Chico Enterprise-Record, 24 Aug 2012 – Supervisors Larry Wahl, Bill Connelly and Kim Yamaguchi have done Butte County a huge disservice by trying to jam their new marijuana ordinance down the voters’ throats. Obviously this new restrictive ordinance will not be allowed to be enacted and will be referended against. The growers will now not only referenda against it, but they will draft their own ordinance to be passed at the June election that certainly will be more liberal to the backyard grower than what would be able to be negotiated with them right now, and that ordinance will not be able to be challenged or altered by anyone but the voters themselves. This is exactly the opposite of what is intended by these supervisors.

Chico Enterprise-Record, 05 Aug 2012 – The difficulty in developing a marijuana ordinance locally and statewide is due to one simple reality that is the "elephant in the room." A huge percentage of our citizens smoke marijuana daily and use it much like a glass of wine at night. They do no harm and see this as their right. They grow it, they sell it, and they buy it. It is by far Northern California’s largest agricultural industry. Nationwide, the demand is over 100 million pounds per year, and regardless of law enforcement’s best efforts this demand is being met.