by Tim Stelloh
Volume is the first thing you notice about Joe Munson: He doesn’t seem to have much control over it. The hearing aids stuffed in his ears are next. They’re the result of being an alcoholic. More specifically, they’re the result of going on a bender in Pontiac, Illinois, of talking shit to a very large man, of receiving an asskicking so severe his jaw broke in three places and his hearing vanished.
by Bruce McEwen
Desperation is rippling through the north hill country of Mendocino County as land and pot partners turn on each other and ruthless bands of home invaders cruise the mud dirt roads from Branscom to Spy Rock to Alderpoint and points between.
by Fred Gardner
Howard Zinn greatly admired Fiorello LaGuardia and in the end the two men had important things in common. They grew up in New York City, two generations apart, sons of immigrants. They both flew bombing missions for the U.S. Army -LaGuardia over Italy during World War One, Zinn over occupied France in World War Two- and then reconsidered the worth of those missions. They both spent their lives speaking for people whose voices hardly got heard.
by Tim Stelloh
This week, I wrote about “Oaky” Joe Munson–a former outlaw grower who “came down off the mountain,” went legit and made medical pot his mission. In the last half-decade, he’s been through the medicinal marijuana-criminal justice ringer in Mendo and beyond.
So far, every case against him has been dropped.
Below is a series of photos of [...]
by Bruce McEwen
The voice mail said: “This is Terry. Something happened… I might not see you for a while. Anyway, I’m glad you weren’t here and didn’t have to see it.”
Terry Cohen left that message on Jonathan Arnold’s voice mail. He’d been
calling Arnold and Tesha Bushnell’s cellphones every few minutes for over two hours. They lived in [...]
by Tim Stelloh
This question, posed on a Yahoo forum, is apparently serious.
Today, the American hydroponics industry is a rapidly growing, half-billion-dollar a year economic segment that is currently going through an important, wrenching, and necessary evolution.
by Fred Gardner
Ester Fride, the Israeli scientist who showed that a newborn mammal cannot suckle and survive without a functional cannabinoid messaging system, died on New Year’s Day at the age of 56. The cause was lung cancer, diagnosed in July, 2008.
Ester was born in 1953, in Amsterdam. Her parents were Holocaust survivors, refugees from Germany. [...]
by Bruce McEwen
The whisper came from behind me.
“How might one have an opinion on the facts witout having heard the facts?”
I looked up from jotting down Judge Henderson’s opinion to see the defense lawyer smiling.
Henderson’s opinion had been to the effect that “I find it hard to believe [defendant] wasn’t involved, even though there wasn’t sufficient evidence [...]
by Daniel Mintz
Marijuana cultivation is among the many issues Humboldt County’s covering in its General Plan Update but the chairman of the Planning Commission has said that impacts of indoor grows are severe enough to warrant quicker action on a new regulatory ordinance.
County planning staff has been working on a mari juana cultivation ordinance and told commissioners at [...]
