NEW ARTICLE: Shifting Geographies of Cannabis Production in California

Just out in Land Use Policy is a new article with Chris Dillis, Eric Biber, Van Butsic, Jen Carah, Hekia Bodwitch, Phoebe Parker-Shames and myself. Some of the biggest takeaways for me were that: 1) 60% of the cultivated land in CA is done by 10% of licensees; 2) larger grows are more likely to be permitted and operate as tenant farmer/absentee owner situations; and, 3) that the cultivation sector is splitting: new, large, ag-zone, sparse farms and small, heritage, mixed-zone dense farms. You can download the article or you can go to the journal’s page and access it there. Thanks to Chris Dillis, who did the bulk of the work coordinating and polishing this!