Stroll the Eureka Boardwalk for Herbal Freedom, April 20, 2013

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I WOULD LIKE FOUR AND TWENTY FRIENDS TO JOIN ME WITH SIGNS ON THE BOARDWALK @ 330 PM ON APRIL 20.  MY ISSUES ARE FULL LEGALIZATION AND SAFE ACCESS (DISPENSARIES) FOR EUREKANS.

Bring your sign (Safe Access? Norml? DIY?)  or I will provide one of several designs.  I will not be smoking please do not offer me any, I am not asking for civil disobedience, just peaceful exercise of 1st Amendment Rights.  There is a municipal ordinance in effect against smoking on the boardwalk, but its legality may be in question since it is possible that the city council never got the approval of the Coastal Commission to enact that change.  This is not the time to challenge that ordinance.   There are vacant lots adjacent to the boardwalk that are relics of the city’s failed and fraudulent redevelopment agency.  Maybe people who need to smoke tobacco can smoke there but I am not a lawyer.  I myself was blessed with the strength to quit my tobacco addiction in April of 2008, five years ago.    I struggled with nicotine addiction for most of my adult life.  I started nicotine at age 18, before marijuana and long before alcohol, which I started at age 21.  I never would have considered smoking marijuana if I hadn’t smoked tobacco first.

And in retrospect, I think that I was relatively blessed that my experience with these things came relatively late in my teens rather than earlier.

Yes I feel better and I sing better since I quit tobacco.  Let me say one more thing.  Cannabis helped me quit tobacco.  It is harm reduction if nothing else.  If you really care about the peoples health it is time to legalize.

At 420 we will stroll for freedom together, back and forth up and down the boardwalk for an hour or so with our signs, making new friends and organizing for victory.

The people lead, the politicians follow.

I understand that there are people here who grow for a living and fear that legalization may reduce the return on their labor.  I do not want to trivialize that fear and I don’t.  I want to hear from people in that situation maybe we can reach some understanding.  Maybe there is some route to prosperity after legalization, no doubt it won’t be perfect, there will be change.

have a peaceful day,

Bill

After 42 Years of Failure, California Lt. Governor Newsom Calls for Legalizing Marijuana

By Phillip Smith on April 15, 2013

SACRAMENTO, CA — At the California Democratic Party convention in Sacramento Saturday, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom called for marijuana legalization and described the war on drugs as “an abject failure.”

“After 42 years of failure, I think it’s time we concede that if we continue to do what we’ve done, we’ll continue to get what we’ve got. I think you and we deserve better. It’s about standing up on principle, having the courage of our convictions, about saying publicly all too often what we say privately.”

http://www.thedailychronic.net/2013/17129/california-lt-governor-newsom-calls-for-legalizing-marijuana/

~!!~  please forward  ~!!~

UPDATE:  When I attended the Eureka City Council “Visioning” session last friday I engaged Mayor Frank Jager in conversation during a break.  It may interest you to know that our Mayor is a proponent of full legalization of marijuana.   In fact he is welcome to grab a legalize it sign and come stand next to me on 420 on the boardwalk.   Mostly the Mayor and I disagree on mostly everythng but on this we see eye to eye.

have a peaceful day, Bill

mnemonic here:  http://urlet.com/costs.especially

I’m going to make 10 or 15  full color posters of this nice Don’t Tread On Me flag above and I will give them away free to the first people who show up and want one.

I have about 20 of these nice black and white “Freedom” posters too, for the signless.  They will be free to anyone who is pro-cannabis.

If Safe Access is your issue I have a few signs for you too!  Just meet me after 330 at the foot of F St.  First come first serve!  Come down and represent!

The Respect Our Rights poster is most likely the one I will carry.  But then I am a radical, I actually believe that cannabis users have civil rights, constitutional rights and human rights that extend back in time before any government.  I have a few of these to share as well.

Some of us will want to remember our sisters and brothers who have been cruelly and wrongfully imprisoned over the Herb in neoslavery in for profit corporate prisons.  Yes we can share a couple of these too.

SET OUR PEOPLE FREE!

Want to Grow the Economy?  So do we, and we have  a few signs.

