Prescription for trouble
Pot doc’s checkered past catches up
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Prescription for trouble
While visiting Sacramento a few weeks ago, Patient X, a Humboldt County resident who asked that her name not be published, went to a medical marijuana dispensary to fill her prescription, which she uses for migraine headaches. In her two years as a card-carrying medical cannabis user, the college-aged woman purchased the drug in dispensaries…
420 at the Clam
Regional celebrants of 4/20 last Friday may have felt torn between two settings: forest, or beach? Several thousand chose forest, converging upon Arcata Community Forest’s Redwood Park – one obvious reason, we’d think, being that apparently the greatest height to which a redwood tree can, in theory, grow before the water poops out is 420…
Tall Ships
Had Captain Jack Aubrey had the occasion to board the Lady Washington, docked in Humboldt Bay since last weekend, and take it for a spin around the bay, his face might have darkened with dismay at the brig’s unhealthy complement of civilians bumping about, getting in the sailors’ way, holding soda pop cans, answering cell…
Larger than life
"Why is it that we honor the Great Thieves of Whitehall, for Acts that in Whitechapel would merit hanging? Why admire the one sort of Thief, and despise the other? I suggest, ’tis because of the Scale of the Crime.- What we of the Mobility love to watch, is any of the Great Matices, Greed,…
Will in the Wild: As You Like It at OSF
As of this week, William Shakespeare is 443 years old, and he’s still making news. Without looking for it, I saw his name on the cover of at least three periodicals on the magazine rack at Northtown Books. This birthday sees a new edition of his Complete Works, and several new books, including one I…
Ode to Spring
Springtime in Humboldt County has to be my favorite season. Some will argue summer is best. I’ll admit that it is hard to beat jumping into a turquoise pool on the un-dammed and naturally warm South Fork of the Trinity River while steelhead swim past, but as inland temps soar the companion coastal fog gets…
Potato Gnocchi
"The district is called Bengodi … and on a mountain, all of grated Parmigiano cheese, dwell folk that do naught else but make maccheroni and raviuoli, and boil them in capon’s broth, and then throw them down to be scrambled for." Giovanni Boccaccio, Decamerone With the term "maccheroni," Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) described something similar to…
The Coco Benefit
t was one of those phone calls. The caller ID on my phone said St. Joe’s. Not a good sign. It was my good buddy Gregg calling from a hospital room where he was visiting our mutual friend Coco Hogan, a longtime Humboldt resident, someone I’ve known since I started going to Reggae many years…
