Check out Stone Road, an off-the-grid cannabis farm with big cannatourism dreams

What’s it prefer to be a craft hashish cultivator making an attempt to develop authorized weed in California? There are most likely as many various solutions to — and tales about — that as there are pot farms throughout the Golden State. And a kind of tales belongs to Lex Corwin, the 28-year-old founder and chief government of Stone Highway Farms, a model that has its headquarters in Venice, simply steps from the Pacific Ocean, and a cluster of greenhouses 400 miles due north on a distant Nevada Metropolis, Calif. hilltop.

It was to that latter location I trekked with the Inexperienced Room video crew again in September for a tour of Corwin’s 57-acre property, the centerpiece of which is a biodynamic, off-the-grid develop operation that makes use of water from the bottom under and sunshine from the sky above to show month-old seedlings first into towering pot crops after which jars of aromatic flower and packs of prerolled joints.

Our go to additionally included a frank dialogue of the challenges — regulatory and in any other case — that face California pot farmers, what it’s prefer to helm a queer-owned hashish model and a have a look at Corwin’s plans for the way forward for his weed-in-the-wilderness unfold, a future that features a cluster of experiential leases and wine-country-style cannatourism. (It’s value noting that, whereas a variety of the state’s small-scale hashish ventures face most of the similar hurdles as Corwin’s now 6-year-old firm, his entry to some capital — via family and friends investments — places him in a greater place out of the beginning gate than most of these making an attempt to joust the windmills of the California regulatory panorama.)

Though opening Stone Highway Farms to the cannacurious public continues to be a methods off, you possibly can take a digital go to — proper now — just by watching episode 7 of the Inexperienced Room, The Occasions’ new video collection that focuses on California’s hashish commerce and tradition. Watch our first six episodes, which embrace a joint-rolling lesson from ’60s music icon David Crosby , an try at stoned yoga and a information to low-dose hashish choices, at latimes.com/subject/hashish.