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Ultimately, he stumbled upon recordings of the police investigation, which helped crack open the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938055\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/weed-plant-w-recorder-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11938055 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/weed-plant-w-recorder-800x499.jpg\" alt=\"a young white man wearing headphones and a blue t-shirt and jeans smiles as he holds an audio recorder up to a cannabis plant on a farm with blue sky in the background\" width=\"800\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/weed-plant-w-recorder-800x499.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/weed-plant-w-recorder-1020x636.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/weed-plant-w-recorder-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/weed-plant-w-recorder-1536x958.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/weed-plant-w-recorder-2048x1278.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/weed-plant-w-recorder-1920x1198.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sam Anderson recording at a legal cannabis farm in Laytonville. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Mickey Capper)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Listen to Sasha’s interview with Anderson about the reporting process and what it was like to try to break into an insular community, all the while with a microphone in hand. 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"content": "\u003cp>On Friday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11927938/biden-to-pardon-simple-federal-marijuana-possession-convictions\">President Biden issued a blank pardon\u003c/a> for Americans federally convicted of possessing small amounts of cannabis, urged governors to do likewise on state offenses and called for a review on whether cannabis should be listed as a less serious drug from its current Schedule I listing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a major cannabis producer, California is poised to become one of the states most affected by Biden’s cannabis move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I\u003cspan data-pm-slice='1 1 [\"paragraph-wrapper\",null,\"paragraph\",{\"id\":\"p8-0\"}]'>t’s a historic moment,” said California’s Cannabis Chamber of Commerce Chair Hirsh Jain in an interview with KQED, where he discussed the implications that Biden’s federal cannabis pardon would have on California. “It’s the president using his bully pulpit … using the moral authority of the presidency to signal a new direction in the war on drugs.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the significance of the pardon coming from Joe Biden, “\u003cspan data-pm-slice='1 1 [\"paragraph-wrapper\",null,\"paragraph\",{\"id\":\"p8-0\"}]'>given that he was involved with a lot of the tough-on-crime policies that led to incarceration,” Jain points out that it would only affect \u003c/span>\u003cspan data-pm-slice='1 1 [\"paragraph-wrapper\",null,\"paragraph\",{\"id\":\"p8-0\"}]'>about 10,000 people who are federally convicted of simple cannabis possession. H\u003c/span>e says the real genius of the move is that \u003cspan data-pm-slice='1 1 [\"paragraph-wrapper\",null,\"paragraph\",{\"id\":\"p8-0\"}]'>it will require governors across the country to take a position on pardons, because most of the offenses are at a state level. [aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11927938,news_11791257,news_11737089\"]\u003c/span>“What I think is fascinating is, in the last 24 hours, governors across the country have really weighed in. You’re seeing calls in a lot of states for governors to issue a lot of pardons. I think what is really smart about this move is (that) on a popular issue that Americans broadly support, a lot of governors are being forced to take a position on this issue, knowing (it) is broadly popular — in California in particular.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-pm-slice='2 2 [\"paragraph-wrapper\",null]'>\u003cspan data-pm-slice='1 1 [\"paragraph-wrapper\",null,\"paragraph\",{\"id\":\"p8-0\"}]'>California is ahead of many other states in its effort to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11728824/san-francisco-will-wipe-away-more-than-9300-marijuana-convictions\">expunge records\u003c/a> and pardon minor cannabis crimes, but Jain says there’s still a lot of work to do. He adds that Biden’s pardon could give Gov. 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Yet because we operate in siloed state markets, California produces many times more cannabis than there is demand for within its own borders, and that creates \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11901878/californias-marijuana-economy-threatened-by-growing-illegal-market\">a massive illicit market\u003c/a>. So California stands to benefit tremendously from a rational national marketplace for cannabis. So more than any other state, California has a stake in the eventual rescheduling and descheduling of cannabis, which will likely take many years. But it’s a great first step.”\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jain also echoed U.S. Rep. and Co-Chair of the Congressional Cannabis Caucus Barbara Lee in pointing out that \u003ca href=\"https://lee.house.gov/news/press-releases/-congresswoman-lee-applauds-pardons-for-people-convicted-of-marijuana-possession\">rescheduling might defeat the purpose and that, ultimately, what is needed is descheduling\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"tr-paragraph\" data-pm-slice='2 2 [\"paragraph-wrapper\",null]'>“What is dangerous about rescheduling cannabis is if we move cannabis to Schedule II, which is where, you know, cocaine and meth and fentanyl are, (we would) perpetuate the fiction that cannabis is as dangerous as cocaine and fentanyl. (So) I think it’s critical that we schedule cannabis in order to really properly finally recognize the medical utility that we have known it has had for generations, but (which) we have denied in the name of politics,” said Jain.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Dangers of complacency\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, California continues to face significant challenges, and while Biden’s federal cannabis pardon may be a good first step, there remain serious hurdles for the cannabis industry in California. Jain lists complacency, taxation and the inability of cannabis businesses to access the federal banking system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cannabis companies can’t claim any federal tax deduction, so they pay a 70% or 80% effective tax rate. Even Apple would not be profitable if it could not claim federal tax deduction. That tax provision is why there are cannabis companies out there that are making billions of dollars in revenue but are actually bleeding cash because all of that money is going to Uncle Sam. And so although there may be risks, there is nothing more unsustainable than the current state of affairs in which it is impossible really to run a profitable legal cannabis business in the United States and where it is much more profitable to run an illegal business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California legalized recreational cannabis in 2016, promising to create the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-09-08/a-series-on-the-fallout-of-legal-weed-in-california\">largest legal weed market in the world.\u003c/a>” Legalization promised to generate millions of new tax dollars and lure marijuana farmers and sellers away from the illegal market. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11769837/california-says-its-cannabis-revenue-has-fallen-short-of-estimates-despite-gains\">That didn’t happen\u003c/a> as planned. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Elizabeth Kirkaldie’s grandson was at the top of his class in high school and a talented jazz bassist when he started smoking pot. The more serious he got about music, the more serious he got about pot.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And the more serious he got about pot, the more he became paranoid, even psychotic. He started hearing voices.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“They were going to kill him and there were people coming to eat his brain. Weird, weird stuff,” Kirkaldie says. “I woke up one morning and no Kory anywhere. Well, it turns out, he’d been running down Villa Lane here totally naked.”\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pullquote size='small' citation='Dr. Lynn Silver, Public Health Institute']‘Today’s turbocharged products are turbocharging the harms associated with cannabis.’[/pullquote]Kory came to live with his grandmother for a couple years in Napa. She thought maybe she could help. Now, she says that was naïve. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kory was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Kirkaldie blames the pot.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The drug use activated the psychosis, is what I really think,” she says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Indeed, research confirms people who use cannabis are\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35315315/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">four times more likely\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to develop chronic psychosis, or schizophrenia, compared to people who don’t. For people who smoke every day or use higher potency products, the risk is up to\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35315315/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">six times higher\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. One study found eliminating marijuana use in adolescents would reduce global rates of schizophrenia\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-022-01586-8\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">by 10%\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Doctors and lawmakers in California want cannabis producers to warn consumers of this and other health risks on their package labels and in advertising, similar to requirements for cigarettes. They also want sellers to distribute health brochures to first-time customers outlining the risks cannabis poses to youth, drivers and those who are pregnant, especially for pot that has high concentrations of THC.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Today’s turbocharged products are turbocharging the harms associated with cannabis,” says Dr. Lynn Silver with the\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.phi.org/work-with-us/?gclid=CjwKCAjwv-GUBhAzEiwASUMm4sYE1WqZD4Z4iqYpMm60UMxb9B7hGezMGVxymh1JyTsjszQF7jfrIRoCUDUQAvD_BwE\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Public Health Institute\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a nonprofit sponsoring the proposed labeling legislation,\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1097\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">SB 1097\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the Cannabis Right to Know Act.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Californians voted to legalize pot in 2016. Three years later, emergency room visits for cannabis-induced psychosis went up 54% across the state, from 682 visits to 1,053, according to\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/hospital-emergency-department-diagnosis-procedure-and-external-cause-codes\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">state hospital data\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. For people who already have a psychotic disorder, cannabis can make things worse: It leads to more ER visits, more hospitalizations, and more legal troubles, says\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/deepak_dsouza/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dr. Deepak Cyril D’Souza\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a psychiatry professor at Yale University School of Medicine, who also serves on the\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://portal.ct.gov/DCP/Medical-Marijuana-Program/Medical-Marijuana-Program-Board-of-Physicians\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">physicians’ advisory board\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for Connecticut’s medical marijuana program.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But D’Souza faces great difficulty convincing his patients of the dangers, especially as\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ncsl.org/research/health/state-medical-marijuana-laws.aspx\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">19 states\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> have legalized recreational marijuana.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Both my patients with schizophrenia, and also adolescents, hear very conflicting messages that it’s legal — [that] in fact, there may be medical uses for it,” he says. “If there are medical uses, how can we say there’s anything wrong with it?”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11916223\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/003_KQED_LizKirkaldie_06062022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11916223\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/003_KQED_LizKirkaldie_06062022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A rectangular wooden frame holds three images of children. Two are blurred and the third shows Kory as a young boy in a denim shirt with a mop of dark hair, black eyes, and a happy smile.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/003_KQED_LizKirkaldie_06062022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/003_KQED_LizKirkaldie_06062022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/003_KQED_LizKirkaldie_06062022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/003_KQED_LizKirkaldie_06062022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/003_KQED_LizKirkaldie_06062022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elizabeth Kirkaldie holds a photo of Kory as a child at her home in Napa on June 6, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Legalization is not the problem, he says, but rather the commercialization of cannabis — the heavy marketing, which can be geared toward attracting young people to become customers for life — and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2016/10/27/california-cannabis-gets-thc-boost-as-voters-consider-legalizing-pot/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the increase in THC\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from 4% on average up to 20%-35% in today’s varieties.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Limiting the amount of THC in pot products and including health warnings on the labels could help reduce the health harms associated with cannabis use, D’Souza says, the same way they worked for cigarettes. He credits warning labels, education campaigns and marketing restrictions for the sharp drop in \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/fast_facts/trends-in-tobacco-use-among-youth.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">smoking rates among kids and teens\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in the last decade. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We know how to message them,” D’Souza says. “But I don’t think we have the will or the resources, as yet.