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Home 🌿 Marijuana Business News 🌿 California marijuana farmers face country's first water-related regulations 🌿California marijuana farmers face country's first water-related regulations
Regulators in California’s north coast region have passed the country’s first rules governing the water-related impact of marijuana cultivation.
The new regulations will force pot growers to be responsible for anycontamination of water or land degradation.
But, despite the 5-1 vote, the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board is unlikely to face a smooth roll-out of the new oversight and regulation.
“This is going to be good in the long run, but getting all of us growers, especially the small ones like me, is really going to be hard to do immediately,” Robert Anderson, a small pot farmer near Santa Rosa who barely makes the cutoff for the new regulations of a 2,000-square-foot farm, said on Thursday evening.
He was quick to insist however that the downsides of implementation should not outweigh the need to ensure the environment is protected. “We wouldn’t be good pot growers if...
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