[UPDATE 2:49 p.m.] Over 20 Law Enforcement Vehicles Spotted Out Island Mountain Road
This morning, residents spotted “over 20” law enforcement vehicles headed o Island Mountain past Road D.
They described seeing a vehicle pulling something like a skidder, one white pickup with green markings and a US Forest Service emblem, about four more were dark grey with some sort of law enforcement emblems, and the rest were unmarked dark grey vehicles with men wearing “dressed in military garb.”
Please drive extra slow on the roads out there today.
UPDATE 2:49 p.m.: A reader this afternoon wrote us at 2:25 p.m., “Convoy just went down the Laytonville side of bell springs…Fish and game at the front, black ram w a loader and black Toyota Tacoma [behind].”
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Wow, 20. Everybody wants a piece of the action.
What gets me is all the time spent preparing and driving to these busts. Then the drive back..Seems like they spend half their time sitting on their asses.
The other half of the time they are filling out “tickets” to justify/collect the money they feel they are “entitled” to…
And the other half marking off checklists and thinking of new violations they can arbitrarily invent on the spot. A couple lowest level guys will cut some plants. But don’t worry – they are all getting paid… by YOU the taxpayer! Aka “the sucker” in all this charade. Nothing is being accomplished but people are getting paid by you
Wait – I mean US! Guess I’m a sucker too! Involuntary fer sure..
Glad my taxes are used. Too many grow pigs in this area. Too many out of area people taking advantage. Growing should be taken to an agriculture setting. Not the hills and mountains. If you think the money stays in Humboldt, jokes on you.
The plants native habitat is the mountains, derp. It’s the main reason corporate cannabis is getting their asses spanked on the retail side of the industry. Which leads to the convoy of goons cause corporate cannabis sucks ass so bad they gotta enforce their way to gain market share.
Not native to this area, with the non native plastics, fertilizers and trash. Don’t forget the leaking fuels and the drugged out people. And the other crime brought with it.
Well if ya look at a map of the globe and cruise along the 41st parallel to the other side of the globe you’ll notice a familiar moutaininous terrain. You can sit on your ass and cruise the terrior which is similar to ours with Google earth. Fortunate I am to actually walk in that part of the earth but yeah please tell me about the plant you obviously know little about.
The Hindu Kush is a beautiful place.
The plant itself isn’t the problem, peoples greed for tax evasion, destruction and profit is. Line up parallels all you want. Doesn’t mean it should be here.
This person is 100 percent correct.
Hindu kush area is interior mountains with high elevations, with lots of snow and a short growing season, not coastal hills
You obviously don’t realize how much money it pumps into the economy here or you don’t believe in the trickle down theory. Supermarkets, clothing stores, restaurants, hardware stores, ISPs, etc …. you name it and I’ll bet you a large percentage comes from marijuana. Heck, I’ll even wager to say that part of your salary comes indirectly from it in one form or another and you are just in denial about it. Post up what your job is and prove me wrong.
Most stores around are big corporation stores. you think all their profits stay in the local economy?. I’ll just say I would still get paid the same without weed.
My brother was the manager of a large box store and he spent the check they gave him here in town. Mostly on real estate and booze before going on the wagon. His share of the $$ was definitely staying in the county.
Wrong, most stores/restaurants are the mom and pop stores. Without the weed $$ (all outside money with some funneled back into Humboldt, as opposed to your brother where it’s inside money being spent and only a tiny part goes back inside) keeping them alive how many places would shut down and then there’s the ripple effect from that. I never said their profits all stay local, but they do spend a good portion locally and help drive the economy of Humboldt. When real estate prices start plummeting even more in the hills as people exit everyone here will feel it. It won’t just be a tidal wave, it’ll be a tsunami and those ‘tsunami evacuation route’ signs will not help you.
You still didn’t state what your job is, because I bet you know that part of your paycheck is drug money.
Weed don’t make the word go round. GTFO.
Nope, but it does make Humboldt go around.
Post your job!
So does meth and fentynal sales I guess huh. NONE of my paycheck is related to weed period. I get payed the same with or without it. It doesn’t effect nothing for me. Like Jeffersonian said “Money isn’t worth the side effects”.
Yeah, because meth and fentynal are exported from here and legal. 🙄
Weed is the #1 cash crop of Humboldt, literally world famous for it. Should have been capitalized on since the advertising was free.
At least post the industry you work in since you obviously don’t want to post your job.
They aren’t busting 100 percent legal weed. They are busting illegal weed, hence still illegal to a point. Going to leave you wondering on the job. But weed isn’t everything you think it is. But I’m also no all against it. Just the people that don’t pay taxes because I do and I spend my money places.
Done with you if you’re not going to answer a simple question. Just reinforces my suspension that you know where part of your paycheck comes from.
Done with you mister nobody. Glad to not be part of the industry or have my money come from it. Weed doesn’t pay everything around here. Would be paradise without the growers here.
Why is paying taxes good? Most of it goes to the war machine anyway. The early dopegrowers were largely vets that understood in full what tax dollars go to. And they still managed to find community centers, roads, a radio station, etc
Thank you for saying this.
Just a couple years ago cannabis represented more than half of the economic impact of all agriculture in Humboldt County. I’m sure that percentage has gone down in the last few years, but still, anyone who thinks that cannabis is inconsequential to the local economy is totally detached from reality.
Narcotics other than cannabis aren’t produced here. Cannabis is a big part of our economy. The correct approach for legalization would be to consider the grower who isn’t able to go legal by introducing alternatives to law enforcement. One would be to offset taxes and other state expenses by offering insensitives like growing food for the hundreds of kids and elderly who rely on state and county programs to eat. Another idea is for rual cannabis growers to keep goats and sheep for fire suppression. We are more intelligent than simply using force, aren’t we? Yes I am a cannabis grower. I don’t use hard drugs, I barely even drink. The people I associate with are respectful and polite. I wasn’t born here but I’ve lived here for 22 years. I don’t own land and would love to be in the legal market. It hasn’t been easy. I would grow anything from food to ornamental plants to continue working in nature. Weed is still the most lucrative. If u arest me, like I’ve been in the past, it only costs you more money and drives me further into the fringe. If you work with me I feel safe and respected enough to come out of the fold and be compliant. Peace and love to all.
100 billion dollar commodity!!
Retired independent contract chopper field mechanic. Without the weed here in Humboldt they would not have needed me back then. I’d get called, work on the contracted problem aircraft then go home and take care of me scene. It’s called scratching out a living. And I’m proud of all of it, everything I’ve done to support meself and mine!
👍🏼 👍🏼
At least SOMEONE isn’t afraid to answer the question honestly.
Huh? Most local stores are Big corporation stores?
Sounds like you’re a bot or Russian troll.
Money isn’t worth the side effects
Use the. Money gone . Game over
Ronald Regans trickle down theory has never worked, except to make the rich richer, and everyone else poor
If that stupid initiative that you support passes, you can pay for more idiots walking around with clipboards trying to regulate plants.
It will pass. You can count on it! Greedy mega- grower’s should have been more respectful towards their neighbors. Greedy mega- grower’s should not blow light out into the night darkness. Greedy mega-grower’s shouldn’t be allowed to operate w impunity and fill the quiet valleys w generator noise 24/7. Greedy mega-growers need to be inspected annually w special surprise visits because they cannot be trusted. Hey- I didn’t make the greedy mega-growers behave like that! And if they had not behaved as they have than there would be no pushback. Regulations usually happen in response to people acting like entitled selfish assholes….
//”But don’t worry – they are all getting paid… by YOU the taxpayer! Aka “the sucker” in all this charade. … Wait – I mean US! Guess I’m a sucker too! Involuntary fer sure..//”
Thank you for finally admitting what you have denied on these pages for years — that you (and all the rest of us) knowingly pay into the system which is used to pull off the abatements.
For some (you and I for sure) it’s involuntarily used for this charade — for others they are cheering. It’s the way government and taxes work, we don’t always get a choice in how it’s spent.
