it
so what can you like growing weed for six people? No sick
people.
My weeds for healthy.
strong
good-looking people
just want to get high drug users and abusers.
My weed is like so strong. It's like
if you got it, you can't get high off of it. You got it.
You got a
price start doing heroin
They keep it legal to the states. So the
states are able to collect their revenue.
But at the same time the feds are able to come in whenever they
want clean house. That's anywhere from you know,
the dispensaries that are perfectly legal up into
the hills. Where
You find everybody doing their thing.
But they have their own problems with the trying
to keep the law down too because a lot of people don't want marijuana
growing in their neighborhood. They don't want
to have their kids exposed to so that's where respect comes
in some places have more respect because they
their Community all
wants to it where some communities are don't want it so much
but then they're creating a black market because other
places they're gonna grow and they're still gonna
bring it in. There's a big desire for
it need for it.
Don't you?
This story started in streets of Hollywood. When
a 20 year old me first came to the westest West
Side way before I knew anything about the green
Rush that was happening in, California.
Through my passion which is filmmaking. I was lucky enough
to run into this guy my Russian buddy
Alex from Vladivostok. He introduced me
to the Emerald Triangle.
Place where money grows on trees and pigs fly
in the sky. So I abandoned the city and went
to live up in the Sticks.
Beyond The Valleys hidden in the mountains
I want to welcome you guys to Highlands.
man, I think it's Paradise on earth like
I used to be in the military and I traveled all over the
world man. I've been to a lot of places. I haven't been
everywhere, but I've been to a lot of places and California's for
sure the best place in the world and then Northern California.
It's even better coming from
La NorCal is San Francisco.
And then it's Oregon like you don't
know about Sonoma County. You don't know about Mendel you
none of that should exist to you, you know, so my
homies like yeah, man, there's
place in Northern California.
That's like hamster down bro. Like
it's to us Amsterdam was still s***, you know, like let's
go imaginary line up there. And
as soon as you cross it, it's like anything can happen.
and
it's all about your intentions.
And you know, you just come up you go that way with goodness in
your heart and you never know who
you're gonna meet. You know, the place where Alex grows weed
is about 567 miles away from
Los Angeles folks around here call it simply the
hole.
It's literally in the middle of nowhere nothing but endless forests
mountains and valleys all the way around electricity only
from a generator water only from
the well nearest police station is all the
way in town, which is 40 miles away down long winding
roads. Let's just say it's a pretty
remote place.
I'm just
Packed the remote is definitely creates perfect conditions for
illegal weed grows.
Although the cops are aware of what's going on here and after
recent years of raids. A lot of people were
forced to leave the area.
So the strategy is
if the cops come flying over us most likely they're
gonna come pull the plants this year. Normally they'll do a bunch
of flies and then they'll pick and shoes who they're gonna rate but last
year and this year Shasta County has been insanely bad.
Like I grew up in the city to me living in the
forest was crazy. Like when I when I first came up here and or even
thought about living in the forest or living in a place
like this, it was it was like f****** you know,
insanity, but oh mother f***
f***. I just got a splinter.
so anyways
That hurts it like went right under my nail.
f****** Forest but then we
started growing weed and the beautiful thing about growing weed is, you know,
you get in touch with nature and like you formed
this special relationship between a man and a
plant, you know, you get to realize that the plants are alive and they respond
to how you how you treat them. So
the amount of love that you give them they give that back to you.
On the other hand the mountain life gives you a lot
of freedom. And when the work for the day is done. There is
plenty of things to do still like jumping off the waterfalls
and s***. The mountains is like a giant playground. There's
a Hot Springs waterfalls Lakes. You can
go off-roading on bikes
and cars you go swimming.
It's just like waterfall after waterfall after waterfall and they're
all unbelievably beautiful, you know, and they're all like oh in
one area. It's all like condensed and it's just there's all
these hidden spots that are just just it just
to me. It's like a Garden of Eden, you know, it was a wild transition
to the mountain life. We enter the different world
with its own rules, or should I say no rules. I
mean you can do whatever the f*** you want. Really? There's nobody
over here telling you what to do. So
Which is a good thing and a bad thing, you know.
Yeah, because people want to know.
That's good. Nice camera. Thank you. I'm recording.
You know, are you okay? Jacob was
the next grower we met he was just
chilling in front of his property as we were passing by on
the Mountain Road Alex already knew the guy, but I was still
surprised how open he was about his grow Jacob showed
some pictures of his plants told us a few stories
and even invited Alex and I to come check out the
hippie Festival where Jacob said he can get us in. Oh,
yeah. Yeah on the
river too. Yes, please and get you into both, please. All right.
it
The festival was happening in Mendocino County
which is part of the Emerald Triangle. One of
the world's most exclusive destinations in cannabis culture.
This region is also known for cultivation dating
as far back as the 1960s following San
Francisco's LSD Revolution also known
as The Summer of Love. Sorry the
f***
is this camera doing yeah want me to show you
I definitely yeah right on.
All right. Nice. Okay. Yeah. So right next
to the Toyota over here. You guys are f****** love keep that
camera work up, dude. All right.
If I can Booth over there, you should like an
idiot should be simple. Okay, we got a car. Alright, nothing
can be healthier for the
world than what the young people today are doing.
Listening to music going to these electronic music festivals. I
don't care about any hallucinogenic they're doing because if you
look at all their faces, they're smiling black yellow Latina
who doesn't matter, you know, Mexican Pakistani.
They're all together. They're all in the same Vibe. If
you're outside Alex, you're not it's like a deadliest.
It's just a festival. If you're on psychedelics, you're all
f***** up in the head that the festival becomes this magical
f****** fairy tale place and again capture the camera.
Yeah.
Today I learned that you can't run
from your demons.
sooner or later
you are going to have to deal with them.
