About Marijuana Ordinance

Re: the urgency ordinance (cultivation ban) the BOS passed: there will never be one action that will garner 100% support. Growers who truly do not infringe on their neighbors’ rights are also ‘victims’ the illegal grows have affected. To refrain from enacting a tougher ordinance, and further allowing illegal grows to flourish, is not beneficial.

When audience members call the BOS Nazis, is that the general mentality? When someone walked out at the last meeting, saying the BOS was blaming the growers for the drought, was this person impaired at the time, because that’s NOT what the board claimed. Illegal growers taking advantage of the previous ordinance’s loose structure certainly had a hand in impacting local resources, though. With the name-calling, in not listening, in blaming non-growers and the BOS, are growers ultimately implying they could care less about their neighbors, or for our beautiful foothills?

Should non-growers be vilified for being tired of stolen water, the trespassing, chemicals and garbage dumped, forestation ruined/impacted, shootings or other violence at those accidentally hiking into a grow, etc.? How many have dealt with vicious, poorly-fed dogs that are aggressive towards humans and livestock/pets?

Re: out-of-county money coming into this battle – if the small grows are not in it for profit, why allow the money that could allow the large illegal grows to benefit? Trying to recall the BOS, to replace it with those more lax, could allow continuing damage. That is unacceptable.
Lisa Baker
Dobbins, Ca.