Buying product in the Emerald Triangle involves hours of waiting, driving, and waiting some more. When the would-be sellers finally do show up, with something to sell that’s actually worth buying, cash gets counted on site, and the buying process begins. Trinity loves to wait at the cat pee bookstore and laughs at Bob’s irritability as they wait on the brokers who are waiting on the farmers.
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You only get one chance to make a first impression, and the boys’ farm did not miss that opportunity. Mixing the Art of Living, in spite of remote and difficult conditions, with the science of growing takes lots of planning and hard work. And, unless Crazy Jared is in charge, the boys were successful at both.
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The Redwood Highway is a dark and mysterious path, shrouded by majestic, 3,000-year-old giants. A short respite in Laytonville holds it own unique surprises, but the spell quickly deepens on Spy Rock and Bell Spring county roads as our couriers arrive at the destination of their journey. So many super-secret secrets of the industry. The rule of thumb is, there’s always a Utah connection.
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Trinity encounters a gangster, with a 9mm, in his electric blue Honda Civic. Fortunately, her limited exposure to gang violence quickly passes as he zooms off into the dusty evening of California’s central valley. Our couriers finally arrive at the Redwood Highway, only to be stopped cold at the Willits Friday Night Street Festival. Protesters come to the rescue of ancient Redwoods threatened by our modern roadways.
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Staying in the same hotels trip after trip heightens the awareness of the staff to a courier who fills with her bags with cold hard cash. Traveling while white, however, brings its own anonymity. Nevada is full of intensity with larger than life bon fires, white knuckle rides, psychotic pioneers, and the amazing Chinese culture.
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Law enforcement uses the latest technologies from the intelligence community, the military and electronic surveillance to catch their targets. Take a cell phone with you on the road and DEA snatches up your emails, texts, photos and contacts. And, worst of all, convenience store clerks are paid bounty hunters in the game between the law and all of us.
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Driving cannabis loads from California to Utah for the better part of 5 years gave Trinity a unique perspective and awareness. Her whiteness cloaked her from the watchful eyes of law enforcement, but she saw how DWB automatically caused people of color to be in the crosshairs of state cops and DEA.
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It’s becoming more obvious that we live in a police state, even if many of us never think the criminal justice system will touch our protected lives. Trinity experienced, 1st-hand, the battle between the federal government’s war on drugs and legalization of marijuana by the states. Ride along, and listen in, as she describes how she, her family, and our nation have become entrenched in the business of criminal justice and the prison industry that now touches the lives of one out of every three Americans.
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Trinity talks about gaining courage to reveal the truth about the drug world and prison industry. She reminisces about all the characters and people she’s met on her adventures in The Emerald Triangle. And, a final twist in Trinity’s story for the listeners.
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Pondering on recent newspaper stories, Trinity compares her experiences as a driver with couriers from Medford, NY who were busted May 1, 2020, carrying just under a million dollars cash on CA’s Interstate 5. She ponders and speculates what it was exactly that led to Frank Capraro and Desmond McDays’ arrest on the way to pick up their load in NorCal. Could it have been the Fed’s super stealth Stingray technology, the boys’ naiveté regarding their ability to stay under the radar, or the $500 cash bounty that brought attention from the authorities?
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