on the cover / By Bob Doran, Matt Jackson and Julie Woldow

Disorientation Week — Your student guide to housing, transit, surfing and weed

(Aug. 16, 2007)  Everyone’s so cool, and one dude’s brought his drum and they’re all just layin’ around in this way cool grove in the forest. Ferns are tickling, the sun’s out — what rain? — like some kind of benevolent blanket of warm glowing pizza dough just soft all over everything, and the grass … the grass. It’s so fluffy. And tall. And the trees — they’re Ents, man, they gotta be Ents. And the big sad hollow stumps — can’t believe somebody would cut down such a huge, beautiful tree. Oughta be a protest. Later.

Hmm. Maybe they could live in one those hollow stumps if that Eureka apartment doesn’t work out. Could walk to campus that way, too. Or get a Jackpass if the apartment does work out. Man, this is the life. Here, try this — you won’t even care about that stupid apartment after a couple hits of this. Sleep in that stump, that’s what they’re gonna do — nice and quiet, pretty, green, birds, nature. Rig a tarp. Smoke some weed. Read some Nietzsche, some Bukowski. Not gonna pay rent or buy a bus pass. Forget that shit, that hypercorporate controlmylife shit. No way. They’re at Humboldt now. Drive on Humboldt, on down the floor; Drive on Humboldt, show them the door! Ha ha.

A budding Sour Diesel plant. Photo by Jason King from The Cannabible Collection.

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What? Oh, right. Yes, to the point: This, new and returning members of the Humboldt State University student body, is your back-to-school guide. Sort of. At least, it’s your introduction to some apparently marvelous things, such as the man who created and keeps updated the marijuana connoisseur’s essential encyclopedia, The Cannabible , and the woman who could not get that apartment (oh, she rants fine), and where to scam a disco bus pass, or one of those new Jackpasses, or some kind of pass for riding the bus — just read the story. And remember, just say no to drugs, yes to nature, no to corporate thugs, yes to whatever it is that will make getting to campus easier and cheapest, no to shifty landlords, yes to vegetables.

— Heidi Walters

The mad doctors of pot In the country’s cannabis capital, it’s all about hybridization

By Bob Doran

Right: A budding Sour Diesel plant. Photo by Jason King from The Cannabible Collection.

Sour Diesel, The Purple, Purple Urkle, Granddaddy Purple, Deep Purple, The Lavender, Skunk, Kush, Master Kush, OG Kush, Bubba Kush, Lemon Kush, Snocap, White Widow, The Hawaiian, Headband. The list goes on and on. To the uninitiated it’s nonsense, but the cognoscenti know these are the names of strains of marijuana grown out in the hills, in backyards in town, in garages, closets or in the extra room in a student apartment.

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