Woodside preserves right to regulate marijuana; shifts council elections to even-numbered years

"Let's pass a law to preserve our rights to pass more laws -- even if State law says otherwise".

Light it up, TOW!

I truly hope Woodside doesn't set up a double standard between wine production and marijuana cultivation if Prop 64 passes in November. The state will set guidelines and Woodside should abide by the guidelines and look at how it treats wineries and grape production. There is a detailed description of the requirements to be a winery in Woodside why shouldn't the same guidelines be used for commercial marijuana? It is ok to produce alcoholic beverages but not marijuana? There is more evidence of alcohol harming people than marijuana. If it is ok for vineyards to exist on property in Woodside for either a home vintner or selling their grapes to winery and they are either paid for the grapes or given bottles of wine in exchange for the grapes. Why shouldn't homeowners be able to do the same if they want to cultivate marijuana aligned with the state law. I am concerned that residents are getting all worked up about big drug houses buying up property in Woodside to grow marijuana. Sorry but the economics don't work when you can go to Gilroy and buy acres for pennies compared to Woodside. I hope we allow home owners the same rights we do for grape growing and wine production. If not we are very hypocritical sending the message that producing alcoholic beverages is ok but producing marijuana is NOT. We have all kinds of exterior lighting ordinances etc to control annoying any neighbors etc. I am concerned that once again if something new wants to be done in our town good luck. I went through this trying to build a smaller home than my neighbors but they had theirs but I could not have mine. In the past this is how the town council operated. Lets not ban or totally restrict anything new! Lets follow the state law and allow what is aligned with that law and at least treat the new marijuana entrepreneurs or home growers the same way we treat our boutique wineries and grape growers in our community.