Contact Your Senators, Representatives - Legalize Cannabis. Save Money Currently Wasted on Law Enforcement, Increase Voluntary Taxes. REFUND THAT MONEY TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!

https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative 

https://www.senate.gov/senators/index.htm

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Dear Senator Blah Blah Blah: If we Legalized Cannabis, we could Reduce Government Spending and Increase Voluntary Taxes at the same time. Only people that Buy Marijuana would Pay... Colorado earned $60 Million Dollars Last Year from Legal Cannabis sales and Funded Schools, Teen Drug Abuse Education, Research on Medical Marijuana treating PTSD and the Symphony Orchestra... AND Saved over $100 million in Law Enforcement Costs. Now there is a plan to Refund the Excess Sales taxes to the Residents... Brilliant Idea! We could too! NATIONWIDE.

Who could Possibly be in Favor of keeping Cannabis Illegal? People that Profit From Prohibition and Incarceration... Follow the money!

Criminals depend on Marijuana being Illegal to Protect their Profits. With Legal Marijuana, the Mexican Mafia would be in deep trouble... and... Recreational Drug Manufacturers also Profit from Prohibition... Beer, Wine and Whiskey... If there was FREEDOM OF CHOICE, many people would leave the booze on the shelf. No Cirrhosis, No Hangovers, Fewer Traffic Fatalities... Many people would switch from OPIOIDS that are Killing Americans to the Much Safer Marijuana...

Got Prison Overcrowding? Simply Legalize Recreational Marijuana and Let those incarcerated out... You could be the Hero by sponsoring Legislation to Legalize.

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Legalizing Marijuana Decreases Fatal Opiate Overdoses, Study Shows... SAVE LIVES, LEGALIZE THE KIND HERB NOW!

https://drugabuse.com/legalizing-marijuana-decreases-fatal-opiate-overdoses/

Marijuana dispensaries reduce local opioid overdose rates, study finds...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/marijuana/2018/11/28/marijuana-dispensaries-reduce-local-opioid-overdose-rates-study-finds/KH1Y1SGfFFFm7ZcyvRuwhM/story.html

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FUN Things to do in Eureka and Arcata, California. Photographs of Tourist Highlights. Madaket Ferry Boat Ride, Kinetic Sculpture Race and Music Students at Humboldt State University...

The Madaket is a ferry boat that retired when they built the bridge to Samoa... Now it has narrated cruises looking at Humboldt Bay... Mostly the North end and central part of the bay. We live at the South end. The captain tells us the history... 

Scenes photographed from the boat...

My Brother and I at Woodley Island Marina in front of

The Maritime Memorial for Sailors Lost at Sea.

We discovered a "secret" beach in Fairhaven that no one ever goes to on a boatride. As we passed Fairhaven on the North Jetty, I saw the beach and a road... later I looked it up on Google Maps and figured out how to get there. We were all alone except for a man in a kayak cruising by.

Other places to visit:

The North Jetty itself. Bring sensible shoes so we can walk to the end where the dolos are... be aware that sometimes the waves are so large that it would be dangerous to walk on the jetty... but you can watch from the top of the sand dunes.

Giles by the Bay restaurant in King Salmon. It is at the end of the small peninsula that is right next to our house. The restaurant is not spectacular but I often park there to walk around and look at the house, bay, boats... There is a good swimming/wading beach there. In the afternoons in the summer the water is warm enough to swim in... It's a bay... The Ocean is simply too cold.

Trinidad: Pier, Beach and the fabulous restaurant. There is a marine life museum and classrooms from Humboldt State. A great trip as they have working example of the Hydrogen Fuel Cells invented at Schatz Laboratory HSU. They are participating in radioactivity monitoring from Fukushima. In co-operation with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. http://www.humboldt.edu/marinelab/

(Take the Trinidad exit off of Hwy 101, head west on Main St., turn left on Trinity St., right on Edwards St., and right on Ewing St. as the road veers left.)

I looked at both active tree-sit ecology actions. Too long of a hike to get to where they are... and in my humble opinion... How can I really get excited about protesting logging way off in the woods? It is delicate balance between providing boards for construction and saving the trees... This ecology action does not motivate me.

Mattole: There is a great drive to the end of the road... but... it's trespassing for a mile or so... and that's too far. The drive goes from the Avenue of the Giants towards the Mattole river and The Lost Coast... Ending in Victorian Ferndale. This is a road that is NOT visible on Google Streetview.  Bull Creek Flats Road... in Humboldt Redwoods State Park... to Mattole road and the town of Honeydew... Out there is a Sobriety Retreat on top of a mountain with a giant cross made from two large trees... I took a picture there and captured the spirit of that moment... close to the clouds in a big wind...

The other Tree-Sit is at Strawberry Rock near Trinidad. Take the Trinidad exit and instead of turning left and going to Trinidad, go straight  ahead at the end of the off ramp and follow the Frontage road that parallels Highway 101 all the way to the end... That's where the trail starts... Link to a map.

http://goo.gl/maps/bIkAO

Mount Saint Mercy Retreat

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Here in Eureka, CA there is a zoo in the middle of a redwood forest. There are wild bears that live in the forest and there are bears in the cages at the zoo... If someone would just let the caged bears go they could live in the woods with the other bears... unless they have been so institutionalized by convict life that they can't survive outside of prison. Sequoia Park Zoo.

