The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors last week voted to reduce the Carpinteria Valley’s acreage cap by 52 acres, bringing the cap down to 134 acres.
As of February, 120 acres of cannabis are being cultivated in the Carpinteria Valley, Daisy Weber, representative from First District Supervisor Roy Lee’s office, told the Carpinteria City Council on Monday.
Effective April 2026, all cannabis operators must install carbon scrubbers, which clean up most of the cannabis smell before it leaves a greenhouse. Cannabis farmers who miss this deadline may lose their county licenses. Freelance reporter Melinda Burns reported in March that of the 19 farms currently cultivating, seven have carbon scrubbers in their greenhouses…