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Squadrons of brown pelicans are a frequent sight, gliding low over the powerful waves, while snowy plovers are sometimes seen foraging along the surf line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_128951\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/behrensbutterfly.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/behrensbutterfly-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Behrens silver-spot butterfly, an endangered species found at the new Point Arena unit of the California Coastal National Monument. (Gordon Pratt via U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-128951\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Behrens silver-spot butterfly, an endangered species found at the new Point Arena unit of the California Coastal National Monument. 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It’s also about to become the first land-based addition to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/prog/blm_special_areas/nm/ccnm/ccnm_brochures.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Coastal National Monument\u003c/a>, a strip of more than 20,000 offshore islands and rocks stretching from the Mexican border to the Oregon state line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Obama is expected to sign an order Tuesday that will add 1,665 acres at Point Arena to the national monument. The property, known as the \u003ca href=\"http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/fo/ukiah/stornetta.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stornetta-Point Arena Public Lands\u003c/a>, includes coastside meadows and cliffs adjacent to the Point Arena Lighthouse. 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(Michael Montgomery/California Watch)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last Tuesday the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors voted to \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2012/02/13/146826169/mendocino-ending-its-medical-marijuana-experiment\">end a unique program\u003c/a> that placed medical marijuana cultivation under the supervision of the sheriff’s department, approving a \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CCwQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mendocinosheriff.com%2Fmm%2F931SheriffsSummary.pdf&ei=MrRCT86yOsSWiQKfzuDSAQ&usg=AFQjCNGsin9PsGlFzLlISkKNqH-jYT4x4w&sig2=dQ86nnOA1jxjBacKxkmF6g\">watered down version of the ordinance\u003c/a> (pdf), known as 9.31, instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The permit program was the first of its kind in the nation, but it ran afoul of the federal Controlled Substances Act. At least, that’s how US Attorney Melinda Haag’s office saw it. She warned the county that it faced litigation if the program continued, forcing the county’s hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not just federal law enforcement that opposed the effort. Mendocino’s own sheriff’s department has been deeply divided over whether to authorize pot growers, even if they are in compliance with state medical marijuana laws and county regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, I spoke with Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman, a strong advocate of the program. While several active deputies have spoken privately about their hostility toward 9.31 and their general view that medical marijuana is a sham, none has been willing to talk on the record. I did, however speak with retired sheriff’s lieutenant Rusty Noe, who did not support the permitting effort while he was head of the department’s investigations unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>First, here's an edited transcript of my \u003cstrong>interview with Sheriff Tom Allman\u003c/strong>, who worked closely with some growers to come into \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&ved=0CEEQFjAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Furl%3Fsa%3Dt%26rct%3Dj%26q%3D%26esrc%3Ds%26source%3Dweb%26cd%3D5%26ved%3D0CEEQFjAE%26url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.sonomacountyduilawyer.com%252Fpdf%252FmendosheriffreqtsCompliance2010.pdf%26ei%3DrLlCT42kBKWPigKExtiqAQ%26usg%3DAFQjCNHAv4bt6s5nE8DuA9PEkdaX4MtSAA%26sig2%3Dm6zMN06PUV5-gE-ke-EClA&ei=rLlCT42kBKWPigKExtiqAQ&usg=AFQjCNHAv4bt6s5nE8DuA9PEkdaX4MtSAA&sig2=m6zMN06PUV5-gE-ke-EClA\">compliance\u003c/a> with the program. Stipulations included limitations on cultivation locations; limitations on noise, odor, and lighting; fencing requirements, and additional conditions.\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery: What did the program accomplish?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheriff Allman: What Mendocino County was able to accomplish with the program known as 9.31 was that it allowed people who have been underground in the past to come forward and legitimize their medical marijuana operations. And at the same time pay a substantial amount of money to government for the purpose of inspections on a monthly basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>I'm surprised, based on some of the statements that President Obama and Attorney General Holder have made... that those comments are so contrary to the actions of the US attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>It also allowed us to comply with former Attorney General Jerry Brown's guidelines of allowing government to oversee marijuana cooperatives. Attorney General Brown was very generous in his opinion of allowing government to step in and say if you're going to have medical marijuana and it has an effect on government operations, then you should be able to get reimbursed for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyone who says medical marijuana doesn’t have an impact on local law enforcement, I would gladly debate. 9.31 allowed us to clearly document and clearly inspect and clearly have an idea of where the medical marijuana was being cultivated, so that we didn't have to send a bunch of deputies to every location every time someone called something in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Talk about the culture shift, the idea that the program created this different relationship between growers and law enforcement... \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was clearly a shift. There are people who are pro-marijuana and people who are anti-marijuana. \u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/California_Proposition_215,_the_Medical_Marijuana_Initiative_%281996%29\">Proposition 215\u003c/a> put law enforcement in the middle. I'm not for it, I'm not against it; it's part of the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one ever asks me what I think about the speed limit; they just say go out and enforce it. No one every asks whether I like medical marijuana or not; neither side wants to hear my answer. They just want to hear me as sheriff say I have an understanding of what the law is, and that we are going to make the law work as the courts, the judicial branch and the legislative branch have intended it to work. That's what 9.31 accomplished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are 16 states and the District of Columbia that have said in one way or another that we will deal with medical marijuana. But there's not a consistent law throughout our nation of what medical marijuana is. So there's this huge amount of confusion; you can call it a gray area , you can call it a lack of intestinal fortitude from the legislative branch. Call it whatever you want. But I'm calling it confusion as far as law enforcement goes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We don't get up in the morning and say we want to violate someone's rights. What we do is say let's go enforce the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>9.31 very clearly was allowing us to protect the rights of legitimate medical marijuana growers and enforce the law against those who were growing outside the boundaries of 9.31, cultivating a huge amount of crops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When people hear the words Mendocino County they immediately think of marijuana. I want to remind people that last year alone Mendocino County eradicated almost 650,000 marijuana plants. So we're not embracing marijuana, saying bring us your sick, your ill, and your people who have sore shoulders. I don’t' want people to move to Mendocino County for the purpose of growing medical marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What we're doing is looking at what the legislative branch and the judicial branch through its interpretation of the law, and in this situation the voters, have given us. And we're trying to figure out a way to make it work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Some people, including some of your own officers, say this whole effort was doomed to fail. What do you say to the idea that it never should have even been tried?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Protecting the rights of our citizens does not depend on whether my deputies are happy or unhappy about it.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I say that if somebody can come up with a better idea, I am here 24-7. But we're not going to come up with an answer that everyone's going to embrace. If you look at where we are now in 2012 and in California where we were in 1996 when Prop 215 was enacted, things are being accepted now that never would have been accepted then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We're trying to hone the rough edges of this problem, and get to the point where people say its palatable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We're not going to come up with an answer that 80% of the people agree with. We're going to come up with a solution that 51% of our voters say 'that's a solution I can live with.' And once we get to that point we can deal with some other issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Were you surprised to find the US Attorney had threatened the county with civil action? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm surprised, based on some of the statements that President Obama and Attorney General Holder have made at the national level, that those comments are so contrary to the actions of the US attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because I've had US attorneys in this office sitting in that chair right there assuring me that any legitimate medical marijuana program that Mendocino County adopts will be accepted by the US attorney. However, that person's not a US attorney anymore. So we've got a group of four US Attorneys whom I respect, and Melinda Haag -- she and I have had many conversations about other topics that we respect each other on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far as marijuana goes, I saw her last week and I merely said we can agree to disagree. But I said that this step that the US Attorney's Office took in California, in my humble opinion as an elected sheriff, was a step backwards. We're further away from a solution today than we were two months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Does part of you feel that all the work you've done on this was for nothing?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not at all. Because I absolutely believe that in the next 8, 10, or 12 months, we're going to get to the point where people say: you know, Mendocino county, you weren't wrong. You were doing it within the boundaries of the law, and we're going to get these files out, blow the dust off the zip ties, and say for 2013 let's take care of the problems we had from 2011. History will show 2012 as a 12-month hiatus in progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How can the county get around the line that the federal government has drawn? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The one consistent thing we can agree on about marijuana is that the situation is ever-changing. The highest law in the land as we know it is our constitution. We pay nine US justices to interpret that constitution. The best wish I have is for the Supreme Court to interpret the constitution to give these 16 states and the District of Columbia a clear direction. Because if there's one thing that's lacking from this whole conversation, it's a clear direction at a national level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do you think this move by the county to back away from the program will heal some of the rifts within your own department? You have plenty of deputies that don’t' like the program…\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That hasn't been part of my thought process. I understand what my role is, as an elected sheriff in a rural county in California. That's to fairly enforce the law, protect the rights of my citizens, and to make sure justice is carried out. Protecting the rights of our citizens does not depend on whether my deputies are happy or unhappy about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I've said many times, I've never smoked marijuana in my entire life, but if 57% of the voters in California have said legitimate medical marijuana will be respected, am I going to say that my deputies don’t think they should respect it so we're not going to? No. And if the voters say well we want a sheriff who goes against marijuana, in 2014 they'll have a chance at that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a sheriff, the constitution reigns. Until someone says that Prop 215 is contrary to the constitution, then we're going to continue respecting the rights of legitimate medical marijuana caregivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Was it hard for you to see the rights of one of your citizens arguably trampled? I’m referring to the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/10/13/mendocino-county-raid-has-marijuana-advocates-riled/\">DEA raid on Matt Cohen's Northstone Organics\u003c/a>.