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I know they say that beggars can’t be choosers, but this panhandler wants only the best–he wants Humboldt buds. I wonder how far he traveled to get here. Judging by his smile, the trip was worth it. Kim Sallaway, my favorite Humboldt photographer, gathered in another harvest of marijuana humor in Redway today. If you haven’t seen his cast
Read moreAccording to the Redding Searchlight, a 23 year old L. A. man was arrested for transportation and intent to sell early this morning after a traffic stop revealed he had 58 pounds of marijuana. Dixon was pulled over around 2:37 a.m. on Highway 36 West near Baker Road, deputies said. Deputies said Dixon told them he was driving from Humboldt
Read moreLast night The California Report played a story that I co-reported. In the piece we tried to tell what it is like here in Humboldt now, what it was like in the past, and what people here are doing to meet a future as marijuana’s role in society changes. We tried to capture sounds from now, voices retelling the past,
Read more[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIDAVFkiuek&fs=1&hl=en_US] Erma Bombeck wrote about suburban America with a sharp pen but a warm heart. A woman named Heather Donahue is doing the same for the marijuana world. Donahue calls the women living with growers “pot wives” and says “they’re like Beverly Hills trophy wives but with more body hair. ” The women she talks about in the video above
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