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Yours truly was a featured guest on KCRW’s To The Point talk show on Monday. KCRW is a major NPR affiliate out of Santa Monica that serves much of Southern California, while To The Point is syndicated nationally to other NPR stations. I come in at about minute-twenty-nine in the program and am on and off [read more ...] By Mikal Jakubal I’ve often compared Southern Humboldt to one of those tribal villages in New Guinea where, isolated by mountain ridges from neighboring settlements for generations, the people developed an entirely separate language and culture. While the Redwood Curtain is more metaphorical than topographical, the underground nature of the economy here and three generations of [read more ...] By Mikal Jakubal Ripoff moon “Yes,” I mumbled under my breath to my friend standing next to me, “he should know.” The speaker was, after all, the notorious ripoff son of the ripoff son of said grandpa. A friend and I were talking with [read more ...] This small, off-the-grid homestead has its solar-electric panels in the middle of the marijuana garden—the sunniest part of the site. 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 ...] 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 ...] By Mikal Jakubal [fb-like] Spent the morning at a somewhat typical homestead down a typical dirt road in SoHum, filming three generations of women and girls in the garden planting out the pot plants and tending the vegetable garden. Recorded stories of how they got here, some wild tales in the early days and what things are [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 ...] |
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