From the Editor
In this issue, we cover the kinds of big topics that are in North & South’s DNA — in this case, what’s going wrong with the newly established medicinal cannabis industry, China’s big-spending presence in Samoa, and a dive into California’s Esalen Institute, which has had outsize influence in the field of personal development for 60 years. And we’re also having some fun too. Holding on to that holiday feeling as long as possible, we’re rich with adventure this month. Journalist and seafaring enthusiast John McCrystal took a cruise on our behalf, boarding Heritage Expeditions’ Heritage Adventurer in Tauranga for a voyage that ended in Bluff. It did rain a bit, but this is New Zealand so that wasn’t entirely unexpected and John found plenty of worthwhile diversions both onboard and…