Former TV news anchor Connie Chung has a cannabis strain named after her. “I’m easy to grow,” she explains. “I create a lovely flower and one of my favorite parts is that I’m low-maintenance." However, Chung says she hasn't smoked pot since college.
The biggest moves on our Celebrity Brands chart this month are Cheech & Chong's Cannabis (from #8 to #3), Belushi's Farm (from #9 to #5) and Tical Official (from #15 to #10).
Rick Steves, who's best known for his TV travel shows and tour guides, and is also a cannabis legalization advocate affiliated with NORML, announced he'll have surgery for prostate cancer next month.
Born in Chicago and raised in Wheaton, IL, Jim Belushi was a troublemaker. The comic actor turned cannabis entrepreneur tells Sara Payan on her Planted podcast, "I used to be the crime rate in Wheaton. I was a juvenile delinquent. I spent three days in jail."
Death Row Cannabis now has a home at S.W.E.D, Snoop Dogg's latest venture, a weed store in L.A. that sells strains like Alien OG under the 2Pac label. Snoop says Shakur turned him on to smoking blunts three decades ago when they were labelmates on Death Row.
