Heading into another brutally dry summer, struggling cannabis growers in California could be excluded from the state’s latest assistance plan to save water.
A proposal by Gov. Gavin Newsom would pay farmers to not plant crops, known as fallowing, this year as drought conditions worsen.
The plan with some of the state’s largest water providers earmarks $268 million in upfront payments for voluntarily leaving fields uncultivated, or fallowing.
The area targeted is near two critical watersheds that emanate from the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Northern California.
The fallowing proposal aims to cut production of water-intensive crops such as rice, alfalfa and nuts.
Some advocates are upset cannabis hasn’t been placed on the list.
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