Pot farming is a big industry in California – And now it’s up in smoke!
American consumers spend at least $50 billion a year on marijuana. Legal pot farming sales total around $7 billion.
Via Mother Jones
The October California fires are burning up hundreds of pot farms.
The pot farms are going up in smoke.
CNN Money reported:
Deadly wildfires in Northern California are burning up marijuana farms in the so-called Emerald Triangle.
Blazes have destroyed a number of farms in Mendocino County right before legal recreational sales begin in California.
Cannabis business owners who lose their crops have little reprieve.
“Nobody right now has insurance,” said Nikki Lastreto, secretary of the Mendocino Cannabis Industry Association. “They might have insurance on their house, but not on their crop.”
California officials suspect Mexican cartel arsonists are behind the historic fires.
GotNews reported:
Numerous wildfires in Northern California have left 39 people dead and hundreds missing, and forced over 100,000 to abandon their homes and evacuate. Law enforcement officials and legal marijuana industry leaders alike are beginning to suspect the Mexican drug cartels played a role in starting deadly the fires.
While massive wildfires are far from uncommon in California’s forests, they usually occur in December and January, not October. Moreover, this year’s have widely been described as unprecedented in size and destruction. Some 16 fires have burned over 200,000 acres of land in Northern California so far:
View from the air: Santa Rosa, California, neighborhoods, businesses destroyed by wildfires. Story: https://t.co/Lbu0Po3Aig http://pic.twitter.com/Byee9e0ldg
— AP West Region (@APWestRegion) October 14, 2017
Law enforcement authorities – including senior Department of Homeland Security officials – and key people within the legal marijuana business quickly noticed that the areas hit hardest by the fires are the same places that California’s marijuana industry legally grows cannabis, and are now starting to suspect foul play.
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