Butte County

[Yes4Prop215]

my experience with forest ranch is that they always bust a few spots up there, but yeah i guess those guys were going real big, depends on what you're looking for. for a smaller personal grow it would be a good choice, but if you want to push 50-99+ large open sun i dont know, and yea a very limited supply of open sun spots. i also know thats theres a lot of tweaks up that ways past magalia than in my area of o-ville, my friend used to grow up that ways and said its getting real bad. most of my folks from the ridge all moved to O-ville, which isn't that bad just gotta find a good neighborhood a lot of my neighbors are all retired folks or fellow growers, no tweakers around here although the closer to downtown the more tweaks and alcoholics you find... also having to drive thru paradise all the time is a hassle since paradise PD are pretty arrogant and anti-pot from what I've experienced, they are trying to make paradise a zero growing, clean and quiet retirement community.

plasto - have 2 verified reports from two totally different circles about forest service doing traffic stops before both enterprise bridge, the main bridge leading up 162 to berry creek, and the main road up to concow. they drive plain ford explorers and other SUVs, mostly white with a small badge on the driver door. they basically pull over everybody and check on you and see whats up, luckily the people i know who got pulled over were clean but they got hassled a bit.

its been a good while since i last heard of it happening…this was back around december or so. i see forest service all the time on my road but never saw them pulling traffic stops so it was pretty concerning. i guess they are the ones to look out for more than CHP and BCSO...

 

[skull and roses]

The traffic stop thing was going on for sure, my circle in the oroville area had friends and trimmers get stopped. Yeah paradise and magalia suck. Too many retires and cops not down with growing. Forest ranch is just up 32 you don't have to drive through any other towns. Not sure if you thought you had to drive through paradise...might have read that wrong. I guess everyone's experience is different. The old school growing communities around here are forest ranch and butte creek canyon....helltown. That's where all the long time hippie growers and born and raised folks are. Overall the county isn't that friendly, they just can't deal with all the growing. If they were more welcoming they would have tons of tax cash, the climate is perfect in butte. It looks like the latest restrictive orid. Is going to the people for a vote. We shall see what happens.

 

[theJointedOne]

fuck a road block...good looking out dudes, this is all news to me

 

[jackpot7]

Thanks for the info prop and sk and roses, much respect blessings

 

[tankerton]

ATTN BUTTE COUNTY GROWERS:
Time is running out. We still need 2000 signatures by 3/13/2014 in order to suspend the new restrictive 50 sq ft. growing regulations. Please go sign the petition to suspend the new ordinance and place the old one (up to 99) plants back on the november ballot for county wide vote again. Spread the word. Signatures are being collected at garden connection in chico and advanced soil in Oroville. Save our medical rights. We still have time!! Failure is not an option!!!

 

[Yes4Prop215]

yea people get out there and sign it! I've already signed and tried to get as many people i know to sign unfortunately they aren't all registered in butte to vote.

2k isn't too bad i thought we were like 5k short….GET OUT AND SIGN PEOPLE!!!!

 

[Backyard Farmer]

Lol 2000 people is more than the population of the town I live in! Go butte go!

 

[tankerton]

Not registered to vote in butte county? Not a problem all signature locations have voter registration cards as well. It takes five minutes and all you need is an address in the county. Let your friends know wether they are part time resident (college student). Or full time resident their signature matters.

 

[furrywall11]

The growers coalition should buy 50 kegs and put some Sublime on the loud speaker at a park... 2k signatures no problem. shiet.

 

[Yes4Prop215]

^for real, that sounds like something the triangle would do, jsut throw a big free festival and invite all the locals down to sign up.

they did have a big party at advanced soil and garden last weekend....

for butte county they would need to put on a "free meth" invite to get all the people together.

lol i kid i kid...except seriously there is alot of tweakers in butte.

 

[megayields]

^for real, that sounds like something the triangle would do, jsut throw a big free festival and invite all the locals down to sign up.

they did have a big party at advanced soil and garden last weekend....

for butte county they would need to put on a "free meth" invite to get all the people together.

lol i kid i kid...except seriously there is alot of tweakers in butte.

heheh "free meth" so true......

 

[skull and roses]

There's a lot of very private growers who barely socialize. Maybe it's like that in other places, but I know some huge outdoor growers who literally didn't even know there were changes and that we needed signitures?!?!?! I hope we get the signitures, let's go people!!!

 

[theJointedOne]

i thought it was kind of weak the guys who were tyring to get sigs to repeal the law also at the same time were getting sigs for a new set of limits for butte, pushing their own agenda under the guise of repealing the other

the real 215 has no limits.

