5th Annual Humboldt Cannabis Cup this Saturday

Yawn, more dope growers bullshit. I was hoping legalization would have been the final nail in the coffin for weed in humboldt. I suppose I will have to wait for federal approval . I relish a return to traditional farming , not this criminal dope grower nonsense.

Humboldt brand is a wash, if mountain lions have Mercury from the fog, why wouldn’t Humboldt’s marijuana. If highschool students can find radiation from Japan’s nuclear nightmare, wouldn’t yah think all CA products are tainted with radiation.

I get my medicine only from Farmers back east. Radiation, and Mercury free.

So anyway, pray for the Pacific ocean because it is basically destroyed, as with CA.

Despite having a seemingly strong personality, growers lack a core self. Their self-image and thinking and behavior are other-oriented in order to stabilize and validate their self-esteem and fragile, fragmented self.

The anachist culture of Southern Humboldt sentenced its community to a life without human love. They fell in love with their own reflection in pool of water and died hungering for its response. Like Is community, growers only “love” themselves as reflected in the eyes of others. It’s a common misconception that they love themselves. They may actually dislike themselves immensely. Their inflated self-flattery, perfectionism, and arrogance are merely covers for the self-loathing they don’t admit — usually even to themselves. Instead, it’s projected outward in their disdain for and criticism of others. They’re too afraid to look at themselves, because they believe the truth would be devastating. Emotionally, they may be dead inside, and hungering to be filled and validated by others. Sadly, they’re unable to appreciate the love they do get and they alienate those who give it.

They’ve created these types of “community” events as a treatment to their self enduced symptoms. When we think of growers, we usually picture someone with an inflated ego — someone bossy and arrogant, who has to be right. To be diagnosed with Grower Personality Disorder (GPD), the person must exhibit grandiosity (if only in fantasy) and lack of empathy, as exhibited by at least five of the following traits:

1. Has a grandiose sense of self-importance and exaggerates achievements and talents.

2. Dreams of unlimited power, success, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love.

3. Believes he or she is special and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people or institutions.

4. Requires excessive admiration.
Unreasonably expects special, favorable treatment or compliance with his or her wishes.

5. Exploits and takes advantage of others to achieve personal ends.
Lacks empathy for the feelings and needs of others.

6. Envies others or believes they’re envious of him or her.

7. Has arrogant behaviors or attitudes.

In addition to the grandiose “Exhibitionist Grower” described above, We’ve identified “Closet Growers” — those with a deflated, inadequate self-perception, a sense of depression and inner emptiness. (They are also referred to as “Introverted Narcissists.”) They may appear shy, humble, or anxious, because their emotional investment is in the idealized other, which is indirectly gratifying (Community Observation 1974 – 2020). “Malignant Growers” are the most pernicious and hostile type, enacting anti-social behavior. They can be cruel and vindictive when they feel threatened or don’t get what they want.

It’s hard to empathize with growers, but they didn’t choose to be that way. Their natural development was arrested, directly due to faulty, early parenting. Some believe the cause lies in extreme closeness with an indulgent mother; others attribute it to parental harshness or criticalness. But the evidence supports it was a cumulation of those behaviors contributed by radical and missguided beliefs within the community that helped shape what we see today.

We’ve observed that grower community suffers from profound alienation, emptiness, powerlessness, and lack of meaning. Beneath a narcissistic façade, they lacked the sufficient internal structures to maintain cohesiveness, stability, and a positive self-image to provide a stable identity. Growers are uncertain of the boundaries between themselves and others and vacillate between dissociated states of self-inflation and inferiority. The self, divided by shame, is made up of the superior-acting, grandiose self and the inferior, devalued self. When the devalued self is in the inferior position, shame manifests by idealizing others. When the individual is in the superior position, defending against shame, the grandiose self aligns with the inner critic and devalues others through projection. Both this devaluation and idealization are commensurate with the severity of shame and the associated depression.

This is why we see these self organized / promoting events. It’s almost as if the inmates are running the asylum.

So who is allowed to participate if no rec. or medical growers? Is it just the big farms?

The reason the Mateel had such a poor attendance and entries is because Sean devries , whose running for Supervisor , hijacked it for his own promotion of his stupid political campaign.
He has gained very little traction by way of support, most of it because he is a pos and treats women Like pos. [edit]
He had to run away from San Francisco under a cloud of embezzled funds from his dispensary, and now SoHum has been stuck with this con man for a year.
People are starting to be on to this creep, hopefully it’s not too late for the Mateel, this devries guy will destroy what’s left of the Mateel.