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It disturbed me. It made me a little bit distrustful, because of one of the US attorneys sitting in this office saying we are going to respect the rights of legitimate medical marijuana caregivers in Mendocino County if they're compliant with our guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the US Attorney 's office had come to me and said hey, we'd like to see this person's file, we would have had a little negotiation, but ultimately I would have sat down with them and said this is what we're doing. If you guys want to go along with us on one of our inspections maybe that could have been worked out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I totally respect the US Attorney's office and the US Attorney General, but I'm hoping that this wasn't intentional saber-rattling -- if we show Mendocino County we mean business, then all of these other counties will back off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Really? Then if that's the will of the legislative and judicial branch, then bring it on. Tell us what the law is. But it's very important that we understand the executive branch, and a prosecuting attorney is part of the executive branch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We don't make the law; we don’t' interpret the law. We enforce the law. And if they're going to come in and enforce federal law, they have my blessing to do so in my county -- they don’t' need it, actually. But I'm asking them to follow through. If they come up and in the name of the federal government eradicate marijuana, then push it all the way up. Maybe this is a case that's going to get to our nine justices and we're going to have an answer. But we're not going to have an answer in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement wants clear direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Now here's an edited transcript of my \u003cstrong>interview with retired lieutenant Rusty Noe\u003c/strong>, who opposes 9.31.\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery: A lot of growers thought 9.31 was really a success, and it was a tragedy that the program has to be ended. But what is the view of you and other law enforcement ? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rusty Noe: Marijuana's illegal. When you take the oath and you swear to the badge, you uphold the law, you don't get to pick and choose what the law is. As far as I'm concerned, the board of supervisors can pretty much do what they want, and it's an accepted practice in this area and several other areas around us that marijuana's okay. But it's not. It's against the law. Whether its' federal or state laws on the books that makes it illegal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What about the argument that this program was meant to help law enforcement distinguish between legal medical marijuana and illegal marijuana so it could use limited resources to focus on the big growers.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well I understand that. But 9.31 is allowing cooperatives, and all these cooperatives are is just a license to grow a lot of dope. You can be a cooperative, and I don't really understand all the ways that the laws are written – they're unclear. But if you are going to be a part of a cooperative, seems to me that you should not benefit financially. If sick people need marijuana, I'm all for it. I have no problem with that.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">It's an accepted practice in this area and several other areas around us that marijuana's okay. But it's not. It's against the law.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But 99 plants, given the way they grow up here, that's far more than anybody's' cooperative should realize. Then you've got people like Matt Cohen -- what is the difference between someone who takes methamphetamine and transports it to San Francisco and Cohen, who transports it to San Francisco and sells it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You've got these cooperatives and the primary role is to take marijuana, grow it, manicure it, process it and sell it. If you take methamphetamine to San Francisco, you're a drug dealer. You take marijuana to San Francisco and you're making a profit, there's no difference, you're still a drug dealer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you had a program that was low-key... But you start getting these co-ops that are transporting it to the Bay Area and even L.A., then the feds have to deal with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Some people say this is just a modest effort to get a handle on local marijuana cultivation, but you're saying that's not the reality.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reality is that this is a good opportunity to make money, and a lot of money at that. I understand the history of this whole thing. When they passed Prop 215 it was understood people were going to be allowed to use it and grow it with limitations. But the law was written too ambiguously, so each county could interpret it differently. You could have 5 plants or 500 plants depending on what you were trying to get away with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the state passes \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/03-04/bill/sen/sb_0401-0450/sb_420_bill_20031012_chaptered.html\">SB 420\u003c/a>, which says what you can have, which is all law endorsement ever asked, to give us a clear line. Then all of a sudden 420 says unless the county chooses not to abide by these rules. So the voters in Mendocino county said enough is enough because of all the problems they were having, and they did vote to accept the rules of 420. It allowed all these people to move in here from all over the US and grow 100 plants in their backyards and realize thousands and thousands of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And 9.31 made it a more acceptable practice because the sheriff's office was licensing these people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Just how much marijuana is the 99 plants that were allowed?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The way these cooperatives grow, minimum, a plant is going to produce 3 pounds of marijuana. Even if it's 2 pounds, that's 200 pounds of weed. The normal person, even chronic heavy users of marijuana, cannot physically possibly use more than 16 pounds, because mathematically, if you smoke a joint every hour, it works out to just about 16 pounds. So okay, what are you going to do with the rest?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What was the impact of this program, sanctioned by the sheriff, on the department?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People were upset. My own gut reaction was we shouldn’t have been in that business regardless of what the board of supervisors wanted. It's not the feds vs. California. You took an oath to uphold those laws. I know from all the research I've done and all the cases I've done that 85% of this is criminal activity. There are the poor sick people who have 3 or 4 plants in the backyard. And they're doing the right thing. And when we used to do our raids, we'd knock on somebody's door and say what's up, what's wrong with you and how much do you truly need? We would analyze the problem,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In my entire career, probably 20 cases out of hundreds were legitimate persons who were using marijuana for some ailment and had the proper amount to do the property thing with it, whether they used a vaporizer or smoked it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Was there an aspect of this thgat had a demoralizing effect on the force?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure it did. You have the guys who want to go out there and take care of business, because it is a problem. Last year, I had neighbors move in next to me, first time in 16 years I couldn’t sleep with my windows open in the summertime because I couldn't stand that stench. But I couldn't do anything about it, because of 9.31. I think they were 9.31 because I went to Google Earth and did a search and saw that they had 99 plants exactly in their backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These people were not from here. They were here during the summer, and once the marijuana was harvested they were gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The argument is that Mendocino County was getting a handle on the problem by bringing it into some kind of regulatory control. But you seem to be saying that all it did was attract more people to come in and take advantage of the system.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's exactly it. Control, taxation, legalization, it's not going to mean anything in my opinion. If a guy's been growing marijuana since 1984 for instance, and he's made a hundreds thousand every year tax free, and all of a sudden you come to him and say you have to pay taxes on that, why would he? It's still illegal in the federal view. Why would he pay taxes to the state of California or Mendocino County? It doesn't legitimize it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When DEA raided Matt Cohen's farm, was there a sense that it was long overdue that someone took action?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">It's the people who are using medical marijuana to get rich and then thumbing their nose at the government and law enforcement, and saying you know what, this is our god given right. Those are the guys we need to deal with.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>It's been an ongoing battle with the DEA doing raids and things like that. What tended to happen is the DEA does a raid and they take people's marijuana. The Hill family, they were just in your face, they were in the New York Times, people coming over every day filming. They were growing these monster plants. They were big advocates. The DEA comes and raids them. Same thing with Matt Cohen, another guy who's in your face. The Feds are telling him don't do it. And the sheriff is saying as far as we're concerned its legal. But he don't run the federal government. So when they did that raid I thought it was overdue. I think they need to take some of these people and prosecute them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So there will be no more permits at least this year, and no more 99-plant exemptions, bringing it down to 25. Is that a positive move in your mind?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No, it's a stopgap measure to avoid any kind of federal prosecution. Is it going to change anything? No, they're still going to grow a hundred plants, permitted or not. There's no way law enforcement can deal with that. It's just too big an area with too many people doing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The sheriff's dept made $600,000 on fees from the program. Do you consider that dirty money?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure. It's from illegal gains. Those fees are about six to eight thousand dollars. Wouldn't I go get one of your $8,000 dollar permits so I can make my million dollars?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The argument was that they could use some of that money to target big illicit growers in the Mendocino National Forest...\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That whole national forest thing is kind of a misnomer. Yeah they do grow a lot of marijuana there and nobody likes it. But the federal government has the tendency to throw lots of money at a problem. So if you're in the Mendocino National Forest, they're going to throw a lot of money at that. You don’t' need that 9.31 money because the feds are going to give you the money to combat that problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don't know where this 9.31 money went, but I told the sheriff I don’t' want anything to do with it. I don't like it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The number of department personnel involved in the program was actually very small, wasn't it? