Michelle Lhooq is a multimedia journalist in Los Angeles who covers music and weed. She was an editor at VICE’s electronic music site THUMP in New York City from 2014-2017, and now contributes to The Los Angeles Times, GQ, FADER, Pitchfork, New York, and others. She was named “Best Music Editor” by The Village Voice, and one of Brooklyn’s most influential people by Brooklyn Magazine in 2016. That year, she also threw a 12-hour, vape-themed rave in a fried chicken deli that will live forever in Brooklyn rave history.