[Update #2, Oct. 6, 4:45 p.m.] All bets are off officially off — as is a notable promise from President Obama. Or so it appears, anyway. Yesterday the Arcata City Council voted to place a moratorium on issuing medical marijuana dispensary permits. Maybe their spidey sense was tingling: According to the Associated Press, federal prosecutors have […]
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Yay for Us!
Or, more accurately, yay for Hank Sims, former NCJ editor, current caballero LoCO and author of the July, 2010 Journal cover story “General Lee,” which yesterday was named a finalist in the 2011 AltWeekly Awards. Huzzah, Sims! The category was Special Topic: Drug Reporting (among papers with circulation of 50,000 or less). Hank profiled Richard […]
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4/20 in Arcata a Bit ‘Off’
Things were damp in Arcata’s Redwood Park on April 20, the unofficial holiday also known as 4/20. The park’s grassy meadow was surrounded by caution tape. Police on the scene said a crew had spread fertilizer earlier in the day and no one was allowed to cross the field. Arcata Police Chief Tom Chapman was […]
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R.I.P. Humboldt’s Public 4/20
“It didn’t even smell like weed.” So reports Journal freelancer Zach St. George, who this afternoon trekked up to Arcata’s Redwood Park expecting to find a swaying herd of glassy-eyed stoners and instead found bored APD cops. What happened? This is supposed to be, like, the stoner’s choicest locale on the stoner’s unofficial holiday, right? […]
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Locals Nabbed in South Dakota for, well, You Can Probably Guess
Don’t let the city’s name fool ya: Highway Patrol in Rapid City, South Dakota, are sticklers for speeding. And they don’t like marijuana posession much, either — at least not when you’ve (allegedly) got 23.5 pounds of it moving through The Mount Rushmore State in a rental car. Kenneth Jordan, 29, of Ferndale, Scott Mitchell, 32, […]
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National Geographic: ‘How Marijuana Works’
[Note: This is the first of two science-related posts today. Yay for science.] Below is a clip from an upcoming two-night TV special from National Geographic called “Drugged,” which will examine the bio-chemical effects of marijuana, cocaine and ecstasy. Nat Geo says: “Drugged: High on Marijuana” uses visual effects and CGI to take the viewer on […]
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Montel Williams For Humboldt Tourism Commissioner
Yes, yes indeed! Do as the man says and come check out our fat buds! We will hook you up and send you home happy! (Despite what our new hero says, though, you can give the Appalachian Trail a pass.)
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Sac Bee: Humboldt Growers Step Up
If you missed this front-page story in Sunday’s Sacramento Bee, give it a read. Reporter Peter Hecht shows how some industrious weed cultivators in Humboldt County, which he calls “America’s most renowned bastion of illicit marijuana growing,” are stepping up efforts to capitalize on that renown. As Hecht frames it, the entrepreneurial members of the […]
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Big Oakland Weed Warehouses on Hold
The Bay Citizen reports that the Oakland City Council last night caved to pressure from the feds and suspended plans to license four large-scale industrial marijuana grows within its city limits. According to the Citizen, city staff is going to rejigger the proposal to smooth out potential conflicts with state law, then bring it back before […]
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Saturday Night Funnies
• Journal contributor Amy Stewart tells an amusing tale about weed, literature and Eureka Books in tomorrow’s New York Times. • At the Humboldt Herald, Paul Gallegos supporter “Richard” (?!?) declares fatwah on Supervisor Mark Lovelace for the crime of supporting Paul Hagen. You got Geisted!
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Farm Bureau Fandango
The Humboldt Beacon‘s report this week on the Humboldt County Farm Bureau’s annual gathering at the Scotia Inn provided some (somewhat ancient) figures on the financial prowess of our county’s “top five” agricultural products: “In 2006 agricultural production was $294,787,100 with 690,000 acres in agricultural use and 67,000 of those acres intensively farmed. During this […]
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Poor Amy Stewart on Prop. 19
The November installment of North Coast Almanack — famous writer Amy Stewart’s popular and utile guide to gardening, alcohol and alcoholic gardeners — won’t be published until tomorrow. We give you a preview today. Nov. 1: Tomorrow [today] you will be asked to make a very interesting decision. The appeal of taking an illegal operation and bringing […]