Front Line Perspective

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Here is a front line perspective regarding the controversial legalization of pot growing and distribution in Calaveras County. It’s worth reading.
Dear Supervisors and Representatives of the Majority Voice of Calaveras County from one of our school Principals:

Dear Supervisors and Representatives of the Majority Voice of Calaveras County:

Thank you for your commitment to represent the people, including children, of Calaveras County and their unimpaired health, wellness, and safety.

As a school principal, I have been saddened, sickened, at at times inundated on the job by issues relating to the growing of marijuana and its abundant presence and impact in our county.

I am saddened by the lack of concern by parents who grow, use, and/or harvest marijuana and then send their children to school in! clothes and with backpacks reeking of pot. The children involuntarily have gotten singled out by peers and staff, and are humiliated when the stench is so strong that staff has to intervene and offer new clothes, and call the parents.

I am sickened by over 11 cases I have seen in the last 2 years where parents are so involved in the M business or have become addicted themselves such that their children are picked up from school by neighbors or relatives, or not at all, or dad or mom have gone away because of their involvement.

I am frustrated that our deputies are in such demand over the pot business that it has taken away their availability for proactivity at the schools.

I am furious with parents and older siblings of my students who brag or indiscriminately talk about how easy it is to get the medical excuse for marijuana, and then supply friends and family and local teens. More furious over stories of children finding stashes of marijuana when on a! play date at a friends house.

I am discouraged that ou! r young students have come across grows and guys with guns and dogs when they have been out and about being kids – that they cannot be sure where it is safe to play anymore.

I am despondent that some local young people see lucrative business in pot growing and have dropped their college or career goals, and now aspire to become growers and dealers.

Marijuana has no place in our communities. There is no hope in pot. Please enact the ban now. Or come on down to the school and join me and teachers and aides for the marijuana-related counseling referrals, CPS calls, crying children whose dad was busted for working the harvest, conferences with pot-impaired parents, and intervention plans for kids whose parents who are too stoned to be parents.

I have renewed hope in that our county has spoken against Measure D and renewed hope that a new board has an unimpaired and unbiased vision for not only our children, but all citizens of Calaveras County, not to menti! on the fading beauty of our countryside. Thank you for courage and integrity in moving forward immediately with the ban on marijuana.

Brett Loring

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