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some states, including Colorado, Oregon and New York, have dabbled with cannabis warning label requirements. California’s proposed legislation suggests language for 10 distinct warnings, including:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11916265\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/warning-labels-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11916265\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/warning-labels-1-800x389.jpg\" alt=\"Three suggested warning labels in black lettering on a bright yellow background read: WARNING: Cannabis use may contribute to mental health problems, including psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia. Risk is greatest for frequent users and when using products with high THC levels. WARNING: Not for Kids or Teens! Starting cannabis use young or using frequently may lead to problem use and, according to the U.S. Surgeon General, may harm the developing brain. WARNING: Do not use if pregnant or breastfeeding. Substances in cannabis are transferred from the mother to the child and may harm your baby’s health, including causing low birth weight.\" width=\"800\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/warning-labels-1-800x389.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/warning-labels-1-1020x495.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/warning-labels-1-160x78.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/warning-labels-1-1536x746.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/warning-labels-1.jpg 1678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California’s proposed rules are modeled after comprehensive protocols established in Canada: rotating health warnings would have to be set against a bright yellow background, use black 12-point font, and take up a third of the front of the package. \u003ccite>(Image by Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Opponents of the proposed warning labels say the requirements are excessive and expensive, especially since marketing to children is already prohibited in California and people must be 21 to buy. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This bill is really duplicative and puts unnecessary burdens on the legal cannabis industry, as we already have incredibly restrictive packaging and advertising requirements,” says Lindsay Robinson, executive director of the\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cacannabisindustry.org/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">California Cannabis Industry Association\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which represents legal pot businesses.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The state should focus more on combatting the illicit pot market, rather than further regulating the legal one, she says. Legal dispensaries are already struggling to keep up with existing rules and taxes: The state’s 1,500 licensed pot retailers generated \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdtfa.ca.gov/dataportal/dataset.htm?url=CannabisTaxRevenues\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">$1.3 billion in state tax revenue\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> last year. Adding more requirements just makes it harder for them to compete with the illicit market, she says, and more likely to go out of business.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The only real option if they fail out of the legal system is to shutter their businesses altogether or to operate underground. And I don’t think the state of California, with the tax revenue, wants either of those to happen,” she says. “The heart of the issue is that there’s a massive, unregulated market in the state.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some people, even parents like Elizabeth Kirkaldie, are skeptical the labels will work. Her grandson, Kory, is stable now, living with his dad. But she’s not sure a yellow warning would’ve stopped him when he was a teen. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“They’re just not going to pay attention,” she says. “But if it helps even one person? Great.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Scientists still do not know what causes schizophrenia, but they believe multiple factors are at play, including genetics, family history, trauma and other influences in a person’s environment, like smoking pot. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Kory came to live with his grandmother for a couple years in Napa. She thought maybe she could help. Now, she says that was naïve. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kory was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Kirkaldie blames the pot.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The drug use activated the psychosis, is what I really think,” she says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Indeed, research confirms people who use cannabis are\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35315315/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">four times more likely\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to develop chronic psychosis, or schizophrenia, compared to people who don’t. For people who smoke every day or use higher potency products, the risk is up to\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35315315/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">six times higher\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. One study found eliminating marijuana use in adolescents would reduce global rates of schizophrenia\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-022-01586-8\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">by 10%\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Doctors and lawmakers in California want cannabis producers to warn consumers of this and other health risks on their package labels and in advertising, similar to requirements for cigarettes. They also want sellers to distribute health brochures to first-time customers outlining the risks cannabis poses to youth, drivers and those who are pregnant, especially for pot that has high concentrations of THC.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Today’s turbocharged products are turbocharging the harms associated with cannabis,” says Dr. Lynn Silver with the\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.phi.org/work-with-us/?gclid=CjwKCAjwv-GUBhAzEiwASUMm4sYE1WqZD4Z4iqYpMm60UMxb9B7hGezMGVxymh1JyTsjszQF7jfrIRoCUDUQAvD_BwE\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Public Health Institute\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a nonprofit sponsoring the proposed labeling legislation,\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1097\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">SB 1097\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the Cannabis Right to Know Act.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Californians voted to legalize pot in 2016. Three years later, emergency room visits for cannabis-induced psychosis went up 54% across the state, from 682 visits to 1,053, according to\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/hospital-emergency-department-diagnosis-procedure-and-external-cause-codes\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">state hospital data\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. For people who already have a psychotic disorder, cannabis can make things worse: It leads to more ER visits, more hospitalizations, and more legal troubles, says\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/deepak_dsouza/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dr. Deepak Cyril D’Souza\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a psychiatry professor at Yale University School of Medicine, who also serves on the\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://portal.ct.gov/DCP/Medical-Marijuana-Program/Medical-Marijuana-Program-Board-of-Physicians\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">physicians’ advisory board\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for Connecticut’s medical marijuana program.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But D’Souza faces great difficulty convincing his patients of the dangers, especially as\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ncsl.org/research/health/state-medical-marijuana-laws.aspx\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">19 states\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> have legalized recreational marijuana.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Both my patients with schizophrenia, and also adolescents, hear very conflicting messages that it’s legal — [that] in fact, there may be medical uses for it,” he says. “If there are medical uses, how can we say there’s anything wrong with it?”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11916223\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/003_KQED_LizKirkaldie_06062022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11916223\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/003_KQED_LizKirkaldie_06062022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A rectangular wooden frame holds three images of children. Two are blurred and the third shows Kory as a young boy in a denim shirt with a mop of dark hair, black eyes, and a happy smile.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/003_KQED_LizKirkaldie_06062022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/003_KQED_LizKirkaldie_06062022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/003_KQED_LizKirkaldie_06062022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/003_KQED_LizKirkaldie_06062022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/003_KQED_LizKirkaldie_06062022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elizabeth Kirkaldie holds a photo of Kory as a child at her home in Napa on June 6, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Legalization is not the problem, he says, but rather the commercialization of cannabis — the heavy marketing, which can be geared toward attracting young people to become customers for life — and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2016/10/27/california-cannabis-gets-thc-boost-as-voters-consider-legalizing-pot/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the increase in THC\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from 4% on average up to 20%-35% in today’s varieties.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Limiting the amount of THC in pot products and including health warnings on the labels could help reduce the health harms associated with cannabis use, D’Souza says, the same way they worked for cigarettes. He credits warning labels, education campaigns and marketing restrictions for the sharp drop in \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/fast_facts/trends-in-tobacco-use-among-youth.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">smoking rates among kids and teens\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in the last decade. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We know how to message them,” D’Souza says. “But I don’t think we have the will or the resources, as yet.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some states, including Colorado, Oregon and New York, have dabbled with cannabis warning label requirements. California’s proposed legislation suggests language for 10 distinct warnings, including:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11916265\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/warning-labels-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11916265\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/warning-labels-1-800x389.jpg\" alt=\"Three suggested warning labels in black lettering on a bright yellow background read: WARNING: Cannabis use may contribute to mental health problems, including psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia. Risk is greatest for frequent users and when using products with high THC levels. WARNING: Not for Kids or Teens! Starting cannabis use young or using frequently may lead to problem use and, according to the U.S. Surgeon General, may harm the developing brain. WARNING: Do not use if pregnant or breastfeeding. Substances in cannabis are transferred from the mother to the child and may harm your baby’s health, including causing low birth weight.\" width=\"800\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/warning-labels-1-800x389.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/warning-labels-1-1020x495.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/warning-labels-1-160x78.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/warning-labels-1-1536x746.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/warning-labels-1.jpg 1678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California’s proposed rules are modeled after comprehensive protocols established in Canada: rotating health warnings would have to be set against a bright yellow background, use black 12-point font, and take up a third of the front of the package. \u003ccite>(Image by Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Opponents of the proposed warning labels say the requirements are excessive and expensive, especially since marketing to children is already prohibited in California and people must be 21 to buy. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This bill is really duplicative and puts unnecessary burdens on the legal cannabis industry, as we already have incredibly restrictive packaging and advertising requirements,” says Lindsay Robinson, executive director of the\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cacannabisindustry.org/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">California Cannabis Industry Association\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which represents legal pot businesses.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The state should focus more on combatting the illicit pot market, rather than further regulating the legal one, she says. Legal dispensaries are already struggling to keep up with existing rules and taxes: The state’s 1,500 licensed pot retailers generated \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdtfa.ca.gov/dataportal/dataset.htm?url=CannabisTaxRevenues\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">$1.3 billion in state tax revenue\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> last year. Adding more requirements just makes it harder for them to compete with the illicit market, she says, and more likely to go out of business.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The only real option if they fail out of the legal system is to shutter their businesses altogether or to operate underground. And I don’t think the state of California, with the tax revenue, wants either of those to happen,” she says. “The heart of the issue is that there’s a massive, unregulated market in the state.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some people, even parents like Elizabeth Kirkaldie, are skeptical the labels will work. Her grandson, Kory, is stable now, living with his dad. But she’s not sure a yellow warning would’ve stopped him when he was a teen. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“They’re just not going to pay attention,” she says. “But if it helps even one person? Great.