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Just two months after the early October morning that saw thousands of Northern Californians wake up to hills engulfed in flame and widespread evacuation orders, a new set of wildfires is devastating Southern California, with at least four wildfires pushing across the greater Los Angeles area, spread further by the Santa Ana winds blowing from the nearby desert.
For California’s cannabis industry, simultaneously in the middle of a post-harvest sales rush and preparation for new recreational regulations that take effect January 1st, the new series of uncontrolled blazes carries significant fears, not only for scorched farms and smoke-damaged product, but for the community itself, as the SoCal fires have spread into more urban areas, burning homes, businesses, and entire neighborhoods.
“This year has been some of the highest highs and lowest lows, where we’ve made so much progress toward a legal, regulated, normal future,” Hezekiah Allen, executive director of the California Growers Association, told Reuters. “But at the same time, we’ve had these catastrophic fires.”
Despite the continued damage, Allen pointed out that in Ventura…
