Is it the cannabis that he says he microdoses? Or is it that he’s too happy with his life to complain? He assures me it’s because he’s in Chicago to watch the Cubs’ opening day game, which they won.
Belushi is an alum of the famous Chicago-based improv troupe Second City, is a Saturday Night Live former cast member and was the star of sitcom According to Jim.
But he’s having fun with the learning curve on his Discovery Plus show Growing Belushi, which he says was recently renewed for a third season.
A canopy is the square footage of plant production, and the Oregon Liquor Control Commission regulates cannabis growing by canopy size.
It is farming, and I have the greatest respect for farmers and our American farmers.
But Belushi says that life on the farm has made him fall in love with growing and what comes with it: his feet in the soil, sun on his back and the plants watered from the river.
Belushi has used his farm as a TV show setting, whether it was a series on him building a house on the farm for the DIY Network or the current Growing Belushi.
“My dream is to create confidence in the audience, so they’ll use a rub on their knee if it hurts or take a little piece of chocolate if they’re feeling overwhelmed or anxious,” he says.
But who is Captain Jack? Belushi says he was a tuna fisherman and weed dealer in the 1970s.
They called Captain Jack ‘the smell of SNL.’” Belushi says Dan Aykroyd introduced them to each other, and now his farm has the exclusive rights to grow from Captain Jack’s seeds.
Belushi says the farm recently harvested a whole greenhouse of the Captain Jack bud.
“It has soothed my PTSD, calmed me down, made me more peaceful, more generous, more compassionate and more kind,” he says.
“I was a bouncer, and I always say that I never broke up a fight between two potheads,” he laughs.
“It also enhances the taste of food, the sound of music, the touch of your lover’s skin — and it makes you feel good,” he says.
Like many Oregonians, Belushi moved to Oregon from California — Los Angeles to be exact — but he says since moving here, his life has changed and he has never been happier.
When he started his farm, Belushi says Oregonians welcomed him and offered him advice for growing.
But he says his products — despite the SNL references — didn’t become an overnight success just because of his last name.