FIRE + DESIRE: HIGHTEA Valentine Edit
Tis the season of love and the world could use an extra dose these days, am I right?
you’ve still got time to find the perfect canna-thing to gift her, him, them & You,
Because that lovin feeling isn’t just about a day, it’s got to keep us warm inside 365.
It’s time to call in that HIGHER LOVE - people all around the world have never needed it more. As the collective creeps up on a year of our socially-distanced reality, the thought of reaching out and touching someone (or oneself) has never quite seemed so appealing.
Cannabis may not be the first thing you think of when considering a Valentine’s gift. But the gift of ganj delivers a dynamic offering to the receiver: a return to center (if only for an evening); an acknowledgement the gifter considered your desires; a wellness experience wrapped up in a damn good time.
Read on for the HIGHTEA.life edit of how any cannabis-curious can start to light up a little more fire & desire this (Self) Loving Season. Partnered, solo, or it’s complicated, everyone deserves more true divine love in their lives. Sending out big love from my heart to yours! xHIGHTEA.life
HIGH ON LOVE Chocolate Body Paint
Let’s start the night off right - some sensual, edible art perhaps? High on Love’s luxurious line of sensual and self-care products is designed to take pleasure to the next-level, with a thoughtful lineup that reshapes the idea of true intimacy. The Sensual Bath Oil takes the bathing ritual to new heights of daily luxury, while the Chocolate Body Paint and Sensual Massage Candle combo suddenly feel like brand new bedroom staples.
The Objects of Pleasure gift set also delivers an ideal fantasy: coupling the brand’s Stimulating O-Gel with their signature Jopen Dual Stimulator (a crystal-adorned vibrator with 5 speeds & 7 settings). You’ve never seen a vibe quite like this. This brand is about female-pleasure put into extreme focus, having too long been ignored as the priority when the lights are off (and on, for that matter). And HIGHTEA is here for it.
High On Love products fuses natural ingredients with premium cannabis seed oil designed to heighten pleasure, climax and experience. Click here to explore & shop.
LITTLE VICTORY Sparkling Dark Cherry
Celebrating the little things is a mantra all of us can get behind; those little victories what really keep us going through long winters and year-long quarantines. A sweet and simple way to get things feelin a little festive? Pop the top off a bottle (or two) of Little Victory Sparkling cannabis beverages by Truss: the brand seems like it’s bottled happy. These vibrant, refreshing fruit sparklers boast other flavours like Sparkling Blood Orange & Dry Pink Grapefruit, but the Cherry is our jam.
LIttle Victory’s Sparkling Dark Cherry actually gets all kinds of buzz as one of the more delectable drinks offered on the Canadian marketplace. More refreshing than sweet, with a true cherry flavour and a low-dose 1:1 blend of 2.5mg THC & CBD each, it’s a delicious way to start lifting the mood without the fear of going overboard. An elegant spritz is always a girl’s best friend, but there’s something a little magical about a booze-free party in a bottle, am I right? I’m right.
Check out the Little Victory taste lineup here or at your fave retailer. Santé!
PAPERS + INK Rolling Papers
Meet the rolling papers of every weed queen’s dreams: this wild line of colorful, artful and occasionally-hilarious rolling papers are glorious enough to make you second-guess smoking them. Maybe. From tie-dyed splash, Moroccan-print to mushroom pattern, a colorful array of animal action, floral and faunas galore (not to mention special creative collab drops in between, like the latest Saved By the Bell-inspired Bayside drop) there is no spicier brand of rolling papers on the market if you ask this cannabish. Which you did, sort of.
Most impressively the brand has managed to achieve what many have tried and few have achieved: a truly functional all-in-one rolling kit. The Papers + Ink Rolling Papers Kit come with prepped filter tips, a packing tool and a perfect-pour tray alongside the 100% organic, 100% stunning, unbleached rolling papers.
This female-led collective of creators has a ton of other cool cannabis culture concepts and collabs brewing, including something for the HIGHTEA life community!
Check Papers + Ink out now: you’ll be like a kid in a cannady store!
LADY J Joint Holder by Sibelle Yuksek
Now this my friends, is a joint holder. Truly one of the sexiest, sultriest smoke accessories around, these hand-blown glass joint holders are a special collabaraton by artist Sibelle Yuksek x Elevate Jane. Reminiscent of a vintage cigarette holder, inspired by the curves of a woman’s body (her ahem, accents dipped in 23K gold) these colorful glass holders somehow capture a foreshadowing of the curves and swirls of your soon-to-be smoke.
And if you’re thinkin logistics: the Lady J’s come in two sizes (and a rainbow of colorways) to satisfy every kinda stoner taste. Talk about elevating the mary jane experience - we have officially reached a new heights of chic. Meet you there?
Check out the ladies (and the rest of Elevate Jane’s elegant and thoughtful smoking offerings) here.
