Re "Medi-pot measure moves on" (Downstroke, July 14): Fool us once, fool us twice, but please don't be fooled again. We need to pay attention to the details. The rights of patients to have access to medical marijuana are protected. Measure L is not about patients getting medical marijuana. Measure L pretends to be about the need for regulation and taxation of the pot trade, but it is really about the vast explosion of the use of Butte County as a center for huge indoor and outdoor grows, dispensaries every 1,000 feet, honey oil labs and the destruction of our environment, water, wildlife and pets-a virtual domination of our economy and landscape. [continues 58 words]
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. [continues 103 words]
You can protect patients' rights to access and growing of medical marijuana and also protect your environment, property values and way of life in this beautiful foothill community. Measure A is OK-it protects the rights of patients. Your supervisors support it unanimously. It will stop abuses and protect residents from violence. Measure B is bad-it allows large commercial growers to profit at the expense of your community by allowing grow areas clearly meant for profit in other states. It repeals public-safety protections against grower abuse; allows grows near schools, parks and neighborhoods; and eliminates local controls. It already has led to polluting the environment, water theft, threats and violence. [continues 87 words]
