Art Cannabis

Art Cannabis, The Movement...

How can we use a multi-billion dollar cannabis industry to promote and support local artists?

Art Cannabis is not just a brand, but a system created in 2018 by long-time cannabis business partners and art fanatics. Washington State recreational cannabis sales reached $1.4B in 2002, collecting $515M in excise taxes going toward Basic Health, The General Fund, & local governments. Basically, us Washingtonians buy and smoke a ton of weed! 🙂

Because of the way that Washington has structured licenses, the local cannabis industry is one of the most competitive in the world! (something to do with farm-to-store ratios & horizontal integration) Anyways, farms compete with each other not only by the quality of their products, but also by the diversity of their products, genetics, price, and through unique packaging and story-telling. Not all farms can weather the battle and unfortunately many move on to other projects.

With 70 million awesomely-packaged cannabis products sold each year in our state, the opportunity begins to develop:

“Dude.. let’s promote local artists by partnering with them to design the packaging for a new and ever-evolving cannabis brand!” We were silent at first.. quickly imagining how many artists we could find, meet, & uplift. We pictured a shelf-space in our local shop featuring some some of the brightest and most creative minds that we could find. With schools cutting art-budgets and galleries temporarily deemed ‘non-essential’, we envisioned a state-wide art gallery inside of the 450 licensed retail cannabis stores. Could we host live-paintings inside the stores to showcase the synergy of art and cannabis?

We got to work!

Since 2018 Art Cannabis has partnered with 18 artists, showcasing their work in over 40 stores with an estimated viewership of 24.5 million people. (We also love data) This level of viewership is the larger than any American art gallery or museum, second only to The Louvre in France.

But of course there’s a difference…

Art Cannabis isn’t a multi-billion dollar museum, we don’t own any originals, and we aren’t even a very big team. Not only can you find our partnering artists in your local shop, but on t-shirts, stickers, flyers, social medias, cannabis magazines, & events. Our focus is on uplifting the local artist while creating new and interactive cannabis shopping experiences. It’s become a culture that we invite you to be an integral part of. How dope is it to get high while giving back?

The relationship is deep and the content is vast.