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Scientists still do not know what causes schizophrenia, but they believe multiple factors are at play, including genetics, family history, trauma and other influences in a person’s environment, like smoking pot. Some scientists believe having schizophrenia itself is what \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5341491/#:~:text=We%20found%20strong%20evidence%20in,2014).\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">predisposes people to smoking pot\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. While it’s difficult to prove a direct causal link between cannabis use and schizophrenia, the associations are strong enough to warrant action, says D’Souza — and importantly, pot use is one of the only risk factors people can control.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Not everyone who smoked cigarettes developed lung cancer, and not everyone who has lung cancer smoked cigarettes,” he says. “But I think we would all agree that one of the most preventable causes of lung cancer is cigarette smoking.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Applying the same health education strategies to cannabis that were used for tobacco, he says, is long overdue.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Regional air regulators are moving to shut down a set of giant diesel generators that have been used for more than a year and a half to power a major cannabis-growing facility in East Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21678879/2022-4-20-green-sage-accusation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a complaint issued Wednesday\u003c/a>, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District formally accused a Denver-based firm called Green Sage of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11908979/a-denver-based-firm-is-using-huge-diesel-generators-to-grow-cannabis-in-east-oakland-now-the-city-is-trying-to-shut-them-down\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">installing the heavily polluting generators\u003c/a> as a long-term substitute for standard grid power in violation of state and regional regulations.[aside postID=\"news_11908979,arts_13826417,news_11879641\" label=\"Related Posts\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The impacts of these generators are serious,\" Damian Breen, the district's deputy operations chief, said in an interview. \"East Oakland suffers from more air pollution than other parts of the Bay Area, and diesel particulate matter can have a significant impact.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As many as nine of the huge diesel units have operated simultaneously outside the two buildings. Portable diesel generators emit diesel particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide and other pollutants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaint seeks an order from the district's independent hearing board requiring Green Sage and cannabis tenants at its two San Leandro Street properties to shut down the generators until they get permits to operate them. The complaint also makes it clear that permits are available only for temporary generator use — for instance, during short-term emergencies or to provide power during electrical upgrades — not as a long-term replacement for the conventional grid power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breen said it could take 30 to 60 days for the hearing board to convene and deliver an abatement order to halt use of the generators, the first of which was installed in July 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://greensagemb.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Green Sage\u003c/a> bought two large San Leandro Street buildings, known as The Tinnery and The Cannery, in 2016 and 2017, and began leasing space to cannabis operations. The company is owned by Ken Greer, 41, a former Massachusetts stockbroker with addresses in Denver and San Diego County, and Bruce Miller, 70, a real-estate agent listed with residences in Los Angeles, Wyoming and Montana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents of The Cannery, a live-work space that has housed artists and artisans for nearly 50 years, have raised alarms for the past 20 months about the industrial generators and the pollution they're emitting in a part of Oakland that has long suffered from hazardous air quality due to proximity to Interstate 880 and factories in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When power demand from energy-intensive growing operations overtaxed the existing transformers and other electrical infrastructure at the buildings, Green Sage began renting semi-trailer-sized diesel generators as its primary source for tenants' electrical needs. The generators consume thousands of gallons of fuel a day, and cannabis operators at the complex report monthly fuel bills in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11909005\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11909005\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut-800x541.jpg\" alt=\"A large tanker truck delivers\" width=\"800\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut-800x541.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut-1020x690.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut-1536x1039.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tanker delivering diesel fuel to industrial generators outside the Green Sage cannabis complex on San Leandro Street in East Oakland. Seven generators at the site require daily fuel deliveries and burn more than 2,000 gallons of fuel a day. \u003ccite>(Amaya Nicole Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The formal air district complaint follows a February \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21480754/bay-area-air-quality-management-district-green-sage-notice-of-violation-feb-16-2022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">notice of violation\u003c/a> the agency issued because Green Sage had failed to get permits to install or operate the generators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Oakland has slapped the company with a pair of violation notices for running the generators without permits and for a host of code violations. The \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21475890/city-of-oakland-march-21-2022-notice-of-violation-to-green-sage.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">most recent notice\u003c/a>, sent last month, gave Green Sage until Friday, April 22, to end use of the generators. But as of Thursday, just a day before that deadline, the generators continue to run 24 hours a day, seven days a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green Sage did not respond to a request for comment on the latest violation notice. In answer to the air district's February notice of violation, a Green Sage lawyer wrote the agency a letter saying the company had filed \"application materials\" for the diesel-powered generators at San Leandro Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter from San Francisco attorney Darrin Gambelin went on to say that Green Sage also was preparing to submit an application to install cleaner-burning turbines that would be powered by gas derived from dairy waste. The turbines would \"immediately reduce emissions and expeditiously install a permanent clean, renewable, net-negative carbon power source.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company floated the potentially expensive turbine proposal despite the fact it appears to be in extreme financial straits. Green Sage apparently stopped making payments last August on a $54.5 million dollar loan it had gotten to underwrite construction at the San Leandro Street properties and was placed in default in December. The buildings are currently set to be sold at a May 4 foreclosure auction in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In any event, the air district says Green Sage has yet to file a complete application for either the diesel generators or the proposed turbines. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The impacts of these generators are serious,\" Damian Breen, the district's deputy operations chief, said in an interview. \"East Oakland suffers from more air pollution than other parts of the Bay Area, and diesel particulate matter can have a significant impact.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As many as nine of the huge diesel units have operated simultaneously outside the two buildings. Portable diesel generators emit diesel particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide and other pollutants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaint seeks an order from the district's independent hearing board requiring Green Sage and cannabis tenants at its two San Leandro Street properties to shut down the generators until they get permits to operate them. The complaint also makes it clear that permits are available only for temporary generator use — for instance, during short-term emergencies or to provide power during electrical upgrades — not as a long-term replacement for the conventional grid power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breen said it could take 30 to 60 days for the hearing board to convene and deliver an abatement order to halt use of the generators, the first of which was installed in July 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://greensagemb.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Green Sage\u003c/a> bought two large San Leandro Street buildings, known as The Tinnery and The Cannery, in 2016 and 2017, and began leasing space to cannabis operations. The company is owned by Ken Greer, 41, a former Massachusetts stockbroker with addresses in Denver and San Diego County, and Bruce Miller, 70, a real-estate agent listed with residences in Los Angeles, Wyoming and Montana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents of The Cannery, a live-work space that has housed artists and artisans for nearly 50 years, have raised alarms for the past 20 months about the industrial generators and the pollution they're emitting in a part of Oakland that has long suffered from hazardous air quality due to proximity to Interstate 880 and factories in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When power demand from energy-intensive growing operations overtaxed the existing transformers and other electrical infrastructure at the buildings, Green Sage began renting semi-trailer-sized diesel generators as its primary source for tenants' electrical needs. The generators consume thousands of gallons of fuel a day, and cannabis operators at the complex report monthly fuel bills in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11909005\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11909005\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut-800x541.jpg\" alt=\"A large tanker truck delivers\" width=\"800\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut-800x541.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut-1020x690.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut-1536x1039.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tanker delivering diesel fuel to industrial generators outside the Green Sage cannabis complex on San Leandro Street in East Oakland. Seven generators at the site require daily fuel deliveries and burn more than 2,000 gallons of fuel a day. \u003ccite>(Amaya Nicole Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The formal air district complaint follows a February \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21480754/bay-area-air-quality-management-district-green-sage-notice-of-violation-feb-16-2022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">notice of violation\u003c/a> the agency issued because Green Sage had failed to get permits to install or operate the generators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Oakland has slapped the company with a pair of violation notices for running the generators without permits and for a host of code violations. The \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21475890/city-of-oakland-march-21-2022-notice-of-violation-to-green-sage.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">most recent notice\u003c/a>, sent last month, gave Green Sage until Friday, April 22, to end use of the generators. But as of Thursday, just a day before that deadline, the generators continue to run 24 hours a day, seven days a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green Sage did not respond to a request for comment on the latest violation notice. In answer to the air district's February notice of violation, a Green Sage lawyer wrote the agency a letter saying the company had filed \"application materials\" for the diesel-powered generators at San Leandro Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter from San Francisco attorney Darrin Gambelin went on to say that Green Sage also was preparing to submit an application to install cleaner-burning turbines that would be powered by gas derived from dairy waste. The turbines would \"immediately reduce emissions and expeditiously install a permanent clean, renewable, net-negative carbon power source.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company floated the potentially expensive turbine proposal despite the fact it appears to be in extreme financial straits. Green Sage apparently stopped making payments last August on a $54.5 million dollar loan it had gotten to underwrite construction at the San Leandro Street properties and was placed in default in December. The buildings are currently set to be sold at a May 4 foreclosure auction in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In any event, the air district says Green Sage has yet to file a complete application for either the diesel generators or the proposed turbines. 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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he city of Oakland is warning the Colorado owners of a major cannabis production complex in East Oakland that they may face significant fines and criminal charges if they don’t quickly remove unpermitted diesel generators that have been running around the clock for more than a year to power the facility’s operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with the city’s previous warnings to the company apparently going unheeded, frustrated residents of a historic live/work building that’s part of the cannabis complex are threatening to take action themselves to shut down the generators.[aside postID=\"arts_13826417,arts_13910331,news_11901878,news_11879641\" label=\"Related Posts\"]Residents of The Cannery building have raised alarms for the past 20 months about the industrial generators and the pollution they’re emitting in a part of Oakland that has long suffered from hazardous air quality due to proximity to Interstate 880 and factories in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the city has been unable to curb repeated building and fire code violations by Denver-based \u003ca href=\"https://greensagemb.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Green Sage\u003c/a>, the firm that owns The Cannery and an adjacent building called The Tinnery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21475890/city-of-oakland-march-21-2022-notice-of-violation-to-green-sage.