The Emerald Triangle is the first social history of the world’s favorite illegal drug, how it became legal and its impact on our culture.

The film focuses on the legendary heartland of cannabis:

• The rise of the original underground growers,
• Attacks on their outlaw nation,
• How they survived everything… except legalization.
• “We won. But we lost, because they legalized it,” says Al Ceraulo, an original grower (OG).

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Here is the latest trailer for the film:

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Cannabis was a crossroads where conflicting values met:

• The 60’s cultural explosion was detonated by a toke on a joint. Paul McCartney claimed he was thinking for the first time, “really thinking.”
• President Reagan, certain that marijuana damaged the brain, poured money into research that proved the opposite,
• Drug prohibition became the new Jim Crow that locked up a generation of black men,
• From AIDS to epilepsy, patients rallied around cannibis as medicine,
• “It’s a remarkable story, the fact that people have rallied around a plant and overthown a paradigm, a social structure, a legal system. And the plant has led the way,” said Martin Lee, project advisor, author of Smoke Signals, and Head of Project CBD.