It was 8 a.m. on a Thursday when we met Berner, a rapper who’s become famous for his passion for cannabis and his frequent collaborations with big, weed-loving musicians including Wiz Khalifa, Snoop Dogg, and B-Real. In fact, the cover of his latest album, The Big Pescado, features a Cannabiscapes drawing of his face made with ground flower.
“We brought a small joint just for this conversation,” we said as we greeted him—remember, it was very early. “Well, I have a really big joint for this conversation,” he responded.
As the rapper lit up the humongous joint, we asked him about his history with pot.
From Arizona To The Bay
Berner remembers he fell in love with weed as a kid. “Like everyone else, I smoked it when I was like thirteen or fourteen years old and was able to enjoy it,” he told High Times. “However, the first time I smoked it was in Arizona so it was not the best quality.”
“I thought I loved it but, when I was around fifteen or sixteen years old, I got a chance to smoke some shit in the Bay Area… and that was a life-changing experience, you know?”
If his memory does not fail him, it was the Mango strain. “At first, I was more like an enthusiast and just obsessed with the herb. But then I turned eighteen, and that same day, the actual day, 10/27, I went and got my medical marijuana card in the Bay Area.
“Obviously, growing up here, we used to pay people to go into the cannabis clubs for us and stuff like that,” he added. But that changed on that October day. Since that moment, Berner