Desert Hot Springs has come to be known as Southern California’s marijuana Mecca, but now a High Desert town a few miles north on Highway 62 is poised to take that crown, if it wants it.
Yucca Valley residents have gathered enough signatures to force the town council to take action on the prospect of legalizing marijuana cultivation in the community before the next general election.
STATE BY STATE: California Cannabis News
The town council recently held a public hearing where some residents—who have been offered tens of thousands of dollars to sell or lease their land to cultivators, though some said those offers have not been legitimate—have made impassioned pleas for the conservative community to embrace the state's hottest new industry.
Part of what makes Yucca Valley so lucrative is that, unlike Desert Hot Springs, many of the city's industrial areas are already connected to power and water lines, reducing the amount of time and overhead expenses it would take for a cultivation facility to get up and running.
