Opinion: Wake up and smell the cannabis, Sonoma County
Our severe drought prompted the county to lobby the state to decrease mandated new housing units due to water limitations. Yet at a recent supervisors hearing, Permit Sonoma identified no cumulative water impacts from cannabis grows whereas in reality the county failed to analyze this. The county should have done this six years ago while developing the original ordinance.
-Written by Deborah Eppstein, a retired scientist living in Sonoma County, and Craig S. Harrison, a retired lawyer living in Bennett Valley.Related articles:
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