HappyDay Farms at The Emerald Cup in 2018. (Kate B. Maxwell/Bay City News)

Casey O’Neill is a farmer and owner of Happy Day Farms in Laytonville, Calif. The opinions expressed in this column do not necessarily reflect the views of The Mendocino Voice. If you’d like to write your own column for The Mendocino Voice, send your idea to info@mendovoice.com.

Change does not come easy.  Last night, along with advocates Jude Thilman and Hannah Nelson, I received a Mendocino Cannabis Advocacy Award at an event hosted by the Mendocino Cannabis Alliance.  Looking around the room at farmers, friends and fellow policy wonks made me reflect on the journey of the last ten years of changes in cannabis.  

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Kate Maxwell founded the Mendocino Voice in 2016 along with Adrian Fernandez. She served as publisher until June 2024 when the Mendocino Voice merged with the nonprofit Bay City News Foundation, led by...