A Womans Guide to Cannabis

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Everything about marijuana is undergoing a massive cultural shift. Recent polls show that 64% of Americans want to legalise cannabis, resulting in medical and/or recreational marijuana being legal in 29 states and Washington, DC. But also for the first time, as many if not more women than men are using marijuana. And they use it differently. They like milder doses, use more creams and oils, and are more interested in feeling better than getting stoned. Women approach cannabis as the new wellness. After all, it is analgesic, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, antibacterial, antifungal, antianxiety, and antidepressant. Introducing Nikki Furrer, a very well-informed cultivator who creates and markets cannabis-infused products for women. Now inGet High Like a Lady, shes written the book to help all interested women navigate the ever more complicated world of cannabis. Illustrated throughout and written in a lively, reassuring, humorous voice, its an engaging and entertaining guide that explains everything you need to know to live the high life: how to read the shelves of the typical dispensary, with its confusing options of flower, resin, vape pens, oil, edibles, patches, creams, tinctures, and more. A primer on the amazing health-giving compounds found in cannabis - THC, CBD, terpenes, and more - and how they work and how they differ, along with how to choose among strains depending on your needs. It even leads the newbie through the first experience of getting high - how much to use, what to do if you experience negative side effects, the pleasures of microdosing. And finally it includes about 20 recipes, for extracts, tinctures, gummies, and beauty creams. Its not your mothers joint anymore.

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Nikki Furrer runs one of the 12 cannabis cultivation centers in Illinois, where she develops strains and products for women, and the medicine that is most effective for women's conditions. She has worked as a bud tender and grower in Denver, standing behind the counter with every product on the Colorado medical market, helping patients find the best medicine for them. Her oils, edibles, and topicals are the most popular cannabis products in Illinois, and are stocked in more dispensaries than any other cultivator's. She compares her experience of wholesaling cannabis (from packaging design, to sending free and review samples, to offering tips for hand-selling, to pushing the backlist) to the role of publishers and sales reps who worked with her when she was a founder and manager of Puddin'Head books in St. Louis. She currently lives in both Chicago, IL and St. Louis, MO.