Sac Bee on “Pot City” Arcata: Sac Bee’s take on Pot City Arcata focuses in part on the iCenter’s Stephen Gasparas, who echoes The Beverley Hillbillies saying he came to Arcata because he was told by a Rainbow Family hippie that it’s “the place you oughta be.” Despite various legal problems, he has expanded his […]
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NPR Part 2: ‘The Green Rush’
Here’s part two of NPR’s story on the Humboldt grow scene. (Part one here.) Some highlights: California narcotics agent Jack Nelson gives a racial breakdown of grow styles (“White-boy grows” — small and high quality; Hispanics grows — cornfield-sized on private land; Asian grows — steep land in National Forests). Humboldt County Sheriff Department Sgt. […]
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NPR Does Arcata Pot Scene
NPR Does Arcata Pot Scene: You had your “Pot City: USA” — now the dulcet-toned National Public Radio is set to do its piece on medical Mary J. The story is set to air on the afternoon news magazine Small Things Considered tonight after 5 p.m.; here’s some text to go along with it. NPR […]
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Pot School
Pot School: From the NYTimes, a story about Med Grow Cannabis College in Southfield, Mich. where they teach the fine art of growing medical
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Robo Justice
UPDATE: As Robo-noted below, the Facebook movement is up to 43 members and counting! As one marijuana grow-hard drags Arcata Eye Editor Kevin Hoover into court , another has taken to the ‘Net in an effort to shut down the “propaganda rag,” which any self-respecting member of “our local culture” will tell you is merely […]
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Nadananda predicts vigilantes may battle cartel pot farms
Loggers.Nadananda predicts vigilantes may battle cartel pot farms: Interviewed by Bay Area news radio station KCBS, Friends of the Eel founder Nadananda warned that staffing cuts in state parks could lead to danger to the woods from Mexican drug cartels. The report concludes, “Nadananda says she thinks the situation may get so bad that vigilante […]
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L.A. Times: AMA Says Weed AOK
L.A. Times: AMA Says Weed AOK: Well, kinda. The American Medical Association yesterday urged the feds to stop pretending cannabis is in the same league as heroin and LSD, and worse than cocaine, morphine and meth — in other words, take it off the list of Schedule 1 drugs so researchers can study it without […]
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Pot pioneers
Pot pioneers: The San Francisco Bay Guardian profiles two simultaneous efforts to Legalize It! in California — a ballot initiative, led by those studious stoners at Oaksterdam University, and Assembly Bill 390, introduced by Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, who’s been exchanging sweet nothings with Governor Schwarzenegger of late. A heads-up to the local Chamber of Commerce: […]
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MJ & ‘T Bear’ [updated]
slogan? News release from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office: Shortly after midnight yesterday [Tuesday], a Humboldt County Sheriff’s Deputy was on patrol in the Willow Creek area when he saw a vehicle with an equipment violation. He made a traffic stop and contacted the three occupants of the vehicle. While speaking with them, the deputy […]
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On the hunt for illicit marijuana
Minnesota.On the hunt for illicit marijuana: Humboldt’s national rep for pot continues with the Washington Post doing a little compare and contrast today, first covering a Mexican raid in the hills of Acapulco, then following Sgt. Wayne Hanson bundling up bales of pot in Six Rivers National