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CHALICE TV | "Sara" EP.

Penn: Welcome to chalice TV we're here with Sara Batterby of the Batterby Group. We're here to talk a little bit about financing for women in the cannabis industry. So why this industry and where'd you get your start? What kind of led you to here?

Sara: I moved to the United States with the job that I got out of college, which was in finance and technology, more of an entrepreneur than I was sort of an employee. Really sort of 10 15 years of just building out companies and learn a great deal about what it feels like to be in a start-up, what that first three years is like and building a company and it almost inevitably involves raising money. But some friends of mine had um… started ah... grow. They were building out a grow operation in the basement of a house in the Alberta district.

Kiki: Awesome.

Sara: Yeah, they were like, you know a third of the way through and... had about, you know half as much money as they needed to really finish the whole thing, and definitely understood that there was an opportunity, because right then cannabis was legalized in Oregon for recreational use with measure 91 and... and they asked me to join them. and come on board as the CEO and I did that and we built High Five Farms.

Penn: Humble beginnings.

Sara: Yeah, well that's how I got into cannabis. I was still really passionate about diversity so I founded the Portland chapter of women grow which became Oregon's largest, well it became the largest professional networking group for cannabis people in the country regardless of identity or gender or anything like that. Women just came out from everywhere and that's when I knew that Oregon was just packed with amazing talent amongst this founder community, and so I knew I wanted to support women in the industry who I felt like had amazing fundamentals with regards to their businesses, but we're probably going to be excluded, because of their knowledge of and experience around capital.

Um… I wanted to support some of those women and see them going across the line. I raised a lot of money for High Five Farms and did it pretty efficiently and everyone's like how do you do that? And I was like well people really want the answer to that question I, this is what I should talk about maybe I should try and create a workshop that supports other people. And that was really the beginning of the work that I do now where it's a very structured, codified methodology that shifts the idea of fundraising to be a skill set and not just a privilege or access to a certain community. And so the skills training is really there to allow a founder who may be feeling a little intimidated initially by the process, to feel like fundamentally competent in this task and then experience sort of a shift in their identity which is what I'm really doing, I'm working on people's experience of entitlement.

The thing that people always want to circle around with a start-up and investing is valuation, and people say what should my valuation be and I'm like how big a bat do you think you can swing? But the real question is, is how much value can you authentically... believe in, for yourself. Valuation is on your inside, not on your outside you know. Entitlement is your ability to recognize your own value and then that informs your expectations of the world. It's a critical aspect of identity. I have value, my time has value, my work has value. We don't actually have an access to capital problem. I'm the proof of that, I have no trouble raising money. Because I walk into those conversations, feeling... absolutely entitled, and so it's completely invaluable. And when it comes to raising money, if you don't feel like that guy's gonna be better off, if he gives you the money instead of that guy over there, then (Penn: you've lost it) you've lost it right?

Kiki:  You've lost it as soon as you walked in the door.

Sara: Yeah, totally. That's what I'm talking about with the identity piece and the value piece. Value an entitlement are the same thing. Values on the outside and entitlements on the inside like you're just always gonna get exactly what you expect.

Penn: What's, what's next and is the cannabis industry something that you're looking to travel with?

Sara:  It's interesting, cannabis is it's been such an amazing community experience, but at the same time for me if I'm serious about my mission which is access to capital. Then I need to think about how what I'm doing is scalable, and one of the ways that it's scalable is for me to sort of divide my time between supporting founders individually, but also go back onto the capital side and figure out how to... support the aggregation of capital around cannabis, but not just cannabis in general equity in cannabis.

So my goal is to gather together women who do have the resources and do want to support and see other communities coming up so that we can have a more equitable and just.. economy and supporting those women in dealing with their entitlement issues, and their identity challenges around being invested in thinking about themselves that way, and figuring out how to start activating them as a capital resource for the communities of color, and for the women who are coming up through the Oregon cannabis industry.

Penn: Well something that we've been doing, uh.. kind of as part of the series, especially this women in cannabis series is just asking people, what.. what's your chalice?

Sara: I really appreciate the question just because no one's ever asked it before, and also I.. I totally know the answer to that question. (Everyone laughs) Yean well, it was the best question ever. Through that process there's always a point of which the sort of world response, people don't go back from that, once they've had an experience of value that's authentic and that's different to what they're used to. They don't go back from that, and that is just the most incredible thing to be a part of.

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CHALICE TV | Tokativity EP.

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In this installation of Chalice TV, we speak with Tokativity. Their online platform is built to foster growth and development for women in cannabis.

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Kiki: Hi, we’re here at the Commune with Lisa and Samantha from Tokativity. We're here to check out their mission, what they're doing, what amazing things they're bringing to the cannabis community for women in this industry.

Samantha: Our mission is we work to empower women at the root level and for the normalization of cannabis. We do socials but we also do workshops, panels...we have our own online social platform that has a classroom, forums, job board, business directory, individual profiles just providing as many opportunities for women to hear something that maybe they need to hear, whether that's even just giving them the space to be themselves. You know, to give a mother a place to meet other moms that are dealing with the same shit she is.

Within a couple months we changed our language from an event series for women to a community for women because it was just so much bigger than an event series.

Lisa: We set up environments for women to like, connect with each other however they feel comfortable. It's about building. It's about women meeting each other. So it's women who are in the industry and also who are just cannabis consumers, like we're a bridge between those two spaces. And it's really beautiful like the friendships that are made, the business relationships that are made it's incredible.

Samantha: There's no limit to what the types of events that we're doing but it's just like, do they work to empower women at the root level and do they forward the normalization of cannabis. And if the answer is yes, then we're pretty apt to be like, let's do it. Tokativity is the combination of Lisa and my life's work together and we're both like, in it for the long haul, absolutely living our dream and passion

Kiki: I love everything that you've said so far. I'm like, I'm in love with you guys, you’re so good. What you're doing, your mission is so amazing.

Samantha: This is a community that is dedicated to changing the world, to changing the way that the world functions. Women do astounding things to make shit happen without cutting somebody else down.

Penn: When this could exist on its own, what do you think that cannabis does when you're bringing all these people together. Obviously it's very social in that sense, but when you throw that extra caveat like weed right into the mix.

Lisa: With the cannabis movement also comes to cannabis consumption movement and those two really need to go hand in hand. I believe that like, you know, cannabis is a connector. Like sharing a joint with a stranger is like, such a beautiful thing and it brings people together automatically. And so, it's a conversation piece it like, opens up like your chakras, your third-eye, your spirituality, your open-mindedness of talking to new people. It is a dot connector and that's what we are too.

Samantha: Cannabis helps like, break down inner barriers I think. The combination of the fact that this is a feminine plant that we're consuming, the energy of it with a group of women is just wild.

Kiki: A lot of my friends are parents and moms and they consume cannabis and there's like a stigma attached to being a mom and consuming cannabis and so I think it's really great that you guys are supporting that community. Raising children is something that requires a little bit of cannabis.

Samantha: That's the major tool for me as a mom. Like it helps me lighten up to where I can just enjoy the moment a little bit more and not be so caught up in the like, X Y Z's of how things happen in my household.

Kiki: Some of the big words I hear from you guys is “connection connection connection”. I think it sounds like you guys are bridge builders like, what do we have to look forward from Tokeativity for 2019? I hear South Africa. What other stuff is going on?

