I went to the Traditional Wuanaland event in downtown Los Angeles yesterday and there were friendly women handing out large bags of free samples, hoodies, grinders, etc., and Creative Directors with long hair also from Chicago—well, technically a suburb, but you know what I mean. There were 3-D artists, muralists, and photographers. There was a grower named Dima (aka The Russian Assassin) who gave me a tour of this massive indoor facility, from the “Mother Room” to the packaging room, which had a dozen employees in it all wearing gloves and, for the most part, smiling. Thank you for the tour, Dima; you’re doing excellent work.
Aside from all of that stuff, there were drones, and influencers with a lot of style—a lot of style indeed. There were food trucks, snow cone and gummy vendors, churros by Hippie Churro; I wandered around the retail side of the facility and saw a chihuahua—which completely brightened up my day—and talked with one of the budtenders named José who was eager to answer any question I had, so I asked him what his favorite strain was and he listed off three, like any great salesman would.
I must have drank five bottles of water, so good thing there were portable toilets (fancy ones). There was a VIP section and a VVIP section—a “WIP” section, perhaps?—both of which required specific wristbands. I went in each of them, and I will say, there was a lot more jewelry in the latter. The lights were dimmer; it was crowded; they had a bar and comfortable couches. DaBaby was there. As was Antonio Brown, who I FaceTimed with earlier in the day, and he said, “Traditional [is] the best