Pubdate: Sat, 27 Aug 2016
Source: Chico Enterprise-Record (CA)
Copyright: 2016 Chico Enterprise-Record
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Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/861
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Author: Jeanne Cecchi

DON'T LET POT FARMERS TAKE OVER BUTTE COUNTY

If you do anything on Election Day, get out there and get all of your 
friends and neighbors to vote no on Measure L.

Think of the reasons you decided to move to, or stay in, Butte County 
- - rapidly becoming one of the few nice California communities left 
with small family farms, nice neighborhoods and decent people. Pot 
farmers have already brought crime and nuisance to our communities. 
Now with Measure L they threaten to up the ante even further: huge 
indoor grows up to one-half acre; outdoor grows occupying up to 
one-quarter of a parcel; dispensaries every 1,000 feet; and damage to 
the environment including chemicals that poison our land and waters 
and kill pets and wildlife.

They don't see nice communities, they see big money. Other counties 
have already fallen prey to the false promise of jobs, permit fees 
and economic revival, without regard to the hidden social costs and 
damage to the community. Measure L masquerades as needed regulation 
of the pot trade, but it is actually vast expansion.

We already have Measures A, G and H, but Measure L would repeal them. 
Measure L backers, whoever they are, want our county. We can't hand 
it over to them and live to regret it, as have other communities.

- - Jeanne Cecchi, Oroville
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MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom