Reggae can make anything sound happy. Cut Off is all about the darkness of prison, and the hope that lies in the prospect of getting out. While Busy Signal’s vocals are earnest enough, with a beat constructed from major piano chords and playful Kwesta-style background vocals, you’d never know it was about anything but the sun if you weren’t listening closely to the lyrics. So.. don’t judge a song by its key?
Big news from New York today: Bubby’s is now selling CBD coffee! Well, that’s what they’re saying. Really they’ve got CBD sugar that they put in coffee, tea, and lemonade for $10, evidently because their owner is a huge stoner– and opportunist. The AMNY article on this takes great pains to tell us that Bubby’s is a *Manhattan-based*, *family-oriented* restaurant that sells biscuits, presumably to imply how quirky it is that their clean-cut owner is so weed-interested. But what is quirky to me is that a brunch restaurant would care enough to go medicinal. Like, if you’re in the Bloody Mary market, why not just wait for legality to go full THC? It’s not like you’re some turmeric-slinging wellness café where people are coming for healing. Unless pie is healing, but that’s a different conversation.
Med Men, The Institution of California weed stores, has arrived in NYC. Thanks to current New York laws they can only sell medicinally, but they’re planning for the future with a fatty retail spot on 5th Ave. Clearly they’ve put some thought into making a good in-store experience: everything is sleek and clean and once you find what you want among the displays and informational tablets, your stash is whisked out from a storeroom in the back– an experience now engrained in anyone who’s been to an apple store. Judging by this i-D article, it appears that the media’s mind is blown by the idea that you don’t have to use a blacklight to sell marijuana. It opens, “You might expect a slew of stoners inside. Or maybe a crowd of kids looking to get high, peering in at colorful bongs”– despite the website MedMen advertise, ‘forgetstoner.com‘. Yeah, have you heard? The stigma is dunzo.
(But what if you put the weed *in* the pie 😯)
Margot
PS Read what I wrote on Governors Island and the Bronx Botanical Garden for the Times this week.
PPS Here is a *much* better article on the Bubby’s guy, from Munchies this time.
