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Two Strains: Cannabis culture connects iconic hip-hop legends, Psycho Les & Sadat X

Two Strains: Cannabis culture connects iconic hip-hop legends, Psycho Les and Sadat X
Sadat X of Brand Nubian & Psycho Les of The Beatnuts

Cannabis culture connects iconic hip-hop legends, Psycho Les (of The Beatnuts) and Sadat X (of Brand Nubian) on the latest track “Two Strain.”

This powerful collaboration orchestrated by avant garde producer BigBob, combines Psycho Les’ sumptuous story telling with Sadat X’s potent and precise lyricism.

Two Strains: Cannabis culture connects iconic hip-hop legends, Psycho Les and Sadat X

Brand Nubian

BigBob’s production gives us nostalgia from the golden age of hip-hop with a funky upbeat vibe with cuts and scratches arranged by talented LDontheCut.

While we’ve been celebrating legal marijuana in Canada since last Fall, Les and X are still waiting for the United States to legalize the plant. And it could come at a federal level faster than some may think. An increasing amount of municipalities are voting to allow residents to legally smoke recreational marijuana, such as Detroit who voted to approve it this past November.

Two Strains: Cannabis culture connects iconic hip-hop legends, Psycho Les and Sadat X

The Beatnuts

There’s also the thought that it will a hot topic issue during the next U.S. election.

“At some point, there are going to be easy political points to be scored by owning this issue,” Paul Rosen, CEO of Tidal Royalty, told Global News. Tidal Royalty is a company that invests in U.S.-based cannabis companies.

To date, the recreational use of cannabis is legal in ten U.S. states (including Alaska, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington), the District of Columbia, and the Northern Mariana Islands. Another 13 states plus the U.S. Virgin Islands have decriminalized it.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau included marijuana legalization as an election campaign promise in 2015 and on October 17, 2018, the Cannabis Act came into force, putting in place strict framework for controlling the production, distribution, sale and possession of cannabis in Canada. Canadian adults are therefore legally entitled to access to cannabis products, albeit under strict guidelines. Still, more progressive cannabis laws than roughly 190 countries around the world.

Hopefully our neighbours south of the border will enjoy the same freedom in the near future.

Check out “Two Strain” below via Audiomack.

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Two Strains: Cannabis culture connects iconic hip-hop legends, Psycho Les and Sadat X

You can follow @Psycho_Les, @SadatX, @BigBobPattison, and @LDontheCut on Instagram.

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