Samantha: In 2019 we're gonna definitely be doing more global online mom meet-ups. Connecting with as many women as possible is really thrilling for us and we want to help develop more tools to help women connect, to find the resources they need.

We've come a long way in a short amount of time and now it's really time for us to take ownership of this, each and every one of us as an individual. This is about the bigger movement. This is about the movement of the choice of personal wellness. This is a movement. This is huge and I couldn't think of a better place to be right now.

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CHALICE TV | Amy Margolis EP.

Kiki: We're here today at the Commune with Amy Margolis. Amy, thank you so much for being here with us.

Amy: Thanks for having me.

Penn: One, was law kind of always a pursuit for you and was it always kind of with cannabis in mind or were you already practicing law and thought This is a perfect environment to jump into right now. So how did that start?

Amy: So I've been a lawyer, this year 17 years, so it's a long time and I started as a criminal defense lawyer. I mean, people in the cannabis industry were visionaries, right? So as the years went by, clients started to come and say I think we are going to see legalization.

Will you help us we help us start businesses? Will you help us enter (what soon became) the regulated market? Will you help us stay out of trouble? Clients transitioned from the illegal market into the legal market. I really just kind of came with them.

Kiki: Did you ever think that when you started, when you became a lawyer, that this would be where you are?

Amy: Not so long ago, the only time law enforcement would be in your grow is if they were cutting your plants down and putting you in handcuffs. So it was initially like a huge sea change, right? And it was a big emotional change. I think both for the people in the industry and for those of us supporting it. So, no, because we had no idea what was coming.

Penn: Let’s say, it was kind of, I would just have to imagine a transition more from you know, helping folks who've gotten into legal troubles with cannabis to more like proactive like pre-emptive work.

Amy: This industry requires you to be super nimble and not just for the, again, not just for the people who are actively engaged in the industry but for those of us who are supporting the industry, we have to be nimble and pivot fast, too.

Kiki: Your new pack, so let's talk about that, like, so we're here at the Commune. Let's talk about this space and then go into the Initiative after that.

Amy: So the space is quite beautiful, I think.

Kiki: Very.

Amy: I'm definitely dying in an earthquake here but it is, really, it's a price you pay for beautiful things. So when I started the Initiative, which is a business accelerator program for female founders in the cannabis industry, we knew we needed a space. It was just like the sun was, like, shining through the skylights and they were, like, rainbows shooting out of the windows but REALLY rainbows shooting out of the windows.

And it didn't look anything like this, but we...I was like this is it. Like, it has a huge space over there, we can have events here, we can have private meetings. It's really like just the right space. So we use it for the accelerator, we use it for events. Tonight we have “Ladies Get Paid”, we share it with nonprofits that my husband and I care about.

We constantly are trying to use it for things that we believe in. It is nice to have a place where you can come and feel like it is cannabis friendly. Where you just start recognizing here that cannabis is, for many of us, integrated into our lives. And so this is just another way to integrate it into your life.

We want this to be, particularly for women, but for everybody a place you can come and feel comfortable. Where you can feel like you're having an experience where you feel like it's a good place to sit and learn. And that was really important when we built it.

Kiki: And so you touched a little bit on it but, the initiative, so that's your accelerator program. It's focused on women entrepreneurs.

Amy: I mean, I've always been supporting businesses in this space. And this is just another way to support businesses in this space. It's a little bit more teaching and a little bit less practicing and I think that's the biggest difference. It’s that we're doing more educating and less, you know, sitting down and drafting things and applying for licenses. But we're also helping those women learn how to do some of that stuff themselves so they don't need to access outside resources so heavily.

What does it mean to be a founder? What does it mean to be a leader in your business? What does it mean to be a CEO? What does it mean to be somebody who is able to go out and raise money? So in this program we're trying to shift that. We're trying to change things you've been taught.

And we're trying to make sure that we're giving you, and we use this phrase all the time, like, all the tools in your toolbox. And those include all the business tools. You know, we have lots of networking events. We have lots of parties, we have lots of panels but we don't have anybody really getting down and dirty and teaching women how to succeed and then giving them access to funding.

Like we're gonna empower you with a ton of information, right? We're gonna help you learn all the business skills, we're gonna help you learn all the legal pieces, we're gonna help you understand the regulations, we're gonna help you learn how to do all of these things. All the things you might go to a lawyer and have them do, or you might hire somebody to help you do. We want you to learn how to do those things.

Kiki: So what's the value that women bring to businesses that men don't?

Amy: Women bring actual value. Right, I mean we bring not just actual value because we're, like, nice to have along but we bring real value, right? We know that hiring practices are more inclusive. We know that women run business’  who are equally situated to men are, they generate 63 percent more revenue. You have more problem-solving in the workplace when women are running it and they're much more likely to, without quoting a statistic, turn around a business that's failing. So, like, we succeed better than men. That's just statistically proven.

Penn: What's what's next for you? Where do you see this going? Just a continual drive or…?

Amy: We feel like because we're here that, like, the race is over right? But there's like so many more states that are gonna come online and we're gonna eventually, not for a long time probably, but eventually have interstate commerce. So we're gonna have international commerce and we're gonna have these businesses going through series of roll-ups and we're gonna see more and more brand aggregators. I mean, we're just at the very very very beginning. We don't feel like that because we're tired but, like, yeah it's been 472 years since I started doing this and I think like we...we’re just at the beginning.

Kiki: So we ask everyone on this show what your chalice is, so Amy what's your chalice?

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CHALICE TV | "Leather Storrs" EP.

Penn: We're here today with Leather Storrs he's a restaurateur and part owner of Noble Rot, an incredibly successful restaurant in the Portland area, and one of my personal favorites. We just wanted to talk to him a little bit about, one, his upbringing as a chef and the foray into cannabinated foods and cooking with cannabinated foods. I want to start with, where did it start, where did the love of cooking start? How did you get here?

Leather: When I was born, my dad was 50. So he’s quite a bit older and so we didn't you know throw the ball when my dad said go out for a long one. And you take three steps, thats it. But there were things that we did together, and food was a big one. He did most of the cooking in our family and he was invigorated by it, he made it exciting, he took us places with his food and that was a place where we were able to bond.

Penn: You dabbled with cannabis all kind of throughout formative years, when did you decide that cooking was past the family past the connection with your father? When did you decide like that's what I want to do and that's my passion 

Leather: Greg Higgins who had a restaurant of his same name was the chef at the Heathman at that time, and to watch him orchestrate the service throughout whatever sort of hiccup whatever sort of personality issue, whatever sort of disorder. It was magic you know, and to be a part of that team, to feel that adrenal rush and to feel like you're accomplishing something in a

short period of time was really exciting for me.

And so that. really honestly focused me because of my comfort with food from a young age and because I traveled quite a bit I had some familiarity with cuisine and it was just a perfect fit.

