Emerald Magazine feature on Luminous Botanicals
Emerald Magazine is doing a series of articles featuring Sun + Earth Certified companies, and we are thrilled that they chose to include us! Thank you to Sonia Case for the interview, which you can read here.
In 2014, Portlanders Devan Anthony and Sally Alworth decided to ditch their management jobs at a construction company to start Luminous Botanicals; the first Sun+Earth Certified manufacturer.
The Luminous Botanicals story is one of friendship. While on the job as a construction manager, Anthony injured his back and aggravated an old chronic injury. What followed was months of pain and sleeplessness. At a loss, Anthony experimented with different CBD concentrates.
He found “amazing relief” with a high CBD ethanol extract. “It was really life changing for me,” says Anthony, “but I had a really hard time dosing this stuff because most concentrates are so strong…I’m really sensitive to what I put in my body and I would be way too high to sleep at night.”
One day, Anthony was telling Alworth about his experience using cannabis for his back pain and the challenges of accurate dosing. After some back and forth, they both wondered aloud: “Isn’t it strange that we have this medical market for cannabis products, but there isn’t anything available in the dispensaries that’s standardized in potency for really accurate, precise oral dosing?”
Anthony and Alworth saw an opportunity to make a product that would stand out. They started testing different product formulations in Anthony’s kitchen. The “Cannabis Cure-All” was their first successful product, an oil infusion of cannabis with standardized dosing and consistent strength across batches. They’ve since moved out to a formal production facility and continue to grow the Luminous Botanicals brand.
This week, Emerald sat down for a virtual meetup with Anthony and Alworth. From construction site, to kitchen, to cannabis extract extraordinaires, this pair taught us a lot about what it means to be a Sun+Earth certified manufacturer.