Cannabis: County Files Suit, License Surrendered, Plants Pulled
Three Marijuana Operations Feel the Heat
In a report to the County Board of Supervisors this week, County Counsel Michael Ghizzoni described several enforcement actions initiated against cannabis operations in the Carpinteria Valley and west of Buellton.
Speaking during budget hearings on Tuesday, Ghizzoni told the Board of Supervisors that, acting on eight odor complaints from Carpinteria residents, the county filed a lawsuit in Santa Barbara Superior Court on May 21 against Island View Ranch LLC and Island Breeze Farms LLC — the landowner and operator, respectively, of a two-acre cannabis “grow” at 3376 Foothill Road.
The lawsuit alleges the business has been a “continuing public nuisance” since at least March 2019 and should be shut down. It is the county’s first public nuisance lawsuit against a cannabis operation.
