Carlos Ramos

Join us for another STONER MOVIE NIGHT on Thursday, May 28 at MADE Gallery! 🍿 Screening another stoner classic — Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle. Doors open at 7pm movie screens promptly at 7:30pm. Ticket options include GA entry with pizza/pop combos and VIP packages featuring products from select sponsors 🍃 TICKET LINK IN BIO

Closing out 420 month with the stoner classic, Half Baked. Stoner Movie Night presented by the dynamic duo, @ak.chicago & yours truly. Hosted by @madegallery VIP Sponsors @mojos_420 🍃 @ak40sev 🍨 @landraceorigins 🍹 Pizza slices available from @professorpizza Slices included with Pizza & Pop and VIP tickets! @benandjerrys half baked available for purchase and included in VIP bags! Elevated Concessions by @upelevatedcocktails Terp Bar by @toastedentertainment_ Cop your tickets and let’s smooooke to this classic!

WE MADE IT! @hightimesmagazine 🔥🔥🔥 First ever 420 run club/community to be featured in this historic, industry leading 🍃 publication! 🙌🏽 This is such a surreal moment, as someone who started reading this magazine through bloodshot eyes when they were just a baby stoner some 20 odd years ago. They don’t just put any ol’ Joe Canna Schmo in @hightimesmagazine - these pages have always told the stories of true innovators and trailblazers in the industry. And now this movement led by stoners, for stoners - from the South side of Chicago (!!!) - that advocates for the plant and its power to heal, inspire, and transform lives - is forever embedded in the annals of stoner history in THEE 420 lifestyle magazine. 🤯 Huge shoutout to @rawkandroll for reviving and resurrecting this legendary publication. To @javierhasse for diligently sharing stories with authenticity y amor. And most importantly… Shoutout to my ace, @ak.chicago - who upon hearing this “highdea” for a stoner run club back in 2021 said, “Fuck it. Run it.” And the rest was history. To the community that continues to make Runners High Chi what it is: thank you for the trust and support. Let’s keep Getting Lit, Getting Fit, and Breaking The Stigma! And to the would-be stoner runners who have yet to start their journey, or the lonely stoner runners who have yet to find their support system.. this community exists! Whether it’s us in Chicago, @cardiohighkris in CA, @hihikez in AZ, @communityrunclubny in NYC, or @milehighshuffler in PA - the 420 running movement is alive and well, and we out here! This one’s for everybody who’s about that 420 run life! Don’t let society tell you that you can’t mix c@nnabis with fitness. Because you CAN, and it’s DOPE! Literally! We’re organizing the largest gathering of active stoners to date. If you’re about that life, pull up on us for the 4th Annual 420 Run! Saturday, April 18th in Chicago! 🍃🔥💨🏃🏻‍➡️

Stoner Movie Night is back! This time we’re back with a Valentine’s edition for love month! ❤️‍🔥 Join us on Thursday Feb 26th for a screening of Knocked Up, starring @sethrogen @paulrudd_ & @katherineheigl Hosted at @madegallery and presented by @ak40sev & @upelevatedcocktails Last month we had a SOLD OUT audience for Grandma’s Boy, and we’re excited to run it back with this hilarious stoner rom-com! Once again, ticket tiers include GA entry, Pizza & Pop combos + entry, and the VIP level which includes all the amenities plus extra perks from our VIP sponsor brands featuring @agoodplughq @iccollectiveillinois & more. 🍃🍬😉 Anyone who copped the VIP last month can tell you this deal is a steal! Don’t delay, cop your tickets today! Bring a friend, or bring your lover. Just be sure to bring a rubber! 😈 Up Elevated Cocktails & Concessions, @professorpizza slices, and the @toastedentertainment_ signature terp bar will all be available for maximum stoner movie night enjoyment! Hit the 🔗 in bio for tickets ASAP! This event will sell out again! Can’t wait to see all you stoner lovers for Stoner Movie Night! Doors open at 7pm. Movie starts at 7:30pm sharp! 🛝

