Enhance Your Lunar New Year Celebrations With These 8 Cannabis Tools

By Unity Marguerite Whittaker, Creative Director and Co-founder BlyssCloud

2019 is the Year of the Earth Pig and it’s predicted it’ll be a lucky year full of fun and abundance! Pigs represent wealth, generosity, kindness and diligence. Be prepared to work hard accomplishing your goals with prosperous results.

Pigs love enjoying the fruits of their labour and 2019 will be a year of social gatherings with a focus on quality experiences.

Come out of the doghouse and join the pen party with these 8 tools to enhance your Lunar New Year celebrations from February 4th to 19th.

#8 Gold Stainless Steel Chopsticks

By The Apothecarry Case

$16

Using chopsticks to handle your dry flower will add to the protection of the trichomes saving a fuller terpene profile for your consumption enjoyment. In addition, chopsticks make an excellent poking tool when rolling your J’s or packing cones.

#7. Bambou Magnifying Glass

By L’Objet

$177

A handheld magnifying glass is an important tool for your cannabis experiences as you’ll be able to identify healthy trichomes and contaminates ensuring you’re an informed cannabis consumer.

This beautiful and modern piece inspired by bamboo is hand-gilded 24K gold-plated stainless steel with a glass of 7 x magnification.

#6. Pestle & Mortar

By Tom Dixon

$266

It’s bad luck during the Lunar New Year celebrations to use sharp objects like scissors and knives as it’s believed they cut wealth. Grinding your cannabis with a pestle & mortar will ensure your abundance and make you stronger.

#5. Red & Gold Designer Cones

By Elephant Rolling Papers

$12

The Lunar New Year is 15 days in 2019 and involves many visits with family and friends. Always be prepared by packing these red and gold cones for all your Lunar New Year’s celebrations.

#4. Year of the Pig Lighter

By Zippo

$38

This genuine Zippo lighter is windproof and refillable with a lifetime guarantee.

The colour red represents happiness and good fortune with the contrast of the brass laser engraved with Chinese characters and the pig.

You’ll be well received in your sessions during 2019 with this spark of fire.

#3. Two-Piece Ashtray

By Alessi

$150

Cleanliness is next to godliness in the year of the pig which is why this two-piece ashtray is ideal. Designed in 1926 by Marianne Brandt, it’s designed to keep ashes and roaches out of sight.

#2. Oil Infusion Appliance

By Levo Oil

$459

Enjoying food with family and friends is a big part of the Lunar New Year celebrations this is why a Levo Oil machine is ideal. Easily infuse your cooking oils with botanical ingredients like cannabis or other herbs to add to your food.

#1. Right History’s Wrongs

Donate to Cannabis Amnesty

In Vancouver, the violent Chinatown riots occurred over three days in September in 1907. These riots deliberately destroyed business and personal property of the Chinese, Japanese and South Asians by over 8,000 white men led by the Asiatic Exclusion League of Vancouver with the idea of ‘white supremacy’ using the sound bite ‘White Canada Forever’ (Yee, Paul. History of Canada's early Chinese immigrants. Government of Canada.)

After these riots, Labour Minister MacKenzie King visited legal opium dens destroyed by the riots to assess for insurance coverage. His experience of visiting these dens led to the 1908 Opium Act which is the first Canadian law that prohibited drugs; in 1923 marijuana was added to the list of prohibited substances. As a result of the anti-drug campaign, possession and trafficking laws disproportionately targeted Chinese Canadians who’ve been burdened with opium and marijuana convictions.

This year fill your lucky red envelope with money for Cannabis Amnesty which is working towards expunging the records of nonviolent cannabis related offences.