New ‘Growing Belushi’ season focuses on fire at Jim Belushi’s Oregon cannabis farm, expansion plans, more

“Rising Belushi,” the Discovery channel collection about actor Jim Belushi’s southern Oregon hashish farm, and his efforts to broaden the enterprise, is returning for a 3rd season. The latest season, which aired early in 2022, noticed Belushi joking round together with his cousin, Chris, welcoming guests equivalent to Man Fieri and Dan Aykroyd, and extra.

(The right way to watch on TV or stream: “Rising Belushi” streams on Fubo TV, which presents a free trial. The collection can also be streaming on Discovery Plus, which additionally presents a free trial.)

In a January, 2022 interview with The Oregonian/OregonLive, Belushi talked concerning the combination of comedy and data on “Rising Belushi.” It provides as much as what Belushi calls “edutainment,”

“I’m actually making an attempt to construct confidence in hashish by exhibiting the way it’s grown,” Belushi stated, explaining his perception that hashish presents well being advantages and has useful medicinal makes use of.

In accordance with Discovery, Season 3 of “Rising Belushi” will discover Belushi and “his ragtag staff of farmers” taking the “artisanal Belushi’s Farm and turning it right into a nationwide hashish model whereas setting their sights on a much bigger objective, international enlargement. However, as Discovery audiences have discovered, Jim is his personal worst enemy. Will he be taught from his errors and take his hashish enterprise throughout the USA and abroad, or will it go up in a cloud of smoke?”

The season begins with Belushi coping with “a suspicious hearth” on the farm, which despatched $500,000 value of hashish, his barn and drying facility “up in smoke” (we’ve got a sense we’ll be listening to that phrase greater than as soon as within the new season).

“Was it an inside job, ‘In accordance with Jim’ haters, neighborhood crime, or worse?” the press launch asks. Because the investigation continues, Belushi and his staff work to discover a location to organize and course of the following harvest. “With one other $500,000 of hashish on the road,” the press supplies say, “the way forward for Belushi’s Farm is in danger.”

Season 3 may also see Belushi pursuing his ambition to broaden his model throughout the nation, to promote such strains as “Captain Jack,” “Cherry Pie,” and “Blues Brothers Working Man’s Model.” And search for highway journeys with Chris and Dan Aykroyd, Belushi’s enterprise associate.

Additionally on faucet is a visit to the central coast of Calfornia to “chase a mystical rumor of the legendary and elusive ‘Massive Sur Holy Weed,’ a hashish seed that launched the hippie hashish revolution in California within the Nineteen Sixties.”

And, since this new season is premiering in April, it might not come as a shock to listen to that the Discovery channel will air a “Rising Belushi” marathon to rejoice 4/20, the annual celebration of hashish. That marathon will begin at 7 a.m. PT/ET on Thursday, April 20.

The brand new season of “Rising Belushi” premieres at 9 p.m. PT/ET Wednesday, April 5 on the Discovery channel.

Extra of our protection:

Jim Belushi on ‘Rising Belushi,’ his Oregon hashish farm, and marijuana as ‘non secular drugs’

— Kristi Turnquist

503-221-8227; kturnquist@oregonian.com; @Kristiturnquist

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