Medical Marijuana Ordinance
I had the time on Wednesday to go to our Planning Commission meeting regarding the new medical marijuana ordinance. I did not get the opportunity to meet our new Planning Director or Community Development Director. But I did get a chance to listen to the Planning Director talk and address the Planning Commission. He is very knowledgeable about rules and regulations in many states and he has common sense and an open mind. This was an excellent presentation to the Planning Commission. Along with our sheriff, who explained everything in detail, what he is planning and wants to do and what he is doing. It was very interesting and informative. Our Planning Commission members exchanged ideas and thoughts which I felt were excellent ideas.
Many people talked regarding problems that could arise and problems that have been taken care of in the past and I listened to all. We have a new lady representing the Lake County Farm Bureau. She is excellent for her position, but she is lacking knowledge regarding Lake County. First thing she said that surprised me was that marijuana should not be allowed on agricultural land because marijuana growers use potting soil and, in her thinking it is kind a like damaging the soil. This really surprised me because Scotts Valley has the best soil mainly because of the flooding of Scotts Creek over the years; the soil in Big Valley is black heavy adobe and the soil in many other places that are zoned agricultural have a lot of clay and red dirt that does not compare with the potting soil that pot growers use in any way, shape or form. I think she gave pot growers a bad rap along with suggestions made about using large parcels for pot.
I believe that they should allow pot farming on ag land because we have much use for agricultural in the county such as pears, walnuts, grapes cattle, horses or hay. Everybody should be open minded and work together and not cause a war before a decision is made on what or where. I believe the acreage should be 5-20 acres or more. She seemed not to know that the county has been ag oriented for many many many years, allowing a minimum amount of dust for farming, allow noise from spray machines, wind machines, tractors equipment that operate morning noon or night. It has been that way for years and years.
Most pot growers have organic thinking. In the olden days I worked for the hippies up and down 101 and I hauled soil for them I drug many many travel trailers back in the woods. In later years when they made money and had money I drug many modular homes back in the woods. I put in septic systems and I developed many springs and those hippies were honest, fair and paid on the spot. So I do not feel that it is fair to bad mouth pot growers.
In today’s record bee the ad commissioner in Yolo County was complaining about illegal pesticides in marijuana growers. If they are illegal and deadly, how are the growers getting if it not approved by State or Federal regulations? All of this wild talk makes very little sense to me. I believe that our county planning commission, our planning director and our sheriff right now is doing very smart thinking and common sense attitude and our county should be very very thankful for that.
Because if we don’t have smart thinking right now and if and when it becomes legal it will be open season on what ever how ever. And I want to thank you for all the effort in this whole matter.
Ron Rose, Lakeport
Here you go
Per FBI stats homicide rates per 1,000 people . Utah 2.3 ,Arizona 4.7, Kentucky3.6 , calif 4.4 . This information shows that there is no correlation between having an abundance of gun laws and safety.
For Mr. Bracken, the right to complain when you feel the government is wrong is in the Constitution, if you wish to be a lemming and nitpick other people’s opinion then maybe you should show how these laws accomplish anything other than some idiot saying,well I feel better, and please be specific.
Butch Muphey, Lakeport
What difference does it make?
The RNC after botching the 2008 and 2012 elections, did all they could do to take the candidate the people chose out of this primary election. They failed and the primary vote winner is now the candidate. The DNC has been in Hillary’s camp all along and basically threw the Bern under the bus. Wasserman Schultz, the DNC head booted out for picking a primary winner prior to getting the people’s vote is supposedly about to openly join the Hillary campaign.
After being a Democrat and then a Republican, my current view is it doesn’t make any difference. These two political machines are structured to give the voters the perception they have a choice. In reality there is no difference between the parties, the result regardless of party is a well-oiled machine that includes visible and hidden lobbyists, international banking connections, behind the scenes corporate manipulators and hundreds of career senators and representatives that no longer represent the people but have turned our government into a lucrative financial institution for themselves. Not for us or the country. These two parties probably draw straws to see who gets to elect a president every 8 years or so. Neither party cares which party wins as long as the candidate is part of the “screw the people” club.
Based on this reality of our “two-party system” one can understand why both parties and all career politicians have been so upset and literally panicked over Trump getting the nomination. A true outsider that is not owned by either party, they know their empire is about to crumble, about to be slowly strangled. Trump best hire excellent security as he is a marked man.
A real significant move in the effort to break up this government scam is to impose strict term limits on our senators and representatives. That is next to impossible with insiders running the government, but an independent candidate could make this holy-grail of reform also happen.
We need to elect Donald Trump and watch the fun while he really does clean up DC for both Democrats and Republicans.
Ed Calkins, Kelseyville
