Great! This and rent control will make this city a new Hayward within the next 10 years.

What do you mean? In what ways will Mountain View become more like Hayward due to these policies?

Of course it won't be like Hayward. People are just mad they are on the losing side of a social issue.
Someone still thinks booze is just fine by cannabis is evil..EEEEEEVIIIIIIL

Glad to see the City Council using some common sense.

Kudos to the City Council for doing something positive in the name of civil rights and social justice. No one should be banned from growing any plants on their own property, and especially when the plant in question is cannabis (marijuana), which the DEA in 1988 called "one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man." And especially when it also happens to be one of the most important and powerful botanical medicines on earth...

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...with a 10,000 year history and a perfect safety record of zero deaths, again as affirmed by a legal ruling of the DEA in 1988.

Prohibition, and the propaganda of fear that surrounds it, is he sole reason anyone is even worried about cannabis being grown in their neighborhood. If more people grew their own cannabis it would become *less* of a target to potential thieves. Given the plant's astonishing value to human health every city, including Mountain View, should immediately start offering tax incentives to grow cannabis for the community.

Pot is legal folks. Get used to it. We are gonna grow it. After decades of hypocracy we finally have justice.

"Hypocrisy"? More like stupidity, especially when someone states "the plant's astonishing value to human health" - really?

I really would have preferred my name not be used in this article for all the world to see. It kind of sets me up as a potential target, if you know what I mean. Fortunately cannabis consumers are generally honorable people, who aren't known for taking what doesn't belong to them. It's not their nature. I try to live by that optimistic outlook; but sometimes it's not so easy.

People look stupid when they cling to old beliefs that have been proven untrue, like people still professing there is no medical benefit to cannabis in the face of over 20 years people giving up organ harming chemicals to treat their ailments an finding relief without the side effect with cannabis.
Here's one of the endless links available to ease you into the world of reality, and away from the world of "I'm never going to change my mind"
From business insider:
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The list is endless and so are the amount of people who have discovered that organ damaging chemicals can be replace with cannabis.
Beyond "Really", it's actually Really and Truly.

It doesn't bother me that adults want to use another method to escape reality temporarily. It's the children I worry about. A lot of our youth in Mountain View use marijuana to self medicate from the enormous pressures of society here in Silicon Valley. They see adults, parents, friends and neighbors doing it. And after all, it is medicine isn't it.

Such a waste.

Yes, and the youth could always get it on the black market, which was why even back in my day pot was easier to get as a kid than legal and regulated alcohol. They see their parents extolling the virtues of wine and beer, and if/when they do get a hold of it, many become dead. That's a national fact/tragedy.
Legalizing pot will also make it more difficult for kids to get it, like booze, but if they DO end up getting it, it is a MUCH MUCH more safe product. It will not literally kill you like booze literally kills our kids in astounding numbers.

Because of it's impact on the current kid friendly black market, legalization is good news if you are actually worried about kids. If you have another agenda, you'll use worry about kids as a way of trying to sway sentiment to your line of thought.

Pot stinks.

I hope that other cities benefit from a responsible citizen like Neil coming forward to counter fear and bigotry. Bringing cannabis out of the closet and into the garden hugely reduces its energy and material footprint. It is also a positive step in normalizing our cultural relationship with this long-domesticated crop.
The restrictions imposed in the county and in other cities are a huge subsidy for commercial operations. It would be more honest of the people advocating restricting home growers to acknowledge they are promoting the for-profit cannabis industry.
Unincorporated County Resident