Worried about competing pot measures
As I mentioned in an earlier blog, both Jimmy Rickel and apparently Mike Delbar are planning to circulate petitions for ballot measures essentially rolling back Measure G in this county.
I’m a little worried that if we get two competing petitions going around and then two competing measures on the ballot, neither will win and we’ll be right back where we started, which is out-of-control marijuana growing by people who have no fear of being arrested or prosecuted.
Measure G, by the way, is the county ordinance that basically makes it OK for anyone - not just medical marijuana patients - to grow 25 or fewer pot plants without getting hassled by local law enforcement. This measure is in large part why the county supervisors say they have no choice but to make 25 plants the standard for so-called medical marijuana caregivers growing pot in this county and why pot growing has reached epic proportions in the county. I am all for repealing it but I’d like to see one coherent measure we can all get behind. And by “we” and mean myself and the many, many people who are letting me know that they also are outraged by and fed up with the marijuana industry in our county.