We moved Noble out here in 2008, opened it up and we've been doing great ever since and then. When the cannabis started to gain momentum and because I've always been intrigued I

started to mess around I started to figure some things out and I started to make some things with cannabis that were actually kind of delicious. And the first thing that I made was a version of the caramel sauce that we made here, 

Weed is supposed to be fun. Here's the play and it's silly and maybe this is the time that all of 

these things come together, and it was at that point that I realized that that was the ingredient missing from my plan. That made what I had to say about food both unique and resonant. Being able to play and being able to do it legally with cannabis to a receptive and an enthusiastic audience has been.. I've been tickled.  It really a lot of fun I am most interested in being able to deliver a known quantity with delicious food that is playful, interesting, a little silly, and so all my efforts have been towards that idea. 

Penn: It's almost like you have a certain amount of tools in your tool chest to work with as a chef. I just want to know what it's like to go through your entire culinary life and then have another tool added to the shelf, and that tool is varied and nuanced and psychoactive.

Leather: I think more than anything is an affirmation and an encouragement to kind of keep questing. But again, most importantly a reminder that things are always moving and so why don't we mess around with a fat preparation and then I'll call preparation and we'll do it with some stuff that we pick upstairs !

Penn: So we are up on the roof of Noble Rot, where you actually grow almost all of what herbs vegetables grown.

Leather: We use everything we grow. We grow everything we use. 

Penn: But a lot of that connection to like craft quality products right here.

Leather: Exactly this is sort of the epitome of our approach in our mindset so we'll use some of those leaves, tea leaves, those other cute little green things.  It's amazing kind of haunting, it's like seems to be sweet arugula right there. 

Penn: So we're here with our offerings from the garden and we're gonna, I mean it blows my mind, but we're gonna turn this into food. that isn't what's sitting right in front of me

Leather: ideally I don't wanna like let have training wheels okay for your first foray and let make it calm and easy and seated. My goal my plan is a quick cure on some steelhead which is in season right now. If we're curing a fish and we want to do it quickly it's about service area, so we'll have to cut it down. 

I'd ike you to go through these, we don't need a big salad we’re not gonna use all of it but we'll need a good collection of the things that we picked. The trio of sexy greens these are all from the mustard days. We want equal amounts mizuna, ruby streaks, arugula. Okay a little bit of chervil, a few of those gem marigold pieces and then I'll keep this sorrel. We'll mix it in with our tartare. I'll get cutting on that fish. This is a shallot, remember the onion family 

Here's that sorrel that blew you away that nice sharp shiny sorrel to visit and I'm just gonna take

it off the stem here again really nice fine filaments of shiny bright soil

that's gonna pop in there with our fish 

Penn: Well I think that's always my struggle with cooking is, and I ran into this with cannabis as well, when I first wanted to learn how to water a cannabis plant. People just let just feel your plant like well how do I know what it should feel like? And often times with chefs it's you know how much of that did you put in? ‘Oh I just kind of felt right!

Leather: Now so in a few of those okay gem marigold pieces. Here's that Everclear thing okay and just put your hand out I'm just gonna put a couple drops, I put a couple drops of tincture in there with that fish and so we'll give that a little mix just to kind of coat everything. Start those flavors going but we're gonna also salt it. And when we do the clock will start because salt will denature the proteins. So that is pretty pink, it will start to become opaque. So we're gonna get everything ready and taste it. I'm gonna grab two spoons, keep picking little tiny pretty stuff don't go crazy. We'll just let that kinda hang out and see where you are. Right in our salad and here this grapeseed oil is infused. This is about 10 milligrams of THC per gram. Okay again and so that's where gonna give you. 

I'm doing it from the ground up with flower, numbers that I know, with high quality ingredients. A little fresh olive oil to finish that fish. Right there a sexy little garden hammer, with about 25 milligrams.

Its this idea that, I'm really trying to balance, we're trying to taste that salad. We're trying to take advantage of the place, we're trying to show a time stamp, and then you get those those nifty weird flavors up a little pop of the fennel yeah that's strange gem miracle. Did I pass the audition?

Penn: it's so good!

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CHALICE TV | Bobsled EP.

Penn: Welcome to Chalice Farms TV. We're here with the team from Bobsled Farms, we wanted to talk to them about some of their amazing growing practices and the fact that they're actually growing a lot of their oil for head sauce extraction. We've got Kyler and Steven here, we want to just chat a little bit about what you guys do what you guys are all about.

Kyler: Well right now we're in our outdoor, we've already harvested this row we're taking it all down to be flash-frozen and extracted.

Kiki: Tell us a little bit about your outdoor grow, and how you guys do your outdoor versus your indoor, what's happening out here.

Kyler: The whole idea of living soil is in the rainforest there's all this lush you know beautiful fruit and vegetation that no one's taking care of, it's got its own ecosystem that's helping in, it makes it thrive. The plants that come down decompose and provide food for the plants growing back up. So we've just tried to emulate that environment. What would be normally waste, considered waste materials or plants that we put back into the dirt let it decompose, let the worms do their thing and uh, let nature grow for us.

Penn: Saying let the worms do their thing without any context is a little bit weird so what do you mean when you say let the worms do…

Kyler: Um... so that's all part of the decomposing processes, the worms are eating it, the decomposing matter and breaking it down and actually you know, pooping it out and that's what provides the nutrients for the plants is the worm.

Penn: That's a buzz term I'm hearing a lot recently, living soil and motil, I want to touch on that a little bit just tell people what that's all about why it's important.

Steven: Big reason we're here is because we grow for, for our oil as you said and um… there's really no comparison when you're, when you're growing organic with the, you know the terpene profile and really when you get down to the head sauce the terpenes are really what are making that pop.

Kiki: So uh, it sounds like you guys are mimicking a lot of organic gardening practices and what, what makes you guys want to do that?

Steven: One of the things with organics is that you provide the entire ecosystem there, and so when you have a bug that you don't want rather than spraying some sort of awful chemical to kill everything and go scorched earth on it. We just provide a bug that would eat that bug rather than having to, you know if it's something that would really negatively affect the plants flavor or the outcome of the plant itself.

Penn: That made the safety of the plant to, to some degree. I mean if we're gonna dry this and eventually smoke it or extract it then we need to make sure there's no pesticides or fungicides.

Steven: Absolutely.

Penn:  That's awesome. (Kiki laughs)

Kyler: Or allows us to be more sustainable and not rely on bringing in nutrients from you know a salt or some other product would actually in the farm, grow all of the nutrients we need and then use them. keeps everything local.

Kiki: And I noticed you guys have chickens back there and a couple of compost bins. Looks like your starting some ground, ground roots composting. Can you tell me a little bit about that?

Steven: Uh, we have twelve chickens in the back, um... but we actually feed them worms from the bins, uh.. and then they eat them and they poop those out, and then it goes into the hay and whatever on the top. We scoop hay and we put that back on at the end of the season so then it uh... creates more food for the, for the soil.

Kiki: So is there basically like a mat of like decomposing material on the top and there's worms all underneath, that what's happening? Awesome, wow…

Penn: Have someone kind of dead leap and the plant over here, you guys are getting it ready for harvest so what, what does that process look like? Is it any different outdoor or indoor?

Kyler: We strip the nugs and immediately want to freeze them, to preserve all of the terpenes and the flavor and get that fresh flash-frozen... live extraction. By freezing it immediately before drying we're able to rate, retain and keep up to 30% more terpenes, but we flash-freeze it and extract it we can retain that more flavorful terpene and rich product.

Kiki: Now we're here in the flower room. You guys can't smell it in here but it is intoxicating!

