Comments on: Sharon Letts: Cannabis Subsidizes Humboldt County

By: Psychic Lotto

Psychic Lotto — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 19:03:59 +0000

nullify often

By: Samantha Lee

Samantha Lee — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 18:18:10 +0000

The marijana industry here…hmm…have you ever known a person who never wants to be specific about anything, but rather prefers to exist in perpetual vagueness? That's what this industry is. Legalize it and you get the Feds off your back, you can grow in your backyard, provide cannibis therapy for seriously ill individuals without any fear at all of legal blowback, etc. Then of course you also get an entire income bottoming out, businesses folding left and right, and an entire new chapter added to the "Industries that Folded in Humboldt" book. Keep it illegal and the industry survives but risks daily raids by a schizophrenic fed, weekly grow house fires, and stagnation as far as any real (ie: non-stigmatized) medical marijuana research goes. So this is how we roll: keep it illegal to keep the prices up but bitch vociferously every time the law gets enforced (ie: yes it's illegal, but can't you just leave it alone); wax on about the family growers' honorability while simultaneously complaining about bloodthirsty polluting drug cartels (the first should be legal but keep the illegal price point, the second obliterrated or absolutely prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law); cry out for education in order to remove the stigmas associated with cannabis use while also fueling the stigma by keeping it illegal. It's wanting it both ways-ism to the nth degree up here.

By: Samantha Lee

Samantha Lee — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 18:18:10 +0000

By: Kyle Jensen

Kyle Jensen — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 05:15:50 +0000

I shouldn't have come off so rude, I have seen some of your replies and do fully understand some of your concerns. Not all indoor gardens are "dangerous factories" though… right? I do understand that there is a serious environmental risk with the large usage of all that energy though.. (I preached environmental consciousness in a place that was not very environmentally conscious) However I have seen in my neighborhood how they can pose risks (I am not sure if methamphetamine was involved as well though?).. I am not even a grower but I have met a lot of good people that do grow, that don't pose risks to myself or the community. However there may be ones that do.. which I think is because the black market attracts the real criminals. I don't think every house in a residential area should be a grow house owned by someone out of the neighborhood because I do care about our area (I live here as well…) and want the best for it! I will also be the first to agree that certain growers that don't have any morals (The ones that will pollute the rivers, streams, the land, divert mass amounts of water, etc) should be dealt with. If cannabis were considered a more legitimate field path (Which it should be… right?) Then maybe we wouldn't have all the problems that exist in our community as a result of dangerous "transients"..

By: Kyle Jensen

Kyle Jensen — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 05:15:50 +0000

By: Kevin Hoover

Kevin Hoover — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 20:51:33 +0000

Kyle. A few things.

1. I have supported cannabis legalization since I was in college in the 1970s. I have written numerous editorials advocating both legalization and medical cannabis.

2. Yes, I do know people for whom cannabis provides the only relief. So lectures and condescension have no persuasive effect on me.

3. Just because cannabis makes money for some doesn't mean the for-profit growers have the right to make everyone around them in their neighborhoods miserable. That's why Arcata has sensible guidelines for people to grow and buy their own without the destructive effects.

4. i am one of the few people in Arcata who has taken the top Washington, D.C. decisionmakers to task, personally, over their reefer madness.

http://www.arcataeye.com/2011/09/federal-cannabis-policy-evolves-or-not-–-september-24-2011/

5. See if these two facts can co-exist in your mind: cannabis should be legal, and factories don't belong in residential neighborhoods.

By: Kevin Hoover

Kevin Hoover — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 20:51:33 +0000

Kyle. A few things.

1. I have supported cannabis legalization since I was in college in the 1970s. I have written numerous editorials advocating both legalization and medical cannabis.

2. Yes, I do know people for whom cannabis provides the only relief. So lectures and condescension have no persuasive effect on me.

