HuMMAP and HGA Make Presentations to Planning Commission Tonight

Outdoor pot and indoor have very different growing requirements so in order to address each carefully Humboldt Co. Supervisors have  broken the ordinance into several parts. Tonight, the meeting is set to address the Phase 1 of the medical marijuana ordinance (here and scroll down).  Mikal Jakubal of HuMMAP will be there as will someone from HGA.  After much discussion between the two groups, Jakubal and HGA will suggest similar positions that they hope the Board will approve.

The issues are discussed fairly thoroughly on the HuMMAP site. Two paragraphs are especially important.

There has been incredible and unprecedented cooperation between the grower community and Planning, County Counsel, the D.A., and the Sheriff in this ordinance process. It has been a long time coming, but we’re in a new era of cooperation in the marijuana industry in Humboldt County. We believe that both the grower community and the County officials have to take each other as having the best intentions in moving forward cooperatively to make this work for everyone. The past should be left behind in favor of positive attitudes and finding solutions….

Both HuMMAP and the HGA are hopeful that Phase II can proceed quickly and be in place in time for the 2012 cultivation season. Humboldt would then be one of only two counties in California (Mendocino being the other) to have fully-permitted medical cannabis, giving Humboldt growers who wish to be in the fully-legal marijuana market an advantage with dispensaries and other cannabis businesses in the state who need to only handle such fully-permitted medicine. It will also make us a leader in the industry and put permitted growers in a prime position to take advantage of legalized social/recreational marijuana use if one of the ballot initiatives passes in the November, 2012 statewide election.

UPDATE 8/19: The commission punted–asked for more comprehensive report.


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kvryce
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12 years ago

How can this be “fully-legal”? Have the Feds changed things so that they will not prosecute?

kvryce
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12 years ago

How can this be “fully-legal”? Have the Feds changed things so that they will not prosecute?

Staff
Member
12 years ago

I believe that while, of course, medical marijuana is not fully legal with the federal government, they have shown recently a tendency to pass over Mencocino’s zip tie program. Does that mean they wouldn’t bust someone who is permitted if they happened to land in their laps? Probably not. So FULLY legal, no. Effectively legal, yes.

Staff
Member
12 years ago

I believe that while, of course, medical marijuana is not fully legal with the federal government, they have shown recently a tendency to pass over Mencocino’s zip tie program. Does that mean they wouldn’t bust someone who is permitted if they happened to land in their laps? Probably not. So FULLY legal, no. Effectively legal, yes.

kvryce
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12 years ago

I was hoping that there was new legislation that I had not heard of to help a friend.

kvryce
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12 years ago

I was hoping that there was new legislation that I had not heard of to help a friend.

MackPrairie
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MackPrairie
12 years ago

I thought it was the planning commission tonight, not the supervisors…????

Staff
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12 years ago
Reply to  MackPrairie

You are so right. I’m asleep at the wheel.

MackPrairie
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MackPrairie
12 years ago

I thought it was the planning commission tonight, not the supervisors…????

Staff
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12 years ago
Reply to  MackPrairie

You are so right. I’m asleep at the wheel.

Matthew Meyer
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Matthew Meyer
12 years ago

“Fully legal” can also mean just within the state. As it is, even the most legit operations have facets, such as transporting and exchanging cannabis for money, that are of questionable legitimacy under state law (and that depends a lot on your county and whether your DA / Sheriff is a Reefer Madness crusader or not).

Matthew Meyer
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Matthew Meyer
12 years ago

“Fully legal” can also mean just within the state. As it is, even the most legit operations have facets, such as transporting and exchanging cannabis for money, that are of questionable legitimacy under state law (and that depends a lot on your county and whether your DA / Sheriff is a Reefer Madness crusader or not).

kvryce
Guest
12 years ago

My friend was fully legal under the state, but that didn’t stop the feds from breaking down his door, guns drawn…and now he’s facing prison, unless a miracle intervenes, which we are all hoping for.

kvryce
Guest
12 years ago

My friend was fully legal under the state, but that didn’t stop the feds from breaking down his door, guns drawn…and now he’s facing prison, unless a miracle intervenes, which we are all hoping for.

kvryce
Guest
12 years ago

Got any miracles handy?

kvryce
Guest
12 years ago

Got any miracles handy?

Staff
Member
12 years ago

I wish I did for all the folk who are trying to be safe and legal and still get caught up at the federal level.

Staff
Member
12 years ago

I wish I did for all the folk who are trying to be safe and legal and still get caught up at the federal level.

kvryce
Guest
12 years ago

Thanks for your good wishes. I wish it for all of them, too.

kvryce
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12 years ago

Thanks for your good wishes. I wish it for all of them, too.