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Jesus Saves

February 25, 2020

Jesus Saves, but I Sesh

Jesus saves, but I sesh! Fun Fact — I grew up Catholic but didn’t take it very seriously. It’s why I’ve been eyeing this Insta-famous Jesus Saves rooftop, as well as brainstorming a punny caption, for over a year now.

Luckily Jesus answered my prayers during a recent trip to Los Angeles. I’d coordinated a shoot with the talented Chern and put this location as the last on our list. We arrived to the rooftop around 4 PM, just as the light started to get golden. I sparked up a joint, dangled my legs over an edge and thanked God for picture perfect conditions.

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Love + Destroy

February 14, 2020
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Love + Destroy Valentine’s Day

Is it love, is it love, is it love that I’m feeling? Yes, but it’s also this cute Love + Destroy pipe!

Their stem pipe, featured here, is a modern take on smoking classics. While it looks like glass or ceramic, it’s actually a combination of 3D printing and hand finishing. The 3D printed material is a ceramic formula safe for food, a dishwasher or oven. Available in matte black, gloss black, gloss white, and matte white ceramic, I love how chic this piece looks on my bud cart.

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How to Monetize Social Media

February 4, 2020
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Turn Likes into Dollars and Monetize Social Media

“Do you pay rent with likes?”

“What do you actually do?”

“You mean social media is your job!?”

These are all questions I’ve received at some point over the last four years. To the socially un-savvy, boomers, or even canna-curious hoping to make social a job, it’s a fair question. How does someone turn likes into dollars? Where does one even start to monetize social media?

Through trials and tribulations, I’ve found what works best for me. Since I’m a big believer in sharing knowledge, I want to share what I’ve learned with you. So whether you’re a seasoned social poster or new to the ‘Gram, I hope you enjoy my monetization tips and tricks!

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I Found My Red Vessel Brand Vape Pen

January 21, 2020
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I Found My Missing Red Vessel Brand Expedition Pen

Do you remember my missing red Vessel Brand vape pen? You know the one. It’s red, rugged and shiny. Went missing after too much Fireball at a holiday party…

WELL I FOUND IT.

After weeks of thinking I lost my vibrant red Vessel Brand Expedition Pen, I found it buried in the bottom of my purse. I must’ve been drunk to stash it, because I scoured every crevasse the morning after our Christmas shenanigans. To no avail, I assumed I lost my pen.

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Ooze Life’s Biodegradable Rolling Trays

January 16, 2020
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These Biodegradable Rolling Trays Break Down in Under Two Years

Last year, humans globally produced 359 million metric tons of plastic. That breaks out to 718 billion pounds of plastic in one year. Even worse, a whopping 91% of plastic isn’t recycled. The cannabis industry is complicit in this plastic production, which is why I am so proud to partner with Ooze Life to promote their biodegradable rolling trays.

Ooze Life’s biodegradable rolling trays are made with melamine powder, bamboo powder and corn starch to form a resin that degrades in nature. The bamboo powder is repurposed from leftover cuttings and shavings from the manufacturing of other bamboo products like chopsticks or flooring, thus making it even more sustainable.

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Cannabis Decade Recap

December 31, 2019
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Smoking My Way through the 2010’s with a Cannabis Decade Recap

I’ve barely begun typing, but already reminiscing on the last decade brings me to tears. If you told me ten years ago I’d be a successful cannabis business owner living in Seattle, I would’ve laughed. At that time I still smoked black market weed from friends who could get it. My oh my, how things change. So as we blaze into the roaring 2020’s, I’m excited to do a cannabis decade recap highlighting the last ten years that brought me where I am today.

2010 started out smoke free. After all, I lived in China. Today I’m pretty gutsy about smoking around the world, but there’s some countries I just won’t risk. Prior to my move overseas I watched “Locked Up Abroad” and joked with friends I wouldn’t fare well in Chinese prison. So for half of 2010 I remained cannabis free. Until I moved home in June 2010.

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Savage x Fenty Christmas

December 25, 2019
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Sorry Santa, I smoked my Christmas Trees Wearing Savage x Fenty

Naughty or nice, sugar and spice! The only thing I’m wrapping this holiday season is joints. What better way to keep cozy this Kushmas than with my Savage x Fenty loungewear?

I spark up my Christmas trees in this cozy three-piece set. The pants and long sleeve pair well by a roaring fire. The eye cover is needed for those afternoon naps. Best of all, the set includes briefs for a fun change when you’re feeling naughty.

