San Luis Obispo County is issuing hefty fines and demanding cannabis cultivators remove plants in California Valley, where the regulated crop that was previously allowed was banned when new county rules took effect.
Now faced with economic loss, some growers who bought land and houses in the valley when medical cultivation was allowed are challenging the county and asking a judge to postpone action against them.
Their request: “Just let us harvest here so we don’t lose everything we have,” attorney Alan Karow told San Luis Obispo County Superior Court Judge Barry LaBarbera Wednesday morning.
He was arguing a case he filed against the county on behalf of cultivator Scott Hurshuajer, who was ordered by a county hearings officer to pay thousands of dollars in fines and remove what code enforcement officers said was around 200 cannabis plants in four hoop houses on Asilomar Trail.
Read more at The Tribune (Monica Vaughan)
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