Compound Genetics is known for their prize-winning genetics, producing seeds that brands all over the state use for their flower. This month, Compound Genetics launched their own brand of flower, allowing consumers to buy directly from the famed cultivator.
Month: June 2022
On June 18, Bay area weed collective Jokes Up opened its own dispensary in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles called Ice Kream. The brand also celebrated the year anniversary of its Jokes Up Plaza store in DTLA, which now features a mini Ice Kream dispensary inside.
This week, the CA State Fair Cannabis Awards announced the inaugural award-winning cultivars and cultivators from throughout California. More than 300 entries were evaluated for this year’s competition. A total of 60 trophies and medals were awarded, consisting of gold and silver medals by division and category, as well as the Golden Bear Award for the “Best of California” overall winners.
Rakim redefined hip-hop in the 90s, and has had his impact on the genre ever since. Now he’s launched his own weed brand, Higher Frequency, in both New York and California. In the process, he’s showing support for legacy NorCal farms and Cali’s social equity cannabis businesses.
A “Plants and Plates” dinner event celebrating Juneteenth brought together 10 Black Changemakers in Cannabis, according to the company who produced the event, Natural High Co.
LA Rapper and Weed Grower PKnuckle has been growing and selling weed in the city since the late 90s. After a stint in lockup, he burst back onto the scene in the mid 2000s, dropping singles and developing his clothing brand Dope Kings. On the side, he sold cannabis under his brand Palm Trees by PKnuckle. Now the two brands have merged, and PKnuckle is dropping his own strains, some coming from his decades-old library of genetics.
LA rapper Chad Watson talks about how weed and music go together. Watson is currently working on his first full-length album, dropping late this summer.
Sticker Farmer is known for helping build successful weed brands through things like logo design and packaging (think the mylar bag that weed comes in). By applying his skillset to the NFT space, the company dreamed up the idea of the “Featured Underdog Club,” a series of pot-smoking birds that are “underdogs.”
Last Thursday, June 9th at a release party by Hollywood Strain Premiers, indie weed brand Doja Exclusive dropped their latest strain Permanent Marker. Created and cultivated by SeedJunky Jbeezy and selected by Doja, Permanent Marker is sure to be one of the standout strains of 2022.
Most of the time that users search Google for information about weed strains, Leafly.com is the first site to come up. That’s because they’ve spent years building a detailed database of strain information. With its new service, searchers will now be able to go from reading about strains to having them delivered to their door without leaving Leafly.