Stay Green: Creative Joint Roller, Twitch Partner, Pioneering Cannabis Artist

If you’re a stoner, you appreciate the phrase “stay green.”

Who Is Stay Green? A Pioneering Cannabis Artist And Creative Roller

Introducing Logan Clark, the artist known as Stay Green, or more colloquially, “Stay G,” who is the true definition of a jack of all trades. He’s one of the first creatives to post cannabis on Instagram when it first launched. Sadly, we all know IG hates cannabis, which has resulted in Clark losing his page over 25 times.

But that doesn’t stop him! Clark has found other avenues to exercise his passion for weed with the community, becoming an official Twitch partner who streams full time. His last stream proved to be his longest yet, clocking in over 85 hours during the course of a weekend. He calls them “subathons,” where people keep him on-air as long as they can.

Beyond that, Clark is a super dope visual artist and creative roller, who creates beautiful art pieces out of his joints. His tenure in cannabis includes heavily influencing the shatter log wave, which is an old form of today’s hash hole. He also helped Florida become medical in 2018, as well as doing stage work for reggae bands.

What resonates most about Clark’s story is the fact that he’s a recovering drug addict who’s going on 9.5 years of sobriety, and has been able to use cannabis as a means to remain sober.

Stay Green On Florida's Cannabis Journey, Growing Creatively On Twitch, And The Importance Of Voting For Legalization

Honeysuckle spoke with Stay G about his background and love for cannabis.

SHIRLEY JU: Is Stay G your Instagram name?

STAY GREEN (STAY G): I changed it to G because Instagram ain’t messing with me. @StayGreen is what it is, but it's been disabled on Instagram up to 25 different times. They hate me. I'm one of the original Instagram weed content creators. I started back in 2009, but I started on Instagram in 2012. In Florida, [cannabis was] highly illegal until 2018. I posted cannabis content of macro shots, but there's a lot to it. I started gaining traction in 2013. In ‘15, they started deleting it. I’d appeal it, get it back within a week. Finally, they took it down for a year and a half. I got it back in 2019, so I've been trying to be good. I've been doing the art thing, I try not to post too much weed.

Where are you from originally?

I’m from Orlando, I'm in a small town called DeLand. [When] Cookies came to Florida, that's where their facility is [and] I’m an ambassador [for them] here... They have a 400K square foot facility where they do all the grows.

When did you first start consuming cannabis, and what does cannabis do for you?

I started smoking when I was 12 years old. I started skateboarding as a young kid, and got with the older crowd. They were smoking already, so I jumped into that. Didn't really know much about it, it was a fun party vibe. Eventually started seeing High Times magazines in the gas stations. I used to have people go in the store and buy me the magazines, because I wasn't allowed or of age. ... I was so infatuated by the plant [and looking at how colorful and cool it was on the pages], not knowing the medicinal benefits and certain things back then.

Just really enjoyed weed my whole life, never really had a purpose for it until 2009 when there was a website called Stick Cam. You could broadcast yourself, make a chat room. You could have 12 other cameras that had spots where people could join and smoke with you. That's how I did it; it was called Stay Green TV back then. That website got shut down a while ago, but that's where the majority of it started [and then social media changed a lot]. Stay Green came around when it was a group of skateboarders. Me and a bunch of homies were weed smokers, we like to skate and do whatever we want. We’d get pissed off, sometimes you’d fall on certain things. We’d say “stay green” as a positive sense of “Yo, you got it. Take a break, relax. Get your mind right, then go after it.” That's where Stay Green came from, a positive lifestyle brand.

I started posting the macro shots around 2011/2012, then we started doing any content that I could with colorful weed. [Later I learned] about [the medical benefits and did] some growing. I used to make oil back in 2012: shatter and crumble, all that stuff. Because I had a connection with Dr. Darby, which was in California. It's a long story.

Why did you bring your content to Twitch?

I used to be a drug addict. I’m 9.5 years sober. I used to do bunches of pills, basically whatever. Cannabis is that safe space, I had to get rid of all the bad people that bring that shit around. The cannabis spoke to me as a safe place. If people weren't doing drugs, they’d be smoking weed and that was it. That brought me to Twitch because I was in a shitty relationship. Ended up getting on Twitch because I [felt] alone, I wanted to connect and do something with my time. Not knowing that I was going to make a community, give people a safe place to be themselves and whoever the fuck they want to be.

Because the world is a crazy place, but cannabis connects us all in that same aspect of the healing of the nation. Everybody has their own issues, so Twitch gave you that spot… a safe place to medicate. It's been a positive lifestyle. Stay Green is a touch on getting off the drugs. It was already a thing before the drugs, then the creative rolling thing started. So it's been a long journey of trying to figure out where my place was.