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The notice sent Monday\u003c/a> to Green Sage and its owners — Ken Greer, 41, a former Massachusetts stockbroker, and Bruce Miller, 70, a real-estate agent with addresses in Los Angeles and Wyoming — gives the firm 30 days to stop using the seven generators currently operating at the San Leandro Street complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The threatened prosecution and other sanctions would add to the legal challenges facing Green Sage, whose Oakland operations have been entangled in more than \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16rALJbtz5xFiUOiQ4ObQo0IWUhKwD9S05kN0gDeEy70/edit?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two dozen lawsuits\u003c/a> in state and federal courts in California, Colorado and Virginia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland City Councilmember Loren Taylor, who represents the district that includes the Green Sage properties, says the situation shows the city needs to move faster and have better enforcement mechanisms in place when confronted by “out of bounds” cannabis operators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While I am grateful that this notice of violation has been issued with clear timeframes for required remediation and clarity around the penalties for insufficient response, this is an example of how our system works too slowly for the needs of tenants who are forced to deal with unbearable conditions on a daily basis,” Taylor said in an email statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company began installing generators at the complex in July 2020 after a PG&E transformer serving the buildings failed and a power line caught fire — apparently because of a sharp increase in power demand related to the cannabis operations. As many as nine generators have operated simultaneously at the site since then, with seven on site now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city alleges several violations of the state fire code and city ordinances, including operating the generators, using and storing diesel fuel without permits and exposing workers and residents at the complex to diesel fumes that pose “a grave risk to health and safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Monday notice says failure to stop using the generators by April 22 could result in the company having its property declared a public nuisance and being fined as much as $1,000 a day. The city also warned Green Sage that if it doesn’t comply, it could be referred to the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office for criminal prosecution of the alleged fire code violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The notice included 20 images of conditions at the two Green Sage properties, including two huge diesel generators stationed adjacent to the soot-blackened facade of one of the buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908996\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-2.04.12-AM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11908996\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-2.04.12-AM-800x450.png\" alt=\"Large diesel generators outside industrial building.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-2.04.12-AM-800x450.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-2.04.12-AM-1020x573.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-2.04.12-AM-160x90.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-2.04.12-AM-1536x864.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-2.04.12-AM-1920x1079.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-2.04.12-AM.png 1946w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Images from city of Oakland’s notice of violation to Green Sage, the Denver-based owners of the East Oakland cannabis facility. The city warned the owners to stop using the highly polluting generators or face potential criminal charges. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Oakland Fire Department)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Green Sage did not respond to an email seeking comment on the violation notice. In past statements to KQED, Greer has said he and Miller are “avid environmentalists” and that the generators are necessary because PG&E is unable to supply enough power to the facility’s energy-intensive cannabis growing and processing operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E disputes that assertion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green Sage paid $20 million in 2016 and 2017 to buy the two San Leandro Street properties — The Tinnery, at 5601 San Leandro St., and The Cannery, at 5733 San Leandro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theoaklandcannery.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Cannery\u003c/a> was not just any big brick building waiting for an out-of-town entrepreneur to turn it into a weed factory. It was one of Oakland’s first live/work artists’ communities and the long-time home of the celebrated \u003ca href=\"https://openspace.sfmoma.org/2019/10/a-restless-philosophical-quest-the-art-of-arthur-monroe/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">abstract expressionist painter Arthur Monroe\u003c/a>. He became the building’s first artist-tenant in the mid-1970s and lived there until his death in 2019 at age 84.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Oakland Cannery residents\"]‘We are done asking nicely and are now demanding that the generators be shut down.’[/pullquote] Deteriorating living conditions at the building since Green Sage acquired it — including the 24/7 diesel emissions from the unpermitted generators — have reduced the number of tenants in its 20 residential units from 32 to 10 over the last two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cannery resident Alistair Monroe — the son of painter Arthur Monroe — and former building manager James Dawson have been leading efforts to get the city to respond to the generators and say it’s past time for decisive official action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That led them to send an emailed ultimatum earlier this week to city officials giving them until Thursday afternoon to have the generators shut down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are done asking nicely and are now demanding that the generators be shut down,” the email from Monroe and Dawson said, warning they would join with community supporters to shut down the generators themselves if the city didn’t act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview, Monroe and Dawson said they might be able to do that by blocking tanker trucks that each day deliver the thousands of gallons of diesel fuel the generators need to keep running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monroe said that the ultimatum remains in place despite the city’s new violation notice to Green Sage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have NO FAITH that letter will resolve any issues with Green Sage,” Monroe said in an email after the city sent the notice of violation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908992\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54587_20220317-IMG_6443-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11908992\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54587_20220317-IMG_6443-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Alistair Monroe posing outside the red-brick Cannery building in East Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54587_20220317-IMG_6443-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54587_20220317-IMG_6443-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54587_20220317-IMG_6443-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54587_20220317-IMG_6443-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54587_20220317-IMG_6443-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Resident Alistair Monroe at The Cannery live/work building in East Oakland. Monroe, whose artist father lived at the building for more than 40 years, has been one of the tenants leading the fight to preserve it as a live/work space. ‘So, I’ve been told by professors that because of me and my history that I’d been prepping subconsciously, throughout my life, to protect this building. And I’m doing everything I can in my power to do it. So it’s been like, how do you go up against a billion-dollar operation? You just do it with heart and soul, right?’ Monroe said. \u003ccite>(Amaya Nicole Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he threatened generator shutdown action follows years of efforts by Monroe, Dawson and other tenants to get the city’s attention about conditions at The Cannery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They met with initial success when the City Council passed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13826417/new-oakland-law-could-prevent-cannabis-companies-from-evicting-tenants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an ordinance\u003c/a> in 2018 barring residential evictions in Oakland’s so-called “Green Zone,” a 10-mile-long, L-shaped strip on the edges of West and East Oakland designated for industrial cannabis operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cannery residents also have succeeded in \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21480652/city-of-oakland-march-16-2022-advisory-to-green-sage-on-cannery-livework-spaces.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">getting the city to warn Green Sage and its cannabis tenants\u003c/a> against expanding operations into vacated live/work spaces, which is prohibited by the 2018 measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’ve had far less success getting action on the generators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have been alerting the people who have the ability to do something about this for quite a long time,” Dawson said. “And I don’t know if it’s a bureaucratic process or what it is, but it’s just not stopping. Twenty months is a long time for this to go on sort of uninterrupted 24 hours a day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until Monday’s notice of violation, residents’ complaints about the generators have led to several preliminary enforcement actions by both the city of Oakland and regional air regulators.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align-\"right\" citation=\"Michael Hunt, Oakland Fire Department\"]‘The generators were at no time permitted as a permanent power source.’[/pullquote]Michael Hunt, the Oakland Fire Department’s chief of staff, said in an email earlier this month that the generators should only have been used on a temporary basis and “were never meant for ongoing use.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Typically, Hunt said, a generator would be approved and permitted for 90 days. He said temporary approval was granted after the July 2020 transformer failure “to ensure that the live/work tenants [at The Cannery] had power. … The generators were at no time permitted as a permanent power source.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that residents are getting power from PG&E, “there is no justifiable need for the generators to be in use to keep power on in the live work units,” Hunt said. “The multiple unpermitted generators now are only augmenting the need for power to support the cannabis-related businesses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green Sage also has come to the attention of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District. Last month the district filed its own \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21480754/bay-area-air-quality-management-district-green-sage-notice-of-violation-feb-16-2022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">notice of violation\u003c/a> against the company for failing to obtain a permit to operate the generators. The notice prompted Green Sage to apply for an air district permit, but the agency said as of Monday that application remained incomplete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recent interview at the site, Councilmember Taylor said he was “frankly upset that the warehouse owners have been using industrial diesel generators as a permanent power source.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Generators are intended to be temporary, while we’re bridging a gap, not to be a long-term fixture in the community polluting and pushing out the chemicals into the air,” Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he’d expressed his concerns to city staff about ending the generators’ unpermitted use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11909005\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11909005 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut-800x541.jpg\" alt=\"A large tanker truck is parked alongside a long metal fence in an industrial area. Across the street are the elevated BART tracks.\" width=\"800\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut-800x541.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut-1020x690.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut-1536x1039.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tanker delivering diesel fuel to industrial generators outside the Green Sage cannabis complex on San Leandro Street in East Oakland. Seven generators at the site require daily fuel deliveries and burn more than 2,000 gallons of fuel a day. \u003ccite>(Amaya Nicole Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That is something that we absolutely need to get on top of,” Taylor said. “We need to do more to ensure that it has stopped.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier attempts by city officials to address Green Sage code violations show just how hard it has been for them to get on top of the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last October, inspectors from three city agencies toured the Green Sage complex. That inspection, in turn, resulted in \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21423379/city-of-oakland-december-2021-green-sage-violation-notice.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a Dec. 7 letter\u003c/a> from city officials to Green Sage partners Greer and Miller. The missive noted the “collapsed” PG&E transformer, unpermitted electrical work and the installation of the diesel generators “without city-required inspections and permits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter said Greer and Miller would need to get both a Fire Department permit and sign-off from the city’s Bureau of Building “for interim use” of the generators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The message closed by warning the Green Sage owners that “failure to work with the city and take meaningful corrective measures to bring the identified issues into code compliance will result in the city seeking any and all appropriate legal remedies including fines, criminal penalties, suspension or revocation of any operational or occupancy permits and removal of the generators.