Pot and law enforcement

i said that about a month ago. you can only police the people, as much as they want to be policed. Daaaaaa

measure b is bad for the county

F#$% a nosy neighbor!
F#$% measure B!
Get over it...

Here's an Ideah
M.Y.O.B!! for a frickin change!!!

Awe... poor Filthy Pot Grower... you see the end coming and the best you could come up with is a bunch of language which only shows your inability to communicate at an adult level.

I hope business is down, I hope you're stuck with hundreds of pounds of pot that you can't sell. I hope your Hummer or Beamer gets repo'd because you can't make the payments.

I hope you turn a new leaf and go back to school so you can learn to spell.

So long as dope is being grown and smoked so my kids can see it and smell it, I will never mind my own business. So get used to it.

Your end is near. Measure B will pass.

Quite frankly, the sherrif is mandated by law to prosecute any grows over 25 plants. He really should do this. The courts have not given back pot in many instances. Ordinances have been passed to outlaw it in city limits. The problems with the growers are not caused by the people who conform to the law as written, they are caused by the scoff-laws who will not obey this law either. Please leave the small tax paying legal growers alone. Please prosecute the people who are not in compliance. We don't need a new law, we need to enforce the ones that we have.

By the way, if you think that the economy is bad now, think about what will happen if you really succeed in outlawing pot here. If they don't pay taxes,(and many do) they shop in your stores, eat in your restaurants, buy your clothes, shoes, and cars, contribute to your food banks and charities and arts and community movements.

The intent for B is good, but it is poorly written, and will not serve the needs of the legitimate medical patients. Our needs are not being well served by B. Please protect our medical rights, and prosecute the existing laws to the letter, but leave our medicine alone.

Ron Orenstein

Your attempt to defend Sheriff Tom Allman and the Sheriffs Office are falling on wise ears. We know better, and Sheriff Allman should have known better. The Sheriff's office has been receiving numerous complaints about pot growers for the last two decades at least.

I know people who have called in a complaint for several thousand plants just to be told by the Sheriffs office "They probably have a Med-Pot slip". There was no turn out or investigation.

All along there have been laws on our books saying that selling pot is illegal but the Sheriffs office has allowed numerous dispensaries to make literally millions per year marketing pot with no record of who they sold to and no proof their buyers even had a Med Pot slip.

You say the Sheriff is simply doing what the people want him to do. Tens of thousands of people who have moved to Mendocino just to grow pot have moved here because the Sheriffs office wasn't doing it's job against the will of the non pot-growing voters.

Sheriff Tom Allman's neglect of his duties toward public safety have been no less than criminal and he will have to answer for that.

medical patient wrote:

Quite frankly, the sherrif is mandated by law to prosecute any grows over 25 plants. He really should do this. The courts have not given back pot in many instances. Ordinances have been passed to outlaw it in city limits. The problems with the growers are not caused by the people who conform to the law as written, they are caused by the scoff-laws who will not obey this law either. Please leave the small tax paying legal growers alone. Please prosecute the people who are not in compliance. We don't need a new law, we need to enforce the ones that we have.
By the way, if you think that the economy is bad now, think about what will happen if you really succeed in outlawing pot here. If they don't pay taxes,(and many do) they shop in your stores, eat in your restaurants, buy your clothes, shoes, and cars, contribute to your food banks and charities and arts and community movements.
The intent for B is good, but it is poorly written, and will not serve the needs of the legitimate medical patients. Our needs are not being well served by B. Please protect our medical rights, and prosecute the existing laws to the letter, but leave our medicine alone.

How does State law not provide for medical rights?

To "medical patient"
Pay taxes? Contribute to food banks? Charities? You have got to be kidding me.
You make it sound like all of these lazy, inept dope growers actually contribute to society or have a sense of social responsibility.
Give me a break.
The only people that grow dope, are those that are too lazy and stupid to figure out a way to make a good living legally. Period. They have no integrity and care about nobody but themselves.
YES ON B!

medical patient wrote:

Quite frankly, the sherrif is mandated by law to prosecute any grows over 25 plants. He really should do this. The courts have not given back pot in many instances. Ordinances have been passed to outlaw it in city limits. The problems with the growers are not caused by the people who conform to the law as written, they are caused by the scoff-laws who will not obey this law either. Please leave the small tax paying legal growers alone. Please prosecute the people who are not in compliance. We don't need a new law, we need to enforce the ones that we have.
By the way, if you think that the economy is bad now, think about what will happen if you really succeed in outlawing pot here. If they don't pay taxes,(and many do) they shop in your stores, eat in your restaurants, buy your clothes, shoes, and cars, contribute to your food banks and charities and arts and community movements.
The intent for B is good, but it is poorly written, and will not serve the needs of the legitimate medical patients. Our needs are not being well served by B. Please protect our medical rights, and prosecute the existing laws to the letter, but leave our medicine alone.

You can't even write one post that separates the real issue... MONEY vs medicine.

You people make me ill!!!!!
You scream 'I need my medicine, my tinctures, my edibles!' then in the very same breath you say 'your going to break the economy in our fine Mendo grow county if Measure B passes - what are we going to do????'

Make up your flippin' minds.
Are you growing 'compassionate' medicine?
or... making an insane living off of drug dealing?

You can't be doing both...or else - yup you'll end up on the wrong side of the law sooner.... or later here in Mendocino County.

Measure B DOES NOT effect the truly needy 'patients'- you can grow as much as you doctor recommends - so have at it & quit your whining.

If you're not making enough money...get a second job, cut back on your spending, sell your big-a-ss truck...and figure out how to live within your means.

YES on MEASURE B
Stop this insanity.

If you take a look at some photos of those who were hit hardest by the depression in the 30's you will see extremely poor families living in the streets, starving and wearing rags. These people have my respect because even during the hardest of times they had the ethics and morals not to break the laws or harm others.

Today however, we are not in hard times at all. These pot growers have plenty of other job opportunities they can take advantage of. These growers heartlessly choose to say "to hell with the law and the kids and public safety, I'm gonna sell drugs!"

Most of these pot growers were motivated to come here by their own greed and invited by the inaction of local law enforcement and I think it's time they go home.

why is it ok that people go to there fancy parties and get drunk on the great wine here and drive home,but its a crime to grow your own smoke and not hurt anyone?

Fed up wrote:

To "medical patient"
Pay taxes? Contribute to food banks? Charities? You have got to be kidding me.
You make it sound like all of these lazy, inept dope growers actually contribute to society or have a sense of social responsibility.
Give me a break.
The only people that grow dope, are those that are too lazy and stupid to figure out a way to make a good living legally. Period. They have no integrity and care about nobody but themselves.
YES ON B!

Every time a grower spends money here he/she pays taxes and puts revenue back into our local economy. Like it or not it's the single biggest source of income for the county, both for the local stores and for the county itself.

Deny it all you want, but these people are part of our community and they do contribute a great deal to it. Can you imagine how many places would shut down and how much the county would lose in revenue if you could just flip a switch and make all the pot in this county vanish?

herb wrote:

why is it ok that people go to there fancy parties and get drunk on the great wine here and drive home,but its a crime to grow your own smoke and not hurt anyone?

are you sure you want to open that can of worms?

regardless of the issue of DUI (which i agree, is a terrible problem that should definately be enforced to the strongest degree) the argument being discussed is people growing far more than their "own smoke"

herb wrote:

why is it ok that people go to there fancy parties and get drunk on the great wine here and drive home,but its a crime to grow your own smoke and not hurt anyone?

I think you make a great point. Let’s repeal the 21st Amendment!

Not one marijuana death but hundreds of DUI, meth, and cigarettes deaths every year.

Pine Mt Rider wrote:

Not one marijuana death but hundreds of DUI, meth, and cigarettes deaths every year.

get meth out not pot ya ya

bad bizz wrote:

<quoted text> get meth out not pot ya ya

I agree. All these people complaining about how measure G is ruining our county, but "god" forbid they start an anti-meth campaign....

measure b= more meth for the county thanks measure b people take the county back good for you

Legalize the herb for adult use and stop you incessant psychodramas about pot

when it is legal for adults, it will be decriminalized, create a tax base, and be regulated like alcohol and tobacco for appropriate age use

and you all can get on with your lives, if in fact you have one besides your incessant obsession over a plant

I heard that the DEA busted a guy in Willits with 8 plants. The local police showed up, made a stink about why DEA was there. DEA told the cops that they (dea) knew one of the local officers' brother was a grower and would be raided in a few days. Cop tells brother to shout down. DEA shows up, no grow.

Can someone tell me what is up?