The beauty of a spliff – it mellows out the ganja and balances your high so you’re nicely lit but well shy of the atomic mushroom cloud of reefer madness. That’s why we love the tobaccoless spliff – ganja mixed with herbs to form the perfect cornucopia of smoking sensation. Pairing a variety of herbs with your ganja mellows your buzz, complements the blended effects of the herbs, and stretches your weed budget. Ganja and smokable herbs are like chocolate and peanut butter – two great tastes that taste sweeter together. Here are some of the best herbs to pair with ganja to complement your high.

Heads up. Your pastor told you a little white lie like a little white guy in long flowing robes and a tie. Jesus is not the reason for the season. He’s just the excuse. The traditions of Christmas have some serious Pagan roots, traced back to ancient Roman and Norse civilizations. At Bear Blend, we want to bring Odin back into the season and celebrate our Pagan roots. Let’s dive into ways to Paganize your holidays and celebrate the season like a witchy bitch.

Deck the halls with lots of holiday crap. We’d do better to deck the halls with gasoline, strike a match and watch it gleam, as that classic grade school ditty straight from the Anarchist Cookbook goes. The truth is you can play Santa Claus without selling out to the capitalist game – buy from artists, shop local, patronize your small family business. Here are a few tips on how to Black Friday your holiday without becoming a capitalist pig.

Watching or reading the news, especially anything political, can be like watching monkeys at the zoo in a dung flung rabid sex orgy. But you’re the zookeeper, trapped in the cage with a barrel of bananas, and the monkeys are trying to hump your leg and cop a reach around. Things can get ugly fast. Mental health is important, especially when the world decays into madness and the animals run the zoo. Let’s dive into how to self-care in a crazy world.

For as long as humans have gathered around fires and whispered to the stars, there have been witches. They’ve taken many names—wise women, cunning folk, healers, midwives, herbalists, seers—but their craft has always shared one sacred thread: a deep, ancient relationship with the plants of the Earth.

Seeds are astonishing tiny world-dollops holding the spark of life itself. Inside a sphere no bigger than a raindrop lies the entire blueprint for a plant, tree, or fern. Every bit of DNA, every instruction it needs to become something towering and green is packed into that small shell. Just add water, and boom: life begins. Here’s an ode to seeds, the miracles of plant life.

There’s a reason flowers are half the equation when parents first try to explain sex to young children. Flowers are the reason the birds, bees, even flies and a few rodents get some action and give birth to the world. Flowers are turning on a world of bees, critters, and even flies, to propagate plant species and seed the world. Here’s to flowers, the purest expression of life, plant sex in all its divinity, giving birth to nature, fruit, seeds, and food. They truly are the wonders of life.

Ahhh – those are the moments we remember when we realize and experience the whole: We are perfect, just the way we are. You can feel this way after a good herbal smoke, appreciating an amazing sunset, or washed away in glittery after effects in the arms of a lover. Everything is whole, pure, connected. You are beautiful and perfectly in synch with the heartbeat of Gaia. The Earth is speaking all the time, connecting us to those hidden moments that exist between layers of time like an electron’s invisible radius. We are one. Are you ready to listen?