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Our Town
A friend sent this to me saying, "I watched it thinking of our home and the changes & struggles we may be facing. I cried a little… I'm afraid. I see a…
Helicopter in SoHum
…I thought I'd put up a place for people to post what they saw and heard. —- Don't forget tonight is the night Anna Hamilton will be doing her show on…
Bravo! Humboldt County Tourism Site is Promoting Humboldt's Marijuana Premiership to the Cannatourist
Because marijuana is still illegal in most aspects, using Humboldt's premier status in the field to advertise to the cannatourist is difficult to say the least. But it isn't impossible…
The Fog of Prohibition
The fog of prohibition is lifting but many people still have to deal with the reality of marijuana's illegality. Last week, a 35 year old Garberville woman, Aurora Hathor-Rainmenti, was…
Nude Bicyclist: Don't You Love the North Coast?
Nude Bicyclist By Joyce Benton Last November, local real estate agent Joyce Benton saw a group of bicyclists riding down the Wildcat into Ferndale. The first one was conventionally dressed …then the…
Spring Shaking off Winter
Spring We had about an inch of snow here. The morning is sunny and clear and everything shimmers with tiny droplets of melting ice. Beautiful.
Legalization of Marijuana: What Could Happen?
Tom Ammiano's bill has been modified and I haven't found the State Board of Equalization's analysis of it. However, much of the analysis of his older bill still holds…
What's After Pot
…She is doing a presentation today at the Garberville rotary about the situation. Business people in the area are aware of the danger to our area's financial stability and she is…
Hailing Spring
Hail, like comets battered the daffodils. Then came snow. Now it is sunny. Could this be the result of the UFO sighting in Eureka Saturday? Or is it Spring—glorious spring.
SoHumBorn Sunday
In December 2008, a Southern Humboldt blogger began posting fictional tales of the marijuana culture. Some people were appalled. Most were enthralled. For three months her stories gripped the online community and…
Humboldt's Economy Goes to Pot? Hawaii's Senate Passed Bill to Decriminalize Marijuana
…A combo of three bills increased the amount of cannabis a medical patient could possess, decreased the penalties for possession, and agreed to tax the herb at $30 per ounce. Granted, the…
Homeless is More than a Problem, It is a Girl
…I wiped the counter. The voices for the homeless and the homed plucked at me then dropped away as I tucked my house to bed. Awake, this morning, I slipped from under…
Shaken not Stirred: New Jobs in the Pot Economy
If pot goes legal what kind of jobs will that generate? Looking at opportunities that exist in the Medical Marijuana field now is one way to extrapolate into the future. Employment openings…
"Hell, Its Legal"
Not long ago, someone I was interviewing at the Emerald Cup told me that they weren’t worried about cops and cannabis because “Hell, its legal.” Now, that’s crazy talk, right…
Put that in Your Pipe and Smoke It: Insecticides and Banned Chemicals Found in Dispensary Pot
…But after hearing about the amounts of insecticides found on some of the confiscated weed, patients should be howling for the blood of some of those pot shop owners. The medicine that…
Indian Warrior
…It is said that wild Indian warrior can absorb alkaloids from the soil and toxins from poison oak which makes it problematic for use as a medicine or narcotic.
Full Moon
Moonrise The Full Moon came at 8:38 this morning but tonight will still be lovely if the weather holds. I plan a night walk under the moon unless the weather is…
The Glory of Spring
The Glory of Spring
Show your Support for Humboldt Growers—HuGG One Today
Worried about marijuana legalization? How is the changing economic climate going to harm Humboldt, the whole North Coast, and growers in general? A new Humboldt Growers Guild is seeking members. They want…
High Times Editor Comments on Cannabis Cup and Outdoor Marijuana
…Today, concerns that the June date might be handicapping outdoor growers spread throughout Humboldt. In an effort to answer these concerns I contacted David Bienenstock the new West Coast editor at High…
Surveying the Scene
For Salmon Creekers, According to Clara Sanders of BLM, the surveyors on the top of the ridge were there just to establish a boundary between public and private land. They have contacted…
Dancing with Death
…In fact, the birds often seem not evil but pathetically ugly and deformed. Sometimes though they look majestic. This one bowed as I watched and seemed to dance with an invisible partner…
Redwood in the Rain
Redwood in the Rain
Growing Up Green: Interviews with Children of Pot Growers
Preschooler with Pot The controversy over marijuana extends into the family life of the grower. Are the children safe? Do they grow up drug addicted menaces to society? Are they traumatized by…
Robin
…One of my favorites is Emily Dickinson's piece below the fold. The poem doesn't explicitly name the bird and I reluctantly allow it could be a chickadee or some other…
Inconsistancy
Sunshine on Sugar When the federal government overrides California's marijuana laws, many of us rightly see it as interfering. The whole marijuana culture celebrated when Obama said his administration would respect…
Home is Where the Humboldt is
…Humboldt is the place my life started, where I took my first breath, lost my first tooth, spoke my first word, got my first kiss, fell in love for the very first…
Bear Butte with Rising Sun
Like A Volcano Frequent Photo Claiming Homeground Basking in the rising sun, Bear Butte's exhaled a banner of fog Claiming us as minions.
Be Still, Let it Touch Us
Fog Rising Frequent Photo Fog—the tangible breath of streamlet, tree and more Blurs the stolid forms of motors mountains men. We blunder through it Blindly, trying to see. Be still. Let…
Toking Tourists and a Marijuana Museum Here in Humboldt
…This will be best for their financial future and for the future of the county.) The more we layer the marijuana experience and conflate it with Humboldt and the North Coast, the…