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Jerry Garcia’s Grateful Dead cannabis brand is leaving California

Jerry Garcia is one of California's most iconic pot smokers. Born in San Francisco, Garcia led the Grateful Dead for 30 years as the city became an international beacon of the counterculture. He did it all while casually and openly smoking weed. His pot pipe is considered an artifact of California cannabis and thc Krt Carts history.

But even the iconic Jerry Garcia name couldn't survive California's turbulent legal pot market.

The Garcia Hand Picked brand, launched by the deceased musician's family in 2020, has pulled out of the state, a spokesperson confirmed to SFGATE. Garcia's exit comes as cannabis insiders predict a "mass extinction event" for California's pot and thc  Lions Carts industry, with thousands of companies expected to go out of business this year.

Andrew DeAngelo, a cannabis consultant and former owner of Harborside, one of the state's pioneering medical cannabis dispensaries, said the Garcia brand probably learned the same thing that all of California's pot and thc  Muha Meds Carts companies have realized: "You can't make any money in this market."

"Not only is Garcia leaving, a lot of people are leaving," DeAngelo told SFGATE. "It's a real shame that California is losing out. We're losing out on jobs and economic activity and other places are benefiting from that."

Like most celebrity brands, Garcia selected who to contract out its cannabis, growing and manufacturing to partner companies and then stamped Jerry Garcia's face on the packaging. The company said they are looking for a new cannabis or thc Orchid Vape supplier but declined to be interviewed for this story. It did not elaborate on how long the brand would be on hiatus in California. Garcia Hand Picked is still available in five other states.

"We're taking a pause in California. We want to ensure CA consumers have the highest quality flower for the long term, so we are in the process of choosing a new local partner for cultivation, production, sales and distribution of Garcia Hand Picked in CA," a spokesperson from Holistic Industries, the brand's parent company, said in an email to SFGATE.

California's cannabis and thc  Pure One Carts industry has faced substantial economic hurdles in its first four years of legal sales. The state's complicated cannabis regulations and high taxes add costs to legal operators, while widespread illegal farms and retailers undercut legitimate companies. Limited access to banking means these companies pay exorbitant fees for simple banking services and have almost no access to loans. Federal law blocks pot companies from deducting most business taxes from their federal taxes, making pot businesses pay an effective federal tax rate as high as 80%.

These factors have made California a painful place to run a legal pot business. Most small legacy cannabis farms are on their way out of business, and even the country's most prominent cannabis/ vape companies such as Rove carts are leaving the state. 'This is very painful for them.'

Nearly a dozen states had legalized cannabis by the time Jerry Garcia's surviving family decided to start a pot brand built around the Grateful Dead front man, who died of a heart attack in 1995. But the Garcias chose to launch their brand in California, where Jerry was born, spearheaded an artistic movement, and died.

The Golden State featured prominently in that initial launch. An air-stream painted with swirling psychedelic colors crisscrossed the state in late 2020, announcing the new brand. Esquire profiled the family as they smoked a bong in Oakland and asked, "If Jerry Garcia were a kind of weed, what would the high feel like?" The family told Esquire they were planning on opening a Jerry Garcia-themed cannabis consumption lounge at a dispensary in San Francisco, which never materialized.

But there's now only one jar of Garcia Hand Picked available in San Francisco, according to Weedmaps, and there's no sign that any more will return to the Bay Area. DeAngelo, who said he did some early consulting work for Garcia Hand Picked but is no longer involved with the brand, saying leaving California was probably hard on the family.

"This was a hard decision for them, they love California," DeAngelo said. "They were born and bred here. This is very painful for them, I guarantee that."

Eli Melrod, the CEO and co-founder of the Soulful dispensary chain, which deal in thc Wonka Oil said the brand's exit from California was a sign of a struggle for even good cannabis brands to make money in the state.

"California is probably the most competitive cannabis market in the country, it is a market where there are a lot of brands fighting for shelf space," Melrod told SFGATE. "I think for some folks the margins and the challenges in California make it better for them to focus on other states."

The brand is still for sale in Colorado, Maryland, Michigan, Massachusetts, and Oregon. It offers a range of cannabis flowers, thc carts  Big Chief Carts , pre-rolled joints, and colorful pot-infused gummies shaped like guitar picks. Its packaging features Jerry Garcia's face connected to swirling, psychedelic colors, akin to Milton Glasser's iconic 1966 poster of Bob Dylan.

