Jackie Bryant

It was July 2020 and I was in Jacumba Hot Springs, a high desert town populated with scrub, Live Oak trees and about 500 people. I’d just come from a protest in nearby Campo, where contractors were building a new section of border wall.

Johnny Casali spent 8 years in prison for growing cannabis at his southern Humboldt County home and farm. Now, decades later, he has a tourism license for the same farm, where he now legally grows cannabis.