The Smoking Spot

Welcome to the Smoking Spot! This week's episode features Amanda's newest project: TRIPPER Magazine! The first cannabis tourism magazine for the wanderers, the weedheads and the canna-curious travellers. Light up and look around! Tripper is the path less travelled for the path less travelled. In fact, there is no path. We’re here for the weird and wonderful sesh spots, chasing graffiti across alleyways and exploring a new city after the joint’s lit.Every issue is a new destination city, and this one brings us to Toronto aka the 6ix. One of my favourite cities, it's a weedsmoker's dream: walkable neighbourhoods, parks on every corner, and more dispensaries than Tim Hortons. So, whether you're here for a farm tour, the dankest strains, unforgettable meals or unhinged public art— Welcome to the 6ix. Let's Trip.Tripper Cover Artist: Spencer Charlton @cratercrater Support Toronto's cannabis industry artists, creatives, contributors, and local businesses! Get your copy at www.trippermagazine.com or find it on instagram @tripper.magazine The biggest THANK YOU to Tripper Magazine's Print Sponsors: Paper Chase Press & Hemlock PrintersFind The Smoking Spot Podcast on instagram @the.smokingspot

Are you "noseblind" to some of the most popular scents? Amanda and Ryan dive deep into the world of long-chain musks, the secret ingredient behind fragrances like Another 13, Baccarat 540 Extrait, Cloud 2.0, and Juliette Has A Gun. Explore the fascinating phenomenon of musk anosmia, uncover why these scents drive some wild (hint: it's primal), and learn about the historical impact of our obsession (we did hunt the musk civet to near extinction). Get ready for a scentsational journey into a hidden fragrance category you never knew existed.

Amanda and Ryan have been holding it down in the industry for over a decade, witnessing its evolution firsthand. Now, we're bringing our combined experience to the table—or rather, to the jar—with actionable advice for breaking into the business. We’ll show you where to start, how to stand out, what you should be earning, and how to recognize when it’s time to level up or move on.

Whether you're ready to replace your manager or finally launch that hash-rosin company you’ve been dreaming about, we’ve got you covered. We’ll walk you through landing roles with real growth potential and even break down how to start your own consulting business—using nothing more than your phone.

So grab your clearest Sativa and dust off that résumé. This week on The Smoking Spot, we’re showing you how to get in, stand out, and start getting paid what you’re worth..

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We disappeared for a hot minute but we're back! After taking a couple months to launch some new projects, Ryan Herron and Amanda Breeze are back in the studio with some new book recommendations for 2025

Weed: Cannabis Culture in the Americas by Caitlin Donohue Chill: The Wine Lover's Guide to Cannabis by Jackie McAskill

Buzz Kill: The Corporatization of Cannabis by Michael Devillaer

All the books featured on this episode were released in 2024 and part of the Cannabis Literary Showcase!

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Essentially a cheat sheet for how to start a vape brand. Cannabis purists step aside, the vape market is dominated by botanical terpene profiles, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Amanda Breeze and Ryan Herron discuss how vape brands can set themselves apart from their competitors and muse over the fact that most don't put the effort in. We talk about the restrictive effect descriptions Canadians are dealing with, what exactly Houndstooth tastes like, and what to do when the terps you ordered smell like a literal garbage fire.

Finally, we quick-fire some questions we ask our clients when starting a new vape project and discuss common pitfalls when launching a new flavor. Hit a few blinkers and start writing that business plan you told your Dad was already a done deal, we're launching Vape brands this week on The Smoking Spot.

Check our professional work educating on and formulating scent and flavor profiles @Scentelligence

Follow us on Instagram @the.smokingspot to join the conversation. Amanda is on Instagram @emerald.temple.living

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We sit down with Marge from the Bite Me podcast to discuss this summer's Camp Canna. Amanda tells us the (tragic) story of being disqualified from the stoner-lympics, Marge tells us why summer camp fosters the best community, and Ryan listens intently while mentally practicing his archery skills. Stick around to hear the ladies' rating for this year's camp and details on the next.

After camp, we bite down on the topic of creating your own edibles and the balancing act between creating something delicious that also has a precise dosage and desired effect. Let's just say, it's not as easy as it looks.

Marge talks us through her interview process and some of the heavy hitters she's had on the show. This episode is going to make you hungry, encourage you to munch an edible, and finally subscribe to the Bite Me podcast. Grab the strongest cookie in the cabinet and join us for this sweet little baker's dozen of an episode.

Check our professional work educating on and formulating scent and flavor profiles @Scentelligence

Follow us on Instagram @the.smokingspot to join the conversation. Amanda is on Instagram @emerald.temple.living

Ryan, too @theloud100

We're back from our hiatus with a round-up about the latest scent-based news. We talk about A.I. perfume and why they're going to suck for a while. Amanda presents some newly trending scents in fragrance production and we both explore what "Opal" might smell like. Stick around and hold your nose while we try to describe that teen-boy smell (body spray, that is). No worries, herb fanatics, we focus on cannabis scents in everything from luxe perfumes to hard seltzers. 

Let's explore how we might someday be able to add the Headspace app to our phones and fax our friends a smell. Oh! The possibilities. Lastly, we sneak in some weird topics and discuss fat-washing rum with ham, WD-40 perfume, and the Tajinification of the grocery store aisle.

Twist open a cannabis-flavored seltzer and top it with an exotic citrus garnish for this week's bouquet of scent stories.

On this episode, Ryan and Amanda relive their tangie-scented trauma and talk about those big bright citrus profiles found in our favourite plant and the compounds that contribute to it. Despite the prevalence of Limonene-rich cultivars, we uncover why they don't always dominate citrus profiles as expected.

Drawing from Leafly's compilation of limonene-dominant strains and Abstrax's insightful analysis, we dissect the draw of citrus profiles and how terpene tests are doing a disservice to the profile. From the celebrated past to the present day analysis, we trace the lineage back to the days before Cali O and Skunk.

We unravel the complexities of scent preferences, exploring why some prefer a subtle breeze scented with orange blossoms and others go out of their way to drive by the garlic processing plant.

Let's explore the essence of exoticism in cultivars and how certain traits can elevate something ordinary into a luxury product. 

Reach beyond the bottle of orange cleaner and grab a jar of something that smells like a candy-scented candle. Light up, and listen in, you can practically smell the Tropicanna-Sulphurs from here.

Join Ryan Herron and Amanda Breeze as they delve into the complexities of ADHD and focus for both diagnosed and undiagnosed individuals. Together, they sift through available research and draw from personal anecdotes to explore the impact of plant medicine on those affected by ADHD. Discover how our brains respond to stimuli, the nuances of our reward centers, and the role of plant medicine in this intricate equation.

Ryan shares his journey of receiving an ADHD diagnosis as an adult and walks us through how his use of plant medicine became an issue during the diagnosis process. Meanwhile, Amanda elaborates on the neuroprotective and neurotoxic effects of these substances, emphasizing the delicate and uniquely individualized balance required for an optimal outcome.

Grab a jar of something rich in alpha-pinene, twist one up, and ignore those distractions. Better yet, set everything aside and procrastinate with us as we discuss how terpenes, cannabinoids, and flavourants influence brain function, focus, and memory.