You may or may not live in a state that’s finally gotten down with letting people smoke pot. Or maybe you’re just one of those people who finds a way to smoke to cheeba anyway… laws be damned. But the thrill of choosing a new strain is like choosing a new wine or craft beer. Enter HS Thompson. One of the most famous smokers in the US.
According to an interview in Aspen Times, the late journalist’s wife Anita Thompson saved six strains of her late husband’s weed after his suicide in 2005, and is now working with a cannabis company to grow hybrids of the strains under the “Gonzo” brand.
It’s part of a wider plan by Anita to preserve the journalist’s legacy as one the greater counter culture figures of the 20th Century – as much of a literary pioneer as he was a legendary party animal.
She has also bought Thompson’s infamous Owl Ranch – a 42-acre property which Thompson referred to as his “fortified compound” – and is working on turning the ranch into a private museum and writer’s retreat.
Thompson, who created “gonzo” journalism – making himself the central character in his bizarre journalistic crusades – is best known for the books Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Hell’s Angels (not to mention being immortalised by Johnny Depp in the Fear and Loathing movie).