{"id":188761,"date":"2025-04-16T21:57:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T21:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/activist\/this-photographer-picked-up-1000-weed-baggies-and-documented\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T21:57:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T21:57:41","slug":"this-photographer-picked-up-1000-weed-baggies-and-documented","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=188761","title":{"rendered":"This photographer picked up 1,000 weed baggies and documented\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tcocdn.com\/tco\/images\/Huck\/Baggy-header.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In doing so, Streetadelic inadvertently captured a moment in New York City, and a shift from underground, illicit circulation of cannabis to fully legalised commercial circulation. That change was reflected in the design of the bags that he found, which almost overnight changed from being lo-fi and subtle to glaring and garish.<\/p>\n<p>Looking through his work, there are common threads in their design \u2013 neon colours are common, as are cartoon graphics. Fronting the baggies are plenty of references to memories that many people\u00a0would associate with their\u00a0youth, from\u00a0<em>Dragon Ball Z<\/em> to \u2018TREES R US\u2019, to even a depiction of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huckmag.com\/article\/obama-eight-years\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Barack Obama<\/a> photoshopped with a spliff in his mouth.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s like being marketed towards children, because weed is a\u00a0kind of candy for people,\u201d Pflieger says. \u201cAnd it\u2019s fun \u2013 marijuana has always had this kind of psychedelic marketing and it\u2019s always been associated with cartoons, like <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huckmag.com\/article\/internet-embracing-strange-sad-world-simpsons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Simpsons<\/a><\/em> or <em>Rick and Morty<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That eye-catching boldness also serves a functional purpose for weed companies \u2013 like any successful product, marketing matters. \u201cBranding is important, and it has to stick in the mind,\u201d he continues. \u201cIt was the same in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huckmag.com\/article\/graffiti-trucks-of-paris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Paris<\/a> for hash in the \u201990s and early \u201900s \u2013 bars were stamped so people could recognise them, like a Mercedes logo or Playboy bunny stamp. Now it\u2019s very sophisticated \u2013 sometimes they give toys [with the weed] or put it in a box shaped like a Game Boy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In doing so, Streetadelic inadvertently captured a moment in New York City, and a shift from underground, illicit circulation of cannabis to fully legalised commercial circulation. That change was reflected in the design of the bags that he found, which almost overnight changed from being lo-fi and subtle to glaring and garish. 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