Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Sac Bee: Humboldt Growers Step Up
Posted By Ryan Burns @RyanBurnsy on Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 10:39 AM
If you missed this front-page story in Sunday's Sacramento Bee, give it a read. Reporter Peter Hecht shows how some industrious weed cultivators in Humboldt County, which he calls "America's most renowned bastion of illicit marijuana growing," are stepping up efforts to capitalize on that renown.
As Hecht frames it, the entrepreneurial members of the Humboldt Growers Association -- along with supportive politicians like former county supervisor Bonnie Neely -- don't take kindly to the idea that we could get left behind while large-scale producers elsewhere drink our milkshake. But as we saw with Prop 19, some of the most fierce resistance may come from within their own community.
One minor clarification to the story: Hecht says District Attorney Paul Gallegos was "the only prosecutor in California to publicly endorse Prop 19," which wasn't exactly the case. (Okay, maybe "clarification" isn't quite the word.)
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Ryan Burns worked for the Journal from 2008 to 2013, covering a diverse mix of North Coast subjects, from education, politics and marijuana to human suspension, sex parties and amateur fight contests. He won awards for investigative reporting, feature stories and news coverage.
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