- So much unregistered weed flows through the state that keeping one’s paws out of the figurative jar during one of The state’s dysfunction spasms has proved difficult.
- “I have to imagine that 60% of the market overall is probably playing in parallel markets, but I don’t think they enjoy that. It’s truly a decision of necessity,” Pacific Expeditors narc, er, CEO Chris Columbe said.
- Though a touchy subject — feds are watching — local California media have previously engaged this issue.
- Meanwhile, your tax dollars went into busting a 78 year-old Squaw Valley grower and jacking his 2,000 plants, as well as another seizure of 1,400 lovely THC producers, this time in Calaveras County. KCRA/KSEE
- More than 100,000 people attended last week’s World Ag Expo, in Tulare. Of the 1,400 exhibitors, the most popular had space in the expo’s brand-new Hemp Education and Marketing Pavillion. Some of the most innovative hemp-cultivation technology and the people who sell it can be seen here. Foothills Sun Gazette/Hemp Industry Daily
- Regulation is a top issue in a Santa Barbara County Supervisors race. In an op-ed, a supporter of challenger Laura Capps goes after longtime incumbent Das Williams for what she calls a “shameless” coziness to the industry. Santa Barbara Independent