Posted on 05/10/2018 2:37:33 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
CARPINTERIA - This picturesque coastal town cradled by mountains and sandy shores is a scene out of a Southern California postcard. Residents of Carpinteria say they feel lucky to live in what they consider a slice of paradise.
But change is in the air. And sometimes, they say, it stinks.
That’s because marijuana has become a new crop of choice in the farmlands surrounding this tight-knit community of 14,000, which has long helped fuel the U.S. cut flower industry.
Residents say a thick, skunk-like odor from the marijuana plants settles over the valley in the evenings and before dawn. To keep out the stench, they have tried stuffing pillows under doors, lighting incense and shutting windows, a reluctant choice since it also keeps out the cool ocean breezes that are part of the town’s allure.
“We don’t want a marijuana smell,” said Xave Saragosa, a 73-year-old retired sheriff’s deputy who was born and raised in the town and lives near a greenhouse that grows marijuana. “We want fresh air.”
Saragosa said the odor pervades his hillside home at night and keeps his wife up coughing.
Toni Stuart, an 80-year-old retired Episcopal priest, said the odor doesn’t creep into the area near the beach where she lives, but she worries about the community changing.
“I would not like Carpinteria to be the ‘cannabis capital’ of Southern California. I like it the way it is. It’s a very quiet, unpretentious beach town,” she said.
“If people want to grow cannabis instead of flowers or avocados or macadamia nuts - I suppose that’s their right. But they’ve got to think about their neighbors.”
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Find that lawyer that successfully sued the hog farm.
Dope heads and their suppliers are not an asset anywhere.
Keep voting Democrat.
This is what you get..................
Ruining California has become a very profitable direction for a limited few.
I've read that the average pot plant requires ONE TO SIX GALLONS OF WATER PER DAY.
They don’t want to smell anything in CA.
Pot, tobacco, cows, pigs, hot sauce factories, ...
The only thing they want to smell is their upper lips.
70% of the stupid f***ing a$$holes in this shithole state vote to legalize it.
We reap what we sow.
California purple weed. Yep, that s*** is terrible. /s
Looking at these pics almost makes me wish I still smoked, but alas, I do not.
Welcome to the real World of California
I honestly don’t even get why anyone ever decided to pull plants out of the ground and light them on fire, inhale the stinky smoke, cough (bodies response to expel things that are harmful) and then decide to do it again. Being “high” is that great?
I’ve been drunk once in my life and I hated it.
Not to mention that absent any federal regulations concerning agricultural standards, dope growers are using questionable techniques, water contaminated with heavy metals, etc, and producing a product that doesn't just addict, but poisons, the user.
But pot smoking fools insist that crap is harmless. Idiots.
It’s invasive like kudzu
“I honestly don’t even get why anyone ever decided to pull plants out of the ground and light them on fire, inhale the stinky smoke”
Worse, somebody decided to lick a toad.
I imagine one night someone threw some dried up wild hemp plants on the tribal fire for fuel and everyone later noticed they were getting a buzz from breathing the smoke.
Nice photo
Cannabis has some of the most beautiful flowers on Earth and no photo can do justice. They can come in all colors of the rainbow and sparkle like diamonds. A magnificent example of natural beauty that so few people get to see.
I would grow some ornamentally in my flower beds if not for all the uptight people going nuts over some flowers
What, you say? That would push the cost of pot beyond reach of growers to produce? It would be like the regulations on 18-wheelers, power plants, and fireplaces?
I know... This is different... It's my stash...
-PJ
Does marijuana have a skunk-like odor?
Or is the grower?
I know how to solve this problem bought on by bed wetting libertarians.
Pass more laws. Pass a county law making it illegal to stink up the county. Then pass more laws to support that law.
Libertarians are so brain dead. They claim to be for less government. But every thing they do leads to more laws and higher taxes.
Idiots.
Likely someone saw a goat or horse’s reaction after eating it
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