Until a few weeks ago, 2020 was the best year in a long time for Emerald Triangle pot farmers. Now the wildfires have changed life in the heart of California’s celebrated growing region.
Chris Roberts reports for Forbes:
According to multiple sources, hundreds of licensed cannabis growers in Humboldt and Mendocino counties have had to evacuate their farms over the past several days.
Damage estimates won’t be available for a few days more, but key growing regions in southern Humboldt and in the Bell Springs area in Mendocino are blanketed in smoke or threatened by flames, and in the crucial weeks ahead of the fall harvest.
????WeedWeek California has lots more on the season of “hickory kush.”
In his Rolling Stoned newsletter, Zack Ruskin reflects on a few very bad weeks.