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hunt said inspectors returned to the company’s San Leandro Street properties in early January and “confirmed that state and local fire code violations were present and must be remedied.” But the generators have continued running nonstop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n response to emailed questions last month, Greer said the generators are necessary because PG&E isn’t supplying enough electricity for the power-intensive cannabis operations at the Green Sage buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But PG&E says it’s been working with Green Sage to find power solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we can’t get into specific customer account details for privacy reasons, PG&E has provided various options and recommended designs to meet the customer’s electric needs,” Tamar Sarkissian, a PG&E spokesperson, said in an emailed statement. “PG&E also has a capacity project in place to help support the growth of its customers in Oakland’s cannabis industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past year, Green Sage has said in a series of communications to tenants, city officials, regulators and KQED that it intends to install some form of clean-burning gas turbines to power their tenants’ cannabis operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given our current energy challenges, my mission is to help take the cannabis industry off-grid on methane gas from dairy farms, and develop a ground-breaking alternative,” Greer said in an email to KQED. “I am very driven to execute this solution so that other facilities around Oakland (and hopefully worldwide) can do the same.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The regional air district says that while it has discussed with Green Sage the possibility of gas turbines being installed at its properties, the company has yet to file an application to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that hasn’t stopped Greer from claiming on social media that generators are already up and running at the San Leandro Street complex, which he calls “the largest indoor cannabis facility in California.” (\u003ca href=\"https://www.greenhousegrower.com/crops/north-americas-largest-cannabis-growers-for-2021/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Industry sources indicate\u003c/a> California’s largest indoor pot facility — about five times larger than the Green Sage properties — is actually in the Riverside County city of Blythe.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/kengreer1/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LinkedIn\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ken.e.greer/about_work_and_education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook\u003c/a> profiles, Greer represents himself as founder and CEO of a company called New Grass Power LLC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“New Grass Power is a renewable energy company that provides low-cost, reliable power to the largest indoor cannabis facility in California,” his profiles say. “We use turbines powered by renewable natural gas from dairy farms so our facilities can become carbon negative and go off-grid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, there’s no evidence that New Grass Power is providing electricity in Oakland or anywhere else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Greer made statements in a January court filing that contradict his online claims about New Grass Power and make it clear that installing diesel generators has been standard operating procedure at the San Leandro Street warehouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21480862/5601-sloca-v-americas-brickworks-greer-declaration-220111.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a declaration\u003c/a> filed as part of an eviction action, Greer described how Green Sage supplies electricity to its cannabis tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Defendants were advised at the time they signed the lease that plaintiff provides power to all tenant [sic] by renting diesel generators,” Greer wrote. “Upon request from a tenant, plaintiff orders a generator. Generators are only provided when a tenant is prepared to test installed cannabis grow equipment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green Sage, which launched in 2014, says on \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20220324235644/https://greensagemb.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">its website\u003c/a> that it aims to help “set the standard for transparency, integrity and accountability in the cannabis industry.” The reality has been more complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green Sage and its connected firms — it operates under the names of at least half a dozen different limited liability companies registered by Greer and Miller — have frequently found themselves the targets of lawsuits related to its Oakland business in state and federal courts in California, Colorado and Virginia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suits have included claims that Green Sage has illegally tried to force residential tenants out of The Cannery, that the firm has failed to live up to conditions in its leases with cannabis tenants and that it has failed to pay contractors for more than $3 million in work done at its San Leandro Street properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green Sage has responded in court with blanket denials to all allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Residents of The Cannery building have raised alarms for the past 20 months about the industrial generators and the pollution they’re emitting in a part of Oakland that has long suffered from hazardous air quality due to proximity to Interstate 880 and factories in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the city has been unable to curb repeated building and fire code violations by Denver-based \u003ca href=\"https://greensagemb.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Green Sage\u003c/a>, the firm that owns The Cannery and an adjacent building called The Tinnery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21475890/city-of-oakland-march-21-2022-notice-of-violation-to-green-sage.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The notice sent Monday\u003c/a> to Green Sage and its owners — Ken Greer, 41, a former Massachusetts stockbroker, and Bruce Miller, 70, a real-estate agent with addresses in Los Angeles and Wyoming — gives the firm 30 days to stop using the seven generators currently operating at the San Leandro Street complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The threatened prosecution and other sanctions would add to the legal challenges facing Green Sage, whose Oakland operations have been entangled in more than \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16rALJbtz5xFiUOiQ4ObQo0IWUhKwD9S05kN0gDeEy70/edit?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two dozen lawsuits\u003c/a> in state and federal courts in California, Colorado and Virginia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland City Councilmember Loren Taylor, who represents the district that includes the Green Sage properties, says the situation shows the city needs to move faster and have better enforcement mechanisms in place when confronted by “out of bounds” cannabis operators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While I am grateful that this notice of violation has been issued with clear timeframes for required remediation and clarity around the penalties for insufficient response, this is an example of how our system works too slowly for the needs of tenants who are forced to deal with unbearable conditions on a daily basis,” Taylor said in an email statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company began installing generators at the complex in July 2020 after a PG&E transformer serving the buildings failed and a power line caught fire — apparently because of a sharp increase in power demand related to the cannabis operations. As many as nine generators have operated simultaneously at the site since then, with seven on site now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city alleges several violations of the state fire code and city ordinances, including operating the generators, using and storing diesel fuel without permits and exposing workers and residents at the complex to diesel fumes that pose “a grave risk to health and safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Monday notice says failure to stop using the generators by April 22 could result in the company having its property declared a public nuisance and being fined as much as $1,000 a day. The city also warned Green Sage that if it doesn’t comply, it could be referred to the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office for criminal prosecution of the alleged fire code violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The notice included 20 images of conditions at the two Green Sage properties, including two huge diesel generators stationed adjacent to the soot-blackened facade of one of the buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908996\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-2.04.12-AM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11908996\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-2.04.12-AM-800x450.png\" alt=\"Large diesel generators outside industrial building.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-2.04.12-AM-800x450.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-2.04.12-AM-1020x573.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-2.04.12-AM-160x90.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-2.04.12-AM-1536x864.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-2.04.12-AM-1920x1079.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-2.04.12-AM.png 1946w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Images from city of Oakland’s notice of violation to Green Sage, the Denver-based owners of the East Oakland cannabis facility. The city warned the owners to stop using the highly polluting generators or face potential criminal charges. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Oakland Fire Department)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Green Sage did not respond to an email seeking comment on the violation notice. In past statements to KQED, Greer has said he and Miller are “avid environmentalists” and that the generators are necessary because PG&E is unable to supply enough power to the facility’s energy-intensive cannabis growing and processing operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E disputes that assertion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green Sage paid $20 million in 2016 and 2017 to buy the two San Leandro Street properties — The Tinnery, at 5601 San Leandro St., and The Cannery, at 5733 San Leandro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theoaklandcannery.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Cannery\u003c/a> was not just any big brick building waiting for an out-of-town entrepreneur to turn it into a weed factory. It was one of Oakland’s first live/work artists’ communities and the long-time home of the celebrated \u003ca href=\"https://openspace.sfmoma.org/2019/10/a-restless-philosophical-quest-the-art-of-arthur-monroe/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">abstract expressionist painter Arthur Monroe\u003c/a>. He became the building’s first artist-tenant in the mid-1970s and lived there until his death in 2019 at age 84.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> Deteriorating living conditions at the building since Green Sage acquired it — including the 24/7 diesel emissions from the unpermitted generators — have reduced the number of tenants in its 20 residential units from 32 to 10 over the last two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cannery resident Alistair Monroe — the son of painter Arthur Monroe — and former building manager James Dawson have been leading efforts to get the city to respond to the generators and say it’s past time for decisive official action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That led them to send an emailed ultimatum earlier this week to city officials giving them until Thursday afternoon to have the generators shut down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are done asking nicely and are now demanding that the generators be shut down,” the email from Monroe and Dawson said, warning they would join with community supporters to shut down the generators themselves if the city didn’t act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview, Monroe and Dawson said they might be able to do that by blocking tanker trucks that each day deliver the thousands of gallons of diesel fuel the generators need to keep running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monroe said that the ultimatum remains in place despite the city’s new violation notice to Green Sage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have NO FAITH that letter will resolve any issues with Green Sage,” Monroe said in an email after the city sent the notice of violation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908992\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54587_20220317-IMG_6443-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11908992\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54587_20220317-IMG_6443-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Alistair Monroe posing outside the red-brick Cannery building in East Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54587_20220317-IMG_6443-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54587_20220317-IMG_6443-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54587_20220317-IMG_6443-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54587_20220317-IMG_6443-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54587_20220317-IMG_6443-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Resident Alistair Monroe at The Cannery live/work building in East Oakland. Monroe, whose artist father lived at the building for more than 40 years, has been one of the tenants leading the fight to preserve it as a live/work space. ‘So, I’ve been told by professors that because of me and my history that I’d been prepping subconsciously, throughout my life, to protect this building. And I’m doing everything I can in my power to do it. So it’s been like, how do you go up against a billion-dollar operation? You just do it with heart and soul, right?’ Monroe said. \u003ccite>(Amaya Nicole Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">T\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>he threatened generator shutdown action follows years of efforts by Monroe, Dawson and other tenants to get the city’s attention about conditions at The Cannery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They met with initial success when the City Council passed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13826417/new-oakland-law-could-prevent-cannabis-companies-from-evicting-tenants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an ordinance\u003c/a> in 2018 barring residential evictions in Oakland’s so-called “Green Zone,” a 10-mile-long, L-shaped strip on the edges of West and East Oakland designated for industrial cannabis operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cannery residents also have succeeded in \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21480652/city-of-oakland-march-16-2022-advisory-to-green-sage-on-cannery-livework-spaces.