How Santa Barbara County Jurisdictions Are Dealing with Marijuana Legalization
Legal tangles leave Santa Barbarans wondering: ‘Dude, where’s my weed?’
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Growing Cannabis in Your Backyard
From where to start to when to harvest, here are seven must-know steps to planting pot in Santa Barbara.
On the Menu at Pot Shops
What to expect when you walk into your first cannabis retailer.
Is Santa Barbara’s State Street Finally Turning the Corner?
Or will downtown — and the rest of the city — continue to suffer?
The Cannabis Carnival Comes to Santa Barbara
As the industry’s underground culture explodes, everyone from pot trimmers to tomato farmers wonders where it will go.
Who Murdered Henry Han and His Family?
Prosecutors present evidence against Pierre Haobsh at the preliminary hearing.
The Untold Story of the Marijuana Trade
A new book tells the hidden story of the boom in Asian marijuana smuggling, circa 1969-1986.
The ‘Green Rush’ Is Crushed
At this point it is hard to imagine, but just a handful of years ago, Santa Barbara had more medical marijuana storefronts than it did Starbucks coffeehouses.
The Medical Marijuana Movement Grows in Santa Barbara
In a small two-bedroom home, nestled anonymously on the upper Westside of Santa Barbara, the lights are humming right now. Vaguely Victorian in style with a white picket fence and a well-manicured front lawn, the home does little to betray the blooming emerald harvest growing inside its walls. A woman walking her dog passes by the driveway, urging her four-legged friend to “do your business,” never giving a second thought to the perpetually drawn window shades of the back room, the constantly spinning electricity meter humming in the side yard, or the sweet odor of fresh ganja blowing in the breeze.
Bad Eyes, Good Medicine, and a Guy Named Bob
Halos have long adorned the heads of saints, but in the case of the late Robert Randall – the compassionate angel anointed by bad luck and good timing to launch the modern medical marijuana movement – the halos hovered in his eyes. Due to a rare type of glaucoma that began in his youth, Bob couldn’t see very well, particularly at night, when streetlights would be surrounded by halos. Halos are the common symptom of severe though painless pressure on the optic nerve, which is what glaucoma – nicknamed the “sneak thief of sight” – victims experience until blindness sets in.
