Trinity County Retains Attorneys to Fight Back Against Lawsuit Challenging Cannabis Program
Press release from the Trinity County Board of Supervisors:
On January 3, 2019, the Trinity Action Association filed a lawsuit challenging the County’s Commercial Cultivation Program on the grounds that it is non-compliant with the California Environmental Quality Act (“CEQA”). The County strongly disagrees and is prepared to defend its program.
As its first step in defending its Commercial Cannabis Program, the County has hired Cole & Huber, LLP, a law firm that specializes in CEQA and is very familiar with Cannabis in Trinity County. Derek Cole, the County’s lead attorney with Cole and Huber, LLP, has prepared responsive documents and met with the Board of Supervisors regarding their strategy.
“The Board of Supervisors would like to assure the license holders and applicants of the Commercial Cannabis Program that the County is prepared to stand behind them and the Program,” said Board Chair, Judy Morris. “While we cannot publically discuss legal strategy, we are putting together a legal team and will take all necessary steps to keep the program functioning.”
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Independently, the County, along with its contracted environmental consultant Ascent Environmental LLC, will continue to perform a full environmental study on the Trinity County Commercial Cannabis Program. Work began on this August 27, 2018, and we anticipate the Environmental Impact Report (EIR) to be completed by the end of this upcoming June, 2019.
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so they are going to court over some matter (not disclosed)(you would have to ask the attacking party or the one that is suing, what they want) and they are not going to say anything about it but they want you to know business as usual from the county government.
to be announced, stay tuned
🕯Wait until June. Thank you Kym for that info.
There is NO INFO😀😀😀
Why does the county get to use tax payer funds to fight tax payers using their own funds?
I hope a fair and equal way can be implemented in all these kinds of the peeps v the gubbs.
🕯The county gets paid by the taxpayer. You do know what country you live in right?Right?
County uses funds collected from tax payers to fight the tax payers who want to keep their money and their rights. Tax payers are paying courts, lawyers, legislators, counties, feds, organizations, corporations, to rip off the tax payers.
Guest is right, Calif is a wannabe Venezuela.
~we can thank the infamous, unlawful, didn’t pass with 2/3 vote, million-a-month THEFT of Measure Z’s double-header Ballot; Safety AND “Other (E)ssential Necessities”, for all the toys and extra corporate governmental service employees.
Did you know: From 2006 to 2017, the IRS spent $15.5 Million to purchase military style guns, equipment, and ammo Why is the agency tasked with collecting our taxes militarizing itself?
How many billions of rounds of ammo have been purchased by various government agencies in the last few years? Like noaa, the irs, small business administration, epa, the Department of Education, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, even the postal service. Posse comitatus says the military cant generally be used to quell domestic resistance to the government, but a widely distributed multi agency federal police force can.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2017/10/20/why-are-federal-bureaucrats-buying-guns-and-ammo-158-million-spent-by-non-military-agencies/#19e25e4b64a1
Well, that’s just fucking scary.
They’re not. They’re probably laundering the guns for a different branch of Gov who is probably importing them to Venezuela to topple the duly elected president and get us into another interventionist and covert war as we speak. Write to Elliot Abrams and ask him if that might be the case..
While your at it ask him if he plans on importing cocaine again to “help this country” finance the war.
lol
Hope somebody sues humboldt county soon,these agregous fines have to be met with resistance or there next bold robbery of the people will be outright slavery! !! If they get away with what there doing we no longer live in a free country! !!!! This is only the beginning! !!! There testing to see how much they can take
“A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.” Betrand de Jouvenel.
“Our real disease – which is Democracy.” Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804).
Democracy is not a disease
Yes it is
~democracy is not mentioned in the Declaration of independence, the Constitution, or the Bill of Rights.
We live in a constitutional republic. Democracy in our case is a verb, the enactment and administration of said republic. The process. Hamilton was our government’s first neocon leader, he was quite the dickhead in many instances. Thankfully we have the bill of rights, we’re gonna need it right about now, and into the future.
We don’t live in a democracy!
~oligarchy.
Uhh Republic? As was stated in the Constitution.
Constitutional Republic on paper and Oligarchy in practice. Been that way since the beginning. It’s why Hamilton lost a duel due to being a traitor to the Cause.
It’s more of a plutocracy than an oligarchy. At least the de jure, leadership in this country is plutocratic, the de facto kings are the great slave-lords, the billionaires. But, in spirit, I agree.
