Tuesday, November 25, 2014, 7 p.m., San Juan Island Grange Hall
— from Boyd Pratt —
San Juan Island Grange #966 is hosting an informational forum on The Proposed Moratorium on Marijuana Production, at 7:00pm on Tuesday, November 25, 2014 at the Grange Hall. The program will include presentations from differing perspectives and a moderated question and answer session. All are welcome and encouraged to attend.
In November 2012 the voters of Washington State passed Initiative 502, The Legalization of Marijuana for Recreational Use. Several businesses have been licensed by the State to grow marijuana in San Juan County. Concerns regarding the impact of these operations on land use have led to a proposed moratorium on marijuana production, which is being considered for adoption by the San Juan County Council, in order for the Council to further consider regulations related to marijuana production.
San Juan Island Grange #966 has been asked to take a position on this issue, and is therefore hosting this informational forum.
“The Proposed Moratorium on Marijuana Production” is absolutely ridiculous!
First, I-502 made both growing and selling recreational marijuana completely legal.
Second, marijuana is a continually-renewed, “green” crop which can provide us with oxygen, in exchange for our exhaled carbon dioxide.
Third, there are secondary, viable commercial uses for the stems of the marijuana crop, for instance as fabrics and rope, thus adding to its economic importance.
Fourth, the, um, budding marijuana industry will soon become an important source of tax revenue.
What’s not to like?
What, exactly, is the point of the proposed moratorium?
Is it merely to satisfy the Mrs. Grundys among us? How silly!
Is this “The Women’s Christian Temperance Union” all over again? If the growing of pot is illegal than the growing and sale of pot will continue as did bootlegging enriching a few with no tax revenue for the many. Oh I forgot, Republicans don’t believe in taxes. Maybe we should just decriminalize it. Get the government out of it including the government in Friday Harbor and leave people alone to do what they want in “The Land Of The Free and The Home of the Brave”. I started smoking pot in 1963. I rarely smoke anymore. In the sixties, I took every imaginable drug from horse tranquilizer’s to LSD well over 100 times. If you believe government dogma, I shouldn’t be able to be writing this to you. I learned along time ago that you can’t regulate morality or behavior. It is impossible to regulate morality and behavior and yet too many of us have learned nothing from the past.
One more thing. If pot and other drugs are only available through a “black market” than more of your homes and businesses will continue to be robbed because ……..