The Wages of Cannabis

I’m writing in response to the article your paper recently published about the so-called Coalition for Responsible Cannabis filing a lawsuit against the County of Santa Barbara claiming the county has not provided adequate oversight of the local cannabis farms and businesses that are prospering in our area.

My family and I moved from Los Angeles in 2009. We moved here because the recession had hit us hard. I was a new mom, my company had downsized and my husband’s position had been eliminated at the company he worked for at the time.

When I lived and worked in Los Angeles, I held important positions in the finance industry (Lehman Brothers and U.S. Trust Bank, N.A.). Unfortunately, moving to North County, meant that I would have to commute a long distance to find a job that paid me somewhat close to what my last positioned in Los Angeles paid. This was difficult for me, because my commute and job got in the way of my availability as a parent.