High Times At Rusty Shovel Ranch

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Marijuana farmers in California’s fabled Emerald Triangle are ready to go legit. Will it be enough for them to survive?

YTONVILLE, California — Standing in a clearing high in the hills of California’s Mendocino County and surrounded by oak and fir trees, Kevin Porter gazes with pride at his plot of marijuana plants. The 25 bushes in this part of Porter’s 150-acre Rusty Shovel Ranch lend a light aroma of high-grade cannabis to the mid-morning breeze.

“Hi, girls!” Porter says, squinting under the wide brim of his floppy straw hat, which, along with his beard and shaggy gray hair, make the perennially easygoing 51-year-old resemble a well-fed Don Quixote. “They’re all looking good,” he says, smiling.

“Legalization makes sense for me because I am trying to build something for the future of my kids and grandkids. There is no future in staying illegal.”

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