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I’d have to say Ed has more or less done it all at one time or another. Certainly, he’s a formidable writer and photographer. But that career was built on his experiences as a grower and breeder. In the late 90s he offered a full menu of indoor and outdoor varieties, several of which preserved and advanced some classics of early Californian cannaculture, such as Ortega Indica and J1, sold through Legends Seeds.
Later, he became the first US grower to get an official license from a local government (city of Oakland, CA) to grow cannabis for the city’s dispensaries. That led to his arrest, trial and incarceration by US Attorney Haag, which successfully argued that Rosenthal could not even mention his official licensee status with Oakland in his defense - a fact that several jurors said would have led them to acquit.
His prosecution was instrumental in the Obama admin releasing the Holder memo, which basically ordered the US attorneys to stand down from prosecuting folks who were otherwise obeying state laws. It remains the legal umbrella under which all the legal states operate to this day. Thanks Ed.
Ed’s done a lot more than write a column and take pictures of buds, although he does those things very well. And I can attest from personal experience, he grows the dankest of the dank…
-b420
