Draft rules going before the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors on Monday would be the first major expansion of the county’s regulated cannabis industry since it first launched in 2016 and would open the door for new businesses to enter the market.
But much has changed in the two years since the county adopted its commercial cannabis rules in 2016.
Statewide legalization of the industry has now placed the county industry on a new and uncertain competitive playing field.
“There was a very, very short window for the first applicants to come in,” Humboldt Growers Alliance Executive Director Terra Carver said. “It was less than a year and it was a long time ago, so the considerations from then to now have changed considerably. The landscape in California on the policy level has changed considerably.”
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