At a concert in Oregon on Tuesday night, rapper Snoop Dogg was gifted a very strange honorarium for performing in the city.
At a concert in Oregon on Tuesday night, rapper Snoop Dogg was gifted a very strange honorarium for performing in the city.
Over
two dozen weed advocates, producers and companies in the state donated
marijuana products worth over $5,000 including marijuana-infused edibles
and topical products, to present to the rapper and his crew as he was
about to take the stage.
According to Joshua Jardine Taylor
who organized the ‘weed’-raiser for the rapper and his crew, the
response from the marijuana community in the state was surprising.
“It
was remarkably fast and honestly, the feedback has been tremendous as
far as people bringing me a lot more than I expected, people showing up
with 2 ounces of their finest flower or 15 of their edibles,” he said.
The idea began when a marijuana aficionado from Hermiston, Andrew Lamb,
heard the musician would be in Portland this month and put out a call
on Facebook for Oregon pot producers to donate a sample of their
products to the entertainer, whose love of cannabis is well known to the
point that just a month ago he launched his line of marijuana and
marijuana products, Leafs By Snoop.
While
other celebrities are putting their names to products like perfumes and
sports equipment, the rapper began his own line of top class weed in
November, with eight different types of marijuana flowers, and including
flavours like Lemon Pie, Northern Lights and Cali Kush, as well as
edibles and concentrates.
The line, which the rapper calls, “the first mainstream cannabis brand in the world”, is based in Colorado.
However,
because the rapper does not live in Colorado, he cannot legally own the
line, and so it is managed by the company Beyond Broadway, which
operates under the moniker LivWell, has official ownership and is
responsible for growing the plants and manufacturing the edibles and
concentrates.
Marijuana is legally available for
recreational use in Alaska, Oregon, Washington and Colorado. But
although legal, the state’s laws will not allow the rapper to keep that
much product in his possession and Snoop will have to select which of
the donations he wants to keep.
But don’t get any ideas; marijuana is still illegal in Nigeria.