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Northstone Organics founder, Matt Cohen, and Mendocino Sheriff Tom Allman (as well as others) speak out on California Watch’s Center for Investigative Reporting tonight. The US Attorney’s are taking on California’s medical marijuana community. They have targeted several dispensaries, the cities of Eureka and Arcata and the zip-tie program. Federal officers raided Cohen last month. Cohen’s state of the art
Read moreThe medical marijuana world shivered as Federal agencies stepped up their enforcement of federal law which contravenes state law. Yesterday’s raid at the home of Matt Cohen, a pioneer advocate for the Mendocino 9.31 Compliance program (aka the zip-tie program), rattled already worried activists. The raid which had at least 6 DEA agents, as well as one state official (BNE)
Read moreKMUD, our local radio station recently had a conversation with Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman. Allman is concerned about the station’s policy of publishing the directions official vehicles are proceeding when engaged in raids. The California Report picked up this conversation and reported on it a few days ago. KMUD explained to The California Report, a weekly radio magazine, that
Read moreKevin Hoover of The Arcata Eye has been getting a lot of flack lately for his views on indoor grows and how to address the problems associated with the grows in his town but, whatever your individual viewpoint about his actions, his hard hitting interview with Scott Burns, deputy director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy,
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