An Alternative How-To

In our web 3.0 society, knowledge to essentially everything is at our fingertips. The days of needing to rifle through the page upon page of encyclopedias, how-to books, or other books have become a thing of the past. Wikipedia, wikiHow, Youtube Videos, and multiple other wikis have taken their place and provide people all across the world valuable skills and information including everything on how to load a price gun to what is the best enclosure/habitat for a pet gecko. One of the most useful tools that have been a part of our connected world is wikiHow. You can essentially find a “how-to” for anything on wikiHow and anyone can post one, or contribute to one. 

One topic that has yet to grace the wikiHow pages is “How to use Kratom: The Southeast Asian leaf that has been hailed as a “wonder drug” and is helping everyday people overcome pain and opioid addiction”. Kratom is a natural stimulant that in high dosages is very sedative and in low dosages is very stimulating. Various strains have various different effects and can affect certain individuals differently but all kratom gives pain relief and some form of mild euphoria. Kratom has been around for a few decades but hadn’t been available in stores until recently. Kratom has helped hundreds of thousands get back on their feet and working, overcoming everyday pains and stress, as well as helped many others get off addicting opioids like Suboxone, Lortab or even heroin. This is appropriate for a wikiHow project because there wasn’t anything on Kratom on the website and it could help a lot of people. If more people knew how to properly use kratom and diagnose which strain is suited for them, we could truly challenge our opioid crisis.

Another topic that has yet to be on wikiHow is “How to Throw a Local Music Scene Concert: Putting together your area’s best underground talent into a great show for the community”. Pretty much every metropolitan area has a fairly robust underground music scene but the majority of the residents in the area have no clue it exists or they are plainly indifferent to its existence. A problem with lots of underground shows is they don't run correctly or do not have the best exposure so not many people come out to the show. Being able to find a great venue, talented acts and active advertising are just some of the basic tools to get you closer to putting together your own underground music show. Buffalo is a city that many people within the city and around it have no clue to the rich underground music communities, here in their own backyards. Firsthand, with the other members of Buffalo Hip Hop Collective, we put on an underground hip-hop showcase so the tools are all there, you just have to know how to utilize them. This is appropriate for a wikiHow project because people should be more into their local music scenes and the presence of this would allow people everywhere to have the tools to be able to put on their own shows.

Finally, a topic that could not be found on wikiHow was “How to make Solventless CBD Rosin: Extracting the best of your CBD flower in a clean and easy way”. Rosin is a product of the hemp plant, which utilizing the CBD flower buds, which are federally legal, is a concentrated version of the buds. CBD has burst onto the alternative medicine scene and a part of that is CBD flower, which is essentially the buds but through a breeding and neutralizing process, has no THC. Rosin is relatively easy to make and uses pressure and heat to extract the most concentrated version of the plant. It can either be made by an expensive press or with a vice and a hair straightener. Rosin has less odor and utilizes the “less is more” principle. It is also solventless so it was not made with butane or any other solvent. This is appropriate for a wikiHow project because CBD has become such a prominent alternative drug so it would be useful for people to know how to be able to make their own concentrates, especially one of the more healthy ones.