something because they are ignorant of the fact they don't know what they don't know. although we see more and more younger folks coming through, which is great. not an hour goes by so that makes us happy and we are still on that path. >> bought our trip to oakland, california, we spoke with emily brady whose book "humboldt" discusses humboldt, california known for its target of marijuana. >> i wrote this book because i was really curious about the community of marijuana farmers. i grew up in northern california and the wine country san francisco. where i grew up there was this region that was a pot town. i was wondering how these five

towns were adapting to marijuana, medical of michael. i wondered what a pot town was like, what happens in a community of people grow marijuana and how does that affect their lives. the whole town is located in california four hours north of san francisco. humboldt is a rural community and other humboldt was the hard limits of marijuana in his area about 20,000 people in the town themselves are a couple thousand. you read that, mercator, the big cities. i originally went up there for a week and returned to california and there is a change in the air. it looked like it was in the past back in 2010.

these people had to say. they drove up there and it was so interesting people are talking about the secrecy and what they did for a living and decided to stick around. i ended up living in the community for over a year to earn people's trust and to understand this place. a lot of people heard about humboldt county around the country. a lot of journalists go through there every year. people learn about their stories, but she really and how the industry began, and was psyched for a kid living lives and they built themselves and they were pretty poor.

a lot of them were on welfare actually. they found they could grow their own marijuana and they found their friends back home, back in the city could make a little bit of money selling it to them. and then there was this discovery which was a way to grow really strong marijuana. he discovered where hawaii and the way to grow really strong marijuana that is discovered in the late 70s in humboldt. it is very strong, people really likes it. a lot of money came in. in the mid-90s they had her medical marijuana laws and around that time marijuana in

humboldt, farmer friends making $6000 a pound and can grow it openly in the sun. they hid it in little places, but it was very lucrative. now since medical marijuana allowed anybody in the garage or a guarded to get a permit to grow their own pot, marijuana production began all over the state and rural california that was destroying that. so right about now, marijuana is go in about $1500, $1200 a pound. so there is a drop in profit. the legalization masher in 2010

with washington and colorado have done. it was about the same price and they were very afraid the market would not amount. the way prohibition has been. and that town, they give a present, but the majority of people are not growing it. they are cutting the, processing it. 75% to 95% of people are involved. the store owners and people who do other things to supplement their income. i never encountered a huge rate, can the multivehicle carton away that way that comes out and does

a huge bust, but you read about them all the time in the paper and they tend to be for big rows of like housing plants are more and i was never involved in any of those. i spent a year had a year hanging out the sheriff deputy, writing around with them and one-time, for instance we went to a garden and there was a time of red way. right next to the tomatoes and strawberries growing marijuana plants, but they didn't have a medical permit. he was really frustrated. the simplest thing and you don't have it. but as a couple and they had a kid and unfortunately they weren't following the law. i think eventually they will

calm and at the end of prohibition, and now you have big industrial and smaller features and i think there is a place for master growers have humboldt and in the economy in a way it is kind of like the last small farming community in america where everybody can make a pretty reasonable living farming and once that is the not too the larger market. al