April 10, 2019
In the midst of the existential struggle for survival that all small cannabis entrepreneurs are currently experiencing, I’m having an ongoing personal debate: Are cannabis cultivators on the opposing side of the Ecology Movement? The stern opposition of numerous Northern California ecology groups to “pot farmers” is a significant factor in the myriad restrictions we […]
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April 9, 2019
Many people have questions concerning the interaction between cannabis and spiritual practice. To begin with, the use of cannabis in yoga and mediation is controversial. My position is not based so much on textual quotations, but on my own observed inner experience. Nonetheless, the most ancient text of Hinduism, the Rig Veda, speaks of the […]
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April 9, 2019
Nikki Lastreto and Swami Chaitanya, longtime residents of the country’s marijuana harvesting mecca, continue their historical breakdown of how the area evolved from an underground hippie haven to cannabis cash cow. As we head into the uncharted future of regulated cannabis, the greatest concern for cannabis farmers in the Emerald Triangle is really survival. Not […]
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April 9, 2019
Nikki Lastreto and Swami Chaitanya, longtime residents of the country’s marijuana harvesting mecca, continue their historical breakdown of how the area evolved from an underground hippie haven to cannabis cash cow. In our last entry about the founding years of the famed Emerald Triangle, we observed the development of a culture of outlaw cannabis farmers living […]
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April 9, 2019
The hippie revolution in the San Francisco Bay Area was a time of great change. It was the mid-’70’s, and the Haight Ashbury was scuzzy––hard drugs had hit the streets, and even pot sales could be shady. Conspicuous dealers in open-collared shirts with lots of gold, silver, and turquoise jewelry were holding court in every […]
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April 9, 2019
It has been reported that there is a movement afoot to claim appellations for Mendocino County Cannabis. The rumor is almost correct! It really is much bigger than just one county, it concerns all cannabis producing regions of California and ultimately the whole country, as cannabis becomes legal throughout the United States. The movement is […]
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April 1, 2019
by Caitlin Podiak June 6, 2016 from Leafly.com Cannabis is an annual plant that flowers from late summer into fall. The natural growing season begins when farmers plant seeds every spring; these seedlings quickly develop branches and leaves over the next few months, becoming taller and bushier until longer nights after the summer solstice trigger […]
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April 1, 2018
by Erica Edwards June 27, 2017 from Certified Dank The International Cannabis Farmers Association’s farm tours and community gathering in early June provided a wonderful reminder that six degrees of separation are more like two degrees in the Emerald Triangle. While Northern California’s cannabis community may appear large and widely dispersed, it is in fact […]
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March 27, 2018
by Tony Newman from The Leaf Online How did Portugal go from having the highest rate of overdose fatalities in the E.U. to the second lowest? Or from having the highest rate of injection drug-transmitted HIV infections in the E.U. to the lowest? It decriminalized all drugs in 2001,followed by a 60 percent decline of […]
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