Sweet! Glad you could add to your collection
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Found a pretty interesting oral history interview with a longtime NorCal (Big Sur) grower named Oliver Bates, here’s the abstract:
Abstract
Oliver Bates is the president of the Big Sur Farmers Association and a thirty-year veteran of the
cannabis industry. A native of California’s Central Coast, Bates began growing cannabis in the
secluded mountains of Big Sur where he applied the methods passed down from elder farmers in
the community. With the passage of Proposition 215 in 1996, which legalized medical cannabis
in California, he became one of Monterey County’s earliest open cultivators. The medical boom
of the next two decades would see him involved in growing operations in the Emerald Triangle
(namely Mendocino and Humboldt counties), Oregon, Colorado, and Santa Cruz. In 2012, Bates
returned to Big Sur with the aim of growing organic, legacy strains of cannabis. With the passage
of Proposition 64, which legalized cannabis for recreation in California, he helped found the Big
Sur Famers Association, a mutual benefit non-profit that works to support, protect, and advance
the rights of cannabis cultivators in the region. In this interview, Bates discusses growing up in
Carmel and Big Sur; the history and culture of cannabis in the region; the hippie trail and
importation of cannabis seeds into Big Sur; the development of strains such as Big Sur Holy
Weed, Big Sur Chamba, and SAGE, among others; the family networks connecting Big Sur and
Northern Mendocino and Southern Humboldt counties; the impact of the War on Drugs; early
experience growing cannabis; opportunities of the medical cannabis market; growing in Big Sur
and Northern Mendocino/Southern Humboldt; working at Spyrock community; shifts and
consumer impact of the medical market; stepping into indoor hydroponic cultivation; growing in
Oregon and Colorado; coming back to California and opening his operation in Santa Cruz;
further development of strains and THC products in medical market; coming back to Big Sur and
returning to a natural, low-impact cultivation; his hopes and anxieties around full legalization;
the passage of Proposition 64; forming the Big Sur Farmers Association; and his reflections on
the evolution of cannabis culture in Big Sur.
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It’s interesting to see him claiming SAGE as his own. Snowhigh said SAGE was from a plant called Trip or Holy Weed and not Big Sur holy weed. He said it was completely different. I wonder what the real story is
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Just picked one these up don’t know a lot about it but mine has no dust jacket and is a library copy but I think one in your condition might be worth a good bit what do you think its worth?
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I would like to know also I trust snowhigh though he spent a lot of time learning and gathering information
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That one isn’t mine, but in that condition….maybe $150 ish, in great shape…between 3 and $600
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My same thoughts
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Around 50 for no dust jacket I would say maybe
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Yeah that’s about right.
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Did Buds really get sold in those cans or just novelty item from Hawaii?
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Those were a novelty item.
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Very cool stuff
Not easy to find the real these days
A pound of flesh
Not many takers
Real actions live forever and change our world
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Neat! That’s new to me, can read it online at the Internet Archive, fortunately:
@Upstate I know you love old cannabis pharmaceutical stuff from Parke-Davis and the like
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At the info they contain is worth more than the books.
@Dirt_Wizard thanks for the tag. The old books are very helpful when it comes to landraces.
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Are you a collector @Upstate ?
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@buckaroobonsai No, just old enough that books i bought when young are now old lol.
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I almost picked this up over the weekend
Looks really nice but the info is hot garbage.
It lists Exodus Cheese as Skunk #1 x Afghani, among other (wrong) things. The pics look nice tho! But id avoid it.
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This is amazing I’ve been collecting a lot of Parke & Davis catalogs but never knew something like this existed
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