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">getting the city to warn Green Sage and its cannabis tenants\u003c/a> against expanding operations into vacated live/work spaces, which is prohibited by the 2018 measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’ve had far less success getting action on the generators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have been alerting the people who have the ability to do something about this for quite a long time,” Dawson said. “And I don’t know if it’s a bureaucratic process or what it is, but it’s just not stopping. Twenty months is a long time for this to go on sort of uninterrupted 24 hours a day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until Monday’s notice of violation, residents’ complaints about the generators have led to several preliminary enforcement actions by both the city of Oakland and regional air regulators.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Michael Hunt, the Oakland Fire Department’s chief of staff, said in an email earlier this month that the generators should only have been used on a temporary basis and “were never meant for ongoing use.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Typically, Hunt said, a generator would be approved and permitted for 90 days. He said temporary approval was granted after the July 2020 transformer failure “to ensure that the live/work tenants [at The Cannery] had power. … The generators were at no time permitted as a permanent power source.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that residents are getting power from PG&E, “there is no justifiable need for the generators to be in use to keep power on in the live work units,” Hunt said. “The multiple unpermitted generators now are only augmenting the need for power to support the cannabis-related businesses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green Sage also has come to the attention of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District. Last month the district filed its own \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21480754/bay-area-air-quality-management-district-green-sage-notice-of-violation-feb-16-2022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">notice of violation\u003c/a> against the company for failing to obtain a permit to operate the generators. The notice prompted Green Sage to apply for an air district permit, but the agency said as of Monday that application remained incomplete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recent interview at the site, Councilmember Taylor said he was “frankly upset that the warehouse owners have been using industrial diesel generators as a permanent power source.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Generators are intended to be temporary, while we’re bridging a gap, not to be a long-term fixture in the community polluting and pushing out the chemicals into the air,” Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he’d expressed his concerns to city staff about ending the generators’ unpermitted use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11909005\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11909005 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut-800x541.jpg\" alt=\"A large tanker truck is parked alongside a long metal fence in an industrial area. Across the street are the elevated BART tracks.\" width=\"800\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut-800x541.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut-1020x690.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut-1536x1039.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tanker delivering diesel fuel to industrial generators outside the Green Sage cannabis complex on San Leandro Street in East Oakland. Seven generators at the site require daily fuel deliveries and burn more than 2,000 gallons of fuel a day. \u003ccite>(Amaya Nicole Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That is something that we absolutely need to get on top of,” Taylor said. “We need to do more to ensure that it has stopped.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier attempts by city officials to address Green Sage code violations show just how hard it has been for them to get on top of the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last October, inspectors from three city agencies toured the Green Sage complex. That inspection, in turn, resulted in \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21423379/city-of-oakland-december-2021-green-sage-violation-notice.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a Dec. 7 letter\u003c/a> from city officials to Green Sage partners Greer and Miller. The missive noted the “collapsed” PG&E transformer, unpermitted electrical work and the installation of the diesel generators “without city-required inspections and permits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter said Greer and Miller would need to get both a Fire Department permit and sign-off from the city’s Bureau of Building “for interim use” of the generators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The message closed by warning the Green Sage owners that “failure to work with the city and take meaningful corrective measures to bring the identified issues into code compliance will result in the city seeking any and all appropriate legal remedies including fines, criminal penalties, suspension or revocation of any operational or occupancy permits and removal of the generators.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hunt said inspectors returned to the company’s San Leandro Street properties in early January and “confirmed that state and local fire code violations were present and must be remedied.” But the generators have continued running nonstop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">I\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>n response to emailed questions last month, Greer said the generators are necessary because PG&E isn’t supplying enough electricity for the power-intensive cannabis operations at the Green Sage buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But PG&E says it’s been working with Green Sage to find power solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we can’t get into specific customer account details for privacy reasons, PG&E has provided various options and recommended designs to meet the customer’s electric needs,” Tamar Sarkissian, a PG&E spokesperson, said in an emailed statement. “PG&E also has a capacity project in place to help support the growth of its customers in Oakland’s cannabis industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past year, Green Sage has said in a series of communications to tenants, city officials, regulators and KQED that it intends to install some form of clean-burning gas turbines to power their tenants’ cannabis operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given our current energy challenges, my mission is to help take the cannabis industry off-grid on methane gas from dairy farms, and develop a ground-breaking alternative,” Greer said in an email to KQED. “I am very driven to execute this solution so that other facilities around Oakland (and hopefully worldwide) can do the same.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The regional air district says that while it has discussed with Green Sage the possibility of gas turbines being installed at its properties, the company has yet to file an application to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that hasn’t stopped Greer from claiming on social media that generators are already up and running at the San Leandro Street complex, which he calls “the largest indoor cannabis facility in California.” (\u003ca href=\"https://www.greenhousegrower.com/crops/north-americas-largest-cannabis-growers-for-2021/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Industry sources indicate\u003c/a> California’s largest indoor pot facility — about five times larger than the Green Sage properties — is actually in the Riverside County city of Blythe.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/kengreer1/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LinkedIn\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ken.e.greer/about_work_and_education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook\u003c/a> profiles, Greer represents himself as founder and CEO of a company called New Grass Power LLC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“New Grass Power is a renewable energy company that provides low-cost, reliable power to the largest indoor cannabis facility in California,” his profiles say. “We use turbines powered by renewable natural gas from dairy farms so our facilities can become carbon negative and go off-grid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, there’s no evidence that New Grass Power is providing electricity in Oakland or anywhere else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Greer made statements in a January court filing that contradict his online claims about New Grass Power and make it clear that installing diesel generators has been standard operating procedure at the San Leandro Street warehouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21480862/5601-sloca-v-americas-brickworks-greer-declaration-220111.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a declaration\u003c/a> filed as part of an eviction action, Greer described how Green Sage supplies electricity to its cannabis tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Defendants were advised at the time they signed the lease that plaintiff provides power to all tenant [sic] by renting diesel generators,” Greer wrote. “Upon request from a tenant, plaintiff orders a generator. 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"content": "\u003cp>Two former Rohnert Park police officers are facing federal corruption charges of conspiracy, extortion, falsification of records and tax evasion, all tied to an alleged years-long scheme to pull over and rob people of cash and marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brendon Jacy Tatum and Joseph Huffaker were assigned to Rohnert Park’s drug interdiction team at various times between 2015 and 2017, according to a federal criminal complaint unsealed Friday. The program was aimed at seizing illegal drugs and cash proceeds trafficked along the Highway 101 corridor. Over about four years, Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety officers seized $3.6 million and 2½ tons of marijuana, according to an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11735983/probe-into-rohnert-park-cannabis-and-cash-seizures-will-stay-secret-despite-transparency-law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">analysis\u003c/a> of records from the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673412/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">‘Highway Robbery’: Drivers Allege Rohnert Park Police Illegally Seized Cannabis, Cash\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673412/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31344_IMG_3493-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673412/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read KQED's 2018 investigation\u003c/a>: Nine drivers and several attorneys say Rohnert Park police officers have repeatedly conducted questionable traffic stops and illegally seized cash and marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Cities and police departments can legally take people’s money and seize property if it’s tied to illegal activity through a process called civil asset forfeiture. The department gets to keep a cut of whatever they take, providing a monetary incentive to confiscate cash and make narcotics busts. Former Sgt. Jacy Tatum was in charge of the drug interdiction team and supervised asset forfeiture, according to the complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not everything that Tatum and Huffaker seized was legal, the complaint alleges. A number of motorists had paperwork to prove they were transporting legal cannabis for testing or to medical marijuana dispensaries. But the officers took their cannabis product or cash anyway, and in some cases failed to properly document those seizures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal criminal complaint alleges that Tatum extorted at least $3,700 in cash and “significant amounts of marijuana,” and was aided by Huffaker in at least one of the illegal stops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tatum and other officers made no reports of the seizure, did not submit the marijuana or assets into evidence, and sought no destruction orders for the marijuana,” a press release from the Northern California U.S. Attorney’s Office says.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nA KQED investigation in 2018 found that documentation for the destruction of about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11678122/documentation-missing-for-at-least-800-pounds-of-marijuana-seized-by-rohnert-park-police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">800 pounds of marijuana seized by Rohnert Park officers was missing\u003c/a> from court files.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutors charge that Tatum and Huffaker continued extorting motorists even after Rohnert Park ended its drug interdiction program in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December of that year, two men allegedly impersonated agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives when they pulled over Texas resident Zeke Flatten about 50 miles North of Rohnert Park and across the Mendocino County line. The FBI is charging Tatum and Huffaker in connection with this stop. Flatten said that Huffaker was there but Tatum was not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers didn’t identify themselves, but they took about $3,000 worth of marijuana Flatten was driving from a farm in Humboldt County to a lab in Santa Rosa, according to the complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Flatten didn’t go quietly. He reported the stop to Mendocino County law enforcement and the FBI. By early 2018, he’d also told his story to independent reporter Kym Kemp, who started \u003ca href=\"https://kymkemp.com/2018/02/11/outraged-one-mans-two-month-quest-from-the-fbi-to-the-atf-to-expose-what-he-says-are-corrupt-police-officers-in-mendocino-county/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">asking questions\u003c/a>.