Tanner Hall and the Athlete’s Case for Cannabis – The New Yorker

Jeannie Herer

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The freestyle skier and X Games gold medalist Tanner Hall is one of the first active professional athletes to formally partner with a cannabis company.
 
In February, Tanner Hall, one of the greatest freestyle skiers of all time—he won seven X Games gold medals and four silver in the Big Air, SlopeStyle, and Superpipe events between 2001 and 2009—signed a deal with a Denver-based cannabis-accessories company called Black Rock Originals. Hall, who is now thirty-two and based in northern California, near Lake Tahoe, helped the company create the Skiboss Collection, which consists of rolling papers, a cheese-grater-like card for grinding nuggets on the go, and a lighter, all tucked inside a travel-friendly pouch.
 
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