“Is It Worth It?”: California Wildfires Threaten Cannabis Growers from All Angles

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California's increasingly hellish wildfires present an existential threat to northern California's celebrated pot growers.  

“I personally would not invest in an outdoor California grow,” said Reggie Guardino, vice president of research and development at Front Range Biosciences in Lafayette, Colo.

Guardino knows what he's talking about, having worked in California during previous fire seasons. As president and chief science officer for Steep Hill, a testing laboratory in Berkeley, Guardino led an the company’s examination  of weed grown . . .