Every so often, a cannabis book comes along that feels like it has been missing from the shelf for years. Veronica “Vee” Castillo’s Cannabis Legacy Chronicles Series: The Traveling Cannabis Writer’s Guide to America’s Hidden Gems – Part 1: The 30,000-Foot View is one of those rare finds.
We read it cover to cover and it is clear: Vee has built something more than a travelogue. This is six years of crisscrossing the United States, living out of suitcases, rental cars, and guest rooms, documenting over 200 stories that mainstream media rarely touches.
The book brims with voices from every corner of the cannabis map: Black, Brown, and woman-owned businesses, legacy cultivators preserving genetics through prohibition, Caribbean entrepreneurs blending tradition with modern cannabis tourism, and women who left corporate jobs to open dispensaries, grow medicine, and build communities.
What sets it apart is Vee’s perspective. She writes like someone who has been in the grow rooms, sat at the kitchen tables, and walked the fields, not parachuting in for a quick profile but staying long enough to see the heartbeat of each place. Her chapters on women innovators, cultural preservation, and equity-driven tourism do not just inform, they inspire.
This is not a story about cannabis, the commodity. It is about cannabis, the connector.
If you care about the soul of this industry, if you want to see the people and places that make cannabis culture rich and resilient, this book delivers. It is equal parts history, advocacy, and celebration, wrapped in storytelling that is as authentic as it gets.
Vee will soon be bringing that same depth of reporting to High Times, and if Cannabis Legacy Chronicles is any indication, readers are in for something special.
We cannot recommend it enough. Grab your copy of Cannabis Legacy Chronicles: Part 1 here and see why we are so excited to welcome her to the High Times family.
