conquest.Weed-Smelling Robotic Drone Helichopper: Some inventions arrive before the world is ready for them. With Gov. Schwarzenator ready to talk legalization, this one arrives well past its sell-by
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RIP: Eric H. — Master of Medical Marijuana
morning. Sad news, sad news — via e-mail today: At 11:20 a.m. April 17, 2009 Eric Vaughn Heimstadt passed away circled by family and friends. Eric was the founder of Humboldt Medical Supply in Arcata, a member of the Humboldt County Medical Task Force, and perhaps the most informed and articulate advocate Humboldt had in […]
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PSA: When Mailing Weed
PSA: When Mailing Weed: … don’t put your actual return address on the
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Pot Merch In The Middle
A Morro Bay pot dispensary owner, busted by U.S. drug agents before the feds went soft under new A.G. Eric Holder, will be sentenced tomorrow. What, he wonders, will be his fate?
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The Economist: End the Drug War
Sunday.The Economist: End the Drug War: “Next week ministers from around the world gather in Vienna to set international drug policy for the next decade. Like first-world-war generals, many will claim that all that is needed is more of the same. In fact the war on drugs has been a disaster, creating failed states in […]
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DMV revises guidelines on medical marijuana
AndersonDMV revises guidelines on medical marijuana: “Drivers will no longer have their licenses suspended or revoked simply because of their status as medical marijuana patients,” says Joe Elford, attorney for Americans for Safe Access. The overall message: it’s OK to be a 215 driver as long as you don’t get zoned before or during
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Trish Regan on KSLG
Marijuana, Inc. , the CNBC documentary about the weed economy in and around the North Coast, got a lot of attention when it first aired a couple of weeks back. Reviews were generally positive. Tomorrow morning at 9 a.m., John Matthews of KSLG radio (94.1 FM) will interview Trish Regan, the CNBC correspondent who reported […]
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More Pot Than You Got
(fancy graphic by Ryan Burns) Drug cops! Big busts! These events took place in just 24 hours! For shame, you other California counties: A team of Humboldt County drug cops yesterday busted out more live pot in one day than you all could ever hope to find in a year. Well, maybe Sheriff Gary Philp […]
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Silver Slams Drug War
cafes. Former San Francisco Supervisor Carol Ruth Silver — a part-time or one-time resident of Myers Flat, I’m not sure which — has resigned from her job as Director of Prisoner Legal Services at the San Francisco County Sheriff’s Office to protest the war on drugs. “I find it difficult to discuss the financial or […]
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Weed Chat Today
Radio alert: Friend o’ the Journal Jennifer Savage sent this along this morning: Thursday, Feb. 12 at 1 p.m., Jen Savage will conduct a conversation with bloggers Kym Kemp, Eric Sligh and “Sohumborn” in the KSLG studio. Kemp’s blog, “Redheaded Blackbelt,” covers issues inherent to living in the Southern Humboldt hills. Sligh’s blog, “Humboldt […]
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Confidential to Redway
Don’t do this: A driver weaving his pickup on Highway 101 in Petaluma was arrested early Monday, suspected of driving drunk and traveling with several pounds of marijuana for sale, the CHP said. A CHP officer spotted the Toyota Tundra at about 2:45 a.m. as it moved unevenly south on the highway near East Washington […]
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Marijuana Inc. – CNBC.com
Thompson)Marijuana Inc. – CNBC.com: preview of news show coming Jan.