Funny true story….I grew my first plants in 1981 and I did it to avoid paying federal taxes. I wanted income that they could not take away from me and use to feed the war machine. That war machine quickly became helicopter gunships shooting down peasant protestors on Guatemala and El Salvador to protect American corporate profits. I had older friends in the Tax Resisters League who were doing what they could to prevent their own labors from being transformed into blood money. I tithed the same share of my meager weed profits directly into local organizations as many others did at the time. The Star Root was a great local paper reminding us to do so and who could use the funds in our communities. I still hold the same values. I live small so I don’t make lots of money for the “Defense” Department….I do not think we are very similar because you promote large-scale corporate mega-grows that think it’s some badge of honor to put large sums of money into the hands of dishonorable government entities to do terrible things. You are like many greedrushers who came into this grow scene to make big money turning it into a “legitimate” business. I don’t think we are alike much at all. I don’t like what you greedrushers did- you completely missed the moral fundamentals of what was happening here in your rush for the almighty dollar and ego strokes… Yeah I pay property tax and sales tax and gas tax really no getting around that. But I will still fight corporate takeover mentality and corporate/government fascists only now that means weed grows too…weed grows like the ones you think are cool. So no we are not very much alike bro…
I have been hearing you ramble contradictory nonsense on hear for years. Good job you were able to make it here when property was cheap.
You can point all the fingers you want but you have no idea what everyone else has to do to stay living here and paying bills.
Call everyone greedrushers that are growing more then you
Call the permit growers permit pansies
The only thing you are doing is creating a divide in a community.
The old divide the community crap. Community already got divided. Way to gaslight dude. There is no community and the supposed “code” is bullshit. That’s your last resort line to quell any opposition or argument. Hey here’s one for ya, maybe the community needs to be divided? Seems like a bunch of people came and corrupted what was and it got destroyed. Seems as though the case for “diversity and inclusion” is a terrible one because there seems to be a tipping point where everything falls apart once too many diverse people from too many different places with too many different values are included.
This has been repeated across all sectors of society in recent years, and throughout history, not just weed.
I’m older than you and I’ve been paying attention the entire time. I know more than you. And I will speak up. You don’t like what I say because you know it’s true. But to say that “I don’t know blah blah blah” is a pathetic cop-out. I do know. I know many more people than you and across the age groups
From your reaction I’m guessing you are in that group of 40-somethings who really did infiltrate and destroy our scene. Hiding behind the cover of whatever sympathy that we had created by our actually behaving decently and our support of community institutions. You came and grabbed, not built. And you hate when anybody calls you out on that. Go to the overpriced restaurants in Arcata- that is where your comrades reside, still slapping each other on the back for a job well done…destruction of our local mom n pops. The ego detached from intelligence…It’s disgusting
“I know more then you”
You should try to go out and have a real conversation with some actual people 🤣
Farce, Tim, 1911…Stay away from the personal. Stick to ideas.
What was the last 2 years in a row where prices for pounds rose above the precious year?
86? 88? 90?
95?
Well, no one gonna answer because the answer makes it pretty fucking clear that prices been slipping for decades and any arguement that says legal farmers “ruined it” or hurt “mom and pops” is utter ignorance.
I haven’t been here that long but whole sale prices have been in fairly steady decline, with several slightly larger single year drops, since I first became aware of them circa 2008
I’ll answer it you don’t know what you are talking about. 100 percent no clue. Prices came up from the 70’s year after year until 2009 then they went down about in half then it bounced up and down for every year after that until last year it tanked to about worthless in most cases. From medical then legal then worthless. If it’s legal it has no high value especially something so easily grown.
Nah.
Pounds in the 90s early 00s. @ 3.8 – 4k.
In 09 they were already 3k and under.
Like I said you don’t know. Refer to what I write for truth. Typical democrat denying truth. You voted for Biden I bet and you think he’s doing good too.
Uh, Brian’s comment is pretty accurate. You were probably head of the young republicans in fortunate high back then!
Some things you can’t google search the answers you have to really have experienced it.