And so this kind of like Enlightenment that we're going
through through psychedelics through the exchange of ideas through the
music, you know, we're DJs are getting paid more
than bands. This is a new era of good times and it's
and it's like you end up in this like Alice in
Wonderland fairy tale land because they
come from a psychedelic mine. It's all these people smoking weed and
doing you know shrooms and and acid those people
are extremely extremely creative.
Is like this are a part of the culture here in Emerald Triangle
originating is far back as 1960s. It's
amazing to see how the community has evolved yet
still remains in touch with the roots. It's the
flower of life, right virtually, right? Yeah. So it's like
the work you put in is the work you get back the more you
trust the more risk you take with it is the more reward you get back.
On acid it felt
like we had entered a different dimension light years
away from The Real World with its own magic characters and
creatures.
Everyone is wearing these like woodsy woodsy fairytale
costumes. And when you're on shrooms are an asset
it just you're like in this other world. That's it. Like you're you're
in this other world. That's that's unbelievable.
So psychedelics in general really at one
point should be ingested. I mean some it out
there wants to kill me right now, but they're gonna go eat an orange for the
Vitamin C.
They are they're going to go eat broccoli for
the iron.
Our bodies just one big chemical party. That's what
it is. Everything's chemicals and how we relate and interrelate
with the world around us.
Yeah.
During the festival I connected closer with
Jacob and he was down to take me up to Oregon to
check out his farm while Alex went back to
the hole to take care of his plans.
I had to say it was quite a good time
with that note will be heading north on the
101 to Cave Junction, Oregon to a
very special place of mine right now.
Here Sunday
guard
against this is
where it all started back in the 60s growing
marijuana hippies running up here away from
the city to come up here and live life and started
growing marijuana. And this is where it's
all at right now. You legally grow feel of
marijuana with the right
documentation of paperwork and Uncle County.
Jacob was a true hippie almost like an Ultimate Guide
to the Growers lifestyle.
Born and raised in the Humboldt. He seemed like a real Rebel Spirit
of this land. He was stoked to show me the
Redwoods and walk me through the history of his home Humboldt County
the heart of the triangle.
everybody
Okay.
This way well you have right here is my four month Auto flowers.
There are skunk and they have
a Tennessee and I guess a couple other ones got mixed
in there, but there's like a nice fat butt right there for you.
As you can see my plants all these plants when
I started were this big.
The neighbors plants over there and the neighbors
plants over there.
and their plants were this big when they put them outside and as you
can see my plants have
almost out done their plants over there.
So it's not how big the plant is. It's how
much love you give the plant.
How old were you when you started 10 years old?
What did you start with?
Just little tiny seeds inside a plastic napkin still in
my dad's Mexican weave.
Back then we had the only seeds we had were Mexican.
Because the seat the pot wasn't sent to
Mia which means it had seeds in it. Everybody have
shoebox lid and a playing
card and you would grind up your pot and
then you take your card and you have all the seeds rolled
down and then you'd smoke it but original pot
that we bought it wasn't weighed.
It was a forefinger Lids. So you have a baggie and
you measure you know, four fingers up. That's a lid ten bucks.
it was
stems and seeds and leaves and everything
is somebody had cut down a pot plant and that's what
you got.
What do you like more?
sativa
I like it all you see.
Yeah.
That's what you call donkey dick
big ass donkey dick
right there make anyone smile.
Save that for the media. This is
Rob.
Plant's been around longer than humans cannabis was
everywhere. You look Alex's Farm seemed like a kindergarten
comparing to what was going on here. All Jacob's
neighbors were growing weed.
Like this dude right here.
Marijuana for myself as has helped
me. I mean more ways than one not only is it but
have medicinal qualities obviously, but this
has been the only thing that's fed me my whole life, you know
my whole life. I sold grew helped
some sort of way have been involved in
marijuana. And this is the only thing in my entire life
that's never turned its back on me, you know, it's always been
something that I can fall back on and make a living
and eat.
awesome
What can you say the people who doesn't like marijuana?
Stay away.
from him
He likes only pothead come steal my
weed all the Growers across the Emerald
Triangle. Like they all we all do the same s*** at same
time like you wake up and f****** 7:30. Everybody's posted
a picture of themselves watering, you know, everybody's f******
posted picture of the fires and it's like,
yeah.
All these people are on the f****** same beat, you
know and some hippy dippy s***. Like that's some vibrational s***.
You know, it's like this whole stretch of
Three Counties like everybody wakes up at the f*** at
the same time does the same s*** got m************
pulling tarps, you know, whatever like it's
all it's just same routine.
It's laid back as it seems work on the
farm actually never stops.
Jacob's worker Rob is preparing to foil or feed the plants.
Explain, what are you doing on camera?
I am filling up this sprayer with water and kelp
so that I can spray the plants with it.
What is it for?
plants nice and green
Is there a lot of chemicals in it?
No, it's all natural.
It's from the ocean.
Kelp is seaweed.
Oh s***. It's really yeah.
Just make sure you get a nice and good. We're not
spraying for bugs right now. But when you are spraying for bugs, you got
to hit the underneath of the leaves because that's where the
bugs hide.
normal ones
they're just still a little pots because we don't have room right now.
Can't have that light on.
She's right.
I'm at
Rob and Arcata walking down the street one of
his buddies had a shirt on about something reference towards LSD.
I started talking to him and he ended
up being a really good hard worker. So I
put him up in Oregon. Well, you have to work hard. You have to work really f******
hard. You ain't gonna f****** get it. It's not easy to work. But
if you love it, man, it's not really work. I love
it. I get to be outside. You know, it's exercise to
stay in shape not in a f****** cubicle. You can
drink smoke weed whatever the f*** you want to do, you know, like people come
and go you hang out kick back relax go swimming. I've
been doing it for six years man, and it's just like every
year is more and more fun.
