So we bring the gift bag to them.”Ĭooper says sponsors don’t get paid to give away product, which makes a bar a costly proposition. “They aren’t interested in coming to the station. “Sometimes celebrities will pass by”, she says. Singer Nick Jonas asked for a joint, Cooper says.
The party was held on the roof of an apartment complex in Beverly Hills and about 200 people showed up. Last January, Cooper teamed up with a dispensary to host a bar at a 30th birthday party for Cade Hudson, a talent agent who works for Creative Artists Agency.
Cooper has even spun cannabis-infused sugar into cotton candy for Miley Cyrus at a birthday party for Cyrus’ boyfriend, Liam Hemsworth. She has hosted bud bars at parties for music producers Diplo and Calvin Harris.
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An Ohio native who once worked for Rolling Stone, she says she taught Gwyneth Paltrow how to use a vape pen. She is better known, though, as a “budtender” to the stars. “It’s my job to know everybody,” says Cooper, holding court in a hazy, smoke-filled lounge packed with couches and a bar crowded with jars of marijuana buds, rolling papers and smoking accessories.Ĭooper, 31, is the associate director of marketing for Merry Jane, a digital media company started in 2015 by Snoop Dogg to promote marijuana culture. It’s the day before Halloween and Snoop Dogg is hosting his wife’s birthday party a 1980s-themed bash in an industrial building near the airport. Maya Cooper is dressed in raspberry tights, gold chains and a blue kufi, a tableau that looks vaguely like vintage MC Hammer. “The idea that we can manage it,” he says, “takes the fun out of it.” Nowadays, cooks are better at tempering the high. When he was a younger man, Jagger says, he prided himself in baking potent cookies. She put a whole plant into butter and it was pretty strong.” My arms were moving, but my mouth wasn’t working.
“I had a mom give me a cookie once,” he says, recalling his early twenties. It’s a different kind of crowd, not teenagers or millennials.”ĭavis says: “You feel like not talking so much anymore.” “In December, I’m going to pull out my mink. “I saw it on Instagram last month, and I thought I would come,” says Bridgett Davis, in between puffs under her leopard-print hat. Some were friends or guests who read about the tea party, which costs $65, online. “I’m so happy you are here on this lovely afternoon.” “I’m rolling joints so, everyone, let’s get rolling,” says Eriksen, who brought a box filled with masks and hats for people to wear. Jessica Cole Eriksen, 34, began hosting tea parties in April 2016 after working as a nanny in Ireland where a brew was a daily ritual.
In a gated office building off Sunset Boulevard, tucked between a parking lot and two motels, about 25 people gather one recent Saturday for “White Rabbit High Tea”. Parties, he said, have “set the stage for the industry to flourish”.īelow, a recent tour of Los Angeles’s flourishing pot scene. “It all comes down to not feeling like a criminal, being seen as a criminal,” says Douglas Dracup, 31, whose Hitman Coffee Shop on south La Brea Avenue is one of these spaces. There are studios where yogis smoke sensimilla with their shavasana and members-only co-working spaces where entrepreneurs can enjoy a dab of hash while poring over data-flow diagrams and accounting receipts. Along with the sensuality circles, there are get-togethers for gamers who smoke pot, marijuana Christmas parties, classes where artists can puff and paint.
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