This is another area and what they are suggesting as the way to allow Medical Cannabis..




Marijuana cultivation rules endorsed in Redding

Redding inched closer this evening to enacting comprehensive regulations on medical marijuana cultivation and cannabis club locations when the Planning Commission voted to endorse new zoning.

The commission’s vote is merely a recommendation to the City Council, which must ultimately approve the zoning.

The city would allow outdoor and indoor medical marijuana cultivation for qualified patients under the proposed zoning, but limit the size and location of the grows.

Redding would restrict outdoor gardens to 100 square feet of canopy and allow them only in back yards and interior side yards 30 feet from the nearest neighbor. The city would also limit plant heights to eight feet and require a six-foot-tall fence around crops.

A couple of commissioners thought a 10-by-10-foot garden might be too small, and noted the city would review the ordinance in six months.

Redding would limit indoor gardens to 100 square feet of canopy or 10 percent of the home, whichever was larger. The city would also require a certified electrician to sign off on any electrical loads for cultivation larger than 1,200 watts.

Finally, the city would limit new medicinal cannabis clubs to heavy commercial and general commercial zones on the city outskirts, under the proposed zoning.

Commission votes on yard setbacks for outdoor grows and zoning restrictions for cannabis clubs were nearly unanimous, with only Emmett Burroughs dissenting. Burroughs favored tighter limits on clubs and an outdoor cultivation ban.

The commission nearly split on cultivation standards, voting 4-3. Some commissioners, like Burroughs, favored tighter restrictions, while others, like Cameron Middleton, worried a city requirement that growers for collectives sign an affidavit with the development services director could compromise privacy.

Commissioners defended the proposed zoning as a reasonable middle ground after hearing from more than a half-dozen speakers, most of whom criticized the zoning as too restrictive and invasive. Several speakers were especially upset about the limits on outdoor cultivation for personal use, noting they could not afford to grow indoors or to join a cannabis club.

“I think this whole thing has been blown out of proportion,” said James Benno. “What if I don't like tomatoes and I find four others who don't like tomatoes? Can we vote out tomato growing in Redding?”

Others said Redding’s regulations violate Prop. 215, California’s Compassionate Use Law, and promised a class-action lawsuit against the city.

Commissioners generally praised the regulations after picking them apart line by line over the course of three meetings.

“We want as much as possible to allow people to use marijuana medically if they have a legitimate recommendation,” Commissioner Lynne Wonacott said. “Our goal is the health and safety of you and your neighbors and the city as a whole. Is it a perfect system? No, but we are not like other communities that have tried to shut the whole thing down.”

The zoning restrictions endorsed by commissioners Tuesday complement cannabis club regulations adopted Dec. 1 by the council that are set to take effect in January.

Collectives must allow the police chief access to their records so authorities can determine whether the clubs serve qualified medical marijuana patients under the new regulations.

The city also will require doctors to specify amounts in their medical marijuana recommendations to collective members, limit cannabis sales to dried buds and ask members to verify that they don't belong to more than one collective in Shasta County.

These regulations are designed to weed out profit-driven dope dealers from legitimate medical marijuana collectives, which are supposed to be nonprofit, Redding officials have said. Officials expect many of Redding’s estimated 20 to 30 clubs to shut down next year, once the new rules take effect.

[Lazyman]

Wow, I think this sort of thing is going to become widespread soon. Every county and city will have their own rules and restrictions. I saw no mention of collective grows though, multiple recs per site and collective grows would still be legal right?

I'm attempting it in Stanislaus County.

I believe we have had two brick and mortar and both were raided with two arrests resulting in 20 and 21 years for two I believe.. Then another one where they sent in a legal cannabis medical person to buy cannabis from a brick and mortar medical collective. That resulted in dismissel as they failed to mention the buyer was a legal medical person when they got the warrants.

[Lazyman]

Yeah, the westcoastleaf.com paper shows MJ court cases, how they got off and who their lawyer was. Good info for growers, but even more important for the days to come!

Originally Posted by Lazyman

Yeah, the westcoastleaf.com paper shows MJ court cases, how they got off and who their lawyer was. Good info for growers, but even more important for the days to come!

I'm totally with ya.. We just have to get it legal for the private citizen to practice proper horticulture as they can with most herbs and medicinal plants.

Then we allow for creative minds to do what is a human right.. Improve our natural foods and natural medicines.

I don't remember Chain Stores in the Garden of Eden Story.. I don't remember reading that our Christian God said we couldn't smoke pot..

It was the ownership and control of that tree of knowledge that got those two evicted not Cannabis. Well we are not living in Eden and the Devils that are anti medical cannabis never rest.

LOL.. I enjoy these late hours...

[meduser180056]

o god everything is already over regulated in our society u can't even cross the fucking street these days.

electrician has to sign off on grows over 1200 watts? Uh ok might as well have an electrician sign off on using a portable electric heater in your house while we're at it...

Someone needs to notify these cities and counties that all their limits and regulations are gonna get thrown out the window once SB420 is officially shot down.

The AG guidelines are bullshit nowhere in 215 does it say dispensaries/collectives must operate as non-profits. The ag can't limit 215 with his guidelines. Where did all this non profit bs come from?

They also can't force people to only be members of one collective.
They also can't force doctors to specify amounts.
They also can't limit sales to dry buds cause concentrates and edibles fall under the protection of prop 215. Also why do they contradict themselves and talk about limiting sales when it's all supposed to be non-profit. What a bunch of idiots.

Let's make the big pharma companies operate as non profits too while we're at it. Sorry, but thats not how capitalism works. Medicine gets sold in America that's just the way it is.

[Pythagllio]

Most hospitals and quite a large % of health insurance companies are organized as non-profits. I've never understood why potheads scream so for dispensary operations to operate as NPO's.

It is confusing to say the least.. 58 counties act like 58 mini-states here in California.

Each wanting to have the laws work their way.

Originally Posted by Lazyman

Wow, I think this sort of thing is going to become widespread soon. Every county and city will have their own rules and restrictions. I saw no mention of collective grows though, multiple recs per site and collective grows would still be legal right?

In the newspaper a couple days ago, they said they were going to talk about limiting coop grows to three patients per house, and you would have to live there to grow there. I didn't see anything about collective grows.