FIRES RAVAGE WEST COAST INDUSTRY

Thick orange haze above San Francisco Bay on September 9 2020 from record wildfires in Californa, daytime view of ash and smoke over the Bay Area

The record breaking fires which have destroyed millions of acres in California, Oregon and Washington, including many cannabis farms, are forcing the industry to think about whether this represents a “new normal” for the industry.
MJBiz

• “We’ve already broken the record for most acres burned in history, and we haven’t even gotten to the worst part of the season. So I think this is the new norm. Fires are just a way of life at this point,” said David Najera, a marijuana cultivation consultant and farmer in Mendocino County, California.
• One solution he suggested is for farms to keep livestock to minimize kindling on their property.
• In Oregon, roughly 20% of cannabis businesses required evacuating.
  Oregonian
• Canna Law Blog looked at the situation in California and Oregon.
• ????WW California has more.