California Wildfires Claim 34 Pot Farms

In one fell swoop, and just weeks before California’s legal market for recreational weed goes live, wildfires ravaged the countryside; destroying thriving pot farms willy-nilly. As of Friday last week, 34 farms lay in smoldering, smoking ruin. However, according to the executive director of the California Growers Association, Hezekiah Allen, that figure is still rising. “Unfortunately,” Allen says, “it will grow significantly.” He has been working tirelessly contacting all farmers in affected areas to confirm the reports of burned farms, and he says that, “Just the scale of this event…

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