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At the June 24, 2011 NORML Womenʼs Alliance party at Pier 5 Law, Sara Herrin shared the compelling story of her and her sistersʼ arrests after the May raid and closing of Todayʼs Health Collective in Sonora, California. Photo by Mikki Norris. By Dale Gieringer, California NORML The right of California patients to grow their own medicine under Prop 215 is under increasing attack from local governments that pass ordinances to restrict cultivation in the name of nuisance control, although in HS 11362.775 the legislature limited such use of the nuisance claim. In Butte County, patient advocates filed over 12,000 referendum petitions in August 2011 to block an ordinance that forbids patients from cultivating on plots of less than a half acre; limits gardens to six mature plants on properties of a half to 1.5 acres; requires all gardens over six plants to be registered with the Dept. of Development Services Gardens; and forbids any cultivation within 1,000 feet of schools, churches, parks, youth-oriented or residential treatment facilities. The ordinance has been suspended pending a vote in the June 2012 election. The referendum drive was sponsored by Butte County Citizens for Read More: Cal patients stand up for cultivation rights By Carole Brodsky Hundreds of personnel from 27 local, state and federal agencies in August completed Operation Full Court Press, the most high profile, multi-agency marijuana eradication effort in the Emerald Hexagon’s history. Critics point out that it is the government’s own policy of cannabis prohibition that has led to the increase in large outlaw grows. “This is not a one-time event,” said Mendocino Sheriff Tom Allman. “If the same situation occurs next year, we’ll be back with a new, improved, bigger, better FCP. No matter where you stand on medical marijuana, the one commonality is, ‘Thou shalt not grow on common lands’.” Law enforcement officials from Colusa, Glenn, Lake, Mendocino, Tehama and Trinity counties partnered with representatives from the DEA, US Fish and Wildlife Service, US Forest Service, BLM, Dept. of Homeland Security’s ICE Division, CHP, Civil Air Patrol, the US District Attorney’s office and other agencies to Read More: Going after marijuana on public land |
   
   
 
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