California has the largest hold on the legal cannabis industry of any other state or region. In 2019 alone, the state brought in about $3.1 billion, up from about $2.5 billion in 2018. Though 2020 has been a rocky year for sales, overall the industry seems to be growing even further. But a major setback each year in California are the horrific wildfires that plague the state.
2020 has been the worst year on record in that department, with two of the states largest fires in history sparking up in August. Some of those fires happen to overlap with the area of the largest marijuana farms in the state. One farm, for instance, lost four fifths of its crop. The owner of Sweet Creek Farm, Kaela Peterson, is quoted estimating she’s already lost about $150,000 worth of product, which she feels rounds up to a total loss.
The co-founder of WAMM Phytotherapies says the CZ Complex Fires may have burned nearly every inch of the farm in Santa Cruz. WAMM stands for Wo/Men’s Alliance for Medical Marijuana
Those are not the only instances of pot grower’s livelihoods going up in smoke recently, and they likely will not be the last.
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