Vote No on A
Passage of Measure A will result in more pot being grown in the county on ever-larger factory farms, more exposure of our children to this dangerous THC drug and more crime in the county as most pot growers are forced deeper underground. It will weaken the local economy, send our money to out-of-state corporate interests and make CBD, the only effective epilepsy medicine, harder to get. Passage of Measure A will give the empire-building county more of our money to rescue their pensions, pay for more bureaucratic bloat and more law enforcement to fight an increase in prohibition-driven crime (as opposed to pot-driven crime) and  to spend on anything else they want. We rightly rejected other “general fund” tax measures like the so-called road-repair tax a couple of years ago. They are up to the same misleading tricks again, rushing into spending $400,000 on a no-opposition-statement election designed to circumvent the two-thirds-majority rule. Has anything changed so we can now trust them to spend those “tax revenues” the way they promise? Nothing I can see. Make sure you vote, and make sure you vote no.
Alexander Carpenter
Santa Rosa
