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By Mikal Jakubal Times have changed, no doubt. Last week, a member of the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors and a sheriff’s sergeant testified in a Santa Rosa courtroom on behalf of two men charged with transporting pot through Sonoma County. The defendants are employees of Northstone Organics, a permitted medical marijuana collective in Mendocino County. [read more ...] The Humboldt Medical Marijuana Advisory Panel has posted its latest proposal for a Humboldt County medical marijuana ordinance on its website. It’s long, but worth reading if you’re into policy wonkery around this subject. Almost a month ago, there was a somewhat contentious meeting of the Humboldt County Planning Commission in Eureka, the county seat. The [read more ...] By Mikal Jakubal I spent the afternoon filming the marijuana policy forum at the annual Hemp Fest. This was one of the most consistently good events on the subject of legalization and regulation of the cannabis industry, both medical and recreational, that I’ve seen yet. For an overview of the event, see Kym Kemp’s blog post. [read more ...] The 20th annual Hemp Festival continues today with some interesting policy forums starting at 2:30pm. Worth checking out if you want to keep up on where the industry is heading in Humboldt County and statewide. Hemp Fest 2010 – Day 3 – Interactive Forum & Panel Discussion What: An Interactive (Hemp) Forum and Panel Discussion Contrary to what some of the dispensary owners say in the article below, Prop 19 does not touch the current CA medical marijuana model. Period. And, it’s not confusing. What I don’t get about these people is that they could be so short-sighted as to their own economic interests. Legalization of recreational use of [read more ...] One Good Year note: I just had to repost this, both because of the boastful claim below and to show that Humboldt is not the only place where weed growing is widespread and fairly public. In fact, based on this article, it would seem that maybe Humboldt is a bit [read more ...] 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 ...] 707 Cannabis College, SoHum’s answer to Oaksterdam University, will be holding an Expo at the Mateel Community Center in Redway, CA this Saturday. For more info: http://www.mateel.org/2010_cannabiscollege.html 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 ...] |
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