Cannabis Permit Workshops
Press release from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife:
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW), the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) and the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) are hosting several cannabis permitting workshops in May and June.
“These free events are designed to help cultivators through the state licensing process,” said James Rosauer, CDFW Cannabis Program Supervisor. “Participants can ask specific project questions and meet staff face to face. There is no better time to get help with a state cultivator license.”
CDFA will provide an overview of the state’s cannabis cultivation licensing program and review the requirements for a cannabis farming license. CDFW will cover Lake and Streambed Alteration agreements and how to limit environmental impacts. SWRCB will review policy and permitting, and other important information. Computers will be available for applicants to apply for water permits. Other agencies may include CAL FIRE, the Department of Pesticide Regulation, the Franchise Tax Board among city and county representatives.
These free workshops are ideal for new and existing cannabis cultivators, and those interested in the topic. Attendees will have time to talk with state agency staff about individual projects after the presentations.
The free workshops are scheduled on the following dates and times.
Thursday, May 9
10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. (presentations begin at 10:30 a.m.)
Arts and Community Building
10400 Heather Avenue
California CityTuesday, May 14
10 a.m. to 3 p.m. (presentations begin at 10:30 a.m.)
Mateel Community Center
59 Rusk Lane
RedwayThursday, May 16
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. (presentations begin at 10:30 a.m.)
County Library Community Room
995 Palm Street
San Luis ObispoTuesday, June 25
10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. (presentations begin at 10:30 a.m.)
Natural Resources Building – First floor auditorium
1416 Ninth Street
SacramentoAll state agencies encourage cannabis cultivators to obtain all necessary state licenses and county permits, as well as implement best management practices to reduce environmental impacts. Following these recommendations can help cultivators avoid common pitfalls that may lead to enforcement actions.
To learn more about CDFW’s role in cannabis cultivation, please visit wildlife.ca.gov/cannabis or email [email protected].
To report environmental crimes or a black market grow, please call the CalTIP hotline at (888) 334-2258 or text “CALTIP” followed by a space and the desired message, to 847411 (tip411).
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What is the price for a cultivation license any one know
“What is the price for a cultivation license”?
~your first born.
If you’re still hovering in the land of make-believe, you need to question your beliefs.
“The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you’re inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.”- Morpheus
I wish it was a flat fee, but the process is very complicated. Hence the workshop.
A bat wing an eyeball of your enemy and a sprinkle of a transients toenail along with a few hundred thousand dollars and you will be issued a temporary permit, lol, maybe. If you fail then you could get the “CALTIP” your not shafted yet because it’s just the tip.
If you are looking for the overall cost to get to the point where you/ a person can have a legal farm, via permits from Humboldt and CA, it depends on the property you have, how large (the parcel and the farm), how clean, how much water/stream crossings, etc. There are MANY ASSOCIATED COSTS, some of which you can not anticipate. ….Difficult question to answer.
I’m in over 35k at this point just for fees and vampires. 36k/year to rent the parcel for the last 3. Trying to get a 5000sqft permit. I’ve been told my procjet is “pretty straightforward” in comparison to many others. Starting with a few hundred dollars to my name in the beginning of 2016, I’ve thrown everything I’ve got at it. Russet mites nearly wiped me out in 2017. Since I started, ive been more or less paycheck to paycheck, just covering my costs of living and expenses. I just need about 7k more to pay some asshole to write a report that allows me to do about 400$ of work to 2 old culverts(which work fine, but are undersized). My permit expires next week, and my consultant is leaving me hanging out to dry because Im $1400 short on payment.
Meanwhile my retired landlord, who owns the property outright, blows through 3k a month like Kleenex tissue bitching about how her life is so tough.
Two fees a annual application fee and a annual license fee! In 2023 there will be no cap on permit size ,the end.Prop 64 is awful for the family farmer .
https://static.cdfa.ca.gov/MCCP/document/2017%201228%20Licensing%20Workshop%20Presentation.pdf
Application and licensing fees
Pg 12 -13
Lucky SoHum, the planned coercion in Redway gets 5 full hours of rhetorical vomit from the Not in the republic persons impersonating public servants.
Yippee, skippy.
