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Growing for Good: The Yasha Farms Story Behind the High Times Feature
Yasha Farms was featured in High Times for building a regenerative Oregon cannabis farm from the soil up. Here is how the field, biology, infrastructure, and harvest systems were built—and why each step mattered.
Cannabis Culture & History
Cannabis Culture & History — Part I: Ancient Roots to Early North America
Cannabis Culture: Our Story – A Brief Cannabis has been woven into human culture for so long that it’s impossible to capture its full story in a few pages. What follows is a brief, pointed overview—one that celebrates its legacy and looks honestly at how that legacy shapes life today. Across generations and continents, cannabis…
Cannabis Culture & History — Part II: Prohibition, Counterculture, and the 1980s
← Part I 1930s–1960: Criminalization, Propaganda, and Survival Underground Cannabis didn’t become illegal because of science, or danger, or even morality. It became illegal because it got in the way. At the turn of the 20th century, hemp threatened timber and synthetic fiber interests. The pharmaceutical industry couldn’t patent a plant people were already growing…
Cannabis Culture & History — Part III: Medical Cannabis, Legalization, and the Modern Era
← Part II The 1990s: Proposition 215 and a Movement Hardens The 1990s was the decade when cannabis finally broke out of the shadows and began pushing into the mainstream. Medical cannabis became the rallying cry, even as much of the weed being smoked was still the compressed “beasters” from Canada or the outdoor buds…