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Does anybody know what the best colleges in california for pot smokers are? Where i live i dont get much bud and being in high school most people have really expensive prices? Does anybody which colleges or towns would have the best bud and quantity for good prices. Im also guessing a person just has to keep looking for a good hook, but if anyone has any info,:jointsmile: that would help.
hombolt state university
Chico State, party school!!!:smokin:
Humboldt is pretty notorious for smokers. I actually smoked some of there stuff today and damn its as good as low class club shit but for cheaper so I guess I would suggest Humboldt.
Humboldt State University, or College of the Redwoods
Both are local colleges here and both have dorms.
Along with NORML chapters on campus
santa cruz is one for sure
HUMBOLDT FOR SURE!
humboldt and santa cruz are the two smoking schools. better like hippies to go to either.
Your student guide to
housing, transit, surfing and weed
Everyone??s so cool, and one dude??s brought his drum and we??re all just layin?? around in this way cool grove in the forest. Ferns are tickling, the sun??s out ?? what rain? ?? like some kind of benevolent blanket of warm glowing pizza dough just soft all over everything, and the grass ... the grass. It??s so fluffy. And tall. And the trees ?? they??re Ents, man, I know they??re Ents. And the big sad hollow stumps ?? can??t believe somebody would cut down such a huge, beautiful tree. Oughta be a protest. Later.
Hmm. Maybe we could live in one those hollow stumps if that Eureka apartment doesn??t work out. Could walk to campus that way, too. Or get a Jackpass if the apartment does work out. Man, this is the life. Here, try this ?? you won??t even care about that stupid apartment after a couple hits of this. Sleep in that stump, that??s what we??re gonna do ?? nice and quiet, pretty, green, birds, nature. Rig a tarp. Smoke some weed. Read some Nietzsche, some Bukowski. Not gonna pay rent or buy a bus pass. Forget that shit, that hypercorporate controlmylife shit. No way. We??re at Humboldt now. Drive on Humboldt, on down the floor; Drive on Humboldt, show them the door! Ha ha.
What? Oh, right. Yes, to the point: This, new and returning members of the Humboldt State University student body, is your back-to-school guide. Sort of. At least, it??s your introduction to some marvelous things, such as the man who created and keeps updated the marijuana connoisseur??s essential encyclopedia, The Cannabible, and the woman who could not get that apartment (oh, she rants fine), and where to scam a disco bus pass, or one of those new Jackpasses, or some kind of pass for riding the bus ?? just read the story. And remember, just say no to drugs, yes to nature, no to corporate thugs, yes to whatever it is that will make getting to campus easier and cheapest, no to shifty landlords, yes to vegetables.
?? Heidi Walters
The mad doctors of pot
In the country??s cannabis capital, it??s all about hybridization
Sour Diesel, The Purple, Purple Urkle, Granddaddy Purple, Deep Purple, The Lavender, Skunk, Kush, Master Kush, OG Kush, Bubba Kush, Lemon Kush, Snocap, White Widow, The Hawaiian, Headband. The list goes on and on. To the uninitiated it??s nonsense, but the cognoscenti know these are the names of strains of marijuana grown out in the hills, in backyards in town, in garages, closets or in the extra room in a student apartment.
The days when potheads simply rolled a joint with some decent weed are gone. Today you have smokers doing bowls of high-end bud, blazing carefully manicured sinsemilla (seedless) flowers from plants that have been genetically engineered by the mad scientists of marijuana ?? the breeders. Growers have learned to control flower color, flavor and, perhaps even more important to the new wave of smokers, the type of high produced. The age of the cannabis connoisseur has arrived.
The heartland of this new wave of sinsemilla ganja is California. The advance guard is in the infamous Emerald Triangle, Mendocino and Trinity counties, but most of all Humboldt, a word that speaks volumes in the world of modern marijuana. Welcome to the epicenter.
The cannabis king
??California has always led the way. There??s no doubt about it ?? with genetics, growing techniques, all of it,? says Jason King, author of a multi-volume survey of marijuana strains he calls The Cannabible. ??Since the late ??70s and until now, most of the high quality herb consumed in America is grown in California, mostly in Mendo and Humboldt.?
