Chris Dillis, a postdoctoral researcher in our lab and affiliate of the Berkeley Cannabis Research Center, led a study documenting how the geography of legal cannabis market is changing in California. The study suggests that the cannabis industry is following two divergent paths: one in which smaller farms in the traditional epicenter of illicit production of northern California enter the legal market and another in which larger, new farms become established in agricultural lands that have previously not grown cannabis, especially on the central coast. Read more here!
Shifting geography of cannabis cultivation in California