Is it all gone?
Why No Cash Crop Is More Vulnerable To California Wildfires Than Cannabis
Until a few days ago, 2020 was unquestionably the best year in a very long time for cannabis growers in the Emerald Triangle, the remote counties in far northern California where the economy runs on weed.
After years of crashing prices, the market for sun-grown cannabis was roaring back. Small farmers were making money again. Onerous regulations favoring big operators and steep licensing fees had driven many small cultivators out of business, but for those who managed to stick it out, 2020 seemed like the beginning of the reward. Legalization would actually work!
Then the lightning hit and the fires started,and 2020 came for the weed farmers.
According to multiple sources, hundreds of licensed cannabis growers in Humboldt and Mendocino counties have had to evacuate their farms over the past several days.
Damage estimates won’t be available for a few days more, but key growing regions in southern Humboldt and in the Bell Springs area in Mendocino are blanketed in smoke or threatened by flames, and in the crucial weeks ahead of the fall harvest.
“This is the heartland of the Emerald Triangle,” said Kristin Nevedal,
https://www.forbes.com/sites/chrisr...ifornia-wildfires-than-cannabis/#688692af305a
Why No Cash Crop Is More Vulnerable To California Wildfires Than Cannabis
Until a few days ago, 2020 was unquestionably the best year in a very long time for cannabis growers in the Emerald Triangle, the remote counties in far northern California where the economy runs on weed.
After years of crashing prices, the market for sun-grown cannabis was roaring back. Small farmers were making money again. Onerous regulations favoring big operators and steep licensing fees had driven many small cultivators out of business, but for those who managed to stick it out, 2020 seemed like the beginning of the reward. Legalization would actually work!
Then the lightning hit and the fires started,and 2020 came for the weed farmers.
According to multiple sources, hundreds of licensed cannabis growers in Humboldt and Mendocino counties have had to evacuate their farms over the past several days.
Damage estimates won’t be available for a few days more, but key growing regions in southern Humboldt and in the Bell Springs area in Mendocino are blanketed in smoke or threatened by flames, and in the crucial weeks ahead of the fall harvest.
“This is the heartland of the Emerald Triangle,” said Kristin Nevedal,
https://www.forbes.com/sites/chrisr...ifornia-wildfires-than-cannabis/#688692af305a
