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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 ...]
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 Professor in the Department of Economics at
Humboldt State University, is working to make the index [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 ...]
Today at 5 the first of a three part radio documentary on the changing world of cannabis will be aired on KMUD. (Click here to download and listen.) This first installment looks at the initiative, views on it from CaNORML director Dale Gieringer and medical activist Frank Lucido, a look at the legal medical industry, [read more ...]
A smoky farmer’s market model for Yolo County
By ERIN TRACY
From the Daily Democrat
The sale and distribution of medical marijuana in unincorporated Yolo
County is an issue never formally addressed by the Board of Supervisors,
but the subject is gaining popularity.
“We are rural; the trendy stuff that hits San Francisco and L.A. will
eventually trickle to Yolo County, it’s [read more ...]
Related NYT article
San Jose union begins organizing pot workers
Joe Garofoli, Chronicle Staff Writer
Friday, May 28, 2010
A major California labor union is organizing medical cannabis workers in Oakland, a move that analysts say will help efforts to legalize marijuana and open the door for the union to organize thousands more workers if state voters [read more ...]
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