1. Violent Crime

According to the Tehama County Sheriff, there is more violent crime associated with marijuana than any other illegal drug. Even legal operations will attract individuals accustomed to illegal behavior.  

2. Light and Noise Pollution

Large grows in greenhouses use high-powered lights that pollute the night sky. The hum of these lights and the large generators that power them disrupt the sleep of neighbors.

3. Excessive water consumption

The average person uses about 100 gallons of water per day.  A half acre pot farm with 1000 plants uses about 6000 gallons of water per day.  That's like having 60 new neighbors move on the lot next door to you, using your water.   How long do you think it will be before your well goes dry?

4. Lower Property Values

Strangers will buy properties in your neighborhoods, not to invest in the community or their property, but to exploit the land and the water. They do not care about you or your neighborhood. Owning a property next door to one of these operations will lower your property values.

5. Drug Culture  

A network of cannabis-related businesses will spring up in Tehama County to support legalized cannabis cultivation. This will create a culture of drugs and criminality throughout the county.

At cannabis harvest time, the county will be flooded by transient trimmers looking to make quick money.  These laborers will have no roots or investment in the community and will likely bring crime and vice.

6. Increase in Illegal Grows

Illegal grows will thrive in a cannabis-friendly culture and will always undercut the profitability of the legal operations. When Humboldt county legalized cannabis, only 30% of the grows chose to operate within the legal framework.

Legalizing commercial cannabis makes it more difficult for law enforcement to identify illegal operations.. 

7. The myth of increased tax revenue

Taxing cannabis businesses will not produce an abundance of tax revenue for the county.  All companies--and Big Cannabis will be no different--hire armies of accountants to make sure they pay no taxes.  So it is a lie to think that the County is going to get rich from tax revenue.  Instead of providing additional revenue, allowing commercial cannabis is going drain more resources from the county budget to hire additional law enforcement and regulatory officers.







If you want Tehama County to turn into Humboldt County, aka Murder Mountain, do nothing.

If you want our young people to skip the 4-H Club and instead join the 420 Club, do nothing. 

But if you want to preserve Tehama County's reputation for family values, abundant  natural resources, and rural charm, you must take action.