News Commentary | ‘L.A. Times’ Investigates S.B. Weed Wars
County Supervisors Williams and Lavagnino React to Their Portrayal
County Supervisor Das Williams | Credit: Paul Wellman
This story first appeared on Newsmakers with Jerry Roberts on June 12, 2019.
It’s been an open secret for months that a reporter for the L.A. Times has been sniffing around for a piece about the surprise emergence of tiny Santa Barbara County (3,789 square miles) as the cannabis cultivation capital of California (163,696 sq. mi.).
The piece finally landed yesterday, with a boffo lede that reveals, amid a few sentences of pastoral scene setting, that the county is now home to the two largest legal pot grows in the world (!).
