For most Californians, concerns regarding
where precisely a given strain of cannabis was grown have often been directly
proportional to the number of available options.
One long-standing idea has been to treat cannabis similarly to the way wines denote an appellation of origin. A given appellation refers to where the grapes were grown, which becomes a shorthand for the specific characteristics of taste and quality associated with certain regions. The best-known example is likely Champagne, which is why we refer to similar products grown outside that region of France as “sparkling white wine."
Appellations take into account factors like weather, climate, and composition — and local cannabis growers in California want in.
