Harborside Health Center continuously strives to be at the forefront of all aspects of the medical cannabis movement. In the current era of scarce, costly resources and global environmental degradation, it is becoming readily apparent that we can no longer remain ignorant of the full environmental price of our medicine. Doing the math, the benefits of outdoor - or sun-grown cannabis (as we prefer to call it) - vastly outweigh the artificial, resource-intensive methods of growing indoors.

The sun-grown cannabis of today is a much different medicine than it was even ten short years ago. The commercial production of cannabis was literally pushed into the shadows from the 1980s to the 1990s. Plants that had once flourished under California’s glorious sun were forced under the shade of Redwood trees and Manzanita bushes. Cultivators switched to indoor grows, where this incredible adaptive plant - with the potential to grow sixteen feet tall or more - was confined and restricted to a much smaller space.