Marijuana growers, like one Costa Mesa company, find their hot spot in the desert

Medical marijuana is shown inside a greenhouse in Mendocino County. Costa Mesa-based CalConn Holdings wants to build a similar facility in Desert Hot Springs.

Out in Coachella Valley, in the small city of Desert Hot Springs, there’s plenty of land and sunshine. What’s missing is industry, along with the jobs and tax revenue those businesses bring.

So city officials welcomed the announcement Jan. 26 that CalCann Holdings planned to set up shop and build a greenhouse to grow some 6,000 pounds of organic medical cannabis each year.

The pot will go to the Costa Mesa company’s own Santa Ana dispensaries and others under a new state licensing system.

Desert Hot Springs became the first city in Southern California to regulate and tax commercial medical marijuana cultivation in 2014, as the cash-strapped city sat on the verge of filing bankruptcy for a second time.

The city has permitted at least three...

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