Vestal: Spokane pot ruling stinks
In his column today, Shawn Vestal/SR comments:
It’s a weed-odor emergency. A pot-stink urgency.
The Spokane County Commission – the body that passes laws on behalf of almost half a million citizens – rushed a six-month ban on outdoor pot farms into existence, without a public hearing, without a public agenda item, without a public whisper.
“You don’t want to advertise these things before they even take effect,” Commissioner Al French said last week.
Acting under the “miscellaneous items” portion of their agenda last Tuesday, the commission put a moratorium on outdoor marijuana farms, citing complaints they’d received about odor. The one person in attendance to be surprised by the move was a Spokesman-Review reporter. Though it was apparently a legal move, the vote smells worse than any barnyard in full flower.
Because some of us do want you to advertise these things before they even take effect, commissioner. More here.
