Special Collection is located on the third floor of Cal Poly Humboldt and has numerous collections related to cannabis history. Please visit to learn how the archive can help your research!
The series of five books, chronic freedom, dirt, light, 3 books and Big Drug Factory – Unfound, by Scott Holmquist, represent a single work and unified attempt to survey, collect and interrogate traces of the histories comprising the back-to-the-land and marijuana production worlds as they evolved in Southern Humboldt County, California, from the late 1960s through 2010.
CAMP (Campaign Against Marijuana Planting) was a cooperative program between local, state and federal government agencies. It supplies funds and personnel aimed at diminishing the amount of marijuana that is grown in California, and provided assistance for prosecuting those persons arrested. The reports in this collection are issued from the California Department of Justice, Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement (BNE). The full reports describe the organizational structure and the year's participants, a summary of the season's activities, tactics, and mention of special successes, trends and hazards.
Their mission is to collect and conserve documents for public use related to activism, business, and art for social justice, peace, and the environment, as well as histories of counterculturists, back-to-the-landers, and cannabis growers’ lives in and around Humboldt, Trinity and Mendocino, California counties. With an emphasis on the late 1960s to present.
Located in Willits, their mission is to continue to collect, preserve, and exhibit memorabilia detailing the story of cannabis, not only in Mendocino County, the home of the Emerald Triangle, but beyond.
This collection consists of items dated 1973 to 2021. The collection contains text-based materials, photographs, ephemera, and oral histories documenting the passage of legislation regarding recreational marijuana and its socio-economic impact.
