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US CA: Voters Opt To Allow Pot Growing
ccguide Thursday 09 Nov 2000 Pubdate: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 Source: San Diego Union Tribune (CA) Copyright: 2000 Union-Tribune Publishing Co. Contact: Address: PO Box 120191, San Diego, CA, 92112-0191 Fax: (619) 293-1440 Website: http://www.uniontrib.com/ Forum: http://www.uniontrib.com/cgi-bin/WebX Author: Justin Pritchard, Associated Press Cited: NORML: http://www.norml.org/ Bookmark: Link to initiative items for California: http://www.mapinc.org/props/ca/ VOTERS OPT TO ALLOW POT GROWING Mendocino County Proposition Adopted With 25-plant Limitation UKIAH -- Voters in Mendocino County, where the chief cash crop is marijuana, decided it's high time to let people grow their own pot. It's the first such ballot measure in the nation to pass. The measure, which faced no organized opposition and passed Tuesday with 58 percent of the vote, would allow residents of this verdant county on California's northern coast to cultivate up to 25 marijuana plants each. While a few liberal college towns such as Berkeley, Ann Arbor, Mich., and Amherst, Mass., have decriminalized smoking marijuana, Mendocino is the first community to vote to allow the growing of pot, said the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. The measure does not mean that marijuana is completely legal here now; state and federal laws against marijuana still apply, as well as the 25-plant limitation. "There are people, when we catch them they're going to give that 'Why are you guys doing this to us?' line," said Sheriff Tony Craver, who signed a petition to put the measure on the ballot but ended up opposing it. "I'm worried about the frustration and heartaches it's going to cause." The region produces a crop of especially potent marijuana estimated to be worth nearly $1 billion a year. It is more valuable than gold: An ounce can sell for $400 on the street. Dan Hamburg, a former Democratic congressman and leading backer of the measure, argued not that growing pot is a basic right but that government has no business in a grower's back yard. "This is a political statement," said Hamburg, whose own pot plot was raided last month, two days after he showed it to a CNN television crew. "It will spread, and eventually we'll stop this harmful and ridiculous war on drugs." - --- MAP posted-by: Jo-D
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