Mendocino Cannabis Department Proposes Redirecting Grant Funds from Licensees to the Department, Says MCA
Press release from the Mendocino Cannabis Alliance:

[Thursday, February 23,] agenda item 2b was published for Monday’s General Government Committee meeting where the Mendocino Cannabis Department (MCD) proposes redirecting 6.8 Million in direct grant funding currently allocated to licensees to Departmental administrative costs that ‘were not known to the department when filing the original application.’ These funds are part of the Local Jurisdiction Assistance Grant Program (LJAGP) from the state. On the LJAGP Website it reads: ‘The County of Mendocino proposed to use grant funds to create direct funding opportunities for commercial cannabis applicants and permit holders.’
For the last 15 months or more, local licensees have been told repeatedly that these funds would be made available to them directly to manage expensive and complicated CEQA compliance to transition from Provisional to Annual Licenses. This new request from MCD comes only after just recently informing licensees that despite the plan laid out on page 23 in the County’s application for LJAGP funds, MCD will NOT be processing operators Appendix G CEQA paperwork.
With only 6 annual cultivation licenses in the county today it’s not looking good for the licensed legacy cannabis operators Mendocino County, which is why we have called for urgent state intervention. MCA’s full sixteen-page letter can be read here: https://bit.ly/MCA-Urgent_
Intervention_Request
About MCA: MCA serves and promotes Mendocino County’s world-renowned cannabis cultivators and businesses through sustainable economic development, education and public policy initiatives. Learn more at MendoCannabis.com.
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Mendo seriously only has 6 licensed farms? “With only 6 annual cultivation licenses in the county today it’s not looking good for the licensed legacy cannabis operators Mendocino County“
This should be immediately investigated.
Meanwhile in Mendo County…
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After six years of pot legalization, only 12 of the county’s 832 active cannabis farms have received annual licenses, according to an SFGATE analysis of county and Department of Cannabis Control (DCC) records.
That means only 1% of the county’s cultivators are fully licensed — one of the worst rates in the state. Overall, 49% of California’s cultivation licenses have annual status and over 63% of farms in Humboldt County, a neighboring county also known for cannabis cultivation, have received annual licenses.
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What a complete and utter joke.
OF COURSE THEY DO ?????
You didn’t think the bureaucrats were going to allow that money to pass by their pockets, did you?????? Never forget, you’re dealing with people who would steal the pennies off their dead mother’s eyes.
It gets better all the time…
where does their greed end? – id be willing to bet I know who have those permits,- the board of supes? perhaps?? Or their close affiliates?
# the GRO-SS! super “seedy” hipocrates
Just another example of Mendocino county stealing for pot growers! Fucking disgusting!
This is mind blowing. They essentially state that they haven’t done their job and expect more money to further their lack of ability to do their job.
I agree.
They are essentially saying they want $1.13 million dollars of other people’s money for each of the woefully inadequate 6 annual licenses that they have only pathetically managed to complete…
They should be fired immediately, if not sooner…
They want to use 14 million in state funds to eradicate the current phase 1 pool.
Mendocino county decided to not fund the cannabis dept with any general fund money for this year and are trying to use grant money instead.
Get rid of the supervisors, too, then.
Start with them.
Better yet, give the MCD the supervisors salary, as a severance package…
Then promptly show them all the door.
It is not mind blowing unless your a liberal or a dog chasing it’s own tail. It is how government operates, ALWAYS! Maybe Democrats can form another agency to oversee the oversight committee. They can magically pay for it by taxing the rich. That oughtta solve the problem.
Wow!!! Who could have ever imagined that something like this could ever happen?!!! Oh yeah- anybody with a decent brain and an eye out for the work that government brings to us in every way and every day. The only thing I find sad is that anybody is even shocked. This was to be expected. It’s kind of funny. What- you thought that involving the government would make you “safe” and “free”?? Har-dee-har har! Safe and free from your money, sucker!
Spot on! Liberal response: you’re an extremist conspiracy theorist who doesn’t trust government.
If Mendocino County Government was a person: That person would be named Mendocino G , G for government; M. G. as we call this “person” has a power trip backed up by intimidation, fear, bullying and violence.
As a person “M.G.” would have a very very bad reputation; Mendocino G is a liar, Mendocino G lies and steals from it’s elderly neighbors, M. G. Steals from poor families, M. G. Is a violent aggressor who smashes down gates and doors and points guns in people’s faces while they loot their neighbors homes with groups of large aggressive armed men. M.G. ripped 100’s of screaming crying children from their parents arms for no real crime. M.G. stole cash, jewelry, valuables and whatever they could stuff in their pockets completely smashing any laws designed to protect our communities. M.G. stole many peoples land, M.G. stole many peoples trucks, M.G. smashed water tanks and ripped up people’s gardens and farms then stole their garden goods and sold it on the black market, keeping the proceeds they stole. Mendocino G. are terrorists, they terrorize communities and kidnap people and hold them in cages for ransom money. Mendocino G abuses women Mendocino G abuses elderly, Mendocino G abused children, child abusers are they utmost worst kind of people next to people who abuse elderly and women, Mendocino Government abused ALL THREE; ELDERLY, WOMEN AND CHILDREN! M.G.steals from it’s neighbors using the strong arm of the law and armed men to rob, threaten and ultimately beat or kill anyone who resists his bullying ways. Mendocino G. Lies and steals from it’s neighbors daily, exploits and robs with weapons, breaks into people’s homes and goes through their personal belongings. Mendocino G lies to the government to get erroneous grant funds saying they will share them with their community then robs and steals those funds to “fund” his never ending thirst for bureaucracy to pay more freshly hired city folks to find out even more ways to extract, take and steal from it’s neighbors. Mendocino G does nothing to help people even during natural disasters, instead it sets forth it’s already existing plan to hurt and steal from people who are suffering from emergencies just like we recently saw at creekside mobile home park. Of course Mendocino G was going to steal this money intended to help our small farmers get legal and permitted: the entire plan of Mendocino G. all along was to destroy our local cannabis farmers, destroy our loca livelihoods so they and their corporate friends have a cheap labor pool with people begging for employment, people that were otherwise self sufficient. Mendocino G approves the destruction of our forests by not enforcing anti herbicide laws that we the people of this county voted into law. They destroy our rivers by allowing asphalt plants and rock extraction to proceed on our Eel River like on Covelo Road, Mendocino G allows entire mountains to be destroyed and leveled without any regard to the fact that hundreds of thousands of cubic yards of rock beyond what permits allowed have been extracted like on the ridge between Willits and Ukiah. Mendocino G thinks they are above the laws and continuously and maliciously flaunt their powers and illegal activities all the whole flipping a finger to our communities and families. Mendocino G is the worst type of person: Violent, aggressive, bully, theif, liar, not trustworthy, abusive to elderly, abusive to children, steals from it’s neighbors, uses weapons to intimidate and terrorize to achieve their political agenda.
Mendocino G needs to be held reliable, the names need to be publicized and ostracized and recognized and called out. The people behind Mendocino G need to have their faces published and their information in plain sight for all to see.
Well…for some of us MG is the short name for Mountain Girl or Carolyn Garcia- intrepid merry prankster and Jerry Garcia’s one-time wife who has the solid reputation of always being fair and square and helping. So please don’t call Mendocino government MG and besmirch her name with that pack of predatory liars! Those of us who know the history we love MG!!
Love your sarcasm everytime Farce. We both know the Mendo Beuroccracy is the epitomy of selfish parasite government leaches parading as leaders. Mostly Yuppy Scum.
This should be illegal!
Its almost like they created this situation by design.
Humboldt & Trinity are/were equally shady(at least in the early days). Honsal & Bohn are both “coinsidently” tied to Humboldt’s first and largest permits.
Always Follow the money. Organized Crime folks.
Yeah, Bohn hooked up the Honeydew/Panther Gap Crew with permits. It’s working out for some, but those True Humboldt people that got early permits went belly up. They closed up shop. It was actually pretty embarrassing. Their weed was B grade at best and they never seemed to realize that quality sells. All that money spent marketing early and building a brand only to watch it go up in smoke….
I’ve heard some funny stories about them. They didn’t even know how to bury money right. Or they had so much they just didn’t bother caring. A barrel full of cash all turned to mold…that’s an idiot right there