What do you do on Twitch?

Just chatting, but I mainly do art. I craft those creations you see on my Instagram, creative joint art. That's a Johnny Bravo joint, Patrick [from Spongebob Squarepants]. I do horror stuff, I'm really big into horror. This is [one of the] top five joints of the year last year, Pinhead [from Hellraiser]. I was at the World Series of Rolling. This one is for TooTurntTony, one of the biggest TikTokers in Florida.

Back to your sobriety, which I'm interested in discussing because I’m an addict. How did cannabis help you stay off the drugs?

Definitely helped me. Instead of trying to go party and use other things, I had to cut all those people out of my life. Weed was that relaxing thing to help with the anxiety. I did drugs because I had the worst social anxiety, I couldn't talk to people. I felt if I did this, the drugs or whatever, then I could be myself. Which is not the case. [laughs] But we all have those vices.

What can you tell us about your influence on the shatter log wave, an old form of today's hash hole?

There was hash, but it was called BHO back then. There was no hash, rosin, anything like that. It was straight up shatter when it first came out, then it became crumble. Then we got sauces, then we got batter. So shatter became a thing. People would do snakes, then put the snake inside of the flower in your joint. Same thing with the hash hole. Rick Roller was the one who created this concept, me and another dude named Tony were the ones that latched onto it and pushed it.

What a shadow log is: say you lay your weed on top of your paper like you'd roll it normally. You’d put that hash log right in the center, then roll that up. What I’d do is lay that flower down, you take about a gram of shatter, flatten it all out to get a rectangle area. You're going to take a joint, roll it, then unroll it. Because when you roll weed up and unroll it, it usually stays in that cylinder. You take that cylinder, put it down on top of that shatter, then you roll that. Basically you roll a joint out of shatter. You'll see the weed on the inside of the shatter, then you put that on top of that bed of flower, and you wrap that up. That's your hash hole essentially. But it's weed wrapped in shatter, into another thing of weed, wrapped into a joint. Those things are crazy, I have a bunch of pictures if you want to see.

You helped Florida become medical too? That's huge!

I already had a pretty substantial following around 2015. We went medical in 2016, so we got it on the ballot... [A similar measure had failed to pass in 2014] by a small percentage. [Then by 2015, 2016, the law firm] Morgan & Morgan got behind the state of Florida and started putting money into it. I started using my following as “vote yes on 2” and certain things. We pushed a bunch of that. Whatever events I’d go to, I’d push people and tell people to get out there to vote. “You need to go vote,” because a lot of the stoner community let that shit do whatever it did.

If we have an impact, we should go vote. So trying to push people posting through Instagram and local events. There weren't many back then, because of how scarce and how illegal weed was. It wasn't like a big Cali thing, but trying to push the following that I did have, to get everybody to go and vote. 2018 was when they finally passed medical. I got my card in July on my birthday. Weed’s still medical, but we're making advancements to try to become rec. It’s a big loophole thing… it’s bullshit that they're trying to do. “No homegrown” is what they're trying to do.

What else are you working on now?

I'm always working on creative art. I do a lot of traveling. I've been on the First Smoke of the Day podcast; I'll be working on getting on this other one that's out in Cali. I travel and do the joint art thing right now. I really wanted to create experiences that people can hang on to for their whole life. You bring a joint to a party, people don't even understand what it is. I do booths at events and people think it's wood, because they're unsure of how it is. But I'm able to make lines and do things that are super clean, that people don't even think that you can smoke something like that.

I’m trying to level up the joint game. I'm trying to be the number one roller for Florida; there's nobody in Florida doing what I'm doing. I'm trying to capitalize off of that and continue the positivity. That's what it's all about. We need good people in this world. We don’t have enough love. [But] we'll get there.

For more about Stay Green, follow @stay_green and @rollingwithgreen on Instagram. Check out his Twitch channel Greenalchemy.

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Shirley Ju is a journalist, media host, and seasoned music industry professional. She is the founder of Shirley's Temple, a podcast series with a focus on mental health, where her guests include Trippie Redd, Chanel West Coast, Ricky Williams, Blac Chyna, and more. Shirley's work has been featured in publications such as Variety, Complex, Nylon, Flaunt, and REVOLT; she can also be seen doing exclusive interviews for leading urban news source VLADTV, featuring a platform with 5 million subscribers. Find out more about Shirley at @shirju on Instagram and Twitter, and on LinkedIn.

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