Sean Paul’s Mother And Grandmother, 90, Mistakenly Ate His “Special Brownies”

Jamaican superstar Sean Paul says he once got into a spot of bother, after his mother and 90-year old grandmother mistakenly ate, and got high, on the freshly-baked ganja cakes he had made for himself, for his birthday party.

The Gimme Di Light singer, who is known to apologetically praise the herb in his songs, recently told the UK Mirror that since that incident he has had to ensure he carefully labels whatever cannabis-infused pastry or confectionery he concocts in his kitchen.

“The weed-loving hitmaker now has to label his ‘special brownies’ after his family gobbled them all up by mistake at his birthday party and spent afternoon on his couch stoned,” the Mirror noted in a recent article.

“They ate them before I could tell them not to and then spent all afternoon on the couch stoned,” the Temperature artist told the publication.

“My 90-year-old grandmother was hallucinating looking out of the window thinking all the birds and the trees were changing colour, while my mum was like the cookie monster,” the Wolmer’s High School old boy added.

In October 2021, Sean had told The Independent that he was about to venture into the legal cannabis business and has seen an opportunity in the market for healthy edibles, a point he had raised in an earlier interview with cannabis magazine High Times, earlier that year.

He had also made it clear that he is not a fan of the herb which was being sold in dispensaries, as these are way below the caliber of the internationally-acclaimed ganja which is being cultivated by original weed farmers in rural Jamaica.

He had also pointed out that the edibles currently on the market are able to help people who are unable to, or do not smoke, but are still problematic as their sugar content tends to be very high.

In an interview in February last year with cannabis magazine High Times, Sean Paul had credited ganja for helping to activate his creativity when penning his songs, as according to him, the weed puts him in ‘a euphoric mood’.

The St. Andrew native also said he had quit ganja-smoking in the mid-2010s, “only eating edibles for five years”, but had resumed the practice “with a celebratory spliff”, when his son was born.

He said he quit smoking again, for a brief period in 2020, due to the fact that he is asthmatic, resorting to consuming only cannabis oil which he made himself.  However, he pointed out that he started lighting up his spliffs again, in December 2020.

“There are times when I smoke and other times when I’ll only take edibles. But yeah, the point is, I’m a ganja person…,” he had told High Times.

The Hold My Hand artist had also said that he was willing to work with entrepreneurial-minded people to make “edibles into a healthier medicine”.

“So, if the industry wants to holler at me and hear my ideas about these things, I’d love to go into that part of the business with y’all…,” he had said.

Sean Paul’s interview with the Mirror came weeks after he announced a nine-show UK tour for April 2022, which will coincide with the release of Scorcher, his eighth studio album.

The announcement of the tour came on the heels of his Grammy nomination for his Live N Livin album, in the Recording Academy’s Best Reggae Album category, along with Spice’s 10, Etana’s Pamoja, Positive Vibration by Gramps Morgan, Royal by Jesse Royal and Beauty in Silence by American Reggae band SOJA.

The UK Tour will be the 2003 Grammy winner’s first overall in two years, and will also be his first UK tour in more than three years, his last being in 2019 where he headlined the John Peel stage at the Glastonbury Festival.  The tour will kick off at the O2 Academy in Edinburgh on April 11, 2022 and close at the Motorpoint Arena in Cardiff on April 21.

Sean also told the Mirror that the last time he toured the UK, he had what he described as a “rock star moment”.

“I woke up and the hotel room was trashed. I think I was trying to jump on the bed and ended up pulling all the curtains off,” he stated.

“They had to shut the suite for a few days while they fixed it so I got a big bill for that… I like to pretend I won’t party as much this time on tour but I know I will end up diving in deep when I’m on the road,” he added.