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July 22, 2025 – For the first time in history, fans at next month’s Dead and Company shows in Golden Gate Park will be able to purchase cannabis legally, according to Robby Saady, a vice president at Holistic Industries, which is the parent company for the Garcia Hand Picked cannabis brandThe Dead and Company shows are slated to take place at the park’s Polo Field and feature a cannabis consumption lounge and marketplace, similar to how the Outside Lands music festival has set up a legal place to buy and smoke pot. Saady called the upcoming legal cannabis sales a “major milestone” for cannabis culture.
“It’s hard to overstate how symbolic it is to offer legal cannabis at Golden Gate Park, where the Dead once played for free to crowds gathered on the grass. What was once underground and countercultural is now out in the open. That shift says a lot about how far things have come,” Saady said in an emailed statement to SFGATE.
