From Hollywood to cannabis farming in Oregon, Jim Belushi’s life has taken an unexpected turn in recent years.
Famous for his roles on comedy sketch show, Saturday Night Live, hit series According to Jim and numerous silver screen roles from Curly Sue to Woody Allen’s Wonder Wheel starring alongside Kate Winslet, Growing Belushi is his new reality TV series that tracks the Hollywood stalwart’s highs and lows as he grows and sells cannabis.
It may seem an unusual move for a Hollywood star to up sticks and start a business farming marijuana, which became legal to sell in dispensaries in Oregon in 2015.
I’ve blended it all together in Growing Belushi.” As his new series reveals, Belushi and his ragtag team of workers, described as being “like a family”, have been on a huge learning curve to create the now successful farm that produces “the best cannabis in Southern Oregon”.
“He said, ‘I saw things that happened to the human body that nobody should ever witness in their whole life.
That started the beginning of my journey to being like, hey man, this really changes people’s lives.” And he believes it could have not just changed but saved the life of his brother, John Belushi, who died of a drug overdose in 1982, aged 33.
“If John was using cannabis strictly, like Danny did, he’d be alive.
These plants are spiritual plants, they’re living organisms and they respond to music the way you and I do.
People are suffering, whether it’s PTSD, traumatic problems, the loss of a job, divorce, severe illness, a death in the family, like my brother John, was a traumatic event for our family.