California’s Calaveras County Considering Sweeping Ban on Cannabis Cultivation
Take a closer look at the County Board of Supervisors vote to decide the fate of almost 1,000 registered grows.
The Calaveras County Board of Supervisors will meet on Tuesday to decide the fate of commercial and personal cannabis cultivation in the county. Specifically, it will decide to either immediately adopt a ban measure which recently gained enough support for a vote, or it will choose to let the ban go to a special election in the spring.
The growers of Calaveras County experienced a victory last year when the board enacted an urgency ordinance rather than opting for a ban. Under the ordinance, 740 commercial cannabis growers applied for county permits. The county collected $5,000 per registration—almost $4 million in total—but only a small fraction of those registrants have been inspected since July. The rural county’s attempt to regulate cultivation set it apart from the numerous counties across the state...
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