We went to Indiana to pull some weed because we heard it was growing on the roadside. it was Indiana ragweed, and it wasn’t even any good… Jim Belushi: Well, you know, I will tell you: I got arrested twice in high school for possession. How did cannabis figure into your upbringing? Here’s his philosophy:Įditor’s Note: Interview has been edited for length and clarity Leafly: You own a weed farm and are actively moving the plant forward as a form of medicine and therapy, but let’s start with your youth. Belushi believes that everyone experiences some form of familial trauma, and that cannabis can help clear the load-bearing wreckage. Today, he sees a nation of people doing the same-structuring one family with the debris of another. After 35 years, he’s still picking up the pieces. In a money counting room and during a drive around Portland, we discussed Belushi’s path into the cannabis industry, family trauma from losing his brother, and his surreal career trajectory-spanning moments performing with President Clinton to his recent work advocating for opioid reduction measures.īelushi says that when John died, the trauma irreversibly destabilized his family. View Nectar - Gresham’s Menu Jim Belushi and His Rise in the Cannabis Community We recently caught up with Belushi when he was in Gresham, Oregon at Nectar Cannabis, where he met fans, slang some dope, and spread the cannabis gospel.
Remembering Bill Murray’s Cannabis Arrest (and the Delightful Career That Followed) To do so, he’s working to establish the first ever opiates-for-cannabis trade-in program. Instead, he’s taken it as his personal mission to create exit doors on the nation’s ongoing opioid epidemic-which, according to the CDC, claimed more than 40,000 American lives in 2016 alone. Instead, John embraced harder drugs and ultimately died from a combined overdose of heroin and cocaine-the same LA speedball that’s become infamous as a tragic punctuation to the narratives of numerous celebrated actors, musicians, and entertainers.īut Belushi has long accepted that he can’t change the past. While he’s proud to bring Captain Jack’s to Oregon’s recreational consumers, Belushi only wishes that his brother John had taken to it the way his peers had. John is working to establish the first ever opiates-for-cannabis trade-in program. Check dispensary menus close by.īelushi says he will soon release the rare, legendary cultivar through his cannabis production facility located in Eagle Point, Oregon dubbed Belushi’s Farm. Specifically, he remembers a strain called Captain Jack’s, the scent of which hung around the writer’s room like an aura of grease at a pizza shop. When actor and musician Jim Belushi talks Saturday Night Live’s early years-back when his brother served as a founding cast member and the show’s original wild card-he characterizes weed as “the smell of SNL.”
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