Melrod said he usually doesn't sell celebrity brands at his stores because most celebrities have poor-quality products, but Garcia was different. He said they had good cannabis grown by some of the state's best outdoor cannabis growers, like Moon Made Farms and Sonoma Hills Farms.

"We start from a place of skepticism because we've seen a lot of celebrity brands launch in cannabis that are really just basically a celebrity name on a product that is marked up," Melrod told SFGATE. "We really appreciated the approach that the Garcia Hand Picked team took to sourcing. They worked with a lot of great legacy farmers in the Emerald Triangle."

The Garcia brand's departure also signifies that customers are tired of celebrity pot brands. There are so many famous people selling weed that even rock stars are noticing that it might not be an accessible business to invest. David Crosby told the Los Angeles Times last year that he wanted to start his pot brand but said, "Celebrity brands didn't turn out to work nearly as well as anyone thought they were gonna."Can we say Buddha Bear Carts ?

Indeed, Garcia Hand Picked isn't even the first Grateful Dead pot brand. Drummer Mickey Hart launched his pre-rolled joint brand called Mind your Head in 2019, although that brand also appears to be on hiatus. Its website is down, and a brand representative could be contacted for this story.

Garcia Hand Picked and Mind Your Head could return to the state, but Deadheads in California will have to get by without smoking any cannabis blessed by the legendary band.

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Sorry if you don't want asks on this, but can you explain a little how you use cannbis in your craft? Just never seen it before, so I'm curious about how it is as an experience for you and what you use it for.

It depends on what I'm specifically doing ofc, but in general I use it before divination, as I feel like it gets the anxious parts of myself out of the way so I can simply receive the messages I need to, but I also pair different strains to different activities based on what I've noticed works well (for instance I prefer sativa dominant hybrids during new moon work)! I also do things like use moon water in my bongs, save the ash and stems for spellwork, and in general I feel it helps in grounding which is something I do A LOT (calling back to the anxiety thing here lol).

I feel like there's definitely a lot that can be done with it that sometimes gets overlooked and chalked up to "stoner witch aesthetic" but at the end of the day that assumption does nothing but provide an extra shield against stuffy, witchier than thou types xP

If you want to ever talk more at length about it i'm open to do so!

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hey uhh american spirits cigarettes are owned by like Philip Morris or some ish. I just realized I wasn't buying Native-made so I switched. Cheers to our mental health however we can get it, RSO defeats cancer so cigarettes scare me less; Japan has the highest life expectancy in the world and they also have some of the highest smoking rates in the world, it's 99% about diet.

small caveat but I only use tobacco to start and finish my cannabis joints, I find cannbis can start unevenly whereas tobacco burns faster and more evenly; a puff or two of tobacco and I'm good for a while, a full cigarette is like 8x overkill for me

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the cannbis store doesn't stock my fave because it's not popular. i love me some BC God Bud. i've tried a bunch of types over the years but I always come back to this one. it was one of the first kinds i ever smoked. love the flavour, love the effects and most of all love the price. hard to beat $100/ounce. i was like 'so what do you have at that price point?' and they told me but followed it with 'but they're all on back order'. oh well. the kind i got is a little bit more THC than i'm used to. and also $20 more expensive. will have to take it slow. will call ahead next month and ask them to special order me BC God Bud.

[quijotesca]

I developed a cannbis habit after my cat ran away for a few days last year. The clinic I go to is so disorganized that i haven't been subjected to annual drug screenings for my ADHD medications in a few years and I kinda forgot that was even something I had to deal with until after I'd been on the shit for a while. I stopped for like a month because my psychiatrist decided to subject me to testing right before leaving the practice and I don't know who I'm gonna be seeing now.

I haven't decided if I'm going back to nightly Delta 8 usage like before, but damn, not being able to do Delta 10 when I'm stressed out is a pain in the ass. The medication I use on an as-needed basis doesn't kick in as quickly and I never know how much of it to use because shit makes me sleepy.

I suppose the good news is that I have a better understanding of my habits so I can more easily discuss them with a new doctor.