Pot Town, USA: We gotta make a living, man
Marijuana products on sale at The Humbolt Cooperative in Arcata.
Stephen Gasparas was destined for this fog-chilled, redwood-shrouded coast — America’s most renowned region for legal cultivation of marijuana.
He started growing skunky-smelling pot as a young man, in the closet of his mother’s suburban Chicago home. Later he visited cannabis fields in India. Ultimately, he shared spiritual puffs at a gathering of the famous moveable commune, the Rainbow Family, where a grizzled hippie told him Humboldt “is the place you ought to be.”
Today, Gasparas, 39, is a medical marijuana entrepreneur operating legally in Humboldt County. He has moved from cultivating pot for personal use to heading a cannabis growing and buying collective he says has served 4,000 medical marijuana users.
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