The Trinity Action Association is a Trinity County 501c3 Non Profit group. Good question shak!
http://trinityvoice.org/ Anti-Cannabis group who changes tactics every few years or as it says on the site
“The focus of this website has been changed accordingly.”
~goodness, Trinity is minus a Clerk for the BOS, and a County Administration Officer. The Clerk is the one who is supposed to sign the, umm, not Minutes (of course not), the “Action Summary”. Not that the County of Humboldt’s BOS’ clerk signs. The CAO makes big buck$. Unelected CAO, Amy Nilsen, signs about everything.
Hell yeah…..
Who in their right mind would want dope growers in their community?
Whatever it takes to make dope growers as miserable as possible, so they go someplace else is crucial to taking back our communities.
#notinmybackyard
Everyone who has any type of a real life hates dope growers.
Lol, you meant as miserable as you?!
Y knot! You must be a tweeker because you keep blaming the cannabis industry. When it’s all the tweeker heroine addicts that squat on other people land, paying for nothing but their drugs. Bring more tweeker heroine addict thief’s to they can pillage neighboring homes. All of the problems in humboldt have everything to do with the tweeking heroine epidemic. They are giving cannabis a bad name. The public that is not involved in the industry just sits back and lets reefer madness take the blame, because no one wants to admit that your son ,daughter , mother , father, gamdmother, grandfather , ants , uncles , or any loved one has a physical addiction to heroine, and to wake up from that daze they tweek or just go for gusto and have a them both and really confuse the body and mind. Point that finger, three pointing back right at you.
Great a fu@&in ratt organization! !! Just what the struggling people need.these high horse scumbags why is it any of there Dam business what people do on there own land.this state has become so twisted away from what our country stands for.California has become a dictatorship! !!!!! It’s time for a new regime in sacramento !!!! It’s time for a people’s party. And for the trinity action association may you burn !!!!!! Still hope someone sues humboldt and takes all there stolen extorted millions from there greedy,lying,rip off asses!!!!#
So……… Trinity County issued permits and now they don’t want to have a cannabis program? I don’t understand whats going on
Trinity County issued cannabis permits. A little over 400 so far.
An organization of people is suing the Trinity Gov because the group is saying that Trinity County hasn’t been following environmental guidelines for issuing permits. In particular, the group is saying that Trinity County skipped the CEQA requirements for over 200 of the 400 permits issued.
Now that’s a good and cogent answer that’s relevant and on point here!
Who are the members of the TAA? It’s a secret.
What is their agenda? Prohibition.
Trinity County and the citizens have been sued by the TAA. For what?
The Trinity County ordinance specifically exempted itself from CEQA. How?
The plant limit per permit is 8 mature plants. Any more is a land use violation. The TAA is incorrectly claiming that permittees are exceeding the ordinance.
The TAA is attempting to conjure-up illegal law enforcement, based on rainbows and unicorns.
I think what happened was in the rush to be one of the 500 people who could get permits, many properties were overlooked. The same thing happened in Humboldt. Remember the initial 100 or so permits that got issued to huge farms in honeydew area? Many of these farms got much easier permitting process than the rest of the county. I think the good ol boy crew makes sure there people get all the permits first and then will allow the rest of the citizens to apply and go through a much harder process.
Ding ding ding. Rex Bhone the bought and paid for truck driving grower by a two decades long criminal organization from the East Coast is the Boss Hog of our County. He’s always in the Planning Dept meddling and was in staff meetings directing who got permits when there was no director for the first 6 months. He was just in there last week meeting with Ford over projects. It’s bad enough he doesn’t refuse himself from making unethical unlawful conflict of interest decisions. Technically under law due to him and Sunberg not recusing themselves the ordinances could be brought up for nullification. Would be great if there was actually justice in this County with some indictments – but it’s an Oligarchy and they all got each other’s back!
That there rex bone is a lefty all the way to the bank he’s like lenins offsprings he’s so commie his eyes are red drivin round in his fancy bourgeois cars and whatnot flingin pounds of dope weeds out the windows to the littl chilrens on the street sayin let them eats dopeweed for all I cares. Heh yeah he’s a real socialist that ol rex don you agrees?
Rod Gass:
1) There are “over 200” members in the TAA, states Paul Hauser in a recent trinity journal article.
2) Their mission is not prohibition, but rather to encourage enforcement on existing laws.
3)It seems someone is trying to make sure that the environment isn’t destroyed by the permit process. It could be argued Trinity County citizens are defending Trinity County resources.
1. Agreed
2.Existing laws are prohibitive today and have been more than 80 years.
