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Our thought had always been that we were promoting another side of our beautiful region but over time it began to feel as if we weren’t truly reflecting the region we’ve chosen to call home. F So, why fight it? As of this issue, The Emerald will begin to embrace our local cannabis culture in all its forms. This is a big step in my personal journey. Three years ago, I started this magazine motivated, in part, by a marijuana-related arrest. On Humboldt Women the morning of January 28, 2012, I awoke to pounding on my front door. Barely dressed, I opened the door to find officers with the Humboldt Coun- ty Drug Task Force standing before me. They raided my house. I was hauled Let ter off and booked on the charges of: possession of marijuana, possession of firearms from the Editor in the commission of a felony, and harboring a room for drug manufacturing. I’m still shaken by the conduct of the officers, which to this day, I feel was inappropriate. 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Perhaps in reaction to my personal trials relating to my proximity to the industry, when I launched The Emerald, I wanted it to chronicle a Humboldt County that was much more than the marijuana Mecca it’s almost Deadline: May 25th always portrayed as. And in that, the magazine was absolutely a source of therapy. I’d be lying if I said the anguish surrounding my arrest still doesn’t get the better of me, but building and developing this publication has kept my March 2015 Winners - The Happy Butchers mind busy and occupied. It’s easy to become mired in hate for people you feel have wronged you. It’s easy to resent April 2015 Winners - Wrangletown Cider Company your past. It’s easy to lose sight of the future that’s still ahead of you after reaching bottom. May 2015 Winner - Knitty Kitty Confession, Marijuana is a part of my life. It’s also a part of this community. It’s time for my magazine to acknowledge both. 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The magazine is based [email protected] out of Humboldt County, California and circulates through Del Norte, OUR LADY LAUREL SKYE Take The Tour Humboldt, Trinity and Mendocino counties. The magazine features events 08 Arcata’s Infamous Mosaic Artist EDITOR in the Northwest, as well as regional and national news, travel destinations, Christina E. DeGiovanni laws, recreational use, product reviews and medicinal coverage. COPY EDITOR Benjamin Fordham The Emerald highlights change in the industry by bridging the gap COVER SHOT between the cannabis community and the media. The magazine intends Paul Delmont to educate and enlighten the public on social, medical and on-going GRAPHIC DESIGNER advancements, and works to establish a public tolerance and awareness as Jessica Albee Madison Rueda we move towards the age of legalization. EMERALD REVIEW COLUMNISTS Kind Bud of the Month THE HIGH LIFE Connor Callahan, Molly Cate, Rima 26 Sex, Love and Bud. Durban Poison & OG Overlord Greer, Emily Hobelmann, Sean Jansen, 13 Dating Behind the Redwood Curtain Sherae O’Shaughnessy PHOTOGRAPHY CONTENTS Paul Delmont, Bob Doran, Sean Jansen, David Michaels, Katie Wheeler,Victoria Voss Bud & Breakfast ............................................12 5 Reasons To Wear Hemp ............................24-25 Highway 36 Is Home To Humboldt’s First B&B Retreat. Columnist Rima Greer Tells Us About The Benefits Of Hemp. WRITERS Sharon Letts, Janet Riddle, Joan Schirle, Linda Stansberry, Katie Humboldt Made ............................................ Cross Fade Countdown ................................28-31 Wheeler, Victoria Voss Who to Hire For Your Event.........15 Cannabis Cocktails Are On The Menu. 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Register Online To Receive A Free Digital Subscription In My Humboldt Opinion ............................46 Women Grow .................................................23 How Are Humboldt County’s Elected Representatives Preparing This National Organization Just Opened Its Humboldt Chapter. For The Legalization Of Marijuana. EMERALD TRAVELS River Rat 48 Madison River By K. Wheeler Photography by Bob Doran The coastlines along the North Pacific Ocean have more than a few cities nestled between their dunes and coastal mountains. There is one, Arcata, that you can find on the ocean’s eastern border, a little more than halfway to the equator from the North Pole. It is a wet, green locale. Some people are drawn to this place, as people will be, whether they know it or not. Traveling enchantment. Within this city there is a home that is a living, glittering, work of art: The realm of Our Lady of Mosaic. The eyes always recognize her powers, follow- ing the pieced-together colors and textured material. She is finishing murals on the Seascape Restaurant for the Trinidad Rancheria. There are scenes on the trash cans at the Arcata Plaza, and mosaic murals fenced along Wildwood Music and Los Bagels. There is a turnaround thick with tile art just up a few blocks from there on 12th Street. But once a person walks onto 11th Street the residence is obvious, and the turn- around will wait. Light dances here; it winks, reflected in all sorts of subtle angles. It is caught up in infinite variation by pigment and material. There, at the very beginning of the lot, arrangements of tile, found treasures, and broken bits of everything come together as a piece. They fill neat rectangles mounted on the fence, ‘948’ above the open passage in. Soft water sounds come from ponds facing the street, the sidewalk, and the south. An intricately- tiled great blue heron stands, as they will, like a statue in the water. Koi dart under lily pads as visitors step across the bridge, monkey on the railing, to the par- tially enclosed front porch. A beautifully tiled bench and walls are recessed next to the front door. Our lady loves her steampunk screen in front. Most people miss it. Well, most people miss so much here, they are so busy finding and seeing. To the west of the ponds is a driveway for a car or bikes.