Penn: It's wonderful (Kiki laughs) and we've been, and I can speak for myself but I've been in quite a few Gardens and I haven't seen a lot of the things that I'm seeing in this farm and so I want to touch base with these guys and just see what they're doing that's a little bit different from industry standard. First thing I notice is this massive light dep set up.

Steven: Light dep is is actually to mimic darkness and the twelve hours of darkness is what tells the plant to start growing its nose. Early season you have too much light you have sixteen hours of natural sunlight, so what you're looking at above this black tarp is our light dep system that actually closes the ceiling and turns off the lights basically naturally, so we can we can grow naturally with the sunlight um… year-round.

Kiki: In a room like this, how much cannabis flower can you harvest just from this room?

Steven:  So you're looking at uh, at about a hundred pounds of nugs. Actually we for these specific houses we take this for full plant live resin, um... so you're just about 600 to 700 pounds of weight material comes out of this house and you know it's approximately a 60 day flowering cycle with uh, with we hope about a week a downtime maximum.

Kiki: How many times you flip or rotate this room throughout the season?

Steven: As quickly as possible um, we pray to get six in a year um, you know we definitely do four but it really depends on the downtime in between harvest.

Penn: Well something that I'm seeing in this in the corner of the room and I think this is something every gardener has to find a creative solution for, how do we water, how do we water consistently and how do we not over water? And I know that you guys have a really cool system for that so I definitely want to talk to you a little bit about that Tim. What do you do to make your watering easier on you and more efficient?

Tim: So here is tropf blumat, they're a self-regulating irrigation system and so each pot is getting this water needs, On these pots there's gonna be a little carrot that look like clay uh, probe on it and so as that clay dries out it opens up a little diaphragm that will initiate back here to start watering, and so every single pot in here is going on and off with different water needs.

Penn: I mean I used to tell people that all the time it's really easy to look at someone and say, oh yeah just water the plant when it's thirsty, but just that there's so much to that you know and it takes so, so long to perfect that practice really does. So now that we've seen your process from basically start to finish at least when it comes to your growing processes, Uh, I want to see where all this products going, because we touched on before it's not actually going to be turned into just buds, it's not gonna be dried and cured, you're gonna turn it into a high terpene full-spectrum extract. What we've been referring to thus far is head sauce. So I definitely wanna see that process and wanna see what it looks like and just see what makes uh, your process so different.

Kiki: Let’s go see your end product.

Penn: Alrighty everybody we are here at the Clay Wolf facility with the team from Lunatech. Lunatech are the machines that all of the head sauce that we've checked out from Bobsled Farms are actually processed through, So you want to talk to those people kind of hear from the horse's mouth, why this machine is so impressive and why you guys have chosen

to use this for your head sauce extraction?

Lunatech Rep(1): We got together, we saw a lack in the industry of professional equipment that was designed for cannabis extraction. Ok, so we got together and designed a fully automated hydrocarbon extraction system that meets and is compliant with all state regulations.

Lunatech Rep(2): And then after about six months of us working on it. We realized that you know no one else is doing what we're doing no one else is building equipment that has precise temperature control that meets safety requirements, that should be standard in the industry, and so then we decided to switch focus and build a system to sell to everyone, yeah so our automated controls let you push the start button and then you can be out of the extraction room while the machines doing the extraction, and you can be monitoring it from a safe area.

Lunatech Rep(1): Yeah and that's not only about safety, but with automation comes consistency and data, um… and really able to perfect the extraction process.

Lunatech Rep(2): We collect all the data that comes from the machine, and then we can, once we get that in aggregate we can analyze it, and then we can develop new recipes based on that so we can optimise the recipe based on big datasets to create a better product like this head sauce.

Lunatech Rep(1): Our machine has a viscosity selector so we could actually choose the amount of solvent that is left in the product, and on all other systems you got guys that are like eyeballing it, shaking it around but we can actually leave the exact amount of solvent we want in the product every time.

Penn: So now that we know a little bit more about the Lunatech machine itself. I kind of want to dovetail this back with bobsled farms, I mean with your dedication to craft product and quality product, why does the Luna tech make sense as, as the medium, the process are at that level.

Lunatech Rep(1): Well for consistency and quality, with automation you get the end with our temper control. Well you guys saw how we immediately flash-freeze everything.

Penn: Yup.

Lunatech Rep(1): We're able to maintain those flash frozen temperatures throug-out the extraction process.

Penn: So terpene preservation.

Lunatech Rep(1): Terpene preservation is everything.

Penn: I want to talk to them a little bit about what they do to their product once it comes out of the Lunatech to ensure quality and cleanliness.

Lunatech Rep(1): Once it comes out of our system, we then purge it at these degassing ovens we're able to get the THC a drop out of the solution and crystallize at the bottom and create that terpene rich layer on top.

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Chalice Farms has established itself as a trusted and premium brand for health and wellness, as well as for recreational enjoyment in every dispensary near me. The one thing that holds true across its diverse and expanding product line is the passion infused from seed to sale.

That’s what’s in our chalice!

Visit our dispensary for comprehensive info on weed in Portland:

Chalice Farms Recreational Marijuana Dispensary - Happy Valley 15252 OR-224, Suite B, Damascus, OR 97089 [phone]

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CHALICE TV | Infused Dinner EP.

Penn: Hey everybody, welcome to the season finale of Chalice TV. We had the unbelievable opportunity to partake in a cannabinated dinner here on the Willamette River with Leather Storrs. Wonderful amazing and pretty much all right chef and I'm here with my partner in crime Kiki. We just want to say, thank you everybody for watching and we just want to break down that dinner a little bit.

Leather: And that dinner was pretty neat and we were right here, although we didn't, we weren't maybe in the space to talk exactly about what happened, and there were a few things that happened that were unexpected including… Our congressman Earl Blumenauer are rolling-in.

Penn: First guest…

Leather: But that was great, because what… a treat, what an endorsement of the industry, of the business of what you guys are doing. To have him say, “Yeah, I'd like to come to that”. So my plan for that dinner was to make a delicious food, and to make real springy food because that's where we are. Ahhh… and also to… to know exactly how many milligrams I was giving people because that's sort of my jiff. So the way I do that is I deliver the first and the biggest amount of THC via a cocktail.

Penn: So that was the drink that we started with.

Leather: That was the drink we started with, which was a rhubarb and ginger and wine punch.

Penn: It was delicious.

Leather: It was almost a little dangerous. Because it was fruity and a little bubbly and umm… and that had five milligrams of THC. I've got the cocktail and then with that I serve little grilled peppers that were stuffed with some infused pork rillettes. So pork poached in pork fat that had been infused. But then the other thing I put out was something that I think it's fun and and delicious, like the kimchi which I make with a water-soluble CBD isolate, so that's kimchi B D because I never met a pun that I couldn't… I thought that was great I thought it was really nice to have everybody, it's just sort of mingling here on the deck and then we sat down, we sat down for that first course ah… Which was, which I called the puff piece, pate a choux, so ah… a cooked pastry that you bake, the same thing that they use for cheese puffs or eclairs, but this one was a savory version, and I made a filling of burrata, which is a mozzarella cheese stuffed with cream and more mozzarella, real rich and delicious and garlic chives, from my roof. And then there was a little pea puree and some pea tendrils and little tiny snap peas.

