When the last greenhouses are built here next year, the facility will be one of the largest legal marijuana farms in the world. The federal ban precludes growers of California cannabis from legally shipping out of state, although tons of it seeps out anyway. Some are worried that the marijuana business is getting too big too fast and predict a glut of California marijuana and sharp price declines. Outside the Salinas Valley, the majority of cannabis farms in California have growing areas that are smaller than 5,000 square feet. The industrial cannabis farms in the Salinas Valley are beginning their operations during a period of legal limbo in California.

Source: New York Times April 15, 2017 15:56 UTC