Gotta love my neighborhood.

Ok, so I did not write the following, I am not affiliated with this publication.  But this struck me as the kind of story (and reaction) that can only happen in this area.  Anywhere else in the country and this would be a major news story, here, it barely made it on the website of one of our local newspapers (we have several).
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The actual story can be found at http://lostcoastoutpost.com/2013/dec/21/trashing-pot/

Only in Humboldt…Pounds in the Trash

 Kym Kemp / Yesterday @ 5:43 p.m. / marijuana        

 

(Photo provided by Bob Ornelas)

Pounds in the trash? Does that happen anywhere except the Emerald Triangle? Yesterday, Bob Ornelas, owner of Arcata Construction Services, was at the Eureka Transfer Station when he watched the staff “slice open” some trash bags. Revealing…(drum roll please) pounds of pot.
Every day, marijuana stems probably get tossed at the station but, this time, according to Ornelas, the bags were full of “some very dry, mid level bud” as well as trim and stems. Ornelas described the product as “plants that someone had clipped all the big buds off of.”
Is this a sign of the market glut and the tumbling price or merely the sign of a grower reaching the end of his or her rope with the trimming process?
“&*^&* it, I’m done spending every waking minute cleaning up this @^$@#^!”
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The staff, Ornelas said, just laughed at the contents and then threw the bags out with the rest of the trash.
“At least,” he said, “[the grower] didn’t just throw it on the side of the road.”
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God I love this area!