Rewrite my Lavender Boys isn’t just a brand, it’s an experience. The brainchild of Filthee, a New York native who’s been selling cannabis for decades, Lavender Boys is a vertically integrated cannabis company best known for their premium pre-rolls, flower, clothing and Lavy Leafs, which are manufactured in the Dominican Republic. They pride themselves in growing all their own cannabis, from seed to table, and also own their own clothing company in Vernon, California.
Filthee, CEO of Lavender Boys, states, “Cannabis has always been the fuel to any business venture I’ve done. I started out in music. I wrote and traveled the world with Tommy Lee, with Insane Clown Posse, with Cypress Hill, with Mack 10—a whole bunch of artists that you listened to and grew up on. Cannabis supported me going on the road, selling my merch, all that stuff.”
First launched during the COVID-19 pandemic, Lavender Boys is differentiated from their unique branding and logo: a horse and carriage, which stands for strength and representation. Lavender is also the color of royalty, because we’re all kings and queens, while the “Boys” stand for the whole brotherhood.
But what’s special is the fact that to date, Lavender Boys are the only ones licensed to export cannabis out of Thailand. They’ve also opened the first cannabis medical resort in the country, planning to open 20 more by the end of 2024. Their goal is to have 25 by the end of 2025.
So how exactly did Lavender Boys find their way to Thailand and invade Big Pharma? Find out below.
Cannabis Now: Where are you from originally, and when did you start smoking weed?
Filthee: I’m originally from New York City, from Harlem—from Douglass projects. I started smoking weed at a very young age because cannabis was in my family. I’m from a very cultured family where nothing was hidden from us, so cannabis was introduced to us at very young age. I probably started smoking weed at 12 years old. By the time I’m 13, 14, I’m smoking with my parents. It wasn’t like it was not accepted. It was accepted; it was something that was there.
CN: You started out selling cannabis on the black market?
Filthee: Yeah, in the trap. The way everybody supported their ventures, selling cannabis. Cannabis supported every venture I’ve ever had in life. For it to become 360 and it to be legal, now everybody’s able to have legal companies; now it all makes sense for us. Look at all the brands out there: There’s not one brand from Cookies, Backpack Boyz, they were all trappers. Everybody trapped weed to get to where they needed to be. Whether it was music, whether it was a clothing line, whatever it may be, cannabis supported that.
CN: When did you get the idea for Lavender Boys?
Filthee: Lavender Boys is like a prime example. I’ve been doing cannabis forever, so Lavender Boys just fell right into the path of cannabis. During COVID when a lot of brands were coming out, I was already doing cannab in a hipster journalistic writing style and leave space in between paragraphs.