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Christmas Trees and Gucci Boots

December 23, 2019
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Vaping Christmas Trees in my Gucci Boots

While most people trim their trees, I vape mine in my new Gucci boots! Although I can’t lie. I got a little wild at last weekend’s holiday party. As a result, I woke up with a missing vape pen and full cartridge. Luckily before I lost this beautiful red vape pen, Mandee and I went to the local tree farm for a few photos.

I recently treated myself to the new Gucci Flashtrek sneakers. When I styled them for work one morning, I loved how they looked with this chunky vintage sweater from MADE by DWC. I got all the Christmas feels, so after purchasing my tree at this Ravenna farm, wanted to shoot there too.

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Tour BMF and Lester Farms with Ariel Casie

December 4, 2019
Lester Farms with Ariel Casie

Spending Weed Wednesday with Ariel Casie at BMF and Lester Farms

Today I want to highlight one of Washington State’s most inspirational women in cannabis — Ariel Casie. We recently took a tour of BMF and Lester Farms, located in Raymond, Washington. I got a BTS of these beautiful facilities, learned more about their brands and enjoyed getting to know Ariel’s work in i502.

Like most people who work in the industry, Ariel wears many hats. She is the Director of HR and Compliance at Lester Farms. She’s also very involved with BMF, as the marketing coordinator.

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AmplifiLife at Scenic Hot Springs

November 26, 2019
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Soaking up Scenic Hot Springs with AmplifiLife

How do you elevate your life? Is it through hiking, soaking up hot springs, CBD or something else? I recently did all three, at Scenic Hot Springs, with AmplifiLife.

AmplifiLife is on a mission to elevate the human experience. They’ve formulated unique blends from medicinal days designed to enhance human activities. For today’s hike, we vaped AmplifiLife’s CBD rosin pens.

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    The year? 2016. I’d been in the legal industry nin The year? 2016. I’d been in the legal industry nine months, and this would mark my first full year in i502.

In February 2016, a Tinder date asked if people called me Cannabess. I said, “No, but they’re about to.” 

I started my account a few days later and found it easy to grow an audience. Sure, Instagram had restrictions on *garden* content, but the timeline was chronological and they didn’t have AI flagging photos. Nug shots were a huge part of my feed, and I remember the first time one broke 500 likes. Then High Times shared my photos and I realized there might be something here.

That April,  I’d go from working for a single farm, to working at a creative agency which allowed me to photograph one of the biggest grows in the state. I saw SO. MUCH. W33D. And social media loved it. I’d take pictures in the bloom rooms, holding massive bins, and tubs of pre-rolls. People weren’t used to seeing it. Repost pages would share my work and get thousands of likes.

I started to shoot more lifestyle content (which wasn’t really a thing then) and it opened even more doors. I smoked joints at the top of the mountains, next to lush waterfalls, basically anywhere I could. Friends and I would get dressed up to do editorials for fun. Then brands started to want lifestyle content as a way to break the stigma of the plant.

@LazyBeeGardens invited me to photograph their farm, and it was my first time seeing sun grown plants. The photos I shot here took my content to the next level and resulted in a repost from Tommy Chong. I couldn’t believe it.

2016 seems like just yesterday, but it also feels like a lifetime ago. I was only 29, getting ready to embark on the next decade, and a whole new chapter in life. I am forever thankful for the doors the industry opened and that part of my story. It’s wild to look back on and if the growth of the next decade is anything like the last, I can’t wait for what’s ahead. 🍁🙏🏼📸

Where were you in 2016?

#2016 #flashback #career #growth #photographer
    In 2015, I found my career at a crossroads. I was In 2015, I found my career at a crossroads. I was already in politics and living in LA, when I got a job offer in a budding industry.

Do I move to DC and pursue politics or do I move back to my home state of Washington and jump into pot?

Everyone told me to go to DC, but @wilrbyers was the only one who said to get into the industry. “It’s recession proof,” he said.

Over the years my mom would say things like, “Do you ever think about if you’d gotten into politics?”

But the whole experience really showed how everything happens when the time is right. The industry opened so many doors, was a pivotal point in my career, and eventually led me back to politics. 

