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Pot Town Pushes Back Against Industrial Growers

from ABC News

 By JEFF BARNARD Associated Press

ARCATA, Calif. November 3, 2012 (AP)

Happily isolated on California’s remote Humboldt County coast, Arcata has long made room in its heart for marijuana, whether grown illegally in the back woods by refugees of the Summer of Love, or legally in the back rooms of homes by medical pot patients.

But the mellow days are coming to an end. Even Arcata residents who support legalization of marijuana have become fed up with high-volume indoor growing operations that take over much-needed housing and take advantage of the state’s loosely written medical marijuana law. . . . Read Complete Rerport