3. Someone is foolishly attempting to claim the permitting process is harmful to the environment. That is untrue. Ignoring the 8 plant limit is in violation of the Trinity County Government guidelines. This exact discussion is history, the debate was had prior to the permit regulations being approved.
Read the Grand Jury report from last year about Trinity County Supervisors. It will give you insight into this group. And Yes! There are some people from Trinity County trying to defend the Natural resources. It is criminal what is happening in much of the county, as it is in most of the Emerald Triangle. The wild animals are extremely imperiled, as are the rivers, the forests in general. If you saw some of these “permitted grows” on private land, you might change your mind about allowing folks do do what they want with their land. They have transformed beautiful mountain properties into garbage pits(thanks a lot to the realtors) It is quite a mystery (NOT!) why some of the most egregious grows actually got permitted, while small local farmers are being forced out by the permitting process. I support the TAA and their effort to make Trinity County Supervisors accountable for their enduring dirty deeds. And, the TAA is not some secret society. You could actually find out who belongs if you wanted to know.
Good comment.
Have you studied any of the positive reports concerning small-scale family cultivations where the kind, wholesome, people, homesteading off the grid have actually created many, many livable sites where they could exercise, through great labor and expense, a genuine paradise in Trinity County?
The ability to survive on one’s own land has been blessed by the marijuana cash market. The ability to earn One’s daily means is paramount.
I appears you are ensconced fully in the late 1800’s somewhere, but hey! It’s actually 2019!
You might be surviving on your own land for a minute, but reality is about to run over you!
Guess what? Not everyone, on this planet, is supposed to make their living by producing and selling drugs!
Best of luck in your future endeavors, there on “broke-ass mountain”…
Just the huge multi national firms, right.? It’s one thing to be critical of a plant, but to overlook the poisons produced on a global scale and forced into every orifice of the planet, you’d be surprised to realize how full of toxins and heavy metals you’ve absorbed in the process.
There are worse things to worry about than. …a plant.
Anything you got on yer radar?
Hey, grow yerself a plant or two, I don’t care!
Survive on your own land by being a pot farmer? That stuff is over!
https://qz.com/1546498/oregon-has-a-massive-oversupply-of-legal-cannabis/
And, marijuana farmers always point at something that they say is worse. That stuff right there, is boring. And not too intelligent either.
If TAA really cared about the environment they’d go after logging. Oh wait they are loggers and they don’t like growers. This isn’t about protecting the environment, its about people with a false perception that all grows are ‘garbage pits’ haha. Also they think marijuana is very bad and dangerous!
I’m telling you, I’m surrounded by big grows and SPI land.
The SPI land has less trash, less traffic, less impact on the environment than any of the grows.
The logging/grower parallel doesn’t really hold much water.
And SPI does not give a rats ass about you as a neighbour. Want to run a power line? Sue us. Want to try and lease 10sf for a small wireless tower to try and bring internet to your home surrounded by SPI….F off. On the other hand SPI just clear cuts, poisons everything else and takes off for 25 years…..On one hand Id like real neighbours and on the other hand……and dont even get me started on the USFS………….
On the other hand, SPI let’s people walk through millions of acres for hunting or recreation.
I wouldn’t let you or anyone else walk through my property, I assume most grows are the same.
When you walk through their property, it’s clean. Cleaner than any inhabited parcel.
Some dozers and logging on 40 acre units every 25 years is way less impact than any daily living or agricultural endeavor on the same 40 acres.
It’s truly wonderful, that Trinity County, the county that can’t afford ANYTHING, is wasting energy and funds on this! Congratulations, pot farmers, you have succeeded in creating problems while producing a commodity of precipitously falling value in a glutted market! NOW, let’s make it all FAIR!
Good luck, and, since we will all be up to our asses in flower soon, best start selling it at the Farmer’s Market for $20/lb before it all rots!
And thanks, Oregon, where every citizen is a dope grower!
https://qz.com/1546498/oregon-has-a-massive-oversupply-of-legal-cannabis/
Oversupply of Legal cannabis??? You are very easily led deep thinker. Don’t believe everything you read…its not too intelligent
Your funny. Your act like you know I know people like you and know your miserable. I’m sorry bud you know nada 😂😂😂😂😂sounds tough on the comments but really just$&@!?$$&@?!🤪🤪🤪
God, Kym. That was some of my best work. Do you have any idea how long it takes to compose a piece like that? You are my most brutal critic. Even my dog laughed at that one, and he’s really hard to please.
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