It is not an exaggeration to say the best cannabis products have come from California, home of the largest, oldest, most robust cannabis market in the United States and, really, the world. During the 1970s, Humboldt County became famous for cannabis and cannabis outlaws. Most cannabis markets, like Colorado, Oregon, Washington, and even California, began as limited-licensure states. Since legalization, the California market, kept underground for so long, has seen explosive growth. The legal cannabis market has seen steady growth, while the illicit market is expected to decline, which is good news for licensed producers.
Talk about an OG! For more than 100 years, California has been the epicenter of American cannabis production. In 1910, with scarcely more than 25,000 inhabitants, California produced more than 220,000 pounds of hemp. For those of you scoring at home, that’s more than eight pounds of hemp per person! In the 1960s, a counterculture of joint-smoking hippies emerged in the Haight neighborhood of San Francisco. During the 1970s, Humboldt County became famous for cannabis and cannabis outlaws. In 1996, with the passage of Proposition 215, California became the first state in the union to legalize medical marijuana. In 2016, 106 years after those early pioneers...
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