On Saturday April 20 I am going to go to the Eureka Boardwalk with a sign at about 3:30 in the afternoon and I hope that five or six of you nice people join me to demonstrate for herbal rights and herbal freedom.   Commencing @4:20 pm we will stroll the boardwalk between F and B sts, with our signs.   I am only asking for a few people to come out and represent, I am not trying to compete with or harsh anyones buzz.   I am not asking for civil disobedience.   This will be for Eureka residents who want to represent for Medical Marijuana Rights, general herbal rights, Full Legalization of Cannabis, those who represent for the spiritual use of cannabis, or those who want to legalize industrial hemp, for anyone who is pro-cannabis but whose civil rights are not being respected.    Lets be a big tent.  This will be for Eureka residents who want to represent but have trouble getting to other venues, but of course it is open to anyone who lives outside Eureka who is pro-cannabis.

We will meet around 3:30 at the foot of F St.  At 420 we will start strolling peacefully up and down the boardwalk with our signs, for about an hour.   Let’s have fun, lets meet new friends, let’s organize.  I welcome other diverse community organizations to come to the boardwalk and table!  I want to meet people who want to get some dispensaries in Eureka, lets get it done.

Would be nice to have a drum circle or two, just saying.

This does not have to be a big thing, but it is an important thing.

I am just thinking about this and it is evolving.  I welcome your input.

Is there anyone who can design a flier for me?  Something readable quarter page (4.24 in x 5.5 in)

I will play a few songs too between 3:30 and 4:20, including of course “Free the Weed.”

How about a few poetry slammers and a few more street musicians?  It’s a Big Boardwalk.

email me humboldt.organizer@gmail.com

I will be there.  I just need five or six people.

Thank you everyone!

have a peaceful day,

Bill

Demand Your Rights to Safe Access in Eureka – Deregulate Marijuana – Let the Dispensary Ban Sunset

shortlink here:  http://wp.me/pbr9G-3sW

The “emergency” ban on medical marijuana dispensaries is about to sunset in early November.  Call every member of the city council and DEMAND that the ban on dispensaries be allowed to sunset, and thereafter that medical marijuana dispensaries be allowed to be licensed in the city like any other legal business without discrimination.

The city council in Los Angeles was FORCED to rescind its ban on dispensaries just this week  because the people down there got ORGANIZED AND GATHERED 40,000 SIGNATURES TO RESCIND THE BAN.

Stand up for your rights!

Besides allowing legal and safe access to needed medicine, deregulation of the medical marijuana business here in Eureka will quickly fill half a dozen empty storefronts and industrial buildings and will provide good employment for 50 or 60 people.

Call every city council person – they all represent you – and demand that they do the right thing for mmj patients and the economic health of Eureka!

Remind them that if they do nothing – and let the dispensary ban sunset – that the Feds can do nothing to them.  They cannot be prosecuted by the Feds for something they haven’t done.

Remind them that they cannot discriminate against legal dispensary businesses – to do so is to invite expensive antidiscrimination lawsuits that WILL  BE LOST just like so many recent lawsuits against the city!

When you contact your city council person be civil, but be firm!

Marian Brady (707) 441-4169  mailto:mbrady@ci.eureka.ca.gov

Linda Atkins (707) 441-4168    mailto:latkins@ci.eureka.ca.gov

Mike Newman (707) 441-4170  mnewman@ci.eureka.ca.gov

Melinda Ciarabellini  (707)  441-4167  mciarabellini@ci.eureka.ca.gov

Lance Madsen (707) 441-4171 lmadsen@ci.eureka.ca.gov

thanks,

have a peaceful day,

Bill

please forward

link here: http://highboldtage.wordpress.com/2012/10/08/demand-your-rights-to-safe-access-in-eureka-deregulate-marijuana-let-the-dispensary-ban-sunset/  or http://urlet.com/los.reply

Pot Market Crashing? SacBee Thinks So

via Sacramento Bee:

ARCATA – The pot market is crashing in California’s legendary Emerald Triangle.