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just about everyone I know in the department didn't want anything to do with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I'm sure you've heard the argument that you're stuck in an old way of thinking, and you need to accept that medical marijuana is here to stay.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I've been listening to that for years and years and have had all kinds of discussions about it. But all the federal government needs to do is reclassify marijuana. And it will take all this guesswork out of it. Reclassify it as a Schedule II prescription drug by a medical doctor. Then you'll have big tobacco coming in and growing and providing it, and the rest of it is illegal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California passed this compassionate use law, but they didn't foresee that there's nothing compassionate about it. If I'm going to grow compassionately and turn around and sell it for $100,000 a year, then I'm not going to be voting for any regulatory effect. Because it's going to take money out of my pocket. 9.31 was a great program for dopers because they could make a million dollars. Now it's gone, boo hoo, everybody's crying. But it's not going to slow them down a bit. The argument that it's bringing illegality back into marijuana is nonsense, because it's already illegal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then you take poor sick grandma and maybe she does get some relief from marijuana. I'm not going to argue with that. But she's only got her two or three plants in the backyard. She gets 2-4 pounds she can use during the year to alleviate her pain. I really don’t care about those people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's the people who are using medical marijuana to get rich and then thumbing their nose at the government and law enforcement, and saying you know what, this is our god given right. Those are the guys we need to deal with because those are the ones making the money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So you're saying the program overwhelmingly benefited people who wanted to grow as much as they could within a legal framework to make money. Was that the motivating factor, not to help sick people?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exactly. I can't think of anyone in my career who was growing that many plants who was ever actually a compassionate person, who was giving it away or growing it for people who actually needed it.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_57069\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 238px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/02/cohen-4.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-57069\" title=\"cohen 4\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/02/cohen-4-238x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Medical marijuana grower Matthew Cohen examines plants at his Mendocino County farm before a raid by federal drug agents last year. (Michael Montgomery/California Watch)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last Tuesday the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors voted to \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2012/02/13/146826169/mendocino-ending-its-medical-marijuana-experiment\">end a unique program\u003c/a> that placed medical marijuana cultivation under the supervision of the sheriff’s department, approving a \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CCwQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mendocinosheriff.com%2Fmm%2F931SheriffsSummary.pdf&ei=MrRCT86yOsSWiQKfzuDSAQ&usg=AFQjCNGsin9PsGlFzLlISkKNqH-jYT4x4w&sig2=dQ86nnOA1jxjBacKxkmF6g\">watered down version of the ordinance\u003c/a> (pdf), known as 9.31, instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The permit program was the first of its kind in the nation, but it ran afoul of the federal Controlled Substances Act. At least, that’s how US Attorney Melinda Haag’s office saw it. She warned the county that it faced litigation if the program continued, forcing the county’s hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not just federal law enforcement that opposed the effort. Mendocino’s own sheriff’s department has been deeply divided over whether to authorize pot growers, even if they are in compliance with state medical marijuana laws and county regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, I spoke with Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman, a strong advocate of the program. While several active deputies have spoken privately about their hostility toward 9.31 and their general view that medical marijuana is a sham, none has been willing to talk on the record. I did, however speak with retired sheriff’s lieutenant Rusty Noe, who did not support the permitting effort while he was head of the department’s investigations unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>First, here's an edited transcript of my \u003cstrong>interview with Sheriff Tom Allman\u003c/strong>, who worked closely with some growers to come into \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&ved=0CEEQFjAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Furl%3Fsa%3Dt%26rct%3Dj%26q%3D%26esrc%3Ds%26source%3Dweb%26cd%3D5%26ved%3D0CEEQFjAE%26url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.sonomacountyduilawyer.com%252Fpdf%252FmendosheriffreqtsCompliance2010.pdf%26ei%3DrLlCT42kBKWPigKExtiqAQ%26usg%3DAFQjCNHAv4bt6s5nE8DuA9PEkdaX4MtSAA%26sig2%3Dm6zMN06PUV5-gE-ke-EClA&ei=rLlCT42kBKWPigKExtiqAQ&usg=AFQjCNHAv4bt6s5nE8DuA9PEkdaX4MtSAA&sig2=m6zMN06PUV5-gE-ke-EClA\">compliance\u003c/a> with the program. Stipulations included limitations on cultivation locations; limitations on noise, odor, and lighting; fencing requirements, and additional conditions.\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery: What did the program accomplish?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheriff Allman: What Mendocino County was able to accomplish with the program known as 9.31 was that it allowed people who have been underground in the past to come forward and legitimize their medical marijuana operations. And at the same time pay a substantial amount of money to government for the purpose of inspections on a monthly basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>I'm surprised, based on some of the statements that President Obama and Attorney General Holder have made... that those comments are so contrary to the actions of the US attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>It also allowed us to comply with former Attorney General Jerry Brown's guidelines of allowing government to oversee marijuana cooperatives. Attorney General Brown was very generous in his opinion of allowing government to step in and say if you're going to have medical marijuana and it has an effect on government operations, then you should be able to get reimbursed for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyone who says medical marijuana doesn’t have an impact on local law enforcement, I would gladly debate. 9.31 allowed us to clearly document and clearly inspect and clearly have an idea of where the medical marijuana was being cultivated, so that we didn't have to send a bunch of deputies to every location every time someone called something in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Talk about the culture shift, the idea that the program created this different relationship between growers and law enforcement... \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was clearly a shift. There are people who are pro-marijuana and people who are anti-marijuana. \u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/California_Proposition_215,_the_Medical_Marijuana_Initiative_%281996%29\">Proposition 215\u003c/a> put law enforcement in the middle. I'm not for it, I'm not against it; it's part of the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one ever asks me what I think about the speed limit; they just say go out and enforce it. No one every asks whether I like medical marijuana or not; neither side wants to hear my answer. They just want to hear me as sheriff say I have an understanding of what the law is, and that we are going to make the law work as the courts, the judicial branch and the legislative branch have intended it to work. That's what 9.31 accomplished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are 16 states and the District of Columbia that have said in one way or another that we will deal with medical marijuana. But there's not a consistent law throughout our nation of what medical marijuana is. So there's this huge amount of confusion; you can call it a gray area , you can call it a lack of intestinal fortitude from the legislative branch. Call it whatever you want. But I'm calling it confusion as far as law enforcement goes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We don't get up in the morning and say we want to violate someone's rights. What we do is say let's go enforce the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>9.31 very clearly was allowing us to protect the rights of legitimate medical marijuana growers and enforce the law against those who were growing outside the boundaries of 9.31, cultivating a huge amount of crops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When people hear the words Mendocino County they immediately think of marijuana. I want to remind people that last year alone Mendocino County eradicated almost 650,000 marijuana plants. So we're not embracing marijuana, saying bring us your sick, your ill, and your people who have sore shoulders. I don’t' want people to move to Mendocino County for the purpose of growing medical marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What we're doing is looking at what the legislative branch and the judicial branch through its interpretation of the law, and in this situation the voters, have given us. And we're trying to figure out a way to make it work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Some people, including some of your own officers, say this whole effort was doomed to fail. What do you say to the idea that it never should have even been tried?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Protecting the rights of our citizens does not depend on whether my deputies are happy or unhappy about it.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I say that if somebody can come up with a better idea, I am here 24-7. But we're not going to come up with an answer that everyone's going to embrace. If you look at where we are now in 2012 and in California where we were in 1996 when Prop 215 was enacted, things are being accepted now that never would have been accepted then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We're trying to hone the rough edges of this problem, and get to the point where people say its palatable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We're not going to come up with an answer that 80% of the people agree with. We're going to come up with a solution that 51% of our voters say 'that's a solution I can live with.' And once we get to that point we can deal with some other issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Were you surprised to find the US Attorney had threatened the county with civil action? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm surprised, based on some of the statements that President Obama and Attorney General Holder have made at the national level, that those comments are so contrary to the actions of the US attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because I've had US attorneys in this office sitting in that chair right there assuring me that any legitimate medical marijuana program that Mendocino County adopts will be accepted by the US attorney. However, that person's not a US attorney anymore. So we've got a group of four US Attorneys whom I respect, and Melinda Haag -- she and I have had many conversations about other topics that we respect each other on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far as marijuana goes, I saw her last week and I merely said we can agree to disagree. But I said that this step that the US Attorney's Office took in California, in my humble opinion as an elected sheriff, was a step backwards. We're further away from a solution today than we were two months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Does part of you feel that all the work you've done on this was for nothing?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not at all. Because I absolutely believe that in the next 8, 10, or 12 months, we're going to get to the point where people say: you know, Mendocino county, you weren't wrong. You were doing it within the boundaries of the law, and we're going to get these files out, blow the dust off the zip ties, and say for 2013 let's take care of the problems we had from 2011. History will show 2012 as a 12-month hiatus in progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How can the county get around the line that the federal government has drawn? