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Let’s Not Allow the Marijuana Industry to Write Its Own Rules
Under a tight March 2016 timeline set by new California laws regulating medical marijuana, Humboldt County is scrambling at last to write locally appropriate rules for commercial cannabis cultivation. Among the most significant problems the new rules must address is protecting watersheds already overloaded by rapidly increasing pot-related impacts.
Some commercial growers say they want to be legal, but the attempt by an industry group, California Cannabis Voice – Humboldt (CCVH), to promote an even bigger boom by writing weak rules never quite got off the ground. That’s just as well, because CCVH never really tried to address the environmental impacts of the industry we already have.
Link: http://lostcoastoutpost.com/2015/nov/16/op-ed-scott-greacen-marijuana-regulation/
Under a tight March 2016 timeline set by new California laws regulating medical marijuana, Humboldt County is scrambling at last to write locally appropriate rules for commercial cannabis cultivation. Among the most significant problems the new rules must address is protecting watersheds already overloaded by rapidly increasing pot-related impacts.
Some commercial growers say they want to be legal, but the attempt by an industry group, California Cannabis Voice – Humboldt (CCVH), to promote an even bigger boom by writing weak rules never quite got off the ground. That’s just as well, because CCVH never really tried to address the environmental impacts of the industry we already have.
Link: http://lostcoastoutpost.com/2015/nov/16/op-ed-scott-greacen-marijuana-regulation/
