What’s Happening in Humboldt County?
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A key element of a social media outreach strategy for an independent documentary is knowing who your readers, fans and supporters are and how they’re finding your blog. To that end, I usually monitor my Google Analytics data for this site pretty closely. That way, for example, if I see a spike in views after [read more ...]
By Mikal Jakubal
“Huh?”
That was my first thought as I drove by the woman holding the sign in Redway this morning. Being one of the more unusual protest signs I’d ever seen, I pulled over and walked back.
Here’s the short version that I got from her, paraphrasing a bit since I didn’t record it. She (who [read more ...]
By Mikal Jakubal
While the world condemns countries that practice female infanticide, in the Emerald Triangle, we do the botanical opposite, nipping mostly-useless male plants in the bud long before they can pollinate any nearby females and ruin the quality of the finished “buds.”
For those unfamiliar with marijuana botany, the plants are typically dioecious, meaning male [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 ...]
Reprinted here from the Humboldt Medical Marijuana Advisory Panel‘s website:
The Humboldt Economic Index has been used as a measure of economic activity across the county for over a decade, but it has never included our county’s prinicipal economic activity—pot production. Erick Eschker, Director of the Humboldt Economic Index and [read more ...]
By Mikal Jakubal
Note: I had started the previous post about seeds before the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. I wanted to finish the story as it was, so what I excluded was the fact that as I was off photographing those seeds, a boombox in the background at the friend’s house was tuned to our local [read more ...]
Cannabis seeds
By Mikal Jakubal
For some people it’s February 1st, for others March 1st and for others, Daylight Savings Time. Some people start their seeds by the phases of the moon or by astrological signs.
There is one school of thought that suggests that starting seeds later—around April 1st—will provide the same yields with less work, [read more ...]
In case you thought the U.S. was the only country with nutty drug laws…
This just in from Reuters. Bhutan police raid homes to stub out smoking habit.
According to the article, Bhutan anti-tobacco cops are now training a special tobacco-sniffing dog to crack down on illegal tobacco use. Smokers in that country are limited to 200 [read more ...]
With holiday travel, bad weather, work-for-money and work around the homestead, I’ve been shirking blog duty for the last month or so. Here’s a quick update on where the film is at. All the footage has been processed, organized and copied onto hard drives in preparation to start editing. The next step is to cut [read more ...]
Yesterday evening’s salon went well. Here is the link where it will be archived. Comments are still open till 5pm Pacific Time today, so stop by with your comments, opinions or questions. http://firedoglake.com/2010/12/13/fdl-movie-night-one-good-year-2/
I’ll be checking in during the day and will try and reply to anyone before the comments close.
Thanks again to FireDogLake for the [read more ...]
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