![]() ![]() You sat down at a table and only went to the left, and here, we have that same etiquette."īrendle is the founder and owner of Lacuna Kava Bar, with locations in Phoenix and Sedona. "Even when I was smoking in college, we had rules. "It's about the customs of consuming," Chase Brendle said. Some who admittedly consumed cannabis were reluctant to go on the record with New Times. Outside of the fenced-off and guarded backstage and VIP areas, in the central venue allotted for 3,000 concertgoers, folks were a bit more discreet when smoking weed out of respect for the event, venue and other attendees. ![]() That was true even at an open-air concert in Sedona, a city with a long history of pot smokers, hippies and mystical magic. Though Proposition 207 legalized recreational cannabis use in Arizona, there's still a mixed bag of feelings when it comes to smoking weed. "She checked us in the dispensary today." "Shout out to Miss Love at Curaleaf," JJ Boogie said. "I also feel that nonviolent offenders who were imprisoned just because of selling or having weed, those sentences need to be revoked because obviously there are now legit business owners selling the same product," he explained.īefore their performance, some members of Arrested Development stocked up at the Curaleaf dispensary in Sedona. While Speech - rapper-and-vocalist and co-founder of Arrested Development in 1988 - said he doesn't consume cannabis, he told New Times earlier this summer that it should be legal in every way, not just for medicinal use but also for casual use. They are making too much money putting people in jail just for smoking a joint." One Love, who says he's been smoking weed since he was a teenager, added, "Georgia will probably be the last place to get legal. It's a different cannabis world than the one found in Arizona, which legalized recreational use in 2020. In Georgia, people with medical cards are only permitted to purchase CBD in the form of extracts that are low in THC and high in CBD. "They need to legalize it everywhere, and everyone that's locked up needs to be released." "We're from Atlanta, and it's not legal yet," JJ Boogie said. New Times caught up with lead guitarist JJ Boogie and vocalist One Love as they smoked Jeeter Durban Poison pre-rolls near their private tent backstage. Two-time Grammy Award-winning hip-hop group Arrested Development co-headlined the show. ![]() It took place on September 23 and 24 at the Sedona Performing Arts Center and Sedona Red Rock High School stadium fields. So Phoenix New Times checked out VortiFest - organizers billed it as a music festival and experience - to scope out the cannabis culture during the event. The renowned holistic and healing city in the heart of Arizona's Red Rock Country provides a different trip, cannabis consumers say. That was the scene at VortiFest in Sedona late last month. For cannabis consumers, flowing into Mother Nature is a natural movement, especially if there's a mystical allure, a slight break from the heat, and great music to rock out to. ![]()
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