Kym Kemp

Inside the Emerald Triangle, Kym Kemp is known as the Redheaded Blackbelt though she has gray hair and no longer practices martial arts. Her title stems from the news site she founded in 2007. There, she covers everything from cannabis to car crashes to where law enforcement is raiding today. Old-time growers and newbies moving to the hills of Humboldt, Trinity and Mendocino read her site and comment daily. Follow her into the heart of grow country.

Humboldt Reacts to Sexual Abuse Exposé

Welcome to the first installment of Humboldt Homegrown, a new cannabis column from the heart of the Emerald Triangle by veteran local reporter Kym Kemp.

Growing Worries: Humboldt Cannabis Farmers Divided on Proposition 64

Welcome to Humboldt Homegrown, a new cannabis column from the heart of the Emerald Triangle by veteran local reporter Kym Kemp. Even after one of the rainiest Octobers on record drenched the small cannabis farms of the Emerald Triangle, many of the growers in the region fear the results of California’s Proposition 64 even more than they fear the effects

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Humboldt Reacts to Sexual Abuse Exposé

Welcome to the first installment of Humboldt Homegrown, a new cannabis column from the heart of the Emerald Triangle by veteran local reporter Kym Kemp. Is there unchecked sexual abuse, rape and even sexual trafficking on marijuana farms in the Emerald Triangle? One recent nationally published article reprinted widely under various titles (including Hidden Horrors on the Pot Farms of

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