HMB City Council Sends Cannabis to Ballot in November

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Video/Podcast. Watch (or listen) to the HMB City Council as it listens to citizens as they share their opinion on Cannabis in HMB. During this meeting, City Staff also introduced the Cannabis Starts Ordinance.

Starts are not smelly and can’t get you high. They are like the geranium, daisy or rose starts you buy at a nursery. HMB voters will get to vote pro or con for the starts ordinance in November. If, yes, farmers get to grow starts, and only starts.

Please watch/listen to this meeting so you clearly understand the dynamics, which include fear for our children, to Farmer’s property rights.  Farmer John needs to grow, or he will have to sell his farm. City Council showed concern that if the farmers are not allowed to grow, they may sell their farms and then that would likely lead to more development, losing the country feel of or town.

Three other activities in the Cannabis Chain ~ Flower Grow, Manufacture and Dispensaries will be on the November ballot, as advisory measures.

Testing is not being considered at this time.

Podcast with Keiki’s Nursery

Listen to Keiki’s (Hawaiian for small) Nursery’s Dustin Cline and Eric Hollister who are partnering with John and Eda Muller. Allow them to take you through their business plan.

  • They will only be growing “starts”.
  • They will sell their “starts” to cannabis flower growers and UC research.
  • They will hire locally.
  • Their workers will make more than they do now working in the current agricultural economy.
  • Their workers will have benefits.
  • Phase 2 will create “tiny-home” housing for their workers.
  • Phase 3 will offer retail sales of coastally grown vegetables and starts.
  • They will be leasing their greenhouse and land from Farmer John and his wife, Eda.

Photo Essay Cannabis “Starts” Operation in Salinas

See exactly what a “starts” operation looks like.

Other Cannabis Coverage on Coastside Buzz

From pumpkins to cannabis? HMB debates the future of family farms.

Read San Jose Mercury article. Longtime pumpkin grower “Farmer John” seeking OK to grow cannabis sprouts.

 

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