How did you end up in the industry? 💁🏻‍♀️📸🌱 #cannabess

#reels #trending #TBT #career #careerchange
    Here’s why I’m not falling for this propaganda: - Here’s why I’m not falling for this propaganda:

- Politicians repeatedly promise to reschedule prior to elections. It’s a manipulative campaign tactic. But this plant doesn’t need to be rescheduled, which would mean it’s now regulated by the FDA and still controlled by the government, it needs to be descheduled because it should’ve never been illegal in the first place.

- The Rockefeller’s lobbied to make raw milk illegal because they owned the pasteurization technology.

- Botox paralyzes your lymphatic system and carries a black box warning label. Just like any muscles, when you don’t use them, you lose them. This applies to your face as well and people then need to inject more Botox to maintain the same effect. Wrinkles are natural. A frozen face is not.

- There is little evidence that a “chemical imbalance” causes depression and SSRIs can have debilitating withdrawal symptoms. They also have a slew of side-effects.

- If climate change is such a threat, why did Obama buy an $11 million mansion at sea level? Why are politicians who fear monger about the environment flying around in private jets to push this? The climate is always changing.

- S€x w0rk is the commodification of women’s bodies and is paid r@pe.

- Both Democrats and Republicans perpetuate war, debt and the erosion of freedom.

- Eating cultured animal cells grown with chemicals in a petri dish isn’t animal flesh, even if people try and say it’s “molecularly identical to conventional meat.”

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    Here’s why I’m not falling for this propaganda: - Here’s why I’m not falling for this propaganda:

- Politicians repeatedly promise to reschedule prior to elections. It’s a manipulative campaign tactic. But this plant doesn’t need to be rescheduled, which would mean it’s now regulated by the FDA and still controlled by the government, it needs to be descheduled because it should’ve never been illegal in the first place.

- The Rockefeller’s lobbied to make raw milk illegal because they owned the pasteurization technology.

- Botox paralyzes your lymphatic system and carries a black box warning label. Just like any muscles, when you don’t use them, you lose them. This applies to your face as well and people then need to inject more Botox to maintain the same effect. Wrinkles are natural. A frozen face is not.

- There is little evidence that a “chemical imbalance” causes depression and SSRIs can have debilitating withdrawal symptoms. They also have a slew of side-effects.

- If climate change is such a threat, why did Obama buy an $11 million mansion at sea level? Why are they flying around in private jets to push this? The climate is always changing.

- S€x w0rk is the commodification of women’s bodies and is paid r@pe.

- Both Democrats and Republicans perpetuate war, debt and the erosion of freedom.

- Eating cultured animal cells grown with chemicals in a petri dish isn’t animal flesh, even if people try and say it’s “molecularly identical to conventional meat.”

- Trans women are males living what they perceive to be a female experience. Women aren’t a feeling, outfit or identity. We go through a series of hormonal changes from birth until death. Those can’t be replicated through synthetic hormones or surgery. Being a woman is a birthright.

Continued in the comments…
    Your conspiracy theorist friend was right and you Your conspiracy theorist friend was right and you owe them an apology.

It’s kind of crazy to look back at COVID and realize all my predictions came true. The pandemic led to a massive increase in new government debt and an erosion of freedom. Masks didn’t work and vaccine mandates were next. The vaccine also didn’t work and had a slew of life-altering side effects. Medical segregation was wrong and should never have happened.

At the time, I remember being so distraught. I got put on a “Karen’s” page (most likely by women in weed) because I spoke out against mask mandates. Clients canceled contracts. I saw my income decline almost $10K a month. Thousands of people unfollowed me every time I spoke out. People emailed me to say they hope I got COVID and died. I lost best friends of decades and familial relationships will never be the same. And guess what? I would do it all again in a heartbeat.

In hindsight, the pandemic was the best thing that ever happened to me. It revealed peoples’ true authoritarian colors and opened the door for new, freedom-focused friendships. It led me from pot back to politics, where I am thriving. I look back at the pandemic and laugh because not only was I right, I also don’t have to worry about myocarditis.

I’ve had only one person apologize for their treatment of me during the pandemic, and it truly meant more than I can put into words. It’s not too late to apologize to your conspiracy theorist friend. So put your ego aside, pick up the phone, and say sorry.

📸: @immigrant.photog
👚: @antistate

#Reels #FBF #Seattle
    Sometimes you just need the little things in life, Sometimes you just need the little things in life, a sauna sesh with your best friend, a walk in the woods or laying in the grass on a warm spring day.

