In an amended financial statement filed more than two weeks after the filing deadline, the No on Measure B Campaign is declaring more money collected, largely from sources outside the county.
According to the statement, the campaign raised $1,748 in March. The bulk of the money came as a $1,000 donation from the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, located in San Francisco.
The campaign also received $500 from Dona Ruth Frank, of the Santa Rosa based medical marijuana advocacy group the Organic Cannabis Foundation.
The rest of the money came in the form of donations of less than $100, which are not required to be itemized on financial filing statements.
This brings the total money collected by those fighting Measure B to $2,548. The bulk of that money, $1,800, has been donated by NORML.
Proponents of the measure, the Yes on B Coalition, have raised more than four times as much money.
The largest single donation, at $3,900, came in the form of a loan from Duane Wells, the chairman of the Yes on B Coalition.
Other top contributors included Philip Dow, a civil engineer from Dow Associates; Lawrence Mailliard, owner of the Mailliard Ranch; and Pia Riva McIsaac, a ranch manager of Agriculture Industries Inc., who each gave $500.
Measure B, which was placed on the ballot by the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors in January, would repeal Measure G and set medical marijuana limits in Mendocino County at the state limits of six mature or 12 immature plants and eight ounces of dried marijuana.
Measure G, which was passed by Mendocino County voters in 2000, instructed law enforcement to make the prosecution of marijuana gardens of 25 plants or fewer the lowest possible priority.
The election is scheduled for June 3.
Ben Brown can be reached at udjbb@pacific.net.
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