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Posted on: 2022-03-04 15:12:17
By: Anonymous
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How many of them are in the pocket of the so called upstanding marijuana growers?
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Posted on: 2022-03-04 15:20:47
By: Anonymous
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60%
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Posted on: 2022-03-04 16:55:47
By: Anonymous
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how many and who of the 60% are up for reelection or retirement? Vote the schmucks out!
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Posted on: 2022-03-05 02:27:44
By: Anonymous
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>What amount of money does the cultivation contribute to the county budget?
>What amount of money does the administration of the cultivation program cost the county?
>Why are all county residents being forced to subsidize this industry?
In any business discussion reasonable people would ask these questions and consider the answers before making an informed decision.
However, the pernicious piece of propaganda county staff presents in review of these revenue reductions completely fails to address them. What are we paying these people for?
Instead they convoluted the issue with the baited expectation that cultivator tax revenues may increase if taxpayers continue to subsidize this failing county industry.
Fact is weed is a fungible commodity. Local growers cannot produce it at a competitive market price. No amount of county tax cuts is going to raise market prices and make this industry profitable for local growers and the county.
Fact is retail weed sales are a completely separate issue. Nails, clothing, and chainsaws are not manufactured here, yet every time they're sold the county gets revenue. The same is true of weed, it's not necessary to grow it in the county to enjoy the retail tax revenues.
It's long past time the board and the public are given the answers to the first two questions above. Until staff can answer those questions for all of us this tax cut, subsidy, of this failing industry should be tabled by the board.
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Posted on: 2022-03-04 18:13:24
By: Anonymous
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More like 80% +++
What a disaster this Cannabis Ordinance has been .
BOS it's time cut your losses and run - this proposed Cannabis industry is a deep-hole and your actions are just digging the county in deeper.
You have given it your best shot - it failed - it's over Move- On
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Posted on: 2022-03-04 18:46:31
By: Anonymous
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Oh, please. This is a last ditch effort on the part of the BOS to get ANY revenue from growers. Past policy and licensing requirements based on what the so-called majority wanted, made many leave our county for greener pastures. There is no real MJ industry left in Calaveras County. Squeeze 'em a bit more and the rest will leave - with the possible exception of the sons of long time Calaveras families including that of a former Angels Camp supervisor still growing. Though, perhaps that was the plan all along. Take care of those 4th and 5th generation "farmers" but anyone new left to swing in the wind.
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Posted on: 2022-03-04 20:44:24
By: Anonymous
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Calaveras County had there chance. As usual, they blew it. Now the cannabis industry has passed it by, no real reason to stick with it here if you are a farmer. Admire the few who have stayed the course and legitimately tried to make it work. All the success is in Lake County, SB County, a few others. Calaveras?? The Stone Age. No pun intended. So, its back to usual. Economically depressed. A poor county government, lots of welfare. The tweakers are flourishing though!! Look at the Government Center in San Andreas. A perfect metaphor for where we stand as a county. We had a chance and just plain fuc___ed it up. We got what we deserve and asked for.
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Posted on: 2022-06-18 01:17:46
By: Anonymous
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Calaveras County isn't backwards, in my opinion. It is burdened with some (not all) just-barely-above-the-law-because-they-haven't-been-caught supervisors, except for Mr. Tofanelli, who is by the book. The others? Too many large (very large) cash donations. Too many who vote on items benefitting their own families. Too many unclean deals. Clean it up. Now we just got a cannabis-backed person in who already has a built-in conflict of interest. So do the right thing. It's not that hard.
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Posted on: 2022-06-18 01:20:13
By: Anonymous
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No. I don't think Calaveras Cannabis Alliance or any one or more growers ever had a chance. All of the state cannabis regulations were written for larger growers, many in Southern California. If cannabis growers went all in here, it's either because they didn't understand the state laws, did understand the laws and hoped they could change them, or didn't care and went all in hoping they could somehow magically create a financial foundation where there is no possibility. What are they doing now? Bothering and begging the BOS, candidates, and others for handouts. Adults make business decisions. Adults deal with them,
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