Word: humboldt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Colorado Fourteeners Initiative, a coalition of private mountain-loving groups, along with the Forest Service and other public agencies, has targeted 35 of the 54 peaks for restoration. Every weekend a small army of volunteers heads for the hills, blazing trails, shoring up paths and redirecting misguided streamlets. On Humboldt Peak, more than 400 tons of rock were hauled in by rope and bucket to plug a 4-ft.-deep gully that ran for a quarter-mile. On Grays Peak, a well-groomed trail to the summit will be fashioned to replace a spiderweb of paths that climbers have etched...
...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...
...multiple sclerosis are clamoring for the drug but also people with backaches, stress and drinking problems? One arrested planter told sheriff's deputies he was suffering from an ingrown toenail, an excuse that did not impress them. Lucy Mae Tuck, a volunteer who edits the newsletter at the Humboldt Cannabis Center, a co-op that grows the drug for medicinal use, has a physician's certificate to treat her hot flashes with the weed. Since Prop. 215 passed more than two years ago, says Police Chief Brown, "everyone we try to arrest has a recommendation from Dr. Feelgood...
...members, a Libertarian and two Democrats--approved Brown's ID system. That's to be expected, perhaps, in a town that has declared itself a "Nuclear Weapons Free Zone"; that in 1991 passed a resolution--albeit quickly rescinded--offering sanctuary to Persian Gulf War resisters; and where students from Humboldt State University hold an annual Hempfest, promoting a nonpsychoactive form of cannabis for use in clothing, paper and food...