Josephine County is a beautiful area and a nice place to live. If the sheriff is facing budget shortfalls, it isn’t due to a lack of cash flowing through the area. If all the dope growers contributed even just a small percentage of their profits from each years harvest, that sheriff’s department would be rolling in money. Perhaps the sheriff and the growers could reach an agreement that if they start financially supporting him that he goes after the Mexican cartel growers FIRST. That could potentially be a full time job for the whole department all on its own. I can’t imagine anybody except the cartels not liking that arrangement.
I liver in JoCo and I think the legalizing of pot is awful, regardless of whether it would be taxed or not.
Farms all around us are being turned into pot farms, with high-intensity floodlights, guard dogs, high fences, armed security, it’s awful, like living in Cartagena.
I’m disheartened by the background check bill, I have no problem with calling the OSP and finding if my buyer has no criminal record, but this does way more than that...it gets entered into the state records and is kept for five years, that’s de facto registration.
As far as the sheriff not enforcing it, I’m not sure if that matters, there’s plenty of other LEO’s around who’d do the job.
Ed