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The one consistent thing we can agree on about marijuana is that the situation is ever-changing. The highest law in the land as we know it is our constitution. We pay nine US justices to interpret that constitution. The best wish I have is for the Supreme Court to interpret the constitution to give these 16 states and the District of Columbia a clear direction. Because if there's one thing that's lacking from this whole conversation, it's a clear direction at a national level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do you think this move by the county to back away from the program will heal some of the rifts within your own department? You have plenty of deputies that don’t' like the program…\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That hasn't been part of my thought process. I understand what my role is, as an elected sheriff in a rural county in California. That's to fairly enforce the law, protect the rights of my citizens, and to make sure justice is carried out. Protecting the rights of our citizens does not depend on whether my deputies are happy or unhappy about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I've said many times, I've never smoked marijuana in my entire life, but if 57% of the voters in California have said legitimate medical marijuana will be respected, am I going to say that my deputies don’t think they should respect it so we're not going to? No. And if the voters say well we want a sheriff who goes against marijuana, in 2014 they'll have a chance at that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a sheriff, the constitution reigns. Until someone says that Prop 215 is contrary to the constitution, then we're going to continue respecting the rights of legitimate medical marijuana caregivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Was it hard for you to see the rights of one of your citizens arguably trampled? I’m referring to the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/10/13/mendocino-county-raid-has-marijuana-advocates-riled/\">DEA raid on Matt Cohen's Northstone Organics\u003c/a>.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It disturbed me. It made me a little bit distrustful, because of one of the US attorneys sitting in this office saying we are going to respect the rights of legitimate medical marijuana caregivers in Mendocino County if they're compliant with our guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the US Attorney 's office had come to me and said hey, we'd like to see this person's file, we would have had a little negotiation, but ultimately I would have sat down with them and said this is what we're doing. If you guys want to go along with us on one of our inspections maybe that could have been worked out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I totally respect the US Attorney's office and the US Attorney General, but I'm hoping that this wasn't intentional saber-rattling -- if we show Mendocino County we mean business, then all of these other counties will back off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Really? Then if that's the will of the legislative and judicial branch, then bring it on. Tell us what the law is. But it's very important that we understand the executive branch, and a prosecuting attorney is part of the executive branch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We don't make the law; we don’t' interpret the law. We enforce the law. And if they're going to come in and enforce federal law, they have my blessing to do so in my county -- they don’t' need it, actually. But I'm asking them to follow through. If they come up and in the name of the federal government eradicate marijuana, then push it all the way up. Maybe this is a case that's going to get to our nine justices and we're going to have an answer. But we're not going to have an answer in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement wants clear direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Now here's an edited transcript of my \u003cstrong>interview with retired lieutenant Rusty Noe\u003c/strong>, who opposes 9.31.\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery: A lot of growers thought 9.31 was really a success, and it was a tragedy that the program has to be ended. But what is the view of you and other law enforcement ? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rusty Noe: Marijuana's illegal. When you take the oath and you swear to the badge, you uphold the law, you don't get to pick and choose what the law is. As far as I'm concerned, the board of supervisors can pretty much do what they want, and it's an accepted practice in this area and several other areas around us that marijuana's okay. But it's not. It's against the law. Whether its' federal or state laws on the books that makes it illegal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What about the argument that this program was meant to help law enforcement distinguish between legal medical marijuana and illegal marijuana so it could use limited resources to focus on the big growers.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well I understand that. But 9.31 is allowing cooperatives, and all these cooperatives are is just a license to grow a lot of dope. You can be a cooperative, and I don't really understand all the ways that the laws are written – they're unclear. But if you are going to be a part of a cooperative, seems to me that you should not benefit financially. If sick people need marijuana, I'm all for it. I have no problem with that.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">It's an accepted practice in this area and several other areas around us that marijuana's okay. But it's not. It's against the law.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But 99 plants, given the way they grow up here, that's far more than anybody's' cooperative should realize. Then you've got people like Matt Cohen -- what is the difference between someone who takes methamphetamine and transports it to San Francisco and Cohen, who transports it to San Francisco and sells it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You've got these cooperatives and the primary role is to take marijuana, grow it, manicure it, process it and sell it. If you take methamphetamine to San Francisco, you're a drug dealer. You take marijuana to San Francisco and you're making a profit, there's no difference, you're still a drug dealer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you had a program that was low-key... But you start getting these co-ops that are transporting it to the Bay Area and even L.A., then the feds have to deal with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Some people say this is just a modest effort to get a handle on local marijuana cultivation, but you're saying that's not the reality.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reality is that this is a good opportunity to make money, and a lot of money at that. I understand the history of this whole thing. When they passed Prop 215 it was understood people were going to be allowed to use it and grow it with limitations. But the law was written too ambiguously, so each county could interpret it differently. You could have 5 plants or 500 plants depending on what you were trying to get away with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the state passes \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/03-04/bill/sen/sb_0401-0450/sb_420_bill_20031012_chaptered.html\">SB 420\u003c/a>, which says what you can have, which is all law endorsement ever asked, to give us a clear line. Then all of a sudden 420 says unless the county chooses not to abide by these rules. So the voters in Mendocino county said enough is enough because of all the problems they were having, and they did vote to accept the rules of 420. It allowed all these people to move in here from all over the US and grow 100 plants in their backyards and realize thousands and thousands of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And 9.31 made it a more acceptable practice because the sheriff's office was licensing these people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Just how much marijuana is the 99 plants that were allowed?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The way these cooperatives grow, minimum, a plant is going to produce 3 pounds of marijuana. Even if it's 2 pounds, that's 200 pounds of weed. The normal person, even chronic heavy users of marijuana, cannot physically possibly use more than 16 pounds, because mathematically, if you smoke a joint every hour, it works out to just about 16 pounds. So okay, what are you going to do with the rest?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What was the impact of this program, sanctioned by the sheriff, on the department?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People were upset. My own gut reaction was we shouldn’t have been in that business regardless of what the board of supervisors wanted. It's not the feds vs. California. You took an oath to uphold those laws. I know from all the research I've done and all the cases I've done that 85% of this is criminal activity. There are the poor sick people who have 3 or 4 plants in the backyard. And they're doing the right thing. And when we used to do our raids, we'd knock on somebody's door and say what's up, what's wrong with you and how much do you truly need? We would analyze the problem,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In my entire career, probably 20 cases out of hundreds were legitimate persons who were using marijuana for some ailment and had the proper amount to do the property thing with it, whether they used a vaporizer or smoked it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Was there an aspect of this thgat had a demoralizing effect on the force?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure it did. You have the guys who want to go out there and take care of business, because it is a problem. Last year, I had neighbors move in next to me, first time in 16 years I couldn’t sleep with my windows open in the summertime because I couldn't stand that stench. But I couldn't do anything about it, because of 9.31. I think they were 9.31 because I went to Google Earth and did a search and saw that they had 99 plants exactly in their backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These people were not from here. They were here during the summer, and once the marijuana was harvested they were gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The argument is that Mendocino County was getting a handle on the problem by bringing it into some kind of regulatory control. But you seem to be saying that all it did was attract more people to come in and take advantage of the system.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's exactly it. Control, taxation, legalization, it's not going to mean anything in my opinion. If a guy's been growing marijuana since 1984 for instance, and he's made a hundreds thousand every year tax free, and all of a sudden you come to him and say you have to pay taxes on that, why would he? It's still illegal in the federal view. Why would he pay taxes to the state of California or Mendocino County? It doesn't legitimize it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When DEA raided Matt Cohen's farm, was there a sense that it was long overdue that someone took action?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">It's the people who are using medical marijuana to get rich and then thumbing their nose at the government and law enforcement, and saying you know what, this is our god given right. Those are the guys we need to deal with.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>It's been an ongoing battle with the DEA doing raids and things like that. What tended to happen is the DEA does a raid and they take people's marijuana. The Hill family, they were just in your face, they were in the New York Times, people coming over every day filming. They were growing these monster plants. They were big advocates. The DEA comes and raids them. Same thing with Matt Cohen, another guy who's in your face. The Feds are telling him don't do it. And the sheriff is saying as far as we're concerned its legal. But he don't run the federal government. So when they did that raid I thought it was overdue. I think they need to take some of these people and prosecute them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So there will be no more permits at least this year, and no more 99-plant exemptions, bringing it down to 25. Is that a positive move in your mind?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No, it's a stopgap measure to avoid any kind of federal prosecution. Is it going to change anything? No, they're still going to grow a hundred plants, permitted or not. There's no way law enforcement can deal with that. It's just too big an area with too many people doing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The sheriff's dept made $600,000 on fees from the program. Do you consider that dirty money?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure. It's from illegal gains. Those fees are about six to eight thousand dollars. Wouldn't I go get one of your $8,000 dollar permits so I can make my million dollars?