Marijuana boom coming to Desert Hot Springs
Jon Richards, compliance manager at Patients Against Pain Cannabis Collective in Los Angeles, removes dead leaves, while inspecting marijuana plants for harvest inside a growing room. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)
Indica-based buds called PR Church are handled amid containers of other marijuana strains inside the bud room at Patients Against Pain Cannabis Collective in Los Angeles.
(Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)
Jon Richards, compliance manager at Patients Against Pain Cannabis Collective in Los Angeles, with marijuana plants inside a growing room. Each plant is tagged with a yellow RFID chip to track the life and quality of the plant and to report data to the proper authorities.
(Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)
Jason Elsasser looks out onto his property from the doorway of an empty steel-shell building in Desert Hot Springs, where tumbleweed is the only plant life. Elsasser plans to convert the building and the property into a medical marijuana growing facility on Little Morongo Road.
(Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)Advertisement
Jason Elsasser has big plans for an empty steel-shell building on Little Morongo Road in Desert Hot Springs that will be converted into a marijuana cultivation facility. Desert Hot Springs is the first city in Southern California to legalize large-scale medical marijuana cultivation.
(Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)
Matthew Feinstein, CEO of Pineapple Express, is going to open a huge facility, behind him, which will allow tenants to cultivate marijuana in Desert Hot Springs.
(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
Jason Elsasser has big plans for an empty steel-shell building on Little Morongo Road in Desert Hot Springs that will be converted into a marijuana cultivation facility.
(Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)
