Dan Gold has been growing weed for almost 20 years. When he handed his plants on his 70 acres, he maintained a solid look. He has long been abstained from alcohol – when his daughter was born – and his daily disposal begins at 6am. “It’s a life or death for me. I have never done anything again,” Gold said. The property is located in a narrow valley in the Humbold District, California, three-hour ride from the nearest store in Garberville, with big rock-the-west rock. Until 2020, he owned the land directly, but four years ago he was forced to refinance it to pay for excessive fees and permits necessary for compatible with the legal farmer of Kanabis.

Cannabis has long been part of a counterculture in America, and perhaps there is no place, and its peoples have made more to nourish the evolution of the plant and its mythos than the Humboldt district. Nevertheless, perverting, no place remained such a legalization.

Thanks to a number of violated promises, legislative mistakes and severe measures to fulfill the requirements, small, outdated farmers, which once on the front line of normalization of marijuana for decades have escaped. Now their communities are suffering. “Everyone thinks: growing weeds, it should be fun,” Gold said. “They don’t know how hard it is.”