“Pioneers of Pot” talk at the Kelley House Museum on Sept 23

MENDOCINO CO., 9/20/18 — This Sunday, September 23, the Kelley House Museum will be holding a talk focused on the “Pioneers of Pot,” as part of their ongoing exhibit “Outlaws of the 20th Century: Rum Runner and Pot Farmers.” The talk will take place at 3:30 p.m. and feature two speakers: Pebbles Trippet, a long-time cannabis activist based in Mendocino County, and Brian Applegarth, founder of the non-profit The Cannabis Trail, which is “dedicated to preserving and celebrating northern California’s cannabis heritage,” as well as the cannabis tour company Emerald Country Tours.

The talk is part of an ongoing Sunday speakers series organized in conjunction with the ongoing exhibit, which runs through November 12. That exhibit outlines the parallels between our region’s history of bootleggers during alcohol prohibition in the 1920s, and the underground cannabis growers that took to Mendocino’s hills in the 1970s. The presentation by Trippet and Applegarth will trace the history of cannabis over the last several decades, up until the current state of legal recreational weed.