~and the opulent Eureka Vets Building gets Change Order #6 and a time extension of 6 more months.
Humboldt County Eureka Veteran’s Memorial Building Seismic Repair Project, Change Order
Number. 6.0, Project Number 210502, Disaster Survey Report 2987, 2946, 3401, 3724 (4/5
Vote Required)
That the Board of Supervisors:
1. Approve, and authorize the Public Works Director to execute, Change Order
Number 6.0 for a $358,360.77 cost increase and a time extension of one hundred
eighty-one (181) calendar days (4/5 vote required);
2. Approve use of 2016 Finance Plan funding for the Eureka Veteran’s Memorial
Seismic Repair Project for $166,890.00 to secure the county’s anticipated 25
percent match requirement and ineligible costs; and
3. Adopt the attached supplemental budget for fiscal year 2018-2019 (4/5 vote
required).
Don’t forget to turn in your neighbors! It’s the only way to stay profitable!! You want to be a “Good Player” now, don’t you? So “step out of the shadows” and “step into the light” and start turning in those names and parcel numbers. Sig Heil!
What I noticed was DFW has moved from just saying “report environmental crimes” and now went explicitly to report “black market grows.” There is a fierce attempt to divide farmers into traditional and legal market growers. And I see those in the black market as well perpetuating it.
If growers from both sides of legality don’t stand up against it, we’re all going to lose. The exception should be other crimes against the community–environmental, theft, domestic violence. For too long growers maintained secrecy and hid those crimes from outsiders. That has to stop.
~there are no SIDES in this war, there is only what is REAL and what is NOT. The willingly blinded are fighting to protect that which is a FANTASY (Legal unicorn commerce), while SOME OF US IN HERE ARE FIGHTING FOR WHAT IS REAL (Law of the unincorporated land juris).
i’m so confused as to who to turn in, when the white market growers ARE the black market sellers…
Ah, yes. Well, that is an issue…
Everyone who signed up to be “legal” or “permited” should serve the corresponding federal time.
“Farmers” of pot should be bunk mates with the same consultants and supervisors who alow and facilitate the production of a controlled substance.
Growing 1,000 plants or more carrys a 20 year minimum sentence.
Posession of
100KG of Marijuana
5 years minimum
40 years maximum
21 U.S.C. §
841(b)(1)(B)(vii)
Go ahead and rat out your neighbors for “black market” pot. The feds wont touch the case. They only go after what they can’t lose. All of the “legal” “farmers” have done all the paperwork for the feds. Signed confessions proving your ill gotten gains shall be the nails in your own coffins.
I’ll gladly watch the pot yuppies be hauled away 1 by 1.
If you are serious, that would definitely require a few new prisons and a lot more tax payer’s money. And, of course, the black market would still continue to grow stronger.
I would like to see the federal laws enforced. Either enforce the federal law or change the federal law. I think that lack of enforcement of federal marijuana law is a major contributor to the current economic situation in Humboldt.
When federal law was enforced people were getting 3-6 thousand a pound for guerrilla grown mostly eco friendly pot. 5 or 10 pounds was a great year end bonus or even life changing amount of money.
I say bring back CAMP in full force and cut plants indiscriminately. Marijuana is illegal and should be eradicated as such.
I on the other hand love the fact that people aren’t going to jail for smoking some weed.
So a person with your viewpoint would benefit from the reform of federal marijuana laws.
Perhaps decriminalization of possession for personal consumption while commercial production in any capacity remains illegal? Maybe actual enforcement of 6 plant maximum and or 100sq. ft cap?
I’m just throwing out ideas. I’m interested to hear what other people think would be good for the local economy as well as the environment.
I believe in a reform of the federal marijuana laws. I believe that the greatest idea is to improve the lot of the community as a whole and that may come at the expense of the grower. I’d like to see assistance through this turbulent time instead of punitive fines and fees from the government but I don’t want the consumer to be punished just to keep prices up. And inconsistent policy such as making marijuana illegal as if there is something wrong with it that isn’t wrong (or worse) with alcohol etc. is an uneven policy that can’t lead to trust in government.
Kym, Kym, Kym….Nobody was gong to jail for smoking weed or possession of less than an ounce. You kept saying this while we fought over the “legalization” proposition- when you told us why we should vote for it. There was then and had for many years been marijuana decriminalization in CA and also federal. This fake “legalization” didn’t stop anybody from going to jail for smoking weed.
First, nationally people are still going to jail for smoking weed.
Second, if California, one of the most liberal states didn’t change laws then it would be next to impossible for federal laws to change.
And, thousands of people went to jail over marijuana in California alone: https://www.omarfigueroa.com/thousands-of-ca-marijuana-prisoners-being-released/
remind me please, besides potential enviromental damage, whats the harm of the free market?
The divide might not be a bad thing. Just another perspective and my words are true.
Some I feel can’t stomach the pressure of let’s call it what it is “CAMP” on steriods. To much crime drama TV for a bunch of losers who couldn’t make it at the police academy and now work for DFW. I am already seeing some locations shutting down and discontinuing operations. I honestly will say the majority shutting down I see is a positive for the community and the environment. Some are litteraly heartbreaking as well, longtime outlaws not being apart of this after all these years.
Lots of pressure being legal and being illegal is much more profitable and dare I say challenging and fun. Tough decisions coming up for a lot of us and they make it very appealing to not be legal for some ?. On a lighter note China was able to grow on the dark side of the moon I cannot wait for the first DEP harvest bet it’s bomb!!!
It is no answer to repeat that an unconstitutional law is no law, so long as the question of it being lawful is to be decided by the State itself, for every law operating injuriously upon any local interest will be perhaps thought, and certainly represented, as unconstitutional.
We live in times where ignorance thrives while truth is suppressed, hidden, and controlled. People literally pay to be deceived, and they love it. They will do anything to stay in their blissful ignorance & state of unknowing, and become very defensive and react negatively when their character, paradigm/views come into question. They have mislead others to make themselves feel more secure, they will lead others to suffering and destruction.
Legal lettuce, less cultivators is a wonderful thing. The growers who have the nerve to keep working through the harsh headwinds are finally getting paid decently for their work! First time in years, the prices are up. I am happy for some challenges in this business, it keeps the weak out (or they sign up for permits) . It’s more like how it used to be.
The reward comes to the ones who kept on trucking and instead of blowing it up with mass produced garbage the last few years scaled back and focused on a craft qaulity product. It’s the greenrush 2.0! Well maybe we will see……. The price is bouncing back that is for sure, stuff that was 6-7 last year Im seeing for a stack and even over and its not even that fire we got 3 more months till deps hit and a whole lot of demand and dwindling product turning back into a seller/growers market. Good job CA! Way to revive the original market! Wait untill NJ, NY legalize thats gonna set our demand on fire.
I think we’re witnessing a logical and expected division within the original cultivators. Everybody is challenged to pick a side. The dream of going “legal” in order to improve has gone the reverse for many. How much investment in chasing the state regulations should one risk? Many, and I, say $0.
You’re aware of the volume being turned up by the state to eradicate the traditional Honest cultivators. Nobody from the state is offering us a fair piece of the pie. We were promised a 5 year protection from corporate take-over. Instead, political cheating created fortunes for a few chosen ones. The state has planned military actions against Honest cultivators. People need to take notice of the destruction being done for the Taxman.
You nor I voted to further this newest war on cannabis cultivation. Everybody wanted the election to provide a peaceful resolution to the Thousands Year War against Earthy cultivation of cannabis.
You’re correct we’re splitting. We’re attempting to be stable while the “legal” is in chaos. We’re not forcing the “legal” to fail, it’s the survival of cannabis itself at work.
Kym, I would say there are certainly bad players on both sides of the spectrum. There are also good players on both… And your right about one thing, if people don’t stop passing the blame, everyone here in the triangle stands to loose. That whole divide and conquer thing ain’t no joke. This community’s roots are in coming together to find solutions across political spectrums. I hope the community can work to those ends. Turning in your neighbors, is not going to “improve” anyone’s profit margins. Legal or not. The market is flooded from multiple different sources, and states. Depending on your situation, your neighbors may be the one saving your behind one day… same as it ever was.
