Comments on: Lewis Avenue Grow House Yields 232 Pounds – March 14, 2012

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By: Realtor man

Realtor man — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 05:52:32 +0000

I would first like to thank your local police and citizens for making life all the more enjoyable.
There’s been times where I thought this industry would be fading away. But with the latest round of arrests and the county commission coming down on everyone, the horizon is so much brighter.
With that fact remember not everyone has the where with all or the time to maintain a garden.
Now this is where it gets bloody simple.
A trip to any club or collective in the bay will show you the current prices of meds and edibles. They haven’t dropped..
At all. An ounce of Mazar for $390?
How much is a lb at that price?
Get it? Growers you are being economically squeezed out. Why travel to humboldt when we can procure our medicine right in the bay?
I am not a grower nor am I a seller.
I’m a patient with income. A very good income.
When medical becomes a thing of the past what will take its place there?
Real estate. Indifferent people, big houses and big money and big money doesn’t eat at humbrews.
Give it 5 years.
Like Santa Rosa and every town along the stretch you will be broken into pieces consumed and then fondly remembered.
Cannabis is not your counties problem. The inability to reinvent yourself is.
So get with the program keep the raids up keep the growers in their place.
Poppa’s got a brand new bag. REAL ESTATE and I’m looking right at you.

By: Joe humboldt

Joe humboldt — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 19:22:59 +0000

First of all for all of your indoor growers who are putting down Kevin works shut your bitter little mouths stop smoking your chemical land indoor weed and think about something besides your own quest for cash and being numb to the effect you have on the world via your poisonous indoor weed. I am ashamed to be a grower when I hear people that grow indoor weed call it medicine in the first place….anything that consumes so much power from a dirty power grid that poisons the air and water CANNoT be called MEDICINE. If you want to call your marijuana medicine put therm in the sun.

Second of all Kevin is probably first on the cops press list because of his local affiliations and his work to rid this County of all of you crime causing “gardeners”. If you want to solve a real problem stop growIng Indoor weed and being a numbskull advertising To the whole city through you careless lack of odor control and half-ass grow system. Because there are so many irresponsible indoor “gardeners” aka amateurs here we have recently …in case your too baked on your og kush to realize…a rise in crime in our areas. As long as you let all the thieves know you are growing because of your sloppy grow-ops then we are going to have robberies and the cops are going to have to clean up the mess. And there are other people with rights and their level of safety to protect in our communities. So go back to Indiana and Wisconsin and grow indoor there. Because of all of you there is probably less heat from the police there then there is here now.

By: kevpod

kevpod — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 20:26:31 +0000

I don’t dispute that I lead a sorry life and need to sell papers.

I do dispute that I don’t cover real stories, as any glance at the newspaper and website will easily attest. But maybe I don’t know what you consider a real story. Perhaps you could elaborate.

I suppose it serves your narrative that I’m responsible for all the grow house busts, because of course my all-knowing omniscience encompasses the entire town and the contents of all the residences.

But the fact is, people hate the grow houses. They wreck neighborhoods and those who aren’t in “the business” are in constant contact with police about these stinky hellholes.

Not always, but frequently am I at the grow house busts and other crime scenes.

That’s usually because I got a tip or tips (thank you, citizens). Just for grins, would you like to see the e-mailed tip that notified me of the Lewis Avenue incident Tuesday morning (with the name redacted of course)?

By: arcatalie

arcatalie — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 20:17:11 +0000

kevpod, keep doin’ what you do. but you will always be a small town reporter that lies and will never cover a real story. some of us think you are the one who is walking around calling in houses. cuz you live a sorry life and need to sell papers, and it’s funny that you ALWAYS are the 1st one to be at these houses when the cops are there.

By: kevpod

kevpod — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 23:51:33 +0000

Is it distortion if that is the actual weight of the plants confiscated? Should they dry it and then weigh it? Or run tests to determine its hydration and then calculate the dry weight?

It sounds to me like that would be the distortion. Why not just report the weight of the material that they carry out to the cannabis caboose?

Also, GODPOD (and others) said flat out that cannabis has never claimed a single life. In a way he’s right in that as far as I know, the substance itself has never been lethal. But there has been substantial violence including death associated with the commercial side of it.

Right here in Arcata we’ve had a shooting, an incident of torture, home invasion robberies, explosions, fires and so on. And THAT, among other reasons, is why people in neighborhoods report grow houses.

GODPOD makes the lazy intellectual mistake of conflating opposition to grow houses with opposition to cannabis itself. These are two very different things.

By: Mantid of the north

Mantid of the north — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 23:40:16 +0000

Kevin, as a well versed editor could you possibly add in the factoid that Arcata police, as well as many other departments, purposefully distort confiscated weight amounts by using “wet” totals. Otherwise editorials like these show to endorse sensationalism, something a possibly large base of your customers are not big fans of. We know you know better.

With your last comment there, something many might call a “straw man”, there is likely not a single substance on this planet that has not been somehow associated with homicide. Water included. LD50 was what GODPOD was seemingly referring to. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_lethal_dose

By: kevpod

kevpod — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:14:41 +0000

“It has never claimed a single life and it never will.”

http://www.times-standard.com/news/ci_20161800/alleged-pot-farm-killer-pleads-not-guilty-wilde

By: kevpod

kevpod — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:05:36 +0000

Who is fighting against marijuana?

By: GODPOD

GODPOD — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:58:29 +0000

a combination of molecules that we call a chemical. That happens to be very similar to many chemicals inside of your brain and body. We can call Cannabis a drug – but it’s still less detrimental to society and nature than fast food, television, prescription pills and alcohol. You can keep fighting against marijuana – but the truth is – It has never claimed a single life and it never will.