Van Patten founded both Interport USA in 1983 and then Van Patten Publishing in 1998 to self-publish his books. After the nationwide investigation, Van Patten reworked Indoor Marijuana Horticulture and republished it as Gardening Indoors with Soil & Hydroponics in 1995 to skirt legal issues. The DEA's Operation Green Merchant (1989) closed down his store and more than 40 others in the U.S.A. Jorge at Spannabis hosting a Seedsman Seeds competition. Van Patten developed his own High Intensity Discharge Light Systems for marijuana growing and sold them via retail and mail order through his then Jorge Cervantes' Indoor Garden Store. The book became a best-seller, and successful indoor growers dubbed it the "Indoor Grower's Bible" which became the book's subtitle. A lack of credible information about indoor cannabis cultivation led him to analyze, research, and author Indoor Marijuana Horticulture in 1983. He established a landscape garden business in Portland and cultivated cannabis indoors. In 1981, Van Patten married Estella Cervantes in Portland, Oregon. In 1979 Van Patten and his partner sold the landscape garden business and embarked on a year-long travel excursion with their girlfriends through the heart of Mexico, Central America, and South America. Sinsemilla was the "new" high-quality cannabis that Mexicans reserved for domestic consumption at the time. There he grew " sinsemilla" (Spanish for 'seedless') marijuana illegally in Los Padres National Forest near Santa Barbara.
He graduated from Portland State University in 1977.Īfter graduation, Van Patten moved to Santa Barbara, California where he and a Chilean partner started a landscape garden business. In 1976 Van Patten moved to Portland, Oregon, to be close to his parents after his father fell ill. As a university student in Mexico, he developed his lifelong passion for the cannabis plant.
Van Patten was able to save money from his job at the newspaper to pay for his university studies abroad and in the U.S., first at the University of Valencia in Valencia, Spain, and later at the University of the Américas in Puebla, Mexico. Van Patten learned about printing, photography, news and publicity at the newspaper. Later he worked in the press room and soon became the photographer for the local newspaper, The Argus Observer, from 1969 - 1973. As a young boy he delivered the local newspaper. George Van Patten was born in 1953 to Dr.
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