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No hashish
In response to Ken Donnell’s “The place I Stand” opinion piece within the January 15 subject, I have to respectfully disagree together with his suggestion that Plumas County “revisit” the moratorium on industrial hashish.
I, like lots of my associates who voted no on Measure B after which urged the Board of Supervisors to make the moratorium everlasting, did so as a result of we needed this subject settled as soon as and for all.
Mr. Donnell says that we in Plumas County “can be smart to simply accept [the] actuality” that marijuana is authorized in California. Guess what? We do. We additionally embrace the availability in Prop. 64 that gave cities and counties the ability to manage it inside their jurisdictions, together with the ability to say “yea” or “nay” to it altogether. Since 65 % of us voted “nay,” it is perhaps time for many who don’t conform to revisit the notion of democratic majority rule.
He additionally discusses at size the federal legalization of hemp and really subtly conflates the nascent hemp business with hashish. The 2 are very totally different crops by way of their respective makes use of. To my thoughts, it isn’t an issue to have one be authorized within the county, the opposite not, however Mr. Donnell apparently thinks that’s a nonsensical place.
His hope that Plumas County will once more deal with legalizing industrial hashish (and, by extension, associated actions, similar to pot retailers) in a “calm and rational method” means that these of us not in favor of it are neither calm nor rational in arguing this subject.
Not so. Personally, I checked out each side of economic rising earlier than I made my resolution to oppose it — the environmental and societal ramifications, in addition to the expertise of different counties. It didn’t add up. For me, it nonetheless doesn’t.
Susan Christensen
Quincy
Mr. Kevin Goss and hashish
I learn with curiosity Mr. Goss’s candidate’s assertion printed within the Feather River Bulletin (1-16-2020). My consideration significantly targeted once I learn his evaluation of “challenges that lay forward” for the County Board of Supervisors. It was subsequently with hilarity that I famous amongst “controversial points” one being the “legalization of hashish in a group a lot divided in its stance.”
A lot divided? In November of 2018 the voters of Plumas rejected Business Hashish exercise (Measure B) by a no vote of 64.29 % to the 35.71 % voting sure. Maybe Mr. Goss was referring to District 2 that he represents? Are the individuals in his district a lot divided on the problem of economic hashish? Not so. Each single precinct in District 2 voted no. It was this vox populi (voice of the individuals) that lead the Board of Supervisors by a vote of Four-Zero in 2019 to position a everlasting moratorium on industrial hashish exercise in our county. Mr. Goss concurred in that unanimous vote.
Joseph Muñoz
Quincy
Chair, Hashish
Residents Group
No thanks, Mary Jane
Can industrial marijuana make Plumas nice once more? Some who assume so have introduced up the previous arguments once more, smoke-screeningcommercial leisure marijuana hashish behind helpful industrial hemp hashish; one is authorized in Plumas County. however the native jobs and prosperity that industrial leisure marijuana dangles in entrance of us may very well be solely a BOS vote away. What may very well be higher for our group than a possible thriving economic system?
Wholesome households, for starters. Forged your thoughts amongst your personal household and your acquaintances. Whose household connections acquired stronger by means of industrial marijuana? What households are higher supported by extra employable marijuana utilizing dad and mom? As a substitute, industrial marijuana grenades households wherever it lands.
“Ah, but it surely’s authorized — state and shortly federal.” Is purported prosperity so valuable that it’s to be purchased on the value of thriving households? If that’s the case, why not regulate native brothels, like industrial playing? If our communities can do no higher, watch the underbrush for incoming rounds.
Let those that love Plumas for its households maintain standing up for them. Good job, you voters who defeated the Measure B initiative! Good job, you Supervisors who enacted the moratorium! We’re higher off with out industrial marijuana, even when it did imply dwelling with much less money. But it surely doesn’t. Our group and our households are happier and extra productive — much more affluent — with out it. No thanks, Mary Jane.
David Covington
American Valley
Assist with meth
How can locals assist? I’ve by no means been a drug consumer, however I apparently appear to be one resulting from different medical abnormalities. I see a lot of this occurring proper subsequent door, and want to take part in anyway I can. I’m an older girl in my 50s and see lots as a result of individuals don’t contemplate me a risk. I get together with most everybody and thoughts my very own enterprise. I’d fortunately go undercover in effort to hinder this insane drug from prevailing in our group. I do know you’re laughing, and presumably pondering I’m only a loopy previous girl. You is perhaps proper, however you don’t have anything to lose and nor do I. All I’m saying is I don’t need my grandchildren to develop up in a group that’s unhealthy and we don’t enlist everybody (together with aged) to struggle in opposition to it.
Tami Simard
Quincy
Good piece on the candidates
Voters need to ask themselves after a long time of bureaucrats, elites, outsiders and lecturers operating issues are we higher off or not? Are we higher off giving extra management and affect to these outdoors the county or retaining ourselves extra free to decide on? Do we wish different counties or Sacramento wielding affect over us or are we higher off making our personal selections? Do we wish profession bureaucrats or “these with ties to the county” and who is aware of the place else or with those that have been on the market on the entrance traces of actuality, dwelling and dealing amongst us? Will we simply need to “really feel good” or will we really want the roads to get mounted and the sewers to function?
The world is not about Democrat vs. Republican, conservative or liberal — that is what those who would have you ever do their bidding have been feeding you all alongside. The brand new actuality is about native versus international, bureaucrat and deep state versus citizen. Would you like individuals in far-off locations telling you what to do? Which do you need to win? Free your thoughts and see together with your eyes then vote together with your poll.
