Celebrities

Flowhub, a retail point-of-sale platform for cannabis dispensaries, announced on Tuesday the closing of $19 million in strategic funding. The sum includes a personal investment by Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter.

Actor and musician Steven Van Zandt is launching a line of pre-rolls in partnership with Canna Provisions with 10% of the proceeds being donated to NORML.

Justin Bieber has entered the cannabis space with a product line of pre-rolls called “Peaches.”

Actor Clint Eastwood won about $6.1 million in a lawsuit against a Lithuanian company that used Eastwood’s image and likeness to promote its CBD products without permission.

NBA star Chris Webber’s Players Only Holdings broke ground on a 180,000 square-foot, $50 million cannabis “compound” in southwest Detroit that will include a dispensary, cannabis operations and training facility, cultivation facility, and consumption lounge.

President Biden received a letter this week signed by more than 150 celebrity entertainers, politicians, law enforcement officials, and advocates requesting clemency for federal cannabis offenders.

The World Anti-Doping Agency will review its cannabis policies following the suspension of Sha’Carri Richardson during the Summer Olympic Games after she tested positive for cannabis.

Richard Wershe Jr., aka “White Boy Rick,” who was sentenced to life in prison in 1987 for cocaine possession, is launching his own cannabis brand called “The 8th.”

NBA star Kevin Durant is partnering with Weedmaps to destigmatize cannabis through a series of podcasts and video content under his Boardroom media banner.

Marshawn Lynch’s Dodi Blunts and the Last Prisoner Project have partnered on an apprenticeship program to offer justice-impacted individuals hands-on cannabis industry experience.

Actor Seth Rogen’s cannabis brand Houseplant and cannabis giant Canopy Growth this week announced an end to their Canada-based partnership.

Julio Jones and former Atlanta Falcons teammate Roddy White are being sued in connection with money laundering and fraud for the alleged harvesting and selling of over $3 million a month of cannabis on the unregulated market.

Sacha Baron Cohen is suing a Massachusetts cannabis dispensary over their use of his character Borat on a billboard without permission.

Hip-hop artist Travis Scott last week launched Cactus Farms in partnership with Connected Cannabis in California and Arizona.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) said it cannot reconsider the suspension of Sha’Carri Richardson for her cannabis use but the agency sympathizes “with the circumstances” of the case.

Seth Rogen gave Conan O’Brien a joint during an interview Tuesday night and the comedians surprised their audience when they actually lit and smoked it.

Joe Exotic, the Netflix star, is launching a cannabis brand while serving a 22-year sentence for plotting to murder his rival.

Curaleaf’s partnership with Rolling Stone includes Select brand’s first pre-roll.

The partnership between the rapper Drake and Canopy Growth, first announced in 2019, officially ended this week.

Cannabis entrepreneur and former heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson recently said that psilocybin helped him through depression and thoughts of suicide. He is an early investor in Wesana, a Canadian psychedelics-focused wellness company.

Slipknot co-founder Shawn “Clown” Crahan is launching a cannabis product line featuring six half-gram pre-rolls made from 75% indica flower and 25% Paradise Citrus bubble hash.

Actor Jaleel White — famous for portraying Steve Urkel in “Family Matters” — is launching a cannabis brand called ItsPurpl in partnership with 710 Labs that will feature variants of the strain Purple Urkle.

Former NBA star Travis Best is joining the Lemonnade dispensary in his hometown of Springfield, Massachusetts as co-owner.

Seth Rogen said this week his cannabis company, Houseplant, is set for its U.S. launch this month. The products will be available in California through a Houseplant delivery service starting March 11 and in select dispensaries later in the month.