Thursday, March 28, 2024

Damian Marley: Bob Marley’s Youngest Son Is Creating A Pot Farm

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Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley performs onstage during The Meadows Music & Arts Festival on October 1, 2016 in New York City. / AFP / ANGELA WEISS
(Source: AFP/Zimbio)

*Damian Marley is converting a California prison into a pot farm, Billboard reports, and the move is one of several business ventures that he’s creating and investing in that have a cannabis theme.

The son of the late-great Bob Marley has announced that he, in partnership with Ocean Grown Extracts, is converting a former 77,000 square foot California State prison into a cannabis farm that will cultivate medical marijuana for state dispensaries.

“Many people sacrificed so much for the herb over the years who got locked up,” says Marley. “If this [venture] helps people and it’s used for medicinal purposes and inspires people, it’s a success.”

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Ocean Grown is run by the siblings of Marley’s manager Dan Dalton. Damien and his partners purchased the former Claremont Custody Center in Coalinga, CA for $4.1 million, and they plan to generate 100 jobs and about $1 million in tax revenue, complex.com reports.

“Cannabis is something that’s around Damian every day with friends, family and with his Rastafarian faith,” said Dan Dalton. “We’ve watched people who have sacrificed their lives for it. That injustice has motivated us to be advocates as well as knowing that there are healing properties in cannabis.”

Damian also announced the introduction of Speak Life, an OG Kush-like strain of cannabis he created with Ocean Grown.

“I didn’t know it would happen this way,” says Marley, when asked if he’d considered weed’s legalization to be possible in his lifetime. “This was definitely something we were working towards for a long time, before I was even born. There was Peter Tosh’s ‘Legalize It’ and songs like that — this is something our culture has been working towards. I was optimistic that it would one day be legal — and now it is here.”

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