[aside postID=\"news_11678122,news_11681642,news_11706921\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31346_IMG_3556-1200x800.jpg\" heroLink=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/highway-robbery-series\" target=\"_blank\" label=\"More From 'Highway Robbery' Series\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum drafted a press release on Feb. 13, 2018, months after the Flatten stop, touting a large “black market” marijuana bust by Rohnert Park police. Tatum “then prepared a false police report to conceal his criminal activity,” according to federal prosecutors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Prior to February 13, 2018, TATUM told Commander J.T. that there was a female reporter up north writing articles linking a stop to the Mendocino County Sheriff’s office and the Hopland Tribal police,” the criminal complaint says. “Tatum clarified that it was actually an interdiction stop conducted by RPDPS and that he wanted to correctly identify the law enforcement agency responsible for the stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum didn’t write a police report on the Dec. 5 seizure until Feb. 20, and he recorded the amount of marijuana and other details from a different case in that report. The FBI’s investigation found probable cause that Tatum “falsified a report for the undocumented stop and seizure of marijuana from (Flatten) in order to conceal his and HUFFAKER’s actions during the stop and deflect negative media attention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flatten said Friday that he hoped the federal prosecution would prompt officers to “come clean” and hold each other accountable for “the dishonor they did to themselves and their badge and their community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These guys are not going to get away with what they were doing,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Flatten’s case became public, more drivers started to come forward with accounts of shady encounters with Rohnert Park officers intent on seizing cash and marijuana during pretextual traffic stops. KQED and Kemp spoke to a total of nine people with similar stories in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673412/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">collaborative investigative report\u003c/a> published in summer of 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The criminal complaint details six traffic stops, four from 2016, the Flatten case, and another stop about two weeks later, on Dec. 18, 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum can be heard on body camera video telling one driver “there is no such thing as easy money” before the former officer illegally seized $3,700 in cash and $22,400 in marijuana, according to the complaint. Other than Huffaker, the charging document conceals the identities of other Rohnert Park officers who were with Tatum during the stops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huedell Freeman was pulled over by the officers a year before Flatten, in December 2016. They took 47 pounds of medical cannabis from him. Now, he said he feels very satisfied with the announcement of criminal charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I did not have any idea that this journey would end up where it did,” he said. “I feel vindicated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flatten, Freeman, and seven other drivers sued Rohnert Park and all won settlements in the past year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11802870/rohnert-park-payouts-set-to-top-1-8-million-over-marijuana-and-cash-seizures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">totaling $1.8 million\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum and Huffaker are both charged with conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right, which carries a maximum 20-year prison sentence. Tatum is further charged with falsifying records in a federal investigation and tax evasion, which carry a combined 25-year maximum sentence.[aside postID=\"news_11702984,news_11701249,news_11700572\" heroLink=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/highway-robbery-series\" target=\"_blank\" label=\"More on Ex-Sgt. Jacy Tatum\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors allege that in 2016, Tatum deposited hundreds of thousands of dollars into his and his wife’s bank accounts and bought a $46,000 fishing boat, totaling over $440,000 that wasn’t reported on the former officer’s tax returns. The cash deposits were all in amounts under $10,000, “in an apparent attempt to avoid banking laws requiring disclosure,” according to prosecutors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum’s cash deposits “decreased significantly” after he resigned from the Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety in 2018, according to the complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's no greater responsibility for law enforcement than to abide by the oath of office and respect the constitutional rights of all people,” said Sid Patel, assistant special agent in charge for the FBI's San Francisco office. “And this was a serious breach of public trust.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rohnert Park city officials issued a statement saying that they cooperated with the FBI investigation and that they “do not tolerate” corruption among their police staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flatten alleges that the scheme went beyond the two officers who are now facing charges. 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"content": "\u003cp>Ramon Garcia, who runs an Oakland-based cannabis distribution and delivery company called Padre Mu, grew up surrounded by cannabis. A second-generation cultivator, he’s been in the volatile business for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I've been doing this in my family since I was 6, 7 years old, and only now can really talk about it,” he said, referring to the recently legalized status of his business. “As a cultivator, you have to adapt. You might have mold. You might have bugs. You might have a fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the industry has been forced to adapt to a global pandemic. Long-standing federal rules and drained state coffers are dealing a major blow to California’s legal cannabis industry. Who will help, and how the industry will be transformed, is increasingly unclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>COVID-19 and Cannabis\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Gov. Gavin Newsom in March ordered the state to shelter in place, some dispensaries saw sales spike as customers flocked to them to stock up. Legal cannabis producers and distributors were ultimately classified as essential businesses, and Garcia said the industry scrambled to figure out how to stay open under new health and safety guidelines. But given the confusion and uncertainty of the moment, dispensaries began ordering much less product from Garcia's company, and in the last few months, he’s lost a significant amount of income just trying to keep his business open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For cannabis entrepreneurs, recovery is not a level playing field, Garcia said. Cannabis business owners are often shut out of credit and loan opportunities because what they sell is still considered illegal under federal law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For people of color, for people disproportionately impacted by the war on drugs, we don’t have rich uncles or parents we can go to get loans,” Garcia said. “We funded this out of our own pockets. And if all this fails, there is no recovery for us. 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Mercado, CEO of Calibueno, a licensed minority- and women-owned cannabis micro-business in Oakland \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Claudia L. Mercado)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cannabis operators also don’t qualify for any federal relief programs, including small business assistance. Claudia L. Mercado, founder and CEO of cannabis micro-business Calibueno in Oakland, nearly applied for a federal loan before realizing that doing so could be a federal offense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I filled my application, and I was ready to submit it. But then I read the fine print that said you might go to prison,” Mercado said. “Black and Latino businesses period, small businesses, are not going to get help. Throw cannabis in the mix and we're probably last in line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mercado said she once had a bank account close suddenly after she deposited tens of thousands of dollars to pay taxes, and she’s now cautious not to draw any additional attention to herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Delaplane, president of the San Francisco Cannabis Retailers Alliance, said his members reported a 50% decline in sales overnight when San Francisco announced its stay-at-home order in March. And the latest numbers show his members are still experiencing a 30% decline, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cannabis entrepreneurs say federal aid would help, and industry leaders are also pushing for state policy fixes, like expanding access to banks and tax breaks. But that’s a hard sell during an economic crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Ramon Garcia, Oakland-based cannabis distributor\"]'We funded this out of our own pockets. And if all this fails, there is no recovery for us. All we’re asking for is an equal and fair chance to be able to come out of this.'[/pullquote]State taxes went up for the cannabis businesses earlier this year, and advocates say the hefty tax burden has already pushed many more consumers to the thriving black market. Meanwhile, a legislative effort to lower taxes for the industry was recently derailed for the third year in a row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not operating in a vacuum here. We have a robust, illicit market in California,” said Erich Pearson, CEO of SPARC, which operates dispensaries in the Bay Area and a cannabis farm in Sonoma County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s estimated that California is home to the biggest legal cannabis market in the world, but the black market brought in nearly triple the sales for 2019, according to an analysis by BDSA, a cannabis market research firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pearson is also worried that the coronavirus pandemic will only embolden unlicensed farmers to plant more and more. “The illicit market is going crazy right now, betting on the fact that law enforcement and government will be slow to respond given that COVID is here,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Slashing Weed Taxes\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cannabis industry has been in a virtual recession since California voters approved Proposition 64 in 2016, said Amber Senter, CEO of Breeze Distro, an Oakland cannabis company. Taxes, she added, are too high to provide the support the industry needs to grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The weed man on the corner doesn't collect taxes, it's really hard to compete with someone like that. They're not making it easy for us to thrive, let alone survive,” Senter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11820740\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11820740\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/supernovawomen_049-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/supernovawomen_049-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/supernovawomen_049-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/supernovawomen_049.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left to right: Whitney Beatty, Raeven Duckett, Amber Senter and Isamarie Perez. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Amber Senter )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the pandemic, Senter has been offering her delivery drivers increased pay — often known as hazard pay — because they’re risking their health for the company, all of which adds to the cost of doing business, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other cannabis business owners are still hoping for change at the federal level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"legal-cannabis\"]The sweeping $3 trillion federal COVID-19 relief bill that recently passed the House does include a provision that would expand access to bank accounts for legal cannabis businesses. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For cannabis entrepreneurs, recovery is not a level playing field, Garcia said. Cannabis business owners are often shut out of credit and loan opportunities because what they sell is still considered illegal under federal law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For people of color, for people disproportionately impacted by the war on drugs, we don’t have rich uncles or parents we can go to get loans,” Garcia said. “We funded this out of our own pockets. And if all this fails, there is no recovery for us. All we’re asking for is an equal and fair chance to be able to come out of this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11820734\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11820734\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/claudia_mendocino_sep_2018_1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/claudia_mendocino_sep_2018_1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/claudia_mendocino_sep_2018_1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/claudia_mendocino_sep_2018_1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/claudia_mendocino_sep_2018_1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/claudia_mendocino_sep_2018_1-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/claudia_mendocino_sep_2018_1-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/claudia_mendocino_sep_2018_1-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/claudia_mendocino_sep_2018_1-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/claudia_mendocino_sep_2018_1-536x402.jpg 536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/claudia_mendocino_sep_2018_1.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Claudia L. Mercado, CEO of Calibueno, a licensed minority- and women-owned cannabis micro-business in Oakland \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Claudia L. Mercado)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cannabis operators also don’t qualify for any federal relief programs, including small business assistance. Claudia L. Mercado, founder and CEO of cannabis micro-business Calibueno in Oakland, nearly applied for a federal loan before realizing that doing so could be a federal offense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I filled my application, and I was ready to submit it. But then I read the fine print that said you might go to prison,” Mercado said. “Black and Latino businesses period, small businesses, are not going to get help. Throw cannabis in the mix and we're probably last in line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mercado said she once had a bank account close suddenly after she deposited tens of thousands of dollars to pay taxes, and she’s now cautious not to draw any additional attention to herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Delaplane, president of the San Francisco Cannabis Retailers Alliance, said his members reported a 50% decline in sales overnight when San Francisco announced its stay-at-home order in March. And the latest numbers show his members are still experiencing a 30% decline, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cannabis entrepreneurs say federal aid would help, and industry leaders are also pushing for state policy fixes, like expanding access to banks and tax breaks. But that’s a hard sell during an economic crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>State taxes went up for the cannabis businesses earlier this year, and advocates say the hefty tax burden has already pushed many more consumers to the thriving black market. Meanwhile, a legislative effort to lower taxes for the industry was recently derailed for the third year in a row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not operating in a vacuum here. We have a robust, illicit market in California,” said Erich Pearson, CEO of SPARC, which operates dispensaries in the Bay Area and a cannabis farm in Sonoma County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s estimated that California is home to the biggest legal cannabis market in the world, but the black market brought in nearly triple the sales for 2019, according to an analysis by BDSA, a cannabis market research firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pearson is also worried that the coronavirus pandemic will only embolden unlicensed farmers to plant more and more. “The illicit market is going crazy right now, betting on the fact that law enforcement and government will be slow to respond given that COVID is here,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Slashing Weed Taxes\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cannabis industry has been in a virtual recession since California voters approved Proposition 64 in 2016, said Amber Senter, CEO of Breeze Distro, an Oakland cannabis company. Taxes, she added, are too high to provide the support the industry needs to grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The weed man on the corner doesn't collect taxes, it's really hard to compete with someone like that. They're not making it easy for us to thrive, let alone survive,” Senter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11820740\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11820740\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/supernovawomen_049-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/supernovawomen_049-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/supernovawomen_049-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/supernovawomen_049.