Man, this would be so much easier.
If the camera man would help me out College up
in Northern California that has an interesting new program
schools opening what they call the Humboldt State Institute for
interdisciplinary marijuana research.
now
I've never heard of Humboldt State before but we are working on the
marijuana farm and you know what?
Feels good when you are surrounded by a lot of trees, you
know.
f****** rob
didn't water them enough and they're all hurting like
a m***********.
It seems to never get enough water. He just doesn't seem to get that
because one thing I've had for problem with him with is watering plants
as you can see they're all wilted on the tops.
To an average person. It might seem that growing pot
is a relaxed job. But imagine being in the hundred
degrees Sun all the time watering plants
by hand one by one day after day, isn't
it weird that you can grow here? Like legally a
bunch of plants. You have no idea like it. This blows
my mind it is so cool.
And it's so cool because like I'll tell my kids and my grandkids
and stuff like we're like Bootleggers or
like how it was in the 30s and s***, you
know, it's such a fun thing. It really is
cool.
Before we took off back to California last minute,
Jacob literally stacked like 40
pipelines in his car which seemed like
a big deal to me.
But apparently didn't phase him at all. Okay, so we're
about to
Drive like 200 miles with the
plants in the back. And this
is the rock and roll dude who saying that
he's gonna make it with no. f*** you.
Here we go.
Okay, describe what we're doing right now.
We're about to drive through two states transportation.
Marijuana plants across state lines. Oh,
how are we gonna cross that spot?
What's but I forgot about the checkpoint which
one the f****** agriculture. Yeah.
Oh here s***. Oh s***. Here we go.
inspection station one mile all vehicles must
stop
me going through a checkpoint.
From Oregon to California, California has
a checkpoint. So yeah, we're going
through with all these plants.
We're about to drive through here. So keep the
camera low here.
Nope.
YouTube brother
f****** made it see that Jedi Mind trip.
With 30 20 plants in the car.
He happy cut.
After my first week in the mountains, it was clear to
me that we were getting into more than just growing weed.
It was an outlaw lifestyle a different Society of
Stoners where I naturally found a place
for myself.
We all had something in common, and there was
the excitement of being a freak of rabble.
And Outcast each one in their own unique way.
But yeah, this is a trip man. So you take a little Seed where
I mean, what else? Can you like? You can take a little tiny
seed right? This is like let's say this is a seed right here. This is
an NF1. This is an NF1 seed
and if one will get to like 10 f****** pounds, man, so you
take one little seed you put it in
the ground and by October by
the end of October.
f****** NF1 will produce anywhere from five
to ten pounds, right and then you sell that five to
ten pounds for like if you sell it here, like let's
say you just trying to get rid of it for a thousand dollars a pound
that's five to ten thousand dollars just from one little seed
from one little seed.
f****** crazy, that's when people buy it.
So people should grow themselves, right? Everybody can
do it.
Oh man, maybe they should keep
buying it. Leave the
groin up to us. Okay, you know, yeah, you can grow it yourself. It's it's
good. You should totally grow weed yourself. We've all
got disconnected from nature, especially when you know people that live in the city complete
disconnect from nature nature is like some other f****** inconvenience
to them. Oh bugs and f****** trees and
weeds, you know, they're like their little nice little
grass Lawns and stuff and
that's just as close as they get to Nature, you know.
And you just get that one Brave person. That's like
you know what?
I'm gonna move to California. And so now what you're
seeing and what you have been seeing is this huge migration
of people from everywhere part
of the country move to the state, especially since the
laws are a lot more relaxed and
you have what was called the green rush and so kind of
like get the magnitude of how much weed
comes from not just even California just the
these Three Counties, you know, that's why
we all do right here because we have the best sunlight. There's only
two spots in the whole world. They get the best sunlight.
And our spot is called the Emerald Triangle, you know,
we get the most.
Direct but not too hot of sun
to where you can grow luscious big plants outside,
you know, making money off the Sun.
You know making plants grow.
That's good.
I love bite.
In the state of California passed laws where they can't confiscate your
property if you're growing pot on it.
If you grow under a hundred.
But now if you register with the state of California,
you can grow up to 40,000 plants.
If you have over 20 acres of land.
It's called a commercial growing license cost 10,000
bucks.
And it's legal.
But thing is if the feds don't like you.
They can still arrest you even if you do have a
state license.
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we are
coming up?
on
the
super top secret marijuana
Gorilla Grow a normal girl is when you just grow
in your property.
and
you know, you got your hot plans fenced in
and it all looks nice and pretty.
But Gorilla Grow is when you just trying to keep it hidden.
That's all it is.
Yeah, we're here.
All right, so there's about 50 plants at this Garden.
Which will produce maybe about like, I don't know 20 pounds of
weed. Nothing crazy even grown pot here in the in the
wilderness here in California for
Probably since the 40s.
In just like illegally illegally. Yeah.
And the thing is a pot used to be a lot smaller because you
had to hide it from Ariel. So you planted it
on the edge of
a clearing in the forest
and then you some people bench it over. So it
didn't look like a pine tree because that's a dead
giveaway because pot doesn't look like anything else.
Some people grew it in the Manzanita.
So be hidden and they piped in
water for some cases miles and it's
basically a secret growth. That's all
it is. A Gorilla Grow. Most of the times people just put it on Government properties
what cops do if they
Trying to find out who's that owner or
something? No, they just pull it out.
They'll just pull the plants out. But sometimes they don't even f***
with Gorilla grows because they're they're an
environments like this and it's just too much of a pain in
the ass to even get to the Gorilla Grow for
them. So if it's a relatively small Gorilla Grow
there they're not even gonna f*** with it because yeah,
like, what's the point? How big oh,
man, you cannot like thousands of plants.
