California Wildfires Highlight Insurance Challenges, Value of Area for Marijuana Growers

By Omar Sacirbey

Wildfires raging through northern California because of a early summer have ruined numerous marijuana farms, triggering millions of dollars in damage to cultivation sites and including complications to an industry currently dealing with myriad obstacles.

The fires bring to the center several issues dealing with growers in uncontrolled medical marijuana states. They likewise supply lessons in the realms of insurance, crop location and customer relationships.

Much of the damage happened in federal wilderness land where unlawful grows are located, and the majority of that marijuana works its escape of state rather than into California dispensaries.

However a large variety of growers serving the state’s legal MMJ market were affected too, and their very future is in concern.

Hezekiah Allen, executive director of the California Growers Association, approximated that 250 marijuana farms supplying dispensaries and collectively covering some 50,000 acres may have been affected by this season’s fires, thought...

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