Legalize Marijuana in 2010

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- 3 Initiatives filed to legalize marijuana

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- Perez Hilton Legalize in 2010

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- Hayfork Goes to Pot

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- First US Cannabis Cafe

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The Quickly Spreading Wave of Nanofarms, Indoor Plantations and Cannabis Cafes
by Don Juan Capistrano

November 10, 2009

A couple of days ago I was talking to my buddy Ted over in North Dakota. Always on top of his game, he once again sent me to a story that I hadn't heard yet. No it was not the same old Arcata is Pot City USA that he scooped before. This time it was about the thriving new pot mecca of Hayfork? Hayfork? I scoffed. He let me know he wasn't shitting me. Apparently Hayfork is quickly becoming the next Pot City USA.

Hayfork now has the distinct possibility of taking Arcata's spot as the new nanofarm and indoor plantation capital of California. It is already being called "Northern California's pot paradise" by High Times. Apparently in Hayfork the streets are overflowing with sticky green bud. Even the local football games are embraced with the sweet wafting smells of marijuana. The herb as a sign of peace is single-handedly turning the economic wasteland of Hayfork, in remote bumblefuck central Trinity County, into a thriving real estate locale for cannabusiness tycoons. Hayfork, like Arcata, is quickly becoming a new vastly profitable mecca for the pot growing elite.

All of this speaks towards the rapidly changing political climate in California. And not only the political climate of the politicians but of the internally fracturing Cannabusiness and Dispensary folks as well as the undecided attitudes of the nanofarms and indoor plantation growers. California is on the new leading edge of marijuana dispensaries, cannabis cafes, nanofarming technologies and indoor cannabis plantations. There are over 600 dispenaries in the North Bay Area alone I was told recently. And there is now over 2000 in the state. Oakland, once the former hood of 1990s rappers like Too Short, is now reinventing itself into Oaksterdam - a california equivalent to Amsterdam with it's cannabis cafes and marijuana university. The have marijuana dispenser vending machines in Los Angeles. And as well all know the northern california counties have become the agricultural homeland of nanofarms and indoor plantations for the whole movement.

And while most would have you believe this movement is only mostly based around marijuana being grown for medicinal uses we are also informed by local radio ads that the indoor blue lights are great for your skin in the winter months and that marijuana is high in Omega-3 proteins which also helps the complexion ;) So we also look more beautiful as we grow our high-grade marijuanas.  That is some good marketing!  But everybody already knows how beautiful Northern Californians are don't they?

I've watched little Arcata and Humboldt County be on the forefront of many waves during my 11 years hear. First there was the organic farmers who led the standard until the government adopted organics as a brandname and took it away forever more. Lately the environmental movement has lost steam (look at the sad state of affairs of the North Coast Environmental Center) and this is much more to do with the world in general hopping ono the Save the Earth movement. Even Hannah Montana or Miley Cyprus (one of them) is singing about it. Now everything is green and good and happy (since the 10 major corporations made their formal deal in January 2007).

Heck Arcata even used to have the market on the metaphysics game too. They used to be all Meditation, Yoga, Reiki, Shamanic Journeying, Tai Chi Gung, Colloidal, Acidopholus, Candida. But now everyone knows about the eastern philosophies and many are hopping onto the new Law of Attraction movement (and rightfully so). It's getting a bit hard to get a eastern spiritual word in edgewise when north american now has it's own traveling sage. And it's quite obvious that Abraham-Hicks isn't coming to little Arcata anytime soon! It's all Santa Rosa, and Santa Cruz, Sedona, Maui and Monterrey, Tahita, Mexican Riviera, Ay Ay Yay!

And so while I like Hayfork, in general ( I must admit I have never actually made it to Hayfork. I have tried but been stopped by the crazy mountain passes and a head full of hop), I don't want to see my special little Arcata Pot City USA go the wayside of Orick and it's former glory. If we aren't careful, all of our lovely local grower friends will pack up their bags and head for the sunnier happier more peaceful paradise of Hayfork. They will drop this housing market and local economy to the floor where it should rightfully belong along with the sad state of the apartments and homes in the area. Is this what we want?! I say no Arcata. Let's say Yes to our destiny! Let's embrace the creation of our lacksidaisical attitudes! Let's remember our rebel roots!

Arcata pick up your shovels!
Arcata put down your picket signs!
Arcata get yourself some seeds to plant!
Arcata, Lets paint this town green.

We want designated pot smoking areas on the plaza.
We want permits for marijuana and cannabis cafe's.
We want permits and inspections to build legal safe marijuana grows.
We want zoning to promote our Nanofarming and Indoor Plantations.
We want pot food kitchen certification and inspections.
We want pot food manufacturing.
We want THC testing and organic high-grade marijuana certficates of authenticity.
We want Stamp of Approvals from the Humboldt County Marijuana Commission (HCMC).
We want a legal definition that only marijuana and cannabis grown in Humboldt County can be called Humboldt County High Grade (HCHG) Marijuana.

We want to feel safe in our own nanofarms and on our indoor plantations knowing that the bandidos and cherifes aren't taking our crops.
We want our children to grow up safe and happy in the wealthy elite society of new green gentlemen and ladies.
We want to vote Eric Sligh in for Humboldt County Commissioner!
We want Cannabis Cafes on the Arcata Plaza and Oldtown Eureka!
And the Victorian Village of Ferndale can sell only the finest pot delicacies and chocolates.
All the intermissions at shows will be just as smokey as the Mateel.

Humboldt County, I smoke marijuana every chance I get. And I'm not sorry.

Our local public safety men should have the easiest jobs in the world.
Bring us your Gomer Piles!
Bring us your Andy Griffiths!

All of our homeless are fed, bathed, well slept, have sales pitches and part time jobs.
So we want the nice police people to just mostly keep a watchful eye over the county's primary source of income : high-grade marijuana.
We want those coppers to respond on the drop of a dime to a home invasion call.
And we don't want them asking too many questions of us little precious old potfarmers.
We just want our piece of paper to wave at them with a smile!

Arcata we need to get ready for November 5, 2010!
Arcata we need to prepare for legalized weed!
Arcata we can become the champagne region for high-grade marijuana.
Arcata I love your hippie spirit.
Arcata I love your homeless vagabonds.
Arcata I love your free-wheeling spirit.
Arcata let's beat those Hayfork Lumberjacks!

How many dispenaries do we have?
How many cannabis and pot cafes do we have?
How many marijuana delicacies do we produce?
How much money could Arcata make from regulating and sanctioning this profitable trade?
How many nanofarm and indoor plantation growing jobs could we produce?

Why do we need police actions?

Why do we need to put down Kevin Hoover for doing basic journalism?
Why do we need outsiders like Meredith Vieria filming all the action?
Why do we need a CAMP doing panty raids?

America free Eddy Lepp.
America free Marc Emery!
America free Cannabis Linnaeus Sativus!

Arcata let's smoke freely and openly in the streets.
Arcata let's grow marijuana in every corner of every of our town.
Arcata we are not just Pot City USA.
We are the High-Grade Marijuana Capital of the USA.
Arcata take your green place of glory!
Arcata let's become a child's garden of grass!