The National Cannabis Festival announced its musical lineup Tuesday with rappers Action Bronson and Ludacris set to headline the 420 festival. The event will take place in Washington, D.C. the day after the second annual National Cannabis Policy Summit on April 19.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0festival<\/a>, which first came together in 2016, has booked prominent rappers and hip-hop artists to headline its musical component the past three years. De La Soul headlined the event in 2016, Talib Kweli and The Pharcyde were at the helm in 2017 and Cypress Hill filled the spot in 2018. This succession makes Ludacris, whose\u00a02004 banger \u201cBlueberry Yum Yum\u201d<\/a>\u00a0(vintage!) serves as a love song to a particularly potent strain, and Action Bronson, who smokes so much weed someone actually\u00a0wrote an expos\u00e9<\/a>\u00a0about it, feel like safe headliner choices for the 2019 lineup.<\/p>\n In general, rappers tend to be the most vocal cannabis aficionados in the music realm, to the point that their acknowledgement of pot usage feels cursory rather than laudable in the way the habits of country stars like Kasey Musgraves or\u00a0Margo Price<\/a>\u00a0might. Legends like Snoop Dogg and E-40 have even taken their love of bud to the next level by becoming full-blown\u00a0cannabis entrepreneurs<\/a>\u00a0in the legal market. So overall, it\u2019s no surprise that genre greats would be sought-after for festivals like the NCF, as well as other cannabis-oriented events like Kushstock, the High Times Cannabis Cups and High Life Festival.<\/p>\n The NCF, which will take place on the festival grounds of D.C.\u2019s RFK Stadium, is also set to feature a\u00a0special lounge<\/a>\u00a0for veterans and other members of the military, a Shark Tank-esque pitch contest for would-be cannabis entrepreneurs with a $1,000 prize and \u201ceducational pavilions\u201d where attendees can learn more about medical marijuana and the myriad benefits of\u00a0CBD<\/a>.<\/p>\n Plus, attendees can enter for the chance to win the \u201cUltimate Weed Wedding,\u201d which is pretty much exactly what it sounds like \u2014 a wedding reception for 50 guests sponsored by D.C.-based non-profit King Weedy Cannabis Collective, with all the infused offerings that sponsorship implies. Um, can you say\u00a0romantic<\/i>?<\/p>\n Then there\u2019s the\u00a0National Cannabis Policy Summit<\/a>, also run by the NCF, which will take place on April 19 at the Newseum and is free and open to the public. Though this year\u2019s lineup is not yet available, but speakers at last year\u2019s summit included Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, politician and activist Ben Jealous and even Cannabis Now contributor\u00a0Ricardo Baca<\/a>, so more likely than not this year\u2019s roster will be just as stacked.<\/p>\n If all of this sounds alluring enough to entice you to make our nation\u2019s Capital your 420 destination, tickets to the festival are available for sale on the\u00a0NCF\u2019s website<\/a> starting at $45 a pop, so long as you\u2019re 21 or older. And if you do head out to the District, be sure to remember that although marijuana has been\u00a0recreationally legal in D.C.<\/a>\u00a0since its constituents passed a ballot initiative in 2014, it\u2019s still illegal to buy, sell or consume it in public there, so be prepared to jump through some loopholes to get blazed.<\/p>\n TELL US<\/b>, have you ever been to a cannabis event?<\/p>\n The post Action Bronson & Ludacris Set to Headline National Cannabis Festival on 420<\/a> appeared first on Cannabis Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n
The National Cannabis Festival announced its musical lineup Tuesday with rappers Action Bronson and Ludacris set to headline the 420 festival. The event will take place in Washington, D.C. the day after the second annual National Cannabis Policy Summit on April 19. The\u00a0festival, which first came together in 2016, hasContinue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4358,50,69,6170,7059,7060,4109,239,3793],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32101,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32100\/revisions\/32101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Bud & Hip-Hop<\/h4>\n
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