The closure of hundreds of marijuana dispensaries across California and a federal crackdown on licensing programs for medical pot cultivation are leaving growers in the North Coast redwoods with harvested stashes many can’t sell.

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/05/05/4467516/californias-emerald-triangle-pot.html

Tahoe Medical Marijuana Dispensary Bombed on Eve of 4/20

via SacBee:

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. —     Police are investigating after an improvised explosive device was thrown through the window of a South Lake Tahoe marijuana dispensary [Patient to Patient Collective] on the eve of a marijuana holiday.

Read more here:  http://www.sacbee.com/2012/04/20/4430428/explosive-hits-tahoe-pot-dispensary.html

“Erika Triglia, manager at the dispensary, said the device was a PVC pipe containing sulfur and a fuse. The suspect targeted the room where the collective typically keeps maturing marijuana plants, Triglia said. The incident was an attempt to kill the plants by clouding the room with excessive amounts of sulfur, Triglia said.”

“According to Friday’s statement, the Douglas County Bomb Squad removed the device from the building, rendered it safe and booked it into evidence for processing.

Triglia said the device was removed by her husband, Matt Triglia, who operates the collective. She questioned the need for the bomb squad’s robot, as well as police overtime in the response to the incident.”

http://www.tahoedailytribune.com/ARTICLE/20120420/NEWS/120429995/-1/

Will Arcata Poop and Pee on This Year’s 420 Celebration?

Last year the Arcata PD and the other assorted LE in the area spread very stinky manure all over Redwood Park in an attempted buzz kill.  This was real as opposed to the phony ‘poop and pee’ on the US Bank in Eureka during last fall’s Occupy encampment.

Will they do this again this year?  Maybe we should be prepared to move the celebration somewhere else, like maybe the Arcata Plaza or someplace else?

Redding Council Recall Targets Medical Marijuana Dispensary Opponents

RECALL TARGETS THREE ON REDDING CITY COUNCIL; MEDICAL MARIJUANA ADVOCATE SLAMS DISPENSARY BAN

An outspoken Redding medical marijuana patient and advocate presented three City Council members with recall notices Tuesday night.

Rob McDonald, 50, presented council members Francie Sullivan, Rick Bosetti and Patrick Jones with the notices during the meeting’s public comment period.

“Tonight I do something that isn’t easy for me,” McDonald said before announcing and presenting the notices.  “Four weeks ago you basically listened to a group of people who basically wanted to violate another group of people’s rights and you closed down the dispensaries.”

http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v11/n729/a02.html

Protect Your Safe Access to the Healing Herb!

from Hummingbird Healing Center

Hummingbirds
Request for Help.

hummingbirdhealingcenter@gmail.com

or http://urlet.com/gallop.humdrum
On Dec 13th, the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors will meet and decide on your right to grow.  The
Hum Co MMJ Ordinance right now will limit you to 5 x 10 sq ft with 1200 watts total per residence!!
It will possibly include a ‘Special Permit’ process that allows expansion to 10 x 10.  We don’t know yet
what the permitting process will involve.  Please let the B of S know that 5 x 10 will not work for you,
and why.  How are your Dispensaries supposed to provide for your needs if no one can grow enough to
meet their own needs or to share? 
Most of the Board of Supervisors know nothing about growing or what your medical needs are.
Please let them know.
They also don’t know how many 215 patients are in Humboldt County.
 PLEASE LET THEY KNOW!!
Virginia Bass-476-2394  vbass@co.humboldt.ca.us
Clif Clendenen  476-2392  Clif.Clendenen@co.humboldt.ca.us
Jimmy Smith  476-2391   jrsmith@co.humboldt.ca.us
Mark Lovelace  476-2393  mlovelace@co.humboldt.ca.us
Ryan Sundberg  476-2395  rsundberg@co.humboldt.ca.us

ALSO

In our recent newsletter we introduced you to HPDA-Humboldt Patient Dispensary Alliance.
We have been working with a wonderful group of folks representing the following local dispensaries:
Hummingbird Healing Center-HHC, Humboldt Medical Supply-HMS, Humboldt Patient Resource Center
HPRC, The Humboldt County Collective-THCC.
And also the following Dispensaries that are waiting for their Conditional Use Permit:
The Treehouse Collective-TTC, Humboldt Health and Wellness-HHW.  Others are also working for your
Rights here in Humboldt County and Patients have also gotten involved.

