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Date:     Sun, 12 Aug 2007 07:45:47 -0700
From:    "Steve Kubby" < steve@...> 
Subject:    KUB: Measure G Victory


Friends,

Here in Mendocino, we are celebrating our victory in forcing our 
county government to finally codify and implement Measure G -- making 
it a crime to investigate, arrest or prosecute anyone growing 25 
flowering plants or less.  Much of the credit for this wonderful 
achievement is directly due to the dedicated and hardworking members 
of the Mendocino Medical Marijuana Advisory Board (MMMAB), founded by 
Pebbles Trippet.  Furthermore, I believe some special recognition is 
due to several members of the Mendocino community.

Jim Hill certainly played a decisive role in the Measure G victory, 
since it was Jim who first called everyone's attention to the 
county's failure to uphold and implement the 2000 ordinance.  Jim 
campaigned long and hard to win support for Measure G implementation 
and really played a critical role in turning the rest of us around. 
Acting District Attorney, Keith Faulder, was one of the first to back 
up Jim and Keith's legal arguments were certainly compelling.  
Mendocino's Director of Elections, Lorraine Ahiswede, clinched the 
deal when, at my request, she found the original ballot review by the 
County that clearly advised voters their vote would be law, not an 
advisory.

Special thanks are also in order to Dr. William Courtney who 
successfully educated Sheriff Tom Allman about the extraordinary 
medical properties of cannabis and won Sheriff Allman over to our side.

Although I was sidelined with a medical issue, I am told that nearly 
200 people did show up that the BOS meeting to demand that Measure G 
be upheld as well as a 25 plant limit for medical patients and 
caregivers.  Obviously the BOS got the message and recognition is 
also due to each of those 200 who showed up to defend liberty and the 
rule of law.

Yes, we still are still saddled with an unrealistic 2 pound limit, 
but now that the BOS have officially recognized Measure G, it's just 
a matter of time before we force the BOS to comply with Measure G's 
specific limit of "the dried equivalent of 25 flowering plants."  In 
fact, we should all look forward to cramming the standard narc 
testimony that "one plant produces one pound," down the BOS throats 
and demanding a 25 pound limit for Mendocino.

One final comment.  It has been an honor and special pleasure to work 
with the activists in Mendocino and I am deeply grateful to know such 
courageous and freedom-loving people. However, what has been achieved 
in Mendocino was done by regular citizens with no special resources.  
No celebrities or multi-millionaires required, just hard work and 
determination.  What we have accomplished here can be replicated in 
counties across the nation. It is just a matter of doing the work to 
qualify a Measure G type ordinance in your county.

Let freedom grow,

Steve Kubby

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Below is the full text of Mendocino's new Ordinance:

Section 9.36.10: FINDINGS

The People of Mendocino County find as follows:

    A)  Cannabis sativa (marijuana) is a beneficial plant with a 
respectable heritage and hundreds of well-known industrial, medicinal 
and recreational uses;

    B)  Two decades of marijuana law enforcement in Mendocino County has 
not stopped cultivation here but has unnecessarily marginalized a 
large number of otherwise law abiding citizens who grow and use 
marijuana;

    C)  Those who grow for personal use are not responsible for violent 
incidents sometimes associated with marijuana cultivation, but are 
vulnerable to theft;

    D)  The Institute of Medicine has found that marijuana has bona fide 
medical uses and is not a gateway to hard drug addiction;

    E)  Law enforcement has carried out investigations, confiscations, 
and arrests against persons cultivating and using medical marijuana 
under Proposition 215 in Mendocino County;

    F)  The cities of Berkeley and San Francisco have longstanding 
ordinances which instruct police to minimize the priority of 
marijuana enforcement.

Section 9.36.20: PURPOSE

The Ordinance codified in this Chapter will:

A. Instruct the county government to support all efforts toward the 
decriminalization of marijuana;

B. Instruct the county sheriff and district attorney to make 
marijuana enforcement their lowest priority with respect to other 
crimes;

C. Establish a maximum limit of plants and weight for cultivation and 
possession of marijuana for personal use in Mendocino County, and 
prohibit the expenditure of public funds for enforcement of marijuana 
laws against cultivators and users in possession of quantities below 
that limit.

D. Remove the fear of prosecution and the stigma of criminality from 
people who harmlessly cultivate and/or use marijuana for personal 
medical or recreational purposes.

E. Extend police protection to those growing or possessing marijuana 
for personal use;

F. Provide for the continued enforcement of marijuana laws against 
those who cultivate, transport and possess marijuana for sale.

The purpose of this chapter is to establish Cannabis enforcement 
policy for Mendocino County.

Section 9.36.30: DECRIMINALIZATION OF CANNABIS IN CALIFORNIA

It is the desire of the people of Mendocino County that the 
cultivation for personal use of Cannabis be decriminalized in 
California. In this context, the board of supervisors is directed to 
lobby state and federal governments for the immediate 
decriminalization of the personal use of Cannabis, specifically by 
repealing Sections 11357, (possession), 11358, (transportation), and 
- 11359, (cultivation), of the California Health and Safety Code. The 
people also urge the Sheriff and District Attorney to publicly 
support such decriminalization.

Section 9.36.40: LAW ENFORCEMENT PRIORITY OF CANNABIS

Through its budgetary authority, the Mendocino County Board of 
Supervisors shall seek to ensure that the Sheriff's Office and the 
District Attorney give lowest priority to the enforcement and 
prosecution of marijuana laws.

Section 9.36.50: SHERIFF OFFICE ARRESTS AND CITATIONS

The Board of Supervisors shall use its budgetary authority to ensure 
that the Sheriff's Office makes no arrests and issues no citations 
for violations of the above state Health and Safety Code sections in 
any single case involving 25 or fewer adult flowering female 
marijuana plant or the equivalent in dried marijuana.

Section 9.36.60: DISTRICT ATTORNEY PROSECUTIONS

The Board of Supervisors shall use its funding authority to ensure 
that the District Attorney shall not prosecute any violations of the 
above state Health and Safety Code sections nor seize any property in 
any single case involving 25 or fewer adult flowering female 
marijuana plants or the equivalent in dried marijuana.

Section 9.36.70: EXPENDITURE OF FUNDS FOR CANNABIS ENFORCEMENT

Neither the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors, nor the Sheriff, 
nor the District Attorney shall spend or authorize the expenditure of 
any public funds for the investigation, arrest, or prosecution of any 
person, or the seizure of any property in any single case involving 
25 or fewer adult flowering female marijuana plants or the equivalent 
in dried marijuana, nor shall the Auditor Controller or the 
Treasurer- Tax Collector approve any such requests for such 
expenditures of public funds, or authorize or approve the issuance of 
any form of payment should such expenditures be made.

Section 9.36.80: REPORTING

The Board of Supervisors shall instruct the Sheriff's Office and 
District Attorney to report on December 1 of each year regarding 
marijuana law enforcement and prosecution activities engaged in by 
themselves and by state, federal, and/or other law enforcement 
agencies within the County of Mendocino.

Section 9.36.90: SERVERABILITY

The people of Mendocino County intend that in case a court of 
competent jurisdiction should find one or more of the above Sections 
illegal, the remaining Sections remain in full force and effect.


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