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Chef Ayo Cherry, executive chef and owner of Served, believes food should be as fulfilling as it is filling. She wants clients to taste the positivity in her dishes.  For years, Cherry was Lil Wayne’s personal chef. A killer steak got her the job. Since then, she’s moved to Los Angeles, expanded her business, and gone on to cook for DaBaby and Travis Barker among other personal clients and events. How tasty is Cherry’s food? Well, her skills led her from sleeping in her car to flying in a private jet.  The former winner of the Food Network’s Supermarket Stakeout…

The Texas House of Representatives will vote on a bill to decriminalize marijuana possession and create a process for expunging cannabis conviction records next week. About a month and a half after the House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee unanimously passed the legislation, the Calendars Committee has officially scheduled it for floor consideration on Wednesday, April 26. The measure from Rep. Joe Moody (D) would remove the risk of arrest or jail time for low-level possession of cannabis and allow people to eventually erase cannabis issues from their criminal records. The House has already passed similar cannabis decriminalization proposals during the past two…

Milky Chance is ready to rock. The duo of Clemens Rehbein and Philipp Dausch recently embarked on a new world tour and the German-based band is set to continue bringing the freshness with a new album Living in a Haze, dropping everywhere June 9th. “There’s lots of enjoyment in there,” said Dausch of the upcoming record. “We’re super happy and stoked to release it and share it, because it feels like a new chapter.” After years of touring and releasing albums, the band encountered a period of stillness during the pandemic and used the time to cultivate new material without…

A Republican congressman filed a bill on Thursday’s 4/20 cannabis holiday to protect the Second Amendment rights of people who use marijuana in legal states, allowing them to purchase and possess firearms that they’re currently prohibited from having under federal law. Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL), co-chair of the Congressional Cannabis Caucus, reintroduced the Gun Rights and Marijuana (GRAM) Act on Thursday—one of the latest in a series of cannabis proposals to be filed in the run-up to the 4/20 holiday. The bill—which was previously led by the late Rep. Don Young (R-AK), who Mast replaced as a Cannabis Caucus leader—would…

Two-time Grammy-award winning artist Future is back in the cannabis space with Evol. Carma HoldCo announced on April 14 its partnership with Future to launch Evol, Future’s line of cannabis products made with delta-8 and delta-9 THC, as well as CBD, launching May 2023 in stores across California. Future, along with President and Chairman of Carma HoldCo, Chad Bronstein, discussed the new venture with Emmy-award winning journalist Ari Melber, host of MSNBC’s The Beat on April 14. CarmaHoldCo is behind Future’s brand, Mike Tyson TYSON 2.0, and Ric Flair’s Ric Flair Drip. Beyond music, entrepreneurship is at the core of…

Three new campaigns led by advocacy groups and the ice cream company Ben and Jerry’s are urging governors and the president to grant clemency to people who remain incarcerated, or carry criminal records, over marijuana. The ACLU and Ben and Jerry’s are partnering on one of the initiatives, asking people to send a pre-written letter to their governor that implores them to provide the state-level relief to those who’ve been criminalized because of cannabis. The campaign, pegged to the unofficial marijuana holiday 4/20, seeks to raise attention to the thousands of people who remain incarcerated, or continue to face the…

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and other key congressional lawmakers are speaking at a special 4/20 event inside the Capitol Building on Thursday, laying out their vision for marijuana reform in the 118th Congress. The National Cannabis Policy Summit will also feature the bipartisan co-chairs of the Congressional Cannabis Caucus: Reps. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Dave Joyce (R-OH) and Brian Mast (R-FL). Schumer, who introduced a federal marijuana legalization bill last year while working to build consensus around a package of cannabis banking and expungements legislation, is expected to share his perspective on the status of congressional…

A much-anticipated Minnesota House floor vote on a bill to legalize marijuana has officially been scheduled for next week, the sponsor announced on the Thursday’s 4/20 cannabis holiday. After moving through an extensive committee process, with 15 panels approving the measure from Rep. Zack Stephenson (D), the bill will be taken up on the floor on Monday. “We’re very close to getting this done and gaining momentum every day!!” he said. Big news! My bill to legalize adult-use cannabis in Minnesota has been scheduled for a vote in the MN House on Monday! We’re very close to getting this done…

A top Republican Wisconsin lawmaker announced on Thursday’s 4/20 cannabis holiday that GOP members are privately working on legislation to legalize medical marijuana—though Democratic leadership is already skeptical of the plan. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R) didn’t provide details about the in-the-works proposals but said that the goal is to draft something with bipartisan appeal that could be enacted later this year. The speaker stressed that he remains steadfastly opposed to adult-use cannabis legalization, telling The Associated Press that Wisconsin is neither a red nor blue state and is “at best purple, and purple is not legalization of recreational marijuana.”…

The New York Senate now has a committee focused exclusively on marijuana, the office of the newly appointed chairman announced on Thursday’s 4/20 holiday. Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D) named Sen. Jeremy Cooney the chair of the Senate Cannabis Subcommittee, which will “provide an outlet for entrepreneurs, advocates, industry and citizens with an interest in the new marketplace,” according to a press release. The standalone subcommittee will also work closely with the state Office of Cannabis Management (OCM) that is charged with overseeing the nascent adult-use marijuana industry. “I am pleased to see the adult-use recreational cannabis market begin…