Pubdate: Thu, 29 May 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: Stephen Raley LOBBYING FOR CANDIDATES The good ol' boys and girls on the Tehama County Board of Supervisors (Steve Chamblin, Burt Bundy, Bob Williams, Dennis Garton, and Sandy Bruce) have always been stupid and backward in this redneck, Podunk backwater of the Central Valley, but have finally figured out that they can actually circumvent and pervert state law regarding medical marijuana to turn it against those it was intended to help. In their hysterical, egomaniacal, immoral ignorance and arrogance, they are now empowered to deny their constituents' medical needs with near impunity, and are gleefully exercising their newfound means of repression and discrimination. After already unethically prohibiting medical-marijuana dispensaries in Tehama County several years ago, in August of 2013 they unanimously rammed through a draconian new county ordinance perversely designed in a desperate attempt to abate and hopefully completely eradicate growing physician-prescribed pot by zoning it out of existence with ridiculous restrictions. To make matters worse, they keep changing the ordinance and adding even harsher "urgency" measures and fees, so that it is extremely difficult for medical-marijuana patients to stay up-to-date about the regulations and plan their grows and lives effectively. Responsible, intelligent, informed citizens are mobilizing to vote the bums out of office on June 3. Stephen Raley Corning - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom