Pubdate: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 Source: Chico Enterprise-Record (CA) Copyright: 2014 Chico Enterprise-Record Contact: http://www.chicoer.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/861 Author: Bonnie Masarik RESEARCH BEFORE SIGNING POT PETITION As usual the county supervisors meeting Feb. 11 was filled with the usual, rude, rowdy bunch of pot growers, users, buyers, sellers, traders, all unwilling to hear the other side. We have to live next door to their stench. We have said all along, we are fine and it's OK if individuals are growing a few plants, for their own personal use. It's the large "legal" grows that are causing all the problems. The organizations for large grows are out in force again with their petition, which in itself is very confusing. They want to repeal and replace last year's ordinance, of December 2013, which actually allows 99, 66, 48, plants. Go figure. The large growers get their own way and still they are not happy. If you are not sure what the initiative and petition is all about, be safe and don't sign it. The paid pot petitioners are targeting Chico State University students. They think everyone who goes there are a bunch of potheads. I think otherwise. Students have worked hard to get where they are today, and do work hard with goals of a better future for themselves. So think twice when you are approached by these paid petitioners. Think of the families' lives that are being ruined in the foothills, let alone our environment. - - Bonnie Masarik, Yankee Hill - --- MAP posted-by: Matt