Oh, hell no. I'm all about manufacturing, but haven't we learned that you can't have a manufacturing plant near the water!!!

Yes, I would prefer a location that would not screw up a majority of our drinking water in the event of an industrial accident.

I see a Flint, MI in the making here. How about the old Eureka flea market property?

No, it's in Blue Lake next to hwy 299.

Because they need tons of water to grow tons of weed. This is the issue with the whole state. Big giant grows are a situation not well thought through in CA. But don't worry. There's plenty of water in some other states with less environmental restrictions. Tell your CA representatives to lobby the fed to make it legal nationwide. Then we can be happy that at least CA helped make other states rich.

Thank you weed authority, now Bugger Off

It's OK. I know the raw truth of the situation isn't easy to swallow. CA fucked up big time. The AG was not legally allowed to approve for the ballot, the initiative on legalizing a Schedule 1 controlled substance.

So it isn't legal. But ironically if CA succeeds in going through the actual process of making it legal: through the fed taking it off Schedule 1, then CA will be outbid for the profits by water rich states.

Just another example of how stupid Sacramento really is. The moonbats running that show are dazed and confused.

Some states are "water rich", but it falls in the summer, making it a bad place to grow weed.
If you are worried about water, start with really large Ag. Weed takes less than 1% of the area devoted to wine grapes. Way less than 1% of the area of the more water demanding crop, alfalfa, 300,000 TONS of which are shipped to China annually. Read up on the amount of water used in Gas fracking in states like W.Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and right here in California.

Well it's a simple question of CA delegating a "snowcones-to-Eskimos" policy of water use for declining returns vs food/animal food for human food production.

Do we take what little water CA has and divert it to diminishing returns of pot? Or do we grow food with it to bolster the US's GDP in trade goods abroad? I can tell you how the fed might weigh on that question.

Why is it better to ship almonds to China, than weed to Miami? The almonds take more water for the same return. People get tunnel vision thinking of weed acreage here. Total acres of weed in CA NEXT YEAR will still be a fraction of a percent of acres and water allotments for, rice, wheat, cow corn, almonds, alfalfa, etc. Actually one could compare estimated acreage of feed corn right here in Humboldt, vs. Marijuana any time. Those facts might prevent the panty bunching you are experiencing.

I can’t survive on weed. Almonds, lettuce, fruits and veggies, sure.

They are not talking about growing. Read. The irony is that those intakes shlork out water for most of the urban residents to flush their poo. Let's make it count people!

How much water did the Pulp Mill use daily? they were the biggest consumer of Mad River water.

Upwards to 50mil Gal. A day. I think that was what they were approved for.

This isn't about growing. Doesn't anyone read the stories?

What schedule do pot concentrates fall under at the federal level again? Can you refresh my memory? Can the County permit a business that violates federal drug laws?

They can but I can assure that there will be no federal regulators out here inspecting them.
You are switching the goal posts, though. I said this isn't about growing and it isn't. It's about zoning and about Mercer-Fraser and our county government's blatant disregard for our safety at the expense of business and this new and untried business. They are ignoring the alarming report of our own Water District's experts and rubber-stamping the proposal of a business that has been operating outside of the zoning laws for who knows how long already? This is unconscionable!

Thats what s been happening with permiting for the last two years! Go get a late pass! Dude! organic flowers are as bad as Heroin to the Feds right now!

California can. They can do anything!

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Nope. Nope. Nope. Not worth the risk. MF has deep pockets, they should buy or rent a spot already zoned for this.

They'll just buy the zoning!

M-F has just proved they are with the growers who proliferate drug use and crime throughout the county. They need to be boycotted by everyone.

Laughable! What does monday-friday have to do with this? LOL

The County is already boycotting their paving services obviously!

Yah let's let the local boys grow the dope and pollute our water. Can't let the hippies do that any more.

It's not growing, it's making hash oils out of weed..

NO! NO! NO!

Thank you Water District for speaking up.
DO NOT override his report B of S. You look shady enough already and we will mount a class action lawsuit if you do. You will not mess with our water supply.

Hold on. who is PLANNING on letting what go in the river ? I don't like butane extraction, but it would never make it to the river if spilled. the word is Volatile.

Read the story.

First they came for the old growth redwoods but I didn't speak up because I'm not a redwood.
Then they came for the salmon but I didn't speak up because I'm not a salmon.
Then they came for my water but I didn't speak up because being high as a kite makes it seem like I'm above all that.

reap what ya sow

Gov. Code § 65860.

Seriously! Not just a potentially volatile solvent but an untested and new manufacturing endeavor next to our water supply!
I wonder if they can even get it insured? Did anyone bother to ask? Let me guess, they're going to self-insure so we'll never get clean water in the event of an accident.

This is all kinds of wrong and if the board approves it I predict instantaneous court action.

We would all be better off with somthing more typical... like an Oxycontin manufacturing facility. Or a gun factory.

NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

So a paving and concrete company has the training and expertise to make cannabis edibles and concentrates all of a sudden?

It does sound like they thought "we've got the facility, let's get in the business! How hard could it be?"
This gives me all kinds of warm feelings about how well they know what they're up against, what they're doing and wtf the county is doing even considering ok-ing this!

There is no facility there, just a gravel operation.

Ok, I guess they have the land? Why do they feel a burning need to do it next to our water supply?

It's not like they're splitting the atom, here.

No that was at King Salmon, on the Bay, right above the Little Salmon Fault. The first nuclear plant built in CA, and the first to be decommissioned.

They are making a new asphalt product with cannabis resins, cellulose, and aggregate. It will be cleaner than fossil fuel asphalt used today.

No, they are proposing cannabis edibles, and makingnhashmoil concentrates to sell to dispenseries. Nothing about any fancy new pot pavement..

Mad River Burger Bar

Specifically which "solvents" are to be used in the extraction process?

Read the article brainwave.