From Gold Rush to Green Rush
The environmental consequences of cannabis cultivation

* "Professor Kaitlin Reed (Yurok/Hupa/Oneida) argues that the state's booming cannabis industry can be situated squarely within other extractive settler colonial enterprises such as gold mining and overfishing."

“The real gold is not gold, after all, but the land itself”

Kaitlin P. Reed, "Settler Cannabis: From Gold Rush to Green Rush in Indigenous Northern California" (U Washington Press, 2023) >>
https://read.dukeupress.edu/agricultural-history/article-abstract/100/1/140/407075/Settler-Cannabis-From-Gold-Rush-to-Green-Rush-in?redirectedFrom=fulltext

* Reed "connects California cannabis production to the violence and dispossession of Indigenous land and people."

"Young countercultural back-to-the-land settlers flocked to northwestern California beginning in the 1960s, and by the 1970s, unregulated cannabis production proliferated on Indigenous lands."
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/de/document/doi/10.1515/9780295751573/html

#cannabis #extractivism #agriculture #logging #overfishing #BackToTheLand #counterculture #GreenIdyll #SettlerSociety #GoldRush #GreenRush #CannabisIndustry #water #pollution #disposession #FirstNationsPeoples #IndigenousPeoples
Image: Country idyll with river

kitsch, cannibalism, and counterculture
https://mike.puddingtime.org/posts/2026-04-27-kitsch--cannibalism--and-counterculture/

#Woke #Politics #Socialjustice #Kitsch #Counterculture

Dear Friends off USA,

What can we do if an allied cuntry?

1) Vote for #alternatives
2) Implement alternatives
3) Write to the #indigenous 'authorities'

In other words create a a group of #counterculture people ready, willing and #enabled/#empowered.

For example:

a) I live in a safe Labour (Kier Star-murmer) seat. Will be voting #Wandsworth #Greens.
b) Have written (to be redirected) to Number 10 (non digital)
c) #America is not my problem? Oh it is. Oh and how! Fight for better rites. Or remain #outside them

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Oh and pig-tech is funded by compliance not Private bit-bat-con-coin hedge finding or funding. Just so you #know.