Adelanto California
the Next Big Cannabis Producer
The small desert city of Adelanto California, was founded by E.H. Richardson in 1915. Richardson is known for inventing what would
become the “Hotpoint Electric Iron”.
After selling his patent, he bought that land that would become Adelanto
for $75,000, he divided the land into one acre lots that he planned to sell to the
soldiers that fought in World War I, a dream that never materialized. Fast forward 102 years, the area has been
taken over by chicken ranches, orchards and what’s left over from the GeorgeAir Force Base that closed in the early 90’s.
In the more recent years Adelanto entered the solar power industry,
which fizzled out in the present.
Leaving the city with an unemployment rate of 14 percent, significantly
higher then the national average of 5 percent, this left Adelanto depending on
the school district and their local prison system as their big employers of the
region.
About a year ago, Adelanto
community leaders and soon to be elected city council member John “Bug” Woodard
began to contemplate the idea of making their city in to a high-tech weed
growing Mecca, just like their other High Desert counterparts. During November of 2015, after months of
debate, Adelanto became part of California’s first cities to allow the
commercial cultivation of Cannabis. Now,
Adelanto went from watching the traffic drive by on the 395 to hordes of luxury
cars pilling in, as stated by John “Bug” Woodard from an interview published by
CNBC, “Every day I have to pinch myself
because we’re seeing Bentleys, Rolls-Royces coming to town, these cars weren’t
coming here a year ago. They wouldn’t
even think about coming down this old crappy road over here.”
If California votes adult
recreational cannabis use legal, CA, is looking a $4 billion cannabis market,
almost double that of Colorado’s $2.5 billion marijuana market, according to
the cannabis analytics done by New Frontier and ArcView Market Research.
As Adelanto grows in
popularity, it gains celebrity attention
from Bob Marley’s son, Ky-Mani Marley,
who has licensed his own strain to be grown in Adelanto. As time goes on, and if recreational
marijuana is legalized in the state, there are sure to be more star attention
aimed toward this region of California due to its close proximity to Los
Angeles. This is just another great example
of how legalizing cannabis will help the local and national economic crisis,
again showing the American public how harmless marijuana is, compared to some
of the substances like prescription pills and alcohol that actually kill
people.
