Jim Belushi will be heading north to attend the Victoria, B.C. edition of Grow Up Conference and Expo this June.
Beyond sharing his journey to create Belushi’s Farms, the actor “will discuss the passions that spurred his entry into cannabis and the challenges he’s faced in growing and remaining nimble in an ever-changing industry,” notes a statement from the conference.
Having lost his brother John to a drug overdose in 1982 — citing Dan Aykroyd in a tweet four decades later that had John been “a pot head, he’d still be here today” — Belushi is “a passionate proponent of the plant’s beneficial properties across a spectrum of uses,” including enhancing quality of life and managing pain.
As such, he is an advocate “for patient rights and adult-use legalization while empowering craft farmers to thrive in economies of scale,” the conference reports.
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