Ventura County Law Enforcement Proposes Unreasonable Medical Marijuana Guidelines To Supervisors As patients who use medical marijuana we are shocked to find out that two months ago Ventura County law enforcement agencies adopted unreasonable and unworkable guidelines regarding "how much pot a person can legally possess." Those guidelines were presented to the Ventura County Board of Supervisors meeting on Tuesday. After nearly two years of studying "several Northern California counties," the panel of city and county law enforcement leaders quietly mimicked the cynical policies of Butte and El Dorado Counties, which allow only 6 plants per patient or one pound of dried cannabis per patient. [continues 922 words]
Re: the feds' crackdown on medical marijuana: We tended the marijuana garden run by patients under the provisions of Proposition 215, located at our Ventura County ranch, which was uprooted by the Drug Enforcement Agency. We are sad to announce that we must suspend cultivation activities until such time as the legal issues surrounding the Sept. 28 and Oct. 25 raids on the Los Angeles Cannabis Resource Cooperative can be resolved. After five years of safe and reliable access to medical marijuana, closure of the LACRC Co-Op Dispensary is, as Los Angeles Sheriff's Capt. Lynda Castro said, "a difficult pill to swallow." [continues 581 words]