4. i am one of the few people in Arcata who has taken the top Washington, D.C. decisionmakers to task, personally, over their reefer madness.

http://www.arcataeye.com/2011/09/federal-cannabis-policy-evolves-or-not-–-september-24-2011/

5. See if these two facts can co-exist in your mind: cannabis should be legal, and factories don't belong in residential neighborhoods.

By: Kyle Jensen

Kyle Jensen — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 13:12:31 +0000

Kevin Hoover, I want you to know that I can put you in contact with people that are terminal and working on their bucket lists as we speak that use medical cannabis as a form of relief from all the prescription medicines that make them sick and unable to eat. I would love for you to make these smart ass comments to them and see the tears in their eyes. Have you met someone that is terminal before Kevin? Someone that has had their death date given to them? I would love to see your cold hard heart smashed by a terminal patient, maybe they could give you some light? Please email me or message me on Facebook and I can put you in contact with a friend that is going through a very hard time right now.. Maybe if you see human suffering first hand you can try to possibly understand and maybe appreciate compassion?

By: Kyle Jensen

Kyle Jensen — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 13:12:31 +0000

By: Kyle Jensen

Kyle Jensen — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 04:39:05 +0000

This is the article I have been waiting to see. Thank you so much posting an article that is filled with honesty. I don't think the stats are the most important part of this piece so am confused why Mr. Burn uses arbitrary evidence in attempts to take the validity from this article. When I read about the hardworking mother and influential member of our community being arrested for growing a little dope and plastered on the newspaper I was blown away. Just to let you guys know at the Arcata Eye, why do you think there is a bust everyday here in Humboldt? Cannabis is our cash crop, everyone is doing it. Mothers, fathers. grandparents… The scene is controlled by the older conservative gentleman that own many of the legitimate businesses in the community, you really think that the hippies are the ones making all the money? Cannabis has been proven to reduce the size of tumors and from many many testimonies of people battling cancer has actually helped put the cancer in remission. I don't need to continue to stress the medical benefits for cannabis those diagnosed with cancer. Talk to a cancer patient for yourself and find out the truth. Cannabis has been used as medicine for thousands of years. Believe it or not history didn't just start 70 years ago with the discrimination, racism and castration of the jazz music scene, mexican american immigrants and corporate greed (I'm not making this up.. William Randolph Hearst played a major role in the criminalization of not only cannabis but hemp as well… Why was this? Do you really think he cared about any sort of morality? "His aggressive efforts to demonize cannabis were so effective, they continue to color popular opinion today.In the early 1930's, Hearst owned a good deal of timber acreage; one might say that he had the monopoly on this market. The threatened advent of mass hemp production proved a considerable threat to his massive paper-mill holdings — he stood to lose many, many millions of dollars to the lowly hemp plant. ") Kevin Hoover, to laugh at the medical benefits of cannabis makes you look like an ignorant fool who doesn't deserve a job in the media. This is not the 1920's. I am sorry to come off as rude but if you know the history of cannabis and it's role as a medicine then you would not make these stupid comments. Talk to a cancer patient or someone with AIDS, talk to someone that has severe depression and would be dead without the use of cannabis. Talk to the ones that live with chronic pain and have been prescribed opiates by their doctors, to soon only become "Medically addicted" (A term used when the patient was taking their pain medicine legitimately but kept getting their dosages upped by their medical professionals and as a result led to a rising tolerance which led to severe addiction). There are so many instances where I have personally seen cannabis benefit an individuals life. I personally know that my quality of life would be nonexistent without the use of cannabis. Do you guys think that all this is about is money? You think every grower is just trying to get rich and cash out? Many have chosen this as a life path because they care about the ones that they are providing for. (Obviously you have cases of violent criminals getting involved which actually does happen in Humboldt quite a bit but I think that this is a direct result of cannabis being illegal, all the mom and pop growers that I personally know, and there are A LOT, are really amazing inspiring people with beautiful families, beautiful homes and beautiful hearts which seems to be the case of the director of main st.)