Smoke It Out
(May 28, 2009) Editor:
Finally. After presiding over countless huge Journal spreads and covers romanticizing marijuana and the Humboldt culture surrounding it, Hank Sims has actually said “enough” (“Town Dandy,” May 14). And here I was beginning to think he was the personal PR man for growers. Sorry, Hank.
As Sims said, the incident involving AK-47s, bulletproof vests and a high speed chase is just the latest episode of events that show that the myth and the reality of pot in Humboldt County are at odds. What was once perhaps a homegrown cottage industry is now a threat to our independent character. Whether we agree on legalization or not, we should all agree to take a stand together and say “enough” to this latest crop of growers — we’ve got your number, and you haven’t been doing us any favors lately.
Enough of monocultures in this county. We don’t need to let this one suck our spirits dry, ruin our neighborhoods and sense of community and continue to take advantage of us. We can do better.
Robin Hashem, Arcata
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Comment / By givemeliberty / June 2, 2009, 2:51 p.m.
The people of California voted to make medical marijuana legal, and sense then we have had a cat and mouse game between the Federal law enforcement and the growers trying to over crowd our prison systems. what we need is to decriminalize medical marijuana at the national level. I cannot under stand why this Congressional district has not taken the lead on sponsoring Legislation to do so. I can not understand why the whole of the California congressional delegation has not sponsored decriminalizing legislation, as honorable representatives of the people whould do as the people wish. Do the people of California need to have another initiative giving specific directions to the California congressional delegation for them to sponsor and vote for a passage of legislation to decriminalize medical marijuana to the same requirements of California State Law?