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The Changing Geography of Cannabis Cultivation in the Bay Area

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KQED

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.2727 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

With the approval of two major cannabis growing and distribution projects, Antioch has put itself on the map as a significant player in the marijuana industry. “I don’t mind being known as the cannabis capital of Northern California,” declared Antioch mayor Lamar Thorpe, citing the jobs that it would bring to the eastern Contra Costa County town. Meanwhile, Sonoma County has set aside a proposal to ease restrictions around growing cannabis and entered into a study phase to analyze the environmental impacts of that ordinance. We’ll talk to a panel of experts about the changing geography of cannabis cultivation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It's been nearly five years since California voters made pot legal here in our state,

1:05.6

but that was merely the beginning of the story for cannabis cultivators who had been working in a legal gray area

1:11.1

for years. We'll talk with the mayor of Anyak about how he's welcoming cannabis in, and we'll

1:15.6

check in on Sonoma County, which seemed poised to allow more grows before pulling back at a recent

1:20.7

county commission meeting. Liberty, water, property rights, that skunky smell, the reality of

1:26.1

legal weed sure got complex quickly.

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That's all next on Forum, after this news.

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