3 cannabis products tattoo artist Scott Campbell couldn’t live without

Visual artist Scott Campbell is known for tattooing A-list stars and selling gallery shows around the world. He also helped fuel the luxury cannabis movement in the mid-2010s with his sent brand Beboe.

Named the “Hermes of Marijuana” by the NYT in 2016, at a time when people were still using the racially charged term interchangeably with cannabis, Beboe embarked on a stripped-down line of products that included low-dose lozenges and massive gold vaporizers. Founded by Campbell and Clement Kwan, a fashion manager who was president of global e-commerce retailer YOOX at the time but later served as COO of Marley Natural, the two ran a brand that was far more sophisticated than others at the pre- Prop-64 market.

Given this unicorn union of fashion manager and artist, Beboe was of high quality both aesthetically and conceptually. A simple rose gold vaporizer presented in a white slide-out box adorned with rose gold etchings by Campbell. The look was simple, concise, and ready for a dinner party. Celebrity friends like Orlando Bloom, Sharon Stone, and Justin Theroux, all of whom attended Beboe’s West Hollywood launch, a seated dinner party as opposed to a typical industry blender that usually took place in warehouses, became event centers.

Despite this high exposure, the story behind the brand itself is sweet and emotional. “My mother was diagnosed with cancer when I was seven,” Campbell told Weedmaps. “She fought it for about eight years before it finally got the best out of her. She was in and out of treatment, so my grandmother, whose name was Be Boe (short for Bernice), looked after my sister and came to see us in Houston from Louisiana on the weekends because there was a major cancer treatment facility there. ”

He continued, “She always brought two boxes of brownies, one for the children and one for my mother. The ones for my mother were always kept locked in the closet, and my sister and I tore open the house to find them. It wasn’t until years later that I found out that Grandma put grass in my mother’s brownies. ”

Despite Campbell’s early and forgotten connections to the plant, his personal path to cannabis use was more nuanced. “I had the classic high school experimentation, but then I actually got away from it a bit. I don’t like being out of control. Although I’ve always hung out with punk kids who smoked and drank themselves into a coma, I was always a little more moderate about everything. ”

“As my artistic practice evolved, I found this new way of engaging with cannabis that was less about escaping the world around me than about getting in touch with the world within,” he said. “Creativity is a relationship between your subconscious and your conscious mind. In your subconscious, you have this type of dream state where these big sticky emotional ideas are forming. Then your consciousness is the one who picks up the sticky idea and manifests it in a painting, a story or anything else. ”

He continued: “In my art practice, cannabis has really helped me to go back and forth across that membrane between conscious and subconscious and calm the fears that can get in the way of ideas.”

While Campbell made a name for himself by tattooing mega celebs like Josh Hartnett, Marc Jacobs, Robert Downey Jr, and Courtney Love, it was his most recent artistic foray into the white hot world of the NFTs.

Unlike artists who work on a non-living medium, tattooing is an entirely finite art form. The artist is paid hourly to create a one-off work that disappears into the ether of existence when the customer leaves the shop. The work is rarely seen again by them or by someone who doesn’t know the person with the tattoo.

“I’ve been tattooing for 25 years, and one reason I started doing the fine arts is because I wanted to give my work a bigger life,” he said. “As a tattoo artist, we sell hours in our chair, and that’s how we calculate. There are no other creatives that work this way. As much as the NFT is an overused acronym, I use it to change the rating of tattoos. The tattoo application process is not the thing, the images we create are the thing. So I am selling you the picture with the option to have it tattooed and it will really change the way that tattoo artists work. “

Beboe continues to be killed by the brand as a multi-state operator. Although they have been toned down a bit in California due to market saturation, they have just launched in Illinois and are looking forward to entering the Nevada and Massachusetts markets. “With Beboe, we wanted something that could replace a bottle of wine at dinner and add cannabis to dinner party culture,” he said. “So for us it was less and less about a name or the connection between celebrities and the brand and more about building a community.”

Scott Campbell cannot do without these products.

Alex Reed for Commune Pipe

“Somebody gave me this pipe the other day, Alex Reed, I think that’s his name,” said Campbell. “He makes these super fine little clay pipes. Mine is definitely my first choice when I want to smoke Flower. ”

Alex Reed is an LA-based sound artist who designed the pipe for Commune, an LA-based design studio. They are available in three different glazes, Adobe, Blue Dream, and Indica, each priced at $ 180.

CANN Social Tonic

“I love the soda can,” said Campbell. CANN is a micro-dosed cannabis tonic with delicate, trendy flavors like lavender lemonade and jalapeno pineapple and even trendier investors like Gwenyth Paltrow and Chelsea Handler. Each drink is dosed with a mixture of 2 milligrams of THC and 4 milligrams of CBD that has been nano-emulsified so that it hits you instantly.

He continued, “I feel like they are doing a really great job with the dosage as well. A CANN really feels like the weed equivalent of an alcoholic drink. ”

Beboe inspired vape

While he clearly has a penchant for all of Beboe’s products, Campbell’s favorite is their classic Inspired Vape. “The only downside is that it’s not so much a part of my life that I haven’t traveled. But man, when I was out and the world was on and I had downtime [the Inspired Vape] was like my lullaby every night. It was and still is the best, I just don’t have as many sleep problems as in 2019. ”

Illustration by David Lozada / Weedmaps

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