Huge New Crop, Huge New Problems?
A Demand for County Stewardship in the Face of 2,500 Cannabis Growers
I write
during the week we celebrate Earth Day and in solidarity with all the youth in
the country who are demanding a better stewardship from the people currently in
power for the environment they will inherit. We are at the same old crossroads
again — county officials eyeing what they assume will be large tax revenue
dollars overtaking their job to protect our health and the environment in which
we live.
The Santa Barbara County supervisors have completely let the younger generation down by giving no consideration to the environment in granting more than 2,500 licenses for cannabis growing with no discussion of greenhouse gases emitted, the amount of energy required, water, or any environmental considerations at all, from what I have read.
I
would have asked these questions and voiced these concerns whatever the new
crop was. It is the sheer amount of new licenses that will have a huge impact
on this county and will forever change Santa Barbara. The fact that it happens
to be cannabis is not the issue for me.
