Humboldt County DA Identifies 801 Marijuana Convictions Agrees to Re-designation from Felonies to Misdemeanors

Humboldt Cannabis iconPress release from the Humboldt County District Attorney’s Office:

In keeping with the letter and spirit of a 2018 California State Assembly Bill (AB 1793) which charged prosecutors with addressing past cannabis-related convictions to align them with current laws, the Humboldt County District Attorney has identified 801 convictions dating back to 1982 and agreed to their re-designation from felonies to misdemeanors.

AB 1793 addressed cannabis-related violations of the Health and Safety Code sections covering possession (section 11357), cultivation (section 11358), possession for sale (section 11359) and transportation (section 11360). AB 1793 required that the California Department of Justice provide prosecutors’ offices throughout the state with lists of their relevant cases. When the list provided to Humboldt County included only 35 cases, District Attorney Maggie Fleming directed her staff to conduct their own search. Historically in Humboldt County, some people charged with Health and Safety Code sections 11357-11360 requested and were granted the opportunity to plead guilty to Health and Safety Code 11366.5 (managing a location for unlawful use or storage of a controlled substance), because that conviction could be reduced to a misdemeanor upon successful completion of probation. Therefore, the District Attorney’s Office also included violations of that code section in its search.

Humboldt County’s search, which dated back as far as possible given available computer records, yielded about 3500 violations across more than 800 separate cases. While some violations of Health and Safety Code 11366.5 were not eligible for re-designation because they involved methamphetamine or heroin, all violations of 11366.5 involving cannabis and all convictions for violations listed in AB 1793 were reduced from felonies to misdemeanors.

People seeking information on whether their criminal records were affected by Humboldt County’s response to AB 1793 should contact their legal counsel or Humboldt County Public Defender’s Office at (707) 445-7634. Any remaining convictions eligible for reduction under AB 1793 identified will receive prompt attention from the District Attorney’s Office.

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tax payer
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Now its realized ...
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Now its realized ...
3 years ago
Reply to  tax payer

I wonder if the county can give me twenty years of my life back that i missed out on so many opportunities since they took away my rights for having a little too much cannabis giving me a felony for possessing it and that the government now decided really isn’t even close to being as bad as alcohol and that my cannabis was at the time my hollistic medicine also that I still use today as treatment for a list of things from head aches to nausea and that the government is openly profiting off of now because they decided they can tax it and profit and from it its not that bad after all . I knew it wasnt bad a long time ago. But i lost my way in life because of a felony for a plant

Its Coming
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Its Coming
3 years ago

Time to defund Cannabis Eradication. One day, enough people will rise up and demand change, Humboldt County will be forced to repay all that assett forfeiture money they stole, all that fine money they extorted. All the private property they destroyed will have to be paid back…. Change is coming, soon these County Politicians will be held responsible by the community they pilfered and stole from all these years with their violent clandestine military raids. The time is coming

Willow Creeker
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Willow Creeker
3 years ago
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And the prices will be… same as tomatoes

thatguyinarcata
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thatguyinarcata
3 years ago
Reply to  Willow Creeker

More likely similar to cut flowers. Concentrates will be cheap and products made with concentrates. There will probably be dirt cheap prerolls too if you don’t care what you smoke.

High quality flower will always be a high priced product because it’s the result of highly specialized agriculture. The processing from harvest onward doesn’t seem to be able to be mechanised if you want to produce grade a flower so the labor costs will stay high.

There will probably be much smaller market for it as well though. I’d guess pricing will fall somewhere between bouquets and wine grapes

Rod Gass
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Rod Gass
3 years ago

Yeah, but nope.

The highest quality is worth more period. The cheap imitations being marketed by the “legal” flood, are worth about what great tomatoes are. That’s good for the genuine heritage growers. Just stay the course and offer the best.

I predict that consumers, will always seek the best.

High volume growers, now producing almost 50% of the California tonnage, at home and nationwide, are destroying the time honored reputation of the Triangle’s proven product. In other words, you’re lucky to get tomato prices for your trash weed.

Creeker
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Creeker
3 years ago

Ok guy in Arcata let’s check in in a couple years and see who’s right. If trump wins again the market might stay good for a few more years, with Biden, federal legalization is right around the corner. When that happens, you boutique flower prices will be in the pooper along with your expensive auto dep greenhouses. I would bet my ranch on it. (It’s not that hard to mass produce quality flower with uber cheap labor and mechanization that can only happen on big open fields.)

With liberty and justice for all
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With liberty and justice for all
3 years ago

It’s coming, I surely hope your rite I will celebrate on that day !!!! I sure am hoping to see the county pay for there theft and extortion and theivery !!!!!
This is a step in the right direction but there still filthy and grotesque in the way they’ve treated alot of their citizenary in the last couple years and they will be apologizing and paying for it !!!!!!

Sneedio
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Sneedio
3 years ago

To bad the county can’t give back the time that was taken from them…”

Johhny Hemp
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Johhny Hemp
3 years ago

They put me on a terrorist list followed me around. I broke no laws. Followed me to see my grandparents. Now its my turn. Federal indictments on made scumboldt mafia is in the mix. The police mob is the worst!!!! Brain damaged chipped and left for Humboldt to pay. The federal protection of these assholes is almost over. Most if not all the homeless are brainchipped. Sometimes it goes wrong.

Rod Gass
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Rod Gass
3 years ago

Same old baloney from state and county.

We ruined 3500 lives by felony convictions and charges. So we’ll admit that we blew it 800 times. That’s not good enough.

Prohibitionists have caused huge mental illnesses for people. The cultivation and consumption of cannabis allowed “legal”class warfare. The aggressive intent to expand the Bureau of Cannabis Control must be stopped.