The Making of Humboldt When Emily Brady arrived in Garberville in the summer of 2010, she was thinking that the sorta-famous, sorta-secretive pot town could make for an interesting chapter in a book about California’s (seemingly) impending marijuana legalization. But almost immediately she realized that the insular, outlaw culture of Southern Humboldt warranted more than […]
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Pot Farmers’ Market Lights Up in NorCal
How did Humboldt County get beat to the punch on this one? (Insert lazy stoner joke here, if you must.) According to a story from the quarterly magazine Modern Farmer, Northern California’s first marijuana farmers’ market is being run from a big purple warehouse outside the City of Sonoma. And the venue is helping to spark […]
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Marijuana’s Tipping Point?
For the first time in 44 years of polling on the issue (and no doubt a lot longer than that), a majority of Americans think that Humboldt County’s No. 1 cash crop oughta be legal, according to a national survey released today by the Pew Research Center. Public opinion has been headed this way for […]
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Talk Pot
Ready to offer your opinion on plans for regulating outdoor marijuan grow operations? This just in from the Supes: County Schedules Community Meetings to Discuss Potential Outdoor Medical Marijuana Ordinance EUREKA – The County announces that it will hold three community meetings in April to discuss the draft of an outline for an ordinance regarding the outdoor […]
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839 Marijuana Plants Seized From Redcrest Industrial Park
(Click images to enlarge.) Press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office: On 02-25-2013, approximately 1:00 p.m. the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office Community Response Unit served a Humboldt County Superior Court Search Warrant at the Englewood Industrial Park located at 26459 Highway 254 (Avenue of the Giants) in Redcrest. When deputies served the search warrant […]
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Guns in a Cave
The gun cache found in a cave on Ryan Floyd’s property in southern Humboldt was impressive and frightening. One hundred and eleven rifles and pistols, many of them automatics, more than filled a table in a room in the Humboldt County Courthouse, with overflow piled on a couch and leaning against three walls. “Quite a […]
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Well, We’re All Just Marijuana Growers Now Aren’t We, Humboldt?
You know how when you travel anywhere and mention you’re from Humboldt how some people give you that snarky, knowing look and put two fingers up to their mouth to smoke that imaginary blunt? Yeah. That’s going to happen to you a lot more. But why? Well, on Feb. 20, no less than the Discovery […]
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Cannabis Comedy
I met Ngaio Bealum waiting in line to buy a slice of pie at the Mateel. He was telling jokes at the Emerald Cup, definitely an appropriate venue for someone known as “the cannabis comic.” When he mentioned that he had a show coming up in Arcata, we vowed to keep in touch and later […]
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This Week on The Marijuana Follies…
For your amusement, we pass along this anecdote from a friend of the Journal, as recounted on Facebook:
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A Home, Lost
The 2-year-old toddling in front of Nickelodeon, one pudgy first wrapped around the remote as her daddy packs boxes, took her first steps inside this small, plain duplex in McKinleyville. It’s where her parents celebrated her first birthday and first Christmas, where her older sister had friends so close they looked on it as […]
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Legalized It
Did you feel that, Humboldt County? The ground just shifted. Two big jolts, one three states to our east and another two states to our north, just sent our major cash crop cascading over the tipping point. As you read this, marijuana buds are tumbling out of the shadows of the black market toward state-licensed […]
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Lashing out at Grow Houses
Arcata could be starting something big. Its anti-grow electricity tax is being watched as a pioneering model for not just the city of Eureka but for all of unincorporated Humboldt County. Arcata voters were strongly backing the tax, by 69 percent to 31 percent, in the latest counts Wednesday morning, with only a majority […]