DESERT HOT SPRINGS APPROVES FIFTH MARIJUANA CULTIVATION OPERATION

Nearby Desert Hot Springs, missing industry, jobs and tax revenue, welcomed the announcement that CalCann Holdings plans to build a greenhouse to grow 6,000 pounds of organic medical cannabis each year. The pot will go to the company’s own Orange County dispensaries and others under a new state licensing system. Desert Hot Springs became the first city in Southern California to regulate and tax commercial medical marijuana cultivation in 2014, as the cash-strapped city sat on the verge of filing bankruptcy for a second time. The city has now approved five cultivation facilities, with the CalCann project and has six others pending. The City of Twentynine Palms and the Town of Yucca Valley have banned all Medical Marijuana. Yucca Valley is set to propose a ½ cent sales tax to raise revenues