Tri-county region’s total farm revenue up 4.6% in 2020
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Houweling’s Tomatoes will become state’s biggest cannabis greenhouse
Houweling’s Tomatoes is closing its 125-acre Camarillo greenhouse and selling the facility to a cannabis grower — a deal made possible by a Ventura County ballot measure last year that was sponsored and supported by a company affiliated with Houweling’s. Houweling’s, an indoor tomato and cucumber grower that has been in the Camarillo area since Read More →
Cannabis grower pleads guilty to bribing SLO County supervisor
A San Luis Obispo County cannabis grower and dispensary owner bribed the late County Supervisor Adam Hill and attempted to bribe the mayor of Grover Beach, and will plead guilty to federal bribery and tax crimes. Helios Dayspring, who also goes by “Bobby,” agreed to a plea deal that was filed July 28 in federal Read More →
Wine Buzz: Sunstone plans a new pairing with cannabis crop
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Santa Barbara County cannabis company to go public in $567M merger
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Santa Barbara to probe alleged conflicts in cannabis permits
A Santa Barbara city employee who oversaw applications for cannabis dispensary licenses has been placed on leave while he is the focus of an outside investigation, the city said March 15. Anthony Wagner, a public information officer with the Santa Barbara Police Department, was the focus of a March 12 article in Los Angeles magazine Read More →
Opinion: How to profit safely as a landlord to cannabis companies
By Josh Rabinowitz and Jack Ucciferri With dozens of jurisdictions in California having recently approved initiatives to tax and/or regulate cannabis, a wave of commercial real estate owners up and down the state are already in, or about to enter into, negotiations with would-be marijuana-related business (MRB) tenants. Those landlords will be acutely aware that Read More →
