If you saw the Record-Bee or Lake County News the other day, you know that a group was formed to overturn the county's new marijuana cultivation ordinance by collecting enough signatures to force a referendum.
 
One expects some degree of truth bending, but to collect signatures based on the “Community Alliance to Ban Illegal Cannabis Cultivation” is morally deceitful and dishonest. If sneakiness were an admirable trait …
 
The alliance says its goal is to have a “responsible and enforceable regulation.”

If true, the Board of Supervisors just approved an ordinance that is exactly that. Which is why alliance members so desperately want to kill it. So much so, in fact, that the alliance is using professionals to collect signatures.
 
So if you see them out collecting signatures, read before you sign, and tell your friends and neighbors.

I thought it was over, too.

Tom Guthrie lives in Lakeport, Calif.