Pubdate: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 Source: Chico News & Review, The (CA) Copyright: 2014 Chico Community Publishing, Inc. Contact: http://www.newsreview.com/chico/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/559 Author: Chris Sommers Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v14/n163/a06.html 'DON'T SIGN IT' Re "Medi-pot rules finalized, maybe" (Downstroke, Feb. 13): Please don't sign the marijuana referendum petition-it stinks! It benefits only the for-profit growers. They are using paid signature-gatherers. It will freeze the amended ordinance and we'll see a repeat of 2013's Green Rush, with the accompanying crime wave, environmental damage, ruined neighborhoods and rogue Mad Max outlaw growers. The amended ordinance lets anyone complain and provides for hardship cases to ensure patients can grow what they need. Everyone suffers alike-pot lovers, pot haters, patients, or the ambivalent-when crime skyrockets, when land gets ruined, when wildlife gets poisoned, when the air stinks, when ugly fences go up, when our county becomes a Green Ghetto. The ordinance limits grows to 150 square feet instead of 99 plants, which is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. The referendum stinks. Please see (http://www.bsane.org/www.bsane.org for more info. Chris Sommers Bangor - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom