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How do you find the right form of CBD?

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CBD has enjoyed remarkable success in recent years due to its many good properties. Today it is essential in many important areas. It is also found in different forms for specific uses.

Find the ideal form of CBD can be complex when you are a novice. Here, discover some great tips for making that choice and getting the most out of the cannabinoid!

CBD: the essentials to know!

CBD (cannabidiol) is one of the many substances found in cannabis. It is the second most popular and most active cannabinoid after THC. The latter is renowned for its psychotropic effects on the body. CBD, on the other hand, has no side effects. It has therapeutic virtues very important. He is :

  • anti-inflammatory;
  • anxiolytic;
  • pain reliever;
  • anticonvulsant;
  • sedative;
  • and antipsychotic.

CBD allows you to take advantage of benefits cannabis. It is legal in many countries, especially in France. In this country, this product is authorized provided that its THC content is less than 0.2%.

Finding the right form of CBD: how do you get there?

CBD incorporates products of different forms. Whatever shape you want, you have two options. You can visit a cbd store or order online and receive delivery to the specified address. Each option has its advantages.

Purchase in store

New to or not, you might need some advice on using CBD. A professional physical salesperson informed and gives great recommendations. By purchasing from a store, you can directly verify that the quality of the product is suitable for you.

It is also necessary to ensure that the seller of the physical store enjoys a good reputation. If you have the skills to properly assess the quality of a CBD product, this option offers a much better guarantee of safety.

Online purchase

Buying CBD online offers simplicity, freedom and discretion. With an online purchase, you no longer need to search for a store near you. You just have to order a product of your choice and you will have it delivered as soon as possible. This option also removes the constraint of the opening and closing hours of shops.

You will be able to buy cbd oil online with great ease. Deliveries are made discreetly. However, you need to make sure you choose a reliable shop and professional to avoid disappointments. Adopt CBD professionals with good notoriety.

Different forms of cannabidiol

To fully benefit from the virtues of CBD, it is important to choose the ideal shape for himself. It largely defines the method of ingestion. The latter also conditions the satisfaction related to the use of the CBD product. CBD takes the form of:

  • oil;
  • infusion;
  • herbal tea;
  • food supplements;
  • flower ;
  • e liquid;
  • cosmetics.

The most popular and most precise for dosage is oil. The CBD flower is the most natural. Herbal teas and infusions are ideal for the first intake of CBD. Electronic cigarette enthusiasts are fans of CBD-based e-liquids.

The ideal form of CBD depends mostly on needs, constraints and preferences. Adopt a legal and tailor-made cannabidiol product to make it the best experience!

The new high creation Xtrem lighters from ST Dupont

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At the end of the year, ST Dupont is putting a new range of lighters on the market. Promising and out of the ordinary, these accessories have as much charisma as their designers. Please note, these are limited editions!

Xtrem Haute Création lighters: a masterpiece

ST Dupont is a French brand particularly famous in the smoking world. Synonymous with luxury and high-end French know-how, the house is now known throughout the world. She has recorded numerous collaborations and limited editions, such as those of 007 or even Space Odyssey, Cohiba 55, From Paris with Love and many others. Recently, ST Dupont joined forces with Solyfonte to offer you Extreme lighters as the end of the year holidays approach.

Indeed, Solyfonte is a French expert in the art of modeling bronze and silver, creating majestic pieces since 1985. Combining expertise, ancestral know-how and new technologies, the rendering exceeds the limits of the imagination. Christophe Saint Romain, the manager is also specialized in patina. This one is so impressive that it gives an effect of depth and movement to the metal part.

A unique collection for the end of year celebrations

This is how the very last ST Dupont lighters were born. A precious alloy of noble materials, they are also covered with fully patinated bronze and lacquered by hand. They are available in 8 models, namely: Rock in silver or red version, Koi Fish, Dragon, Skull, Motors, Skull & Rose in gilded or silver bronze, Poker in gold or silver or Napoleon.

The finishes are neat and ultra realistic. These ST Dupont lighters are offered in limited quantities and for a price ranging between 950 and 1150 euros. The collaboration does not stop there since Skull & Rose cigar cutters are also available in 2 versions: gold platinum or silver.

On sale to the general public since last November, this is a unique and truly racy gift idea for any self-respecting smoker!

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Are CBD gummies a good idea?

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They look like any candy you can find in the store. Colorful, uniquely shaped, sometimes even tart, CBD gummies are not really a common treat. Here is a little summary of their virtues.

More and more CBD candy on the market

Whether online or in specialty stores, CBD gummies are thriving. However, it is good to check the composition of your sweets before buying them. If you want to try this type of candy, it is therefore advisable to know how to read the label or to ask the seller for advice.

Typically, a consumer will seek to experience the benefits of CBD through the consumption of candy. Of course, if they are visually attractive, this is not necessarily a guarantee of quality. On the other hand, depending on the dosages, you will almost have to consume the packet for some, if you want to feel the benefits. As a reminder, the threshold is set at 15 mg per day per person. In other words, even if a candy contains only 5 mg of it, you know that you can consume 3 of them a day to relax your body.

What are the pros and cons of CBD gummies?

As a general rule, CBD candy are small and similar to any candy. You can therefore consume them wherever you are discreetly. Already dosed, you do not have to wonder how much to swallow. Of course, you don’t experience the plant’s “grassy” taste either, since it is camouflaged in the sugar. On a practical level, gummies will allow you to feel an effect over a longer term than oil for example.

On the downside, we can talk about the dosage already achieved which does not necessarily allow juggling. While the effects last longer than with oil, they also take longer to be felt. It is also important to choose well so as not to be taken in by unscrupulous dealers. Finally, of course, avoid leaving them within reach of children!

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The art of taking pleasure in smoking a pipe

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Smoking a pipe is an undeniable art. A pipe smoker always has more presence than a cigarette smoker, if only because he holds a finely crafted object in the palm of his hand. Here is why pipe smoking is a pleasure and an art.

Smoking a pipe: an art of living

From the 18th century, pipe smokers became more numerous before becoming scarce with the appearance of cigarettes. Today, 1% of them smoke a pipe and the youngest are also increasingly interested in it. Pipe smokers seek excellence, which is why they are increasingly fond of good pipes made with good wood. Moreover, the pipe smoker took his time to choose his first pipe.

A quality pipe is also sometimes characterized by its price, although today it is possible to obtain very good ones at a very affordable price. The more qualitative the wood, the more the aromas of the tobacco will be preserved and therefore, the more the experience will be positive and pleasant.

The smoker’s gestures must show finesse. Likewise, habits and manner of smoking should be the subject of a millimeter ritual.

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These small gestures that make the difference

Facial expressions, gestures, method of aspiration, way of breathing, all these expressions are not identical from one smoker to another. Already, they differ between a cigarette smoker and a pipe smoker. This will make the experience unique, especially in small details, such as how to expel bouffards and the smell of burnt tobacco that has nothing to do with that of a cigarette.

A pipe smoker can also be considered a gentleman in the world of smokers. It is elegant and leaves no trace of its passage, except for a slight smell of woody tobacco, as well as ashes. No residue will litter the ground. Is it also good to remember that pipe smoking is not an addiction, but a pleasure, a parenthesis that we offer ourselves during the day, as some people like to take a bath, play sports or go for a walk.

It is also an art passed down from generation to generation, in particular by bequeathing pipes from father to son or even daughters!

Elie Bleu collaborates with Oliva to create a limited edition humidor

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This is a collaboration that will not leave any aficionado indifferent. Oliva and Elie Bleu have teamed up to create a luxury collector’s humidifier. Discover all the details of this prestige cigar humidor in a very limited edition.