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN BEING INFORMED OR HELPING OUT, PLEASE LET US KNOW!!
 hummingbirdhealingcenter@gmail.com

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hummingbird-Healing-Center/186606183807 or: http://urlet.com/gallop.humdrum

San Diego Style Fascism Comes to the Emerald Triangle

via Red Headed Blackbelt (Kym Kemp):

Feds raid Northstone Organics medical marijuana dispensary in Mendocino. 

http://kymkemp.com/2011/10/13/campaign-of-terror-feds-raid-northstone-organics-today-and-threaten-media-outlets/

more on this developing story as it comes…..

Northstone Organics website (down at the moment): https://www.northstoneorganics.com/

BREAKING NEWS: Federal agents raid Ukiah home

By TIFFANY REVELLE The Daily Journal

Updated: 10/13/2011 02:25:45 PM PDT

Responding to several reports that federal agents raided the medical marijuana cooperative Northstone Organics Thursday morning, the DEA confirmed it was conducting enforcement operations in Ukiah.

http://www.ukiahdailyjournal.com/ci_19106498

Raid response:  http://cannabiswarrior.com/2011/10/13/raid-response-mendo-northstone-organics/

“As you can see below, the purported raid on Northstone Organics is being widely distributed on Twitter. The “Medical Cannabis Patient Compassionate Center” Axis of Love in San Francisco is calling for a demonstration tomorrow to protest the action.

http://blogs.kqed.org/newsfix/2011/10/13/mendocino-county-raid-has-marijuana-advocates-riled/

LA Weekly:  http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2011/10/marijuana_raid_northstone_organics_dea.php

Lost Coast Outpost (Humboldt, Eureka): http://lostcoastoutpost.com/2011/oct/13/feds-reportedly-choose-indisputable-good-guy-first/

North Coast Journal (Humboldt, Eureka) :  http://www.northcoastjournal.com/blogthing/2011/10/13/federal-terror-campaign-hits-mendocino-collective/

Will Cannabis Price Go Up?  http://cannabismarketblog.com/2011/10/14/will-cannabis-prices-rise/

Santa Rosa Press-Democrat: http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20111013/ARTICLES/111019773?Title=Feds-raid-medical-pot-co-op-near-Ukiah

Northstone Organics owner discusses federal raid: http://www.ukiahdailyjournal.com/ci_19111535

MendoNews :  http://mendonews.wordpress.com/2011/10/14/federal-terror-campaign-hits-mendocino-marijuana-collectives/

Medical Cannabis Protesters Gather At City Hall In Wake Of Federal Raids (San Francisco): http://www.420magazine.com/forums/medical-marijuana-news/154624-medical-cannabis-protesters-gather-city-hall-wake-federal-raids.html

List of 420 Events/Parties/Festivals/Gatherings Near You!

420 Arcata California
where: hsu redwoods national park
what: tokin drum circles, happiness and fun!
when: 4-20-2011
who: you
why: education and happiness will be permitted

via 420 Magazine:

http://www.420magazine.com/forums/420-calendar-events/141225-4-20-2011-events-happy-4-20-a.html

Does the Eureka Police Department Illegally Ignore Medical Marijuana Recommendations?

A discussion at Safe Access:

http://urlet.com/twenties.sell

http://safeaccessnow.org/punbb/viewtopic.php?id=6445

“i didnt know where to put this, so i posted in access california also (sorry)
     I was arrested by officer aubuchon, of eureka police department. he found my medical pipe and 1/2gram of medical marijuana, that i purchased from a dispensary. officer aubuchon then tells me that this is illegal to have drugs or drug paraphenalia.  so i then told him that i am a medical marijuana patient, i have my prescription in my back pocket and my state card in my front pocket. they looked at them then laughed. waiving them in my face the told me haha we here in eureka do not recognize 215. several times the informed me that eureka does not recognize 215. i was then handcuffed arrested and placed in the back of the squad car, then taken to county jail.”