The South End, being a bit occupationally challenged, has always relied on alternative avenues of work to sustain us.\u00a0 In the 20\u2019s we used our inaccessibility to advantage by bringing in Canadian hooch through our coves and hidden ports.\u00a0 Course, we added our own single stalk nettle scotch to the blend and managed to prosper even into the Great Depression.\u00a0 The end of prohibition cut into the Canadian stock, but Daddle Distillery continues to this day back in the ravines where Revenuers rarely trek.<\/p>\n
In the 60\u2019s a new breed of entrepreneur flurourished here in the backwoods, men who accepted risk for high profit.\u00a0 I\u2019m talking, obviously, about the Green Trade, Camano Cannabis.\u00a0 You\u2019d see the sheds with the boarded up windows or the plots bordered by 8 foot high nettles to hide the outdoor crops.\u00a0 An underground market flourished from Elger Bay to Tyee, and homegrown became a staple and a lifestyle.\u00a0 Some say the artists who gravitated down to the island\u2019s far reaches were inspired by Killer Kannabis or Two Toke or Bud Bomb.\u00a0 Others claim they were the new Pharmers of the South End, painters and sculptors who turned their creative energies to horticulture.\u00a0 Or hortichuckle.<\/p>\n
These Avante Gardeners now find their way of life threatened with the onslaught of another end to prohibition now that the tidal wave of medical marijuana has reached their hidden shores.\u00a0 No doubt some will adapt.\u00a0 Hazy Jake says he\u2019ll switch to hydroponics and slick marketing.\u00a0 He\u2019s enrolled at the Skagit Community College where he\u2019ll bone up on biogenetics and website design.\u00a0 Jake should do fine.\u00a0 But some of the others \u2026.. well, a lot of bootleggers went broke overnight following the Repeal.\u00a0 My guess is you\u2019ll be seeing an upsurge in art real soon.\u00a0 Not much profit, but we need to stay busy down here\u2026..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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