Growers generally create cannabis strains by breeding varieties based on their terpene profiles, which affect their psychoactive properties and drive consumer preference. Terpene profiles influence effects such as energy levels and mental clarity. 

Below are suggested strains to pair with some of your favorite activities. 

Head Out for a Night on the Town

Super Silver Haze is an excellent choice for a night out on the town.  Users report this strain will enhance your experiences by giving you an energy boost and a body buzz while reducing your weekday stress and social anxiety. 

Users say another benefit of Super Silver Haze is the enhancement of your senses. The club lights will be breathtaking, drinks taste better, and the music immerses you. This is the strain to use before starting an unforgettable night out.

Exercise

Mixing cannabis and exercise has been increasing in popularity. There are even gyms that promote the practice. pairing exercise with cannabis. The popular Durban Poison strain will likely give you bursts of energy, help you feel clearheaded, and may increase your productivity. This strain is also a popular exercise enhancer because users say it reduces fatigue and boosts motivation. 

“The majority of participants who endorsed using cannabis shortly before/after exercise reported that doing so enhances their enjoyment of and recovery from exercise, and approximately half reported that it increases their motivation to exercise,” according to a study published in Frontiers in Public Health.

Watch a Documentary

If you want a relaxing evening in front of the TV, Cereal Milk may be exactly what you are looking for. Users say this strain will calm your daily stresses while soothing your body and mind. This strain is also known to improve focus, allowing you to absorb information thoughtfully.

Laugh at a Comedy Show

One of the pronounced effects of the Tropicana Cookies strain is that it has been known to cause fits of giggles — which is why it’s an excellent option when seeing a comedian or attending an improv show. Users report this strain also increases your energy while letting you stay focused and level-headed. Because the strain is also a social enhancer, it can make a comedy show with friends even more enjoyable. 

Read a Book

There’s no better way to spend a moody evening than with a cozy blanket, a thrilling book, and some cannabis to immerse yourself in the story fully. Gelato may be just the strain for this scenario. Users say Gelato increases your focus, improves mood, relieves stress, and allows your imagination to jump into whatever adventure you are reading. 

Go on a Date

Something as special as blossoming love requires the Unicorn Poop strain. This hybrid strain is perfect for date night because many say it improves conversation, gives you a small bout of giggles, and gently puts your body and mind into a euphoric state.

Cheer on Your Team at a Sporting Event

Sporting events are known for their ice-cold beers, cheering fans, and high energy. The Lemon Cake OG is an excellent addition to your game day checklist. This strain will likely give you all the energy needed to cheer your team to a win. The stimulating buzz accompanying this strain will invigorate your body and mind, adding to the excitement of the competition. While it doesn’t guarantee a win for your team, it can offer fans an exciting experience.

Whatever your plans, consider using a special strain to get you in the right mood to experience each activity to the fullest!

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We’ve been working on something special and we are excited to finally be able to share our first podcast with everyone (while offering a special thanks to Caliva for being our sponsor)!

Meet Our Host – Kevin Fermin:

Kevin is a cannabis enthusiast and professional with over ten years of cannabis experience. Starting off as a trimmer at the age of 18 Kevin quickly became enamored with the cannabis plant and its medicinal effects along with the change of perception brought along with consumption.  Soon he moved into the retail space and fell in love with the satisfaction of providing the public with alternative methods of pain and psychiatric management.

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Betty is a cannabis influencer and advocate on Instagram and The WeedTube. You also may have seen her on TikTok as @thatbishbetty! But besides all that, she is just a girl who enjoys getting high, geeking out and talking your ear off about weed. Her love for Mary Jane has been growing for a while now. Before moving out to Southern California, she lived in both Oregon & Hawaii; two unique climates for growing cannabis and cultivating her knowledge. When she made the move to California, her eyes were opened wide by the cannabis scene here! “It’s a new wave, and I want to ride it!” she thought. “I wanted to be part of something big, to help educate and guide others, all while doing what I love most, smoking weed!”

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Netflix’s latest offering in this realm, however, falls incredibly short. The platform touts “Cooking on High” as the first-ever competitive cannabis cooking show, which seems odd considering how little this show cares about actual cannabis. Instead of learning much about the plant’s properties or the culture surrounding its culinary use, viewers are force-fed roughly 15 minutes of mundane cooking and mindless commentary each episode.

But even the worst dishes are just the sum of their parts. Because this mid-June release is still getting so much buzz, here is a closer look at some of its questionable ingredients:

1 ripped-off premise

We can all agree that the Food Network struck gold with “Chopped,” one of the strongest cooking competitions on television. Weird ingredients paired with a ticking clock make for riveting television, as do the many doomed trips to the ice cream machine. Will Chef Bobby plate his pork sliders in time? How will Chef Lisa work turkey into her parfait? And so on.

“Cooking on High” is a poor man’s “Chopped,” with two fewer rounds and chefs. Instead of using this to give each contestant more attention, the show shoves them into a tiny space and spends more time with its dud of a judging panel. (We miss you, Alex Guarnaschelli!) The required ingredient in each episode is a certain strain of weed, and contestants must abide by a theme like “afternoon delight” (so, lunch).

2 “celebrity” judges with little culinary knowledge

This is where we discuss Mod Sun, a rapper this pop-culture junkie recognizes only as B-list actress Bella Thorne’s boyfriend. “My mom smoked when she was pregnant,” he says during his introduction in the pilot, “so I’ve been high since before I was born.” Later on, he admits that he has “like, never ate fish before” while chowing down on competitor Andrea Drummer’s cod cake. Of course, he rates it a 10.

Mod Sun’s fellow judge, comedian Ramon Rivas II, is not much better: “I’m not sure I’m feeling the effects of the meal, ’cause I came into the shoot kind of high,” he says. To judge an edible, you might want to have the ability to evaluate its effects.

Later episodes (with different judges) include such insightful commentary as “I thought it was cooked very well. It was beautiful.”

2 overlooked chefs

The poor, poor chefs! Despite the fact that the show revolves around their battle to win what YouTube star turned host Josh Leyva refers to as the “coveted Golden Pot” — is there money in it? — we don’t actually get to hear much from them. They are sometimes cut off when describing their dishes, and the tiny space inhibits our ability to see their cooking techniques while listening to the judges tell meandering stories.

When Luke Reyes, a chef who once won “Chopped,” begins to describe his sandwich in the first episode, Mod Sun interrupts to say, “Bro, I’m a mess right now.” Cool, but please let Reyes finish.

½ teaspoon cannabis information

The one redeeming quality of “Cooking on High” is Ngaio Bealum, a comedian and the show’s resident cannabis expert. Bealum introduces the strain of weed in each episode, divulging a tiny bit of information about it — Amnesia Haze is “super, super buzzy,” for example, and Cookies and Cream is an “indica-dominant hybrid” — and then sits beside the judges without saying much more.

In the fourth episode, Bealum responds to a ridiculous judge (who says he considers all strains of weed to be the same) by breaking down two commonly used kinds of marijuana: indica, known for “its body effects,” and sativa, known for producing a “a more cerebral, buzzy, mind-racing high.”

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