RECORD CROP-SNATCH OUTSIDE SANTA ROSA
PHOTO BY JAY STONNE ON UNSPLASH
What goes through the mind of the gangster growing weed in the mountains as news breaks of cops seizing more than 63,000 plants in Sonoma County? Does it feel like the tightening of a noose? Or has the Summer of Eradication — which seems as oblivious to traditional Labor Day cutoffs as the heat itself — functioned simply as a super-challenging new variable . . .