A luxurious collaboration

Let’s set the scene: on one side, Oliva, famous manufacturer of Cuban cigars. On the other, Elie Bleu, a luxury French tablet maker who excels in cigar boxes. In the center, renowned cigars, including one specially designed for the occasion. Now let’s get to the heart of the matter. Oliva has decided to mark one this tumultuous year with a luxury collector’s humidifier. To do this, the Cuban giant called on the French know-how of Elie Bleu.

This is how the famous Oliva XXI cigar humidor was born, containing no less than 21 cigars. One of them is even a very limited edition since there are only 21 of them, each designed for the 21 Oliva humidors.

Photo credit: Elie Bleu

The humidor Oliva by Elie Bleu in detail

The illustration on the cover shows the hands of a torcedor rolling a cigar. On the front, the Oliva logo is majestically painted in gold paint. Also on this front face, just below the logo, is a sliding tray which also allows you to store accessories in this Elie Bleu cigar humidor. As such, a lighter and a cigar cutter co-branded Elie Bleu and Oliva will be delivered with the humidors.

Elie Bleu collaborates with Oliva to create a limited edition humidor
Photo credit: Elie Bleu

When you open this little gem, you come face to face with 21 cigars. Among them, the famous Oliva Serie V Melanio Figurino, a short figurado, the novelty of Oliva. It is recognizable thanks to its packaging different from others. As a nod to this year 2021, only 21 copies were made, one in each humidor, they too, manufactured in number of 21. This is a very limited edition, which, for the modest sum of 21,000 euros (and 21,000 dollars), can find its place in your home! However, we will have to wait, the commercialization will not take place before 2022.

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Josephine Baker: a stoner at the Pantheon

Joséphine Baker, a free woman with 1000 faces, will enter the Pantheon today by virtue of her rich life as a music hall artist, resistance fighter, anti-racist activist and adoptive mother of 12 children from all over the world.

One of the pleasures of her life, however, is most often being shut up: she was a cannabis user.

In ” Josephine: The Hungry Heart“, The authors Jean-Claude Baker and Chris Chase relate a discussion with Phillip Leshing, who was then bassist in the orchestra of Buddy Rich:” I remember that once, Josephine invited several of us to come in his dressing room to try very good reefer [ndlr : des joints]. I went with Harry ‘Sweets’ Edison, the trumpeter, and Buddy Rich, and we smoked weed with Josephine Baker… but the marijuana didn’t affect her performance. Never. ”

According to Phillip Leshing, Josephine Baker “had this wonderful golden love cup made for Buddy and the band, a trophy, like a Academy Award, with our names engraved on it. And she was full of marijuana. She gave it to us after the last performance at the Strand [le club new-yorkais dans lequel ils se produisaient en mars 1951] “.

The authors speculate that Baker may have first smoked cannabis with his lover Georges Simenon, who used to mix hashish with tobacco in his pipe, or with the Prince of Wales in Paris, at the when he came to Rat Mort and came out “with his feet in front of every night – dead drunk and stoned”, according to another lover, Claude Hopkins.

A Californian dispensary pays homage to part of its history: Joséphine and Billie’s, a return to the “Teapads” of the black communities of the 20s and 30s, of the Cannabis Clubs where people gathered to enjoy jazz and cannabis. “While feeling connected, relaxed, valued and safe”.

Josephine Baker has a cannabis dispensary in her name

The interior of the speakeasy “Josephine & Billie’s,” which is accessed by a password at the entrance

For Whitney Beatty, co-founder of the speakeasy, Josephine Baker and Billie Holiday “were two women of color who were persecuted for their cannabis use. But what seems really important to me is that they were persecuted and yet they used their art to fight this injustice. They have rejected the mainstream. They wrote their own rules and left the door open for those who came after them. ”

To the grateful homeland stoners!

Dunhill, limited editions

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Collectors and lovers of fine pipes, do you have any Dunhill special edition models in your ranks? Here are some essential pipes of the English brand, which denote with the classic models that it usually sells.

Christmas pipes

This is an exclusive collection dating from 1980. Since then, every year, a Christmas pipe is born with a different theme. Unique, they are generally very popular with collectors. The 1981 edition remains the rarest with less than 100 copies published, due to a pricing error.

