Frenchy Cannoli, hash master, has passed away

The news was announced by Kimberly, his wife, on social networks. Frenchy Cannoli, Camille, died on Sunday July 18 from complications following surgery.

«It is with deep and heartbreaking sorrow that I share with you that Frenchy left us on Sunday due to complications from surgery,« Kimberly posted, «I'm sorry I wasn't able to share this with you in person. This seemed like the best way to let you know directly.»

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A hashishin heritage

Frenchy was known like the master of hash. French by birth, he had succeeded in combining ancestral hashish-making techniques, learned during his many travels to producer countries in the early part of his life, with modern knowledge of cannabis and trichomes. The result was an extraordinary product, virtually unknown in the United States before he moved to California.

He enjoyed sharing his knowledge with everyone around him, and gave his lessons wherever he could, from social networks to Spanish Cannabis Clubs.

Frenchy Cannoli was no stranger to Newsweed readers. Back in 2015, he was already telling us the similarities between cannabis and wine. He had answered our questions on video, from its curing, the following year.

I then met him in 2016 in California, at his booth of the Emerald Cup. Fifty or so people waited obediently to taste the hash he was making. dabber with a smile bigger than his own. The meeting was brief but intense. Above all, I was able to spend time with Kimberly, his wife, who had promised to spend some time with me at Newsweed's Wake and Bake during Spannabis.

And Frenchy had simply come to share his knowledge and know-how with the happy fews who took part. He'd been coming every year since, and had had to cancel last year because of the pandemic. He was profiled in Society, an article whose idea I had submitted to a journalist friend of mine who was passing through California.

He kindly invited me in 2017 to follow one of his hash classes in Barcelona. Secretly, I hoped one day to bring him to France for his first hash workshop on his native soil, even with hemp, which he sometimes did in countries with archaic laws. We talked about it quickly, in jest.

I'm obviously thinking of Kim, of their daughter, of all the love that should surround her and her family today in this ordeal, and of Frenchy's smile that will never be forgotten.