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California Wildfires Burning Part of Medical Marijuana Industry

Submitted by Marijuana News on Thu, 08/06/2015 - 02:33

It’s a different kind of smoke than they’re used to. Several Bay Area medical marijuana dispensaries say wildfires around California are hurting their industry. They claim cannabis plants are growing around some of state’s fires, especially the Rocky Fire near Clear Lake.

By Wednesday night, the Rocky Fire burned 69,600 acres and destroyed 43 homes.

Timothy Anderson is the purchasing manager at Harborside Health Center, a medical marijuana dispensary in Oakland. He says one of the burned homes belonged to a cannabis grower who provided them with product.

“I can't remember [a fire] affecting our growers as much as this year,” he said.

Rocky Fire Rages in Northern California

Anderson says about a quarter of their marijuana comes from growers near Clear Lake, and the smoke from the fire is damaging another growers’ crops. He expects the drop in supply will raise prices around the Bay Area, for...

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