Kiki: There was also a little baby carrot from your garden.

Leather: That’s right!

Kiki: Which was really special to me, and I thought it was great.

Leather: That little tiny gorgeous carrot. It was an infused olive oil that I had made with uh uh… cinex, you know that strain? And uh… that was, that was two to about nine milligrams per gram.

Penn: So after that we went into the beans on beans on toast on beans, of course.

Leather: Right, beans on beans on toast, on beans! Um… the winter represented by the dried beans but then we've got the spring, which showed up in a fava bean puree.

Penn: Yup!

Leather: So that was fava beans, mint, garlic and shallots on the ground, and then toast that was cooked in olive oil, smeared with some of the pureed borlotti beans, and then some whole ones for texture and then I'm going up! Then it was a salad of fava bean leaves, fava bean flowers and the green garbanzos with just a little bit of fresh lemon juice and olive oil and sliced radishes for for color.

Penn: And where was the cannabis on that one?

Leather: The cannabis showed up in a salsa verde so it was a… mix of parsley, uh garlic, olive oil, lemon zest, a little bit of chili. Again I use the same olive oil from the, from the previous one because I knew the dose so that set on the warm bean toast and the other thing that's nice about that is the heat of the, of the beans kind of blooms that a little bit of that cannabis aroma but also the garlic and the parsley and you get that kind of shot in the face, uh.. aromatically which I, which I, I think it's important you know you know with your face with your nose and your eyes and um…I thought that was a really successful fusion.

Penn: Called beans on beans on toast on beans. I mean it was so… delicious, so delicious. To be honest in my opinion, was not quite as delicious as this, this stash box?

Leather: You like that one better?  that was the next course and I did that because I was talking you guys about my little, my potato boxes where Kiki is like, do it! (laughs) Okay, I got it. They’re good right?

Kiki: Because I was like, I… I wanna try this… (laughs)

Leather: So, so we take the box and try to really enforce it careful shape then we fry it. Uh, from raw and seasoned it, and then I made a braised lamb dish mixed with red wine and lamb stock and then cooked and then the meat is shredded, mixing with a little bit of onions, garlic, some herbs and some reduced braising liquid and stuffed inside that box, and then I used a combination of leeks and green garlic and chard and kale and uh, that just tucked up up against the, potato box then just a little bit of fresh lambs you over the top.

Kiki: Wasn't there cauliflower puree?

Leather: There was a cauliflower puree!

Kiki: It was really creamy and delicious. Yeah. (laughs)

Leather: Yes, um… that cauliflower puree, and then um… that one had a little bit of browned butter, uh… that had been infused, that was a little that was milder, it was about seven milligrams per gram and that went into… that combination of the kale and chard, and the green garlic that was pushed up against the box.

Penn: So we're talking for the average… average folk, maybe about 10 to 12 milligrams at this point.

Leather: At this point, I mean throughout the whole meal I don't think we went over 14.

Penn: Okay.

Leather: Everyone absorbs it differently. It's like a good vacation you want to leave your vacation still wanting to be there. You don't want to leave like um… I’m gone leave like that. I would like you to leave this dinner saying, I could have a couple more. I think I could have, I feel good. But I could have had a couple more.

Penn: I mean there's one dish we haven't talked about yet though. It was that dessert.

Leather: That was a little tart shell, puff pastry tart shell that had a little almond cake and I just piped in the bottom, and then some rhubarb that I poached very carefully sous-vide in a bag, with uh… sugar and citric acid so it was really shockingly pink and then just little neat little barbs in there the whole rhubarb, uh… vanilla ice cream that was infused with CBD. Vanilla ice cream and then strawberry sauce is that strawberry-rhubarb, it's gonna…

Penn: Seriously whether it was… It was it was amazing and thank you so much.

Leather: Well thank you guys for making a forum for me to do this. I uh, I loved it.

Penn: Stay tuned for what's next, it's only going up from here.

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Chalice Farms has established itself as a trusted and premium brand for health and wellness, as well as for recreational enjoyment in every dispensary. The one thing that holds true across its diverse and expanding product line is the passion infused from seed to sale.

With over 100 years of combined cannabis experience, the team at Chalice offers craft, quality products to a wide variety of people – from its new user effects carts to the more sophisticated user with its strain specific uncut oil. Chalice’s nutritionally enhanced and award-winning fruit chew line appeal across the board.

That’s what’s in our chalice!

Visit our marijuana recreational store in Portland:

Chalice Farms - Tigard 16735 SW Pacific Hwy, Portland, OR 97224 [phone]

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If you have been anywhere near the cannabis world you know the name Amy Margolis. As a criminal attorney in Oregon she spent the first part of her career in the court room fighting arrests and prions time. When legalization happened, she smoothly transitioned into helping Oregonians start legitimate cannabis businesses. Leading the herd, Amy started a cannabis friendly event space called The Commune in central Portland – and a cannabis business incubator course called the Initiative. Power. Funny. Motivator. Riding high. Chalice Farms is a producer, processor and dispensary of marijuana in Portland. For weed, pot, cannabis, marijuana, mj, or mary-jane, we have exclusive top-shelf products you are looking for. https://chalicefarms.com/ https://chalicefarms.com/tv/the-commune/ http://soundcloud.com/chalicefarms/chalice-tv-amy-margolis-ep

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Fresh from a stint on Bong Appetite, Leather sits down with Penn at his esteemed Noble Rot eatery in Portland for an infused lunch of freshly picked greens for the rooftop garden and raw steelhead salmon from Oregon’s rivers. An inventive chef that doesn’t settle for the same ole…Leather doused the dishes with both an alcohol-based infusion and an oil infusion. When the chef loves and appreciates THC, the culinary outcome is well, uplifting to say the least. The boys had some fun before lunch and a bit more after. Chalice Farms is a producer, processor and dispensary of marijuana in Portland. For weed, pot, cannabis, marijuana, mj, or mary-jane, we have exclusive top-shelf products you are looking for. https://chalicefarms.com https://chalicefarms.com/tv/leather-storrs/ http://soundcloud.com/chalicefarms/chalice-tv-leather-storrs-ep

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Tokeativity is more than a series of women’s creative events. It is more than safe haven for women to come together to share cannabis. It is more than a social and career opportunity to network. It is more than a series of online education with world class speakers and motivators. It is more than a bold step to normalize cannabis in all women’s lives. It is a revolution. Check out the spark of local Portlander’s Lisa and Sam as they boldly take Tokeativity to chapters across the country and internationally. Chalice Farms is a producer, processor and dispensary of marijuana in Portland. For weed, pot, cannabis, marijuana, mj, or mary-jane, we have exclusive top-shelf products you are looking for. https://chalicefarms.com https://chalicefarms.com/tv/tokativity/ http://soundcloud.com/chalicefarms/chalice-tv-tokativity-ep

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Soil to Oil: Leather Storrs

Soil to Oil: Leather Storrs

Fresh from a stint on Bong Appetite, Leather sits down with Penn at his esteemed Noble Rot eatery in Portland for an infused lunch of freshly picked greens for the rooftop garden and raw steelhead salmon from Oregon’s rivers.

An inventive chef that doesn’t settle for the same ole…Leather doused the dishes with both an alcohol-based infusion and an oil infusion. When the chef loves and appreciates THC, the culinary outcome is well, uplifting to say the least. The boys had some fun before lunch and a bit more after.

