Posted on 10/21/2009 12:38:02 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin
In case you missed it, here is the "Pot City, USA" television show recently shown on the A&E Network. It's pretty interesting and well worth your time to watch.
(Excerpt) Read more at tsblogs.com ...
That second thought appears to be a tad late.
The police log in the Arcata Eye weekly paper (available online) is legendary.
May God continue to bless & protect the growers.
Just like the second thoughts people have with respect to the usurper in the White House.
I caught the last half of this on A&E the other night. Just a little different perspective in the ongoing debate.
You wouldn’t say that A&E is slightly biased, would you? This again shows why the fedgov should end its war against those of us who enjoy smoking marijuana. LET MY PEOPLE GROW!
8:32 p.m. Brent, Arcata’s premier street protester/signholder/performance artist brought his misspelled concerns about a realty company’s alleged evildoing to the corner of 10th and G streets. Police ascertained that with his latest effort at speaking cardboard to power, he was exercising his First Amendment right to alternately baffle and argue with passersby.
This is the article in todays Times Standard
‘Pot City U.S.A.’: Arcata officials react to national exposure
http://www.times-standard.com/localnews/ci_13607769
The comments are fun.
Medical marijuana is a sham. If they are going to legalize it than do so.
where can i watch this series? i use to live up there.
Agreed. But imagine the chaos when one state legalizes it and every bordering state has to set up "immigration" stations on every highway at every border crossing.
Do you still believe that the moon is made of green cheese? There have been countless #'s of people who have said that marijuana has helped them w/ one illness or another. Are they all lying?
Yeah Arcata where the US Military is bad and marijuana is good.
Judge tosses laws restricting recruiters
Matthew B. Stannard, Chronicle Staff Writer
Friday, June 19, 2009
Without fanfare, a federal judge in Oakland on Thursday threw out voter-approved laws in two Northern California cities barring military recruiters from contacting minors.
U.S. District Judge Saundra Brown Armstrong ruled that laws passed in the Humboldt County cities of Arcata and Eureka in November were unconstitutional and invalid.
The finding was not unexpected by proponents of the laws, which passed with 73 percent of the vote in Arcata and 57 percent in Eureka. The federal government quickly sued to overturn the laws, which have been stayed ever since.
But Dave Meserve, the former Arcata councilman behind the laws, said he was disappointed that the judge ruled without hearing arguments on the case. Armstrong ruled on filed pleadings after a hearing scheduled this month was canceled.
“She doesn’t respond to any of our arguments in any way,” he said. “The order reads like a restatement of the government’s case.”
Department of Justice spokesman Charles Miller said “We are pleased with the court’s ruling.”
Eileen Lainez, a spokeswoman for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, declined tocomment on the suit but said, “It is important for recruiters to provide information to youth and their parents.”
The Arcata and Eureka laws join a long list of failed attempts to restrict military recruiting.
Opponents of recruiting have tried to keep recruiters off college campuses nationwide. Berkeley issued and then rescinded a letter calling Marine recruiters “unwelcome intruders.”
And the San Francisco school board in 2006 killed the local Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, which some members saw as a recruiting tool, launching a three-year battle that ended last month with JROTC back in place.
The Arcata and Eureka laws represented a new tactic that experts said appeared to have been the first of its kind in America: a counter-recruitment law passed not by a handful of elected activists, but by a plurality of voters.
Many voters in Arcata and Eureka who supported the measures saw the laws not as anti-military, but as an expression of a community’s right to set its own rules - particularly relating to children.
Opponents said the laws were unpatriotic, pointlessly quixotic, and imposed a government regulation on a domain that would be better handled by parents.
The laws made it illegal to contact anyone under the age of 18 to recruit that person into the military or promote future enlistment. Minors could still initiate contact with recruiters if they chose.
“The judge said that the question of military recruitment is a subject which must be regulated by the federal government and may not be regulated by states and localities,” said Stanford Law School Senior Lecturer Allen Weiner, who read the opinion but did not take part in the case.
Under the supremacy clause of the U.S. Constitution, federal laws trump state laws on issues the federal government is responsible for, like foreign affairs and national defense.
The cities tried to head off that finding by arguing that the United States is party to international treaties prohibiting the recruiting of children under 17. The treaties, the cities argue, hold equal standing to the supremacy clause, so recruitment aimed at children under 17 - such as posters or recruiter calls - is unconstitutional.
Armstrong did not address that argument. Brad Yamauchi, a San Francisco attorney who represented Arcata pro bono, said the reason she didn’t may have been because the treaty addresses recruitment of children under age 17, but the laws in Arcata and Eureka barred recruiting anybody under 18.
Recruits must be 18 to enlist in the U.S. military, or 17 with parental permission, although contact with recruiters may begin earlier.
If the cities choose to appeal or draft a new law, Yamauchi said, they might focus on the 17-and-under crowd. But they would still need to solve other constitutional concerns raised by Armstrong - a task he said will be difficult at best.
But Yamauchi said an appeal might still be worth pursuing.
“Everything has to be done to put this pressure (on policymakers), and having an appeal could be part of that pressure,” he said. Arcata City Attorney Nancy Diamond said the city has made no decision on whether to pursue an appeal.
But Meserve said that no matter what, the effort was worthwhile.
“Whatever the outcome, I think it’s been very positive,” he said. “It has opened people’s eyes across the country to the fact that recruiters target kids.”
http://www.cityofarcata.org/images/stories/1_full_text_measure_f_ordinance1.pdf
“There have been countless #’s of people who have said that marijuana has helped them w/ one illness or another. Are they all lying?”
No I don’t think they are lying. This 215 grow card is the sham part of it. They might just as well print them in the paper like coupons. Clip them out and go grow some.
Ern, that is the most awesome find of the week, nay month. I advise all to click on his link. It is truly fabulous.
“The Eye” has been a longtime favorite....
It is as if every single person in that area has an illlegal grow op in their house!
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