, nor bourbon, nor cannabis. I believe scoring cannabis is misinformation. Just like chasing THC. Flawed science in my opinion.

A Golden State's flowers stresses quality over brute strength. Their cultivar named Night Sky is smoothing my morning today, the trip's creative jet lag is becoming further in the past. The words just flow, for the first time in many days. Can your cannabis unlock your brain and offer introspective meaning to the mundane, then open your mind to new possibilities? A Golden State may not offer the key to the entire universe, yet these flowers unlocked certain creative paths within my own intellect. This, I hope you concur. A Golden State's flowers made my day much more optimistic and that is what life should be about. Why get confused with what is called reality when reality itself is what we make of it. We have reasons that are very personal to this end. Cannabis helps me define my own ritual.

Tasting Notes: Night Sky: Deeply touched by blue fruits and chalky notes. The effect is mesmerizing and the mood is warm and embracing. This strain, in my somewhat educated opinion is the best "wake and bake" strain for a weekend, or if you are on "Island Time," where going back to sleep is as natural as the sunshine licking over your toes in the British Virgin Islands.

I did want to share something I saw two days ago while in Santa Rosa. Impressive!