by Will Parrish
Most vineyard acreage in the region is ruled by a small collection of massive multi-national corporate conglomerates, which typically boast annual revenues greater than a billion dollars. Yes, that’s billion with a “B.”
The New Cold War comes to Mendocino County.
by Bruce McEwen
The high profile bust featuring the Bulgarians of Covelo has devel oped an added angle — and more defendants.
How do you estimate the commercial value of Mendo Mellow? What do you count? Plants? Processed bud? It’s a bit like counting grains of sand on the beach.
by Bruce McEwen
Everyone in a position to know says this is another banner year for the marijuana cultivation business, Mendocino County franchise. Sheriff Allman says simply, “It’s everywhere.” And it’s drawing people from everywhere. Last year law enforcement grabbed young people from Italy, Bulgaria, Israel, China, Spain, Russia, and, of course, Mexico who had come to Mendocino [...]
Though there is no fury like a woman scorned, comparable emotions are engendered in Pot People when one of their own is taken down. Spurred on by what appears to have been a flurry of recent DEA-led raids in the County, Mendocino Medical Marijuana Advisory Board founder Pebbles Trippet called a meeting to discuss the [...]
“Hey,” my nephew said, “that place you used to live is in the newspaper.” And so it was; in a lengthy SF Weekly piece about the mishmash of conflicting regulations and practices regarding marijuana and how they might be affected by this November’s statewide referendum on its legalization, my lovely old Laytonville loomed large. True [...]
by Fred Gardner
A San Francisco Chronicle reporter named Kevin Fagan called on Monday, July 12, to get some quotes. He explained his angle: NIDA and the prohibitionists cite studies showing that marijuana is harmful, while “the pot people” cite studies showing that it’s helpful. “And you’re going to provide a fair and balanced overview,” I said. Fagan [...]
In the Summer of 1998 an enterprising fisherman and timber worker named David McCutcheon leased a bare acre of land from Ed Colombi Sr. The acre sat off Odom Lane about a mile north of Fort Bragg. McCutcheon needed a place to store the huge Doug Fir and redwood sinker logs he’d laboriously retrieved from [...]
The news took less time to filter through the crowd of over 500 than the spark from a spliff filled with Bell Springs Blue Dream picked up by the cool afternoon breezes that meander through the coastal canyons of Mendocino County. The place: Area 101, about ten miles north of Laytonville on Highway 101. The [...]
