In an exclusive High Times interview, the Jackass icon and his wife Dannii Marie talk recovery, sleep, bad trips, psychedelic ceremonies and why their new brand feels less like a launch and more like a life.
“Weed does not lead to other drugs,” says Bam Margera in an exclusive interview with High Times. “It leads to fucking carpentry.”
He says it to make a point about his wife. She builds bongs out of apples. That, he explains, is what cannabis actually does to people.
Two years sober from alcohol, goes to bed at ten, skates; he’s building a cannabis brand called Bam THC with his wife Dannii Marie, and the project feels less like a licensing deal than like something they are actually building around their life.
“Cannabis played a big role in recovery because I had a really horrible sleep schedule,” he says.
Purple Bin Laden Weed
Bam Margera was not, historically, a cannabis person.
His first experience happened at 23, on the Steve O tour in Copenhagen. Someone offered him a hundred dollars to eat a hundred dollars worth of raw flower. He needed the money.
“I swallowed this shit and I just remember laughing my ass off for no reason,” he says. “And then I just stopped in a panic mode.”
He went back to his hotel room, wrote a list of everyone he loved because he thought he was dying, fell asleep on the bathroom sink and woke up 24 hours later, badly bruised. For the following week he survived on vanilla ice cream. Everything had a yellow tint.
He steered clear of cannabis after that. Then, years later, he ended up on Snoop Dogg’s tour bus in Petaluma. It wasn’t his idea to smoke, exactly, but when Snoop has taken eleven puffs off a …
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Author: Javier Hasse / High Times
