Feds Scrutinizing Oakland’s New Pot Laws

By Mikal Jakubal

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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 Elephant In The Grow Room

The following article was originally published in the Arcata Eye and reprinted on the Humboldt Medical Marijuana Advisory Panel’s website.

By Charley Custer

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Many Humboldters enjoy making up facts about marijuana, and I won’t spoil the fun with certainties on the subject. But we don’t have to guess how big the elephant is in our grow rooms. [read more ...]

Recreational Marijuana Ordinance Proposed For Humboldt County

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 ...]

S.F. Weekly article on out in the open Mendocino growers

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.

Financial Times Deutschland Story On Humboldt Weed

“Every adult should then grow cannabis on a limited area, about 30 grams of the drug and have to consume.”

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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 ...]