EXCLUSIVE: Investor quietly opposed Humboldt ballot measure

Last year, as Humboldt County's remaining licensed small farmers struggled to hold on, they confronted a new crisis. A ballot initiative, Measure A, threatened to impose a host of additional regulations that would greatly curtail the industry’s growth and limit its environmental footprint.

The Humboldt County Growers Alliance (HCGA), which has seen its dues paying membership drop from more than 300 to about 150 in recent years, considered it an existential crisis for growers in the weed world . . .