![]() ![]() (C) The Emerald Cup, courtesy of Chapter 2 Agency How Did the Emerald Triangle Survive California's Campaign Against Marijuana Planting (CAMP)? ” Tim Blake, founder of The Emerald Cup, right, meets Al Harrington, former NBA player and founder/CEO of Viola Brands, left. That changed the whole industry to indoor because they were busting. Instead of six months, you did twenty years. “In the late 70s to mid 80s, I watched the industry explode,” Blake recalls, “which led to the private prisons and the mandatory minimum prison sentences. As he remembers, it was an exciting time but also fraught with danger. Blake, who calls himself “a cannabis outlaw,” was a key player in the Emerald Triangle’s rise to prominence during the pivotal early decades of the legacy market. From the 1960s onward, the Northern California region comprising Mendocino, Humboldt, and Trinity Counties has been known as the Emerald Triangle, the largest cannabis-producing region in the United States. Most of that change began in Blake’s home base of Mendocino County, California. “I started out in ’73,” Blake tells Honeysuckle. Watch Honeysuckle's interview with Tim Blake at the 2022 Emerald Cup Harvest Ball: Emerald Cup Founder Tim Blake: A Legacy in California's Emerald Triangle This year, the Cup celebrated its 19th anniversary, but the event’s founder and producer Tim Blake marked an even more impressive milestone – his 50th as a cannabis entrepreneur. Considered “the Academy Awards of cannabis” by those in and outside the space (and once dubbed such by Rolling Stone), The Emerald Cup is the world’s longest running organic cannabis competition, B2B and community gathering. ![]()
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