I don’t know why we worry so much about Big Tobacco getting into the marijuana industry when the industry has already sold out to Big Oil. When you consider all of the hash labs littered with thousands of empty butane canisters,
all of the lit-up greenhouses and the indoor grows,
the big generators,
the earth moving equipment,
the quads,
the giant 4×4 vanity trucks
and the endless snorting, stench-spewing caravan of soil and water trucks crisscrossing our watersheds,
it’s no wonder all of the weed we grow around here stinks of diesel fuel. Truth be known, Humboldt weed is primarily a petroleum product, and the industry becomes more oil intensive every day.
The cannabis industry’s thirst for fossil fuel has only grown since coming out of the closet, at least judging by auditory evidence. I’ve never heard so much racket coming out of these hills as I have in the past year, and it’s not just my neighborhood. Yesterday, in town, I heard three different people, independently, complain about loud generators disturbing their peace and quiet in three separate watersheds.
In the Redway Post Office, I saw a flier posted by yet another angry forest dweller encouraging people who value their peace and quiet to to report their noisy neighbors to the CA Air Quality Management Board. The flier also reminds people of the health risks associated with noise pollution, like tinnitus, ear damage and hearing loss. I doubt the bureaucrats at CAAQMB want any more than to collect a fee from the offenders, but why not make them pay any way you can.
Now that the marijuana industry has come out in the open, apparently, so has the greed. The sun just can’t shine bright or long enough to satisfy our dope yuppies anymore, so they flood the forest with noise pollution and air pollution so they can make light pollution. Besides annoying neighbors, stressing wildlife, degrading the environment and creating a public health threat, every year, a few of these generators blow up and start forest fires. Dope yuppies don’t care, unless it’s their house that burns.
Dope yuppies don’t care about anyone but themselves and their own greedy scheme to get rich off of prohibition. All Summer, their soil and water trucks pounded the county roads out in the hills, to rubble, in yet another sacrifice to their insatiable greed. Humboldt’s marijuana industry destroys roads because, every year, all new “farmland” has to be trucked in, as well as a substantial portion of the water needed to grow the crop. Thanks to prohibition, and the massive taxpayer subsidies that go along with it, Humboldt’s dope yuppies make so much money from marijuana that they still turn a profit despite their disgracefully wasteful farming practices.
Meanwhile, Supervisor Estelle Fennell has the nerve to remind us that homeless people and working single mothers who shop in town, will pay to fix those roads, so that dope yuppies can continue to have Amazon deliver everything they need, right to their door, avoiding the Measure Z sales tax completely, and effectively externalizing yet another business expense to the poorest taxpayers. Way to go Estelle! That’s how you steal from the poor and give to the rich, and that’s why the dope yuppies love her.
Yes the weed around here depends heavily on Big Oil, but it’s not just a matter of contamination, I believe there’s also an element of imitation. I think that cannabis itself responds to our obsession with fossil fuels. Think about it. We know that cannabis responds to its environment. When hippie gardeners grew marijuana by hand, it smelled like fruit and sage, because hippie gardeners love fruit and burn sage,
but now, the people who grow pot around here love their big trucks and their quads and their generators. The weed can smell the trucks, and the generators, and all of the exhaust fumes, and the weed thinks we like those smells, so the weed expresses those aromas in its attempt to please us. That’s why so much of the pot around here smells like diesel fuel. How apropos!
Cannabis can be a lot of things, but right now cannabis thinks we want a stupefying anesthetic that stinks like diesel fuel, and she is doing her level best to satisfy us. How long do you think it will be before cannabis realizes that we don’t really care about anything but money, and starts to smell like that? Unfortunately, marijuana already smells like money to too many people. That’s the problem.
you nailed it again Hardin
Thanks Gail, I appreciate the feedback.
The problem will solve itself in few years after legalization. The big grows and the people who are driven by money will move to the Central Valley or other places in Cali where there’s flat land, plenty of water, and plenty of ag labor. Peace will return to the hills, and the pace of life will come to resemble the more organic times back in the 70’s and 80’s.
Let’s hope so.
Year one! Worse, not better……it won’t be fixed in 2 years imo……
Thanks for your prediction
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Yup again on legalizing that many more dopeheads who manifest negativity…..
Dogs: and the barking, contact animal control right before Harvest……and, if all else, pull out the battery powered PA mega speaker, and wake up the whole neighborhood to a rant of, “yo assholes, shut your goddamned motherfucking dogs up”……
It’s like a symphony when one phucktard neighbor dog barks to the tunes of other phucktard neighbor dogs that ring harrassingly for miles……..
you see these are the simple things in life that government turns a blind eye to like how hard is it to freaking make sure people aren’t doing things that freaking destroy the livelihood of a simple freaking person who just wants to live the basics in life that which include the ability to sleep and not have to take pharmaceutical medicines and Other Drugs just to get sleep because phucktard government doesn’t do its phucktarded job because phucktarded people are in control……
As a supervisor of the 5th District, HOJ would have brought the house down on all the various types and forms of disrespect that certain douche Wads in the community commit…… and yes Animal Control would have been a very busy part of the Sheriff’s Department……. as well as more citations by code enforcement for much of the land uses that go on in Humboldt County which are illegal….. and certainly any of these groups pushing anything that is not in the best interest of all of society would have been analyzed and critiqued in the most Henchman of Justice ways for which Super Media would cover and never leave Humboldt County until HOJ was done leading…….it would be way better than Trump…….
And John Harden should run again for supervisor…..
And a prop to whoever the moniker really is that came up with the new last maamname nickname for Estelle……Estelle Fentanyl….really is funny and befitting since she is a star heroin in a doped up county with an extreme politically funded fentanyl problem……..
Now a story on how heroin and pot comingle……ya know there is one lurking to be written by a master writer such as JH!
I haven’t yet run for supervisor, but I might write about heroin and pot someday. Thanks HOJ!