If I can bury it out in the forest, so that's how
Mexican cartels do it.
Despite the fact that weed is legal in Cali cops
continue to fly helicopters and raid properties
all because there is a conflict between
the state law and the federal law.
On the federal level marijuana remains a schedule one control
substance which gives DEA and other agencies
the authority to seize land and bust people at
any time they wish before it was recognized as
legal and recreational medicinal.
You know, all the illegal weed was coming out of Emerald
Triangle. That's what made NorCal such a hot spot. The best
weed in the world came from Northern California. Why can't
we just have it? It's a plan. It's a medicine.
You can grow it ourselves like any other herb that we can ingest if
we wanted to bake or cook any other way with it.
What can we have alcohol?
How can people can still alcohol?
And stuff can kill somebody.
It's all for taxation purposes. We're not hiding from
anybody. You know what I mean, you fly over my place. You're
gonna know exactly what I'm doing. I'm not hiding it from anybody. Okay?
But what you're creating is.
your quote unquote gangsters that are tired
of getting robbed, you know who wouldn't who wouldn't
be tired of getting robbed on a yearly basis somebody
comes through and
takes everything that you've been working for, you know,
like demolishes and ruins all of your
Your equipment to your plants to you know,
basically your property your own personal private property that
you paid money. You earned it just like everybody else.
come
And f****** poor take all the s*** out, but maybe we'll get some good footage, you
know.
Who who knows man? Yeah.
But it doesn't really matter man. What about what about
it
the cops are here.
Oh cops showed up the very next
day blocking the driveway to Alex's house and the
guys next door. This really spooked us out. It was
just yesterday that they were flying overhead plants on
the land were right there in the open. We thought
we are going down for sure. So the least that
could do is go ahead and try to interview the sheriff.
Hope there's Luca.
Lucas on the job. I'm shooting at documentary. Can I
take an interview about what happened?
Can I take an interview with you? What happened? No, just
don't watch those dude. No, no, we're just doing more services right
now.
I have to fill out a book and stuff some kind of busy. But all right. All right,
is it turned down the cops were in here
for the Wii? Yeah, they just arrested the
neighbor for some tweaker s***.
Chinese kadali. No, I'm just doing my job.
Oh, you can't
hide Joe. We got you from both directions.
Alright, do you feel paranoia do I feel
paranoid a little bit?
Like a little bit.
You feeling Joe.
This is Joe. He is one of the people who are
not excited about pot growing anymore old man
was rated couple previous seasons and decided to abandon
the wheatcraft, but he still lives in this place
on the dark side of the hill now, his lifestyle
is more like a western with lots of guns and
liquor.
I don't think you can get any skin or not.
I'll come walking around like this.
I think you know if I wanted you I said Chris
Wood in here. I say I feel f****** put your throat f****** me
for like you fertilization. You
f****** Critters. Got you around here. Tweakers
have been shot dead.
Because there's thieves.
The big
difference between meth and pot that I've noticed is that I've
never seen somebody high on pot get into a fight.
I have seen Tweakers get into gun
balance.
my hair
and you're all at that and it's gone
far.
my
f*** years, man.
down
After we had all this fun shed got
out of control and then this whole place went to hell everyone started
doing like f****** really s***** drugs
and then people started stealing and then this
whole f****** neighborhood just went to s***. So but you
know, that's like the balance in the universe. We had some fun and then
s*** went to hell, you know, so
But so everyone moved out. So right now there's only like the core
old school mountain people left and in
a few Tweakers, but but the people that are left that's
like are that's that's the Mountain Family.
You can't even consider them on the same level you look
at any person that uses f****** any other drug on a
regular basis for a year two years.
compared to marijuana
They're not even you know what? I mean, like the person
that uses marijuana doesn't he wouldn't even look any different. It's like
in the Rolling Stones song, like like all the
cops are criminal. All the sinner are same that's
exactly what it is. Exactly. That's how it is. It's funny
because people look at people like me
or people like Chris and they look at us like I'm a jerk
like, they're like, you're an a****** you do stuff. Like I
work my ass off. I work harder than the majority
of people that I work just for the little bit of money that
we do make I don't do anything wrong. I don't steal.
I'm not a criminal. I don't hurt anybody. I'm not hurting anybody
else the pot that we smoke isn't hurting
us. It doesn't hinder me from working. I work 15 hours
a day. I don't understand why we're looked upon
like such criminals and jerks and assholes and
freaks, you know, there's no reason for it.
Blah blah
blah my mind. I I
saw my
mind all I see this people trying to
fight don't have to tell me how
we're just people be careful. What
questions you ask in these words. Are you buried?
Eating my mushrooms.
But that tastes like caca I part.
with my peppy Pepsi you got my full you f*****
drink all like that she know that she
so cops now you in this area.
Yeah.
I've got no man. I let
the sun grow it. I just keep it water.
When it's done, I smoke it.
So you're not sailing, right?
That's all my week.
Just for you, right? I like to smoke and I
don't want to have to pay for it. So I grow so I can smoke for free.
Costs a lot less money to spend a couple hundred dollars during groceries. You're
not in nutrients and it does to spend a couple hundred dollars on
ounce, you know, I mean, I should all go through that and f******
week maybe
a couple days for that
out. Actually, I smoke a lot.
And one way or another everybody here is connected.
Meet Alex's stepdad, the Most Wanted Man
On The Mountain Craig Galusha AKA Greg
dog. He also
grows but his style is a little bit
different.
Giving him.
Too much. Maybe don't.
take
I've been in a two rips two years
in a row lost everything and still.
can grow something from seed and make it happen and work
out here and try to succeed and
so what do we got is a
just you gotta have will you gotta want?
you're gonna just have some weed and be happy still but if
you want to be successful a huge
crop and lots of
that takes a lot of termination. That's for sure. A lot
of people don't make it always.