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Video Transcript

Penn: Welcome to Chalice Farms TV. My name is Pen Lewis…

Kiki: and I’m Kiki Sherard…

Penn: … and we’re here today to show you some of the inside practices behind the best cannabis producers in the state of Oregon. We’re here to show you some of the things that happen behind the scenes to create and cultivate craft cannabis products.

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Penn: We’re here today with Leather Storrs.  He’s a restaurateur and part owner of Noble Rot, an incredibly successful restaurant in the Portland area, and one of my personal favorites. We just wanted to talk to him a little bit about, one, his upbringing as a chef and the foray into cannabinated foods and cooking with cannabinated foods. I want to start with, where did it start, where did the love of cooking start? How did you get here?

Leather: When I was born, my dad was 50. So he’s quite a bit older. And so we didn’t, you know, throw the ball. When my dad said, “Go out for a long one.” It meant, like, you take three steps, that’s it. But there were things that we did together, and food was a big one. He did most of the cooking in our family and he was invigorated by it. He made it exciting. He took us places with his food, and that was a place where we were able to bond.

Penn: You dabbled with cannabis all kind of throughout formative years, when did you decide that cooking was past the family past the connection with your father? When did you decide like that’s what I want to do and that’s my passion.

Leather: Greg Higgins, who had a restaurant of his same name, was the chef at the Heathman at that time. And to watch him orchestrate the service throughout whatever sort of hiccup, whatever sort of personality issue, whatever sort of order. It was magical. You know? And to be a part of that team, to feel that adrenal rush, and to feel like you’re accomplishing something in a short period of time, was really exciting for me.

And so that really, honestly, focused me because of my comfort with food from a young age. And because I traveled quite a bit, I had some familiarity with cuisine and it was just a perfect fit.

We moved Noble Rot here in 2008, opened it up, and we’ve been doing great ever since.

And then, when the cannabis started to gain momentum, and because I’ve always been intrigued, I started to mess around. I started to figure some things out and I started to make some things with cannabis that were actually kind of delicious. And the first thing that I made was a version of the caramel sauce that we make here.

Weed is supposed to be fun. And it’s silly. And maybe this is the time that all of these things come together.

And it was at that point that I realized that that was the ingredient missing from my plan, that made what I had to say about food both unique and resonant. Being able to play and being able to do it legally with cannabis to a receptive and an enthusiastic audience has been.. I’ve been tickled. It’s really a lot of fun.

I am most interested in being able to deliver a known quantity with delicious food that is playful, interesting, a little silly. And so all my efforts have been towards that idea.

Penn: It’s almost like you have a certain amount of tools in your tool chest to work with as a chef. I just want to know what it’s like to go through your entire culinary life and then have another tool added to the shelf, and that tool is varied and nuanced and psychoactive as cannabis. What is that like?

Leather: I think more than anything it’s an affirmation and an encouragement to kind of keep questing. But again, most importantly, a reminder that things are always moving.  And so, why don’t we mess around with a fat preparation and and alcohol preparation and we’ll do it with some stuff that we pick upstairs!

Penn: So we are up on the roof of Noble Rot, where you actually grow almost all of what herbs vegetables grown.

Leather: Well, we use everything we grow. We don’t grow everything we use.

Penn: But a lot of that connection to like craft quality products starts right here on this roof.

Leather: Exactly. This is sort of the epitome of our approach and our mindset

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Women In Weed: The Commune

Women in Weed: Amy Margolis

If you have been anywhere near the cannabis world you know the name Amy Margolis. As a criminal attorney in Oregon she spent the first part of her career in the court room fighting arrests and prions time. When legalization happened, she smoothly transitioned into helping Oregonians start legitimate cannabis businesses. Leading the herd, Amy started a cannabis friendly event space called The Commune in central Portland – and a cannabis business incubator course called the Initiative. Power. Funny. Motivator. Riding high.

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Women In Weed: The CommuneChalice Farms2019-05-27T23:19:03+00:00

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Women in Weed

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Video Transcript

Penn: Welcome to Chalice Farms TV. My name is Pen Lewis…

Kiki: and I’m Kiki Sherard…

Penn: … and we’re here today to show you some of the inside practices behind the best cannabis producers in the state of Oregon. We’re here to show you some of the things that happen behind the scenes to create and cultivate craft cannabis products.

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Kiki: We’re here today at the Commune with Amy Margolis. Amy, thank you so much for being here with us.

Amy: Thanks for having me.

Penn: One, was law kind of always a pursuit for you and was it always kind of with cannabis in mind or were you already practicing law and thought This is a perfect environment to jump into right now. So how did that start?

Amy: So I’ve been a lawyer, this year 17 years, so it’s a long time and I started as a criminal defense lawyer. I mean, people in the cannabis industry were visionaries, right? So as the years went by, clients started to come and say I think we are going to see legalization.

Will you help us we help us start businesses? Will you help us enter (what soon became) the regulated market? Will you help us stay out of trouble? Clients transitioned from the illegal market into the legal market. I really just kind of came with them.

Kiki: Did you ever think that when you started, when you became a lawyer, that this would be where you are?

Amy: Not so long ago, the only time law enforcement would be in your grow is if they were cutting your plants down and putting you in handcuffs. So it was initially like a huge sea change, right? And it was a big emotional change. I think both for the people in the industry and for those of us supporting it. So, no, because we had no idea what was coming.

Penn: Let’s say, it was kind of, I would just have to imagine a transition more from you know, helping folks who’ve gotten into legal troubles with cannabis to more like proactive like preemptive work.

Amy: This industry requires you to be super nimble and not just for the, again, not just for the people who are actively engaged in the industry but for those of us who are supporting the industry, we have to be nimble and pivot fast, too.

Kiki: Your new pack, so let’s talk about that, like, so we’re here at the Commune. Let’s talk about this space and then go into the Initiative after that.

Amy: So the space is quite beautiful, I think.

Kiki: Very.

Amy: I’m definitely dying in an earthquake here but it is, really, it’s a price you pay for beautiful things. So when I started the Initiative, which is a business accelerator program for female founders in the cannabis industry, we knew we needed a space. It was just like the sun was, like, shining through the skylights and they were, like, rainbows shooting out of the windows but REALLY rainbows shooting out of the windows.

And it didn’t look anything like this, but we…I was like this is it. Like, it has a huge space over there, we can have events here, we can have private meetings. It’s really like just the right space. So we use it for the accelerator, we use it for events. Tonight we have “Ladies Get Paid”, we share it with nonprofits that my husband and I care about.

We constantly are trying to use it for things that we believe in. It is nice to have a place where you can come and feel like it is cannabis friendly. Where you just start recognizing here that cannabis is, for many of us, integrated into our lives. And so this is just another way to integrate it into your life.

We want this to be, particularly for women, but for everybody a place you can come and feel comfortable. Where you can feel like you’re having an experience where you feel like it’s a good place to sit and learn. And that was really important when we built it.

Kiki: And so you touched a little bit on it but, the initiative, so that’s your accelerator program. It’s focused on women entrepreneurs.

