Voters Tuesday made it clear that the future of Calaveras County’s legal cannabis industry is at least in doubt, if not in dire jeopardy.
Voters defeated Measure D, which would have set permanent regulations for the industry, by a margin of 54.16 percent no to 45.84 percent yes and also removed from office Supervisors Cliff Edson and Steve Kearney, both of whom supported regulating the industry. They will be replaced, respectively, by Gary Tofanelli and Clyde Clapp, both critics of Measure D and of the urgency ordinance that currently regulates the cannabis industry.
Supervisor-elect Dennis Mills, an opponent of Measure D, said voters want a change in the county government’s approach to the marijuana industry.
“Something else has to happen,” Mills said. “The voters are rejecting what’s there now and the ones (on the Board of Supervisors) who voted for what’s there now.”
