Bob Marley's youngest son opens Stony Hill, his own Jamaica-inspired marijuana shop

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Wiz Khalifa has his own marijuana strain. Snoop Dogg has an entire line of edibles, concentrates and flower. Willie Nelson’s company is actually growing its own cannabis plants. And now Bob Marley’s youngest son has a pot shop branded with his name and aesthetics.

Reggae star Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley is in Colorado this week for a show at Boulder’s Fox Theatre on Friday, but he’s also celebrating today’s opening of Damian Marley’s Stony Hill — By Tru Cannabis, a rebranded pot shop near Sports Authority Field at Mile High.

“It’s the entire store,” Tru Cannabis operations director Andrew Kaplan told The Cannabist. “You’re in Damian’s branded facility — you could not be anywhere else.”

Marley doesn’t actually own the pot shop, which was formerly known as Tru Cannabis at Mile High. Because of Colorado ownership regulations the arrangement is “a marketing and branding partnership,” Kaplan said. “There are other...

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