Now I’m thinking about those decent prices last times hearing about the 4000 range for the outdoors was 88 to 1990. Lady that was high up in the organization of Bank of Willits used to run some really sweet little girls with her husband on the back of Walker Lake.
I will say this: Farce doesn’t say anything contradictory. He is very much the dude who he is/always has been, like it or not.
It’s a shame those inconsiderate and illegal pot growers live so far out of town…
Hopefully they raid the dintlemans and recover everyone’s stolen stuff.
Exactly.
I never heard of “the dintlemans”, and I ain’t pointing any fingers…
But I’m all for taking down the recent lawless nonresident home invasion ripoffs out there that must be trying to establish a stronghold, whoever they are.
It needs to be stopped, abruptly.
I hope that is what this is about.
Round them up and get rid of them, once and for all, please.
Enough is enough.
Thank you.
Get em 💪.
Oh yeah, this is the convoy that finally takes us out, lol.
Just giving them a cheer. With the help of legalization and market crash more people are getting out, making that bullseye bigger. Good luck.
Every dog has it’s day. Today is not that day.
The interesting mj farming dynamics are:
* agricorp vs small farmer
* legal farmer vs illegal farmer
* environmentalists vs mj farmers
* inside farming vs sun grown
Good points. someone should begin to document and summarize this. Lots of inconsistencies, hypocrites and general bullshit… on all sides.
It’s always been this way. Homo Sapien Sapien vs. all those others who are extinct onto Homo Sapien Hunter Gathers vs. Farmers, etc. It’s how civilizations are made and de structed. We are seeing it on the micro scale yet very real and poignant.
Farmers vs. Hunter-gatherers more like.
The nomads naturally kept their populations low. Settlers increased their families to manage all the farm work, which then led to armies seizing additional land, and so on…
Growing weed, fishing, and gun owner ship: it’d all be better if I was the only one.
Good one!
And the gardeners who grow their own.
Sorry Steve shit analogy.
Issue is let us sell direct to the customer, ship through mail even sell on Amazon.
Humboldt, Trinity and Mendo weed will kick the shit outta whoever thinks they can grow the weed. Let us compete fairly Buncha cheating assholes!!
If that sort of legislation is passed and the markets opened up like that, that would mean it has gone federally legal. Once it goes federally legal that will spend the end for any farmer who has to truck in their own soil. Doesn’t matter where you are, if you don’t have good soil on your land you are done once that happens!
I have great soil. I also know how to amend the soil and have been learning through trial and error since ’84 (technically ’82 but I was just seasonal).
Direct to consumer online sales are already happening, maybe pay more attention and put in some extra effort if you want to stay ahead.
Really, I am able to sell my weed on Amazon like jewelry. Please enlighten us. I think you are referring to having to get a cultivation, distribution, processing and then a non-retail store front permit in each county in order to distribute. Sure we all got the 100s of thousands of dollars to do that. Then market, package and deliver cause you cannot use the mail. So yeah i’d like to hear your simple solution of “sales are already happening.”
If you are talking about weed distribution then yea but we are not suffering. My comments is regarding legal cannabis and how fucked the politicians and corporate duff growers in SLO, DHS, LA, California City and Long Beach try and make it difficult for farms under 10k in the Emerald Triangle (where the primo weed grows) to compete fairly.
But when a cannabis Code enforcers partners family has an illegal grow op, nothing happens. Same is true with local law enforcement families crimes.
Good. Eradicate all the weed in humboldt🖕
Market forces and time are doing more than any other forces can or will do.
They’re wa$ting thousands today to get rid of .00001%…great plan!😂
It’s the people growing weed wasting the money, if they didn’t do it cols wouldn’t have to go out there. Most Growers don’t pay taxes.
lol, I don’t mind what’s happening honestly. The fuckery is hillarious!! I remember when DEP was first start’in out with all the mouthyness against us sunf grown weed. We were behind the times. Well……..lol…i won’t be as assholeyy butttttttt ya’ll gettin yer ass kicked pretty timely!! Stick out like a sore thumb to that satelitte.