The 36-year-old King, who says he has been smoking ??the herb? since he was 16, has made the study of the history and use of cannabis his lifework.
He??s up to No. 3 in his Cannabible series, which was recently repackaged as a boxed set. The books mix detailed photographic close-ups of an A-Z of marijuana plants and buds ?? pot porn, if you will ?? with particulars on genetics, tasting notes akin to something you??d hear from wine connoisseurs, and assessments on the types of high provided by an international array of cannabis strains from Afghani and AK-47 to Warlock and White Widow.
No, this ain??t the reefer your dad used to smoke.
Says King, ??Sometimes you hear from old timers, ??All the herb today sucks. There??s nothing as good as the greats from the ??70s: Acapulco Gold, Oaxacan, Jamaican, stuff like that.???
King does not agree, mainly because of the way pot was treated in the past. ??Even though some of it might have been genetically good, it was pressed, seedy, twiggy garbage compared to the great stuff that we get today,? he says. ??They dried it in giant piles, smashed it down into bricks, wrapped it and smashed it more, put it with a bunch of frozen peas or whatever they used when they smuggled it. If you did that to any herb it would be crap by the time it reached the smoker.?
Modern marijuana growers and processors treat buds more like a peach grower treats his fruit.
??The flowers are so delicate and fragile,? says King. ??When you smash them like that all the resins explode, all the terpenes are released, the flavor is gone, the THC starts oxidizing, it becomes crap almost immediately.?
Instead, your 21st century weed is typically from a carefully bred sinsemilla plant (always female) that produces resinous, crystalline flowers. The buds are trimmed into nuggets (aka ??nugs?) by trained manicurists and sold for anywhere from $2,500 to $5,000 a pound depending on the rarity of the strain and how far away you get from where it was grown.
Where did the varieties come from? ??Strains from all around the world came to California, Oregon and Washington and [growers] selected the best parents, then did competent breeding work,? King says. ??What came out of that was all the amazing strains we have today.?
The mad horticulturists in the Northwestern hills crossed the best pot out of Mexico, Cannabis sativa, with plants grown from seed out of Asia, Cannabis indica. In King??s view the coming of indica was not exactly a positive thing, since pure sativa strains are now hard to find.
??Sativas had these great soaring, clear, cerebral highs and took you on amazing psychedelic journeys, whereas the indicas produce stupefying, heavy lethargic highs that knock you on your ass and make you want to eat a box of cookies and go to sleep.?
But King says there were other aspects that interested growers in indica: ??They finished [blooming] earlier. They were denser. They were smaller, so you couldn??t spot them from outer space. They had a lot of appeal to the growers, so they were crossed into just about everything, never to be removed. I like an occasional indica, but I smoke pure sativa if I can. It??s hard to do because indica is in everything. It??s regrettable.?
Buddy from Arcata
How does this new era of cannabis play out locally? We asked a smoker/grower we??ll call Buddy. He??s a former student who lives in one of many student apartment complexes in Arcata. He??s had a 215 medical marijuana card for seven years, so the pot grow concealed behind Indian tapestries in the apartment??s second bedroom is technically legal. He??s still a bit nervous about it, however, and tries to keep a relatively low profile. His landlord doesn??t know about the grow room, and he fears it might not go over well. For that reason he??s asked to remain anonymous.
Buddy is a friendly sort. He dresses casually ?? usually in hip-hop style, with over-sized tees, baggy pants, baseball caps, some of them emblazoned with sport team logos, some with the word ??Humboldt? or with names of pot strains like The Purple.
Buddy is not from here. He settled in Arcata partly for the big trees and beaches, partly because of the college, but also because of the town??s laissez faire attitude. ??When I walk into a store here and I??m stoned, it??s not a big deal,? he says. ??If I were in some other state, I??d be pulling out the Visine so nobody can tell, maybe putting on different clothes that don??t have the smell. The fact is, it??s just not a big thing here.?
The same goes with growing. In the post-215 era, there??s a free exchange of knowledge on technique. Clones of popular strains can be purchased at your local dispensary and, says Buddy, you can go to the local hardware store without fear and tell them what you need for your operation.