So here’s a throwback to a very fun cabin getaway with @immigrantstoner, who I’ve been missing very much these last few months! Hopefully we will have another sauna sesh again in the near future.

What’s something simple that helps you decompress? 🏔️🧖🏻‍♀️💨 #Cannabess

📸: @immigrant.photog

#sauna #friendship #selfcare #reels
    Hello Instagram, it’s been awhile. Is anyone still Hello Instagram, it’s been awhile. Is anyone still here? If so, I’m dropping in to grace your feed with this throwback from my tour of @freddys.fuego!

This team does amazing work, so I absolutely loved getting a BTS of their operation. Their flower is always so frosty (I mean, look at that nug on the drying rack!) and I am especially fond of their pheno hunts. Even after a decade in the industry, I am always blown away by beautiful farms like Freddy’s.

Who here has 💨 their 🍁? If so, share your experience below and fingers crossed for another pheno hunt event in the near future! 🤞🏼🌿 #cannabess

#TBT #throwback #throwbackthursday #garden #gardening #washington #washingtongrown #iPhone #shotoniphone
    This year I shot a lot of cannabis content but bar This year I shot a lot of cannabis content but barely posted any of it. Why?

I found myself burnt out, uninspired in the industry and honestly, sick of staring at a screen. My hormones were totally out of whack and as a result, my hair kept falling out. I’d neglected my health and hated how I looked in photos. So in July, at the guidance of my naturopath, I did a 30-day detox. I quit my favorite plant cold turkey. Then my detox just kind of extended to 113 days. Honestly, the only reason I even smoked again was for a photo shoot (which I never even posted).

So anyway, here’s a recap of 2024 content that never made the feed. Maybe I’ll post more in the upcoming year, or maybe my energy is just shifting from pot to politics, where I’ve seen an insane amount of growth the last 365 days. 

If you want to see what I’m doing outside of the industry, follow my personal page @BessByers where I am more active and who knows, maybe the break this year is the motivation I need for the next year? 🍁🤷🏻‍♀️📸 #Cannabess

#photography #washington #2024 #EOY #recap
    So, my 30 day detox turned into 90, but I’m easing So, my 30 day detox turned into 90, but I’m easing back into the swing of things this weekend with one of my favorite infused beverages — @drinksungaze. 

However, I like to add a little something extra to my drinks. The muddled strawberries give me flashbacks to the unlimited strawberry lemonade I would down at a popular burger joint as a kid.

I recommend Sungaze to EVERYONE (especially the strawberry citrus) because they are so tasty and the perfect micro dose. No joke. Loved ones who don’t consume say these help them sleep better at night. Friends who want a healthier alternative to wine have replaced their afterwork glass with a can of Sungaze. When I find myself in social settings where people day drink, I’ll bring these and be the last one standing.

If you’re in Washington, these are a must-try and in case you’re wondering… No, this isn’t sponsored. They’re just that good. 🍓🍋🍁 #cannabess

#beverages #drinks #drink #recipe #kitchen #mocktail #reels
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    imcannabess Bess Byers @imcannabess ·
    11 Aug

    Republicans: “We don’t trust Big Pharma! We want alternative medicine!”

    *possible rescheduling of cannabis*

    Also Republicans: “Nooooooo! It’s the devil’s lettuce! Keep weed illegal! It causes crime! It’s bad!”

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    kylesherman Kyle Sherman @kylesherman ·
    11 Aug

    Imagine being so low T you think cannabis, a plant with incredible medicinal benefits, should be illegal.

    Daddy government, please tell us what we can and cannot use as medicine!

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    imcannabess Bess Byers @imcannabess ·
    11 Aug

    Sounds like a good reason to decriminalize, so people can grow their own and not be dependent on corrupt, corporate cannabis Chads who never grew prior to legalization.

    Cernovich @Cernovich

    Why are conservatives, including some Congressmen, taking money from big pot companies (who spray glyphosate) without proudly announcing this partnership?

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    imcannabess Bess Byers @imcannabess ·
    11 Aug

    We don’t need to reschedule cannabis @realDonaldTrump @RobertKennedyJr, we need to decriminalize it. Rescheduling only gives the power of this plant to Big Pharma. Government has no business regulating a flower people can grow at home.

    The Wall Street Journal @WSJ

    Exclusive: President Trump is considering reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug, after pot companies have poured millions of dollars into Trump’s political groups https://on.wsj.com/4fvpfFF

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