“Anyone in jail for anything to do with cannabis should be set free.”
Ice-T does not blink when he says it. He does not reach for qualifiers. He keeps talking.
“It’s legal in enough places,” he adds. “That’s like having somebody in jail for alcohol after Prohibition.”
We are on House of Haze, a High Times podcast I host to talk power, culture and weed in the real world. Ice-T arrives with clarity as a tactic, control as a practice. He has lived around cannabis forever, tried gummies, never took to smoking, and still carries a simple rule for life outside the house: be alert.
“The guys that were the most dangerous were the sober cats,” he says. “Chronic gives what I call chronic delay. That split second could be your life out here in the streets.”
He is not anti-weed. He is anti-sloppiness. The crew rule is blunt.
“If you’re with the crew and you get drunk and you stop listening, one of us gets to knock you out,” he says. “Then we carry you to the car. It’s about control. It’s not worth the party.”
Legalization, without romance
Ice-T does not sugarcoat the business. His Jersey City shop, The Medicine Woman, took years and millions to open. Margins are thin. The myth of easy money is gone.
“What dispensaries are like now is like liquor stores,” he says. “They’re on every other corner. You got taxes, overhead, building costs. People think you’re getting rich. Nah. If I wanted to get rich, I would sell bricks of cocaine.”
Then he drops the line most celebrities avoid.
“I am absolutely in it for the money,” he says. “It’s a business. Don’t get mad at capitalism. But if you can hire kids …
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Author: Javier Hasse / High Times
