It would appear Humboldt County remains a cannabis trendsetter. Leafly is reporting that Humboldt County’s controversial strategy of dealing with illicit grow operations through civil code enforcement abatement notices and fines of up to $10,000 per day, per violation has caught other jurisdictions’ attention. A similar program is already in place in Sonoma County, according […]
Mourad Gabriel
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Smoochy Woochy Poochy Headaches
The Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Department caused quite a stir on Facebook last week with a somewhat confusing post that appeared to offer a warning to cannabis farms. “Believe it or not growing cannabis, aka the devils lettuce, is still illegal in Stanislaus County,” the grammatically challenged post began. “No legal recreational growing permits have been […]
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Marijuana-related Pesticides are Killing Even More Fishers
The rodenticides used on marijuana grows are posing an ever-greater danger to Pacific fishers, according to a recently released study by University of California Davis researchers and Integral Ecology Research Center Director Mourad Gabriel. Gabriel has been studying the effects of pesticide use on the medium-size weasel-like species for several years, and concluded that “increasing […]