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Calif. County Cracks Down on Lax Pot Law

Posted Jun 5, 08 10:57 AM CDT in Crime & Courts,  US 

(Newser) – Voters in a northern California county have backed a measure tightening one of America's loosest pot laws, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. State law allows Californians to grow six marijuana plants each for medicinal use, but Mendocino County allowed its residents 25 plants each for any use. The county's residents will now have to make do with the standard six.

"We thought Ma and Pa growers would be able to grow a little bit," said the county's agricultural commissioner. But the "legalization of marijuana sent a message to organized crime that they could set up shop here, and we got people with automatic weapons growing marijuana in large quantities."

Source San Francisco Chronicle

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Marijuana plants are seen growing under a heat lamp at the home of George and Jean Hanamoto in the Mendocino County community of Willits, Calif., Wednesday, May 28, 2008.   (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
The bud of a marijuana plant grown by George and Jean Hanamoto is seen at their home in the Mendocino County community of Willits, Calif., Wednesday, May 28, 2008.   (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
Activist and pot-dispensary owner Richard Lee mixes nutrients for growing marijuana, under the glow of yellow hydroponic lights, in Oakland, Calif., Saturday, Feb. 16, 2008.   (AP Photo/Dino Vournas)
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