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Salinas Valley

Insurance critical as wildfires hit California cannabis industry

Posted on August 10th, 2018 by Global Ganja Report and tagged California, cannabis, CBD, Central Valley, Emerald Triangle, legalization, Mendocino County, Planet Watch, Salinas Valley, Sonoma County, Trinity County, United States.

The bureaucracy overseeing California's cannabis industry is moving fast to facilitate insurance coverage for businesses—a question very pressing as wildfires rage through the Emerald Triangle.

Cannabis facility burns in Salinas Valley; police investigate

Posted on July 25th, 2018 by Global Ganja Report and tagged California, cannabis, capitalism, CBD, Jamaica, Netherlands, Salinas Valley, United States.

A fire swept through one of California's premier cannabis cultivation facilities, at Greenfield in Monterey County's agricultural Salinas Valley—destroying several greenhouses, and a large quantity of product. Authorities say an investigation is underway. But the timing of the blaze does raise eyebrows—it started at exactly 4:20.

Ecological tolls of growing cannabis —both legal and illegal

Posted on May 22nd, 2018 by Bill Weinberg and tagged California, cannabis, capitalism, Central Valley, Emerald Triangle, Planet Watch, public lands, Salinas Valley, Trinity County, United States.

A big multi-agency "reclamation" effort on national forest lands in the Emerald Triangle points again to the serious environmental impacts of outlaw cannabis cultivation. Will this be the last gasp of this sort of thing now that California has legalized?