Letters to the Editor

Appreciating the simple things of CBTS

Thank you for the Cannabis 101: Dosing the Edible article in your last issue, Winter 2021. As someone investigating alternatives to common OTC medicine, I found it very helpful to have the information spelled out very simply in black and white. We need more articles like this easy-to-swallow piece. Keep up the good work. — Kellee Johnson | Little Italy, San Diego, California

Good riddance, cultivation tax

The Spring ’22 edition is filled with all kinds of useful information, but the meat of the matter is right up front with an excellent piece by Peter Dugré of CARP Growers on how the deck tends to be stacked against cannabis growers and in Carpinteria in particular, by way of the cultivation tax.

Artichoke growers do not pay a cultivation tax, nor do avocado growers or flower growers or anyone who grows anything other than cannabis. And as we learn from the article, the cultivation tax is just one item on a long list of costs and expenses that keep retail prices inflated, forcing many consumers to choose the unregulated market.

Just a few weeks after the piece was published Governor Newsom rolled out his budget plan, which calls for an end to the cultivation tax starting July 1.. There is also a bill that calls for a suspension of the tax working its way through the legislature. Real relief for growers and consumers would appear to be at hand.

Thanks for an update that turned out to be so timely, and for providing accurate, science-based information at a time when it’s needed most. — Dennis Mitchell | Carpinteria, California

Thanks for the change

I want to extend a great big thank you to Cannabis by the Sea for being such a great supporter of the Women Making Change series of events recently held at the Alcazar Theatre in Carpinteria in observance of Women’s History Month. The CBTS staff are Changemakers for sure and our community is better for it. Thank you! — Kim Gutierrrez | Carpinteria, California