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THE PLANT DOOR
645 · FRANNY'S FARMACY
Franny Tacy was the first woman to grow hemp under North Carolina's modern pilot program. The Haywood store advertises an outdoor smoking patio for pop-ups, performances and community gatherings.
SPIRITUAL PLANTS&PAST N9NE RECORDS
presentBILLYLOVESWILLIE
Asheville, NC · Current law: Nov 12
Chapter 01 of 06
THE LAW IS A MOVING TARGET
Federal, North Carolina, Texas — three rulebooks, one plant
What Congress actually did, what is only proposed, and what consumers, workers and businesses need to understand right now.
Time remaining
Clock to current federal law
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Asheville is the mothershipOne street.
One street.
Two doors. One clock.
A hemp dispensary and outdoor patio at 645 Haywood. A vinyl listening bar at 647. The cultural headquarters was hiding in plain sight.
Concept rendering · Final build subject to site agreements and permits Haywood Road · West Asheville
647
THE MUSIC DOOR
647 · POTENTIAL NEW BOYFRIEND
Directly next door: a dessert-and-wine listening bar with hi-fi vinyl, DJs and bring-your-own-vinyl nights. Records on one side. Hemp on the other.
THE CLOCK
Visible from the street and usable as a live television shot.
THE DAILY QUESTION02
One new question in the glass every morning.
THE 40-SECOND BOOTH03
Every visitor can become part of the documentary.
THE EDIT BUTTON04
Education becomes one clear, real civic action.
The space itself is the eventNot 40 trade shows.
Not 40 trade shows.
One living room.
The doors stay open. The record keeps spinning. Every day produces one question, one witness, one fact, one song and one action.
01
THE FACT WALL
TODAY / CHANGING / UNKNOWN
Current policy in plain English. Federal and state never blurred. Every claim dated and sourced.
02
THE SOUNDTRACK
THE VINYL REVIVAL
Kenny, guest artists, new releases, listening sessions, comedy and film. Music is the transmission system.
03
THE RITUAL
WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE?
One fireproof 40-minute conversation every night. Disagreement is invited; humiliation is not.
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THE DOCUMENTARY
THE WITNESS BOOTH
Forty seconds. One answer. One city. Every visitor can enter the national story.
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THE ORGANIZING UNIT
THE WILDERNESS TABLE
Forty seats around one real question—farmers, parents, lawyers, workers, artists and people who oppose us.
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21+ AFTER DARK
THE BURNING BUSH
The existing outdoor patio, subject to law, permission, responsible hosting, transportation and weather.
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DAYTIME COMMUNITY
ALL CREATURES
Dogs, adoption, veterinarians and safe-storage education. No THC exposure to animals. No universal pet-health claims.
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WHAT COMES NEXT
THE BIGGER GARDEN
Cannabis opens the door to conversations about psychedelics, mushrooms, medicine, freedom and consciousness—education only.
Every night has a pulseAlive every day.
Alive every day.
Impossible to exhaust.
Not every night needs a giant concert. Every night needs a room, a question, a human stake and a reason to come back tomorrow.
11:11START WITH I LOVE YOUDoors open. The day's question goes live.
4:20STATE OF THE CLOCKA 4 minute 20 second factual update.
6:00THE WILDERNESS TABLEForty seats. One human stake.
7:00WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE?A tightly moderated 40-minute conversation.
8:00THE VINYL REVIVALMusic, release, comedy, film or listening session.
9:00THE LAST 40 SECONDSOne final witness. Tomorrow's question appears.
The Track Record
THIS ISN'T THE FIRST ROOM
WE'VE BUILT.
We've been opening temporary spaces for years, and we did it on the streets that decide what's next — Abbot Kinney in Venice, twice, then a gallery in Carmel-by-the-Sea. Not test markets. Rooms where the culture shows up or it doesn't. It did. Asheville is next.
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Ascension
Venice, CA · Abbot Kinney Blvd
We opened on Abbot Kinney — the weirdest and arguably most influential street in America, where brands go to find out whether culture actually wants them. Ascension wasn't a store. It was an immersive installation about spiritual experience, built with artists instead of agencies.
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The Fun House
Venice, CA · Abbot Kinney Blvd
Then we did it again on the same street. A walk-through funhouse instead of a retail floor — rooms, art, music, and a neighborhood crowd that came back night after night without being paid to.
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Nematic Gallery
Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA · Dolores St · The Art Walk
From one city of influence to another. Carmel does not hand out gallery space, and we got one: Phygital art, the Take Me To The Light room, art walks at 4:20, light and sound used as therapy.
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ASHEVILLE
40 Days · Now
The biggest one yet — and the first with a clock on the front of it.
Why Forty
Forty days of rain.
Forty years in the wilderness.
Forty days in the desert.
Forty days of our own rituals.
Forty is the number scripture uses for the time between the old world and the new one — the wandering, the fasting, the flood. It's also the length of the Spiritual Plants ritual: forty days of showing up daily until something in you changes. The government supplied a deadline. We chose forty days to face it in public.