SIMPLY BARE Organic Sour Cookies
What are we smoking? It can be easy to underestimate how important a role the cultivar (aka strain) that we choose will play in our overall experience. To the less-enthused cannabis user, isn’t weed just weed?
Discovery of different cannabis cultivars is part of our human journey with the plant: we look toward an array of cultivars for different ailments and stresses over the course of our lives. No two types of flower will land on any person quite the same, so coming to understand what works for you (and when) is a key part of the pot-loving process. Once you’ve become intimately familiar with a type of flower on your own - you’re ready to introduce it into a sexier, partnered experience.
I’ve got a personal affinity for this organic Sour Cookies cultivar from Simply Bare. The uplifting, sativa-leaning hybrid stimulates, then settles in all throughout the body. With genetics of Sour Diesel x Girl Scout Cookies - strains known for their pain-relieving (analgesic) as well as their cerebral effects - the flower lands (on me) in a quite exquisite combination of lifted, euphoric calm. Relaxed yet alert. With flavor notes of sour, sweet, diesel and chocolate, it smells like the recipe for a good evening to me.
Consistently the most flavor-packed flower on the Canadian market, each cultivar I’ve yet tried from this organic, sun-grown, living-soil BC-based grow has exceed my tastebuds’ expectations. Click here to explore.
VERYVELL Tingle Drops
I’m about to glow-up with these amazing, water-soluble drops from Veryvell. In my opinion these drops are by far the simplest (and most discreet) ways to explore the benefits of cannabis at one’s own pace - with 2 drops of the adorable tincture offering a potency of 0.5mg each THC & CBD.
The freedom to choose our own dose is one of the most important parts of the cannabis experience for consumers both new & experienced, and yet many products offered don’t always deliver on that desire to build-up or go-slow. But as any seasoned cannabis user can attest, a little can often go a long way - and we usually need less than we think in order to experience the benefits and effects. This water-soluble tincture allows you to dose throughout your day, into any kind of beverage - whatever it is you desire.
I’ve got a tingle for the Tingle flavor with a hint of ginseng, but a passionflower Exhale and an evening chamomile Yawn have piqued my curiosity too. Wellness your way, here.
SOLEI Unplug Lavender Cream
The soothing power of touch is something we took for granted prior to this year. Touch: its power to connect us both outwardly and in, to heal, to reveal us more deeply to ourselves. The right touch can open up the channels to spots we’ve long held on too tight. How often have you had a massage where the hands at-work begin to unfurl places of stress, tension or pain you hadn’t even noticed you were bearing? Yup.
Cannabinoids provide a rich and effective input for skin topicals, not only because of their pain-relieving and anti-inflammatory effects - but also for cannabis’ exceptional moisturizing properties. It’s a full-spectrum of benefits.
Solei, a brand making it’s name for offering sungrown, simplified, elevated cannabis experiences, is again blazing the trail with their range of salves that offer the highest-potency on the current Canadian marketplace. With sweet smells like Orange Citrus, Cucumber Mint and Lavender (plus an soon-to-drop Unscented if you’d rather) they offer a range of dosage offerings including a 1:1 Balance (250mg of both THC & CBD), a 3:2 Unplug (I unplugged already and couldn’t do the math) offering 350mg THC: 150mg CBD, and the 500mg CBD Free, dropping this month.
Click here to explore the many ways to Solei.
SENSITIVA Slide Lubricant
If you’ve seen our Insta we’ve been fangirling over all things Sensitiva, the hemp-derived CBD wellness brand that’s up-leveling Canada’s streets and medicine cabinets. We’ve been loving the idea of delivering ourselves small doses of self-care all throughout day, and this design-minded product line boasts a spectrum of CBD-laden products that fit into any kinda day and way. Our current personal care routine involves Sensitiva’s face serum, body scrub and oil (she’s never been smoother), 1000mg tincture, hand sanitizer - and Dutch gives me the eyes for their CBD liver treats each morning. Dutch is the dog, btw.
What we failed to pick-up on our latest trip, however, was their Slide CBD lubricant, a water-based formulation (meaning it’s safe for condoms people)! Infused with 1500mg of hemp-derived CBD, as well as Aloe Vera it promises to deliver a smooth vibe and heightened pleasure. Slip n slide indeed.
Explore Sensitiva’s brand lineup here, and discover all of the ways you never expected to have CBD in your life.
SLEEPHAMMER Sweet Dreams Sleep Mask
Introducing your new favourite thing for the bedroom - the sleep mask of your dreams. Made with love by Maria Sandhammer for SLEEPHAMMER, these artful, intricate masks are pieces of wearable art that seem to make that final ritual at the end of the day so much sweeter - helping coax us deeper into dreamstate.
Offering a full spectrum of color combinations and heightening levels of intricate, elegant detail trust me when I tell you you’ve never seen sleep masks quite like these.
Discover Maria’s magical work here - and shop the HIGHTEA Mary Jane edit here in our shop!