Every plant has a provenance. Every grower has a gospel.
A media collective unearthing the lineage behind every strain, every grower, and every law that shaped cannabis culture.
A century of stories, one season at a time.
Scroll through the timeline. Each tile is a chapter. Together they form the full provenance.
Hear the Archive
A two-minute cut from our pilot session — recorded in a Ukiah barn with a man who has been growing the same cut since 1978.
The Emerald Triangle
How three Northern California counties became the cradle of American sinsemilla
Humboldt Gospel
The back-to-landers who built a parallel economy in the hills
"We weren't criminals. We were farmers. The law just hadn't caught up to that yet."
— Legacy grower, Mendocino County, 1994
CAMP Season
The helicopters came every September. The growers learned to disappear
Proposition 215
The AIDS crisis, Dennis Peron, and the ballot box that changed everything
Dispensary Zero
The first storefronts operated in legal grey — and most of them didn't survive
OG Kush: A Disputed Ancestry
Genetic Lineage — Disputed
Florida, Chemdawg, and the argument that's been running since 1993
I-502 and the Morning After
Washington state woke up legal. The legacy growers didn't know whether to celebrate
"Every strain name is a biography. Someone grew it, named it, loved it enough to clone it a thousand times."
— Sesh, Episode Zero preview
The License Lottery
When the state handed out permits, old-timers found themselves starting over
Pulling a worn Polaroid from a shoebox.
Sesh is built for the people who know that every dispensary jar has a story that predates the label. From Humboldt basements to licensed storefronts, we record the voices that legalization is trying to footnote.
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