“I’ve been lucky,” the tall, thin, energetic pot farmer tells me on a hot day in September. “I grew my first crop at 17 and…
Posts published by “Jonah Raskin”
Sometimes San Francisco really sucks. It sucked one cold, foggy day last week when I tried to get into George Washington High School to see…
“Save the Whales!” Who hasn’t heard the cry that’s now timelier than ever before? It’s not only the commercial hunting of whales that’s to blame…
Last month I wrote an article about the 1970s group, Weather Underground, which was published in Tablet magazine. It prompted a response from Daniel Greenfield,…
The other day at Peet’s Coffee on Broadway in the town of Sonoma, I had a conversation with a young woman I have known for…
“He’s gone. Feel free to spread the word,” Michael Simmons said in an email that went out to a few dozen or so of the…
The National Association for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML)— which was founded in 1970 by Keith Stroup and that now has 135 chapters nation-wide…
Crops begin with seeds and so do ideas. To thrive, they both need friendly environments and human beings who nurture them
When my friends ask librarians to recommend a novel by a local author that’s set in Sonoma County they suggest Greg Sarris’s Watermelon Nights and Jack London’s The…