Arthur Jones has calmed down. His long, black ponytail salted with gray has stopped swaying. There are now thoughtful pauses between his words. He’s been talking for an hour with the fervor of one wrongfully accused. Standing at the rickety gate of his front porch, he stares out onto the Hoopa Valley. The expanse […]
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Rapacious Weed: News Outlets Eye Enviro Costs of Humboldt’s Pot Farms
Two news stories this week, the first from the Sacramento Bee and a follow-up from Mother Jones, examine the environmental impacts of large-scale outdoor marijuana grow operations, which have exploded over the rural hills of Northern California in recent years. Both stories point out how the conflict between state and federal laws has effectively stymied attempts to […]
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SoCal Dispensary Owner Could Face Life in Prison
That’s correct: A cannabis dispensary owner could wind up serving the kind of prison term that’s typically reserved for society’s most heinous and violent criminals. Aaron Sandusky was operating three medical marijuana dispensaries in compliance with state law, but over the weekend a federal jury convicted him of a handful of drug-related charges that carry […]
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Ginormous Weed Bust: $4M of Bud Seized, 17 Arrested
Press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office (click images to enlarge): On 10-11-2012, approximately 9:30 a.m., the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office assisted by the Eureka Police Problem Oriented Policing Team, and Humboldt County Drug Task Force served a Humboldt County Superior Court Search Warrant in the 2000 block of Sunset Ridge Road, Blocksburg. Upon […]
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News from Elsewhere – about us
In case you missed them, a couple of California’s major dailies ran Humboldt-centric stories this week. A travel piece in the Sacramento Bee titled “Arcata both embraces and rises above its cliches” offers a tourist-eye view of Arcata describing it as “a little bit of everything: a college town, a neo-hippie enclave, a haven for environmentalists […]
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The Grow Tax
In the middle of the night a couple of years ago, two men used a large knife to slice the screen on Bonnie MacRaith’s kitchen window. The men, slight of stature and wearing dark clothes, had cut the screen and were trying to climb through a kitchen window when MacRaith’s dog Kenai, a husky cross, […]
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Pot Adventure Debut
In the new novel Deadman’s Bust, former Humboldt grower Cory Marchese has written what Blogcritics.org calls “a real page-turner” about two brothers growing pot in the Humboldt hills in 1992: The adventure takes us right into the heart of George H. W. Bush’s “War on Drugs,” the Medellin cartel, rogue cops, and a huge pot […]
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Bipartisan Bill Would Protect Medical Marijuana Patients From Feds
What do Lynne Woolsey, Ron Paul and Barney Frank have in common? Okay, yes, they’re all U.S. Congress members (for a few more months, anyway). But more to the point, they’re part of a bipartisan group of lawmakers co-sponsoring a bill that would give valid medical marijuana patients extra cover from federal prosecution. [Update 4:35 p.m.: As if […]
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Mary Jane: The Contest – The Winners!
The Contest: We all assume cannabis will eventually get past the current quasi-legal medical marijuana stage. When it does, Humboldt needs a plan for the future. Branding will be über -important. With that in mind, we’re looking for a catchy (new) brand name for Humboldt-grown marijuana. Entries we made in the comments to this post (see […]
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Locally Nuglicious
Featured today in Nug Magazine, under the title “Eat Your Medicine! ‘The Cannabis Gourmet Cookbook,’” is a review by local scribe Sharon Letts of a new cookbook by chef Cheri Sicard. Letts tried a recipe herself (“Mini Pineapple Upside-Down Cakes”). She also got local chef Lauren Sarabia to perform some of the recipes and comment. […]
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Supervisor Mark Lovelace – running for re-election
Third District Supervisor Mark Lovelace gathered supporters on the Arcata Plaza Thursday afternoon to announce that he’s running for re-election (see text of speech below), then discussed challenges ahead, among them holding onto the county’s tax money, rural school busing, marijuana policy and smart meters. The last 3 years have been very busy. I’ve […]
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‘Federal Terror Campaign’ Hits Mendocino Collective
Federal agents with the Drug Enforcement Agency today raided Mendocino County medical marijuana collective Northstone Organics, whose executive director, Matt Cohen, is featured in this week’s Journal cover story by Zach St. George. Cohen’s collective was operating under a permit issued by the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Dept., and by all indications it was following the […]