EUREKA, CA., 9/26/16 – California’s Department of Food and Agriculture is tasked with regulating and overseeing the new state licensing program for cannabis cultivation, under which marijuana growing will be reclassified as agriculture. But the CDFA is still figuring out how cannabis farmers will be regulated — as well as starting the lengthy environmental review process for the regulatory program itself — and is holding a a series of public meetings around the state this month to get input.
On Sept. 13 The Mendocino Voice headed up the 101 to the CDFA’s “scoping session” in Eureka, to chat with agency representatives who gathered at the Red Lion Hotel hoping to get as many public comments from locals as possible before their September 30 deadline. There, staff and consultants were standing around in the conference room, next to informational poster boards and a power point playing on repeat, taking questions and opinions from the more than 150 north coast farmers, local officials, residents, and Eureka TV crew who stopped by.
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