Cannabis Product Review: Camino’s Limited-Edition Blood Orange Halloween Gummies

About Camino

Camino seeks to move your mood with their flavor-forward effects-focused THC, CBD, and CBN gummy cocktails spiked with terpenes. Each Camino product—and these bites run the gamut from Sparkling Pear to Pineapple Habanero—is meant to encapsulate the feel of an enchanted landscape. In other words—each Camino tin serves up full mood. And each of these weedscapes is perfectly designed for the canna-user on the go. These are not zoned-out mallet strikes but nuanced experience enhancements.

Camino seeks to provide the most specifically tailored and immersive experience available and that is so valuable in a marketplace that often doesn’t give much more than the bare minimum on what you can hope to expect. Their Midnight Blueberry, for example, provides 5mg THC alongside 1mg of wildly underused CBN to lay you down peacefully for a full night’s slumber. From the illustration on the tin to terpenes added and cannabinoids used, Camino is a straightforward jaunt with clear intentions.

Keeping impeccable company, Camino is housed alongside Petra, Terra, and Lost Farms under Kiva’s illustrious umbrella of products. If you are unfamiliar with these product lines (mircodosed mints, chocolate-covered espresso beans and blueberries, and live resin chews, respectively) you are missing out on some of the most fun, versatile, affordable, and approachable edibles on the market. Kiva’s products are great for beginners or for more functional daily uses for higher tolerances.

Highlights

Kiva is the term used by Hopi, Zuni, and other Pueblo people to denote the large circular underground spaces where spiritual ceremonies are held. Although the scope, variety, nuance, and cosmological significance of the rich history of Indigenous spiritual practice is well beyond the purview of our time here, dear reader,  introducing ancient wisdom into our understanding of how cannabis can (and should) be used is important. It’s easy to get caught up in consumerism but no matter how bomb the packaging (and I think we can all agree this is 10)  we must never lose sight of Mother Earth as its creator.

To paint with a broad stroke, mysticism and ancient wisdom traditions often rely on the natural world for insight into just what exactly the fuck is going on out here in the world. Halloween, for example, has roots in the ancient Celtic celebration of Samhain—the day (October 31st) when the veil between the physical and spiritual world is the thinnest and people would disguise themselves as monsters to avoid being dragged into the underworld. Similarly, in Mexico, the 31st is celebrated as El Día de Los Muertos when children who have passed may return to this realm to visit their loved ones.

In the ancestral wisdom teachings of several tribes Indigenous to North America, specific species offer teachings, wisdom, and medicine beneficial to the human’s healing and awakening. For example, in Sacred Medicine of Bee, Butterfly, Earthworm, and Spider authors Linda Star Wolf and Anna Cariad-Barrett offer shamanic healing based on each insect’s archetypal energy. For example, Spider “is a being from which we can learn how to open, listen to the wide universe around, and wait for the telltale vibrations of Spirit sending us signals through the strands of the universal web”. How can plant medicine make us more available to receive and enact these signals?

Cannabis is teaching plant and several cultures have designated October 31st as one of massive importance in our culture. With their forces combined, what can this harken for the human? What illustrious atmosphere awaits at the far end of this Camino? Let’s keep asking these questions as Emjay makes the cannabis ritual as easy and affordable as it literally has ever been in the course of human history.