Gonna get like on the weed.
And this is like one pound that's like
one and a half to two pounds.
s***. Wow, I can't believe
that I was gonna this plan is gonna produce like even a pound.
That's insane.
So 2016 and this
is my first
Autoflower
I shouldn't get selfie. Selfie. Yeah.
Closer. Yeah f****** jump
all over the place.
Yeah one smile. How much
food that is all this?
Come on, which I think.
There they come here comes my little helper.
She's got some nice Popeyes on her.
Some nice little titties. It's always
nice, huh picture smile.
How many
trees is legal to grow in, Oregon? 48 48
How many I growing?
About a thousand I was
put in prison for two years for selling three grams of marijuana. I'm
getting mine back.
This was in 2003 people like
me are the reason why it's illegal still back
when I
Was younger you could go to prison
for just a little bit of weed and 1996 voted
passed it to grow in,
California.
And they blew it up in California. So I
came and rented a spot in Oregon shortly after I ran into
this spot in Oregon out of state patients were no longer
allowed to buy prescriptions. So I spent $50,000
on a piece of property that I was not
allowed to grow a marijuana on so I did it
anyways.
And it's August 1st, and I'm harvesting my
three-month autoflowers today, and there should
be about 30 pounds.
We went back to Humboldt for the biggest Gathering of
the Year Reggae on the River.
Rasta Music Festival that brings the island vibe to
the red boots. My name
is lost the Shaggy from wind island of Jamaica.
was more weirdo gonna dead said if you
don't smoke weed again, I die said if you don't
smoke kush and you don't smoke Panic, please get off
my Planet what he
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are everybody comes together and creates an
amazing Community rastas Growers hippies and
rednecks celebrate the herbal culture people hang
out smoke weed connect with other Growers and
listen to great music.
Historically, it's known for being a meeting place
for Growers and buyers. They're looking to get the best quality stuff.
Marley Brothers Anthony B Sizzla, they
all been performing in the stage of Reggae four years Bradley in
the two types of people those who smoke pot those who don't
I want to do smoke pot.
Are like me people who get along
with other people who smoke pot and smoke in
46 years. They remember your first smoke. Yep, my
aunt turned me on.
And I gave up alcohol then.
I hadn't drinking alcohol on 46 years either.
You can see people vibing enjoying themselves and it's
just natural to make friends and meet strangers when
it comes down to a massive smoke out party.
A lot of ship that is
exactly how I met my new friends mad and
Fernando. They just shared some weed when
I was in need Luka comes into the
table as we're lighting up sparking up and hey,
man, could I
join you? Of course dude, here
you go. Boom boom and it was
great to just meet somebody who is who's there? Not
not needing to be anywhere don't need to be anywhere
just be there. We want to talk about the positive things
that we connect with each other. Yeah, we
do Risky Business.
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the way I would.
Love it. I
need everything is right, except I keep
on falling I keep on running and around.
Sometimes I wonder how I keep them going on living then
I remember how you love makes me surrender man.
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fortnight.
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a tripping in the park got locked up man right here
in my heart a new it should stop but I have to
go car. I just had to go car now here come Johnny
going take no Jake. I'm gonna give no better
who won't get no better and do it
myself. We say
no to Monsanto.
you just
so yes money. This is in the Bible. So I want to
four, you know causing the grass to grow for the
cattle.
And plans for the service of Mankind's plants and
seas everything for mankind.
Yes, so the Bible tell you so cannabis
is in the Bible cannot voice. You could check it out
Google it.
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the truth in the book.
Genesis 1:29. Yeah my deceived
for man. All right.
The series for man, you have all bearing seats,
so nobody can lie to you in general corrupt
you.
Alright use the Bible on them.
Rastafari
As much as we were hoping for the cops not to show
up. They did. Oh the cops found
the Gorilla Grow everybody
walkie talkies all the neighbors and everything
and then I was sudden you hear someone chirpas.
and they go the feds are in town when they
say that that means they're coming down in their shooting through the neighborhood and
Who knows where they're gonna hit?
And it's probably 30 black SUVs going,
you know, 30 or 40 miles per hour on these dirt roads
just tearing it up, you know, and they got big horse
trailers and they got helicopters and they got
everything.
So they got all the hoses about like
three 400 feet of hose over here.
Sucks they cut all the plants.
Started get the full grasp of what they're
capable of how much money they have to put towards this
cause of taking down this plant. It's not doing anybody any
harm or anything. It's insane. It's insane that
that there's human beings that can tell you that something that this Earth
produces is somebody that you're not allowed to use. You know what I
mean? It's scary.
they come with a bunch of guns and start breaking your s*** and kicking
doors and
take you to jail.
I got a chance to talk to a guy who was right there when
the cops rolled into the neighborhood. His name
is Gary. He was working for a big-time grower at
one of his properties for the season.
I wanted to interview him first hand to understand more
about how police is treating pot growers in situations
like this. So originally here there was
I think 99 plants.
f****** law came through and cut them.
and now
I have their scraps.
You call this scraps. I don't this is nice.
I'm f****** dude takes me down to a s*** and says here. This is your job. You f******
water these 60 plants and this good,
you know, 12 of them are mine the rest so cops
came cops. You remember what day was it?
It was around August the 1st of August somewhere around there.
Yeah first it was in the morning. He was in the morning. I just got
done watering I was behind.
The f****** water tank over there.
Let me f****** point into big gun at me making 47
type s***. Yeah.
And I was looking there pointing the gun this way. So I'm
like this, you know, and then
dude comes up behind me kicks my leg.
f****** get down and they took me back up to
the hill ask me what I was doing.
