I started this company on accident.
Then I found out the plant I was selling could heal the soil it came from. That changed everything.
I was living out of a truck in Salinas.
My name is Marion Brooks. Eight years ago I was transplanting cannabis on a farm in Northern California. I had a real story with substances. I was not pretending otherwise. I just did not call it a problem.
An older man I worked with talked me into moving to Los Angeles. Through him I met an underground chemist, and I started spending most of my days at his house learning to distill plant material. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays he had me try CBD tincture in tiny amounts while I swam laps at the public pool. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, a mushroom tincture. He saw the way I was living before I did.
Slowly, things in me that felt clenched began to loosen. I was a cannabis person. I had never taken CBD seriously until it started to matter.
On my birthday, the older man handed me a binder. Inside it were the articles for my first company. He said I should do something with what was happening in my body.
If this plant works when I eat it, maybe it works when I smoke it.
We sourced hemp in Oregon. We drove it down to Los Angeles. We hand-rolled every cigarette. A pack of seven cost thirty dollars. The economics never made sense and we kept going anyway.
I wanted the product to be accessible, because the only reason anything about my own relationship with substances had shifted was that I could afford to use every day. Most people cannot. That mattered to me.
In 2018 we opened the Full Moons Club Instagram. We used nudity on purpose. It was not shock. It was a point of view. People sent us photographs of their own bodies, our cigarettes between their fingers. We grew a following on the idea that a cigarette could be a choice instead of a habit.
A cigarette company that helps the ground recover is a different kind of cigarette company.
While I was building this I was learning what hemp actually is. The roots pull heavy metals out of the soil and put oxygen and minerals back in. Grow it at scale and you regenerate the dirt it grows in. The same dirt that tobacco farming abused for a hundred years is the dirt hemp wants to fix.
That is not a marketing line. It is the part of this that keeps me awake.
Grown honest. Rolled clean.
Full Moons is made in Virginia today, with a manufacturing partner who is deliberately not on our packaging so we absorb more of the regulatory risk ourselves.
Shipped to people who are not trying to quit.
Smoke less. Smoke better. Stay sexy. Find a way through.
Marion