If from 2006 to 2010, the stories of Charles Dickens were in the spotlight, since 2011, it is the turn of The Nutcracker and the Mouse King to highlight a character from the tale.

Zodiacal pipes

This other unique collection spans 12 years and showcases an animal from Chinese astrology. Every Chinese New Year, a Dunhill pipe celebrating the associated zodiac sign is marketed.

Titanic Limited Edition Pipe

Dunhill pipes limited editions on historical facts

In reality, it is the English battles that are in the spotlight. The Trafalgar pipe (2007 edition to celebrate the death of Admiral Nelson) was sold in 200 copies. In 2010 Dunhill commemorated the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain with a pipe made in 200 pieces. Five years later, it is the pipe celebrating the bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo to be marketed in 300 copies.

Dunhill pipes in unique series

There are still many special Dunhill series. Some were made to pay tribute to important personalities, such as the Alfred Dunhill Windshield Motorities, reissued in 2019 in 120 copies or the Coronation of Queen Victoria in 2018 for the 180th anniversary of her coronation. Then, some pipes celebrate tales (Hansel & Gretel in 2016 in 200 copies), historical facts: The Terracotta Army in 2017 paying homage to the archaeological discoveries of a complete army in China or the Imperial Dragon in 2019, making once moreover a nod to Asia. The Titanic has not been forgotten with a dedicated pipe. There are more animal pipes, like the British Bulldog in 2015 or the Dalmatian Dog sold in 101 copies! Not to mention The Eiffel Tower (2007), considered the most luxurious in the world and many more.

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Pre-order “Me, myself & high”, the book by Banana Kush

For 3 years, the Banana Kush podcast has been opening the word on a taboo subject that France prefers to hide under the carpet: weed. Three seasons later, the first French podcast to talk about cannabis swaps its microphone for its pen and hits bookstores with the book from the podcast!

“Me, myself & high”, the book taken from the Banana Kush podcast, gives voice to 15 personalities and questions their relationship to the plant, in a long and augmented version in relation to the different episodes of the podcast where these personalities intervened. This collectible book also includes thematic focus in addition to the interviews, to better understand the implications of this illicit product on our health, our economy or our culture.

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Banana Kush Book Guests

“Me, myself & high” will go on sale in January 2022. In the meantime, you can already pre-order it on Ulule to help finance the making of the book and its printing and to receive the book in preview.

Different rewards (stickers, posters, personalized dedications, surprise bag of bananas, etc.) are offered depending on the contribution. The fastest will also have their name in the acknowledgments at the end of the book, as early support, if the pre-order is placed before November 15th!

New study warns about the risk of heavy metals in vape pens

As vaporizer cartridges containing cannabis extracts gain in popularity and availability, there are concerns about heavy metal exposure in their use.

A study recently published in Chemical Research in Toxicology has tested 13 American brands, as well as several standard cartridges filled with different extracts. Tests suggest that chromium, copper, nickel, as well as small amounts of manganese, lead and tin can leak over time from the vape material to the vape liquid and then to the aerosol. produced by the vape.

The researchers ultimately believe that the regulatory requirements for heavy metal testing must be reconsidered in order to properly reflect the real risks presented by cannabis vaping products.

Metals found in liquids of commercial vaping products

For this study, the researchers purchased a number of “standard” cartridges and filled them with virgin concentrate, virgin distillate, terpenized concentrate, or terpenized distillate. Thirteen different brands of commercially available THC vaporizers were also purchased. Several of them have been disassembled and crushed into small pieces, in order to be able to assess the elemental composition of typical vaping equipment.

Tests on cannabis extracts were carried out before use as a vaporizer and then again after two-thirds of the liquid had been consumed. In the pre-vaped samples, measurable levels of chromium, copper, and nickel were found, along with small amounts of manganese. However, the levels of the “big four” conventional heavy metals that are routinely tested – arsenic (As), cadmium (Cd), mercury (Hg) and lead (Pb) – were all well below regulatory limits.