Just remember, it was the State that made bad choices to flood the market, right off the bat, went back on thier word, and screwed everyone…. so keep that in mind. If anybody is a “bad player” it’s the State at this point, and the county on so many different levels. I understand we have an environment to protect, but we also have a community to keep healthy, how do we balance those two needs?
I also notice there is only one workshop for the entire triangle.. That is how much they value us? There are multiple communities here in the triangle, and they only give us one? What about Laytonville, Hayfork, Eureka, Crescent City, or anywhere else in the triangle who have questions? Government inefficiency at it’s finest…?.
Only one workshop in N Cal, period. One in Sacto. One in SLO and one in California City-never heard of it-wiki says population 14k, and it’s the 3rd largest city in the state, area-wise. Out in the stinkin’ desert. That tells you something about their vision of Futureweed, Inc. Bust and over-regulate the mom & pops, support Marlboro mega-farms with easy access to the L.A. market. But they don’t mind taking our water. Did I say “our” water?
There have been cannabis workshops in Clearlake, Laytonville and Hayfork over the past month. They were news articles on this site. Just sayin.
100KG of Marijuana
5 years minimum
40 years maximum
21 U.S.C. §
841(b)(1)(B)(vii)
Exciting isn’t it. Over a plant that has medicinal properties. That rebellious blood running through your veins. The oppression brought on by big pharm and now the legalized corporations all for that mighty dollar. Months upon months of work and at any moment dudes fully armed backed by the federal government repelling down from choppers can take it away because of lies. Ya feel it cause it’s a fuck’in rush dude or dudette. I can lay roots anywhere and grow some dank nugz and feel justified in gettin my cut. I will always grow, always, just a matter if I wish to give the government some of my hard earned money.
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So Mr. Rosauer, will all of the expired temp licences that CDFA has screwed up on be issued by then? Huh?
They keep trying for more victims I’ll give em that !! More people to extort == more free workshops. Lol. Ain’t nothing free there gonna clean you and your children out !!!
Noticed the franchise tax board is gonna be there.lol. make sure you give em your bank account numbers as well,they’ll be finding some old debts from the state on you somewhere evan if from the 80’s.and if your squeaky clean they’ll fabricate some for you free of charge!!!!! Enjoy your afternoon at the Mattel!!!!!
For you reading pleasure.
Financial Tyranny: America Has Become a Pay-to-Play Exercise in Fascism
https://www.activistpost.com/2019/04/financial-tyranny-america-has-become-a-pay-to-play-exercise-in-fascism.html?utm_source=Activist+Post+Subscribers&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=6bc9ebaab3-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_content=Yahoo%21+Mail&utm_term=0_b0c
~i also liked John’s article three posts before this one^^^ (Financial Tyranny)
American Idiocracy: 50 Years Later, We’re Still Stranded in the Twilight Zone
By John W. Whitehead
April 2, 2019
“We’re developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won’t be able to think.”—Rod Serling
Have you noticed how much life increasingly feels like an episode of The Twilight Zone?
Only instead of Rod Serling’s imaginary “land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas,” we’re trapped in a topsy-turvy, all-too-real land of corruption, brutality and lies, where freedom, justice and integrity play second fiddle to political ambition, corporate greed, and bureaucratic tyranny.
It’s not merely that life in the American Police State is more brutal, or more unjust, or even more corrupt. It’s getting more idiotic, more perverse, and more outlandish by the day.
https://mailchi.mp/rutherford/american-idiocracy-50-years-later-were-still-stranded-in-the-twilight-zone-by-john-w-whitehead?e=fdca56398d
It’s medicine I tell you! Cough,cough, yeah, uh, what was I saying! Ummmmmm wait, what?
Oh yeah, medicine.
Newsome is sending up the national guard. He just requested $$$ from his buddy trump to help rid the black market that he claims is up here. He received more contributions from pot entrepreneurs for his campaign than all farmers of all of California combined. Kamala Harris founded a cannabis consulting firm. But they are coming to put their guns in our face because we are doing what they want to monopolize. It’s not a law enforcement priority. It’s really really sad.
If you are not an illegal grower then you have nothing to worry about. Right? And why mention Kamela Harris? You post makes no sense.