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By Mikal Jakubal [fb-like] Yet another story from the Hospice benefit. A story was making the rounds about how the Deputy who showed up with the pot plants strapped to his SUV had personally given someone a joint. Here’s an email I got about it from a friend who had originally told me the story: I just heard [read more ...] By Mikal Jakubal [fb-like] On Saturday, Heart Of The Redwoods Hospice held its annual fundraising barbecue, “Taste Of The Cove,” at Shelter Cove, on the shores of Humboldt County. There was the usual live music, socializing and tons of excellent food, especially local fish cooked to perfection. I got there in time to get a yummy plate of [read more ...] The following story from Canada was reported by the BBC today. Seems an interesting juxtaposition to yesterday’s double shoot-out at two pot farms guarded by armed men in Mendocino County, California that left one dead. Seems that everyone’s just mellower in Canada. ‘Tame’ Bears Guard Canadian Marijuana Farm Police raiding a marijuana farm in western Canada were [read more ...] By Mikal Jakubal [fb-like] “You’re definitely a boy. Nice try dude!” Said one of my film subjects after identifying and ripping out another one of half a dozen six-foot-tall male marijuana plants from her garden. It took pulling with all her might to uproot the them from the beds where they had been so carefully tended since I [read more ...] Recorded, transcribed and edited by Mikal Jakubal from an interview with a local stream restorationist, Garberville, July 2010. [fb-like] I was working on a restoration project in the upper Mattole Valley. This was May of ’90 or ’91, when big storms came in and all the creeks came up over their banks. This caused a debris torrent [read more ...] Recorded and transcribed by Mikal Jakubal from an on-the-street interview. [fb-like] “Years ago a friend of mine was driving his motorcycle on the backroads in the hills of Humboldt carrying two large garbage bags full of pot, all dried and trimmed, on his way to a deal. It was dark, at night and he was driving really [read more ...] Transcribed and edited by Mikal Jakubal [fb-like] When California’s Compassionate Use Act—Proposition 215—passed in 1996, legalizing marijuana use for patients who had a doctor’s recommendation, people were finally able to grow weed in the open in their gardens. For a decade and a half before that, law-enforcement helicopters forced most growing under the cover of light forest [read more ...] (originally published as “Fragile Things” in Grow Magazine. Reprinted here courtesy of the author.) By Kym Kemp [fb-like] Temporarily, they halted our demolition of a building–two fledglings huddled in a nest of mud and grass. We hoped that the mother would return. But, when she hadn’t by the next day and the babies were peeping furiously, I was [read more ...] [fb-like] By Kym Kemp Originally published in Grow magazine. “Out in the mountains, it’s almost like you forget it’s illegal…We’re just these farmers with veggie gardens. But the reality is, we’re breakin’ the law.” As a second generation grower, James isn’t against marijuana but his twenty-second birthday changed his life forever. The big grin that normally fills his [read more ...] |
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