Peezy never asked anyone's permission to have a voice. By day he was Sal Pugliares, an IT guy from Middletown, Connecticut, fixing everybody's computers. At night he walked down the basement stairs, plugged a microphone in, and became the host of 2 Be Blunt, one of the longest running independent cannabis shows in the country. No network. No sponsor money. A camera, a blunt, and an open phone line.

That's the part that made him a Green Wave Legend for me. Cannabis media is full of people who show up once the money does. Peezy was on the air when Connecticut still treated us like criminals, and he stayed on the air every single week until the night he couldn't. He hit 100 straight episodes and kept going. He put growers, patients, budtenders, rappers and regular smokers on his screen when nobody else in the state would give them the time. He wrote for High Times. He made music. He ran the Blunt Wars, the parody songs, Barely Awake Radio, and 2 Be Blunt LIVE with his co-host Jesse Frangione and the Loud Pack. When Connecticut finally legalized, he had already spent years telling the state what it was doing wrong, in plain language, with a laugh.

I never met him. Sly told me about Peezy, and by the time I had watched a few hours of his shows I felt like I had been sitting in that basement for years. That's what a real voice does. He talked to you, not at you. He made the callers feel like the show was theirs, because it was.

That is exactly what we are building the Internet of Pot to be: a place where the community owns the conversation, not the corporations. Peezy did it with one basement and a phone line for years. He's the second inductee to the Green Wave Legends and the first Voice, because a voice like his is the reason the rest of us ever got heard.

He signed off his last broadcast the way he always did, with love for the people on the other end of the line, and a promise. See you on the other side, Peezy. The line's still open.

His music and his shows are still out there. Go watch one. Then leave him a tribute below, spark one for him, and tell him what he meant to you. Our thoughts are with Jess, Lorenzo and Nico, and the whole 2 Be Blunt family.