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left to right: Whitney Beatty, Raeven Duckett, Amber Senter and Isamarie Perez. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Amber Senter )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the pandemic, Senter has been offering her delivery drivers increased pay — often known as hazard pay — because they’re risking their health for the company, all of which adds to the cost of doing business, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other cannabis business owners are still hoping for change at the federal level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Like so many people in southern Humboldt County, Beth Allen has her feet in two worlds. She and her husband started Amillias, a take-out counter and brunch restaurant, 17 years ago in the town of Garberville, but she’s grown cannabis more than twice that long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I first reported on marijuana in this part of California almost a decade ago, the price of cannabis was higher than it is now, and I saw small businesses thriving. When I drove the commercial strip of Garberville late this past summer, I saw boarded up storefronts and closed businesses. The whole place looks like it could use a coat of paint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen remembers the 1980s, when law enforcement came down hard on growers, sending helicopters into the remote hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were protesting and not moving out of the way so the helicopters could land,” she recalled. “You see all of the rivets under the belly of that helicopter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forty years ago, a pound of marijuana could fetch over $5,000. On previous visits I learned that growers funded the construction of non-profit clinics and community centers, and they also had money to spend on higher-end restaurants and specialty foods unusual in a small, rural community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amillias catered to that crowd, with its focus on regional ingredients and the personal stories behind their food. Take their pork products: Allen and her husband have known their pig farmer for nearly two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He drives to Eureka with a trailer, gets whatever's left over from the Booth Brewing Company and his pigs are raised on marijuana and beer,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11791519\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11791519\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40489_IMG_2799-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Beth Allen at the take-out counter of her restaurant Amillia's in Garberville.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40489_IMG_2799-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40489_IMG_2799-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40489_IMG_2799-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40489_IMG_2799-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40489_IMG_2799-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40489_IMG_2799-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40489_IMG_2799-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40489_IMG_2799-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40489_IMG_2799-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40489_IMG_2799-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beth Allen at the take-out counter of her restaurant Amillia's in Garberville. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Allen has ridden the waves of change in the cannabis industry — from the legalization of medical marijuana to influxes of get-rich-quick growers. In recent years, she advocated for full legalization, and when that became a reality, she tried getting her property through the permitting process in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would show up at the planning department with a box of pastries, a big smile on my face, saying ‘How can we help you get us through this process?’ ” Allen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she found it so frustrating and expensive, she gave up on trying to get a permit for growing legal marijuana. One legalization expert said it can cost a grower $125,000 to get licensed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"cannabis\" label=\"more coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, the restaurant business started to falter. Amillias had expanded about five years ago by adding a dining room downstairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I knew that we could offer something to the community and in a beautiful space,” she said. “Unfortunately I have really bad timing because our community was collapsing. The beginning of the collapse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, Allen said, they had a thriving dinner service and private parties, but legalization triggered a drop in the price of cannabis to under $1,000 per pound, down from over $5,000 in marijuana’s heyday. Allen believes this is why fewer people started coming to the restaurant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean we would have no one,\" Allen said. \"All of the staff, we would just stand here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen said the take-out counter's revenue dropped by 50%, while the dining room fell by 75%. They closed their dinner service and started a weekend brunch to see if that would draw customers, but they're now considering reducing that to Sundays only. The restaurant went from nine employees to four.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While a few new restaurants have opened in the region, anecdotally, waitresses from Ukiah to Eureka say they’re seeing fewer customers and getting smaller tips. And I talked with a chef on the coast who told me he closed his high-end restaurant after the economic dip. He said, growers just weren't coming in any more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen said she questions her earlier support of legalization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just lay in bed at night and think, ‘What was I thinking?’ ” she said. “I have strived to feed my community. I am not perfect. I am far from perfect. I just have to be very quiet, keep my head down and do the work. I pray every day for guidance of what is the right path for us, and what’s the right path for my community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Farming Food and Cannabis Together\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>According to farmers, legalization is bringing changes to food production in Humboldt County, too. For some, there are new opportunities and new customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a distribution center for the cannabis company Flow Kana in the small town of Whitethorn, one employee perk is weekly produce boxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a break, employees crowded around farmer Daniel Stein of Briceland Forest Farm to look at the shishito peppers, beets, broccoli, and lettuce in the week's offerings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flow Kana purchases the produce from Humboldt and surrounding counties, and gives it to their employees around the state. According to Flow Kana, in the last 18 months the company purchased nearly 5,000 produce boxes for its employees, paying local farmers almost $150,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is a new revenue stream for Stein, albeit a small one. He’s historically sold most of his produce at farmers markets but said attendance at markets is down, and so is his income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had an economy here that was largely based on the legacy market,” also known as the black market, Stein said. “Under that economy, I think money flowed more freely, people had more time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as the economy shifts to growing cannabis legally with permits, much remains in limbo. Prices are changing and many growers don't know if they'll make it through the complicated and pricey permitting process to farm marijuana legally. There's talk of old timers who have stopped growing cannabis, even moved away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think our economy and our culture right now is in a period of unknown,” Stein added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The uncertainty may also be keeping people from spending, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To me, some of this sounds like typical growing pains in an agricultural industry: The market has changed, so expenses are up, while profits are down, and business owners like Stein have to get creative and find new opportunities, like selling produce boxes to marijuana companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Kevin Cunningham\"]\"There were seven acres for sale just down the road from us for $1.2 million because it has a stamped cannabis permit. That's just unattainable for somebody who wants to start out growing vegetables. Absolutely unattainable.\"[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Stein said that legalization has also changed where people farm. Marijuana growers used to grow way up in the hills, where their crops could more easily evade detection from law enforcement. Now, if someone wants to start a new cannabis farm, they can do it out in the open, on prime, flat farmland zoned for agricultural development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And of course that's driven the price of prime ag land in Humboldt through the roof,” said Stein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another farmer at the Garberville farmers' market, Kevin Cunningham, chimed in. “There were seven acres for sale just down the road from us for $1.2 million because it has a stamped cannabis permit,\" he said. \"That's just unattainable for somebody who wants to start out growing vegetables. Absolutely unattainable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some cannabis farmers aren’t planting on that prime farmland, said Cunningham.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have seen in our river valley good prime ag soils essentially get paved over for putting in greenhouses, which then will truck in soil to grow cannabis in,\" he said. \"I'm not anti-cannabis but I am anti-stupidity, and I don't think that that's the proper way to develop an agricultural industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stein and his young family are a little nervous. Daniel's wife Taylor Stein said, “This transition time is certainly scary watching things board up and close down. At the same time, the community is discovering its new identity” — albeit one that’s probably going to be less flush with cash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Steins, however, said making money has never been their primary reason for farming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11791520\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11791520\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40487_IMG_2829-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Daniel Stein picks lemon cucumbers at Briceland Forest Farm.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40487_IMG_2829-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40487_IMG_2829-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40487_IMG_2829-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40487_IMG_2829-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40487_IMG_2829-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40487_IMG_2829-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40487_IMG_2829-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40487_IMG_2829-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40487_IMG_2829-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40487_IMG_2829-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Stein picks lemon cucumbers at Briceland Forest Farm. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I visit the couple and their two small kids at Briceland Forest Farm, where the Steins use organic and regenerative methods on their vibrant row crops. They’re proud that the farm takes up only one acre of their 160-acre property, which is mostly forested land with creeks running through it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As they pulled their baby in a wagon, the Steins pointed out the late-summer crops of kale and lemon cucumbers. A little frog hopped among the cabbages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing alongside the produce were towering cannabis plants. They've always grown both. They told me, an integrated farm makes good business sense, and it fits their values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a more profitable crop than veggies alone at the moment, even though that’s changing,” said Taylor Stein. \"Cannabis, it’s a dance partner through the season. It is so rewarding to grow a plant that starts from a seed in February and is the size of a tree in November. It responds to your attention and care immediately.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the legalization of marijuana, the Steins said they spent time on habitat restoration on their land and on experimenting with sustainable farming techniques.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now they’re finding themselves spending a lot more time and money on getting permits to grow cannabis legally. Still, Daniel Stein says they’re holding on. He hopes that their way of farming and growing both food and cannabis will allow them to make a living and raise their family in this place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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