You know I said I'm here working. You know, I'm here working from Ohio. I had
ID show to my s***. It was
like a war zone man people with giant machine guns pointed
at everybody, you know running around tearing s***
up yelling at people, you know, just
Some you don't ever want to be a part of that's for damn. Sure.
Getting murder, man.
Murdered all of our children. It's a beneficial plant.
But at the same time as long as our government keeps it federally illegal.
It's a cash crop for them.
They can pick and choose wherever they want to go wherever they want to go. They
can spend their money or they can take the money from the people DEA is
so reliant on
Marijuana a confiscation and busts that
if overnight that was to go legal then.
We've got a giant unemployment line problem and they
know that.
So they play a little game, you know, they arrested you or
no, they handcuffed me and let me go. Oh, right. Yeah.
Yeah, they let me go.
Okay, it's all f****** I'm walking back up
the f****** Hill and here comes Kenny to come get me.
Somebody called him and said the cops are on the mountain and he
went down and he knows he stopped I ran to the truck and
we
oh, so I went to Sam's and Kenny hid in
the woods.
You know, so coming from Ohio to California
and dealing with something like that. It kind of
sucked.
You know, what the f*** man?
The cops are mainly focused on Big Time Growers. As
I was told they fly the helicopters first
to see in which direction they should go to get the
most out of the raid or they have an exact target in
the case of this mountain. It was Kenny
G.
No, not that Kenny G the real G.
How did they bust you?
The daily busted me.
That's f******.
I want my workers was here.
Came at like 8 o'clock in the morning and told me coming like eight o'clock
in the morning. He's gonna stay in the steam the cabin here and he
shows up at 8 o'clock in the morning. We're sending her drink coffee
like a smoking and showing
talking about what are you gonna do?
I can hear someone like the stones like someone pulling the
driveway.
You know figure stones.
I looked out the window was fishing game.
Calm and I f****** traffic coffee cup drop
the joy rain is a safe at 82 Grand
in there grab that took off around the back door.
Dog caught me back there by the solar panel you started
running away and I was in my socks Whoopins t-shirt.
They really like putting on their face paint and they're
you know, they're combat boots and getting out there
and acting like there in a f****** war zone, you know, which it's
not the case new day and age. There's younger people out
here. There's people that
You know can see this as a business and you know it very
well should be there's no reason.
You know things can't work hand in hand.
We all can't make money as long as it seems
like it's gonna stay illegal at the federal level. They're gonna
continue to keep rating everybody. They're gonna keep looking for
the bigger and better fish to try to catch
or fry and
It just keeps putting everybody out. Trying to just keep everybody down
here.
82,000 all them cars all my
weed. I took like 600 pounds of weed.
It's hard f****** pounds. I mean on top of a
put me on probation and they're right and plus you're
fine. It's 5,000 hours because I thought you
just took 82,000 for
me once you like f******.
Get it from that.
The f*** good news good news.
We have a Survivor the Gorilla Grow
and big farms were gone. But lucky for us cops
missed Alex's property and few other small
farms.
You know, they can't stop everybody and that's the whole beauty of
it. You know, it's like
well, that's what it was. Anyways, you know, it was you know, everybody
taking a risk and you know, not trying to
do too much and being respectful and
You know understanding our limits and now it's
legalization. We see these Mega growths come in and
it's interesting to to wonder where
it's gonna go from here. You know, are they gonna keep busting small
farms like this or are they gonna just leave us alone? Unless do our
thing.
I guess the only time will tell the
people start getting busted of doing that s*** during the
90s with like the f****** da and comment and
all these other f****** ABC teams
that came in to f****** arrest people
and that's where you start having an indoor
grows because all these people were like, well, we can't
grow weed outside us going inside.
It's truly
fascinating how people always find a
way to get around the system indoor grows
still carry that low-key Vibe and in fact
most of the strains we know today were created indoors.
sometimes it even creates a topic for discussion between Growers,
you know, you have to have the right environment so you
have to have
You know that humidities right temperatures right
kind of soil everything from the ground
up. I don't know man. It's not you know, they don't get the natural Sun.
They don't get that energy from the earth man. They're like you
basically it's like a difference between a human being that is raised in
the real world and one that's raised in a f******
lab, you know what I mean next year.
This is you know, and the people smoke that weed and
then you know, and then and then they get that type of
energy inside him. But man, I don't really want to talk s*** about indoor Growers
man. You know what I mean? They're also trying to make money,
but the problem with me too is it's been
it's being grown chemically in indoors and these
a lot of strange chemicals. It's unregulated.
That's a big thing. It's unregulated meaning like, you
know, we're gonna go buy some sticky icky Wiki weed from a clinic
but you know some medical clinic but menopause has
been grown by, you know, some scientists in his lab
grow room in Los Angeles that doesn't
want to have bugs. So he uses every form of
non-organic everything the kill everything and
anything even probably the person smoking it
a challenge anybody to f****** do this, you know, she's just
go to Downtown LA go to Weedmaps. Click the
lab tested option and you'll see all those
f****** shots disappear.
and that means that
people are just going in give turning in whatever and it's
even worse when it gets to concentrates. You
can see how how easy it is to cover up mistakes
and just like let ship pass, you know, like all
the s*** could be covered and f****** powder mildew and we
could just f****** blast it in the oil and you'd never know
until you're f****** doctor tells you got spots in
your lives, you know, and then you got to figure it out, but that's what
was happening, you know a lot of people or
Just running trash. They take their trash and turn it into gold. Well,
of course the modern day Gold Rush people are in it
for the money. They come to California or any of the other 29
States now that have medical marijuana which
can make which people can profit off of
That's what a lot of people are afraid of like the big Industries. The
big pharmaceutical companies is making money taking money away from the
meds.
And going back to natural sources, of course, that's what that's what
starts at. All it just needs to be a plant that grows that
we can sell. We all know the pharmacy companies don't
like it blah blah because they lose the money but who likes them
anyways to government organizations that have
wasted everyone's time when it comes to marijuana.
