This slideshow takes us through Cannabis and its evolution with humans over the centuries. We go to the golden triangle of Humboldt Trinity and Mendocino counties, and cover the journey that is required for a crop to grow from seed or cutting to its harvest and processing and eventually making it to the market. Along the way we discuss Cannabis taxonomy, breeding, pests, and culture in general with regards to light, soil, water, nutrition, and so on. We end the slideshow with a visit to a local Cannabis nursery that grows small plants in greenhouses to sell to growers to grow to flowering stage.

Elsie Allen pounds acorns into flour in Ukiah in 1964. Allen contracted the flu during the 1918 flu epidemic, acorn mush cooked by her mother nourished her back to health, according to her 1972 book “Pomo Basketmaking: A Supreme Art for the Weaver.” (Sonoma County Library)
Author Ken Kesey poses in 1997 with his bus, “Further,” a descendant of the vehicle that carried Kesey and the Merry Pranksters on the 1964 trip immortalized in Tom Wolfe’s book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Kesey, who died in 2001, is the subject of the new documentary Magic Trip.