Where are the really great parties? 

Free and Wonderful Events? 

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I would like to promote events that are free and wonderful. For Example: The Rainbow Gathering, Kinetic Sculpture Race, North Country Fair and Humboldt Folklife Festival. All we need to know is a date and a location. Please share info and I'll blog the fun things to do. If you know of an event, please comment or email me... gregvan@yahoo.com Thanks....

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/where-are-really-great-parties-free-and.html

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My College Painting Class on a Field Trip to 
Woodley Island Marina.
We took our easels and paints and created ART.

Free Concerts On HSU Campus at Noon by the Clock Tower.

"Jammers League" every performance had different players

This is a historic train in Scotia, California. A beautiful town completely owned by MAXXAM. [until they went bankrupt] Sort of like a stage set, it is entirely built of redwood lumber with columns made from entire trees with the bark intact. Come visit sometime and be sure to go on the factory tour. It is the largest building in California. MAXXAM did a corporate raider takeover using Michael Milken junk bonds and is proceeding to cut down old growth redwood as fast as possible and take all the profit and move it to Texas. After all the profitable trees are gone then it's time for bankruptcy... Just like they did with Kaiser Aluminum. and that's exactly what they did... now it's all owned by the Fisher Family [most famous for The Gap clothing stores]

Kinetic Sculpture Race. June Moxon's Cat

more pictures of Eureka and Arcata at:
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My Truck and the Magic Bus

near Lolita, CA

These pictures were taken behind the Bayshore Shopping Mall. Where there is a huge abandoned building that has been decorated by grafitti artists... It made me think of the CyberPunk science fiction novels by William Gibson where all the action takes place in San Francisco after the collapse of western civilization due to lack of oil. These machines would fit perfectly because they are entirely bicycle powered...

photo of graffiti in The Shipwreck an abandoned roadside attraction just South of Eureka in King Salmon

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Bear Tales: Our family loved to go camping in the woods... and so, we met bears. Walk away backwards slowly and let them eat your Lunch.

We lived in Eureka on the edge of a forest that was about 5 miles to the next house. Many animals lived in those woods including bears, a fox, deer, raccoons and skunks. The only time I saw a bear was when I was standing in my kitchen looking out the window at the parking lot. The bear just walked slowly past and I was really glad to be indoors. That bear killed the neighbor's dog. I assume that the dog was annoying and barking at the bear... that's a mistake you don't do twice.

We enjoyed the deer so much that we bought a salt lick at the feed store. The deer really loved it as not only did it have salt but it also had seeds to eat. We put it in the meadow next door to the house and that's how we got to see the fox... In general, animals are afraid of humans but if you buy them Lunch... that's a different story.

Once a skunk came into the house thru the cat door and hid behind the record player cabinet. I took a roll of Christmas Wrapping paper and poked the skunk and it left without spraying. LUCKY!

We had three cats and they were free to go outdoors at will. I became especially fond of Shasta the cat. He was a disobedient large male cat. I am a disobedient large male human so we got along great. When it came time to go to the VET he and I would wrestle and when I won I put him in the cat carrier. It was not obvious that I would win the fight.

When he got really old he became blind and during the last week of his life he would walk forward until he hit a wall then turn right or left and walk forward until he hit another wall. He repeated this blind walk for hours... I had to clean my room so that there were not any corners because in a corner he became stuck... turning right or left did no good in a corner. So I walked around the house throwing away trash and straightening us the clothes on the floor etc FOR HOURS! It was as if Shasta the Cat was doing his "Forever walk" and I too was on the same wavelength... Sometimes he would lie down and not move and so I sat down and looked at him and I did not move. I was retired from work at this time so I had all the time in the world to meditate with my friend.

Eventually he walked into a storage room and hid under a pile of clothes and did not move. I assumed that he was dead but I wasn't so rude as to POKE him to find out for sure. A couple of days later he walked out of that room and continued his blind "Forever walk"... I figured that he had regained his health and so I went on a driving vacation to Chico. He died a couple of days later.

BUT, we had a very meaningful week together.

Shasta had a sister named Meadow that we got at work in Chico. Miss Vicki was working at United Healthcare as a Data Entry Operator and another employee had a litter. I was assigned the task of Naming the cats and I wanted to name them after the Native American Sacred Spring on Mount Shasta at Panther Meadow... Miss Vicki overruled the name Panther because one simply does not name a housecat - lion, panther, lynx, tiger - so they became Shasta and Meadow... Meadow is still alive.

I made a Youtube film of Shasta... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQUHWAVDTv0

A family of raccoons lived under our house. Evidently the bathtub leaked and it was a good source of drinking water. They really freaked out Miss Vicki as they made a scary scratching sound whenever someone would go into the bathroom.

Read more of my autobiography at: http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/growing-up-in-los-gatos-california-in.html

What IF SIX BILLION PEOPLE DIE FROM CLIMATE CHANGE? So What! The Human Caused Air Pollution WILL STOP and The Planet Will Start to Heal.

