Green Street Festival, a cannabis-infused SXSW, kicks off May 13-14 in LA

If you’re in the Los Angeles area, scrap your plans for next weekend. That is, unless you’re already planning to attend the Green Street Festival.

The inaugural event will take place on May 13th and 14th in legendary downtown LA, with organizers aiming to make it “the largest gathering of the cannabis community on the planet, with a vision to eventually host hundreds of thousands of guests right in the.” heart of LA to house the city.”

Imagine: a cannabis-infused South by Southwest.

Announced in January, the Green Street Festival is being hosted by entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk and Green Street, the cannabis company he acquired in 2017. It will “feature the city’s best restaurants, the state’s leading cannabis brands and the world’s top entertainers, all brought together to celebrate the cannabis community,” the announcement reads.

“People either want to be educated or they want to be entertained. We will do both,” Vaynerchuk said in the announcement at the time.

Organizers said the festival “will be anchored by the 8-story, 70,000-square-foot cannabis event and business epicenter at 718 S. Hill Street, featuring vendors, educational speakers, games, hotels and food activations from our amazing neighbors.”

Artist Cody Hudson was commissioned to create “the visual identity of the Green Street Festival”.

“It was a wonderful project! As I can contribute my vision for the festival’s graphics and aesthetic to transform the space and everything in it, I’m just really excited for how we’re going to bring cannabis, food and music together in one space and connect everything together visually,” said Hudson in January.

Courtesy of the Green Street Festival

The event is only available to people aged 21 and over. And while cannabis isn’t sold on-site, organizers said they’ve “worked with some of California’s top dispensaries and delivery providers to enable compliant consumption, including: MMD, Buddha Co., HYPERWOLF, People’s, Alpaca Club, Originals.” Los Angeles, Compassionate Caregivers, Downtown Patient Group, Haven, Jungle Boys.”

“We have worked with our friends and neighbors to create multiple consumption areas around the festival,” organizers said in the announcement. “There is a large smoking area right next to the registration area for the event, another on the 2nd floor balcony and another area outside the Majestic Downtown Theater during the concert.”

In addition, more than 50 of the most well-known cannabis brands will be presented at the festival: Asterisk, BLOOM, Boveda, Brothers Broadleaf, Canna+Rise, Cannabistry, Absolute Xtracts, Farmer and the Felon, Hi-Fi Sessions, Loud + Clear, Claybourne Co., Clone Goddess Country Crypto Cannabis Club Dabwoods Dispense App Dutchie Emerald Road Fable Headset Hemper Hempire High Rise Highsman Ispire Jungle Boys Just Chocolate Kalya Extracts Kan+Ade KYLE Leaflink Legal Pothead, Lithouse, Mills Nutrients, MJ Arsenal, Mohave Cannabis Co., Originals, Puffco, Raw Garden, Rove, Select, Session Goods, SHO, Source Cannabis, Sputnik Cannabis, STIIIZY, SUBSTANCE, SUPHERB, Surfside, The Cure Company, The Kind Pen, Vacation Cannabis Co., Waxnax and Zanna.

“Weed is the headliner of this festival. We’ve been to countless cannabis events across the country and as attendees we want to smoke weed with our friends and connect with the community, eat great food and then be entertained… in that order,” said Rama Mayo, President of Green Street at the Announcing the event in January.

Here’s an overview of the festival schedule, according to the event’s website: The first night, May 14, “is a private VIP event that includes dinner from 6pm to 10pm and is hosted by Gary Vee & Harry Mack ‘, while the second night, May 15th ‘is the main day and features our full range of brands, food and other great things to do on Green Street, as well as the full concert schedule at The Majestic Downtown Theater at 650 S. Springs Street, LA CA 90014.”

Educators and entertainers performing at the festival include: Gary Vaynerchuk, Juicy J, Harry Mack, DāM-Funk, DJ Nu-Mark, Full Crate, Monalisa, Thinkspace Projects and Mike Glazer.