Stoner Movie Night returns this Thursday Jan. 29th @madegallery We’re rollin’ up the Frankenstein, the Green Monster, the Bling, and the Bling Bling all into one fat doobie and blazin’ it up for this classic stoner flick! We’ll have @toastedentertainment_ and @upelevatedcocktails in the house for maximum stoner movie enjoyment and $5 slices from @professorpizza for when the munchies hit! 👌🏽 You won’t find a Stoner Movie Night experience like this anywhere else! Happening every last Thursday of the month, brought to you by @ak40sev & @upelevatedcocktails , in collaboration with @madegallery Ticket Tiers: GA🎟️ = movie entry + snacks/water + BYOC/smoke friendly movie experience + access to vendors Pizza & Pop🎟️ = GA level + Pizza & Pop combo from @professorpizza VIP🎟️ = Pizza & Pop level + priority seating + 🌳 & 🍬 from our sponsors @locklin_farms & @hi_cubes_gummies_official (Only 5 VIP left) Doors open at 7pm. Movie starts promptly at 7:30pm. Seating is first come, first serve. Tickets available at link in bio(or DM for link). Remaining tickets will be sold at the door. Subject to availability. Bring a friend, or bring your grandma! It’s gonna be a party! We’re all walking out like 🧟‍♂️😶‍🌫️🤣

#Throwback to me smokin’ 🍃 on @eater_chicago in 2024 and getting interviewed about the High & Dry January Canna Cocktail Classes. Shoutout to @jessitaylorro for writing this piece 2 years ago, and resharing it this week. I needed that reminder of who I am, and what Up Elevated Cocktails has accomplished. They may have zucked my business page last summer, but they can never zuck the movement and momentum I’ve created trying to normalize 🍃 through 🍸 culture. You probably wouldn’t have clicked through to read the article, but probably you stopped scrolling to read and listen to the official 2025-2026 Chicago/IG anthem @djotime so enjoy the article and maybe I’ll see you at a class soon. Excited for the first @upelevatedcocktails 🍃 cocktail class since (becoming a dad again in) 2024. Tomorrow night @srvdchicago featuring @landraceorigins So, whether you’re Cali sober, doing Dry January, or just want a different kind of Thirsty Thursday. This class will fun, informative, and uplifting… and there will be dad jokes. 🙃 PS: Thanks to everyone who’s purchased a ticket to this experience. Y’all some real ones. 🥹🫂 -Carlos aka The Rad Dad aka Your Neighborhood Friendly 🍃 Mixologist

Told myself I’d get back to business with @upelevatedcocktails in 2026, so this is me keeping that promise to myself. I may not have my business IG page, but IRL > URL anyway. If you’ve attended a cocktail class previously, then you already know you’re in for a treat. If you’ve never taken a class but are eager to learn about and enjoy canna beverages, then this class is for you! These classes are fun as well as informational, and allow you to become your own canna mixologist. For this High and Dry January Canna Cocktail Class, we’ll be taking over @srvdchicago on the south side. Guests will learn to craft 2 delicious nonalcoholic 🍃 infused libations, using products from our friends @landraceorigins - Chicago’s newest infused beverage brand. Guests will also take a Strawberry Hibiscus Cooler from Landrace Origins home to enjoy. Tickets are available via @cashdrop.biz - the link can be found in my bio. Space is limited, so be sure to register for this class ASAP if you’re interested in joining! High & Dry January Canna Cocktail Class Date: Thursday, January 22nd Time: 7-8:30pm Location: SRVD Chicago - 4425 W 55th St. Please note: we are currently offering just one class for High and Dry January. Dependent on demand for this class, we may open a second or third class. Location and dates TDB.

Runners High Chi brought the 420 Run movement from south side of Chicago all the way to the MJBizCon expo floor in Las Vegas, so you know we had to soundtrack it with some house music! 😎🎶 We laced up our run shoes and covered every square foot of the Las Vegas Convention Center, the largest in the world mind you, to show the industry who Runners High Chi is and what we’re about! We started with our standard checkin/warmup at @40tonsbrand Impact Row, where we got to meet @doggface208 right before takeoff. We made our way from the retail/dispensary pavilion, through to the business services, processing + packaging, and finally to the cultivation pavilion, where we picked up @dopecfo.kristivanee at the @indigenouscannabisindustry village! Upon first encounter, most exhibitors were perplexed to see a group running through the expo floor, but we were met with cheers and high fives on our second pass when they realized what we were about. We stopped to chop it up with @blazysusan @puffco & @rawlife247 along the way, and had a quick smoke break in the ICIA teepee to finish our 4.20 on a high note! From the moment we decided we’d take this MJBIZ voyage, we knew we HAD to run a route through the expo! How else would we show the industry what RHC was all about? We met so many great contacts at the conference, many of whom expressed interest in wanting to support our 420 Run movement! What’s not to love, when we’re promoting an active and healthy lifestyle via plant based wellness and breaking the lazy stoner stigma while looking this fly? 😎 We look forward to building this 420 Run brand even bigger in 2026 with the support of our industry homies who wanna see a world where the lazy stoner stigma no longer exists! If you wanna be part of the dopest run club in the industry, join us! Live in another city but still wanna join, message us about starting your very own chapter in your city! We’re here to support the active stoner community everywhere! And if you wanna cop one of these super fly RHC track suits, let us know in the comments and we just might release a limited quantity for the holidaze! 🔥🎥 work by @igobylc

