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Clicking the link above or here, you can read the text of the County’s draft of Phase I of the medical marijuana ordinance. This will be presented to the Planning Commission Thursday night at 6pm in the County Board Of Supervisors’ chambers in Eureka. Both the Humboldt Growers Association (HGA) and HuMMAP will be giving [read more ...]
NORML, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws had this summary: House Bill 1983, the States’ Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act, would ensure that medical cannabis patients in states that have approved its use will no longer have to fear arrest or prosecution from federal law enforcement agencies. It states, “No provision of [read more ...]
HuMMAP’s latest proposal for a medical marijuana ordinance for Humboldt County can be seen by clicking the link above, below the header image or by clicking here.
This is the draft ordinance that has been submitted to the Planning Commission staff. The next Planning Commission meeting will be this Thursday, May 12th at 5:30pm [read more ...]
Elements of Humboldt County government have decided to cold-shoulder the public by enacting our first medical marijuana regulations. An ill-conceived draft ordinance will be discussed again at 6pm this Thursday, February 3rd at the Planning Commission meeting in the Supervisors’ chambers at the Courthouse in Eureka.
Citizens should come tell the Commissioners that this draft ordinance [read more ...]
HuMMAP will host an update and conversation this Monday evening at the Garberville Vets Hall, to begin community discussion of how Humboldt county should regulate its medical marijuana industry. Regulations will be enacted this year. HuMMAP has advocated countywide public hearings on what they should contain, and will continue to represent public and industry desires [read more ...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 19, 2010
Contact: Charley Custer, HuMMAP 707-223-4014
Ellen Komp, CaNORML Emerald Chapter 707-223-5755
http://hummap.org
Going further than a “no position” endorsement recommendation by Supervisor Mark Lovelace, the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors today voted 4-0 to endorse Proposition 19, the Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010 that will be on the Nov. 2 California [read more ...]
HuMMAP Proposes Licensing For County Marijuana Farmers
Graduated Fees Will Encourage Small Farmers and Boost County Income
The Humboldt Medical Marijuana Advisory Panel (HuMMAP) is proposing commercial cannabis regulations today to the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors. HuMMAP Chair Syreeta Lux says that “This proposal is designed to stabilize our county’s rural economies with a tax policy [read more ...]
By Charley Custer
Originally published in the Arcata Eye
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. Researchers at HSU’s Schatz Energy Research Center have highlighted a growing divergence in Humboldt’s [read more ...]
Originally printed in the Arcata Eye, Wednesday, July 14th.
By Charley Custer
What’s going to happen to the economic base of Humboldt County? Everyone thinks they know: timber’s on life support, fishing’s kaput, our steady-Eddie government jobs threaten to become minimum wage, and—lest we forget—our county’s elephant-in-the-closet economic foundation is facing the crisis of legalization. What’s a [read more ...]
The following article was posted on June 30th, 2010, in the New Times – Volume 24, Issue 48
BY ASSEMBLYMEMBER TOM AMMIANO
What if California could raise hundreds of millions of dollars in new revenue to preserve vital state services without any tax increases? And what if at the same time, we could, without any new expense, [read more ...]
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