The Humboldt County Planning Commission is set to consider sweeping zoning changes at its meeting tomorrow for hundreds of thousands of acres of properties throughout the county. The zoning text amendments and reclassifications are being proposed to implement the county’s general plan update, which the board passed last year. But they are coming before the […]
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Medicine and Flowers
As the evenings become crisper and the days become shorter, here on the home farm we celebrate the end of another successful growing season. We’re pulling pumpkins from the pumpkin patch and picking our apples. This year marked an important milestone in home farming: The much awaited cannabis prohibition has at long last come to […]
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Canna-count the Votes
Lost amid all the talk of a looming red or blue wave coming on Election Day, depending on who you ask on what particular day, is the likelihood that a green wave will continue to sweep over the country. A total of 30 states across the country have already legalized or decriminalized cannabis for medical […]
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State Water Board Holding SoHum Cannabis Compliance Workshop
The State Water Board is holding an enrollment workshop at the Mateel Community Center in Redway until 3 p.m. today and there will be another held in the same place and from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Oct. 30. Over the last month, hundreds of residents in Humboldt County (most of them in Southern […]
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Eureka Council to Mull Shelter Funding, Railroad Proposal Concerns, Cannabis and Patrol Contract
The Eureka City Council will consider Tuesday offering continued support for local philanthropist Betty Chinn’s emergency shelter — set up in the wake of the 2016 PalCo Marsh sweep — with $75,000 housing funds. Also up for discussion is whether to request that the California Attorney General’s Office conduct an “investigative review” into a $10 […]
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Eureka Council to Consider Allowing Cannabis Use Establishments
The Eureka City Council is set to consider today whether to allow the consumption of cannabis products — with the possibilities ranging from ointments and edibles to vaping and smoking, or all of the above — at certain establishments in order to provide tourists and others a space to legally imbibe. If approved, Eureka would […]
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Failure to Thrive
California’s cannabis industry is experiencing some test anxiety. The state Bureau of Cannabis Control reported this week that almost one of every five products submitted for testing under new regulations that took effect July 1 have failed. It’s news that underscores the growing frustration among growers, distributors, manufacturers and retailers. “Testing is currently costly, slow […]
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The High Price of Freedom
The libertarian Cato Institute released its annual report this week ranking the freest states in the nation and, perhaps unsurprisingly, California ranked among the very bottom, 48th out of 50. But the list, which ranked states through a libertarian lens based on personal and economic freedoms across 230 policy variables, including taxation, gun freedoms, civil […]
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Eureka Council Moves Forward With H and I Street Changes, Cannabis Lounges
The Eureka City Council voted last night to move forward with reducing the number of lanes on H and I streets, establishing an advisory committee on needle exchange and directed staff to bring back a proposed ordinance for cannabis lounges. Council members selected the first of three options for creating traffic calming measures on two […]
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Now Entering Babylon: Reggae on the River with High Times
“Every time I get high/ Babylon falls.” It was late Friday afternoon at Reggae on the River and the first live musical act on the lineup was just getting started. Hempress Sativa, born Kerida Johnson in Kingston, Jamaica, was performing with her band the Unconquerebels. At the mic, the self-crowned Hempress shone in a Rastafari […]
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Cannabis Lounges, Lane Changes to H and I on Eureka Council Agenda
The Eureka City Council will consider Tuesday giving direction on potential regulations for onsite cannabis consumption as well as alterations to H and I streets to make the thoroughfares more bike and pedestrian friendly. A staff report asks the council to look at framework options for establishments that could allow the consumption of cannabis in […]
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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 […]