If you have blues, brothers and sisters, Jim Belushi has something special for you: an old herb from Belushi Farm and a new program of truth.
The actor, musician and now a legal hash grower combines his talents to show the world his pleasure of learning from performer to grower.
While having breakfast in Cartagena, Colombia, overlooking the Caribbean Sea from the 40th floor of a hotel, the actor told us all about his new hash business and the exclusive that comes from combining his fondness for hashish with his love of music.
Belushi in Colombia looks for hashish types for his farm. The same fields that cultivated the cocaine that ended their brother John’s life are now bearing the fruit of healing.
In the words of Dan Aykroyd, “If John had been a marijuana addict, he’d be alive today.”
Its new show, Growing Belushi, will premiere on Discovery on August 19 at 10 p.m. ET/PT, and includes much of the blueprint in the South American country.
Jim Belushi is a type of male talent. Since his debut as a cast member of Saturday Night Live in the mid-1980s, Belushi has fun moments with his ability to reinvent himself and exploit his endless abilities.
Perhaps Growing Belushi is a possibility for mortals to be informed of the master.
How do you dive into a new box and a renowned expert?
In his new program, the cameras will see Belushi as he becomes an expert in the art of developing quality cannabis. This new company, in its own words, is much more than a business, it is a new purpose of life.
“Everything grows in Growing Belushi. Cannabis, business, family. And I. We almost called it Growing Pains!” he said.
The hash industry can be a complicated environment for any entrepreneur. But Belushi is approaching it with pleasure.
“All the regulations they give us, we attack them with pride. I need to show you that it can be a valid business, a valid agricultural enterprise. There are disorders and you have to succeed creatively over them.”
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Agriculture is a problem-solving issue, he told us. And that’s all he’s familiar with with his long career in film and television.
“Everything has its challenge and I have believed that we have to deal with demanding situations directly, allowing magic to happen. Filming is a challenge and that’s just one component of the process. The same goes for marijuana expansion. The barrier is not knowing what you have until you harvest it. You have to prepare, prepare, prepare, expand methods and study,” he said.
Belushi bought his 93-acre farm along the Rogue River in southern Oregon in 2015 after falling in love with the land. The concept of developing marijuana came later, through its lifelong respect and connection to the plant.
This project, which combines Jim’s fondness for hashish with his love of music, is explained through one approach. Jim calls it “naughty music as God’s mission.”
But what does that mean?
“I think this sums up cannabis: God’s project is medicine; music is the joy that comes from dance; and naughty is fun,” he says.
Belushi takes hash farming as seriously as his acting career.
“I take this producer’s, I take it as an artist,” he confessed.
“I’m an actor. When I get a script, I read the script and then I reread it. I memorize it, I create an beyond for the character, I train my brain with the character.
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Apply these strategies to hashish cultivation with equivalent rigour.
“I plant it, I grow them, the nutrients and the story, so that I can perceive my relationship with them,” he told us.
But as in any artistic company, strategy is part of the show. The rest ends with the heart. Belushi told us to sing and play the plant harmonica. It gives them names and makes them play music as they grow up. Before they are harvested, the plants at Belushi’s farm are filled with gospel music.
“We play this gospel music to let them know that they are going to heaven, that they will have a future life to help people. It’s love, love, love, love, love.”
In addition to Beluhi’s iconic brands, which come with The Blues Brothers, Belushi’s Secret Stash and Captain Jack’s Gulzar Afghanica, the actor and entrepreneur has a new original concept.
“Good Ugly Weed is just that: it’s a smart, ugly weed,” Belushi says with his candor.
The concept for the logo arose from an oversupply market research from Oregon. At Beaver State, where Belushi’s farm is located, brands acquire ugly-looking flowers for use in extraction. These are portions of the same high quality plants, with the same high-end characteristics, but not so beautiful.
“I thought, “Wait a minute, those guys have a very strong weed and give it $350 a pound,” Belushi said. So I said, let’s buy it for 350, give credit to the farmer and sell it at a value for people.”
It turns out that a giant percentage of consumers are more interested in high-quality hashish at a smart price than in smart hashish. And this call can help some of this “remaining” grass from the unregulated market.
So what’s the next step for Mr. Belushi?
The artist revealed that Select, a logo owned by Curaleaf, a publicly traded company, makes a vaporizer with Captain Jack’s cannabis, also known as The Smell of SNL. The product will be available in Oregon in September.
In addition, Grassroots will launch The Blues Brothers at its new clinic in Skokie, Illinois, in September.
Finally, Belushi works passionately with the Last Prisoner Project team, an organization of artists and hash industry leaders who try to bring restorative justice to the hash industry by helping nonviolent hash offenders.
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“Some time ago, Steve DeAngelo hired me at the Last Prisoner Project, a wonderful initiative that is close to my heart. More than 40,000 hash prisoners in the United States are jailed for nonviolent hashish-related crimes. Communities of color are the subject to disproportionate marijuana control practices. All of this happens when many legally gain advantages from the same factory. We are doing our best to increase the budget and conscience to free those other people with indulgence and return,” he said.
In all his efforts, Belushi has one thing in mind: giving back to people. Whether through music, comedy or cannabis, love is the common denominator.
Written in collaboration with Nron Ponieman.
I am a journalist specializing in cannabis, hemp, CBD and psychedelics, lately CEO of Benzinga Cannabis. My book, “Start Your Own Cannabis Business”
I am a journalist specializing in cannabis, hemp, CBD and psychedelics, lately CEO of Benzinga Cannabis. My book, “Start Your Own Cannabis Business,” published through Entrepreneur Media in 2018 and reached number one among the best-selling on Amazon.
As an award-winning journalist and editor, I have published more than 4900 articles in many media outlets, including CNN, Forbes, MSN, Chicago Tribune, CNBC, Yahoo Finance, Entrepreneur Magazine, MarketWatch, Houston Chronicle, The Street, Nasdaq, Morningstar. , Playboy, Benzinga, MERRY JANE, High Times and many others.
I also co-founded the Spanish newscast El Planteo, of which I am now CEO.
Beyond cannabis, I’m a Billboard photographer and rapper, which appears on hip-hop albums that also include RZA and Inspectah Deck by Wu-Tang Clan, Twista, Lil Windex, Riff Raff, Cyhi The Prynce, Yung Bleu, DJ Whoo Kid, Jonathan Hay and others.
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