A group of small marijuana farmers and a trade group in Northern California have filed a lawsuit seeking to remove a March ballot initiative that would significantly restrict cultivation in Humboldt County.
The lawsuit against Humboldt County Registrar of Voters and County Clerk Juan Cervantes – filed by seven farmers and the Humboldt County Growers Alliance – alleges ballot organizers utilized false and misleading information to secure the required number of signatures for the March 5 ballot and failed to include the full text of the initiative as required by law.
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Humboldt County, part of California’s famed Emerald Triangle, is one of the nation’s most fertile agricultural regions.
“If the signature-gathering efforts for Measure A were truthful, this initiative never would have made it to the ballot,” Humboldt County Growers Alliance Executive Director Natalynne DeLapp said in a statement published by the North Coast Journal.
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