RUNNERS HIGH CHI X MJBIZCON DAY 2! TODAY IS THE DAY! Join us for our 4.20mi Run on the expo floor! Meetup at 3pm at our Booth C-26911 Inside @40tonsbrand Impact Row! Lace up and get active with the RAWEST Run Club in the game, Runners High Chi! 🍃🔥💨😎 Shoutout to our newest honorary Runners High member @rawkandroll - a pioneer in the 🍃 game and a true warrior in the fight for the freedom of the plant! 🤘🏽 If you’re at the expo today, come say HIGH!!!

MJBizCon Week 2025 is here. Year 4 for me. Cannapreneurship has felt like a runaway train these past 5 years. Nonstop, chugging along from event to event. State to state. Shaking up canna cocktails, while simultaneously shaking up the industry with the elevated mixology and hospitality that @upelevatedcocktails has become known for. From penthouse suites on the Las Vegas strip, to private mansions off the strip, to the expo floor of MJBizCon. The progression of this brand that I started in the middle of a global pandemic has been nothing short of amazing. But this year has looked significantly different than years passed. Where I once thrived in the chaos of the grind, I’ve had to learn to embrace the calm. This year may have slowed me down, but it also gave me perspective. And taught me that just because I took a break, it doesn’t diminish my accomplishments. And although I only hosted one Up Elevated Cocktail Club this year, we did it at the dopest venue to date, a rooftop along the lake. AND we had Grammy award winning artist @glctheism perform timeless hip hop classics alongside my brothers @flaconavaja & @igobylc 💪🏽 Wise man once said, slow motion’s better than no motion. 2025 was a sabbatical year. In 2026 I’m coming off the bench. Gotta get back to turning these dreams into reality. I appreciate everyone that’s continued to support Up Elevated Cocktails this year. There will be lots more opportunities to do so this next year.🤘🏽 But we can’t let the year end without leaving our mark at MJBizCon. So I’m leaving the bar tools behind, packing my run shoes, and bringing the @runnershighchi team to show the industry that 🍃 + wellness isn’t just a trend, that it has place in the future of this industry. We’ve been building this movement for 3.5 years now, and it’s time to show the industry how we Get Lit, Get Fit, and Break The Stigma! Follow along our journey this week, as we bring the 420 Run vibes to Vegas! 🍃🔥💨🏃🏻‍➡️

A Saturday filled with gratitude. Started the day with a 4.20mi hike with the @runnershighchi & @startrls community. Ended the day with our annual @runnershighchi Friendsgiving. Grateful for a room full of friends that have become like family…as well as a buffet table overflowing with good food and a self service ouí’d bar. Love it here. 🙌🏽 Much love to my RHC family, a community full of dope human beings. 💚

Allow us to reintroduce ourselves, we’re Runners High! 🍃🔥💨💪🏽 We’re not your average run club. In fact, we’re so much more. We’re on a mission to Get Lit, Get Fit, and Break The Stigma that c@nnabis makes people lazy and unproductive. For the past 3.5 years, we’ve made it our mission to disprove the “lazy stoner” stereotype. We do more than just run miles and marathons. We inspire our community to approach all forms of movement as medicine, and to value their physical health just as much as their mental health. We started this movement in the city of Chicago, and have taken it coast to coast. From the Chi to NY, from the Boston Harbor to the Colorado Rockies, from ATX to LAX. And now we’re taking this movement to Vegas for MJBizCon, the Super Bowl of Bud! As the first community wellness organization in the c@nnabis industry, we created this movement for anyone that’s ever been labeled a “lazy stoner”. Because we know c@nnabis isn’t a hindrance to wellness, it’s the key that helps unlock our full potential! So if this is your vibe, then Runners High is your tribe. And if you plan to be at MJBizCon next month, be sure to check out Runners High’s booth inside the @40tonsbrand Impact Row activation. We’ll be running a 4.20mi route throughout the expo floor, so lace up, blaze up, and come break a sweat with the dopest run club in the game. @runnershighchi 💪🏽