For the past three years, the “skunky” stench of cannabis swirling around Carpinteria, penetrating homes, schools, parks, beaches, freeway lanes and even funerals at the cemetery, has pitted neighbor against neighbor as the cannabis greenhouse industry exploded just outside the city limits.
Now, some technological advances — combined with a groundbreaking odor control agreement between one of Carpinteria’s oldest farming families and several members of the citizens groups that have fought for tighter regulation of the cannabis industry — are upping the ante for future projects.
The pact between Cindy and David Van Wingerden of CVW Organic Farms and members of Concerned Carpinterians and the Santa Barbara Coalition for Responsible Cannabis goes well beyond what’s required under the county’s lenient cannabis ordinance.
A few other growers are buying new technology and committing to air quality testing. They, too, are eager to end the raging pot wars in this once-peaceful seaside community. But it is the Van Wingerdens’ plan that is the most far-reaching.
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