— Booming thunderclaps cracked like gunfire through the cold night air as heavy branches snapped off ancient redwood trees and slammed to the earth 200 feet below. Without his rental properties, livestock and cannabis retail and distribution operations, Humboldt Homegrown and Green Ox, Taliaferro said he is not sure he could survive by just growing pot as he did when he first got into the industry and black market marijuana was going for $5,000 a pound. "Everyone thinks we have millions of dollars buried in the woods," Chaitanya said, adding that the couple is taking on credit card debt