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This from the FireDogLake blog: [fb-like] “After our ads with the Just Say Now logo of a marijuana leaf ran more than 38 million times, Facebook flip-flopped and banned all images of marijuana from its ads.” Given that marijuana is a legal plant to grow and use for medicinal purposes in many states and given [read more ...] By Mikal Jakubal [fb-like] I ran into an old grower friend today, someone who has been a homesteader for decades, and asked him what he thought was going to happen with legalization and the economy and culture here. “I hope it all leaves me alone for one more year,” was his unhesitating reply. Then, more thoughtfully he [read more ...] By Mikal Jakubal [fb-like] An article in San Francisco’s The Bay Citizen describes recent contact between the Drug Enforcement Administration and Oakland city officials regarding their recently-passed marijuana-growing regulations. The new rules would permit four indoor warehouse mega-grows, the biggest of them being capable of producing over fifty pounds of dried weed per day. It was a [read more ...] The Humboldt Medical Marijuana Advisory Panel (HuMMAP) has posted a draft ordinance written by CA NORML‘s Ellen Komp. It would set recreational marijuana policy for the County should Proposition 19 pass in November. On a quick read, the proposal seems sane, clear and workable. It establishes a set of licenses and fees for various aspects [read more ...] http://www.sfweekly.com/2010-07-07/news/the-high-road/ This story, like my documentary, would not have been possible a couple of years ago. Times are changing and changing fast. By Mikal Jakubal [fb-like] I’ll be filming at 707 Cannabis College’s EXPO at the Mateel Community Center on Saturday the 10th. They’re starting a SoHum version of Oaksterdam University, with more emphasis on outdoor and organic medical marijuana growing. The political and economic landscape of Southern Humboldt is rapidly changing. 707CC is part of the response to that [read more ...] Marijuana legalization ballot measure now officially “Proposition 19.” By Mikal Jakubal [fb-like] The-ballot-measure-formerly-known-as-Tax-Cannabis-2010 has been given the official title “Proposition 19″ by the California Secretary Of State. Apparently, the state restarts the Proposition counter every ten years, last doing so in 2008. This explains why the 1996 medical marijuana initiative was Prop 215 and this year’s legalization initiative [read more ...] “Every adult should then grow cannabis on a limited area, about 30 grams of the drug and have to consume.” [fb-like] A journalist from Financial Times Deutschland was up here last month researching a story about the pot economy and the effects of legalization. Since she was interviewing one of my film [read more ...] Today at 5pm PST, the first of a 3-part radio documentary by Liz Davidson on the changing world of cannabis will be aired on KMUD radio. Click here to download the program any time from the archives. I’d especially recommend this as a good intro to the issues faced by those in my documentary and [read more ...] California voters back pot legalization, but support is shaky – latimes.com. [fb-like] California voters, by a modest margin, think they should be allowed to grow and consume marijuana, according to a new poll that also found more than 1 in 3 voters had tried pot and more [read more ...] |
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