His weathered face and his whitening hair make Butch Small look older than his 58 years. He looks better than he should, according to the doctors who told him two years ago that he'd soon die from a combination of hepatitis C and cirrhosis of the liver. He'd been sober a quarter-century, he says, but the booze kept stalking him. It was marijuana that saved him: High-CBD strains grown by his neighbor in Mendocino County's remote Potter Valley turned his yellowed skin back to normal, and, "had me springing out of bed at 7 in the morning feeling great."
