Wiz Khalifa admitted to utilizing some “performance-enhancing medicine” earlier than he took the mound at a Main League Baseball recreation this week.
However the rapper apparently had shrooms, not steroids, in his system.
Wiz tossed out the ceremonial first pitch on Monday at PNC Park in Pittsburgh, previous to a recreation between the Pittsburgh Pirates and Cleveland Guardians.
“Finna get stoned af and throw this primary pitch on the pirates recreation,” he tweeted, earlier than following it up with extra specifics.
“Shroomed out throwin a baseball is loopy,” Wiz stated in one other tweet moments later.
Purchase me some boomers and cracker jacks,
I don’t care if I ever come again!
Wiz, who’s presently on a nationwide summer time tour with Snoop Dogg, is understood to get together, and has by no means shied away from expressing his love for marijuana.
He’s additionally turned that love right into a enterprise enterprise, Khalifa Kush, the rapper’s personal signature hashish pressure.
The pressure was “developed for Wiz again within the early 10’s, tailor-made particularly for his preferences and held intently inside his personal stashes in Los Angeles, California,” in line with the corporate’s official web site.
“After years of retaining KK to himself, he selected to share KK with the world in 2014. A two 12 months lengthy journey led to the primary Khalifa Kush flower gross sales in 2016 at Tryke’s Reef Dispensaries within the Southwestern US. 4 years, and a full line of merchandise later, Tryke has turn into a part of the household. Even because the trade evolves, we stay constant in our drive to create a world the place everybody can smoke like Wiz,” the web site reads.
“The KK group between Pittsburgh and Los Angeles works each day to convey KK merchandise to market throughout the US, and all over the world. All the things we do is rooted in authenticity, consistency, and a top quality first, no sacrifices strategy. Whether or not you’re seeking to roll one thing up, seize a pre-roll on the go, take pleasure in an edible to unwind, or able to get the weekend began together with your alternative of concentrates — if you see Khalifa Kush on the pack, what it’s.”
In 2019, he introduced a partnership with a number of different hashish manufacturers, together with Supreme Hashish, that might convey a brand new line of Khalifa Kush oils to the Canadian market.
“I’m excited to convey our first merchandise to Canada and launch KKE Oils,” he stated on the time. “They’re an superior, high-in-THC product that everybody will love. This can be a legendary second that will probably be adopted by many extra recreation altering releases KKE will launch with Supreme Hashish over the subsequent 12 months.”
“We firmly consider {that a} high-quality enter helps high-quality output and KKE Oil embodies this perception,” Supreme Hashish founder John Fowler stated on the time. “We’re excited to launch one of many first leisure targeted hashish oils in Canada with Wiz Khalifa and the KKE group. KKE Oils are simple to eat, efficient, and ship the fragrant terpene profile 7ACRES’ Sensi Star is understood for.”
Regardless of the pre-game consumption (or maybe due to it), Wiz nonetheless managed to toss a good first pitch on Monday.
However Wiz has nothing on what former Pirates pitcher Dock Ellis pulled off on June 12, 1970.
It was on that day that Ellis apparently threw a no-hitter whereas tripping on LSD.
“Based on Ellis (and, it needs to be famous, all of that is in line with Ellis), he went to go to a buddy in Los Angeles the day earlier than his begin, took some acid and stayed up late into the evening consuming and doing medicine, subsequently dropping observe of which day it was,” Sports Illustrated wrote in 2017. “The day of his begin, he wakened and, pondering he was imagined to pitch the subsequent day, took one other hit of acid at midday, solely to be taught two hours later from his buddy that he was, in actual fact, imagined to be on the mound towards the Padres that night in San Diego. Ellis bought on a airplane an hour later and made it to the park 90 minutes earlier than first pitch.”