To the community,

Last week a neighbor filed a complaint against me with the city of South Lake Tahoe for marijuana odor and an illegal grow op. Standard procedure for responding to such a complaint is a full scale home invasion by SLEDNET, destruction of all plants, shut off of electricity and removal of the electric meter.

Steve Kubby

Standard procedure here in South Lake Tahoe, also mandates that the cops first contact the SLT Building Dept to see if I have a permit, which I do. I am one of only 12 SLT resident who actually has gone through the considerable expense of setting up a legal garden in my garage.

Instead of a home invasion with heavily armed cops, I was visited by a polite man who simply wanted to see my garden and to see what we could do about the odor. Upon inspection I was told there was no odor being emitted and that I was not in violation.

All that odor was from me toking up in my own back yard and that is still 100 percent legal.

I’m still toking, my garden is thriving and life is good.

Steve Kubby, South Lake Tahoe