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Here's My Marijuana Card, Officer!
Posted by FoM on May 02, 1999 at 17:03:51 PT
Source: Time Magazine
It is not that Mel Brown, police chief of this tie-dye-and-tofu town, set out to flout federal law. But here he is, a 53-year-old father of two who has never inhaled, issuing laminated and embossed get-out-of-jail-free cards for partakers of the infamous Humboldt bud, a potent local variety of marijuana. "You can photograph me," he tells a reporter genially, "but not reclining on a bearskin rug and smoking a joint." 
Arcata (pop. 16,000) lies in the heart of the Emerald Triangle, the three lush California counties of Humboldt, Mendocino and Trinity, 275 miles north of San Francisco as the spotted owl flies. In the '80s, capitalist hippies defended their marijuana plantations here with booby traps and shotguns. George Bush sent in U.S. Army troops to battle the domestic druglords. And even now, early fall is signaled less by migrating geese than by helicopters swooping over redwood forests and dropping camouflaged, machete-wielding agents into any telltale patch of sparkling green. Last year state and local officials eradicated 136,957 plants, many 10 ft. tall, with a wholesale value of $450 million. Click the link above to read the Time Magazine Story!I posted this story before but not with the link to Time Magazine!
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