This is a great book. I found it so fascinating, I read it cover-to-cover. I’ve known growers for years, but never realized the full extent of what it takes (took) to grow out in the woods. It’s not only a book about farming, but about gardening, wildlife, plants and trees, and about treating the earth with respect.
Also, the drawings are great (see link below). Andrew told me it was about a year in creation.
Up until now, guerrilla growers in Mendocino and Humboldt counties produced organic, high-strength cannabis, grown without chemicals or electricity. Now things have changed. Yes, it’s become legal, but there are a host of downsides to the recent legislation. The 30 or so years of guerrilla growers hand-growing and homegrowing a clean product have just about ended, as Big Business has moved in. A lot of pot is testing positive for pesticides. People buy their organic produce at Whole Foods, yet don’t know if what they are smoking is laced with insecticides. How much are your lungs worth? Advice to pot smokers: Know thy grower.
Andrew’s book encapsulates the romance and righteousness of working with nature, and documents an era of wholesome cannabis production.
To get it (and to see some of the pages), go to: mollywestranch.com
“Advice to pot smokers: know thy grower.” ???
advice to pot smokers: grow your own
and forget bitching about big business
I’ll bet 95% of pot smokers buy their weed. Big business does plenty to bitch about.
The question is not whether “big business does plenty to bitch about”.
The question is whether any independent person wants to waste his life bitching.
Let me be clear, I stopped smoking mj long ago because it interfered with
the capacity of my lungs to survive a double hold down in big surf.
And 7 years ago when my knee replacement surgery developed complications and
extended pain, I ate mj which I grew and extracted. That was a significant aid in
getting off of prescribed opiates.
But I have never blamed big business, it does what it does, attempt to make a profit
on anything and everything. There is no utility in blaming people for being people.
“Plant that Bell and let it Ring”. I’m so glad I live in Oregon. Ooops! Did I really type that?