Giant California greenhouse signals a big bet on cannabis legalization

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One enormous facility on the northern edge of metro Los Angeles reveals expectations of marijuana becoming legal nationally.

Rising two stories from razor-straight rows of parsley, artichokes and strawberries, the greenhouse complex hums with solar-powered efficiency, its vast airy interiors redolent with the sticky plant that fills much of it.The flatlands here stretching between mountains and sea have attracted farmers for generations, just around a corner of the Pacific Coast Highway from the playgrounds of Malibu.

for adult recreational use six years ago, a highly regulated market has emerged with a mishmash of rules set primarily by the state’s 58 counties and hundreds of cities. The winners include big growers like Glass House, which also owns two smaller cannabis greenhouses north of here in Carpinteria and, in all, produces about 300,000 pounds of cannabis for sale annually.

Last year, the California legislature passed a bill to allow licensed California cannabis businesses to sell their products in other cannabis-legal states. Gov. Gavin Newsom , who signed the bill, would negotiate the terms of trade with his counterparts.

But Farrar had another problem: Ventura County, where this greenhouse sits, did not allow cannabis cultivation at the time he set his sights on the greenhouse. So he and his partners worked to place aFarrar was up and running here the following year — and what a spot it is.

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