Last week Urbn Leaf opened in the heart of West Hollywood’s Sunset Strip, targeting the elite of LA’s Hollywood Hills neighborhood. To kick off Grammy weekend and to celebrate the opening of the first adult-use cannabis retail store on the Sunset Strip, Urbn Leaf opened its doors to the public on Friday, February 3, 2023. A line of eager attendees stretching down Sunset Boulevard formed before the event started at noon, who were greeted by excited Urbn Leaf team members. As guests entered the store, they were welcomed by Pink Dot owner and Urbn Leaf partner Sol Yamini, and StateHouse…
Author: Dan Wilson
On a rainy Saturday January 14th GOAT Global Westwood held an opening event that drew a huge crowd of LA weed insiders. GOAT Global first established themselves in Humboldt where their first store remains one of the best of the region. They took their expertise to the Southland when they opened GOAT Global South LA last year. The Westwood location is the second of a total of four locations in the city that will be in operation this year. Saturday’s event featured a VIP Lounge in the private event space above the store that will one day be a fully…
Local community news site Visit Hollyweed will soon be a print newspaper, distributed by the thousands all throughout LA County. Founding Editor Dan Wilson says that the 4/20 Special Edition Print Newspaper, to be released April 1st, will be an opportunity to reach local readers leading up to the national weed holiday April 20, 2023. Visit Hollyweed launched on 4/20 of 2020. It was founded to document and record the people, plant, and culture of weed in California. “Going to print has always been part of the plan,” Wilson said. Since its founding two years ago, Visit Hollyweed has been…
Today Death Row Records, the iconic record label recently acquired by Snoop Dogg, announced the launch of Death Row Cannabis. The new cannabis brand by Snoop Dogg will hit shelves in January 2023. The cannabis is the work of Snoop’s chosen cultivator, AK, who previously worked with Wizard Trees/DEO and who owns the brand SMKRS. For over 30 years, through countless chart topping hits and landmark artists, Death Row Records has stood as one of the music industry’s most iconic and culturally significant platforms. Today, it is under powerful new management. Recently acquired by Snoop Dogg, the infamous musical empire…
On Saturday, December 18, the Jokes Up Ice Kream dispensary in LA’s Studio City held a major event to launch a total of eight collaboration strains with artists and influencers throughout the US. The strains are now available at both Jokes Up Ice Kream dispensary locations (Studio City and the Jokes Up Plaza Popup in DTLA). Jokes Up Founder Yung LB is co-owner of the iconic Runtz brand, and the strain of the same name that they popularized is as big as its ever been in the over five years that it appeared. Almost all of the new Jokes Up…
In about a week, Nor Cal breeder and weed cultivator Farming Stoned Genetics will drop a set of seeds titled “Curated With Intention,” which includes collaboration strains with Sherbinskis and John Doe Supply Co., among others. In December comes the iconic Ego Clash event followed by Emerald Cup, both in Northern California. Both events allow insider weed cultivators to access the many exclusive seed and product drops. The events usually feature the best of California’s legacy growers. This will be the third year that Farming Stoned drops seeds at Emerald Cup. This year, Farming Stoned says, is particularly special to…
The company TRP has been quietly working behind the scenes since 2019 helping dispensary brands like Cookies and Dr. Greenthumb’s to open more stores throughout the state and the country. On September 10th, TRP officially opened Cookies Brentwood, a new Cookies location in the Northwest part of LA, a prime area which, until now, has had no dispensaries open. TRP founders Daniel Firtel and Brand Johnson specialize in both real estate and licensing, undertaking the arduous task of getting dispensary locations approved, licensed, and up and running. They came to work with legacy California brands through their own connections and…
The weed community will now have the opportunity to buy some of the most choice seeds in the industry as this week several brands have newly launched genetics for sale. This Friday marks the opening of Cookies Seed Bank, which includes some of the best breeders in California. At its launch, seeds from Cookies, Lemonnade, Gashouse, and Cipher Genetics were available. Coming soon on the site is Minntz, Powerzzzup, Terphogz, and Greenhouse Seed Co. Separately, indie brand Wizard Trees is dropping seeds of two official Runtz crosses crossed with the RS11 that Wizard Trees/brands/ is known for. White Rainbows (White…
Masonic Smoker, a breeder and seed maker well known to the community for both his strains and his social media, has now launched a weekly podcast. The weekly podcast includes comedian Frank Castillo as co-host and features special guests, many from the weed community. The podcast debuted at the end of October and now has four episodes posted to Masonic’s YouTube channel. The podcast doesn’t use sponsors and is instead funded by a Patreon subscription that offers early previews for as little as $3 a month. Masonic says he’s played around with the idea for a while, having already produced…
On Wednesday October 19 iconic weed brand TerpHogz showcased several new phenos and crosses of their Original Z (aka Zkittlez) strain. TerpHogz also announced a new breeding project that will soon make official Z seeds more widely available. New strain releases and clones dropping in seed form and in flower dropping at Emerald Cup Harvest Ball in December. seed packs. The crowd in attendance of the tasting party included heavyweights like Mario Guzman (Sherbinskis), Brett Feldman (Wonderbrett) and Yung LB (Runtz), plus many others. Z creators Tony Medo and Green R Fieldz (along with John Doe) were in attendance to…