Phil Sih
Beckwourth
First Modification
Accessible on: “Constitutioncenter.org,” is the textual content of the First Modification to the Structure of the USA of America. It states: “Handed by Congress September 25, 1789. Ratified December 15, 1791. The primary 10 amendments kind the Invoice of Rights.”
“Congress shall make no regulation respecting an institution of faith, or prohibiting the free train thereof, or abridging the liberty of speech, or of the press, or the appropriate of the individuals peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Authorities for a redress of grievances.”
The “founding fathers” remained impartial relating to a choice of 1 faith over one other and adamant that the Authorities shouldn’t present, nor try to implement a choice for one faith over one other.
Gene Nielsen
Crescent Mills
Girls’s March
This 12 months’s Plumas County Girls’s March was supported by over 130 contributors. 2020 marks the fourth 12 months that Plumas County residents have marched in help of this motion.
The unique Girls’s March protested the inauguration of our present president. It now promotes eight unity rules which embody ending violence; preventing for environmental justice; preserving reproductive freedom; defending employee’s rights, and defending the civil rights of all minorities together with LGBTQIA people, individuals with disabilities and immigrants.
This 12 months, the organizers of the D.C. march targeted on three unity rules that are affecting not simply U.S. residents, however lots of of thousands and thousands, maybe billions, of individuals worldwide: the devastation of local weather adjustments, reproductive justice together with the #MeToo motion and immigrant’s rights. These considerations want motion now.
Rachel O’leary Carmona, a Girls’s March Officer, said, “Now greater than ever, ladies have to band collectively throughout social actions and present up for each other.” She additional said, “This march is the final march earlier than the 2020 presidential election and actually every thing that we love is on the road.”
I can not mince phrases. For too many people, our worst fears of the present administration have been realized. We face a Constitutional disaster which can alter our type of authorities irrevocably. We should take our nation again!
To maneuver ahead on the unifying rules of the Girls’s March, supporters should unite our efforts with these of our allies and elect officers who champion the identical issues we do. Your help of such a candidate helps all of us.
The California Major is March three. Audrey Denney (CD1 candidate), Elizabeth Betancourt (AD1 candidate), and Pamela Swartz (SD1 candidate) all help the rules of the Girls’s March and wish your vote. It’s time to deliver new voices to our District.
Religion Strailey
Quincy
Pretend information
In line with some, our main information networks are spewing out pretend information. The allusion has left me considerably bewildered. If that’s pretend information, what’s that on twitter and fb then. In the event you thought the 2016 election was awash in disinformation and lies, a disinformation tsunami is coming. Already the candidates are pictured completely not match for workplace. Movies are edited to make them appear to be they’re drunk and their statements are taken out of context so they’re saying one thing they didn’t say. Rather more fakery is coming. The Russians are more likely to flood social media with extra disinformation in 2020. We may see “deepfakes” — reasonable computer-generated movies depicting candidates saying or doing issues they’ve by no means mentioned or performed. Let the viewer beware.
Duane Vander Veen
Graeagle
Didn’t know
Boy! I want I hadn’t learn this week’s letters to the editor; a author from Portola actually broke my bubble.
Right here I’m, an 83-year-old baptized Christian Korean Warfare vet from a household who served in WWII and within the Civil Warfare and we had been all Socialists. We by no means knew we needed to be grasping capitalists in an effort to be actual American Christians.
I’d ask the author to learn the 4 Gospels describing Jesus’s life, he feels like a non-conformist Socialist to me, one may even use the time period hippie right this moment.
Frank Kortangian
Blairsden
“A World Turned Upside Down”*
America shouldn’t be the one nation during which ignorance and insecurity are main into senseless self-destruction. As within the days of the crusades, the world appears to have forsaken rational thought for the much less demanding different of accepting ignorance, insecurity, mounted perception, emotion based mostly selections and finally, worldwide chaos. Britain’s politically pushed Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has discovered a usable contrivance in ‘brexit,’ a lot as Joe McCarthy discovered one in ‘communism.’ Northern Eire may nicely be the primary main sufferer. President Bolsonaro, in Brazil, is intentionally destroying the rainforests of the Amazon. Australia’s P.M. has positioned fossil gasoline forward of wholesome air, forest fires and local weather warming. In Japan, the present regime is trying to erase all proof of the 1937 bloodbath of 250,000 civilians in Nanking. Tens of millions of Muslims in India are being relentlessly persecuted by India’s fanatical Hindu regime. Russia remains to be sending false propaganda over the Web and interfering within the electoral processes of America, England, France and different nations. Terrorist teams are spreading their fanatical murderous actions all through the world.
So, Reagan had his Grenada. Bush and Cheney their deceitful and falsely proclaimed, however extraordinarily profitable, invasion of Iraq — an act that led to the deaths of over 100,000 harmless civilians, the rising of the ISIS and Al-Queda, and the devastation of one of many world’s best facilities of historical tradition. Corrupt or incompetent management in Mexico, Pakistan, Libya, Nigeria, North Korea, Venezuela and plenty of different nations appears to be endemic. Overpopulation, intentional ignorance, greed, non secular intolerance, the Web and insecurity are every taking part in an element within the disintegration of our semi-civilized world. If Trump escalates his baseless battle with Iran, which may nicely be the ultimate act of madness.
*A preferred tune in England throughout WWI.
Wallace B. Eshleman
Quincy
