A billionaire fraudster just got a year knocked off for good behavior. Meanwhile, people in this county have done longer stretches for growing a plant that's been legal here since 2016.
Crime & Enforcement Two men were arrested Friday after Humboldt County deputies executing a search warrant discovered approximately 8,000 cannabis plants in a large-scale indoor grow operation near Alderpoint.
Environment & Land New state standards for cleaning up abandoned and legacy cannabis grow sites in Humboldt County have land trusts praising the requirements and growers calling them unrealistic and unfunded.
Opinion California's cannabis appellation program was built for Humboldt growers. But the farms it was designed to protect are disappearing faster than the regulations can save them.
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