DEA might have done some good stuff. Maybe maybe with
cocaine. I'm not sure but I
don't think so.
Anyways, they've always been the enemy for all concerned to
the people enemy to the people.
For reporters that you have several cartel. Oh,
we grew a lot of weight
for you. So close to multibility Door you play
about my face, right? This world really dollar.
Oh you're operation. I've just
changed my voice for the all, you
know seek you myself and my other people around
Well, I mean for me too, like even just
trimming I make good money. You know, I'm not I'm
not having to go sell it or get rid
of it or anything, but I just get to trim it
up all pretty and send it off and you know, there's my
paycheck for the week. Like that's what he's my bills.
that kind of people that grows the most like
if you can categorize I think my generation grows
the most 20 somethings right now.
You know the will the urge the possibilities the
options to do it and our generation is one of the biggest generations to
come yet.
You know and we're looked at as
one of the worst generations and one of the best but we do grow the
most weed. So rock on.
This was only my first season in the California weed game
and I've watched it grow bigger over time. I
realized that these people become like family
who are connected by a mysterious Force. I
came from the other side of the planet and will
still able to find my place here in California.
I truly couldn't appreciate these people enough for exposing
themselves to my camera.
So we are at this wonderful time
of the year.
Right before Harvest when we are broke as f***. We
have absolutely no food. No gas. No propane.
Yes. You have a
grease.
So this is the Broca's period
before we start making a shut ton of money.
I call it the humbling period
this is where you get to appreciate what it's like to have a s***
on a money.
happens every f****** year right before
we make Bank. We always go broke.
And everyone always panics, they're like, oh no.
But then time passes and everything turns out okay,
what's up?
Good morning. Ladies.
Good morning. Good morning. Good.
Morning. Mmm.
Damn, look at all these crystals man.
Yeah, the girls are getting cold man. Like the leaves are
starting to turn purple.
come out this
we get those cold nights.
and those cold nights cause the bug to
tighten up
It makes the bird a lot harder and a lot
more dense.
You could grow pot in the valley, but you'd have
warm nights and you'd end up with.
larvae weed
Yeah, it's interesting. There's a lot to learn. I'm
always learning and you can learn everything
but if you don't have the resources.
You got to learn how to make it the resources out of
nothing.
Greg was
the wildest one of all when it came down to grow
with a little to no money at all.
location number
why
Nicest place lead back to you. So use
somebody else's car. It looks
like it's vacated and nobody's using it
from here.
So nobody's gonna want to walk over and look around
because he right there. It looks empty, but
It's small and hidden so.
I see.
This half of the crop looks empty, but down here.
there's lots of little plants and they're hiding it's hard
to tell from the air that there's plants here because
They're not big. It isn't easy out here.
Because you always have challenges you have dead plants. You
have people who cause problems and sometimes.
They get cut down most people work in hopes
that they get paid at the end of season because plants grow a lot of things can happen.
I mean you can you can fall out in a
season for many things all those things can happen in one season
too. So you think you'll have a hundred plants?
Oh now it's down to 50 because of rain and mold or whatever
bugs, you know, and then that 50 now your partner wants
all of it and it's his yard, so he gets more and you get screwed.
Yeah, I'm happy though. I didn't have to spend any money
for new soil. It's going to be digging a new hole now.
He's making the holes bigger.
Yeah, he does most digging around here.
A backup plan is what these plants were.
I figured if I got ripped off in another spot. These
plants would be my backup plants. So.
No matter what if they come and rip these plants off.
I will put new plants in just because
Just not giving up on what you believe in is probably.
More Solitude than that than anything.
A little more rewarding to know you didn't give up.
this year
I hope it works out.
My new friends from New England invited me to join them
for some trim work.
Some strains mature earlier than others. And so
first of October the trimmigration season is
officially open.
People start
to fly in from all over the world and are
very excited to get their fingers sticky cutting the
fresh bud.
Weed isn't a drug for me because I just
smoked it regularly, you know, I got about it on a
day-to-day basis. It's part of who I am and it's part
of who all my friends are and it creates
a great culture, especially with young people around
my age.
There's all sorts of people coming around to work in
places like this.
And I'm lucky enough to be here and to take
those people and stay come work. You know, I'm saying they call
me up when I said hey.
money making season in the Wild Wild West
coming through. Oh
I got you on a ticket be ready Monday morning.
Here I am in the wild wild west the weekend and I
f****** love it.
Such a fun thing you grow up north and there's
all these young people that are all excited for the
fall season to get their scissors out
and let's start trimming pounds. If we get to work themselves
meet young people listen to music watch movies and
sit and trim trim trim trim trim, you know, and it's
crazy. It's crazy this huge industry where we get,
you know, a lot of influx of people coming from South America
Europe south of
his pain and medium and she's one of
my best friend Rebecca and he's been the same
time.
Okay, do you think yeah say something. I'm
from Almeria in Spanish. He's
just another friend she probably.
I don't know. We met one guy which helped us
and we now be dreaming for him. Yeah.
Yeah, we come here to California because
we love marijuana.
Thank you. Marijuana. Ain't
no drug. It's just
a plant a useful f****** plant, you know
useful in every way. I mean just aside
from the physical uses of the plant. Look at
this. It creates jobs. It creates happiness. It
creates a life to live a purpose to live. Even if
you're the f****** lowest bottom feeding m*********** like me.
It gives me some purpose to f****** make some money
and you know, keep on going so.
You know, it's it's not a drug. It's a
product product of a lot
to really grasp. How much weed
is being grown in Northern Cali. You would
have to visit.
