Marijuana becoming legal
In the past year Lake County has lost 0.7 percent of its population. We all know times are tough in Lake County, we all know the people in Lake County and the country itself are not in a financial position to solve all the problems. But when marijuana is legal in California there will be a merry-go-round that will be going faster than we can hop on or jump off.
The county has been researching this along with other counties. I feel the time is now for our county to consider opening up a dispensary in Upper Lake, Lakeport, Kelseyville area, Lower Lake area, and Middletown. We had some very good legitimate dispensaries in Lake County in the past, some were a little on the bandit side. But on the other hand if you have legal marijuana dispensary you cannot sell on the street only sold in dispensaries I believe at this time Lake County should open dispensaries and charge sales tax like any other business. Because if we don’t the state will take that over and collect the tax and, as usual, Lake County will be left in the cold.
So for Lake County to have a personal hand on the whole marijuana industry they should have an instant handle on all the dispensaries. At the same time they issue a permit to open they should issue a tax payment permit for all sales to be taxed just like all other businesses in Lake County. Because being first is like the early bird getting all the worms.
Just thinking out loud; you need to think about it because that will be coming around the corner.
Ron Rose, Lakeport
Just right
I’d like to thank and compliment Jim Hall for his recent “Growing old” letter. I feel he is on the right track for suggesting a pleasant set of “older years” stems largely from a person’s self confidence and positive attitude. Not only does it take more muscles to frown than to smile, but an unhappy, angry person is burden to all.
As I suspect did Mr. Hall, Mr. Sparks, and many others in our county, I had a marvelous growing up. My family keeps ragging me to write down the tales I tell of times much longer past than I consider them. I am absolutely sure I would pay to relive them. Mr. Hall’s letter turned out to be the last straw! — I have finally started writing down my memories. If they have not already done so, I would like to suggest other geezers like me to do so. Might even be interesting to those younger people who have no idea of the lives their grandparents enjoyed—and without a “chip”!
I know I would enjoy comparing notes with the few “old guys” there are left!
Guff Worth, Lakeport
Closer to fine
Art, especially the art of painting; the art, that is, of creating imagery, is an interlude that catches and holds thought at a moment during its earliest becoming; for thought is prepared first by a mild emotion, then is translated to imagery, and is finally made communicable in words. The artist, therefore, gets closer to the mind with paint than the scribe with words. No writer has ever written a full translation of a landscape or has thoroughly inscribed a dream he awoke from in the night; while many an artist has, if not very close, yet something like, traced out these things with paint.
The Earthly mind runs to analogy, which favors the visual arts. Even the ant, fearing fire, panics at the smell of smoke; and from the very dawn of birth the burnt child fears the fire, but loves the smiling face — who taught him likes might follow likes? And the artist, like the newly born, employs a universal language, fresh from thought.
Dean Sparks, Lucerne