Amy: I mean, I’ve always been supporting businesses in this space. And this is just another way to support businesses in this space. It’s a little bit more teaching and a little bit less practicing and I think that’s the biggest difference. It’s that we’re doing more educating and less, you know, sitting down and drafting things and applying for licenses. But we’re also helping those women learn how to do some of that stuff themselves so they don’t need to access outside resources so heavily.

What does it mean to be a founder? What does it mean to be a leader in your business? What does it mean to be a CEO? What does it mean to be somebody who is able to go out and raise money? So in this program we’re trying to shift that. We’re trying to change things you’ve been taught.

And we’re trying to make sure that we’re giving you, and we use this phrase all the time, like, all the tools in your toolbox. And those include all the business tools. You know, we have lots of networking events. We have lots of parties, we have lots of panels but we don’t have anybody really getting down and dirty and teaching women how to succeed and then giving them access to funding.

Like we’re gonna empower you with a ton of information, right? We’re gonna help you learn all the business skills, we’re gonna help you learn all the legal pieces, we’re gonna help you understand the regulations, we’re gonna help you learn how to do all of these things. All the things you might go to a lawyer and have them do, or you might hire somebody to help you do. We want you to learn how to do those things.

Kiki: So what’s the value that women bring to businesses that men don’t?

Amy: Women bring actual value. Right, I mean we bring not just actual value because we’re, like, nice to have along but we bring real value, right? We know that hiring practices are more inclusive. We know that women run business’ who are equally situated to men are, they generate 63 percent more revenue. You have more problem-solving in the workplace when women are running it and they’re much more likely to, without quoting a statistic, turn around a business that’s failing. So, like, we succeed better than men. That’s just statistically proven.

Penn: What’s what’s next for you? Where do you see this going? Just a continual drive or…?

Amy: We feel like because we’re here that, like, the race is over right? But there’s like so many more states that are gonna come online and we’re gonna eventually, not for a long time probably, but eventually have interstate commerce. So we’re gonna have international commerce and we’re gonna have these businesses going through series of roll-ups and we’re gonna see more and more brand aggregators. I mean, we’re just at the very very very beginning. We don’t feel like that because we’re tired but, like, yeah it’s been 472 years since I started doing this and I think like we…we’re just at the beginning.

Kiki: So we ask everyone on this show what your chalice is, so Amy what’s your chalice?

Amy: I really do, right now, feel like my chalice is that I, like, get to do something that I’m proud of. Getting to do something that you like doing that is, like, a change-maker is really important. So right now that’s my chalice. In, like five years, my chalice will be laying on the beach and forgetting any of that ever happened. But for right now, it’s that I get to do something that I

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As CEO of HiFi Farms, Sara Batterby came with little knowledge of growing cannabis but invalubale expereince of raising capital. Sara now applies her expertise to training women and minorities on how to raise money for new business ventures. When asked how much should a young company raise, she replies “How big a bat do you want to swing? Chalice Farms is a vertically integrated producer, processor and dispensary of medical marijuana and recreational cannabis based in Portland, Oregon. All our cannabis products sold in our clinics are grown using cutting-edge proprietary methods in state-of-the-art closed-environment gardens. Whether you call it weed, pot, cannabis, marijuana, mj, or mary-jane, we have exclusive top-shelf products you are looking for. Learn more about us here: https://chalicefarms.com https://chalicefarms.com/tv/e04-raising-hell/ http://soundcloud.com/chalicefarms/chalice-tv-women-in-weed-sara-batterby

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The Most Cannabis Friendly Events in Portland This Year

Searching for interesting things to do in Portland during your next visit? The answer may lie in the city’s growing marijuana industry and cannabis friendly events. As one of the first states to legalize marijuana, Oregon’s vibrant cannabis scene offers visitors a variety of weed-centric happenings.

Puff, puff, pass your time in Portland with these highly anticipated cannabis-friendly events. Of course, while all of them allow cannabis, none of them require its use to participate and have fun. So, whether or not you choose to stop by a local dispensary beforehand, don’t count these events out! Seasoned consumers, tentative first-timers and curious observers alike can’t go wrong with these unique things to do in Portland.

Something for visitors to be aware of before you dive headfirst into the Portland cannabis culture: Recreational marijuana use and possession of up to one ounce of cannabis flower is legal in Portland and has been since 2016, but there are still rules to follow. Only those 21 years of age and older can consume cannabis; cannabis can only be consumed on private property or at private events; cannabis cannot be transported across state lines; and users cannot operate a motor vehicle under the influence. Certain events might have more specific rules and regulations for its attendees’ cannabis use to ensure everyone respects themselves, others, and the law.

Cannabis Friendly Events in the Spring

With the rise of flowers during the Spring, many travelers, particularly domestic begin to making plans to or take shorter trips to Portland. Avid cannabis consumers will find a variety of things to do in Portland, from community parades to film festivals to marathons and more. If you’re planning a trip to Portland, here are some fun cannabis friendly events a short distance from your local Chalice Farms dispensary.

Film buffs will enjoy a cerebral film followed by a riveting discussion with cannabis. Image Credit: Portland International Film Festival

Portland International Film Festival

March 7-21 Downtown Portland: Portland Art Museum Nearest Chalice Farms Dispensary: Chalice Farms Downtown

For Portland visitors whose parades are, quite literally, rained upon, the Portland International Film Festival is a sure way to soak up some Pacific Northwest culture without ever stepping foot outside. Grab some movie snacks from the local dispensary and cozy up with over 35 thousand other attendees and enjoy the up-and-coming film artistry in the form of 150 international shorts and feature films. Pro tip: Keep an eye out for screenings of local producers and directors and make a point to attend those slots. Who knows? With such critically acclaimed names as Gus van Sant and Todd Haynes coming out of Portland, you might even discover the next big before Hollywood does.

The Shamrock Run is a great event to be a part of in Portland, whether as a spectator or participant. Image Credit: Oregon Live.

Shamrock Run

March 15-17 Downtown Portland: Tom McCall Waterfront Park Nearest Chalice Farms Dispensary: Chalice Farms Downtown

Don your green for the most anticipated run of the year. A longstanding Portland favorite, the Shamrock Run is marijuana- and family-friendly and promises a whole day’s worth of Saint Patrick’s Day festivities. Fun-fact: It’s is the largest running and walking event in Oregon, boasting an estimated 25,000 runners. Participants can choose from a variety of events, including a 5K, 8K, 15K, half marathons, the Shamrock Stride (a 4-mile fitness walk) and a 1K run/walk for young children. After the races, be sure to check out the 80 plus booths, games and live music to keep the fun going all day long.

The Soul’d Out Music Festival is a popular event for jazz enthusiasts and cannabis lovers as well. Image Credit: BikeTown PDX

Soul’d Out Music Festival

April 16-21 Downtown Portland: Roseland Theatre Nearest Chalice Farms Dispensary: Chalice Farms Downtown

If you’re looking for a chance to jam the night away, look no further than Portland’s Soul’d Out Music Festival. Help establish a tradition and set a trend while you visit Portland by attending this new, highly-anticipated event that has locals jazzed. Like any good music festival, the use of cannabis is allowed and encouraged. Get lost in the seductive rhythms of hip-hop, soul, funk, blues and jazz artists scheduled to play. The line up has already been released and tickets are limited. An all-access pass costs $255.00 and gets you access to every show during the entire weekend-long festival.

