With the legalization of commercial marijuana growing in California just a few weeks away, officials were in Redding on Wednesday to make sure growers knew how to obtain permits and comply with state regulations.
In the workshop, California Water Resources Control Board explained regulations governing how marijuana growers can comply with state laws on water use, how to legally set up a grow and control waste and irrigation runoff.
STATE BY STATE: California Cannabis News
None of that, however, applies to most people living in Shasta County.
That’s because the Shasta County Board of Supervisors banned all commercial marijuana growing and sales outside the boundaries of all three cities in the county. It also is illegal in Anderson.
The city of Shasta Lake is the only place in the county where it will be legal to commercially grow and sell marijuana in Shasta County next year. The city of Redding has delayed implementing rules to allow commercial cannabis growing.
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