Huey Lewis Wanted a New Drug…

…But I Got a New Vape

Robyn Sinead Sheppard
3 min readOct 13, 2023
Photo of a Cannabis Indica vaping system
Photo by the author

One of the difficulties with the implementation of legal marijuana in my home state of New York is that the agency set up to oversee the trade isn’t doing a very good job of it. As a result, there are tons of legal crops rotting in storage facilities, legal dispensaries are hard to find, and folks who bootleg their products (i.e., sell them illegally) are doing more business than ever before.

I’m a big fan of buying local, and I also try to stay within the bounds of the law. That’s why when my stash needed replenishing, I decided to find a local, legal, dispensary and see what they had to offer. My quest led me to ELab Boutique, at 719 Monroe Avenue here in Rochester. I relied on my ex for her advice, and between her and the salesclerk’s advice, I settled on Torch x Ghost Cannoli Indica, as shown above. Why that one? Because whenever faced with that choice of flavor, I always pay homage to The Godfather: I “leave the gun and take the cannoli.” A line which, incidentally, was half ad-libbed: Puzo’s book only said, “Leave the gun.”

When I asked what the difference was between Indica and Sativa, the salesclerk said “Indica is couch, Sativa is washing the garage.”

In other words, Indica will calm and relax you, while Sativa will give you energy and make you want to do stuff.

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Robyn Sinead Sheppard

A happily retired technical writer, I write in order to understand what I'm thinking.