Cinco De Mayo is one of Portland’s largest multi-cultural celebrations held every Spring. Image Credit: LCSNW

Cinco de Mayo Fiesta

May 3-5 Downtown Portland: Tom McCall Waterfront Park Nearest Chalice Farms Dispensary: Chalice Farms Downtown

No one looks forward to their city’s Cinco de Mayo celebration as much as Portlanders do. Every May, residents gear up for a large cannabis-friendly event in the beautiful downtown Portland area. In fact, Portland’s Cinco de Mayo weekend-long fiesta is the biggest multicultural event in Oregon. Salsa like the locals and commemorate Cinco de Mayo while enjoying live entertainment, authentic food, drinks, craft vendors and carnival rides. Come for the family-centric fun, stay for the tequila! Admission costs $10 for adults and kids 13 and older, $7 for kids 7-12, $7 dollars for seniors 62 and older and nothing for kids 6 and younger.

The Annual Rose Festival is a century-old tradition that is fun for the whole family, with or without cannabis.

Rose Festival

May 24 – June 9 Downtown Portland: Tom McCall Waterfront Park Nearest Chalice Farms Dispensary: Chalice Farms Downtown

Take time to smell the roses at Portland’s Rose Festival, a local favorite event that signals the start of Spring. Portland’s Rose Festival is a century-old tradition and with its one million plus attendees, its Grand Floral Parade has been designated the second largest all-floral parade in the U.S. There are two other parades over the course of the festival that visitors can take part in: The Junior Parade and Starlight Parade. Aside from the parades, there are also walks/runs, an auction, a rose show and tons of other family-friendly fun events to keep attendees occupied. Admission to many of the festival’s events is free, but there are some large events (like the Grand Floral Parade) that require tickets.

Portland’s annual LGBTQ+ celebration is one of the most popular things to do in Portland for locals and visitors alike.

Portland Pride

June 15-16 Downtown Portland: Tom McCall Waterfront Park Nearest Chalice Farms Dispensary: Chalice Farms Downtown

Join thousands of other attendees in downtown Portland for the city’s annual celebration of the LGBTQ+ movement — one of the largest Pride celebrations on the West Coast. Cannabis and visitors are both welcomed at this large, inclusive gathering. Alongside locals, you can enjoy entertainment by talented LGBTQ+ artists while you proclaim your pride, raise awareness of the LGBTQ+ community’s ongoing struggles and foster accessibility and solidarity. Many local and regional businesses, agencies and organizations set up booths for the weekend, and food and beverages are available for purchase. No tickets are necessary to take part in the celebration.

  Cannabis Friendly Events in the Summer

As temperatures rise in Portland over the summer, the city and surrounding regions truly come alive. Portland is well known for it’s local outdoorsy vibe. Many visitors also love the city’s beautiful rose gardens in full bloom. For the cannabis enthusiast, there are quite a few exciting things to do in Portland, including music festivals open to marijuana consumption. If you’re planning a summer trip to Portland, here are some fun cannabis friendly events a short distance from your local Chalice Farms dispensary.

The hot air balloon flight of Tigard’s Festival of Balloons is an extremely popular summer event in Portland.

Festival of Balloons

June 21-23 Tigard, Oregon Nearest Chalice Farms Dispensary: Chalice Farms Tigard

Of all the sights to see in and around Portland, the Festival of Balloons is not one to be missed. Located 20 minutes outside of Downtown Portland, Tigard’s largest community celebration allows attendees to watch beautifully colored balloons fill the sky each morning and evening. Free tethered rides are also offered for visitors after the morning launch. If balloons aren’t your thing, the festival also offers a 5K Run/Walk, car show, beer garden, live music vendor booths, food, carnival rides and games. Best part is, the funds raised by the festival go straight back to the community’s non-profit organizations.

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CHALICE TV Episode 1

CHALICE TV Episode 1

OUR PURPOSE

At Chalice, we are focused on the many ways cannabis enhances lives and ignites purpose. We witness daily how the healing properties of cannabis effectively reduce today’s stressors like pain, stress and fatigue so each of us can show up in life as our best self.

We are inspired when responsible medical and recreational cannabis use clears the path for you to be on your purpose and contribute to community.

We envision a world that wholly embraces the amazing benefits of cannabis for healing, happiness and community good.

CHALICE FARMS

With over 100 years of combined cannabis experience, the team at Chalice offers craft, quality products to a wide variety of people – from its new user effects carts to the more sophisticated user with its strain specific uncut oil. Chalice’s nutritionally enhanced and award-winning fruit chew line appeal across the board. Chalice has established itself as a trusted and premium brand for health and wellness, as well as for recreational enjoyment. The one thing that holds true across its diverse and expanding product line is the passion infused from seed to sale.

That’s what’s in our chalice!

Visit our website: https://www.chalicefarms.com/

Check out other Chalice TV: Women in Weed episodes: https://chalicefarms.com/chalice-tv-show-women-in-weed/

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My Chalice Is – Magnet

My Chalice Is – Magnet

My chalice is science. I am scientific proof that cannabis rocks.

OUR PURPOSE

At Chalice, we are focused on the many ways cannabis enhances lives and ignites purpose.

We witness daily how the healing properties of cannabis effectively reduce today’s stressors like pain, stress and fatigue so each of us can show up in life as our best self.

We are inspired when responsible medical and recreational cannabis use clears the path for you to be on your purpose and contribute to community.

We envision a world that wholly embraces the amazing benefits of cannabis for healing, happiness and community good.

Visit our website: https://www.chalicefarms.com/

Check out other Chalice TV: Women in Weed episodes: https://chalicefarms.com/chalice-tv-show-women-in-weed/

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CHALICE FARMS – Website Reel

CHALICE FARMS – Website Reel

CHALICE – 2019 Website Reel

CHALICE FARMS

With over 100 years of combined cannabis experience, the team at Chalice offers craft, quality products to a wide variety of people – from its new user effects carts to the more sophisticated user with its strain specific uncut oil. Chalice’s nutritionally enhanced and award-winning fruit chew line appeal across the board. Chalice has established itself as a trusted and premium brand for health and wellness, as well as for recreational enjoyment. The one thing that holds true across its diverse and expanding product line is the passion infused from seed to sale.

That’s what’s in our chalice!

Visit our website: https://www.chalicefarms.com/

Check out other Chalice TV: Women in Weed episodes: https://chalicefarms.com/chalice-tv-show-women-in-weed/

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CHALICE TV – Episode 4 “Yerba Buena”

CHALICE TV – Episode 4 “Yerba Buena”

Kiki has always loved Yerba Buena’s approach to cultivating the best quality cannabis flowers. She recruits Penn to visit this sustainable farm to discuss the science, energy, and love that goes into every plant at Yerba Buena.

CHALICE FARMS

With over 100 years of combined cannabis experience, the team at Chalice offers craft, quality products to a wide variety of people – from its new user effects carts to the more sophisticated user with its strain specific uncut oil. Chalice’s nutritionally enhanced and award-winning fruit chew line appeal across the board.

Chalice has established itself as a trusted and premium brand for health and wellness, as well as for recreational enjoyment. The one thing that holds true across its diverse and expanding product line is the passion infused from seed to sale.

That’s what’s in our chalice!

Visit our website: https://www.chalicefarms.com/

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