I support grow your own (six), and using KNF style growing. Not against weed completely. Just people not paying taxes, trashing the land and the community. But yeah that cartel style dep is a garbage way. Sun grown is easy to spot from satellite as well though. Look at trinity pines . Hope LE hits it harder.
Go to The Pines. See all the plants from the road. So so many. See the mountains of trash out the road north. See how nothing ever gets raided, cut down, abated….nothing. How is that? Why do they get a pass every single year? Do you know? Does anybody know why? It’s crazy that scene out there….
I’ve seen and don’t know. Pretty crazy and stupid.
All the weed grown west of the 101 sucks!!
You know those coastal mountains produce some of the absolute tastiest buds around.
lol, I know, I figured I would at least draw the line of the division in our county. As I been think’in though Humboldt Exotics is east of the 101 and they suck, so…..yeah, there’s that.
Based on my extensive survey of this nation’s cannabis producing regions, people can grow shitty weed anywhere.
Thanks for the chuckle, blessings.
Hey, hey, the pines is supportive of the effort. Whitethorn is where they really need to hit, talk about trash!
They are Hmongs who were brought in by our refugee program. It’s the spillover from when we left Vietnam and left all those who helped our Armed Forces to slaughter by the communist Vietnamese. They receive grants to do farming here in the US to the tune of $50,000. Mostly for “strawberries.” There is little to no oversight though so they grow dope.
It used to be the pines were to dangerous for law enforcement when it was a bunch of good ol boys, now that the place has been sold out mostly to hmongs I believe there is residual guilt.
Our government bounced and left the Hmongs to be slaughtered for decades. For how many decades and across how much of the globe are we going to crush these people?
Yeah. I guess that’s why they allow that scene in eastern Siskiyou County also. The Hmong are some decent hard- working people. I’ve had a few BBQ w some and they greeted me warmly…real nice family-oriented. They are actually more like the original hippie settlers than what “hippies” have turned into! Ha ha. But really the disparity in regulation/abatement/eradication between their scenes and white mom n pops is extreme and that’s what sticks in my craw. I don’t want to see anybody’s small survival scene get hurt…I reserve my disdain for the greedy mega-grows of whatever nationality..
I support lay’in down plants. Leave the pines alone, no harm, no foul. Satelittes only look one way my friend and us guerillas know the shadows well, lol.
You support people growing 6 plants and paying taxes?
HUH? Oh I forgot…”they have to go…”
And if people didn’t grow grapes we wouldn’t have any wine!
Agreed, that would be nice.
Talked to a couple old buddies this weekend and prices keep going down. My buddy said he was getting pounds for 900 now. We haven’t reached the bottom yet but we aren’t that far. I feel like we will bottom out around 7-8.
900 is UP. Where have you been?
I live in Pennsylvania not on the west coast. The people I know in California tell me it’s like 300
Wow ding ding we got a funny comment. You definitely have no clue
Shhh. These dipshits out here are pushing the “you can only get 200 a pound” and got most convinced, lol. Don’t fuck it up our hills are almost cleansed.
So you’re. saying I can run boxes into PA for 6? That doesn’t sound too terrible…
There are a lot of states that game is still playing out in. Many are medical states w a monopoly held on the markets.
More contradiction, ok for you to grow and sell boxes, but no one else.
Keep tearing the community apart…..
Ha ha! Yeah- I’m the one doing that okay
You ramble so much nonsense you can’t keep track of it all
I know of one that just went to South Carolina for 8
OMG. Whatever happened to each state crossed adds a Benji to the end see…
I bet the pigs are all on that “not many years left of this enforcement money, remember the good old years” talk on the way out there. Lol
Grower pigs be saying the same talk about money and good Ol years lol.
News flash we own 80%+ of the industry!!
Was just thinking the same thing…what are they going to be doing when they can’t play Gi Joe in the hills anymore, here real soon! ! Maybe actually start earning the salaries that they are getting from us and bust the real problem folks here in town.
All is a waste bigger agenda with future blueprints for your future
Book em Danno…