Dan Savage on ‘Pot City’: Savage, managing editor and sex columnist extraordinaire for Seattle independent weekly the Stranger weighs in on A&E’s profile of Arcata, or, more specifically, its narrator, whom he honors with the title, “Stupid Fucking Credulous Hack of the Day.” (Oh snap! He owned you, Vieira!) He goes on to assert, “the […]
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Our Cable Debut!
We haven’t yet seen Pot City USA , the new documentary on Arcata that A&E debuted last night, but boy oh boy is this YouTube excerpt ever thrilling! This thing looks AWESOME! And hey, what’s this we see 24 seconds in? Seriously, though — ” Disorientation Week ”? That was two years ago! We suspect […]
WaPo on Humboldt Weed
WaPo on Humboldt Weed: The Washington Post credits mom ‘n’ pop Humboldt County with achieving something the federal government cannot — taking a bite out of the Mexican drug cartels! The article features a brief interview with a Mexican man who claims to have recently grown and harvested 800 Humboldt County plants for some sort […]
A Mile High
Denver’s gone bonkers for the blunts, according to the city’s best newspaper — which happens to be looking for a pot dispensary reviewer: Here in Colorado, the medical-marijuana industry has been growing like crazy, and while some dispensaries resemble swanky bars or sterile dentist offices, others feel like a dope dealer’s college dorm room. To […]
Nephew of Ferndale Mayor Busted
From the office of the Humboldt County Drug Task Force comes news that Jason and Sara Farley of Ferndale were busted on suspicion of illegal marijuana cultivation yesterday. Jason Farley is the nephew of Ferndale Mayor Jeff Farley. Press release: On 10-01-2009 at 1310 hours the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office assisted by the Humboldt County […]
New Pot Club in Eureka
New Pot Club in Eureka: Hummingbird Healing Center, a medical marijuana dispensary, just opened its doors right across Harrison Avenue from St. Joseph Hospital. Here’s a review that was posted yesterday. They got the goods, it would seem. Interesting to note that the club is right over the city line, which runs down the middle […]
Lamer Indeed
. Just in from the Sheriff’s Dept.: Humboldt County Sheriff’s Deputies arrested a McKinleyville man late Monday night after finding him driving through town with nearly 100 pounds of marijuana in his car. At about 10:15 p.m. a deputy was stopped at an intersection when a vehicle turned at the same intersection. The deputy smelled […]
Tripping Through Our Triangle
Atlantic correspondent Christina Davidson, who’s been on a “Recession Road Trip” and posting essays along the way, veers through Eureka and picks up a prospector named Pie-Dog….
Big Busts in Arcata
Gross! Four grow houses raided, six arrests, about $50,000 in cash seized, over 40 lbs. of bud, a bunch of hash, plants and a Dodge truck modded out as a weed machine! It looks like they caught the last house — the McK one — right in the midst of a pretty major deal. From […]
Harvest time
While dozens of amateur horticulturists supplement their income during Humboldt County’s annual trimming of the harvest, a multi-agency law enforcement effort aimed their blades a little closer to the root, eradicating nearly 30,000 marijuana plants in just four days. CAMP, which I believe stands for Cops Amping Marijuana Prices, joined forces with the Humboldt County […]
CNN Marijuana Fail
CNN Marijuana Fail: “Oakland’s bid to become the first U.S. city to tax proceeds on medical marijuana passed Tuesday by a landslide vote.” O RLY? Arcata has taxed its medical marijuana clinics for many years — see this old Journal story on the
Eric Heimstadt, In Loving Memory
Photograph (c) Arcata Eye. All rights reserved. Use of the photograph graciously permitted by Terrence McNally. www.arcataphoto.com It was a month ago when we posted news here of the death of medical marijuana advocate Eric Heimstadt. The short note has been among our “most read” since. An official obit came today with word of a […]
