Pubdate: Fri, 09 Apr 2010
Source: Willits News (CA)
Copyright: 2010 Willits News
Contact:  http://www.willitsnews.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/4085
Author: Dave Oncale

GOODBYE MEASURE B

Our illustrious supervisors did it caved into the drug traffickers 
wishes, totally disregarding the voters of this county and Measure B.

I ask our supervisors again, how and why can you justify 25 plants, 
no less 99 plants? This is promoting drug-trafficking plain and simple.

Do the math: one person would have trouble smoking up one processed 
plant, and how can any legitimate doctor justify 25, 30, or 99? Why 
can't we do like the rest of the state and stick with the minimums 
allowed by state law?

Let's put it in simple terms even a politician can understand. If you 
are a three-pack a day cigarette smoker, you would be lucky to smoke 
a pound or two of tobacco in a year. Can you now imagine a person 
supposedly using 25, 30, or 100 pounds of pot per year for a medical 
condition? That is not even taking into consideration the 28 percent 
THC levels.

You would be unconscious after the first "pack" of pot joints. This 
is the pot advocates "great lie," about medical marijuana. It is a 
joke! So are the bogus medical conditions that "qualify" for a "recommendation.

Then Mr. Hamburg, who is apparently running for supervisor, did not 
like the ordinance changes because it affects the search and seizure 
rights of the pot growers.

Are you kidding me? What about my rights as a citizen, a taxpaying 
citizen, of this county? Mr. McCowan also shared "his concerns." 
Don't I have the right to walk out my back door and not smell the 
skunky pot odor, hear the fans blowing, or listen to the cars driving 
up and down the neighbor's driveway at all hours of the night, the 
right to go to my local park without encountering the creeps, the 
freaks and their dogs?

We impose law enforcement, inspections and other regulations on 
breweries, wineries and companies producing alcoholic beverages. Why 
are the pot growers exempt? Why should they be exempt from building 
codes and other safety regulations?

The bottom line is this: pot growing is a drug-trafficking operation, 
and the vast majority of pot grown here is being sold across this 
country to kids, by gangs and other drug-traffickers. Mr. Johnson and 
pot advocates want to have their cake and eat it too. Their argument 
about compassionate and medical use is laughable. You know it and 
everyone living in this county knows it. We are promoting 
drug-trafficking, plain and simple.

Finally, Mr. McCowan stated "only 30 people showed up" to the 
meeting, so he must be right about this ordinance. The voters made it 
clear what they wanted, and we the people work for a living and can't 
run down to the board of supervisors for every issue.

Don't you go to town? We don't have the luxury of sitting in front of 
our big screen all day and playing video games while the plants grow 
under the house, we have to work.

Can't you see what marijuana has done to this county? Open your eyes! 
Like the rest of our state and national politicians, our supervisors 
greased the squeaky minority wheel and continue to promote the 
pot-growing and drug-trafficking atmosphere in this county.

Time for Mendocino Tea Party Anti-Pot patriots, because the 
politicians don't get it. It is all about greed!

Welcome to Bogota, USA!

Dave Oncale

Willits
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