When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety; if I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me. There is a great secret here for anyone who can grasp it.

Rumi

So this dude trained his bee’s to take
pollen from the cola’s of marijuana plants instead of flowers.. And in
return the honey they produce is infused with THC and the product is
essentially purified as it goes travels through the bee’s system (As
normal bee enzymes make nectar into honey).. The product is a dank
edible honey that will medicate the shit out of you. This guy wins all
around.

Nicolas Trainerbees, the Beekeeper That Has Managed to Get His Bees to Make Honey with Cannabis Resin

Many are calling him a genius. The man is an artisan, locksmith and
above all else, he explains, he is a beekeeper. He has over 4300
Facebook followers and 700 on Instagram after the 39-year-old Frenchman,
who describes himself as an advocate of medical cannabis and of
complete cannabis legalization, trained bees to make honey from cannabis.

He goes by the nickname of Nicolas Trainerbees, for obvious reasons.
For 20 years, he has worked with bees in a way where he claims he is
able to “train” them to make honey from virtually anything.

“I have trained bees to do several things, such as collect sugar from fruits, instead of using flowers,” he explains.

Nicholas says he has “been passionate about nature since childhood,”
which led him to this profession that mixes his love for plant life with
his love for animals – especially insects.

Nicholas calls the cannabis-honey produced by the bees “cannahoney”
from “a training technique whereby the bees collect the resin and use it
in the beehive.”

The final substance, he explains, is the sole work of the bees. “For
some time I had known about the health benefits of bee products such as
honey, propolis, pollen, wax and royal jelly and also about the benefits
of cannabis,” and so he decided to take notice of the requests, he
explains.

Add to that the fact that “everything that passes through the body of
a bee is improved,” he said, since their enzymes make the nectar turn
into honey.

“So if the bee took the resin from cannabis it would also be very
beneficial.”“The aim arose for me to get the bees to obtain this resin,”
he added. The “cannahoney” has “quite a floral” aroma and a color, he
explains. It “is not smoked, it is ingested and it is good for health,”
he adds. Nicolas says that “the bees accept any strain.”

So do the bees get high off of the cannabis they make the honey from?

“The bees that produce the cannahoney are not affected by
cannabinoids because they do not have an endocannabinoid system,” he
says. It’s just another form of food for them.

Courtesy of TheAntiMedia

“The woods gal, that’s what they called me.” Emma Dupree, 1898-1996.
Photos by Mary Anne McDonald.

Emma Dupree was a respected herbal healer in Pitt County, North Carolina: “From
the time she could walk, Emma felt drawn to the land. She would roam
the woods, plucking, sniffing, tasting weeds. She grew up that way,
collecting the leaves, stems, roots, and bark of sweet gum, white mint,
mullein, sassafras in her coattail or a tin bucket. She’d tote them back
to the farm, rinse them in well water and tie them in bunches to dry.
In the backyard, she’d raise a fire under a kettle and boil her herbs to
a bubbly froth, then pour it up in brown-necked stone jugs: a
white-mint potion for poor circulation; catnip tea for babies with
colic; tansy tea – hot or cold – for low blood sugar; mullein tea for a
stomach ache …”
Paige Williams

Memento mori: (Latin: “remember (that you have) to die”)
The
medieval Latin theory and practice of reflection on mortality,
especially as a means of considering the vanity of earthly life and the
transient nature of all earthly goods and pursuits.

Mono no aware (物の哀れ): (Japanese: “the sensitivity to ephemera”)
The awareness of impermanence (無常 mujō),
or transience of things, and both a transient gentle sadness (or
wistfulness) at their passing as well as a longer, deeper gentle sadness
about this state being the reality of life.

L’appel du vide: (French: “call of the void”)
The
psychological phenomenon in which people, with no desire to die, find
themselves faced with a steep cliff and experience a strong desire to
leap.

Amor fati: (Latin: “the love of one’s fate”)
An attitude in
which one sees everything that happens in one’s life, including
suffering and loss, as good; or, at the very least, necessary.