Damian Marley Launches his own Cannabis Collective

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As Bob Marley’s youngest son, Damian Robert Nesta “Junior Gong” Marley is fulfilling his royal birthright by spreading the word about music, love and ganja. Marley’s own recreational cannabis collective Stony Hill, in partnership with Tru Cannabis, is opening doors on Thursday, September 22.

“I didn’t know in my lifetime I’d be opening a dispensary,” Marley admitted to Billboard. “We’ve always been advocates of legalizing marijuana and we always had the hope in our lifetime that we’d be involved in something like this, but I didn’t predict this would happen.”

The dispensary will sell all the normal products—edibles, extracts, and also Marley’s own signature strains. The retail location will be located near Mile High Stadium, the home of the Broncos, in Colorado. Marley plans on debuting his collective at a brand launch party, also on September 22, at the Field House in Denver.

Stony Hill is also the name of Damian Marley’s upcoming fourth full-length album. Damian tweeted the racy video for the album’s first single, “Nail Pon Cross.” “Stony Hill is a place in Jamaica I grew up so it has a lot of significance,” Marley told Billboard of the Kingston neighborhood.  Stony Hill is set for release by January 2017.

Damian “Junior Gong” Marley was given his nickname in remembrance of his late father, Bob Marley.  38-year-old Damian, who was two when Bob Marley died, is perhaps the only Marley son that doesn’t remember his father. His mother, Cindy Breakspeare, was crowned Miss World in 1976.

Damian Marley has been smoking since he was “13 or 14.” In the studio, he’s been more or less constantly medicated. In a 2012  interview with The Guardian, he said, “The first time [I smoked] I giggled the whole night and ate down the whole kitchen. People say it makes music sound different, but in all my years of making music I’ve been smoking, so I don’t know what songs sound like without smoking!”