3w) Authorization for the Agriculture Commissioner to Establish a Restricted Area Access Agriculture Pass Program and a Livestock Pass Program Pursuant to California Food and Agriculture Code section 2350 ("Ag Pass Program")
We support the interface with the Mendocino Cannabis Alliance & the County Departments. We remember in the past when legal permitted cannabis farmers were told they would be able to get through fire emergency road closures by the Sheriff, the BOS & the County CEO, only to arrive at the checkpoints to countless problems getting to their farm due to lack of communication with the on site guards, so this will be very beneficial moving forward. Its only fair to allow sun grown sustainable cannabis farms the same rights to local laws around agriculture.
Did you know CDFA has created the 1st ever cannabis exhibition & competition at the California State Fair. It starts this week. Marty is an Ambassador for this inaugural event. Many farms that won Gold & Silver in a completely science based lab tested contest hail from Mendocino County, In fact more farms from Mendocino that anywhere else in the entire state placed. Mendocino County must continue to be out front in showing the world that cannabis is an agricultural crop! We appreciate the parity with other businesses.
We support the interface with the Mendocino Cannabis Alliance & the County Departments. We remember in the past when legal permitted cannabis farmers were told they would be able to get through fire emergency road closures by the Sheriff, the BOS & the County CEO, only to arrive at the checkpoints to countless problems getting to their farm due to lack of communication with the on site guards, so this will be very beneficial moving forward. Its only fair to allow sun grown sustainable cannabis farms the same rights to local laws around agriculture.
Did you know CDFA has created the 1st ever cannabis exhibition & competition at the California State Fair. It starts this week. Marty is an Ambassador for this inaugural event. Many farms that won Gold & Silver in a completely science based lab tested contest hail from Mendocino County, In fact more farms from Mendocino that anywhere else in the entire state placed. Mendocino County must continue to be out front in showing the world that cannabis is an agricultural crop! We appreciate the parity with other businesses.
Thank you, Laura & Marty Clein
Attached please find the MCA memo supporting this Agenda Item. Thank you for the opportunity to provide public comment.
-Mendocino Cannabis Alliance