Rock ‘N’ (Pre)Roll

Heavy Metal, Berkshire Roots Partner in NEW head-bangin’ cannabis brand.

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By James Long

As part of my rebellious adolescence, I’d listen to music my parents would have, shall we say, characterized disapprovingly—in the 1960s, Iron Butter y’s “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida,” with its 17-minute biblical-schema-cum-drum-solo; then the hilarious ’70s nod to the ctional Spinal Tap; and on through the ’80s with UK’s Iron Maiden—all part of the formative years of the heavy metal sound and vibrating against pop culture pagans: sci- magazine Heavy Metal (my college favorite) and its 1981 lm adaptation produced by the late Ivan Reitman and the magazine’s founder, Leonard Mogul.

Four decades later, Heav y Metal is still bangin’ heads. In partnership with Heav y Metal publisher Heavy Metal Entertainment, the cannabis dispensary Berkshire Roots, located in Boston and Pitts eld, MA, has created “Heavy Metal Cannabis,” a collection of cannabis products drawing on HME’s library of stories and characters.

In what Berkshire Roots calls the “Cannaverse,” creations will include vape carts and disposable vapes paired with such Heavy Metal fantasy characters as the sword-wielding and take-no-prisoners Taarna in packaging with collectibles reminiscent of the Heav y Metal lm. New ower strains, infused blunts, chews, zombie-inspired concentrates and Dark Wing “’out there’ palate challenging edibles” will round out the cannabis o erings beginning with Berkshire Roots’ so launch this spring. All awaiting my rebellious 9pm bedtime tethered to my smartphone’s playlists and all, with due respect to my parents, characterized approvingly.