MEDFORD, Ore. — Jim Belushi has a lifetime of memories shaped by cannabis.
When he talks about Oregon’s favorite weed, he reflects on his family, the fun times at “Saturday Night Live” and, yeah, his rocking 2018 harvest party.
The famous actor, singer and community supporter describes a spiritual connection to the marijuana he’s growing on his 93-acre spread near Eagle Point, known as the Belushi Farm, and its 22,000-square-foot state licensed grow.
He’s even got “Captain Jack” on board cultivating from seed the same strain of “Afghanica” that he provided to help inspire the cast and writers of “Saturday Night Live” — dubbed “the smell of SNL.” Captain Jack, as he likes to be called, went to Afghanistan in the 1970s to bring back the special seeds that produce a strain enjoyed by Belushi.
“Where do you think Coneheads came from? That weed,” said the 64-year-old Belushi, his voice hoarse from singing at his party last weekend. The Coneheads depicted an alien family with cones for heads that was a popular skit on “SNL” in the 1970s.