Senate Bill 185, establishing a cannabis appellation system, was signed into law by Gov. So the CDFA will certainly be especially examining this system as it crafts the California cannabis appellations. Why Do Legacy California Cannabis Growers Want an Appellation System? We can imagine that the micro-zones of Mendocino will become sub-appellations of the Emerald Triangle, itself a sub-appellation of a North Coast cannabis cultivation area. One county to the north, the Mendocino Appellations Project is at the forefront of designing such a system for cannabis.
From Maui Wowie to Durban Poison to Acapulco Gold to Humboldt OG, cannabis strains often boast their geographic origin in their names. However, there is currently no system of enforcement that keeps any cannabis strain from claiming it comes from a place that it did not, in fact, come from. And if your dealer tells you they have some quality California pot, you have no way of knowing if that is true or if it is merely something grown in their buddy’s garage in Kentucky. But such a system of enforcement is right around the corner. An official appellation system certifying a strain’s locale of cultivation — based on a system already in place for wine —...
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