??We may not say the word ??marijuana,?? but I don??t have to pretend I??m growing tomatoes,? Buddy says. ??They know what??s going on.?
He grows a selection of high-end strains. On a visit to his apartment, he arranged a collection of Mason jars on the kitchen counter, each holding a different brand of weed. There are two jars of the popular Sour Diesel ?? one earth-grown, the other hydroponic ?? and a Purple variation called The Lavender. Another jar holds The Hawaiian, which he explains came from a plant from the Islands, crossed with a strain known simply as P-91. Then there??s his prize strain, The Lemon Kush, which he says is rare, intentionally so.
??It won??t be found in a lot of circles,? he says. ??We??re trying not to let the genetics get out (through live plants that could become clone stock) because of what??s going on at the market level. Rare bud is just more valuable.?
Who develops the new strains? Not necessarily the old-timers. ??At this point a lot of them are younger than 40,? says Buddy. ??They??re smart people who took botany and horticulture at HSU or CR and applied the techniques they learned to growing herb.?
??The thing is, not to sound cheesy, but it??s a beautiful herb and a beautiful flower. People get excited about it the same way others get excited about growing roses.?
Buddy sees another advantage in the fact that lots of local college students smoke weed: strength in numbers.
??What I found is, instead of, like, being the stoner at your high school, where you were looked down upon, you??re just like everybody else,? he says. ??So you can excel at whatever it is you??re trying to study ?? biology, botany, whatever. I have plenty of friends who get straight A??s and they smoke plenty of weed.?
Admitting it might sound trite, Buddy offers some advice for students: ??Stay in school. Don??t drop out just to grow weed. A lot of my friends came here for school, then after their sophomore or junior year, they??d take a semester off, then that ends up being a year off, or two. Once they??re out of the inertia of being in school, it??s hard to go back. So even if it sounds like that anti-drug ad, I say, ??Be cool, stay in school.?? And don??t grow pot in your college dorm room. You??ll get caught for sure.?
The Stats
A 2006 report titled ??Marijuana Production in the United States? by Jon Gettman of the marijuana advocacy group Drugscience.org estimates that ??American marijuana farmers grew 22.3 million pounds of marijuana in 2006 with a value of $35.8 billion.? Which would make pot the nation??s biggest cash crop, even outstripping corn.
According to the California Department of Justice, last year??s Campaign Against Marijuana Planting (CAMP) took in more plants than ever, with 1,675,681 plants seized during the eradication season. The DOJ estimates the seized 2006 crop as having a street value of more than $6.7 billion.
Gettman??s extrapolation on the law enforcement data suggests that California is the nation??s major pot producer, with an estimated 17.4 million plants cultivated outdoors and 4.2 million grown indoors. According to a National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 13.25 percent of the nation??s pot smokers are Californians, but we produce 38.68 percent of the marijuana used in the United States, making pot a major export crop.
How does Humboldt rank in all this? While the county was once near the top of the CAMP seizure chart, last year we fell to No. 9, outstripped by our Emerald Triangle neighbors Mendocino (No. 3) and Trinity (No. 8), but especially by Lake and Shasta counties, whose combined total, 542,091, makes Humboldt??s 59,616 seem piddling.
In part, the high numbers elsewhere came from massive operations on public lands that the cops believe are farmed by a new crop of growers out of Mexico. A full 80 percent of CAMP seizures in 2006 were from public lands.
But wait ?? there may be hope for Humboldt for 2007. A Friday press release from Sheriff Gary Philp notes that a raid last week in the Bear Creek drainage (34 miles south of Berry Summit) resulted in the eradication of the largest marijuana garden in the history of Humboldt County.
Garden sites located on U.S. Forest Service property and on timberlands owned by Green Diamond Timber Company yielded 134,082 marijuana plants that are believed to be linked to a Mexican drug trafficking organization. According to the sheriff, ??At harvest time these marijuana plants would have a street value of approximately $469 million.? Wahoo!
rest of the story is about getting scalped bus tickets :P
North Coast Journal Weekly of Politics, People & Art - Humboldt County, Calif. USA
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Thats a really good article. Very informative and well written.
Do you have a major?
pitzer college
great article, I especially enjoyed the writer's lament for the 'lost' sativas ... :(