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The argument was that they could use some of that money to target big illicit growers in the Mendocino National Forest...\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That whole national forest thing is kind of a misnomer. Yeah they do grow a lot of marijuana there and nobody likes it. But the federal government has the tendency to throw lots of money at a problem. So if you're in the Mendocino National Forest, they're going to throw a lot of money at that. You don’t' need that 9.31 money because the feds are going to give you the money to combat that problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don't know where this 9.31 money went, but I told the sheriff I don’t' want anything to do with it. I don't like it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The number of department personnel involved in the program was actually very small, wasn't it? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just about everyone I know in the department didn't want anything to do with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I'm sure you've heard the argument that you're stuck in an old way of thinking, and you need to accept that medical marijuana is here to stay.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I've been listening to that for years and years and have had all kinds of discussions about it. But all the federal government needs to do is reclassify marijuana. And it will take all this guesswork out of it. Reclassify it as a Schedule II prescription drug by a medical doctor. Then you'll have big tobacco coming in and growing and providing it, and the rest of it is illegal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California passed this compassionate use law, but they didn't foresee that there's nothing compassionate about it. If I'm going to grow compassionately and turn around and sell it for $100,000 a year, then I'm not going to be voting for any regulatory effect. Because it's going to take money out of my pocket. 9.31 was a great program for dopers because they could make a million dollars. Now it's gone, boo hoo, everybody's crying. But it's not going to slow them down a bit. The argument that it's bringing illegality back into marijuana is nonsense, because it's already illegal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then you take poor sick grandma and maybe she does get some relief from marijuana. I'm not going to argue with that. But she's only got her two or three plants in the backyard. She gets 2-4 pounds she can use during the year to alleviate her pain. I really don’t care about those people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's the people who are using medical marijuana to get rich and then thumbing their nose at the government and law enforcement, and saying you know what, this is our god given right. Those are the guys we need to deal with because those are the ones making the money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So you're saying the program overwhelmingly benefited people who wanted to grow as much as they could within a legal framework to make money. Was that the motivating factor, not to help sick people?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_54429\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/01/MCohen_PostRaid012412.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54429\" title=\"MCohen_PostRaid012412\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/01/MCohen_PostRaid012412.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matt Cohen, owner of Northstone Organics medical marijuana growers cooperative, discusses a November raid on his farm by the Drug Enforcement Agency. Image courtesy of the Center for Investigative Reporting.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bowing to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/01/11/prosecutors-move-to-shut-down-mendocino-pot-permit-program/\">federal pressure\u003c/a>, Mendocino County will no longer issue permits to medical marijuana growers. The County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 to end the popular permit program, which was the first of its kind in the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote also makes it illegal to cultivate more than 25 plants, reducing the amount from the previous limit of 99 plants. The county will not continue to issue permits, but will not prevent growers with existing permits — who are operating under state law — to continue growing a plot of 25 plants or less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of medical marijuana growers who packed a conference room in Ukiah today expressed passionate support for the permitting program. One speaker who identified himself as Nick said the decision to stop regulating marijuana cultivation would be a boon for illegal growers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With no inspectors, no sheriffs, nothing like that present, it’s just going to bring back an era of lawlessness that we had before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Supervisor Dan Hamburg said a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/10/07/california-u-s-attorneys-issue-statement-on-targeting-marijuana-industry/\">threatened lawsuit\u003c/a> by US Attorney Melinda Haag gave the county little choice but to stop issuing permits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I were a private citizen, I would be railing against the federal government, saying ‘we should put every last resource this county has to fighting the feds.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a fight between Mendocino County and the federal government would make David and Goliath look like a fair fight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision could force the county to lay off sheriff’s deputies due to a loss in fees earned from growers who participated in the permit program. Nearly 100 people signed up for last year’s pot harvest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_54430\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 150px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/01/NsOrg_PostRaid012412.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54430\" title=\"NsOrg_PostRaid012412\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/01/NsOrg_PostRaid012412.jpg\" alt=\"Destroyed marijuana plant.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This plant is one of 99 that were destroyed in a November 2011 raid on Northstone Organics. Image courtesy of the Center for Investigative Reporting.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>KQED News and \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/category/special-project/republic-cannabis\">California Watch\u003c/a> have \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/bayarea/republicofcannabis/\">collaborated in covering\u003c/a> thriving medical marijuana industry in the state, as well as the federal government’s \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/10/14/northstone-organics-matt-cohen-mendocino-county-sheriff-tom-allman-on-yesterdays-dea-raid/\">crackdown\u003c/a> on local medical marijuana growers. Mendocino County’s permitting program was the subject of a KQED TV Special, “\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bFUASotNXk\">The Republic of Cannabis\u003c/a>,” which aired last summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently we conducted \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/01/17/mendocino-county-pot-permit-program/\">extensive interviews\u003c/a> with Tommy LaNier, who directs the White House-funded National Marijuana Initiative and opposes legalized marijuana and \u003ca href=\"http://www.co.mendocino.ca.us/bos/mccowen2009.htm\">John McCowen\u003c/a>, the chairman of the Mendocino Board of Supervisors who helped design the ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in October, the Drug Enforcement Agency raided the growers cooperative \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/northstone-organics/\">Northstone Organics\u003c/a>. This surprised many medical marijuana supporters, in part because Matt Cohen’s was considered to be a model business in the Mendocino County permitting program. Here are post-raid follow up interviews with Cohen, Supervisor McCowen and federal officials:\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_53507\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 238px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/01/matthewcohen-1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/01/matthewcohen-1-238x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"matthewcohen\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-53507\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Medical marijuana grower Matthew Cohen examines plants at his Mendocino County farm before a raid by federal drug agents last year. (Michael Montgomery, California Watch)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The always-complicated relationship between the federal government and California officials over the issue of medical marijuana became even more strained last October when the four U.S. Attorneys for the state \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/10/07/california-u-s-attorneys-issue-statement-on-targeting-marijuana-industry/\">announced an enhanced enforcement strategy\u003c/a> designed to crack down on what they see as abuses of California's legalization of the drug for medical purposes. Legal threats by the government seem to have had the desired effect, with new \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/peninsula/ci_19755643\">reports\u003c/a> of \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/13/market-street-cooperative-closes_n_1205835.html\">dispensaries shutting down\u003c/a> coming every month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps no federal action has angered and mystified marijuana advocates more than the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/10/14/northstone-organics-matt-cohen-mendocino-county-sheriff-tom-allman-on-yesterdays-dea-raid/\">federal raid on Northstone Organics\u003c/a>, a Redwood Valley marijuana dispensary and cultivator that had worked closely with local law enforcement and local officials to come into compliance with a unique county permitting program. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program, which operates under the supervision of the sheriff's department, has drawn \u003ca href=\"http://video.pbs.org/video/2165815068/\">national media attention\u003c/a>. It has also been held up by marijuana advocates as an example of the kind of government involvement that could bring new legitimacy to the marijuana industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, sources told Michael Montgomery, who has been covering this story for several years, that Melinda Haag, the US Attorney for California's Northern District, threatened to sue Mendocino County over its marijuana program. The sources said Haag gave the county two weeks to respond and take action. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county's legal counsel has since advised the Board of Supervisors to end the program. Supervisors are scheduled to vote on the counsel's recommendations next Tuesday, and it's widely expected that they will abandon the model program.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, Michael Montgomery spoke with two officials who have starkly different views of the Mendocino's marijuana program: \u003ca href=\"http://www.co.mendocino.ca.us/bos/mccowen2009.htm\">John McCowen\u003c/a>, the chairman of the Mendocino Board of Supervisors who helped design the ordinance; and Tommy LaNier, who directs the White House-funded National Marijuana Initiative and opposes legalized marijuana, for medical or any other purposes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, here's the interview with LaNier, the federal official and marijuana opponent: \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It seems that the program is being shutdown. My first question is just your response to what has happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tommy LaNier\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You have to go back to October when the four US Attorneys did the press conference. This is something that was inevitable. Entities, whether a city or county or those involved in the illegal distribution of marijuana through the so-called dispensary program, knew this was going to come. So the counties had fair warning. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are lots of places in California the Feds could focus on since any marijuana cultivation or distribution is illegal under the Controlled Substances Act. Why do you think they took this step to essentially intervene in Mendocino County?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tommy LaNier\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, each of the US attorneys are taking action within their respective judicial district. Melinda Haag is dealing with a number of things in her area, and one of those areas she is taking action against is Mendocino. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other three US attorneys are also doing the same thing with different counties and cities and have also advised those places where they’re trying to regulate marijuana-- which is illegal under the Control Substances Act —- they cannot do that. This is just another process; Mendocino was on the list to do it in the first part of January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moving forward, now that the feds to some degree have revealed their hand in Mendocino in terms of saying that a local jurisdiction cannot permit or authorize marijuana cultivation, what should we expect in places like San Francisco and Oakland, which also have permit programs for dispensaries? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tommy LaNier\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I can't speak directly for the U.S Attorneys because they're working on individual cases, but I would think it would send a message to those cities that see what's going on in Mendocino and that they're most likely going to be advised that they're in violation of the law if they haven't already. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those discussions I'm sure are going to continue throughout the state, within the various districts. U.S. Attorneys are going to act based on the resources available but those places that really have developed large programs, like in Mendocino, are going to be probably a priority on the list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Would you say that includes cities in the Bay Area that are permitting dispensaries?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tommy LaNier\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I would say, yeah. I would assume that that's going to include any of the dispensaries as well. One of the things that the U.S. Attorneys stated at the briefing included those people that had dispensaries and/or property owners that facilitated the ability for dispensaries to operate. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So you're not only looking at entities like cities and counties, but you're looking at private property owners and dispensary owners. They're all included in this thing. When you look at the Controlled Substances Act, if you produce, if you distribute, if you sell, you're in violation of federal law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You run a national organization. Does this help us understand what might happen in states like Colorado that have also set up pretty elaborate state-wide permitting programs? Or is this a California-specific development?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tommy LaNier \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No, I don't think it's a California development. When you look at main Justice (the federal Justice Department), they're looking at the entire program with the 15 states that have (passed laws allowing) marijuana for medicinal use. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colorado is also one of those place that's being looked at. So I would hope that the U.S. Attorney over there is also going to direct his attention to those places where they are permitting, and I think that is going to happen as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, here's an edited transcript of the interview with Supervisor McCowen, who sees no sense in the federal actions in Mendocino. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a city council member you supported a ban on outdoor marijuana cultivation but your views evolved over time. Talk about that…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John McCowen\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My interest has always been in protecting public safety. Prior to the city of Ukiah adopting a ban on outdoor cultivation, people were filling up their residential backyards with scores of plants that created significance nuisance and public safety impacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I think a ban on outdoor growing in a residential area was absolutely the right approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I also helped pass a countywide initiative that put Mendocino County back in line with state limits, an effort to control what had become an out-of-control situation. That narrowly passed, was held up in the courts, and meanwhile people continued to come into the area from outside of California, specifically to grow as much marijuana as they could and make as much money as they could. Our efforts up to that time were futile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the amendments I supported included a balance of increased restrictions, such as setbacks from property lines, from occupied houses, a ban on growing within sight of the public right of way, balanced with an opportunity for people to apply for a permit from the sheriff to grow up to 99 plants per parcel, subject to compliance with a long list of conditions and inspection by the sheriff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think that resulted in successfully balancing the public safety impacts and environmental protection against the right of medical marijuana patients under California law to have safe access to medical marijuana. It's been a very successful regulatory program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You've said in the past that one aim of the program was to create a bright line between illegal marijuana growing and legal medical marijuana growing, in order to help law enforcement. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John McCowen\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Absolutely. There's so much marijuana being grown out here, and no one has any illusion that we could eradicate it all if we wanted to. The best estimates are that the authorities, federal state and local combined, might be able to eradicate about 10% of the illegal marijuana grown every year. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it just made sense to me to try to come up with a program that would identify a group of people who were absolutely legal in terms of state and local law. So here we had people who were willing to step forward and comply with a long list of conditions, including that they are paying all their payroll taxes like any other business and they're being inspected by the sheriff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then you have other people outside of that system who are more of a question mark, and some of them are clearly out of bounds. But by creating this separation between what is clearly legal and what is more questionable, it allows law enforcement to focus their efforts on the people who are actually creating the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Were you surprised by the decision of the US Attorney's office to essentially intervene by threatening the county with litigation over its medical marijuana permit program? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John McCowen\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No I wasn't really surprised. I think we've been aware for some time now that our program has been on the radar of the federal authorities. A lot of people involved in federal narcotics enforcement have a zero tolerance viewpoint on marijuana. They think it's all illegal; they think medical marijuana is a sham. And they have no respect for the ability of states to determine their own position on medical marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Do you see the federal action vis-à-vis Mendocino as interference in the county's political decision-making process? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John McCowen\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I absolutely do. The government that is closest to the people is more in tune with the people and what our local needs are. What might work in Iowa might be very different from what works in Mendocino County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, we had a very successful local, state, and federal program to eradicate marijuana in Mendocino national forest last year. I personally very much welcomed the participation of the federal authorities. They eradicated over 600,000 plants, took out miles of irrigation lines, dozens of illegal dams, tons of garbage. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think there were over 130 arrests, one prosecution. So who are we kidding? The federal government is making no serious effort to prosecute the people who are illegally cultivating marijuana for the black market and who are harming the environment, and instead they're trying to knock down a program that provides for the cultivation of medical marijuana in compliance with state and local law, protection of the environment, protection of neighborhood impacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If they really want to go after all the marijuana they think is illegal – great. And after they clean up the trespass growers in the national forest who are polluting and destroying the environment, then let's talk about people who are complying with our local program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But otherwise, if you're not going to provide the resources to solve the problem, then don't interfere with our efforts on the local level to bring order out of chaos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because prior to this program, it was like the Wild West. We had people flooding in here from all over the nation and the world, focused on growing as much marijuana as they could without regard to the environment or the local communities. There was complete polarization between the marijuana growers, whether it was on a small scale level or the out of control people…and it was very divisive within the community. It took up a lot of time at the local government level. The courts were clogged; there was no clear resolution to the cases, there was no clear dividing line as to what was legal and what wasn't illegal, and what we should spend our resources on and what not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the program we put in place went a long way in addressing those problems. My concern is that the federal action, whatever their intention, is going to have the effect of driving medical marijuana back underground, which will make it more dangerous, more profitable, and more favorable to the black market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is it fair to say the program as it's existed is effectively dead right now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John McCowen\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We'll see on January 24, when county counsel brings forward her proposed amendment and the board of supervisors makes its decision. But if the ordinance is to conform to the Pack decision, and the federal threat, then it is likely the program will be effectively dead in terms of the permitting system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Could the county fight this threatened litigation? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John McCowen\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county could fight; I'm not sure that would be wise. For one thing, we've been struggling for the last three years to balance our budget in the face of the economic collapse, and we don't have the resources to take on the federal government. Their budget is probably in worse shape than ours, but they have the luxury of being able to run trillions of dollars of deficit, so they have an open checkbook to pursue a criminal or civil case against us. So we can't match their resources. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the fact is all marijuana is illegal under federal law. Until there's a change in federal law that recognizes the right of states to chart their own course, I think battling the federal government in court is a losing proposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given the decision by the U.S. Attorney to threaten litigation against Mendocino, what do you think that could mean for other places like Oakland or San Francisco that also have permit programs for distribution? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John McCowen\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal government has already put numerous local jurisdictions on notice that their program or intended programs are in violation of federal law. What we've seen is a lot of the local jurisdictions have adopted bans on dispensaries. Many of those that had regulations have replaced them with bans. