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Editor, Index-Tribune:
Ah, harvest in Wine Country. It is, perhaps, the most favored season. In Boyes Springs, however, it is not grapes that are ripening. Here on the corner of Reefer Way, where Wake N’ Bake Circle intersects with Bong Court, cannabis is the prized crop. Grown on all sides of the house where we endeavor to raise our two children, it saturates the atmosphere thickly; windows raised in the afternoon heat are impossible.
At bedtime, we tuck our children into rooms stifled by stilled air, a cracked window an invitation to the pervasive reek of a bumper crop. The constant smell triggers headaches and makes us fuddled and slow, and has become – most unfortunately – part of our children’s scent memories. I’m for personal freedoms – including my right to breathe. But neighbors, your medicine is making me sick.
Kate Williams
Boyes Hot Springs
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Sonoma should be ashamed to have this kind of thing going on. Where is your decency. or are you all so high on marijuana that you just don't care about children or anything else that good. what a small ignorant town.
Plant and grow a male marijuana seedling. It will pollenate all the female plants (good weed) and cause them to produce seed wiping out the good stuff. It can take out a whole block.
Ashamed of what? Tolerence, open-mindedness, progressive behavior? When I lived in Sonoma close to grapes growing I had to edure spraying of chemicals, sulfites, fertilizer(which sends endless micro organisms in the air), dust, mold,smoke when it was time to burn the old vines. Kate you hare right to express your feelings I respect you for doing this. The headache will go after the harvest;the effects of growing grapes on health plus the affects of alchohol lurk heavily. We all expose our children in Sonoma to wine, and alcholism, and that plays on all of the senses. People in Sonoma might be high on marijuana or drunk on wine. Ignorance is everywhere...
On the contrary Carolyn!! This town is not IGNORANT!! That
would mean that they are uneducated or that they do not
know what they are doing. They know exactly what they are
doing and the direction they want to go. This town defends
everything under the sun that is embraced by the political
Left. Including marijuana for hang-nails, anything Pro-Gay
movement, excepting anything under the guise of "Free Speech",
including filth, which many people would find detestable.
Welcome to the land of decadence and narcissism. Also known
as the San Francisco Bay Area.