$90,000 Fine Plus Additional Fines Issued by Mendocino County Code Enforcement Division on Alleged Illegal Commercial Cannabis Cultivation Site
Starting in May of 2021, Mendocino County Code Enforcement began releasing succinct lists of those cited for non compliance with cannabis cultivation laws and we host this list for our readers.
Below is the information from the Mendocino County Code Enforcement Division:
Action Date: 06/16/21
Location: 3500 Block of Laytonville Dos Rios Road
Information:
In the third week of June of 2021, The Mendocino County Code Enforcement Division conducted an investigation regarding non-permitted commercial cannabis cultivation at the listed location.
The Code Enforcement investigation confirmed that commercial cannabis cultivation was occurring in non-permitted structures without a County Cultivation Permit or State Cultivation License. The responsible party refused to abate the 450 cannabis plants being cultivated and Code Enforcement subsequently issued Administrative Citations with penalties as follows:
1.) $520 per day for non-permitted structures used for commercial cannabis cultivation.
2.) $1,000 per day for violations of the Mendocino County Cannabis Cultivation Ordinance.
3.) $90,000 (450 plants x $200 per plant) one time penalty for non-permitted commercial cannabis cultivation.
Code Enforcement intends to take additional action as needed to achieve compliance.
The Code Enforcement Division receives all Cannabis and General Code Violation complaints in the unincorporated areas of the County. Complaints can be made in person at our offices or by visiting our website at: www.mendocinocounty.org/
government/codeenforcement to file an online complaint. Cannabis specific complaints can also be filed by calling the Cannabis Complaint Hotline at: (844) 421-WEED(9333).
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Just one property? It’s gotten so bad in Mendocino county. To bust one garden, the sheriff has to drive by 6 other non legal grows. I’m glad that they are finally hitting these green rush growers with fines. Enough is enough. I’m a fan of cannabis, but it’s gross at this scale.
Question for the group, is the drought going to collapse the quick money growers?
Gosh Narco, maybe you should burn a couple and chill out.
The same thing could be said for the rampant human population growth, and the need to reduce these parasites to a more manageable level.
Keep going.
90k a month is small change for most of the grows in the hills. This must be the small timer that did not pay his local taxes lmao!!!
It’ll be less than a month before those same fines become daily if the grower doesn’t abate soon.
If the county ever puts liens on the properties wouldn’t the county and its taxpayers end up paying for these costly repair from “ illegal cultivation “ or Can the county simply sell your land at auction that has damage from “illegal cultivation “? Maybe the growing of a plant is actually not damaging the land that bad ,if the county wants it!!
The land can be sold/auctioned in any state of disrepair if the proper declarations are made.
We voted both at the county level and state level to legalize marijuana. The county’s actions are simply propping up the price for the benefit of large growers. It’s time to treat marijuana like any other agricultural crop. The wasting of tax payer dollars trying to eliminate a plant needs to stop. The environmental damage from cultivation pales in comparison to that caused by the wine and timber industries, and the revenue from pot is shared by a much larger proportion of the population.
// “We voted both at the county level and state level to legalize marijuana. … It’s time to treat marijuana like any other agricultural crop. “//
Then you’ll have to get voted in something different, because what was voted in wasn’t written as nor intended to treat marijuana like any other crop.
Nobody has to grow marijuana. There are other plants and jobs available to pay the bills instead of a bunch of ‘whoa is me’
Yeah like tobacco….. What a gross comment
It’s all the other jobs to pay the bills that provide so much of the “woe is me” attitude so present In our modern culture.
Marijuana is one of the only things i have found in life, which regularly and reliably produces this profound “whoa is me” feeling of which you speak.
Good point.
Weed sucks.
DA’s office up to it’s old tricks with the fines. Next step is to buy yourself a misdemeanor.
From what orifice do they pull these arbitrary fine amounts? They really know how to run a racket in Mendo.
Every single grape vine MUST have a a barcode tag on it’s stalk….it’s only fair that I know EXACTLY where the grape’s in my bottle came from
Illegal Cannabis growth is coming to a neighborhood near you. With this growth comes security issues, countless cars all hours of the night, terrible stench, incredible use of water during a drought and water contamination. Also, second hand smoke when kids are in the room attacking their developing brain, impaired driving, basic lack if incentive to be productive, and for many a gateway drug.
Yahoo we hit the mother load.
I’m sorry you’ve come to this conclusion. In the real world of cannabis culture there are many gardeners and farmers who are respectful of their neighbors, who take care of the land and the water sources on it and are highly conscious and respectable people. There are also gun toting violent thugs that don’t give a rats a^* about the environment or for the people in their neighborhood or community. I believe they are in the minority. So let’s not lump everybody in the same category. I prefer to see the culture for what my experience has been. Good people being stewards of their land, learning loving from this plant and forwarding that spirit to nourish and grow the community. Sounds hippy dippy. But our intention our tending our love for this sacred plant is real and guess what? It radiatessssssssss out from there. Get it? Haha it’s all about love people.
Your imagination is going wild about something you know nothing about.
Countless cars all hours of the night at a cannibis grow?
Lol.
Imagine how rich Bill Gates could have been if cannibis hadn’t made him non productive.
Micheal Phelps, Abraham Lincoln, Carl Sagan, Steve Jobs, Ben and Jerry.. and tons of musicians, actors and athletes.
What have you done with your life?
Alcohol and tobacco are legal and murderous. The old fascists can’t live without alcohol because their life is one of pain and disease with no cure. The old fascists and the young–many of whom comment here–are in absolute denial as to what is causing their pain unto death. The nation is separated by class and caste. Each sector has its own arguments. But the fact is in any annual cycle the old fascists end up with 90% of the wealth produced by all us peasants. That’s what has to be understood. Loyalists are total dupes. They believe the old fascists aren’t perverts with secret agendas. So we are at a cultural stand still until you realize how indocrinated and duped and hogtied you are by the fascist memes that you have been fed with since birth. You have to be an atheist to see the meaning of religion and patriotism as diseases inducing submission to illegitimate authority. That’s why hippies separated out of the war mongering mainstream:remember only the rich make laws and only the poor end up in prison.
Lesson 1: It’s not your plant!
Lesson 2: It’s a 66 Billion dollar illicit market!
Lesson 3: We been fighting this war for
decades!
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-21/lessons-from-california-s-pot-industry-bailout-cannabis-weekly
66 billion and you couldn’t pay your bills for 5 years.
I was trying out this capitalist system. Using the Trump path of defaulting. I figured if it’s good enough for the president it’s good enough for me.
Wow, 5:48 in the morning are you one of them big tobacco smear campaign individuals?
No. A farmer who wakes up at 4 in the morning and goes to bed at 11pm. I have bills and taxes to pay.
You wouldn’t have to work that many hours growing weed and you can pay taxes if ya like, or not, lol. Funny, I thought growing tobacco was easier than growing weed.
Maybe the high fines are meant to discourage people from doing illegal things1 Duh! Try looking at all of this from a normal , working, law abiding citizens point of view, rather than from a criminal perspective. Laws are not bad , and unfair, unless you are the one breaking them. Everything changes, gone are the good old days, get used to it.