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“Cannabis is becoming trusted, which I love to see.”
This conversation messed with my mind a lil bit.
Understand that I have Google alerts set to send pot business news to my mailbox. My sense of what’s going on in cannabis is almost necessarily mired in a West Coast perspective. This talk with Jay Wright of the Southhampton, Long Island dispensary Little Beach Harvest shifted my weed worldview. With Cory R. Williams and Sean L. Boyd, Wright runs the Hamptons dispensary under the Shinnecock nation’s auspices.
I can’t unhear the possibilities that he shared.
Our conversation opens with a lot of LI talk that I am only capable of imagining accompanied by surreptitiously-consumed cannabis. It’s odd that I’ve not been in New York since weed got legal.
Gotta get back there.
As with the Dock Ellis live session, there are wardrobe stakes in this video. This time I was feeling self-conscious about wearing the child development work shirt from my fall grade school gig, even though that tutoring contract contained protections against cannabis discrimination.
Four percent of Little Beach Harvest’s earnings go into community projects, some youth related. Yet, the discomfort is hard to shake. Call the condition Cannabis Pioneer PTSD. As Wright spoke on though? A sense of education at the core of our verbal concerns turned tangible. After that, I hardly thought about the logo on my breast a minute more.
My bud tenders do alright with tips, I won’t lie to you—Jay Wright
“New York isn't there yet, but we are,” he told me. “There” is an actualized cannabis culture, were only a sovereign nation unencumbered by American bullshit could be. To hear Jay Wright tell it, people don’t just come out from Queens to their retail shop way far out in the Hamptons. Little Beach Harvest has also had West Coast customers, from Seattle to LA.
They’re coming because of some other stuff that I’ll get into later, but Little Beach Harvest customers are coming back on the strength of a deep Shinnecock farming bench.
You might want to check into this email. The documentary photo stuff is compelling. If you dream of seeing me in a quiet place to write, you too might want to click.
A lil somethin' for my Native people
My moment has a going on in it. This here is only an update of the professional sort. The main thing going on is the raising of funds, primarily to bring to life the whole-ass film that’s living in my head. In this period screenplay is a character based on the above extinct breed of dog called a Techichi.
“We had a lot of regular flower growers of THC and such and we already sensed that connection to plant medicine and to other plant organisms was honestly something that was already taking place in a lot of tribal entities, tribal nations,” Wright explained.
“We weren't farmers of that such. We were more potato farmers out here, crop, vegetables, things of that nature, and we were harvesters of the ocean. that wasn't our wheel well of being into cannabis, but we are people of the land and have had a lot of regular flower growers of THC and such.”
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