One fact though is for sure. It's way
above the average how many of your friends
like people they, you know grow up like in
percentage?
a good 95%
like everyone my friends out here. I'm not
from here and I just so happened and like oh everyone
I'm friends with girls lead. Yeah. It's the real
question is who out here doesn't really about five
percent.
perfect time
Granddaddy Purple
but the blue crack
mix between blue dream and green crack and that
one might be the Super Silver.
How tall are you?
six one six two
so that plan is like 13 feet.
12 feet 12 feet
So how much pound is one plant like that behind you?
Oh, that's a smaller one. So, I mean now I'm
probably get like anywhere from like four to
seven.
And then the big ones can get 10 12, you
know.
As far as I know.
It's beautiful plant.
And there's no reason any plan
should be illegal.
Mid raspberry is illegal. How big
of a freaking problem that would be?
Everyone would have raspberries everyone would grow raspberries because
they like them same thing with this.
back to work
the moment
with all been waiting for
and then and
So it happened a long
awaited crop Dober Harvest Time cash in
or whatever you want to call it. Basically
we are one of the ones that survived
all the b******* and nonsense and
oh my God, we're ready to count the
money.
You're broke. You're basically broke the whole year you're growing weed. You don't have
any money. You're you're for the next six six to
eight months. You're basically you're committed to growing weed
raising the little clones then prepping the dirt putting them
in the dirt taking care of them. And then you're worried as f***. You
you're hoping that the cops don't cut your f****** weed down, you
know, so you go through all the stress and then finally you
cut the weed down you dry it.
And you know, if you did a great job it comes out super f******
dank as f*** and then you sell it and this
is the best part. I love it because then you start getting just these
Stacks and stacks and stacks of cash.
You know, it's neat thing you think about it?
you get these kids come all over the world and they sit on
around at around table and they're trimming weed and they're discussing
things like music ideas culture politics, right
and so in a way, it's become a
world a form for
so the world conversation a peaceful minded people mind you.
I mean don't don't go for it to find
we to go for it to find that experience that
person you're smoking with should be
a new person a new day.
And it's a incredible thing to experience that because guess
what weed you could buy it. You could
have that you will you could find it on the streets.
That's everywhere. What's not everywhere is the person you get it
from the love that they might have put into it.
And the knowledge that could come with it.
You never know who you're going to meet.
I fell in love with this culture. I went in
with the purpose to find out what it was all about. And I
discovered way more than just a high. I discovered
a land full of opportunities I went
for the weed. But what I really found was my pirate
family. My ganja smokers my real brothers
and sisters just in this little piece of
land called The Emerald Triangle. I've met people from all
over places like New England Chicago Puerto
Rico, Mexico, Spain, Utah,
Arizona, Ohio, Tennessee, Russia,
Italy Panama and South America.
It's truly fascinating how something like a weed
plant brings us together because we share the same
views and beliefs.
hanging and drying and cutting
and bucking
You know, you keep the humidity at like, you know 65, it's
perfect with this like temperature. I
got pulled over the other
day.
Mountain Shasta
Where's your gas stations? Somebody marijuana hated on
me called the sheriffs and they pulled me over 40 pounds
of weed in the truck.
Joe
but I'm out back up in Oregon.
So if I got pulled over with one trunk load, so
just think how many Trump loads this has to be?
a lot of trunk loads
as soon
after this interview Jacob ended up going to jail for
the same old thing transportating marijuana all
because of a possession of a handgun.
While in jail, Jacob also lost his
wife and his son ocean was taken away
from him.
For need work, so they don't know it
by doing that. They're creating more crime.
Of people doing, you know worse crimes people
are killing people over where people just
smoke and educate their families children and
friends about it.
It's not.
Gregory DeLucia was shot dead on December 7 2019
who shot him his neighbor.
Yeah, the same old man Joe that we
were once hanging out and shooting guns with.
Crazy Life
now Joe is facing life in prison.
Greg was only 44 years old. This wasn't
weed related. This was
meth
the cards for both ways
I mean some cops somewhere could have got shot over freaking someone having
a pound, you know or something influence someone
over for a pound a week stressful business on
that aspect.
And it's definitely not for the weary, you
know.
It's a lot of work.
but
it's a
the lifestyle in itself is addicting.
You know marijuana is definitely the number one
reason why we come here the culture is
why we like it here and the lifestyle
is why we stay for myself.
Walk no more my feet are so I fell down
to the floor swamin swam couldn't swim no more. That's why
I couldn't breathe no more. I'd started
from when I was 16 years old learning how to
do this s***.
Snake it in my backyard in New Hampshire from my mom
hiding it behind my s*** trying to get it on
edge of the field.
Marijuana is kind of like a
newspaper.
Gets people gone.
So that's a very positive thing about
it. It gets people moving and it gets people communicating
and that's what got me here.
Talking communicating it brought me
out.
I wouldn't be in the city and let some
random dude off my whip just to come hang out and come help me at my
construction job. You know I'm saying cuz your boss are probably telling the
f*** off but around here. We have people that are really nice
and that's the beauty of a man.
It's all it's all laid back. It's all relaxed and
It's all one man. We're all we're all
here for the love and the happiness, you know, and I think that's that's
what we're pushing for here is not only
our love and our happiness, but other people's you guys,
you know I'm saying.
summertime
and they say it's a good life.
Just goes to show the whole world. We are we all
want the same thing. We all want love we all want. Peace. We
all want food. We all want survival and that's it.
They
and they say it's a good.
Broken, like I I
was
so
my mind only seek these people trying to
fight. You don't have to tell me how to live my
life. b**** b**** Don't Kill My Vibe. I
don't need a f****** wife. I'm just a white
smoking weed is not a crime. We're some
Pringles with the high call me hippie, but
you should know that I'm a pirate call me skinny that
you should know that I'm violent. You're the
sirens now. I'm blind like you.
Love love this one my
mind that I know America.