People in Alaska, Canada and Siberia will Survive and Repopulate The World... OR MAYBE NOT! It's Entirely Possible that Extinction of Humans WILL HAPPEN... 

I figure that in the Immediate Future we can SIMPLY MOVE to the Coast of Oregon and ENJOY THE COOL RAINY CLIMATE... For the Next Few Years, The West Coast From San Francisco to Alaska Will Remain Habitable. After That... Just Keep on Moving North...  

Remember: SOME Life Forms are Doing GREAT With The Warmer Temperatures. For Example: The GREEN SLIME of Florida Loves A Warm Bath! Cockroaches, Ants and Butterflies will Inherit The Earth... 

Are You Fleeing Hurricanes, Wildfires or Extreme Heat? Try The Beautiful Oregon Coast... It's Safe, Cool, Rainy and Real Estate is Cheap. 

buy Oregon Real Estate, Safe Climate Change cool rainy

Skolstrejk för klimatetat - Global Climate Strike EVERY FRIDAY - a Worldwide ECO-ACTION! - Greta Thunberg says: “We Are Striking to Disrupt the System” #ClimateStrike

 https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/09/global-climate-strike-920-worldwide-eco.html

I'm enjoying the good life on California's North Coast. After a life spent as an electronic draftsman, Dominos Pizza Driver and then Radio Shack salesman, I went to college at Humboldt State University and graduated with a BS in Computers... Got a Government Job...

Landed a government job at the Humboldt County DHHS (welfare department) and I've since retired... Visit my Webstore at http://www.zazzle.com/gregvan* to see artwork of mine printed on gift items... like coffee-cups, mousepads, t-shirts... and...

The Trinidad Rest Stop on Highway 101 a few miles North of Arcata. Redwood Forest and a Lovely Loop Trail.

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-trinidad-rest-stop-on-highway-101.html

Madaket Ferry - Logging Truck on 299 near Arcata, CA - Park near Orrick

My Dad and Brother on the Madaket Ferry

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Dancing to The Humboldt Calypso Band... Absynth Quintet... Blue Rhythm Revue and The Fickle Hillbillies... Arcata, California

Humboldt Calypso Band

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American History: The Humboldt County Timber Wars... A Hostile Takeover of Pacific Lumber and Extreme Logging of Old Growth Redwoods in Northern California.

In 1985 Charles Hurwitz borrowed money (Junk Bonds) from Michael Milken and bought the company Pacific Lumber, located near Eureka, California. Then Hurwitz increased the rate of logging in the Redwood Forest and cut down all the highly profitable trees. Then he split his corporation MAXXAM into two divisions. One division was used to do actual logging and sawing of boards and the other division was used to hide the profits. When the bill came due on the Junk Bonds, Hurwitz declared bankruptcy and took the money back to Texas. Including the pension funds that paid retirement benefits for employees...

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/09/american-history-humboldt-county-timber.html

Great White Men... In The Past, Almost Everything that Has Been Accomplished Has Been Accomplished by White Men... But In The Future... We Shall See...

If you don't recognize any of these people, just Google them... and be glad that Great White Men invented Google, The Internet, Computers and Electricity.

However... Some White Men have been astonishingly Evil. Adolph Hitler, Donald Trump, Charles Manson, George W Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Joseph Stalin, Jeffrey Dahmer, Mitch McConnell, Steve Mnuchin, Charles and David Koch, Kenneth Lay, Jeffrey Schilling, Charles Hurwitz, Steve Bannon, Chuck Grassley, Newt Gingrich, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ted Kaczynski and Timothy McVey...  to name a few...

List of Great White Men:
Walt Disney, Albert Einstein, Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Thomas Edison, Nicola Tesla, Thomas Watson [IBM],  Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Gordon Moore [INTEL], Hewlett, Packard, Alexander Graham Bell, Marconi, Harley, Davidson, George Westinghouse, Goodyear, Firestone, Henry Ford, Lockheed, Boeing, and it goes on and on and on... 

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/09/great-white-men-did-you-ever-notice.html

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/08/lets-build-solar-powered-desalinization.html

Generate Electricity and Clean Drinking Water AT THE SAME TIME. A Solar Powered Desalinization Plant Would Convert Seawater into Energy, Pure H2O and NaCl.

We ought to build a giant solar power desalinization plant in Southern California. Convert Seawater into drinking water, salt and electricity.  It would use solar reflectors to boil seawater and create steam. That steam would be used to drive turbines and create electricity. When the water cools it condenses into pure H2O and salt. The water would be sold to people for drinking, washing, watering livestock and watering plants. The salt could be sold or returned to the ocean if there are not enough customers... Camp Pendleton near San Diego would be an ideal location. Southern California is in need of water. There is a current proposal to use pipelines to move fresh water from the Sacramento River to be used by farmers and residents in SoCal. An alternative would be to just get the water from the ocean... We should also stop watering lawns in California. It's a cultural norm that is not practical in a state that is suffering drought. What if it became fashionable to have rock gardens or cactus? That's what they do in Arizona...

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