Tyee,

I understand that the law is the law, so good on ya' for doing your job. However, a mixed response is about as good as you can expect when the specific law you're enforcing is a wrongminded one. It's wrongminded because the evidence shows pot is relatively harmless, and orders of magnitude less harmful than alcohol and tobacco, which are both legal. The problem with pot in society is that making a relatively harmless product illegal has created a drug trade and business that is far more dangerous to society than the pot itself.

As for the pollution, there's no denying that pot farming causes some harm, but it's miniscule compared to the socially and legally approved pollution from the vast forms of agribusiness in CA and most all states.

So a little blowback from members here is natural and logical. We prefer to have our LE tax dollars spent working on the crimes that actually harm society. And maybe it's a bit disproportionate, but man, we're really fed up and wanting to kill for property crimes because we're so tired of the epidemic breakins of homes, outbuildings, and vehicles. Yet when the sheriff's deputy finally arrives, he takes the report, says hope we have good insurance, and don't expect to ever get our stuff back, and oh, there's nothing we can do about it, can't shoot perps, just call LE, who won't and cannot arrive until long after the perps leave, etc. I'm sure you know the drill. The upshot is that we citizens don't care if people want to grow and sell and use pot; we just want ne'er do wells to leave us and our property alone. And we want to shoot their sorry asses if they don't.

Sg