Jonah Raskin
Mendelsohn Raises the Bar
Lauren Mendelsohn, 29, grew up back East. She graduated from the UC Irvine School of Law in 2016, the year California voters...
Chuck Ross’ Secret Ingredient
Chuck Ross, 42, the man behind the fledgling company, F.A. Nino’s, has found a way to marry his own passions with the...
Aaron Keefer Grows Veggies & Pot
The “No Pot on Purvine” signs are gone and so are some of the anti-pot citizens who lived on Purvine Road and...
Jewel Mathieson: Fearless Activist
She called herself “a breast cancer survivor, dancer, award-winning storyteller and poetry slam champion.” Jewel Mathieson was all those things and much...
Cannabis and the County
A sense of frustration characterizes the mood of the Sonoma County cannabis community, but cultivators are also smiling more now.
Wine Country Women Fight Glyphosate
Call it Wine Country or call it Glyphosate Country. According to Padi Selwyn, the cofounder of Preserve Rural Sonoma County, and Laura...
Ivan Escobar is in Heaven
Ivan Escobar works in cannabis heaven, or as they say south of the border, Estamos en la gloria. Born in Michoacán, 21-years-old,...
Sonoma Patient Group covers the North Bay
“Drive!” Kevin McEachern tells his team. The delivery manager at the Sonoma Patient Group (SPG), the oldest and longest-operating cannabis dispensary in...
Marijuana Act reverses Nixonian law
Cannabis groups come and go, but NORML, the granddaddy of cannabis organizations, has been around ever since 1970. The National Organization for...
Growth Mindset
Alex Rowland has lived most of his adulthood in the U.S., but for his first seven years or so he called the...