 

[CanniDo Cowboy]

Taken from the California Cannabis Coalition Facebook site. Shasta County has been forced to recognize the more than required signatures gathered and so now the Shasta County outdoor cultivation ordinance ban, already in place, has been halted. The whole matter will now be in the hands of voters in Nov, damn well as it should be. Supposedly, the California Cannabis Coalition, instrumental in helping here in Shasta, is now in Butte Co to help do the same. Good luck down there fellas. Obviously it can be done...CC

Shasta County Cannabis Supporters Fight Grow Ban
Updated last Sunday · Taken in Shasta, California

We Did It!

"On 2-27-14 at 4:20 various groups and organization met at the Shasta County registrars office to turn in our signatures for the Peoples Referendum. We made history, collecting 13,080 signatures (almost doubling the set 6,600 needed signatures) and registering 3,600 people to vote. 65% of these new registered voters in Shasta County had never registered before in their lives..."

 

[Backyard Farmer]

go Shasta!!

 

[CanniDo Cowboy]

As taken from the Chico ER newspaper today...
http://www.chicoer.com/news/ci_25331883/opponents-butte-marijuana-cultivation-law-deliver-petitions

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Opponents to Butte marijuana cultivation law deliver petitions
Goal is to abolish existing ordinance
By Roger Aylworth

raylworth@chicoer.com @RogerAylworth on Twitter

POSTED: 03/12/2014 06:21:23 PM PDT

OROVILLE >> Opponents to Butte County's recently passed medical marijuana cultivation ordinance delivered petitions with 12,262 signatures on them in hopes they will lead to the abolition of the rule.

The petitions, which were brought into the Butte County administrative office in Oroville, arrived just two hours before the 5 p.m. deadline Wednesday. If the petitions had not arrived by the deadline the entire drive would have been voided.

If at least 7,605 of the signatures are certified as valid, the petitions will force Butte County's supervisors to either on their own vote to rescind the ordinance or to place the referendum before county voters.

The county has 30 days to certify the signatures. During that time the ordinance is not enforced.

On Feb. 11, the supervisors unanimously approved an amended marijuana cultivation ordinance. The ordinance didn't set any limits on the number of plants that could be grown in outside gardens, but it restricted the size of the gardens and required they be placed a certain distance from property lines.

Under those regulations a garden on a lot of more than a half-acre but less than five acres could have only 50 square-feet of growing space, which must be at least 50 feet from the nearest property line.

The allowable garden spaces grew with the number of acres in the property and topped out at a maximum size of 150 square-feet on a parcel of 10 acres or more. A garden on that big a lot had to be 150 feet from the nearest property line.

At that meeting Andrew Merkel, a medical marijuana advocate who helped craft an earlier cultivation ordinance that was passed in February of 2013, warned the supervisors they would face a referendum over the new rules.

Wednesday Merkel was one of half a dozen people who delivered the signed petitions to the county offices.

He said the petition supporters had paid a professional firm about $65,000 to get the necessary petitions signed in the allowed 30 days...



Good news for ButteCounty...but...I find the last sentence (in bold) interesting. $65,000.00?? I assume the article is referring to the California Cannabis Coalition who also helped with the successful petition drive in Shasta County. Nothing was mentioned, that I am aware of, of any costs associated with CCC assisting in Shasta.

If the article claim is indeed accurate, my question(s): Is $65,000.00 a fair cost for merely getting the referendum in place? In my mind, it doesnt really guarantee anything other than it does put it on the ballot in Nov. Is that worth $65,000.00? Should the California Cannabis Coalition even charge such a fee? I could make the argument they (CCC) are no better than the so called med marijuana lawyers - "Yes, we help you but its gonna cost you..." I appreciate a gift horse as much as the next guy but dang, at $65,000.00 a crack, CCC has knocked down $130,000.00 in a month or 2 and just in 2 counties (so far)...If this is the case, theyve got a nice gig going...just sayin...CC

 

[redlaser]

Thanks for posting this CanniDo, I hadn't seen it yet anywhere else. As far as the 65k, I think you have to factor in the thirty day time frame to get it done. I'd be interested in how many work hours it took to get those signatures and how much the company would be paid if they didn't get the signatures. I'd say it could be worth more than 65 if they have 7605 valid votes and it ends up changing things for the better. It'd be nice to get it cheaper but you'd have to know how many people were actually working to know how cost effective it was.

 

[megayields]

Good job California Cannabis Coalition!

 

[fisher15]

It was definitely a group effort! Great to see all the support from the community, and huge thanks to Andrew for organizing it all.

 

[Yes4Prop215]

take that wahl you dirtbag! butte county now needs to hit the ballot boxes hard and kick all these prohibitionist farts out of our local government....