Pubdate: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 Source: Chico Enterprise-Record (CA) Copyright: 2013 Chico Enterprise-Record Contact: http://www.chicoer.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/861 Note: Letters from newspaper's circulation area receive publishing priority Author: Ronald Davis Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v13/n386/a01.html POT WAR ISN'T ABOUT POLLUTION Regarding the Thursday article by Roger Aylworth on pot garden pollution, Assemblyman Dan Logue is quoted as saying it's not a Proposition 215 issue, it is an environmental issue. I believe the real issue here is hate. It appears that the same folks that hated the hippies now hate the pot growers. Furthermore, it seems that some of this crowd have money enough to get "their man" running the county supervisors. Yes, I believe that chemicals are being used, and that they are running off into the creeks. The worst damage being done, though, would be to those smoking these chemicals with their "medicine." So, the Central Valley Regional Quality Control Board will now save those downstream water users from this pollution? Give me a break. Big agriculture has been getting a pass forever on chemical runoff from our farms. The same chemicals that the railroads were fined a vast amount of dollars for accidentally spilling into the Sacramento River (Cantara Loop spill) routinely run off from our rice farms. No, I do not believe that Supervisor Bill Connelly is out to stop aquatic pollution to those downstream of Butte County. I think he wants to use that as an excuse to continue the war against cannabis cultivation, at the service of the haters that finance his political campaigns. I really would like to see the problems of drug use and of pollution be solved, but honestly, without deceit. - - Ronald Davis, Oroville - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom