Southern California public television affiliate KCET recently produced a report on Humboldt County — which they say is known as “the pot capital of the world” (eat it, Amsterdam!) — and our conflicted feelings about Prop 19. The segment was picked up last week by PBS’s prestigious big dog, the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. KCET Associate Producer Alexandria Gales tells the Journal that the “full version” of the story will air tonight on KCET program SoCal Connected.
Here, reporter Judy Miller previews the segment in a discussion on SoCal public radio.
Question: Does such coverage further besmirch whatever’s left of our county’s good name? Or should we embrace it as free marketing? You decide.
This article appears in dummy 2010.
the wake of Prop. 19 is either intentionally or inadvertantly using “our name” as smear in it’s campaign, by painting a picture of greedy growers polluting our hills and cities, afraid that they’ll be unable to buy new gas guzzling trucks all the time because people will be free to grow and smoke weed in public parks on the way to school. The complete opposite of what I see going on in real life. Hopefully stuff like this free PR doesn’t fall that way in people’s heads.
Humboldt County the Movie had to be the saddest piece of crap movie that year…
(girl lights joint and proceeds to smoke while driving the backroads)
(guy, assumably a highly educated and intelligent late 20-something in the passenger seat becomes visibly squeemish) “y-y-y-you’re gonna smoke d-d-d-DRUGS?!?! while d-d-d-DRIVING?!?!”