What to do with all that cannabis cash is a problem North Coast growers have faced for decades, leading to tales of six-figure sums buried under chicken coops, violent home invasion robberies and stacks of often-stinky hundreds entering the registers at Costco. Well, in many ways, Humboldt’s problems have become California’s, with the state scrambling […]
The Week in Weed
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Brave New World
The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office Drug Enforcement Unit has been busy. Over the course of about a week, the unit reported serving a dozen search warrants in southern Humboldt County, resulting in the eradication of more than 46,000 cannabis plants and the destruction of more than 1,400 pounds of processed weed. Working with the California […]
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Beware of Snowshoers (and Getting High in the Backcountry)
With the national legalization of recreational cannabis looming, one of Canada’s largest search and rescue outfits is warning that weed and the backcountry are a dangerous combination. “We regularly respond to calls for those who are well prepared, do everything right, are completely sober and still get into trouble,” Curtis Jones wrote on Vancouver’s North […]
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Emergency No More
Fortunans might be able to get weed delivered to their doorsteps after all. The state of California released its proposed final cannabis regulations July 13, kicking off a 45-day public comment period for a trio of state agencies to get feedback on the new set of rules, which are planned to usurp the emergency regulations […]
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Dab Day and the Sacrament
Remember two years ago when, in these very pages, we quoted Emerald Cup founder Tim Blake dismissively noting in a Bloomberg interview that, “Nobody smokes flowers anymore,” and that good, old-fashioned joints taste “dirty” in comparison to all the concentrates and extracts flooding the market? Well, the sentiment is now part of a concentrate movement […]
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The Marijuanapocalypse
It’s been dubbed the Marijuanapocalypse of 2018. Six months into the advent of legalized recreational cannabis markets, the industry underwent a seismic shift July 1. When the state issued its new cannabis regulations late last year, they came with stringent testing requirements that demanding that all cannabis products — whether flowers, concentrates or edibles — […]
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Permit Patty and Why Everything Must Go
If you’ve passed a cannabis dispensary in Humboldt recently, you’ve probably seen the brightly colored signs offering discounts of up to 80 percent. Dispensaries throughout the state have shifted into an everything-must-go, clearance-sale mindset, offering a last chance to buy potentially tainted weed at rock-bottom prices. As of July 1, all cannabis products sold in […]
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Visitors Bureau Takes Cannabis Fact Finding Tour
As the Eureka-Humboldt Visitors Bureau’s board of directors continues to contemplate its future cannabis efforts, some of its members recently took a tour with the aim of discerning whether the plant might one day be able to mingle among our redwoods, coastline, food, wine and Victorians in the agency’s marketing efforts. As the Journal reported […]
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Plenty of Canni, No Fest
It’s official. Humboldt County — long considered the heart of California’s marijuana country — will not have a cannabis festival in the foreseeable future. The Ferndale Enterprise reported this week that organizers’ final push to put on Cannifest — a locally produced “cannabis festival and trade gathering” — has met an immovable object in the […]
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Why We Weed
We hear it when we release our annual cannabis issue — Isn’t every issue the cannabis issue? — and we hear it at some point in just about each of the other 51 weeks of the year — Why do you guys write about marijuana all the time? OK, OK, OK, this obviously needs some […]
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A Gubernatorial Pot Primer
When Californians head to the polls Tuesday the cannabis industry won’t be on the ballot but it has a lot at stake. Most notably, the state’s next governor will oversee the implementation of new regulations slated to be rolled out later this year to govern what’s expected to become a $5 billion recreational industry by […]
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Hold My Oreo, There’s Weed to Smoke
With little fanfare, the state of California released its revised cannabis industry regulations last week. The updated regs are largely seen as a baby step between the initial rules released late last year and what will become the final regulations later this year. The latter are largely considered shrug-worthy. “The first step that Neil Armstrong […]