These same metals were detected in sample extracts after vaping, but in average amounts generally higher than those recorded before vaping.

“The results suggest that the cartridges themselves leach [ndlr : émettent] metals, and potentially at higher rates when the components are heated, ”the scientists warned.

“Since most states and other regulatory bodies typically only require testing for As, Cd, Hg, and Pb, these potential exposure profiles would exceed current regulatory standards. “

Metals can pass from cartridge components to inhaled vapor

The aerosols produced by the commercial cartridges, as well as a model of terpenized distillate and a terpenized concentrate, were also analyzed for the presence of ten different heavy metals: arsenic, cadmium, cobalt, chromium, copper, mercury, manganese, nickel , lead and tin.

Although there is no single, accepted standard method for the analysis of cannabis aerosols, the team at Medicine Creek Analytics recently published an effective method of screening for heavy metals in aerosols, which was also used for this study.

Vaping devices have been roughly sorted into three groups – model systems, commercial vapes with a cartridge design similar to models (“group 1” cartridges), and a third group made up of various material designs (“group 1” cartridges). 2 ”) – and the cannabis extracts in each have been tested by the team.

“Copper, nickel and manganese were detected in all three groups,” the researchers reported. “Chromium was detected in all groups except terpene model systems, and lead was detected in both model systems and group 2 cartridges.”

“The Group 2 cartridges generally had higher concentrations overall, but it is not known whether this is due to the difference between the components of the cartridge, or the battery voltage / temperature inconsistencies. “

To confirm whether the source of this contamination was the leaching of heavy metals from the vape material into the oils and the resulting aerosol, the researchers conducted an additional experiment where six of the model cartridges were filled with non-terpenized model concentrate. Three of them were left in an oven at room temperature and the others in an oven at 42 degrees Celsius to simulate hot conditions, such as the interior of a car. The concentrate contained in these cartridges was removed and tested for heavy metals after three weeks and then after seven months.

Prior to being added to the cartridges, the levels of metals present in the concentrate were all below the limit of detection / limit of quantification values ​​for each metal. After seven months at room temperature, significant amounts of copper and nickel were observed. Cartridges stored at 42 degrees Celsius exhibited even higher levels of these metals, as well as notable levels of lead, tin, chromium and manganese.

Towards a Cuban Cigars Shortage?

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The word shortage is currently on everyone’s lips. After toilet paper during confinement, it is currently the turn of food and fuel. But aficionados and experts in the field also announce a shortage of cigars … Explanations.

The Covid effect slowed down production

Like the rest of the world, Cuba has suffered the health crisis linked to Covid-19. Even if the population is mostly vaccinated with a rather effective local vaccine, activity is still in its infancy on the Cuban island and its capital of Havana. In addition to feverish businesses, the supply system is also sluggish, sometimes causing delivery delays.

The biggest cigars as well as the exclusive collections are missing. 5th Avenue Trading, the importer of Cuban cigars for part of Europe has claimed since January 2020 that limited editions are hard to come by. The current situation is even more worrying since nearly 90% of Cuban cigars are out of stock in many French specialty shops. The Robustos have disappeared from circulation, as have the larger modules.

Italy, Germany, Switzerland, France, it is now very difficult to find large cigars in the best civets. It may even happen that many cigars are still missing from some specialists.

What are the reasons for this shortage of cigars?

In the first place, the ancestral methods preserved do not make it possible to meet the very strong world demand. Then, the supply difficulties linked to the Covid and the excessively expensive prices offered by the carriers are also a major problem.

Finally, the sanitary conditions on the island are also an aggravating factor since since January 2021, only half of the workforce is present in the factories. Being an artisanal activity, it is not possible to replace Man by a machine. On the other hand, the strong demand created by the confinement is also responsible for overconsumption in recent months.

However, even when they drop in, the cigars cross the Atlantic. But, the increase in demand, the decrease in production and noise from the corridors are enough to make consumers flock to the scrolls en masse, creating a real shortage.

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