Under the terms of a trust that the author had set up before his passing, Anita had the right to continue living on the property for the rest of her life but it would be owned by the Gonzo Trust — a legal entity overseen by his appointed attorneys and trustees. “I’ve had probably 10 meetings in the last three years and I always ended up saying no because it’s the same story every time: somebody wants to slap Hunter’s name on their strain,” she said. Anita told the Aspen Times that she has six strains of her late husband’s preferred marijuana saved and is working with a cannabis company to grow them for public sale. She also had been reluctant to go into the cannabis business because her focus, in the decade after Hunter Thompson's death, was on preserving and promoting his literary legacy. “I was always steering toward his work and away from his lifestyle, but now I feel like I can talk more openly about his lifestyle,” she told the newspaper. "I'm proud to do it now. Before, it was a little too risky." MUSEUMS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE 
 
 Profits from the cannabis deal, Thompson said, will help fund renovations at Owl Farm to turn it into a private museum and a writer's retreat. Earlier this year, Anita purchased Owl Farm and also gained access to Thompson’s name and likeness.
– For years, marijuana growers have approached Anita Thompson, the widow of Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson, to put her late husband's name on their weed. "I always ended up saying no because it's the same story every time: somebody wants to slap Hunter's name on their strain," she tells the Aspen Times. Well she may have sorted out a win-win for herself and weed-loving Gonzo fans; she's found what she writes on Facebook is a "legal method to extract the DNA from Hunter's personal marijuana and hashish that I saved for 12 to 15 years." Now, she says, she's working to make those strains available in states where it's legal. Working from Owl Farm, Thompson's longtime retreat in Woody Creek, Colo., his widow also has plans for major renovations, including setting up a museum and writer's retreat. She says that while she was initially trying to focus on her husband's work in the aftermath of his 2005 suicide, she now feels it's less "risky" to "talk more openly about his lifestyle." Indeed the writer did. Not only did he write openly about his own use of many different drugs, he once proclaimed, as the Guardian reports, that he had always loved marijuana: "It has been a source of joy and comfort to me for many years. And I still think of it as a basic staple of life, along with beer and ice and grapefruits—and millions of Americans agree with me." (Thompson also left his widow his sperm.)