PLEASE vote NO on measure B - if you are registered to vote in Mendocino county California

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Reasons to
Vote No on Measure B
the following is the NO ON B MEASURE B PRIMARY BALLOT ARGUMENT as it
will appear on Ballot:.

Measure B is a backward step towards marijuana re-criminalization
that
targets small-scale, personal use growers instead of large-scale
commercial operators and organized criminals who are actually causing
the problems in Mendocino County.

In 2000, Mendocino County voters overwhelmingly approved Measure G,
the Personal Use of Marijuana Initiative, which allows cultivation of
twenty--five (25) plants or fewer for personal use only, while
leaving
commercial cultivation and sales illegal.

Measure B would 1) repeal Measure G so as to re-criminalize personal
use growing, and 2) subject medical marijuana patients to arrest and
prosecution on felony charges for growing more than six (6) plants,
forcing many seriously ill people into the criminal market to get
their medicine.

Mendocino County will not be made safer by cracking down on small
personal use growers. Instead, it will be made less safe by diverting
police resources. Sheriff Tom Allman has said that reducing patient
plant guidelines to six plants would be "a burden on law enforcement"
under which his deputies "will not be able to focus on any other
public safety issue". (Press Democrat 3/17/07)

Mendocino County sorely needs to regulate large-scale gardens and to
attack illicit grows and commercial trafficking. Measure B is a bogus
diversion that does neither.

The solution is not to repeal Measure G (MCC9.36), but to seek ways
to
enforce it by regulating commercial growing.

If you support targeting large-scale criminal operations rather than
personal use gardens, VOTE NO on B.

If you believe seriously ill patients should not be arrested for
seven
(7) plants, VOTE NO on B.

If you believe law enforcement has more important priorities than
arresting and prosecuting small marijuana gardeners, VOTE NO on B.

If you support decriminalization of marijuana, VOTE NO on B.

B is Bad for Mendocino. Vote NO.

the following is the NO ON B MEASURE B REBUTTAL ARGUMENT as it will
appear on Ballot:.

By supporting Measure G, the Personal Use of Marijuana Initiative of
2000, voters chose not to criminalize their friends and neighbors for
small personal use gardens.

Measure B, which seeks to overturn Measure G, DOES NOT "protect the
rights of medical marijuana patients". Rather it REDUCES the amount
individual patients may grow to the minimum allowable under state
law,
subjecting patients to felony arrest, prosecution, property
confiscation, even jail for anything over 6 plants.

Measure B DOES NOT attack "no limits" commercial operations; rather
it
outlaws personal use growers. If B passes, even one plant will be a
felony for non-medical home growers.

Those now seeking to overturn Measure G blame it for current ills
surrounding marijuana growing. We disagree.
• Measure G DOES NOT condone commercial growing, but
specifically
calls for "the enforcement of marijuana laws against those who
cultivate, transport and possess marijuana for sale."
• Measure G protects small-scale, personal use gardens,
leaving law
enforcement free to concentrate on serious crimes.

Sheriff Tom Allman's new program would raise funds from medical
marijuana cultivation, funds to support enforcement against those who
abuse the law. Let's give it a chance to work.

According to the Sheriff's Medical Marijuana Report, less than 1% of
911 calls and less than 1% of prosecutions in Mendocino County
involved marijuana in 2007.

We must find remedies for areas of abuse, but not by recriminalizing
a
substantial part of the population.

Vote No on B. Preserve the will of the voters.

Susan B. Jordon, J. David Colfax, Ronnie Gilbert and Carrie Hamburg:

Ronnie Gilbert
Mendocino County Woman of The Year

Susan B Jordan
Attorney, Civil Rights Educator

Carrie Hamburg
Cancer Survivor

J. David Colfax


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