Jim belushi nectar gresham12/26/2023 ![]() ![]() Now, there's the glut and the illicit market in California is flooding Oregon with illicit autoflower weed. It got up to $2,200 a pound I was selling in July. "It went down to people selling for $350 a pound, $600 a pound, the industry’s over and the farms are going to close down and quit. " This is my second downturn," Belushi notes. The result has been wide fluctuations in wholesale prices. "The message from all the celebrities should be that cannabis is a medicine and pathway to healing. They had a big mold problem this year too." "It’s farming! Two seasons ago everybody lost 35% easily to mold. "It’s a commodity that goes up and down, depending on weather, fires, a bad rain, a lot of mold," he explains. The previous couple of grow seasons were marred by pests, rain, mold and nearby wildfires. The goal is to have 100 pounds ready to deliver to Nectar in Portland. In Season 2, we watch as Belushi and his team re-outfit the farm with light-dep greenhouses. Jim Belushi with flowering cannabis plant " For me, one hit is like having a glass of wine or two." He breaks off 2.5 mg pieces of Bhang or Glazed cannabis chocolates before going to bed or after a day's work "if there's a lot of anxiety." Belushi particularly enjoys his 19% THC Cherry Pie strain. I just want to keep everything about our industry honest and with integrity and show this is a real business, with real testing, with agriculturalists who really care about the plant and care about the consumer and are trying to build confidence in cannabis." "It was instructional and had purpose and integrity. I don’t know if I even want to go there with my brand."īut he does eat cannabis on camera in Episode 2 when Guy Fieri visits the farm and they make an infused ice cream.īelushi, 67, reminds me that he "showed how to smoke a vape pen and smoked that" in a Season 1 episode in 2020. I think there’s kind of a responsibility thing involved with it too." With the exception of earlier in my career, I don’t drink on camera. I didn’t want to find the comedy through that. You’re not allowed to get high when ou’re working. So, I wanted to show a more realistic look at growing and the cannabis industry. I think that put a bad taste in the audience’s mouth about our industry. There have been a few failed comedies that have been put there trying to represent our industry where they just had a bunch of burned-out stoners because they thought that’s funny. "I didn’t want the show to be a stoner show where you’re seeing people get high all the time or goofy. "No, it’s not a blunt," Beluishi tells me, laughing. It's my first question in our Zoom inteview because he's sitting their holding a stogie. You'd figure the cigars would be stuffed with the premium cannabis grown on Belushi's Farm in Medford, OR. The second episode of Season 2 drops Wednesday night. He's often seen chomping on one during scenes of his Discovery series, Growing Belushi. All photos by Tyler Maddow for Whitehorse Productions/Discovery. ![]()
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