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Oakland Pot Permit Plan Facing Serious Trouble?
…According to the SF Gate, The four available permits, going for $211,000 apiece, may not be worth the paper they're written on. …The absence of Russo's approval will not…
Humboldt Growers Want to Sell More Weed But Not Live in a Factory Town
Page 1A of the Sacramento Bee holds a Humboldt story. Of course, it's about our weed and our growers. Peter Hecht, author of the Bee's popular Weed Wars, a blog…
Little Nuggets: Bits and Pieces of Marijuana News
…DENVER — It is being called the green rush. With more states moving to legalize medical marijuana, the business of growing and dispensing it is booming, even as much of the rest of…
Humboldt, Turkeys of America Thank You
Turkeys everywhere trembled at the displays of oven bags on Humboldt shelves. Imagine their delight when they learned in the Emerald Triangle, the bags are stuffed with vegetables and the people get…
Emerald Cup—Music and Marijuana in Mendo
…Not many of the events surrounding the secret culture thriving in the back country of the North Coast are widely known to the public—most are small and jealously guarded in the…
Last Week to Enter Your Best Buds in Emerald Cup
This is last year's winner of the Emerald Cup—a cotton candy cush "totally coated in icy trichomes." Think your beauties could compete? The Emerald Cup Cannabis Competition is open to…
Buy Your Own Grow House for Half a Mil
…If you ever wanted to be self-sufficient and cultivate the finest medicine, this is a golden opportunity. The town is pristine, located right on the ocean, in the heart of the…
Should Humboldt Diversify Away From Cannabis?
…The industrial model does not recognize scale, limits, or the carrying capacity of the land. The industrial model can not comprehend the subtleties of a fragile, young geology, salmon on the brink…
An Officer's Advice: Rules For Dealing With Police
…Once the consent was given, the officers literally tore apart the truck. When the search was over and nothing was found, the person was left sitting beside the road with the seat…
Storm is a Comin'
A storm is coming to the North Coast. According to the National Weather Service Hazardous Weather Outlook, VALLEY RAIN AND MOUNTAIN SNOW IS EXPECTED ON THURSDAY… WITH ACCUMULATING SNOW REMAINING ABOVE PASS…
American Medical Association Says Cannabis Has Medical Benefits
…The American Medical Society(AMA), the largest physician group in the US, has long-held the position that marijuana was a schedule one drug—that it had no medical applications. This week…
SoHumBorn Is Back
SoHumBorn may be gone from the Humboldt Blogosphere but tonight she's in the LA Times. Reporter, Sam Quinones interviewed her—taking a look at her fiction and her life in an…
Trimmer Alleges Kidnapping and Sexual Assault
…According to the Santa Rosa Press Democrat Deputies learned of the alleged crimes when the victim went to a Mendocino County hospital Friday for treatment of a variety of injuries. The young…
Marijuana Use May Affect Cognitive Development of Youth
…Yesterday*, a study was presented to Society for Neuroscience on the cognitive deficits of marijuana users. “Our data suggest that the earlier you begin smoking, the more marijuana you smoke and the…
Humboldt Crabs Take in Trimming
In a bid to fund next year's season, the Humboldt Crabs have taken in trimming and set their mascots' nimble claws to work on Humboldt's biggest export. __________________________ Photo sent in…
County Cannabis Cognescenti Begin to Shout Like Horton's Who's
…The holes here are in the ground, fertilized with chicken manure, scattered around on the thousands of small pot farms throughout the hills of the Emerald Triangle. The best ordinance is the…
Posted Under the Heading:I Love Humboldt
Humboldt's Own, Amy Stewart, gardener extraordinaire and delightful writer, got a sweet little packet in the mail and shared the story in the New York Times. ( God, I love Humboldt. ) Leaves…
End Round One
…The four point in an exhausted panic stumbled to the middle of the road and Crooked Horn followed. I stopped to avoid hitting them and the other car, without so much as…
A Clippers Union
…This should be in a marijuana museum—A Retrospective of Manicuring Through the Years.
Where To Now?
Charlie Custer, in the North Coast Journal, just wrote a well thought out, articulate story on the future of Humboldt now that Prop. 19 did not pass. If you don't want…
The Defeat of 19 was the Defeat of Big Canna…NOT
Many people who voted against 19 feel that they did so to defeat big corporations taking over the valiantly fought for businesses of small mom and pop farmers. I only wish they…
Ode to a Grumpy Old Man
Here's an ode at the passing of a grumpy old man—one of the most cantankerous but finest old men in my neighborhood. (And we've quite a few. I tell…
707 Cannabis College Offers New Class
707 Cannabis College “Teaching you the future now!” Join us for a Night of Cannabis Magic Discover Oils, Salves, Tinctures, Etc. Instructor – Wendy Read $75 includes material fee Nov. 19, 2010 6…
First Class Trimmer
Trimmer looking for work at Earthdance. Photo by the incomparable Kim Sallaway. Check out his blog also. For other photos of the seasonal workers of Humboldt, go here, here, and here.
One Good Year
…The story he hopes to tell with a documentary he has worked on since March is the underlying culture that attracted many of the older growers in the first place — going back…
Bartering With Buds.. 'Cause Hey, We Live in Humboldt
…BLACK CAT WHO COULD NOT BE LEFT OUTSIDE) AND MY HUSBANDS BABY GREEN IGUANA UNFORTUNATELY THE CAT WON THAT ONE I AM LOOKING TO REPLACE IT. IF YOU HAVE ONE THAT U…
It's That Time
Along with the landscape changes, November brings time changes. Set your clocks back 1 hour tonight. Sunday, at 2 AM the time changes.
Big Piercy Bust—More To Come In Mendo?
…An excellent article by the Ukiah Daily Journal Reporter ( TIFFANY REVELLE) gives a detailed account. The point I found especially striking came at the end of the article—Special Agent Richard Russell…
A SoHum Story—Stash in the Trash
…One day, a scruffy looking fellow shuffled into the store awkwardly. "Excuse me," he said our clerk, "but…uh…I accidentally threw the wrong bag in the recycling. I threw in my…
Smokers Calling for a Boycott of Emerald Triangle Growers?
…For who knows what reasons — maybe the miserly interest of preserving big pot profits? — they shamelessly allied themselves with the law enforcement and prison lobbies, with the Religious Right, and with the…