Pubdate: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 Source: Times-Standard (CA) Copyright: 2003 MediaNews Group, Inc. Contact: http://www.times-standard.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1051 Author: James Tressler Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mmj.htm (Cannabis - Medicinal) SUPERVISORS TO CONSIDER MEDICAL MARIJUANA, ANIMAL SHELTER, HEADWATERS PROJECTS TUESDAY EUREKA -- In a busy end-of-year session, the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors is expected to look at a medical marijuana ordinance, send the county treasurer in search of money to build a new animal shelter, and decide on a list of Headwaters Fund-related projects. Second District Supervisor Roger Rodoni has brought forth a proposed county ordinance that would effectively make District Attorney Paul Gallegos' medical marijuana guidelines the law of the county. The ordinance is needed because a new state law goes into effect in January aimed at establishing clearer medical pot guidelines. The law restricts patients to having no more than 8 ounces of dried marijuana and no more than six mature or 12 immature plants. But the law allows counties and cities to retain or enact medical marijuana guidelines that exceed the state's limits. The board's ordinance reflects Gallegos' guidelines, allowing medical pot patients to have up to 3 pounds of dried buds per year. Cultivation is restricted to what will fit within a 100-square-foot vegetative canopy. The board also is expected give the OK to send out to bid later this month a proposed new animal shelter located at the Arcata-Eureka Airport and to direct Treasurer Stephen A. Strawn to begin pursuing bonds to pay for the estimated $3.1 million project. Finally, the board is expected to dole out some $300,000 in Headwaters Fund money for eight projects. The recipients will include the county itself, the city of Eureka, College of the Redwoods, the Humboldt Botanical Gardens Foundation, the Buckeye Conservancy and the Humboldt Harbor, Recreation and Conservation District. The board meets at 9 a.m. in the supervisors' chambers at the county courthouse. - --- MAP posted-by: Larry Seguin