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, Michael Montgomery spoke with two officials who have starkly different views of the Mendocino's marijuana program: \u003ca href=\"http://www.co.mendocino.ca.us/bos/mccowen2009.htm\">John McCowen\u003c/a>, the chairman of the Mendocino Board of Supervisors who helped design the ordinance; and Tommy LaNier, who directs the White House-funded National Marijuana Initiative and opposes legalized marijuana, for medical or any other purposes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, here's the interview with LaNier, the federal official and marijuana opponent: \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It seems that the program is being shutdown. My first question is just your response to what has happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tommy LaNier\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You have to go back to October when the four US Attorneys did the press conference. This is something that was inevitable. Entities, whether a city or county or those involved in the illegal distribution of marijuana through the so-called dispensary program, knew this was going to come. So the counties had fair warning. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are lots of places in California the Feds could focus on since any marijuana cultivation or distribution is illegal under the Controlled Substances Act. Why do you think they took this step to essentially intervene in Mendocino County?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tommy LaNier\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, each of the US attorneys are taking action within their respective judicial district. Melinda Haag is dealing with a number of things in her area, and one of those areas she is taking action against is Mendocino. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other three US attorneys are also doing the same thing with different counties and cities and have also advised those places where they’re trying to regulate marijuana-- which is illegal under the Control Substances Act —- they cannot do that. This is just another process; Mendocino was on the list to do it in the first part of January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moving forward, now that the feds to some degree have revealed their hand in Mendocino in terms of saying that a local jurisdiction cannot permit or authorize marijuana cultivation, what should we expect in places like San Francisco and Oakland, which also have permit programs for dispensaries? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tommy LaNier\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I can't speak directly for the U.S Attorneys because they're working on individual cases, but I would think it would send a message to those cities that see what's going on in Mendocino and that they're most likely going to be advised that they're in violation of the law if they haven't already. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those discussions I'm sure are going to continue throughout the state, within the various districts. U.S. Attorneys are going to act based on the resources available but those places that really have developed large programs, like in Mendocino, are going to be probably a priority on the list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Would you say that includes cities in the Bay Area that are permitting dispensaries?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tommy LaNier\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I would say, yeah. I would assume that that's going to include any of the dispensaries as well. One of the things that the U.S. Attorneys stated at the briefing included those people that had dispensaries and/or property owners that facilitated the ability for dispensaries to operate. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So you're not only looking at entities like cities and counties, but you're looking at private property owners and dispensary owners. They're all included in this thing. When you look at the Controlled Substances Act, if you produce, if you distribute, if you sell, you're in violation of federal law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You run a national organization. Does this help us understand what might happen in states like Colorado that have also set up pretty elaborate state-wide permitting programs? Or is this a California-specific development?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tommy LaNier \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No, I don't think it's a California development. When you look at main Justice (the federal Justice Department), they're looking at the entire program with the 15 states that have (passed laws allowing) marijuana for medicinal use. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colorado is also one of those place that's being looked at. So I would hope that the U.S. Attorney over there is also going to direct his attention to those places where they are permitting, and I think that is going to happen as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, here's an edited transcript of the interview with Supervisor McCowen, who sees no sense in the federal actions in Mendocino. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a city council member you supported a ban on outdoor marijuana cultivation but your views evolved over time. Talk about that…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John McCowen\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My interest has always been in protecting public safety. Prior to the city of Ukiah adopting a ban on outdoor cultivation, people were filling up their residential backyards with scores of plants that created significance nuisance and public safety impacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I think a ban on outdoor growing in a residential area was absolutely the right approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I also helped pass a countywide initiative that put Mendocino County back in line with state limits, an effort to control what had become an out-of-control situation. That narrowly passed, was held up in the courts, and meanwhile people continued to come into the area from outside of California, specifically to grow as much marijuana as they could and make as much money as they could. Our efforts up to that time were futile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the amendments I supported included a balance of increased restrictions, such as setbacks from property lines, from occupied houses, a ban on growing within sight of the public right of way, balanced with an opportunity for people to apply for a permit from the sheriff to grow up to 99 plants per parcel, subject to compliance with a long list of conditions and inspection by the sheriff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think that resulted in successfully balancing the public safety impacts and environmental protection against the right of medical marijuana patients under California law to have safe access to medical marijuana. It's been a very successful regulatory program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You've said in the past that one aim of the program was to create a bright line between illegal marijuana growing and legal medical marijuana growing, in order to help law enforcement. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John McCowen\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Absolutely. There's so much marijuana being grown out here, and no one has any illusion that we could eradicate it all if we wanted to. The best estimates are that the authorities, federal state and local combined, might be able to eradicate about 10% of the illegal marijuana grown every year. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it just made sense to me to try to come up with a program that would identify a group of people who were absolutely legal in terms of state and local law. So here we had people who were willing to step forward and comply with a long list of conditions, including that they are paying all their payroll taxes like any other business and they're being inspected by the sheriff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then you have other people outside of that system who are more of a question mark, and some of them are clearly out of bounds. But by creating this separation between what is clearly legal and what is more questionable, it allows law enforcement to focus their efforts on the people who are actually creating the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Were you surprised by the decision of the US Attorney's office to essentially intervene by threatening the county with litigation over its medical marijuana permit program? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John McCowen\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No I wasn't really surprised. I think we've been aware for some time now that our program has been on the radar of the federal authorities. A lot of people involved in federal narcotics enforcement have a zero tolerance viewpoint on marijuana. They think it's all illegal; they think medical marijuana is a sham. And they have no respect for the ability of states to determine their own position on medical marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Do you see the federal action vis-à-vis Mendocino as interference in the county's political decision-making process? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John McCowen\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I absolutely do. The government that is closest to the people is more in tune with the people and what our local needs are. What might work in Iowa might be very different from what works in Mendocino County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, we had a very successful local, state, and federal program to eradicate marijuana in Mendocino national forest last year. I personally very much welcomed the participation of the federal authorities. They eradicated over 600,000 plants, took out miles of irrigation lines, dozens of illegal dams, tons of garbage. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think there were over 130 arrests, one prosecution. So who are we kidding? The federal government is making no serious effort to prosecute the people who are illegally cultivating marijuana for the black market and who are harming the environment, and instead they're trying to knock down a program that provides for the cultivation of medical marijuana in compliance with state and local law, protection of the environment, protection of neighborhood impacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If they really want to go after all the marijuana they think is illegal – great. And after they clean up the trespass growers in the national forest who are polluting and destroying the environment, then let's talk about people who are complying with our local program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But otherwise, if you're not going to provide the resources to solve the problem, then don't interfere with our efforts on the local level to bring order out of chaos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because prior to this program, it was like the Wild West. We had people flooding in here from all over the nation and the world, focused on growing as much marijuana as they could without regard to the environment or the local communities. There was complete polarization between the marijuana growers, whether it was on a small scale level or the out of control people…and it was very divisive within the community. It took up a lot of time at the local government level. The courts were clogged; there was no clear resolution to the cases, there was no clear dividing line as to what was legal and what wasn't illegal, and what we should spend our resources on and what not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the program we put in place went a long way in addressing those problems. My concern is that the federal action, whatever their intention, is going to have the effect of driving medical marijuana back underground, which will make it more dangerous, more profitable, and more favorable to the black market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is it fair to say the program as it's existed is effectively dead right now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John McCowen\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We'll see on January 24, when county counsel brings forward her proposed amendment and the board of supervisors makes its decision. But if the ordinance is to conform to the Pack decision, and the federal threat, then it is likely the program will be effectively dead in terms of the permitting system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Could the county fight this threatened litigation? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John McCowen\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county could fight; I'm not sure that would be wise. For one thing, we've been struggling for the last three years to balance our budget in the face of the economic collapse, and we don't have the resources to take on the federal government. Their budget is probably in worse shape than ours, but they have the luxury of being able to run trillions of dollars of deficit, so they have an open checkbook to pursue a criminal or civil case against us. So we can't match their resources. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the fact is all marijuana is illegal under federal law. 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(Michael Montgomery, California Watch)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>From \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/prosecutors-move-shut-down-mendocino-pot-permit-program-14399\">\u003cem>California Watch\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendocino County’s ambitious effort to regulate marijuana production – the first of its kind in California and the nation – is facing growing uncertainty following new threats of legal action by federal prosecutors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The controversial program, which began two years ago, authorizes growers to cultivate up to 99 marijuana plants, provided they follow local and state medical marijuana rules, pay thousands of dollars in fees to the county and submit to inspections by sheriff’s deputies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program has proven popular with growers seeking a safe harbor – nearly 100 registered for last fall’s harvest – and county officials assert that drawing a bright line between legal and illegal marijuana growing benefits the safety of the wider public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying to bring order from chaos,” County Supervisor John McCowen said in a 2011 interview. McCowen earlier had sought to ban marijuana cultivation, but soon realized it was a losing proposition in a county where pot – legal and illegal – is widely seen as the biggest cash crop. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just as the program has gained local acceptance, it’s facing growing pressure from federal law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, DEA agents \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/public-safety/mendocino-county-marijuana-program-risk-after-dea-raids-permitted-farm-13408\">raided a farm\u003c/a> near Ukiah owned by Matthew Cohen, a well-known medical marijuana grower who helped draft the county’s cultivation ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/10/13/mendocino-county-raid-has-marijuana-advocates-riled/\">agents destroyed dozens of marijuana plants\u003c/a> and seized permits and other documents issued by county officials. According to Cohen, one agent involved in the raid said Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman deserved jail time for cooperating with growers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, federal prosecutors stepped up the pressure further by informing Mendocino officials that the program was in violation of federal drug laws and that the county faced litigation and other enforcement actions if it continued, according to drug enforcement officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They told the county to shut the program down,” said one official who was briefed on the matter. The official said Melinda Haag, U.S. attorney for California’s Northern District, gave the county two weeks to take action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for Haag declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At an Oct. 7 \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/10/07/california-u-s-attorneys-issue-statement-on-targeting-marijuana-industry/\">press conference announcing a statewide pushback on California’s marijuana industry\u003c/a>, Haag raised concerns about cities and counties that were “licensing and ostensibly authorizing the commercial and very profitable cultivation and distribution of marijuana.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In our view, these licensing schemes are inconsistent with federal law,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haag stopped short of threatening to prosecute local officials who authorize marijuana cultivation, but federal prosecutors in other states have warned that anyone who facilitates commercial pot production –including elected officials – risked possible criminal penalties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendocino County officials, who were expected to discuss the matter during yesterday’s Board of Supervisors meeting, declined to answer questions about the new warnings from the U.S. Justice Department. According to an agenda posted on Mendocino County’s website, the board met in closed session with legal counsel Jeanine Nadel to discuss “significant exposure to litigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As of this moment, no decision has been made to suspend the program,” McCowen said following yesterday’s meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nadel did not return phone calls, but in an interview last month, she pointed to a recent court case that raised questions about the future of the county’s program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/opinions/documents/B228781.PDF\">Pack v. Long Beach\u003c/a>, the state Court of Appeals ruled that authorizing marijuana production or distribution through a permit program placed a local government in violation of federal law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medical marijuana advocates have asked the California Supreme Court to review the decision, but so far, judges have not decided whether to hear the case. If the ruling stands, legal experts say it could force many medical marijuana operators out of business and spur Mendocino to stop regulating medical marijuana production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the Pack decision stands, I think we would have issue with our permitting procedure,” \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2012/01/medical_marijuana_license_fees.php\">Nadel told SF Weekly\u003c/a>. Allman, Mendocino’s sheriff, said that his office has no pending permit applications but that they usually arrive closer to the start of the growing season in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the October press conference, Haag expressed hope that the Pack decision would draw local governments into closer compliance with the federal Controlled Substances Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My guess is that there are many cities and counties around the state right now that are analyzing the Pack decision,” she said. “And they will hopefully be making some changes as a result.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Michael Montgomery is an investigative journalist for KQED News and \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Allman’s department inspects growers operating under the only ordinance in California that makes it legal to be a cannabis farmer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legal, that is, locally and in the state of California. The \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/10/07/california-u-s-attorneys-issue-statement-on-targeting-marijuana-industry/\">federal government sees things a little differently\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An edited transcript follows the audio:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio:http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/mendocinoallman.mp3|titles=mendocinoallman]\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/mendocinoallman.mp3\">Listen to \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mendocinosheriff.com/\">Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/mendocinoallman.mp3\"> speak about the DEA’s raid on Northstone Organics\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sheriff Allman\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think there’s lot of unknowns here. We do know that Northstone Organics is a registered 9.31 collective through the Mendocino county ordinance. [9.31 is the Mendocino County Health and Safety law \u003ca href=\"http://www.mendocinocountry.com/independent/1cannabis/2policy/9.31passes.html\">passed by the county board of supervisors\u003c/a> in March, 2010, by a vote of 3-2.] And we also know that the DEA did a raid on Northstone Organics today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far as I know, Matt Cohen and Northstone Organics were following all of the state laws and local ordinances that are in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Obviously we all know that there’s a big difference between what the state law is and what the federal law is. This was a federal search warrant signed by a federal magistrate, executed by the DEA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriffs’s office did have one of our deputies there. I’ve always encouraged our deputies to be at federal search warrants so when there’s a question about what happened I can have an employee tell me directly. I talked to the employee today; he stated that he was informed last night there was going to be a federal warrant today, and he went to a briefing this morning and found out where it was going to be.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>I hope people don’t’ believe that [local law] is going to protect them if the federal government makes a decision to execute a search warrant and investigate.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>What I heard, to the best of my knowledge, is Matt Cohen was not arrested. I believe 99 plants were eradicated. They took some of his personal property. That’s normal in the execution of a search warrant. That’s for the most part all I know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I spoke to Matt Cohen briefly, and he basically told me what I just told you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dave Brooksher\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve gotten a number of calls and emails today from people around the county who are genuinely scared about what’s happening today. Do you have anything you’d like to tell other 9.31 operators?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sheriff Allman\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m not exactly sure where to go on this. I hope people don’t’ believe that 9.31 is going to protect them if the federal government makes a decision to execute a search warrant and investigate. That’s clearly told up front that the state and local governments have no authority to direct the federal government not to participate in an investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It all boils down to the difference between federal law and state law. Somehow this needs to be determined by the highest court in the land, if the 10th amendment, state’s rights, is the law of the land for marijuana, or if federal law is going to be enforced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our constitution clearly differentiates between state law and federal law and who can enforce it. In this situation, we had federal officers enforcing federal law and it’s going to be submitted to the U.S. Attorney for review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m not sure I can answer the question and say, gee, everything’s going to be okay, because the federal government has their own policies and laws they enforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’d like to encourage people to really and truly think about where we are with marijuana laws right now. Take the emotions away from marijuana laws and look at the black and white differences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I hope there’s someone out there that can come up with a logical answer of where we’re going to go on this. As sheriff of Mendocino County, I really wish I didn’t have to spend 30% of my time dealing with marijuana. And the voters have clearly said in California and in Mendocino County that medical marijuana is what they want. But the federal government has not accepted that. Sooner or later this is going to come to a head and we have to get to a decision so law enforcement has clear direction from the courts.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, \u003ca href=\"http://www.ukiahdailyjournal.com/ci_19111535\">\u003cstrong>Matt Cohen, the operator of Northstone Organics, spoke to the Ukiah Daily Journal about the raid\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“They came in, guns blazing,” Cohen said of the Thursday morning raid. “They calmed down and were pleasant at the end, but they came in with machine guns.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agents arrived at 6 a.m., handcuffed Cohen and his wife and stayed until about 2 p.m., taking 99 marijuana plants, computers and testing equipment, according to Cohen. He said the agents threatened to file federal charges against him, but made no arrests during the raid…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They came in, guns blazing,” Cohen said of the Thursday morning raid. “They calmed down and were pleasant at the end, but they came in with machine guns.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agents arrived at 6 a.m., handcuffed Cohen and his wife and stayed until about 2 p.m., taking 99 marijuana plants, computers and testing equipment, according to Cohen. 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